[FairfieldLife] >>> The TRUTH About Eating Organic…

2017-07-29 Thread email4you mikemail4...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
https://biotrust.com/blog/truth-eating-organic/?SID=contentfb1184-170729=content1184_source=contentfb1184-170729_medium=email=y

The benefits of eating organic—particularly produce—are that produce grown 
under organic standards have been shown to provide significantly greater 
amounts of powerful compounds called phytochemicals (i.e., plant 
chemicals)—which have potent fat-fighting, age-defying, antioxidant 
properties—while reducing exposure to potentially harmful pesticide residues, 
heavy metals, 
and antibiotic-resistant bacteria.




[FairfieldLife] Re: Truth about the Rajas

2015-07-15 Thread salyavin808

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :

 the most transparent NGO in the whole world, hosting its communication on the 
web and open to anyone to watch
 

 Can you tell us how much they make from selling highly expensive and obviously 
totally ineffective prayers?
 

 We know the US national yagya fund rakes in $5,000,000 a year but what about 
the personal ones or special projects? And how much worldwide?
 

 I look forward to a comprehensive answer. Or did you mean something different 
by the term transparent?
 

 
http://www.maharishichannel.in/archives/gfc2-2015.html 
http://www.maharishichannel.in/archives/gfc2-2015.html
 





[FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

2014-10-08 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
Bankers aren't as invested in war as he thinks. They make MORE money during 
peacetime, these days. 

 Other that that, he's pretty much spot-on, I suspect.
 

 

 L

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :

 If you don't agree with every single word of this guy's rant, YOU'RE FUCKED UP 
IN THE HEAD.

Ken O'Keefe Dares To Say What Others Do Not 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZN_YDE-TU

 
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZN_YDE-TU
 
 Ken O'Keefe Dares To Say What Others Do Not 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZN_YDE-TU Ken O'Keefe, lays it out perfectly 
on dinosaur mainstream media, calling out the fraud. Must see, must share! 
Brilliant!


 
 View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZN_YDE-TU 
 Preview by Yahoo 
 





[FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

2014-10-08 Thread lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]
He also seems to think that Zionism is the root of all evil. I assume that goes 
back to his paranoia about bankers. 

 
 

 

 L
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote :

 If you don't agree with every single word of this guy's rant, YOU'RE FUCKED UP 
IN THE HEAD.

Ken O'Keefe Dares To Say What Others Do Not 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZN_YDE-TU

 
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZN_YDE-TU
 
 Ken O'Keefe Dares To Say What Others Do Not 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZN_YDE-TU Ken O'Keefe, lays it out perfectly 
on dinosaur mainstream media, calling out the fraud. Must see, must share! 
Brilliant!


 
 View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZN_YDE-TU 
 Preview by Yahoo 
 






[FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

2014-10-08 Thread Duveyoung
Paranoia about banksters -- is sanity.  Are you actually not seeing the true 
rulers of the world?

To diss this guy's possible psychological twist in his panties about Zionism 
while the War Mongers of the world have their way with the masses, is to serve 
them, their goals and their EVIL.

I accuse you of being a supporter of evil.  Fuck you for not being informed, 
and if informed, fuck you for mindfully being evil.

The issue isn't this guy - - it's your turning of a blind eye towards the 
psychopaths.this foul dynamic is the cause of all the world's misery and 
YOU'RE JUST TRUCKING ALONG LIKE YOU AIN'T DOING SHIT.

This is shit right here that you've done.  You made the world a little shittier 
by pretending a guy is more important than MILLIONS WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE.

Fuck you time ten.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

2014-10-08 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Bankers make plenty of money in wartime - you better believe it! You think arms 
deals, both those that are done by governments and those done in the shadows 
are carried out by guys in dark clothes carrying around suitcases full of 
money? The bankers are all too eager to shuttle money back and forth between 
all sorts of governments and clients - they make tons of dough in and from war.




 From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 1:42 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM
 


  
Paranoia about banksters -- is sanity.  Are you actually not seeing the true 
rulers of the world?

To diss this guy's possible psychological twist in his panties about Zionism 
while the War Mongers of the world have their way with the masses, is to serve 
them, their goals and their EVIL.

I accuse you of being a supporter of evil.  Fuck you for not being informed, 
and if informed, fuck you for mindfully being evil.

The issue isn't this guy - - it's your turning of a blind eye towards the 
psychopaths.this foul dynamic is the cause of all the world's misery and 
YOU'RE JUST TRUCKING ALONG LIKE YOU AIN'T DOING SHIT.

This is shit right here that you've done.  You made the world a little shittier 
by pretending a guy is more important than MILLIONS WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE.

Fuck you time ten.


Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

2014-10-08 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]

On 10/8/2014 12:42 PM, Duveyoung wrote:


Paranoia about banksters -- is sanity.  Are you actually not seeing 
the true rulers of the world?




/Use your head - if the Middle East was ruled by the Israelis there 
would be peace in the entire region. If Jews controlled the banks and 
the U.S. Government, we wouldn't have trillions of dollars in national 
debt.//Fuck you Jew-hating bastards a trillion times. Go figure./


/http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock//




To diss this guy's possible psychological twist in his panties about 
Zionism while the War Mongers of the world have their way with the 
masses, is to serve them, their goals and their EVIL.


I accuse you of being a supporter of evil.  Fuck you for not being 
informed, and if informed, fuck you for mindfully being evil.


The issue isn't this guy - - it's your turning of a blind eye towards 
the psychopaths.this foul dynamic is the cause of all the world's 
misery and YOU'RE JUST TRUCKING ALONG LIKE YOU AIN'T DOING SHIT.


This is shit right here that you've done.  You made the world a little 
shittier by pretending a guy is more important than MILLIONS WHO ARE 
ABOUT TO DIE.


Fuck you time ten.






[FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

2014-10-08 Thread wgm4u
One angry self-righteous dude! College professor per chance?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

2014-10-08 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 10/8/2014 1:18 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com 
[FairfieldLife] wrote:

Bankers make plenty of money in wartime - you better believe it!


/Well, let's hope the U.S. banks are making money. //
//
//The whole idea is to use the ISIL as an excuse to send in more U.S. 
troops, through the backdoor, to actively do what we wanted to do more 
than ten years ago - to remove the dictators like Hussein and the Assad 
government and the Kings of Saudi - to stabilize the entire Middle East 
so we can get the oil and send it to Europe and the Ukraine. The U.S. is 
almost 100% energy independent. //

//
//Following your logic, you are supporting the terrorists in the Middle 
East every time you cash a paycheck at a bank, or start up your car in 
the morning - just like you support the drug cartels every time you 
light up a joint.Go figure./



You think arms deals, both those that are done by governments and 
those done in the shadows are carried out by guys in dark clothes 
carrying around suitcases full of money? The bankers are all too eager 
to shuttle money back and forth between all sorts of governments and 
clients - they make tons of dough in and from war.



*From:* Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 8, 2014 1:42 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

Paranoia about banksters -- is sanity.  Are you actually not seeing 
the true rulers of the world?


To diss this guy's possible psychological twist in his panties about 
Zionism while the War Mongers of the world have their way with the 
masses, is to serve them, their goals and their EVIL.


I accuse you of being a supporter of evil.  Fuck you for not being 
informed, and if informed, fuck you for mindfully being evil.


The issue isn't this guy - - it's your turning of a blind eye towards 
the psychopaths.this foul dynamic is the cause of all the world's 
misery and YOU'RE JUST TRUCKING ALONG LIKE YOU AIN'T DOING SHIT.


This is shit right here that you've done.  You made the world a little 
shittier by pretending a guy is more important than MILLIONS WHO ARE 
ABOUT TO DIE.


Fuck you time ten.







Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

2014-10-08 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
This short clip from one of my favorite films The International 
explains it all:


http://youtu.be/UiN1xHaNDJ0

On 10/08/2014 11:18 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com 
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Bankers make plenty of money in wartime - you better believe it! You 
think arms deals, both those that are done by governments and those 
done in the shadows are carried out by guys in dark clothes carrying 
around suitcases full of money? The bankers are all too eager to 
shuttle money back and forth between all sorts of governments and 
clients - they make tons of dough in and from war.



*From:* Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 8, 2014 1:42 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

Paranoia about banksters -- is sanity.  Are you actually not seeing 
the true rulers of the world?


To diss this guy's possible psychological twist in his panties about 
Zionism while the War Mongers of the world have their way with the 
masses, is to serve them, their goals and their EVIL.


I accuse you of being a supporter of evil.  Fuck you for not being 
informed, and if informed, fuck you for mindfully being evil.


The issue isn't this guy - - it's your turning of a blind eye towards 
the psychopaths.this foul dynamic is the cause of all the world's 
misery and YOU'RE JUST TRUCKING ALONG LIKE YOU AIN'T DOING SHIT.


This is shit right here that you've done.  You made the world a little 
shittier by pretending a guy is more important than MILLIONS WHO ARE 
ABOUT TO DIE.


Fuck you time ten.







Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

2014-10-08 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]

On 10/8/2014 3:20 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] wrote:


This short clip from one of my favorite films The International 
explains it all:


/Wait! I thought Michael Moore made the film that explains it all. Go 
figure./




http://youtu.be/UiN1xHaNDJ0

On 10/08/2014 11:18 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com 
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Bankers make plenty of money in wartime - you better believe it! You 
think arms deals, both those that are done by governments and those 
done in the shadows are carried out by guys in dark clothes carrying 
around suitcases full of money? The bankers are all too eager to 
shuttle money back and forth between all sorts of governments and 
clients - they make tons of dough in and from war.



*From:* Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 8, 2014 1:42 PM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- the bitterness untouched by TM

Paranoia about banksters -- is sanity.  Are you actually not seeing 
the true rulers of the world?


To diss this guy's possible psychological twist in his panties about 
Zionism while the War Mongers of the world have their way with the 
masses, is to serve them, their goals and their EVIL.


I accuse you of being a supporter of evil.  Fuck you for not being 
informed, and if informed, fuck you for mindfully being evil.


The issue isn't this guy - - it's your turning of a blind eye towards 
the psychopaths.this foul dynamic is the cause of all the world's 
misery and YOU'RE JUST TRUCKING ALONG LIKE YOU AIN'T DOING SHIT.


This is shit right here that you've done.  You made the world a 
little shittier by pretending a guy is more important than MILLIONS 
WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE.


Fuck you time ten.









[FairfieldLife] Re: TRUTH ABOUT LONG HAIR

2014-04-21 Thread nablusoss1008

 Rick Archer is humoristic, who would have guessed :-)

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rick@... wrote :

 THE TRUTH ABOUT LONG HAIR 

April 18, 2014 - This information about hair has been hidden from the public 
since the Vietnam 
http://m.disclose.tv/url/Tm9DaGFuY2VBbm9ueW1vdXNodHRwOi8vbWFwcy5nb29nbGUuY29tL21hcHM_bGw9MjEuMDMzMzMzMzMzMywxMDUuODUmc3BuPTEwLjAsMTAuMCZxPTIxLjAzMzMzMzMzMzMsMTA1Ljg1IChWaWV0bmFtKSZ0PWg.
 War. Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of 
personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, 
and that how people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in 
theVietnam 
http://m.disclose.tv/url/Tm9DaGFuY2VBbm9ueW1vdXNodHRwOi8vbWFwcy5nb29nbGUuY29tL21hcHM_bGw9MjEuMDMzMzMzMzMzMywxMDUuODUmc3BuPTEwLjAsMTAuMCZxPTIxLjAzMzMzMzMzMzMsMTA1Ljg1IChWaWV0bmFtKSZ0PWg.
 war, however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been 
carefully covered up and hidden from public view.
 
In the early nineties, Sally [name changed to protect privacy] was married to a 
licensed psychologist who worked at a VA medical hospital. He worked with 
combat veterans with PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had 
served in Vietnam.

Sally said, “I remember clearly an evening when my husband came back to our 
apartment on Doctor’s Circle carrying a thick official looking folder in his 
hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain studies commissioned by the 
government. He was in shock from the contents. What he read in those documents 
completely changed his life. From that moment on my conservative, 
middle-of-the-road husband grew his hair and beard and never cut them again. 
What is more, the VA Medical Center let him do it, and other very conservative 
men in the staff followed his example.

