[FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge
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Re: [FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge
Yeah baby! Land of the Veda!
I am sure the groom's jyotish chart showed that particular day was inauspicious
for a wedding so its his own fault for going against the stars. One wonders
however if the dowry had already been given to the groom or if it comes after
the wedding is consummated. Stupid, stupid groom for not having a Marshy yagya
to avert all wedding calamities before they arose.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : Yeah baby! Land of the Veda! Put down the pipe and back slowly away from the keyboard! The payment of a dowry has been prohibited under The 1961 Dowry Prohibition Act in Indian civil law and subsequently by Sections 304B and 498a of the Indian Penal Code. I am sure the groom's jyotish chart showed that particular day was inauspicious for a wedding so its his own fault for going against the stars. One wonders however if the dowry had already been given to the groom or if it comes after the wedding is consummated. Stupid, stupid groom for not having a Marshy yagya to avert all wedding calamities before they arose. From: TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge Talk about a sitcom drawn from the headlines: Indian Bride Marries Wedding Guest After Groom Has Epileptic Fit http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/19/indian-bride-marries-wedding-guest_n_6711370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/19/indian-bride-marries-wedding-guest_n_6711370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Indian Bride Marries Wedding Guest After Groom Has Epil... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/19/indian-bride-marries-wedding-guest_n_6711370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk It's like something that would happen in a movie, not in real life - an Indian bride has ended up marrying one of her wedding guests after the groom had an epilepti... View on www.huffingtonpost... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/19/indian-bride-marries-wedding-guest_n_6711370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:52 PM, seventhray1 wrote: Sal, I'll call it for what it was. But we are not talking about a few bucks. We are talking about an additional $9.00 for a few ounces of salad greens. So, instead of the bill being $15.76, it would have been closer to $25.00. Again, it was stealing, but we might as well be clear about the amounts. The amount is irrelevant, but yeah~~that's a few bucks, esp. for someone who's made it clear he's as comfortable as you are. Is that really going to make much of a difference in the long run? Is it some day going to make the difference between you and your family eating, or not? Doubtful. And, as az says, you knew the amounts before going in. If you really wanted to make it right, you could easily go in and give them the $$, even anonymously. The fact that it's a big chain is also irrelevant~~ actual people work there and their livelihoods depend upon a certain amount of honesty in their customers. As you observed, they cannot constantly police the salad bar or anywhere else. And, just out of curiosity, why was the waiter watching you like a hawk? (or however else you put it) Have you made a policy of surreptitiously helping yourself when you thought you could get away with it? The other things you mentioned are all clearly law-breaking, and need no comment. Let's just hope, in your seemingly total disregard for safety measures set up to protect everyone, that when you go down one of your one-way streets or run one of your stop signs, that there isn't some innocent bystander driving or walking who gets plowed into in your hurry to get on with your life. Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
On Aug 22, 2011, at 10:52 PM, seventhray1 wrote: Sal, I'll call it for what it was. But we are not talking about a few bucks. We are talking about an additional $9.00 for a few ounces of salad greens. So, instead of the bill being $15.76, it would have been closer to $25.00. Again, it was stealing, but we might as well be clear about the amounts. The amount is irrelevant, but yeah~~that's a few bucks, esp. for someone who's made it clear he's as comfortable as you are. Is that really going to make much of a difference in the long run? Is it some day going to make the difference between you and your family eating, or not? Doubtful. And, as az says, you knew the amounts before going in. If you really wanted to make it right, you could easily go in and give them the $$, even anonymously. The fact that it's a big chain is also irrelevant~~ actual people work there and their livelihoods depend upon a certain amount of honesty in their customers. As you observed, they cannot constantly police the salad bar or anywhere else. And, just out of curiosity, why was the waiter watching you like a hawk? (or however you put it) Have you made a policy of surreptitiously helping yourself when you thought you could get away with it? The other things you mentioned are all clearly law-breaking, and need no comment. Let's just hope, in your seemingly total disregard for safety measures set up to protect everyone, that when you go down one of your one-way streets or run one of your stop signs, that there isn't some innocent bystander driving or walking who gets plowed into in your hurry to get on with your life. Sal
[FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
1. Tip well. The waitress can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. If you want to come back and write in this cafe again, it is far better to be perceived as an over-tipping American than a cheapskate Dutchman. Just sayin'. 2. If you truly want not to be noticed (and thus hit upon, for conversation or for other reasons), watch the Monty Python How Not To Be Seen sketch before going to the cafe. Pay attention. 3. If you open your computer and find yourself faced with a blank page (Hemingway's dreaded white bull) for longer than you expected, do not despair. Just write something...anything. The flow of writing hath its own rules, and knowing in advance what is going to come out is not one of them. 4. Alcohol should never be mistaken for inspiration. On the other hand, alcohol can often provide the lubricant that allows inspiration to flow. Once it's started flowing, stop drinking. Think K-Y...you really don't have to keep applying it every five minutes if you've got a good rhythm going for you. 5. Don't allow your intended audience to sit at your table unless it really helps you to imagine them there. One of the most useful techniques for getting one's self out of the way when writing is to not include any other selves in the process. 6. Never edit what you find yourself writing. That's what publishers pay non-writers to do; they're paying you to write. Division of labor, dudes. 7. Don't think about deadlines. If you really thought you were going to make yours, would you be in this cafe? On the other hand, if you just go with the here-and-now flow, here and now, and it *works*, you just might make the deadline anyway. Stranger things have happened. Kerouac really did write On The Road in one three-week marathon session. Sorta. 8. As with Bardic storytelling, a short period spent writing about a seeming non-sequitur may majorly pay off for you. At the time you originally wrote it, you thought it was procrastination. But later in the overall storytelling process, you find that you can't do without it, and that the non-sequitur provides you with the perfect ending to the story you thought it was a non-sequitur to. 9. Never invite your wife or husband or lover to sit with you as you write unless they're into cafe writing as well. If they are, don't ask to see what they wrote while watching you write. Never. You must trust me on this. 10. Pick a good cafe, one that seems to be full of people who are enjoying their lives, or at the very least seem to be enjoying these moments of their lives. If they aren't, you won't.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature Of Cafe Writing
