[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: --The universe is perfect. Only in an Absolute sense; but we are talking about relative matters. The universe is perfect, imperfect, and all

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:23 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: Everybody Loves to see Justice done On somebody else That's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa story

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you should have asked her and hoped that she told you a truthful answer. I once tutored a boy, fourteen, who was diabetic and knew that, therefore, he might lose his ability have sex very early in life.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: My experience is that the universe is perfect in an absolute and relative sense. Both together create and manifest its perfection, every

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: --The universe is perfect. Only in an Absolute sense; but we are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 12, 2008, at 2:30 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: It's the distinction between non-attachment and detachment. Jim thinks he's displaying the former, but what many of us are hearing between the lines, as well as in the words he chooses themselves, is that he's really expressing the latter. There is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: My experience is that the universe is perfect in an absolute

[FairfieldLife] Another great TED video

2008-04-12 Thread Vaj
If you were inspired by the Jill Bolte Taylor TED talk, you'll probably appreciate this other video from TED: This one's by Christopher Gach de Charmes, author of a book from Wisdom on Abhidharma and cognitive science http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/236

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally think people are going to see McCain at the debates next to the charismatic, articulate Obama, and that will be it. Neat. I hadn't thought of it this way. Yea, the debates will pressurize the situation, and if cracks are there, they will

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest Gallup poll shows the president's approval dropped to 28 percent, the lowest of his eight years in office. Please cite the poll.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread Vaj
On Apr 12, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: --The universe is perfect. Only

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 12, 2008, at 8:39 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest Gallup poll shows the president's approval dropped to 28 percent, the lowest of his eight years in office. Please cite the poll. It's all over

[FairfieldLife] Re: From The Huffington Post

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: APRIL 8, 2008 BETH ARNOLD Does Hillary Have Any Shame? guffaw And Sal accused *me* of posting over-the-top articles! The question is, does *Sal* have any shame? When I asked her to say which of the articles I'd

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 12, 2008, at 8:36 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: OTOH, I thought I saw a quote from Obama the other day implying that people in small towns have a kind of backward mentality, if I read it right. You didn't. :) Here might be what you're thinking of: But the truth is, is that, our

[FairfieldLife] Re: Last post

2008-04-12 Thread Richard J. Williams
Samuel Gravina wrote: The other annoying thing is Judy. Sal Sunshine wrote: There is no Judy, she's just a figment of our collective imaginations that we invented to bash each other with during breaks at our respective institutions. :) LOL. You just couldn't resist talking about

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Richard J. Williams
There has not been a successful attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. Louis McKenzie wrote: Richard do you really believe what you are saying or do you like playing devils advocate? Yes, I believe there has NOT been a succesful attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. What do you think Louis?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jim and God

2008-04-12 Thread Angela Mailander
I've not had time to follow this whole thread, but, reading this post at random, I'd say that Sal and Curtis are doing a fine job defending my ass. The only thing about karma that I know for sure is that it is as unfathomable as God (its alleged author) is; if there ain't one, then karma is as

[FairfieldLife] Re: A question for Tolle students

2008-04-12 Thread Duveyoung
Patrick Gillam wrote: I agree with Eckhart Tolle's observation that being present in the now confers power and peace. Yet I constantly find my awareness hijacked by thoughts of past or future scenarios whose obvious purpose is to inflate my ego. Why would I be subject to these obviously fallacious

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at 8:36 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: OTOH, I thought I saw a quote from Obama the other day implying that people in small towns have a kind of backward mentality, if I read it right. You

[FairfieldLife] Mad As Hell

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
Those of you who have convinced yourselves that the media have been perfectly fair to Hillary, have even given her a pass, might want to watch this amateur video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcdnlNZg2iM (Barry will love the first half, but he should be warned not to watch the second half; I don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: From Newsweek

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, spare, this is what you were saying. Newsweek seems to agree with you: *Newsweek* seems to agree with Lawson??? A Silver Lining In the Blue Battle Hillary's destructive coup attempt: it's a good thing for

[FairfieldLife] Pro TM press

2008-04-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24069366/ They couldn't have done better if they wrote this themselves!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Update on Clinton Hospital Story -- More True Than Not?

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 7, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: http://tinyurl.com/5hhe65 But a closer examination of the story Clinton was originally told indicates that while Clinton erred slightly in relaying the tragic

[FairfieldLife] What happened to TinyURL.com?