As I read the documents, I learned why. It seems that during the Vietnam 
http://m.disclose.tv/url/Tm9DaGFuY2VBbm9ueW1vdXNodHRwOi8vbWFwcy5nb29nbGUuY29tL21hcHM_bGw9MjEuMDMzMzMzMzMzMywxMDUuODUmc3BuPTEwLjAsMTAuMCZxPTIxLjAzMzMzMzMzMzMsMTA1Ljg1IChWaWV0bmFtKSZ0PWg.
 War, special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to comb 
American Indian Reservations looking for talented scouts, for tough young men 
trained to move stealthily through rough terrain. They were especially looking 
for men with outstanding, almost supernatural tracking abilities. Before being 
approached, these carefully selected men were extensively documented as experts 
in tracking and survival.

With the usual enticements, the well-proven smooth phrases used to enroll new 
recruits, some of these Indian trackers were then enlisted. Once enlisted, an 
amazing thing happened. Whatever talents and skills they had possessed on the 
reservation seemed to mysteriously disappear, as recruit after recruit failed 
to perform as expected in the field.

Serious causalities and failures of performance led the government to contract 
expensive testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.

When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits 
replied consistently that when they received their required military haircuts, 
they could no longer ‘sense’ the enemy, they could no longer access a ‘sixth 
sense,’ their ‘intuition’ no longer was reliable, they couldn’t ‘read’ subtle 
signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information.

So the testing institute recruited more Indian trackers, let them keep their 
long hair, and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair two men 
together who had received the same scores on all the tests. They would let one 
man in the pair keep his hair long, and gave the other man a military haircut. 
Then the two men retook the tests.

Time after time the man with long hair kept making high scores. Time after 
time, the man with the short hair failed the tests in which he had previously 
scored high scores.

Here is a Typical Test:

The recruit is sleeping out in the woods. An armed ‘enemy’ approaches the 
sleeping man. The long haired man is awakened out of his sleep by a strong 
sense of danger and gets away long before the enemy is close, long before any 
sounds from the approaching enemy are audible.

In another version of this test, the long haired man senses an approach and 
somehow intuits that the enemy will perform a physical attack. He follows his 
‘sixth sense’ and stays still, pretending to be sleeping, but quickly grabs the 
attacker and ‘kills’ him as the attacker reaches down to strangle him.

This same man, after having passed these and other tests, then received a 
military haircut and consistently failed these tests, and many other tests that 
he had previously passed.

So the document recommended that all Indian trackers be exempt from military 
haircuts. In fact, it required that trackers keep their hair long.

The mammalian body has evolved over millions of years. Survival skills of human 
and animal at times seem almost supernatural. Science is constantly coming up 
with 

[FairfieldLife] Pravda (Truth) on WW III

2014-03-10 Thread cardemaister

 http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/25-03-2011/117328-third_world_war-0/ 
http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/25-03-2011/117328-third_world_war-0/



Re: [FairfieldLife] Pravda (Truth) on WW III

2014-03-10 Thread Pundit Sir
The Jews Who Fought for Hitler:
https://news.yahoo.com/jews-fought-hitler-190500625--politics.html


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:22 PM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote:





 http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/25-03-2011/117328-third_world_war-0/

  



Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-24 Thread Share Long
Thanks, Ann. I tend to come from a perspective of psychological health is good. 
But I know one spritual teacher, David Deida, who though he thinks it's good 
too, also thinks that people can love unconditionally even if they're totally 
screwed up!





On Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:02 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com 
awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


turq, I very much enjoy these statistics and understand what you are saying. 
However, I think the conclusions need to be a bit more nuanced. Because if a 
person thinks he or she is insignificant, then they will think other humans are 
insignificant too. And that often leads to all kinds of problematic behavior. I 
think what's better is a healthy self regard which promotes growth in regard 
for others, indeed for all life.

I like this post, Share. I believe much of what you say here is true.






On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:55 AM, turquoiseb@...
turquoiseb@... wrote:

 
A post for those who claim to value the Truth. Here it is. Now get over your 
puny self. 








Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-24 Thread doctordumbass
Who, then, is doing the unconditional loving, in those cases? It is a very 
strange thing to assert, since it is conditioning which prevents unconditional 
love, in the first place. Perhaps he is merely mentioning the old saw, to not 
wait for full enlightenment, to begin living a full life, and that is always 
good advice.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Thanks, Ann. I tend to come from a perspective of psychological health is 
good. But I know one spritual teacher, David Deida, who though he thinks it's 
good too, also thinks that people can love unconditionally even if they're 
totally screwed up!
 

 
 
 On Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:02 PM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:
 
   

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 turq, I very much enjoy these statistics and understand what you are saying. 
However, I think the conclusions need to be a bit more nuanced. Because if a 
person thinks he or she is insignificant, then they will think other humans are 
insignificant too. And that often leads to all kinds of problematic behavior. I 
think what's better is a healthy self regard which promotes growth in regard 
for others, indeed for all life.
 

 I like this post, Share. I believe much of what you say here is true.
 
 

 
 
 On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:55 AM, turquoiseb@... turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
   A post for those who claim to value the Truth. Here it is. Now get over your 
puny self. 


 



 














 


 












Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-24 Thread Share Long
But Doc, is it conditioning that is preventing unconditional love. Or is it the 
belief that conditioning is preventing unconditional love that is the real 
culprit?!
PS I find David Deida to be a very profound thinker so I take to heart what he 
says.





On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:20 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com 
doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:
 
  
Who, then, is doing the unconditional loving, in those cases? It is a very 
strange thing to assert, since it is conditioning which prevents unconditional 
love, in the first place. Perhaps he is merely mentioning the old saw, to not 
wait for full enlightenment, to begin living a full life, and that is always 
good advice.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


Thanks, Ann. I tend to come from a perspective of psychological health is good. 
But I know one spritual teacher, David Deida, who though he thinks it's good 
too, also thinks that people can love unconditionally even if they're totally 
screwed up!





On Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:02 PM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:

 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


turq, I very much enjoy these statistics and understand what you are saying. 
However, I think the conclusions need to be a bit more nuanced. Because if a 
person thinks he or she is insignificant, then they will think other humans are 
insignificant too. And that often leads to all kinds of problematic behavior. I 
think what's better is a healthy self regard which promotes growth in regard 
for others, indeed for all life.

I like this post, Share. I believe much of what you say here is true.






On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:55 AM, turquoiseb@...
turquoiseb@... wrote:

 
A post for those who claim to value the Truth. Here it is. Now get over your 
puny self. 










Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-24 Thread doctordumbass
Beliefs in limitations don't arise, unless the limitation is evident within 
oneself. Similarly, a belief in one's unlimited ability doesn't arise, unless 
the ability within oneself is present - latent, perhaps, but present.
So, although we all enjoy 'owning' our beliefs, even arguing for them, and 
thinking of them as choices we each make, they are really much more of a 
rationalized expression, of the state of our physiology.
However, as humans, we have this unique ability to set a conflict within 
ourselves, to believe in something, that in terms of everyday life, we cannot 
support. It is simply not possible - Not impossible, in terms of future 
achievement, but in terms of simply thinking it so, it is not possible for a 
belief to instantaneously override the physiology. 
That means, if, as this guy says, we believe in giving unconditional love, but 
we do not have the capacity, all we can offer is inner conflict, and why would 
you want to pass that on? Once the ability to offer unconditional love is 
there, it doesn't matter what our belief is, at all - we can only spread, and 
share it.
I find that humans are not as smart as we *think* we are - life, itself, serves 
as much better mirror, and teacher. :-)


 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 But Doc, is it conditioning that is preventing unconditional love. Or is it 
the belief that conditioning is preventing unconditional love that is the real 
culprit?!
PS I find David Deida to be a very profound thinker so I take to heart what he 
says.
 

 
 
 On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:20 AM, doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... 
wrote:
 
   Who, then, is doing the unconditional loving, in those cases? It is a very 
strange thing to assert, since it is conditioning which prevents unconditional 
love, in the first place. Perhaps he is merely mentioning the old saw, to not 
wait for full enlightenment, to begin living a full life, and that is always 
good advice.

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Thanks, Ann. I tend to come from a perspective of psychological health is 
good. But I know one spritual teacher, David Deida, who though he thinks it's 
good too, also thinks that people can love unconditionally even if they're 
totally screwed up!
 

 
 
 On Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:02 PM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:
 
   

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 turq, I very much enjoy these statistics and understand what you are saying. 
However, I think the conclusions need to be a bit more nuanced. Because if a 
person thinks he or she is insignificant, then they will think other humans are 
insignificant too. And that often leads to all kinds of problematic behavior. I 
think what's better is a healthy self regard which promotes growth in regard 
for others, indeed for all life.
 

 I like this post, Share. I believe much of what you say here is true.
 
 

 
 
 On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:55 AM, turquoiseb@... turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
   A post for those who claim to value the Truth. Here it is. Now get over your 
puny self. 


 



 














 














 


 












Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-24 Thread Share Long
Doc, I agree that all this stuff resides in the physiology and arises from 
there. But then I remember reading about saints who were in bliss but also 
great physical pain. Any thoughts about that? 





On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:02 PM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com 
doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:
 
  
Beliefs in limitations don't arise, unless the limitation is evident within 
oneself. Similarly, a belief in one's unlimited ability doesn't arise, unless 
the ability within oneself is present - latent, perhaps, but present.
So, although we all enjoy 'owning' our beliefs, even arguing for them, and 
thinking of them as choices we each make, they are really much more of a 
rationalized expression, of the state of our physiology.
However, as humans, we have this unique ability to set a conflict within 
ourselves, to believe in something, that in terms of everyday life, we cannot 
support. It is simply not possible - Not impossible, in terms of future 
achievement, but in terms of simply thinking it so, it is not possible for a 
belief to instantaneously override the physiology. 
That means, if, as this guy says, we believe in giving unconditional love, but 
we do not have the capacity, all we can offer is inner conflict, and why would 
you want to pass that on? Once the ability to offer unconditional love is 
there, it doesn't matter what our belief is, at all - we can only spread, and 
share it.
I find that humans are not as smart as we *think* we are - life, itself, serves 
as much better mirror, and teacher. :-)




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


But Doc, is it conditioning that is preventing unconditional love. Or is it the 
belief that conditioning is preventing unconditional love that is the real 
culprit?!
PS I find David Deida to be a very profound thinker so I take to heart what he 
says.





On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:20 AM, doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... 
wrote:

 
Who, then, is doing the unconditional loving, in those cases? It is a very 
strange thing to assert, since it is conditioning which prevents unconditional 
love, in the first place. Perhaps he is merely mentioning the old saw, to not 
wait for full enlightenment, to begin living a full life, and that is always 
good advice.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


Thanks, Ann. I tend to come from a perspective of psychological health is good. 
But I know one spritual teacher, David Deida, who though he thinks it's good 
too, also thinks that people can love unconditionally even if they're totally 
screwed
up!





On Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:02 PM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:

 




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:


turq, I very much enjoy these statistics and understand what you are saying. 
However, I think the conclusions need to be a bit more nuanced. Because if a 
person thinks he or she is insignificant, then they will think other humans are
insignificant too. And that often leads to all kinds of problematic behavior. I 
think what's better is a healthy self regard which promotes growth in regard 
for others, indeed for all life.

I like this post, Share. I believe much of what you say here is true.






On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:55 AM, turquoiseb@...
turquoiseb@... wrote:

 
A post for those who claim to value the Truth. Here it is. Now get over your 
puny self. 












Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-24 Thread doctordumbass
As it relates to the earlier discussion about radiating unconditional love, 
such a saint would be fully aware of both the bliss, and the great physical 
pain, and the source of each. Maybe it is then like stubbing your toe, while 
your child is running towards you, for a hug. The hug still happens, fully and 
deeply, while you think, ouch, that toe hurts.  

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Doc, I agree that all this stuff resides in the physiology and arises from 
there. But then I remember reading about saints who were in bliss but also 
great physical pain. Any thoughts about that? 
 