On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:54 AM, turquoiseb wrote: 1. Tip well. The waitress can either be your best friend, or your worst enemy. If you want to come back and write in this cafe again, it is far better to be perceived as an over-tipping American than a cheapskate Dutchman. Just sayin'. I'd be in there about 5 minutes before they had me pegged. Barry, just out of curiosity, have you ever considered painting of any sort? Your writing often brings up a picture in my mind. Sal
[FairfieldLife] The laws of nature vs. the Tao of nature
I'm going to follow up on my own post, because I keep forgetting that many people here may never have been exposed to any other form of meditation or way of teaching meditation than TM. The answer to your question is in the way you phrased it. It's an assumption, imprinted by years of TM equating meditation with sitting. They are not equated. Why not try a walking meditation with your TM mantra? The process of allowing thoughts to settle down is the same, sitting or walking. Or, there are dozens of other meditation tech- niques out there that offer the benefits of allowing the mind to become more settled and focused, but without the necessity of sitting with eyes closed to do it. There are eyes open meditations, there is meditation to music, there are mindfulness techniques that can be practiced anytime, anywhere, and there is Zen walking meditation. Meditation is NOT necessarily sitting with the eyes closed. That's the baby steps version of meditation that was marketed as TM. While it may be applicable to and of benefit to many people, it is NOT the only way to meditate, and other people of other dispositions who do not enjoy sitting passively have benefitted greatly from more active forms of meditation. There are basically two approaches to teaching the meditative arts. Yeah, yeah, there are more than two, but whatever the tiny variances one might find between techniques and traditions, the *basic* approach tends to fall into one of two categories. The first should be familiar to everyone here who learned TM. There is an assumption that the meditative practice can be accurately described as a series of steps -- *instructions* -- and that the same set of instructions work for every- one. (One size fits all.) In those traditions, there is often a clear (and often authoritarian) idea that one has to practice the meditation right to benefit from it. Bad Things could happen to you if you do it wrong. Experiment- ation is strictly verboten. There are often even procedures to check the students to make sure they are doing it right and are following all the laws of how to meditate correctly. There are other traditions. And some of them are based on a more fluid, more flexible, and almost more Taoist approach to teaching the meditative arts. The instructions one is given are NOT meant to be followed by rote. The student is free to (and often encouraged to) experiment with them, to *play* with the meditative process, and by doing so to find his or her *own* most effective approach to meditating. There are points to be made for both approaches; it should go without saying that I prefer the latter approach. It seems more based on reality to me, and accepts the fact that individuals are...uh...individuals, and that a rote set of instructions followed to the letter are not necessarily going to fit everyone. I walked away from the TM movement thirty years ago. In the time since I've encountered a number of different ways of practicing and teaching med- itation, some of them from the first our way or the highway school of thought, some from the trust your body to find its own way school of thought. And along the way I discovered many of the assumptions that had been drilled into me by Maharishi and the TM organization. Such as having to sit with eyes closed to meditate. Such as never speaking one's mantra aloud, and considering it something magical and secret. Such as it being BAD to experiment with one's form or style of meditation, just to see what happens. Such as it being BAD and a sign of weakness to even *think* of trying another form of meditation. All of these assumptions were TAUGHT. I wasn't born with them. They came with TM as baggage, a set of assumptions that I *should* and as someone who wanted tobecome a TM teacher damned well *better* make about meditation. The TM approach to meditation and the teaching of it sought to *redefine* what meditation was and how it was performed correctly. ANY other approach was lesser and probably dangerous, and if you messed with the instructions, you were a fool and probably dangerous to be around, and so it was just fine to throw you the hell out of the org. Why I'm writing this is to let people know that NOT all forms of meditation are like this, and that NOT all traditions that teach them are like this. There are many traditions that have a much more respectful attitude towards their students than to treat them like children, with themselves as the authoritarian parents. So if the idea of meditation and its potential bene- fits still appeals to you, but TM's heavy-handed and dogmatic approach doesn't, you've got lots of other paths you can follow. And many of them don't insist that you follow *their* path in order to find your own. They respect your ability to find your own. They offer guidelines and pointers to help you find your way, and don't try to sell you their way.
[FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature
From a friend, passed along for your amusement: The three laws of thermodynamics are explained in several places in Wikipedia: 1. Conservation of energy. In any process, the total energy of the universe remains constant. 2. Entropy. The total entropy of any isolated thermodynamic system tends to increase over time, approaching a maximum value. 3. Absolute zero temperature. As temperature approaches absolute zero, the entropy of a system approaches a constant. Anonymous restatement of the three laws: 1. You can't get anything without working for it. 2. The most you can accomplish by working is to break even. 3. You can only break even at absolute zero. Restatement of the three laws, attributed to Allen Ginsberg: 1. You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You can't get out of the game. A corollary to Ginsberg's Laws, by someone named Freeman, every major philosophy that attempts to make life seem meaningful is based on the negation of one part of Ginsberg's Theorem: 1. Capitalism is based on the assumption that you can win. 2. Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break even. 3. Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can get out of the game. For your continued amusement, here is an 11-year-old web page with a collection of observed and restated laws of the universe: http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/ICAMS/people/jon/bits/laws.html http://tinyurl.com/yb3sfa I'm especially fond of Hlade's Law, Churchill's Commentary, and the Heineken Uncertainty Principle.