 
 
 On Monday, February 24, 2014 1:02 PM, doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... 
wrote:
 
   Beliefs in limitations don't arise, unless the limitation is evident within 
oneself. Similarly, a belief in one's unlimited ability doesn't arise, unless 
the ability within oneself is present - latent, perhaps, but present.
So, although we all enjoy 'owning' our beliefs, even arguing for them, and 
thinking of them as choices we each make, they are really much more of a 
rationalized expression, of the state of our physiology.
However, as humans, we have this unique ability to set a conflict within 
ourselves, to believe in something, that in terms of everyday life, we cannot 
support. It is simply not possible - Not impossible, in terms of future 
achievement, but in terms of simply thinking it so, it is not possible for a 
belief to instantaneously override the physiology. 
That means, if, as this guy says, we believe in giving unconditional love, but 
we do not have the capacity, all we can offer is inner conflict, and why would 
you want to pass that on? Once the ability to offer unconditional love is 
there, it doesn't matter what our belief is, at all - we can only spread, and 
share it.
I find that humans are not as smart as we *think* we are - life, itself, serves 
as much better mirror, and teacher. :-)



 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 But Doc, is it conditioning that is preventing unconditional love. Or is it 
the belief that conditioning is preventing unconditional love that is the real 
culprit?!
PS I find David Deida to be a very profound thinker so I take to heart what he 
says.
 

 
 
 On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:20 AM, doctordumbass@... doctordumbass@... 
wrote:
 
   Who, then, is doing the unconditional loving, in those cases? It is a very 
strange thing to assert, since it is conditioning which prevents unconditional 
love, in the first place. Perhaps he is merely mentioning the old saw, to not 
wait for full enlightenment, to begin living a full life, and that is always 
good advice.

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 Thanks, Ann. I tend to come from a perspective of psychological health is 
good. But I know one spritual teacher, David Deida, who though he thinks it's 
good too, also thinks that people can love unconditionally even if they're 
totally screwed up!
 

 
 
 On Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:02 PM, awoelflebater@... awoelflebater@... 
wrote:
 
   

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 turq, I very much enjoy these statistics and understand what you are saying. 
However, I think the conclusions need to be a bit more nuanced. Because if a 
person thinks he or she is insignificant, then they will think other humans are 
insignificant too. And that often leads to all kinds of problematic behavior. I 
think what's better is a healthy self regard which promotes growth in regard 
for others, indeed for all life.
 

 I like this post, Share. I believe much of what you say here is true.
 
 

 
 
 On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:55 AM, turquoiseb@... turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
   A post for those who claim to value the Truth. Here it is. Now get over your 
puny self. 


 



 














 














 














 


 












Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-23 Thread Share Long
turq, I very much enjoy these statistics and understand what you are saying. 
However, I think the conclusions need to be a bit more nuanced. Because if a 
person thinks he or she is insignificant, then they will think other humans are 
insignificant too. And that often leads to all kinds of problematic behavior. I 
think what's better is a healthy self regard which promotes growth in regard 
for others, indeed for all life.





On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:55 AM, turquoi...@yahoo.com 
turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
  
A post for those who claim to value the Truth. Here it is. Now get over your 
puny self. 






Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-23 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 2/23/2014 3:53 PM, Share Long wrote:
 what's better is a healthy self regard which promotes growth in regard 
 for others, indeed for all life.
 
Man is the measure of all things. - Protagoras


Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-23 Thread awoelflebater

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote:

 turq, I very much enjoy these statistics and understand what you are saying. 
However, I think the conclusions need to be a bit more nuanced. Because if a 
person thinks he or she is insignificant, then they will think other humans are 
insignificant too. And that often leads to all kinds of problematic behavior. I 
think what's better is a healthy self regard which promotes growth in regard 
for others, indeed for all life.
 

 I like this post, Share. I believe much of what you say here is true.
 
 

 
 
 On Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:55 AM, turquoiseb@... turquoiseb@... wrote:
 
   A post for those who claim to value the Truth. Here it is. Now get over your 
puny self. 


 



 


 












[FairfieldLife] The Truth

2014-02-22 Thread turquoiseb
A post for those who claim to value the Truth. Here it is. Now get over your 
puny self. 

 




[FairfieldLife] RE: Truth, Justice, and the American Way

2013-12-17 Thread authfriend




[FairfieldLife] sweet truth a fundamental misunderstanding

2013-12-04 Thread Paul Simdars


This verse is from the Manu Smriti (4.138):

Original translation:

satyaM brUyAt priyaM brUyAt   speak the truth, speak sweetly
na brUyAt satyam apriyam |  don't speak truth that is unpleasant
priyaM ca nAnRRitaM brUyAt   don't speak untruth that is pleasant
eSha dharmaH sanAtanaH ||  this is the eternal law

the Literal translation is:

truth speak, lovingly speak
don't speak truth unloving
lovingly untruth don't speak
this is law eternal

My enhanced translation

satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat   speak the truth, speak sweetly
na bruyat satyam apriyam |  don't speak truth in an unloving way
priyam ca nanritam bruyat   don't speak untruth in a pleasant way
esha dharmah sanatanah ||   this is the eternal law

I'm certain that the shloka is talking about how to speak the truth not 
the quality of the truth itself.  That is, it's not the truth that is to 
be sweet or not, truth is truth.. but it is HOW you say it that is the rule.


the key word you in the first three lines is priyam
this is derived from the word prem which means love, so I feel it is 
appropriate to translate priyam as lovingly, although sweetly, 
pleasantly are not far off.


But I have to emphasize that this shloka doesn't not say that one 
should, under any circumstances, not tell the truth, but it is guiding 
one to say the truth in a pleasant way.  The truth must be told (satyam 
eva jayate truth alone triumphs)


ca means and (used very differently in Sanskrit than English / not a 
connective word)

ritam is another word for truth
nan negation no or not
bruyat means speak or say

priyam ca nanritam bruyat   don't speak a pleasant untruth

The word ca echoes the repetitive logic from earlier line (meaning 
don't)

nanritam means untrurth

priyam is used here to describe a way of speaking, not nature of the 
truth.

Therefore it should mean lovingly


The reason I think this is a fundamental issue is that people may feel 
that you should never tell someone something they don't want to hear.  
But that is not what it says.  You can tell your friend that he didn't 
win the election or you can rub his nose in it and call him a loser.  
The fact (or truth) is the same but the way you say it is different.


If you only tell people what they want to hear, you create bubble 
mentality.  People will live in a bubble they create because they only 
want to hear what they want to hear.  That is NOT speaking the sweet 
truth as defined in the Manu Smriti.






Re: [FairfieldLife] sweet truth a fundamental misunderstanding

2013-12-04 Thread Share Long
Thanks Paul, this is good info. I've heard third hand that someone challenged 
Maharishi saying that the truth is not always sweet. And Maharishi reportedly 
replied: if it's not sweet, it's not true.





On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 11:41 AM, Paul Simdars psimd...@lisco.com 
wrote:
 
  

This verse is from the Manu Smriti (4.138):

Original translation:

satyaM brUyAt priyaM brUyAt   speak the truth, speak sweetly
na brUyAt satyam apriyam |  don't speak truth that is
unpleasant
priyaM ca nAnRRitaM brUyAt   don't speak untruth that is
pleasant
eSha dharmaH sanAtanaH ||  this is the eternal law

the Literal translation is:

truth speak, lovingly speak
don't speak truth unloving
lovingly untruth don't speak
this is law eternal

My enhanced translation

satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat   speak the truth, speak sweetly
na bruyat satyam apriyam |  don't speak truth in an unloving
way
priyam ca nanritam bruyat   don't speak untruth in a
pleasant way
esha dharmah sanatanah ||   this is the eternal law

I'm certain that the shloka is talking about how to speak the truth
not the quality of the truth itself.  That is, it's not the truth
that is to be sweet or not, truth is truth.. but it is HOW you say
it that is the rule.

the key word you in the first three lines is priyam
this is derived from the word prem which means love, so I feel it
is appropriate to translate priyam as lovingly, although
sweetly, pleasantly are not far off.

But I have to emphasize that this shloka doesn't not say that one
should, under any circumstances, not tell the truth, but it is
guiding one to say the truth in a pleasant way.  The truth must be
told (satyam eva jayate truth alone triumphs)

ca means and (used very differently in Sanskrit than English /
not a connective word)
ritam is another word for truth
nan negation no or not
bruyat means speak or say

priyam ca nanritam bruyat   don't speak a pleasant untruth

The word ca echoes the repetitive logic from earlier line (meaning
don't)
nanritam means untrurth

priyam is used here to describe a way of speaking, not nature of
the truth.
Therefore it should mean lovingly


The reason I think this is a fundamental issue is that people may
feel that you should never tell someone something they don't want to
hear.  But that is not what it says.  You can tell your friend that
he didn't win the election or you can rub his nose in it and call
him a loser.  The fact (or truth) is the same but the way you say it
is different.

If you only tell people what they want to hear, you create bubble
mentality.  People will live in a bubble they create because they
only want to hear what they want to hear.  That is NOT speaking the
sweet truth as defined in the Manu Smriti.






Re: [FairfieldLife] sweet truth a fundamental misunderstanding

2013-12-04 Thread Richard J. Williams
Thanks for posting this, Paul - it came at just the right time. Very 
perceptive interpretation. This is just what I've been looking for. 
Please keep up the good work!


On 12/4/2013 11:40 AM, Paul Simdars wrote:



This verse is from the Manu Smriti (4.138):

Original translation:

satyaM brUyAt priyaM brUyAt   speak the truth, speak sweetly
na brUyAt satyam apriyam |  don't speak truth that is unpleasant
priyaM ca nAnRRitaM brUyAt   don't speak untruth that is pleasant
eSha dharmaH sanAtanaH ||  this is the eternal law

the Literal translation is:

truth speak, lovingly speak
don't speak truth unloving
lovingly untruth don't speak
this is law eternal

My enhanced translation

satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat   speak the truth, speak sweetly
na bruyat satyam apriyam |  don't speak truth in an unloving way
priyam ca nanritam bruyat   don't speak untruth in a pleasant way
esha dharmah sanatanah ||   this is the eternal law

I'm certain that the shloka is talking about how to speak the truth 
not the quality of the truth itself.  That is, it's not the truth that 
is to be sweet or not, truth is truth.. but it is HOW you say it that 
is the rule.


the key word you in the first three lines is priyam
this is derived from the word prem which means love, so I feel it is 
appropriate to translate priyam as lovingly, although sweetly, 
pleasantly are not far off.


But I have to emphasize that this shloka doesn't not say that one 
should, under any circumstances, not tell the truth, but it is guiding 
one to say the truth in a pleasant way.  The truth must be told 
(satyam eva jayate truth alone triumphs)


ca means and (used very differently in Sanskrit than English / not 
a connective word)

ritam is another word for truth
nan negation no or not
bruyat means speak or say

priyam ca nanritam bruyat   don't speak a pleasant untruth

The word ca echoes the repetitive logic from earlier line (meaning 
don't)

nanritam means untrurth

priyam is used here to describe a way of speaking, not nature of the 
truth.

Therefore it should mean lovingly


The reason I think this is a fundamental issue is that people may feel 
that you should never tell someone something they don't want to hear.  
But that is not what it says.  You can tell your friend that he didn't 
win the election or you can rub his nose in it and call him a loser.  
The fact (or truth) is the same but the way you say it is different.


If you only tell people what they want to hear, you create bubble 
mentality.  People will live in a bubble they create because they 
only want to hear what they want to hear.  That is NOT speaking the 
sweet truth as defined in the Manu Smriti.






[FairfieldLife] The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

2013-06-16 Thread turquoiseb
Lawson's passing comment about context earlier got me thinking about
truth. Or Truth, if you prefer. Or, if you're even stronger in your
preferences, The Truth.

In my travels along the somewhat twisty spiritual path, I have noticed
that a LOT of people are fond of this word truth. They speak of
seeking it, of valuing it above all else, of its importance to those on
a spiritual path. Some speak of knowing it, and speak as if they
reveal it in every word.

And yet, many of these *same* people seem to have No Problem holding two
completely contradictory truths in their heads at the same time, and
considering *each* of them Truth.

Maharishi was both a householder and a monk. Depending on context.
Both of them are truth, seen from that context. Depending on how much
you consider Maharishi enlightened -- and we've all been told that the
enlightened cannot *help* but speak the truth -- both could be seen as
Truth from that context.

It makes me wonder whether what all these seekers are seeking as
truth, and often speaking about as if it were The Truth is in reality
relative truth. Things are true or the truth only in context, as
*they* see them -- or claim to see them -- in that moment. Truth
*changes*, depending on context.

How is that so different from the way those of us who do not even
believe in the *concept* of truth live our lives?





[FairfieldLife] Discerning truth from bullshit (was Re: The problem Atheists have)

2012-01-31 Thread nablusoss1008


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
  
   Just as a followup, Susan, there are experiences I've had
   that are MUCH weirder than any I ever had while in Rama's
   presence, and thus of another order entirely. There is one
   experience that happened when I was thousands of miles away
   from him, had nothing to do with him, but was pretty amazing.
   
   Why it's fascinating to me is that I was with someone else
   who saw exactly the same thing I did, and who to this day
   describes it exactly as I do. There was no setup for 
   having this experience, no expectation of having it, nada.
   It just happened. So the two of us (my best friend and I)
   have only each other to rely on when it comes to describing
   it. Most of the time we don't, because it's much more
   unbelievable in a way than having seen deities. The 
   only thing we know is THAT we saw it. How we saw it, or
   whether it really existed and could have been photographed
   or whether we were seeing into some alternate reality...that 
   stuff we can't really talk about, because neither of us has 
   any clue as to the how or actual what involved. I'll 
   refrain from going into more detail at this point, because 
   it would just become fodder for those who live to dump on 
   me already. I suspect you understand. :-)
  
  I do understand. And I hope to hear the story some day. Thank 
  for your replies. I am at work and cannot give them the time 
  and consideration they deserve. Thanks again - your experiences 
  get to the crux of the whole issue, imo
 
 Well, in that case, I'll dive once more into the whole
 issue. I have nothing to lose, since the attacks started
 even before I told the story. :-)
 
 This is your opportunity ( and the opportunity equally 
 afforded to lurkers ) to determine whether Barry is 
 bullsitting you ( some of us are not afraid of words, and
 thus less prone to asteriskize them :-) or telling you the
 absolute truth, as he experienced it and remembers it. I 
 do not tell this story often, or lightly, for what will 
 become apparent reasons. Tell someone you had a vision of
 Jzus, or Krishna, or even a ghost or a UFO, and most 
 people will cut you some slack. Tell them you saw certain
 other things, not so much. 
 
 The story ( which will be a little long, because I'm going
 to do my best with the telling of it ) dates from a period 
 of time in which I was studying with Rama, but was not with 
 him. We were living in New York at the time, and many of us 
 were missing the Southwest Big Time. Perceiving this, he had 
 scheduled a big group Road Trip. We would fly into Phoenix
 and then spend a week and a half traveling to various power
 places in that area, just to meditate and have adventures
 there. My cuppa tea. 
 
 So my girlfriend ( who also studied with Rama at that time ) 
 and I made arrangements to go on this trip. We booked vacation
 time away from work, the full tamale. And then Rama got a burr 
 up his butt about something ( I honestly don't remember what )
 and cancelled the trip. He gave all of us students a big Fuck
 you! for what we'd done or hadn't done. Drama queen...what
 can I say?  :-)
 
 My girlfriend and I looked at each other and replied mentally
 with a big, New York No, fuck you! and decided to go anyway.
 So we did. We flew into Phoenix and I rented a big, campable
 4WD vehicle, and we set off to see places like the Grand 
 Canyon, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Bandelier, and other
 just scorchin' power places in that area. We hiked and medi-
 tated there and then moved on to the next place. The weird
 story comes from one of those moving on's.
 
 We'd spent the day -- the Summer Solstice if I remember 
 correctly -- hiking and meditating and grooving on Monument
 Valley. Even if you've never been there, you have seen the
 place in hundreds of movies. It's one of the most spectacular
 places on earth, and IMO one of its most powerful. We watched
 the sun set while watching Navajo dancers and musicians play
 in the parking lot of the National Park, and it was WAY 
 magical, up there in my Top Ten Sunsets Ever.
 
 Then we hopped into the car and drove down to the only motel
 in the area, expecting to find a room there, as I always 
 had in the past. Bad idea. Motel booked. So we could either
 backtrack into the dreary motel town 30 miles in the opposite
 direction that we were heading, or we could just say What 
 the fuck and drive North. We drove North.
 
 That drive followed maps that...ahem...failed to convey
 the steepness and looking-over-the-edge-of-a-high-precipice-
 seeing-your-death-at-every-turn-of-the-gravel-road of the
 route I chose. Hey...mea culpa. I'm the one who hadn't had
 the good sense to pre-book a motel room. While in Road Trip 
 Mind, I am not always the most sentient of beings. :-)
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Discerning truth from bullshit (was Re: The problem Atheists have)

2012-01-30 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
 
  Just as a followup, Susan, there are experiences I've had
  that are MUCH weirder than any I ever had while in Rama's
  presence, and thus of another order entirely. There is one
  experience that happened when I was thousands of miles away
  from him, had nothing to do with him, but was pretty amazing.
  
  Why it's fascinating to me is that I was with someone else
  who saw exactly the same thing I did, and who to this day
  describes it exactly as I do. There was no setup for 
  having this experience, no expectation of having it, nada.
  It just happened. So the two of us (my best friend and I)
  have only each other to rely on when it comes to describing
  it. Most of the time we don't, because it's much more
  unbelievable in a way than having seen deities. The 
  only thing we know is THAT we saw it. How we saw it, or
  whether it really existed and could have been photographed
  or whether we were seeing into some alternate reality...that 
  stuff we can't really talk about, because neither of us has 
  any clue as to the how or actual what involved. I'll 
  refrain from going into more detail at this point, because 
  it would just become fodder for those who live to dump on 
  me already. I suspect you understand. :-)
 
 I do understand. And I hope to hear the story some day. Thank 
 for your replies. I am at work and cannot give them the time 
 and consideration they deserve. Thanks again - your experiences 
 get to the crux of the whole issue, imo

Well, in that case, I'll dive once more into the whole
issue. I have nothing to lose, since the attacks started
even before I told the story. :-)

This is your opportunity ( and the opportunity equally 
afforded to lurkers ) to determine whether Barry is 
bullsitting you ( some of us are not afraid of words, and
thus less prone to asteriskize them :-) or telling you the
absolute truth, as he experienced it and remembers it. I 
do not tell this story often, or lightly, for what will 
become apparent reasons. Tell someone you had a vision of
Jzus, or Krishna, or even a ghost or a UFO, and most 
people will cut you some slack. Tell them you saw certain
other things, not so much. 

The story ( which will be a little long, because I'm going
to do my best with the telling of it ) dates from a period 
of time in which I was studying with Rama, but was not with 
him. We were living in New York at the time, and many of us 
were missing the Southwest Big Time. Perceiving this, he had 
scheduled a big group Road Trip. We would fly into Phoenix
and then spend a week and a half traveling to various power
places in that area, just to meditate and have adventures
there. My cuppa tea. 

So my girlfriend ( who also studied with Rama at that time ) 
and I made arrangements to go on this trip. We booked vacation
time away from work, the full tamale. And then Rama got a burr 
up his butt about something ( I honestly don't remember what )
and cancelled the trip. He gave all of us students a big Fuck
you! for what we'd done or hadn't done. Drama queen...what
can I say?  :-)

My girlfriend and I looked at each other and replied mentally
with a big, New York No, fuck you! and decided to go anyway.
So we did. We flew into Phoenix and I rented a big, campable
4WD vehicle, and we set off to see places like the Grand 
Canyon, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Bandelier, and other
just scorchin' power places in that area. We hiked and medi-
tated there and then moved on to the next place. The weird
story comes from one of those moving on's.

We'd spent the day -- the Summer Solstice if I remember 
correctly -- hiking and meditating and grooving on Monument
Valley. Even if you've never been there, you have seen the
place in hundreds of movies. It's one of the most spectacular
places on earth, and IMO one of its most powerful. We watched
the sun set while watching Navajo dancers and musicians play
in the parking lot of the National Park, and it was WAY 
magical, up there in my Top Ten Sunsets Ever.

Then we hopped into the car and drove down to the only motel
in the area, expecting to find a room there, as I always 
had in the past. Bad idea. Motel booked. So we could either
backtrack into the dreary motel town 30 miles in the opposite
direction that we were heading, or we could just say What 
the fuck and drive North. We drove North.

That drive followed maps that...ahem...failed to convey
the steepness and looking-over-the-edge-of-a-high-precipice-
seeing-your-death-at-every-turn-of-the-gravel-road of the
route I chose. Hey...mea culpa. I'm the one who hadn't had
the good sense to pre-book a motel room. While in Road Trip 
Mind, I am not always the most sentient of beings. :-)

But we finally made it up to the top of the winding canyon
pass and onto a two-lane blacktop that couldn't have been
more straight if God had done the measuring. The 

[FairfieldLife] Discerning truth from bullshit (was Re: The problem Atheists have)

2012-01-30 Thread futur.musik
Why not try to contact the dragon now? You have a clear recollection of it. 
I'll bet you can bring the dragon back if you want to.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Susan wayback71@ wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
  
   Just as a followup, Susan, there are experiences I've had
   that are MUCH weirder than any I ever had while in Rama's
   presence, and thus of another order entirely. There is one
   experience that happened when I was thousands of miles away
   from him, had nothing to do with him, but was pretty amazing.
   
   Why it's fascinating to me is that I was with someone else
   who saw exactly the same thing I did, and who to this day
   describes it exactly as I do. There was no setup for 
   having this experience, no expectation of having it, nada.
   It just happened. So the two of us (my best friend and I)
   have only each other to rely on when it comes to describing
   it. Most of the time we don't, because it's much more
   unbelievable in a way than having seen deities. The 
   only thing we know is THAT we saw it. How we saw it, or
   whether it really existed and could have been photographed
   or whether we were seeing into some alternate reality...that 
   stuff we can't really talk about, because neither of us has 
   any clue as to the how or actual what involved. I'll 
   refrain from going into more detail at this point, because 
   it would just become fodder for those who live to dump on 
   me already. I suspect you understand. :-)
  
  I do understand. And I hope to hear the story some day. Thank 
  for your replies. I am at work and cannot give them the time 
  and consideration they deserve. Thanks again - your experiences 
  get to the crux of the whole issue, imo
 
 Well, in that case, I'll dive once more into the whole
 issue. I have nothing to lose, since the attacks started
 even before I told the story. :-)
 
 This is your opportunity ( and the opportunity equally 
 afforded to lurkers ) to determine whether Barry is 
 bullsitting you ( some of us are not afraid of words, and
 thus less prone to asteriskize them :-) or telling you the
 absolute truth, as he experienced it and remembers it. I 
 do not tell this story often, or lightly, for what will 
 become apparent reasons. Tell someone you had a vision of
 Jzus, or Krishna, or even a ghost or a UFO, and most 
 people will cut you some slack. Tell them you saw certain
 other things, not so much. 
 
 The story ( which will be a little long, because I'm going
 to do my best with the telling of it ) dates from a period 
 of time in which I was studying with Rama, but was not with 
 him. We were living in New York at the time, and many of us 
 were missing the Southwest Big Time. Perceiving this, he had 
 scheduled a big group Road Trip. We would fly into Phoenix
 and then spend a week and a half traveling to various power
 places in that area, just to meditate and have adventures
 there. My cuppa tea. 
 
 So my girlfriend ( who also studied with Rama at that time ) 
 and I made arrangements to go on this trip. We booked vacation
 time away from work, the full tamale. And then Rama got a burr 
 up his butt about something ( I honestly don't remember what )
 and cancelled the trip. He gave all of us students a big Fuck
 you! for what we'd done or hadn't done. Drama queen...what
 can I say?  :-)
 
 My girlfriend and I looked at each other and replied mentally
 with a big, New York No, fuck you! and decided to go anyway.
 So we did. We flew into Phoenix and I rented a big, campable
 4WD vehicle, and we set off to see places like the Grand 
 Canyon, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Bandelier, and other
 just scorchin' power places in that area. We hiked and medi-
 tated there and then moved on to the next place. The weird
 story comes from one of those moving on's.
 
 We'd spent the day -- the Summer Solstice if I remember 
 correctly -- hiking and meditating and grooving on Monument
 Valley. Even if you've never been there, you have seen the
 place in hundreds of movies. It's one of the most spectacular
 places on earth, and IMO one of its most powerful. We watched
 the sun set while watching Navajo dancers and musicians play
 in the parking lot of the National Park, and it was WAY 
 magical, up there in my Top Ten Sunsets Ever.
 
 Then we hopped into the car and drove down to the only motel
 in the area, expecting to find a room there, as I always 
 had in the past. Bad idea. Motel booked. So we could either
 backtrack into the dreary motel town 30 miles in the opposite
 direction that we were heading, or we could just say What 
 the fuck and drive North. We drove North.
 
 That drive followed maps that...ahem...failed to convey
 the steepness and looking-over-the-edge-of-a-high-precipice-
 seeing-your-death-at-every-turn-of-the-gravel-road of the
 route I chose. Hey...mea culpa. I'm the one who 

[FairfieldLife] Discerning truth from bullshit (was Re: The problem Atheists have)

2012-01-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
snip
 Well, in that case, I'll dive once more into the whole
 issue. I have nothing to lose, since the attacks started
 even before I told the story. :-)

No, they didn't.

See, folks, this is BS as Frankfurt defined it in that
quote I posted. Barry doesn't even *care* what the facts
are.




[FairfieldLife] Discerning truth from bullshit (was Re: The problem Atheists have)

2012-01-30 Thread futur.musik
When I first saw his comment, I thought he meant his own panic attacks. :-) 
Seriously, I think most people have BW's number when he wants to troll - its no 
big deal. Those that don't, get it soon enough. 

In this case he is feeling vulnerable and small. Why not just let him? I 
understand your attempt to shine a light on this behavior but that is a 
rational approach to irrational behavior. How can you make progress that way?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
 snip
  Well, in that case, I'll dive once more into the whole
  issue. I have nothing to lose, since the attacks started
  even before I told the story. :-)
 
 No, they didn't.
 
 See, folks, this is BS as Frankfurt defined it in that
 quote I posted. Barry doesn't even *care* what the facts
 are.





[FairfieldLife] Discerning truth from bullshit (was Re: The problem Atheists have)

2012-01-30 Thread futur.musik
I want to clarify that when I use the term irrational below, it is not 
synonymous with crazy. I am not out to get anybody. It simply means a behavior 
not motivated by reason, but instead, feeling. Preserving or protecting one's 
own identity is much more about feeling than reason. That is all I meant by 
irrational in this case.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@... wrote:

 When I first saw his comment, I thought he meant his own panic attacks. :-) 
 Seriously, I think most people have BW's number when he wants to troll - its 
 no big deal. Those that don't, get it soon enough. 
 
 In this case he is feeling vulnerable and small. Why not just let him? I 
 understand your attempt to shine a light on this behavior but that is a 
 rational approach to irrational behavior. How can you make progress that way?
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
  snip
   Well, in that case, I'll dive once more into the whole
   issue. I have nothing to lose, since the attacks started
   even before I told the story. :-)
  
  No, they didn't.
  
  See, folks, this is BS as Frankfurt defined it in that
  quote I posted. Barry doesn't even *care* what the facts
  are.
 





[FairfieldLife] Discerning truth from bullshit (was Re: The problem Atheists have)

2012-01-30 Thread nablusoss1008


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, futur.musik futur.musik@...
wrote:

 Why not try to contact the dragon now? You have a clear recollection
of it. I'll bet you can bring the dragon back if you want to.




What makes you think The Dragon wants to see those two again ? :-)






[FairfieldLife] Discerning truth from bullshit (was Re: The problem Atheists have)

2012-01-30 Thread seventhray1

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:

 But it sure was fun. And if Ron's dragon lore has anything
 of truth about it, I want to publicly thank that dragon for
 allowing me to see it. You were just fuckin' AWESOME,
 dude. May you fly forever. And if I ever see you again,
 next time I'm going to fuckin' stop the car and try to
 have a conversation with you. Just sayin'.

This is your year man. This is your year.  It's even said to be an
auspicious time to have a child, if you are so inclined.  (-:
On another note, from my weird thoughts department, does it seem like
the Year of the Dragon is getting a little more notice than usual, and
not because a dragon is cooler than a rat say, but because China just
has more clout.
They've appropriated our jobs, they've pretty much, along with India and
Brazil, appropriated our middle class, they've appropriated our new
frontier of green energy manufacturing, which was supposed to be our
saving grace.   They are a becoming the  economic super power everyone
looks up to, while we're, literally, building a bigger bomb.
Don't get me wrong.  I still have enough Republican in me to feel safer
with a strong defense.  By the way, did anyone hear the interview on
Diane Rehm with Zbigniew Brzezinski?  I only heard little bits, but he
impressed me as a very clear thinker.
Anyway, supper's waiting and I gotta get to it.
Thanks for the story, Barry.  A good story teller!


[FairfieldLife] The Truth About Hair

2011-04-04 Thread Rick Archer
http://www.manataka.org/page2423.html



[FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- Consider The Source

2010-06-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:

 Noticing that no one really followed up on the Seeker-Skeptic
 dialogue I posted yesterday about the origins of the myths
 about what happens to you when you criticize a spiritual 
 teacher,

Maybe nobody followed up because we've all seen this same
sermon from you umpty times before?




[FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- Consider The Source

2010-06-27 Thread authfriend
No kidding, Barry, are you even aware how *repetitious*
your raps are?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:
 
  Noticing that no one really followed up on the Seeker-Skeptic
  dialogue I posted yesterday about the origins of the myths
  about what happens to you when you criticize a spiritual 
  teacher,
 
 Maybe nobody followed up because we've all seen this same
 sermon from you umpty times before?





[FairfieldLife] Re: Truth -- Consider The Source

2010-06-27 Thread WillyTex


authfriend:
 No kidding, Barry, are you even aware how 
 *repetitious* your raps are?
 
Apparently Barry is unaware that his posts,
at least from 1995 on Usenet, all say the
same thing: he believes in the reincarnation 
of the soul. That's his religion. Why he
would deny it hundreds of times on FFL is 
beyond me! You have to consider the source - 
it's the same 'reincarnation' theory that 
Rama wrote about in his book. 



[FairfieldLife] real truth about Maitreya

2010-04-30 Thread Yifu Xero
http://www.maitreyaproject.org/en/maitreya/forms_of_maitreya.html


  

[FairfieldLife] The Truth About Justice Sotomayor

2010-04-08 Thread do.rflex

The Truth About Justice Sotomayor


Lary Coppola
Editor and Publisher
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal

Dear Mr. Coppola mailto:bizn...@wetapple.com ,

There are many business-oriented newspapers in this state, but yours is
the only one I know of that is discerning enough to carry Adele
Ferguson's column. That's a shame, because those other papers' readers
are missing out on some of the most insightful political commentary
available anywhere.

Few columnists have the guts to defend the institution of slavery and
bemoan the sorry plight of top shelf blacks who were forced into
freedom, but Mrs Ferguson does.
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2006/03/recruiting-top-drawer-blacks-for\
-gop.html  She is also the only columnist who fully comprehends the
threat Somali pirates pose
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2009/02/arrg-pour-me-another-venti-m\
ocha-i.html  to the Washington State Ferry System.

Sure, sometimes she's wrong, but even then, she rebounds with a column
that is invariably a work of pure genius. Such was the case when she
admitted that she was wrong when she predicted that Obama would nominate
a black for his first Supreme Court appointment.


Here's
http://kpbj.com/opinions/politics/2010-02-01/does_obama_have_a_bad_memo\
ry_or_was_he_just_stringing_us_along  what Mrs. Ferguson had to say
after he picked Sonia Sotomayor instead:

I was wrong there. I still don't understand who President Obama was
pleasing when he picked a white Jewish woman instead. He didn't know
her. Somebody had to press her case. I'd give anything to know who
and the identities of his inner circle.There's that genius I was writing
about. While everyone else slavishly repeated Obama's spin that
Sotomayor is an Hispanic Catholic, only Mrs. Ferguson had the guts to
inform us that the newest justice is actually a white Jew who was forced
onto us by the secret cabal of Jews who control Obama.

As the editor and publisher of a newspaper that carries her column, that
kind of reporting must make you very proud.

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2010/04/truth-about-justice-sotamayor.htm\
l








[FairfieldLife] Myth Truth about Health Care Bill

2010-03-24 Thread raunchydog

http://static1.firedoglake.com/1/files/2010/03/mythfactshcr-2.pdf

Myth   Truth
1. This is a universal health care  bill.

The bill is neither universal  health care nor universal health
insurance.

Per the CBO:

* Total uninsured in 2019 with no bill:  54 million
* Total uninsured in 2019 with Senate bill:  24 million (44%)

2.  Insurance companies hate this  bill.

This bill is almost identical to  the plan written by AHIP, the
insurance company trade association, in  2009.

The original Senate Finance Committee bill was authored by a former 
Wellpoint VP.  Since Congress released the first of its health care 
bills on October 30, 2009, health care stocks have risen 28.35%.

3. The bill will significantly  bring down insurance premiums for most
Americans.

The bill will not bring down  premiums significantly, and certainly not
the $2,500/year that the  President promised.

Annual premiums in 2016, status quo / with  bill:

* Small group market, single: $7,800 / $7,800
* Small group market, family: $19,300 / $19,200
* Large Group market, single: $7,400 / $7,300
* Large group market, family: $21,100 / $21,300
* Individual market, single:
$5,500 / $5,800*
* Individual market, family: $13,100 / $15,200*

4. The bill will make health care  affordable for middle class
Americans.

The bill will impose a financial  hardship on middle class Americans who
will be forced to buy a product  that they can't afford to use.

A family of four making $66,370 will be forced to pay $5,243 per year 
for insurance.  After basic necessities, this leaves them with $8,307 
in discretionary income — out of which they would have to cover 
clothing, credit card and other debt, child care and education costs, in
addition to $5,882 in annual out-of-pocket medical expenses for which 
families will be responsible.

5. This plan is similar to the  Massachusetts plan, which makes health
care affordable.

Many Massachusetts residents forgo  health care because they can't
afford it.

A 2009 study by the state of Massachusetts found that:

* 21% of residents forgo medical treatment because they can't
afford  it, including 12% of children
* 18% have health insurance but can't afford to use it

6. This bill provide health care to  31 million people who are currently
uninsured.

This bill will mandate that  millions of people who are currently
uninsured must purchase insurance  from private companies, or the IRS
will collect up to 2% of their annual  income in penalties.  Some will
be assisted with government subsidies.

7. You can keep the insurance you  have if you like it.

The  excise tax will result in  employers switching to plans with higher
co-pays and fewer covered  services.

Older, less healthy employees with employer-based health care will be 
forced to pay much more in out-of-pocket expenses than they do now.

8. The excise tax will encourage  employers to reduce the
scope of health care benefits, and they will  pass the savings on to
employees in the form of higher wages.

There is insufficient evidence that  employers pass savings from reduced
benefits on to employees.

9. This bill employs nearly every  cost control idea available to bring
down costs.

This bill does not bring down costs  and leaves out nearly every key
cost control measure, including:

* Public Option ($25-$110 billion)
* Medicare buy-in
* Drug reimportation ($19 billion)
* Medicare drug price negotiation ($300 billion)
* Shorter pathway to generic biologics ($71 billion)

10. The bill will require big  companies like WalMart to provide
insurance for their employees.

The bill was written so that most  WalMart employees will qualify for
subsidies, and taxpayers will pick up  a large portion of the cost of
their coverage.

11. The bill bends the cost curve  on health care.

The bill ignored proven ways to cut  health care costs and still leaves
24 million people uninsured, all  while slightly raising total annual
costs by $234 million in 2019.

Bends the cost curve is a misleading and trivial claim, as the
US  would still spend far more for care than other advanced countries.

In 2009, health care costs were 17.3% of GDP.

* Annual cost of health care in 2019, status quo:  $4,670.6 billion 
(20.8% of GDP)
* Annual cost of health care in 2019, Senate bill:   $4,693.5 billion
(20.9% of GDP)

12. The bill will provide immediate  access to insurance for Americans
who  are uninsured because of a  pre-existing condition.

Access to the high risk pool is  limited and the pool is
underfunded. It will cover few people, and will  run out of money in
2011 or 2012

Only those who have been uninsured for more than six months will 
qualify for the high risk pool.  Only 0.7% of those without insurance 
now will get coverage, and the CMS report estimates it will run out of 
funding by 2011 or 2012.

13. The bill prohibits dropping  people in individual plans from
coverage when they get sick.

The bill does 

[FairfieldLife] The truth about Republicans ... by George Carlin

2009-12-10 Thread do.rflex


George Carlin was a favorite comedian of mine for his direct, right on ripping 
humor. 

He did this particular routine quite a few years back and it seems the 
Republicans haven't changed much at all since then.

I didn't know however that that many Reagan administration officials faced 
criminal charges.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsBfqrNoFXQ   



[FairfieldLife] The Truth in Labeling Coalition: May 9 event in Fairfield [2 Attachments]

2009-04-27 Thread Rick Archer

We warmly invite you to a public awareness event hosted by the M.U.M.
Department of Sustainable Living Saturday, May 9 at 8:00 PM in Dalby Hall.
Please see the attached ad for details, and forward this email. Thank you!!

Citizens to Label GE Foods is helping to organize the The Truth in Labeling
Coalition. (TLC). TLC is a group consisting of medical doctors, farmers,
whole food manufacturers and distributors, whole food retailers and coops,
NGO's, and concerned citizens. This group is coming together for the purpose
of passing a law requiring mandatory labeling of laboratory- based genetic
manipulation of our food. We believe members of the public are unwitting
participants in a far-reaching, unregulated human health experiment. Both
government and media funded surveys indicate that 90% of Americans, when
clearly informed, insist on labeling of such substances in their food. In
discussions of this issue, most people are dumfounded to hear that our
Governement is not already requiring such labeling and human health testing,
as well as testing for environmental impact.

The Coalition is utilizing the talent and knowledge of an experienced
lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. comprised of former four-term Congressman
Jim Bates and his partner, Christopher Kip Byrne, former FDIC legal
director.  Both Mr. Bates and Mr. Byrne understand the importance of keeping
genetically engineered contamination out of the organic production chain.
More importantly, they they are experienced professionals who offer a
realistic chance of passing a bill requiring mandatory labeling of
genetically engineered food through Congress.  (see attached bio for more
information)

We are working to expand the coalition and generate the financial support
needed to navigate new labeling legislation through Congress.  Early
supporters include: Derek and Nancy Casady, Ocean Beach People's Organic
Food Coop (with over 10,000 members); Chris Wege, Citizens to Label GE Food,
Andrew Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety; Michael Funk, United Natural Foods
International;  Kathy Larson, Frontier Natural Products Coop;  New Pioneer
Food Coop, Iowa City (over 20,000 active members); Mike Potter, Eden Foods;
and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association.

Please come out and show these great leaders how enthusiastic we are about
this critical issue!

Yours truly,
Chris Wege
Anne Dietrich

Citizens to Label Genetically Engineered Food
P.O. Box 1208
Fairfield, Iowa 52556
Web:  www.gmofoodlabel.org  http://www.gmofoodlabel.org
http://www.gmofoodlabel.org 
Phone:  (641) 472-0411
Fax:  (641) 469-5779
 


[FairfieldLife] Create Truth

2009-02-05 Thread arhatafreespeech


Create Truth
All
  animals are born with a program, only man is born without a program.. Man is
  born as a TABULA RASA, a clean slate; nothing is written on it.. You have to
  write everything that you want to write on it; it is going to be your
  creation. 
  Man is not only free -- I would like
  to say man is freedom. That is his essential core, that's his very soul. The
  moment you deny freedom to man you have denied him his most precious
  treasure, his very kingdom. Then he is a beggar and in a far more ugly
  situation than other animals, because at least they have a certain program.
  Then man is simply lost. 
  Once this is understood, that man is
  born AS freedom, then all the dimensions to grow open up. Then it is up to
  you what to become, what not to become. It is going to be your own creation.
  Then life becomes an adventure -- not an enfoldment but an adventure, an
  exploration, a discovery. The truth is not already given to you, you have to
  create it. In a way, each moment you are creating yourself. 
      Luke Chapter 4 Verse 
12

http://www.freedomofspeech.netfirms.com/


  

[FairfieldLife] The Truth about Osama bin Laden and Iraq from Wesley Clark

2008-11-24 Thread Rick Archer
from WesleyClark http://www.youtube.com/user/WesleyClark 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8aOiMmekGk



Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth about Osama bin Laden and Iraq from Wesley Clark

2008-11-24 Thread Bhairitu
Rick Archer wrote:
 from WesleyClark http://www.youtube.com/user/WesleyClark 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8aOiMmekGk
So YouTube moves into the 21st century.  They now show videos in 
widescreen aspect ratio 16:9.  No more having to create a letterbox 
version of a video for YouTube but not for Vimeo.  :-D

http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=0i22UDAOfj8



[FairfieldLife] Missouri Truth Squads To Protect Obama Campaign

2008-09-27 Thread raunchydog
http://tinyurl.com/4msamj Welcome, comrades to Obamanation. This jaw
dropping video exposes Obama for the Marxist thug that he is. If Obama
says your criticism of him is a lie, then it's a lie, even if it's
true. So in an Obama Presidency, keep you mouth shut and your opinions
to yourself unless you have your jammies packed and ready for Gitmo.
THE TRUTH SQUAD COMETH FOR YOU! 

Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt Pushes Back

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Contact: Jessica Robinson, 573-751-0290
Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign's Abusive Use of Missouri Law
Enforcement

JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement
on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama
to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.

St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City
Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer,
and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire
McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the
Obama-Biden campaign.

What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond
words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is
abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence
political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred
principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more
offensive to Jefferson's thinking than using the power of the state to
deprive Americans of their civil rights.  The only conceivable purpose
of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away
from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress
support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this
anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads
about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on
television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation
about the election.

Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press
constantly say false things about me and my family.  Usually, we
ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no
credibility.  When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law
enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent
of the Sedition Acts - not a free society. http://tinyurl.com/4aqvao



[FairfieldLife] The Truth According to Puppetji

2008-01-14 Thread Ben Gilberti

The Truth According to Puppetji:

http://www.puppetji.blogspot.com/ http://www.puppetji.blogspot.com/

  [:x]



[FairfieldLife] Richard's truth

2007-12-14 Thread Duveyoung
Richard,

You've avoided the issue of suffering.

I officially give up on hoping that your scholarship in all things
eastern has had any value in tempering your heart.

I agree with a lot you've espoused -- getting a handle on the
immigrant problem, for instance -- but your callous disregard for
suffering completely undermines your presentation here -- you seem,
well, inhuman, or perhaps not that bad, but psychotically
disconnected, at least, to put on blinders to the degree clearly
showing in your political statements.

Do you have children?  Do you beat them regularly?

I wouldn't want to live next door to you if I still was raising my kids.

Did you torture animals when you were a child?

My harsh suggestion that you get a KKK flaming cross up your ass was
poetry to try to embody the repulsion I feel for your cruel mindset.  

What should actually happen to you as just-karma for your resonance
with evil?  I'll leave that up to God, but at least know that I think
you are turd.  You soil our community here, and all your knowledge
serves but as sheep's clothing for your wolfish appetite for
blackheartedness.

Edg

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 off wrote:
  Stop policing the world, spend the money at home 
  for better security at ports etc.
  
 I'm all in favor of security, but we must stand up 
 and fight the terrorists where they live and breed. 
 It is impossible to make U.S. borders 100% secure.
 And I'm not in favor of the federal government spending 
 a lot of taxpayer money on social projects like a
 nationalized social security medical program or giving
 U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund government schools.
 
  Right now, the US is open to attack due to no money 
  to pay enough border guards, and high tech security 
  that could be possible, to do the ambitious things
 
 You don't need high tech gadgets to make the border
 between the U.S. and Mexico secure - all you need is 
 a border patrol and a long fence like Duncan Hunter
 installed in San Diego county.
  
  the nutcase Bush thinks he can do for free.
 
 Over 50% of U.S. voters voted for the Republican Party 
 AFTER the Allied invasion of Iraq.
 
  Ron Paul's plan is the only viable one. The 9/11 
  commission and the CIA both concluded the main 
  facter US was attacked was because of US military 
  bases and involvement in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.
 
 You need to face the facts: the U.S. is going to have
 forces in the Middle East for a long time. We've had
 U.S. forces in Europe and the Far East for over fifty
 years. We have treaties to uphold.
  
  Ron Paul is the only one with a rational plan.
  
 It is not rational to think that Ron Paul will be the
 Republican nominee. And it is not rational to think that 
 U.S. voters would vote for someone like Ron Paul. The 
 majority of voting Americans are not in favor of 
 withdrawing U.S. troops from NATO and withdrawing from
 the U.N. The majority of U.S. voters are not in favor
 of pulling all U.S. troops out of Europe, the Middle
 East and the Far East. And the majority of U.S. voters 
 are not in favor of retreating from the war in Afghanistan
 or Iraq. Ron Paul's plan to get elected is not rational,
 it is idealistic.





[FairfieldLife] The truth about flying, CC in 5-8, etc.

2007-12-11 Thread Duveyoung
This guy got up to the mike, 1972 Majorca, and asked Maharishi if this
five to eight years was something he'd said, and Maharishi said: 
NO, NO, NO, NO NOnot for you.  For teachers of TM we should be
thinking only two years.

Not an exact quote, but I was there, and that's exactly what he MEANT.

I sold TM to EVERYONE on the basis of that five to eight year claim.

It took me FIFTEEN two-year-hunks before I gave up hope of getting to
CC in this lifetime, and finally faced that I'd been sold a bill of
goods and was just another cultish true believer.  Talk about being in
denial.

To me, one of the most telling facts that EVERY TRUE BELIEVER KNOWS IS
TRUE is that no one is hovering -- and that those who are most
dedicated to TM, those on Purusha and Mother Divine, have not
perfected this siddhi yet.  Given how much TM has used flimsy
quasi-scientific evidence to the hilt, there can be no doubt that the
TMO would be running banner ads in every media if there was a TMer
hovering -- it would easily get the TMO BILLIONS OF DOLLARS almost
overnight.  NO ONE IS HOVERING.

The Purusha and Mother Divine folks were/are required to be much much
more pure in their relative lives.  If those fuckers can't fly, why
would anyone in the householder lifestyle even begin to think they'll
be lucky enough to perfect that siddhi?  I feel so fucking stupid to
have ever even tried to evolve when I see so many who have left
Purusha, entered business life, and been just as assholish as me.  I
just don't see any superiority in them, moral or otherwise, nor did I
sense anything much in the vibes of those who were still on the
program.  

But I was plainly LIED to by true believers who came back from the
first six-month courses and said the most outlandish assertions ever
about it.  This is it guys...you have to get to this course.  Like that.

And now the poor pundits are in a slave camp and freezing and low on
food.  The TMO took my ATR credits and never even bothered to tell me
until I applied for the siddhi course -- IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY.

It's snowing here in Wisconsin for the sixth time in a month. My arms
and wrists are killing me after another two hours of shoveling my
corner house's walk and drive; ibuprofen will mostly cure my physical
woes, but my psychic arms and wrists still are sore from all the shit
I shoveled for the TMO.

To me THE LACK OF FLYING AFTER 30 YEARS OF FOLKS TRYING IS FUCKING
PROOF THAT ANYONE WOULD BE A FOOL TO BELIEVE IN IT ENOUGH TO DEDICATE
THEIR LIFE TO IT.  I did more than that:  I sold out my family, my
career, and my precious integrity based on a bill of goods that never
had any more value than a pig in a poke.  

29 years, four hours a day.  But, hey, I got off lite, cuz I didn't
pay a million buckazoids for a crown and an empty title.

If I ever see Bevan or John in person again, I'm going to spit out the
above words with as much rage as I can muster.   Neither would finish
a meal in any restaurant I would find them in.  They'd have to call
the cops to drag my ass out of there.

This is about predation.  

I was one of the suckers born every minute.

Judy, do you think, in the next 20 years that anyone will fly?

If not, then why bother?  Be born in the family of yogis in your next
lifetime and enjoy what you have left of this one.

If Maharishi had handled the money correctly, I might still be in the
fold -- so, bottom line, THANKS FOR ROBBING US ALL BLIND, MAHARISHI,
it was one of the major components of my REALIZATION that I was duped
to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost opportunities,
and tens of thousands in actual out of pocket money -- and this loss
was as if nothing compared to the burden that my past memories have on
me even now.  Mirrors are hard to have around.

But thanks, TMO, thanks Maharishi, at least after such a divine
screwing as I've received from this, I can avoid suchlike for the
rest of my life and enjoy what I have now without the onus of making a
spiritual case for its value.

After such a religious rape, THANKS, I get it now.  I can have a beer,
a steak, and a fuck -- daily for the rest of my life -- without even
one idea passing through my mind about sin, and if anyone, ANYONE,
looks cross-eyed at me for it, they'll get my fullest energetic blast
back at them if they emit the slightest judgmental peep about it.

It's about the money, and here's the good news:  MAHARISHI IS GOING TO
DIE ANY DAY NOWand the shit is going to hit a very big fan.  I
hope I get to see it, but at the rate that the snow is falling here, I
may freeze to death by tomorrow.

Since I began writing, my shoveling has all been erased under another
four inches of snow.

FUCK FUCK FUCK!  

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 Would you not agree that the TMO teaches a flying
 technique and no one is flying.
 If so I believe science would invalidate the TMO
 claims that they can teach people to fly.
 Perhaps a refund would 

RE: [FairfieldLife] The truth about flying, CC in 5-8, etc.

2007-12-11 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Duveyoung
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:55 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] The truth about flying, CC in 5-8, etc.

 

Since I began writing, my shoveling has all been erased under another
four inches of snow.

You lucky bastard. All we’re getting is ice here. I’d LOVE to have all that
snow. Get yourself some cross-country or back country skis if you don’t have
any and get out there and work up a sweat. Burn off some of that rage.


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[FairfieldLife] Re: Truth

2007-09-10 Thread matrixmonitor
--Excellent, thanks for thissounds like the voice of direct 
experience.  Helpful would be some of the symptoms along the way, as 
well as a list of entities the person saw or heard in the form of 
subtle sounds; that could be taken as signposts along the way to a 
complete breakthrough.  This would include visions of the Radiant 
form of the Guru, if any.  In the Sant Mat Tradition (which almost 
exclusively emphasizes the 3-rd opening), visions of the Guru are 
considered to be the foremost indicator of a success, along with 
hearing various manifestation of the Sound Current.
 Charlie Lutes told me he could tune into the OM at will.


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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 from Perfect Madness, from awakening to enlightenment by Donna Lee
 Gorrell page 121:
 
 The third eye is the beacon to the inner universe that sees the 
inner
 and outer as inseparable. This eye sees all creation as unified and
 yet permits one to operate within the world of complexities and
 multitudes. The opening of the third eye is the opening of 
knowledge,
 which is understanding and experiencing---in unison---life's
 phenomena. When the third eye opens, the intellect and the emotions,
 thoughts and feelings, can finally work together--as one.
 
 The opening of the third eye is the pure and simple cognitive 
ability
 to see living Truth, unfettered and pure. Truth is not something we
 can put our finger on or file away as real or pertinent. It cannot
 even be written or talked about with any accuracy, for words are 
only
 pointers. The most amazing thing about the opening of the third eye 
is
 that it sees Truth as alive. Untouched by human intellect, unstirred
 by emotion, and undivided in its purpose. Truth is the living
 principle upon which the universe was and is created.





Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Truth

2007-09-10 Thread Peter

--- matrixmonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  Charlie Lutes told me he could tune into the OM at
 will.

Charlie said a lot of sh*t that we now realize was
sh*t! We loved the old coot, but many take his tales
with a grain of salt now. 




 
 
 - In 
 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  from Perfect Madness, from awakening to
 enlightenment by Donna Lee
  Gorrell page 121:
  
  The third eye is the beacon to the inner universe
 that sees the 
 inner
  and outer as inseparable. This eye sees all
 creation as unified and
  yet permits one to operate within the world of
 complexities and
  multitudes. The opening of the third eye is the
 opening of 
 knowledge,
  which is understanding and experiencing---in
 unison---life's
  phenomena. When the third eye opens, the intellect
 and the emotions,
  thoughts and feelings, can finally work
 together--as one.
  
  The opening of the third eye is the pure and
 simple cognitive 
 ability
  to see living Truth, unfettered and pure. Truth is
 not something we
  can put our finger on or file away as real or
 pertinent. It cannot
  even be written or talked about with any accuracy,
 for words are 
 only
  pointers. The most amazing thing about the opening
 of the third eye 
 is
  that it sees Truth as alive. Untouched by human
 intellect, unstirred
  by emotion, and undivided in its purpose. Truth is
 the living
  principle upon which the universe was and is
 created.
 
 
 
 
 
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[FairfieldLife] If truth be told...

2006-03-22 Thread shempmcgurk
Am I the only one who is not disappointed that Debra Lafave did not 
get a prison sentence for her supposed rape of that 14-year-old boy?

Sorry, but I agree with the so-called double standard.  When I was 14-
years old, I would have given my right arm to have sex with such a 
babe.

It IS different betweeen men and women as far as this issue is 
concerned, equality of the sexes not withstanding!

Truthfully, do any of the men on this forum really feel that what 
was done to the 14 year old was so horrible?

Would YOU have said no to her?

Here's her picture:

http://anekdota.dyndns.org/jotd26/att-0029/02-snaps_23-year-old-
teacher_debra-lafave.jpg





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Re: [FairfieldLife] If truth be told...

2006-03-22 Thread Rick Archer
on 3/22/06 3:22 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Am I the only one who is not disappointed that Debra Lafave did not
 get a prison sentence for her supposed rape of that 14-year-old boy?
 
 Sorry, but I agree with the so-called double standard.  When I was 14-
 years old, I would have given my right arm to have sex with such a
 babe.
 
 It IS different betweeen men and women as far as this issue is
 concerned, equality of the sexes not withstanding!
 
 Truthfully, do any of the men on this forum really feel that what
 was done to the 14 year old was so horrible?
 
 Would YOU have said no to her?

Same thing happened to me when I was about a year older than that, with my
best friend's mother. I was drunk the first time, and had yet to develop a
sense of morality or ethics. If something felt good, I was inclined to do
it. She probably wasn't more mature than I was in this respect. The affair
went on for at least a year. When I got tired of it, she did the same with
some of my friends. On the whole, it didn't have a good effect on me, to say
the least. Never, at any time between then and now, have I felt that she
should have been jailed for this. But some sort of therapy to help her grow
out of this behavior would have been useful.




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[FairfieldLife] Conditioning./Truth

2005-07-11 Thread TurquoiseB
I'm fascinated enough with this subject to make
it its own thread, to see if others here are
equally fascinated.

 See, we maybe conditioned to stop the car when the traffic
 lights turn red. You can provisionally accept it, validate 
 it as true, based on observation etc. The conditioning is 
 that you connect two facts, the
 red traffic lights, and the need to stop the car.

 But that's a different type of conditioning;
 that's more like Pavlov's dogs. I was talking
 (and thought you were talking) about becoming
 convinced that something is true.

 But its all connected. You experience something, and then you are
 being told something about that experience. (Or are otherwise no
 need for all the lectures!) What you know, reinforces the
 experience in a certain way. Then the reinforced experience
 reinforces your belief about it again. You cannot isolate the two.
 
 It seems terribly important *to* the conditioned ego
 to believe that it hasn't been conditioned, that it
 has thought up (or verified) all these concepts
 that have been taught to it on its own. The bottom
 line, however, is that it rarely, if ever, deviates
 from the concepts taught to it. And also feels the
 compulsion to argue their obvious truth with others.

My approach to the subject of conditioning has a
lot to do with my time with Rama.  Whatever else he
might have been, he was a master at channeling and
broadcasting light (or whatever it was) so strongly
that it just blew away *all* of your conditioning.
You'd go to the desert with him convinced you had 
pretty much everything figured out, and the next day
you'd awaken essentially *empty*, with not a certainty
left in you.  About *anything*.  It was as if the slate
had been wiped clean.  

That's a *very* disconcerting process to go through.
There is very little to hang onto, and very little
self left to even want to.  The *only* thing left to
cling to is Self.

And, when repeated over and over for years, this process 
has the definite advantage (or disadvantage...however you 
see it) of leaving one very suspicious of the concept 
of truth.  When you've seen your own truths blasted
to bits and revealed as merely passing relative truths 
hundreds of times, you don't tend to develop the same 
attachment to the *latest* truth that some seekers do.  
Or that's my experience, anyway.

The bottom line for me, when I encounter a new spiritual
trip, is to try to suss out how strongly this group 
believes it knows the truth.  If the group has a *very*
strong set of dogma, and its practitioners display a 
*very* strong attachment to the idea that they know the 
truth, what I inquire into next is the subjective pace 
of change that these practitioners report as a result 
of their practice.

What I've found (and others should feel free to contra-
dict me if you've found otherwise) is that, in general,
the slower the pace of spiritual change in the seekers, 
the stronger the clinging to dogma and the belief that 
they know the truth is in those seekers.  

And the opposite -- in groups whose adherents seem to 
experience a very *rapid* pace of change, in which they 
see what they consider to be radical spiritual progress 
on a daily or at least a weekly basis, there is very 
*little* tendency to cling to dogma or certainty about 
what constitutes truth.  It's as if truth is allowed 
in these latter groups to flow, to be a dynamic process 
that changes every day, as the seeker changes.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Conditioning./Truth

2005-07-11 Thread Robert Gimbel




This also has to do with the quality of teaching of the so-called Socratic Method, based on the teachings of Socrates, in that the questions would determine the teaching; and the depth of the questions, would elicit the depth of response. 
Therefore there would be a group desire to transcend to deeper levels of truth, in order to ask deeper questions of Socrates... 
I always felt that Maharishi is a reincarnation of Socrates, in that I had heard, that one explanation for the blind love for him, was because in a previous incarnation, that he had been matured; so I thought of Socrates, when I heard that, as well as the similar garb...TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm fascinated enough with this subject to makeit its own thread, to see if others here areequally fascinated. See, we maybe conditioned to stop the car when the traffic lights turn red. You can provisionally accept it, validate  it as true, based on observation etc. The conditioning is  that you connect two facts, the red traffic lights, and the need to stop the car. But that's a different type of conditioning; that's more like Pavlov's dogs. I was talking (and thought you were talking) about becoming convinced that something is true. But its all connected. You experience something, and then you are being told something about that experience. (Or are
 otherwise no need for all the lectures!) What you know, reinforces the experience in a certain way. Then the reinforced experience reinforces your belief about it again. You cannot isolate the two.  It seems terribly important *to* the conditioned ego to believe that it hasn't been conditioned, that it has thought up (or "verified") all these concepts that have been taught to it on its own. The bottom line, however, is that it rarely, if ever, deviates from the concepts taught to it. And also feels the compulsion to argue their obvious "truth" with others.My approach to the subject of "conditioning" has alot to do with my time with Rama. Whatever else hemight have been, he was a master at channeling and"broadcasting" light (or whatever it was) so stronglythat it just blew away *all* of your conditioning.You'd go to the desert with him convinced you
 had pretty much everything figured out, and the next dayyou'd awaken essentially *empty*, with not a certaintyleft in you. About *anything*. It was as if the slatehad been wiped clean. That's a *very* disconcerting process to go through.There is very little to hang onto, and very littleself left to even want to. The *only* thing left tocling to is Self.And, when repeated over and over for years, this process has the definite advantage (or disadvantage...however you see it) of leaving one very suspicious of the concept of "truth." When you've seen your own "truths" blastedto bits and revealed as merely passing relative truths hundreds of times, you don't tend to develop the same attachment to the *latest* "truth" that some seekers do. Or that's my experience, anyway.The bottom line for me, when I encounter a new spiritualtrip, is to try to suss out how strongly this
 group believes it knows the "truth." If the group has a *very*strong set of dogma, and its practitioners display a *very* strong attachment to the idea that they "know the truth," what I inquire into next is the subjective "pace of change" that these practitioners report as a result of their practice.What I've found (and others should feel free to contra-dict me if you've found otherwise) is that, in general,the slower the pace of spiritual change in the seekers, the stronger the clinging to dogma and the belief that they "know the truth" is in those seekers. And the opposite -- in groups whose adherents seem to experience a very *rapid* pace of change, in which they see what they consider to be radical spiritual progress on a daily or at least a weekly basis, there is very *little* tendency to cling to dogma or certainty about what constitutes "truth." It's as if "truth" is allowed in
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Conditioning./Truth

2005-07-11 Thread Rick Archer
Thanks for posting this Barry. I've been too busy to engage in much
discussion, but I find the observation useful, and have mentioned it to
several people in discussions today. It reminds me of Byron Katie, who
encourages people to question everything they regard as absolute truth.


on 7/11/05 3:45 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm fascinated enough with this subject to make
 it its own thread, to see if others here are
 equally fascinated.
 
 See, we maybe conditioned to stop the car when the traffic
 lights turn red. You can provisionally accept it, validate
 it as true, based on observation etc. The conditioning is
 that you connect two facts, the
 red traffic lights, and the need to stop the car.
 
 But that's a different type of conditioning;
 that's more like Pavlov's dogs. I was talking
 (and thought you were talking) about becoming
 convinced that something is true.
 
 But its all connected. You experience something, and then you are
 being told something about that experience. (Or are otherwise no
 need for all the lectures!) What you know, reinforces the
 experience in a certain way. Then the reinforced experience
 reinforces your belief about it again. You cannot isolate the two.
 
 It seems terribly important *to* the conditioned ego
 to believe that it hasn't been conditioned, that it
 has thought up (or verified) all these concepts
 that have been taught to it on its own. The bottom
 line, however, is that it rarely, if ever, deviates
 from the concepts taught to it. And also feels the
 compulsion to argue their obvious truth with others.
 
 My approach to the subject of conditioning has a
 lot to do with my time with Rama.  Whatever else he
 might have been, he was a master at channeling and
 broadcasting light (or whatever it was) so strongly
 that it just blew away *all* of your conditioning.
 You'd go to the desert with him convinced you had
 pretty much everything figured out, and the next day
 you'd awaken essentially *empty*, with not a certainty
 left in you.  About *anything*.  It was as if the slate
 had been wiped clean.
 
 That's a *very* disconcerting process to go through.
 There is very little to hang onto, and very little
 self left to even want to.  The *only* thing left to
 cling to is Self.
 
 And, when repeated over and over for years, this process
 has the definite advantage (or disadvantage...however you
 see it) of leaving one very suspicious of the concept
 of truth.  When you've seen your own truths blasted
 to bits and revealed as merely passing relative truths
 hundreds of times, you don't tend to develop the same
 attachment to the *latest* truth that some seekers do.
 Or that's my experience, anyway.
 
 The bottom line for me, when I encounter a new spiritual
 trip, is to try to suss out how strongly this group
 believes it knows the truth.  If the group has a *very*
 strong set of dogma, and its practitioners display a
 *very* strong attachment to the idea that they know the
 truth, what I inquire into next is the subjective pace
 of change that these practitioners report as a result
 of their practice.
 
 What I've found (and others should feel free to contra-
 dict me if you've found otherwise) is that, in general,
 the slower the pace of spiritual change in the seekers,
 the stronger the clinging to dogma and the belief that
 they know the truth is in those seekers.
 
 And the opposite -- in groups whose adherents seem to
 experience a very *rapid* pace of change, in which they
 see what they consider to be radical spiritual progress
 on a daily or at least a weekly basis, there is very
 *little* tendency to cling to dogma or certainty about
 what constitutes truth.  It's as if truth is allowed
 in these latter groups to flow, to be a dynamic process
 that changes every day, as the seeker changes.
 
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[FairfieldLife] The truth must be told. India is a big pile of shit - by Sid Harth

2005-07-02 Thread off_world_beings
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  Hari Om,
Of Harappa and Hindu Haramjadeh 
  by Sid Harth 
 
  ...The truth must be told. India is a big pile of shit, take it 
 or leave it.


 Hilarious stuff Sid Harth. 
Thanks for the lol.




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[FairfieldLife] The Truth About Britain

2005-05-24 Thread L B Shriver
Message: 2 
   Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:26:59 -0700
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Subject: Study: Length Of Time People Spend Having Sex


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WATCH THE CLOCK, DARLING ­ BRITS LAST LONGEST AT SEX
By Ben Dowell
The Sunday Times - Britain
May 22, 2005

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1622297,00.html

A scientific study to be published this week will suggest that British 
men
are world leaders at sex, at least when they are measured against the 
clock.
But that is not saying much considering that most men in other 
countries
were at best five-minute wonders.

After equipping hundreds of couples in various countries with 
stopwatches,
researchers have for the first time amassed accurate data on the length 
of
time that people spend having sex.

Across all the countries studied, the average time for actual 
lovemaking was
5.4 minutes. Around that figure, however, the researchers found 
considerable
variations related to age and nationality.

While British men took on average 7.6 minutes, the typical American 
took 7
minutes, while the Spanish lasted 5.8 minutes and the Dutch 5.1 
minutes.

The Turks produced the biggest surprise: on average they spend just 3.7
minutes at it.

In all the countries studied there was no significant difference in the
timings whether the men were using condoms or not.

In the research, to be published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, 
British
and Dutch scientists studied 500 couples aged over 18 in the five 
countries.

Sexual events were stopwatch-timed over a four-week period and 
recorded,
says Dr Marcel Waldinger, a leading neuro-psychiatrist based at Utrecht
University who led the research.

The findings also revealed how the time from start to finish of sex
decreased with age, from an average of 6.5 minutes for men aged 18-30 
to 4.3
minutes for those over 51.

The researchers say the findings indicate that male sexual functioning
varies significantly between healthy individuals, and there is no easy
definition of what should be classified as average sexual performance 
or
premature ejaculation.

The wide range among normal men points to a physical rather than a
psychological cause for premature ejaculation, said Waldinger.

The results will help to lift the taboo over premature ejaculation 
because
they show that men are indeed different from one another.

Just why there are significant national differences is not clear and 
the
researchers plan bigger studies and yet more research to find an
explanation.



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Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth About Britain

2005-05-24 Thread Robert Gimbel



Sad that the average time is so small. Men really need to practice more, I would say...
Funny, how deeply programed we are to be so obsessed for five minutes of pleasure?
Or, maybe not so funny...L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Message: 2  Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:26:59 -0700 From: NHNE [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Study: Length Of Time People Spend Having SexNHNE News ListCurrent Members: 1337Subscribe/unsubscribe/archive info at the bottom of this message.---WATCH THE CLOCK, DARLING  BRITS LAST LONGEST AT SEXBy Ben DowellThe Sunday Times - BritainMay 22, 2005http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1622297,00.htmlA scientific study to be published this week will suggest that British menare world leaders at sex, at least when they are measured against the clock.But that is not saying much considering that most men in other countrieswere at
 best five-minute wonders.After equipping hundreds of couples in various countries with stopwatches,researchers have for the first time amassed accurate data on the length oftime that people spend having sex.Across all the countries studied, the average time for actual lovemaking was5.4 minutes. Around that figure, however, the researchers found considerablevariations related to age and nationality.While British men took on average 7.6 minutes, the typical American took 7minutes, while the Spanish lasted 5.8 minutes and the Dutch 5.1 minutes.The Turks produced the biggest surprise: on average they spend just 3.7minutes at it.In all the countries studied there was no significant difference in thetimings whether the men were using condoms or not.In the research, to be published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Britishand Dutch scientists studied 500 couples aged over 18 in the
 five countries."Sexual events were stopwatch-timed over a four-week period and recorded,"says Dr Marcel Waldinger, a leading neuro-psychiatrist based at UtrechtUniversity who led the research.The findings also revealed how the time from start to finish of sexdecreased with age, from an average of 6.5 minutes for men aged 18-30 to 4.3minutes for those over 51.The researchers say the findings indicate that male sexual functioningvaries significantly between healthy individuals, and there is no easydefinition of what should be classified as average sexual performance orpremature ejaculation."The wide range among normal men points to a physical rather than apsychological cause for premature ejaculation," said Waldinger."The results will help to lift the taboo over premature ejaculation becausethey show that men are indeed different from one another."Just why there are significant
 national differences is not clear and theresearchers plan bigger studies and yet more research to find anexplanation.NHNE News List:To subscribe, send a message to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To subscribe, send a message to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/and click 'Join This Group!' 
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[FairfieldLife] The Truth Is!

2005-04-06 Thread anonymousff


It's amazing to see people pay $5800.00 plus room and board so they 
can BE what they already are! :-) ROFLOL

Actually, it's all about getting money to pay for the completion of 
the pundit project. They ran out of money because there are no 
pundits. People have stopped their donations because it was 
contingent on pundits. And the bank won't give them anymore money, 
because the bank money was contingent on the donations of the people 
who thought there would be pundits this time.

So what to do? What to do? Let's un-governorize all the governors 
and then hold a course and charge them thousands of dollars to make 
them governors again. The course fees will give us the money to 
complete the pundit project. MUM staff and faculty will be task 
forced to do all the work for essentially no additional expense. 
We'll tell everyone that this special wave of new knowledge will 
bring in Sat Yuga by July 21. This will make everyone guilty if they 
don't drop everything and come right away. Then we'll tell everyone 
that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, they don't want to 
miss it. It may never come again. They will all rush here.

After the course everyone will be all blissed and happy that they got 
in on it and are governors again. Oh wait excuse me--CERTIFIED 
GOVERNORS with the certificate to prove it. And some will be Raja 
Designates that  were able to sit in the front row, near the real 
Rajas, during the course. Like that, like that.

And even though we said the pundit project was completed months ago, 
when we put out that fake brochure with the doctored photos. NOW we 
will actually have a completed pundit project -- WELL, except for the 
pundit part. We'll have some extra cash on hand, and a completed 
housing facility ready for Purusha and/or Mother Divine when they are 
evicted from North Carolina. It will all work out very beautifully, 
and very beautifully, and very beautifully! No one will be the wiser, 
he he he! A little lighter in the wallet perhaps, but OBVIOUSLY no 
one has gotten any WISER!

Creative Intelligence in action! Infinite Organizing Power! It's all 
s beautiful!

ENGAGING TOTAL NATURAL LAW -- 
   TO FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE, ALL OF THE TIME!






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Re: [FairfieldLife] The Truth Is!

2005-04-06 Thread Peter Sutphen

Say it ain't so Joe! If this is what is really
happening the TMO is in very big trouble. Maybe my
dream of 25 years ago is true--the TMO is run by
rakshasas.
-Peter

--- anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 It's amazing to see people pay $5800.00 plus room
 and board so they 
 can BE what they already are! :-) ROFLOL
 
 Actually, it's all about getting money to pay for
 the completion of 
 the pundit project. They ran out of money because
 there are no 
 pundits. People have stopped their donations because
 it was 
 contingent on pundits. And the bank won't give them
 anymore money, 
 because the bank money was contingent on the
 donations of the people 
 who thought there would be pundits this time.
 
 So what to do? What to do? Let's un-governorize
 all the governors 
 and then hold a course and charge them thousands of
 dollars to make 
 them governors again. The course fees will give us
 the money to 
 complete the pundit project. MUM staff and faculty
 will be task 
 forced to do all the work for essentially no
 additional expense. 
 We'll tell everyone that this special wave of
 new knowledge will 
 bring in Sat Yuga by July 21. This will make
 everyone guilty if they 
 don't drop everything and come right away. Then
 we'll tell everyone 
 that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity,
 they don't want to 
 miss it. It may never come again. They will all rush
 here.
 
 After the course everyone will be all blissed and
 happy that they got 
 in on it and are governors again. Oh wait excuse
 me--CERTIFIED 
 GOVERNORS with the certificate to prove it. And
 some will be Raja 
 Designates that  were able to sit in the front row,
 near the real 
 Rajas, during the course. Like that, like that.
 
 And even though we said the pundit project was
 completed months ago, 
 when we put out that fake brochure with the doctored
 photos. NOW we 
 will actually have a completed pundit project --
 WELL, except for the 
 pundit part. We'll have some extra cash on hand, and
 a completed 
 housing facility ready for Purusha and/or Mother
 Divine when they are 
 evicted from North Carolina. It will all work out
 very beautifully, 
 and very beautifully, and very beautifully! No one
 will be the wiser, 
 he he he! A little lighter in the wallet perhaps,
 but OBVIOUSLY no 
 one has gotten any WISER!
 
 Creative Intelligence in action! Infinite Organizing
 Power! It's all 
 s beautiful!
 
 ENGAGING TOTAL NATURAL LAW -- 
TO FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE, ALL OF THE TIME!
 
 
 
 
 
 
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