2008-04-12 Thread off_world_beings
What happened to TinyURL.com? OffWorld

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfection in what IS

2008-04-12 Thread Duveyoung
Angela Mailander wrote: That's all well and good, but it is another thing to say that those who suffer have deserved it. Language matters. Words matter. Edg: Words matter to whom? Seems to me that the whom part trumps the words part. Writing here at FFL has been an education for me about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Update on Clinton Hospital Story -- More True Than Not?

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: I don't think she had any inkling about how long the war would last or how much that one

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Louis McKenzie
Go to CNN.com --- lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest Gallup poll shows the president's approval dropped to 28 percent, the lowest of his eight years in office. Please cite the poll.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfection in what IS

2008-04-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
I have shifted many of my POVs considerably by reading posts here Edg. It is not just one person's post, but the shifting shapes of POVs being expressed reminding me of gray zones where I had sometimes colored black and white. Words here do have the power to shift a person's POV but it isn't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Louis McKenzie
What do you think Richard? Is that anti-climatical or what? If they could set up homeland security so strong after it would have been amazing to see what could have happened if they did it before. --- Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There has not been a successful attack on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Update on Clinton Hospital Story -- More True Than Not?

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: snip I don't think she had any inkling about how long the war would last or how much that one vote has dogged her campaign and has become the pivot point for her

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and God

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've not had time to follow this whole thread, but, reading this post at random, I'd say that Sal and Curtis are doing a fine job defending my ass. The only thing about karma that I know for sure is that it is

[FairfieldLife] Re: And who, by his chosen associations...

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like anything Christopher Hitchens writes, the primary argument is alloyed with all sorts of base metals. He's interesting to read and frequently insightful but essentially he's a polemicist and makes his living

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cooties vs. Compassion

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Apr 5, 2008, at 11:57 AM, authfriend wrote: So you are not a Sidha Lawson? He is a Sidha. He's talking about plain-vanilla

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you really think it so perfect, why do other people annoy you so much? This is the mistake that I spoke about earlier, where I said that the dualistic mind will equate perfection with inertia; stop the world, it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is self medication ever Self medication?

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ispiritkin ispiritkin@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: So, thought I, if Rama self medicated with Valium, what would be the mental symptoms

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I don't know about you, but if the perspective you suggest is actually present in real enlight- ened folks and I'm ever getting mugged, I'm gonna want a crowd of good old ignorant, unenlightened folks around me.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at 2:30 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: It's the distinction between non-attachment and detachment. Jim thinks he's displaying the former, but what many of us are hearing between the lines, as well as in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and God

2008-04-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
My point was written off of Sal's comment Jim. It concerned the implications of Karmic theory concerning unfortunate lives. My point was that I don't accept that any human understands any of this and I am not convinced or impressed with Karmic theory's attempt to explain life's inner mechanism.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfection in what IS

2008-04-12 Thread Duveyoung
Curtis, The POV washing machine here at FFL is merely another object that your ego projects upon. If your ego starts changing how it projects, no surprise since that's what we call learning, but miss not that one's mind is always as if a fire hose spraying red paint on everything, and then the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Update on Clinton Hospital Story -- More True Than Not?

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sal, I honestly don't get it either. You'd think that a campaign like that would have so many smart grunts just fact-checking everything that was said or put out by the campaign. The Obama claims he was a law

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My experience is that the universe is perfect in an absolute and relative sense. Both together create and manifest its perfection, every moment. As it changes and evolves and grows it does so in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfection in what IS

2008-04-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
Edg, Our discourse is an example of change, big time. Much more productive and we both had to work at creating it. I'm not sure I am as far on the side of inner change driving outer. Of course it is huge, but I purposely put myself in situations that hit me with new stuff despite my natural

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and God

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point was written off of Sal's comment Jim. It concerned the implications of Karmic theory concerning unfortunate lives. My point was that I don't accept that any human understands any of this and I am not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfection in what IS

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip We imbue our environment with our definitions, and to me, the game of enlightenment asks us to entirely quit the definition business. Edg yep- less thought, more experience.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfection in what IS

2008-04-12 Thread Duveyoung
Curtis, Hey, we're getting along fabulously today! Gotta love it. Okay, I think we're down to our normal end-game of each of us doing a semantic shuffle. We've sorta got ourselves agreeing with the other, but, below, you finally called it, and noted that we don't know our definitions of inner

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread lurkernomore20002000
I am no fan of Bush. What an understatement. When Lou cited a poll that the approval rating was 28%, it struck me as impossible. Has an approval rating for a President ever been so low. And coming from Lou, well, you know. Really, my wife being a conservative doesn't really come into

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Bhairitu
lurkernomore20002000 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thom Hartmann co-authored a book on the Kennedy assassination. I know he wrote a book on this. I have not read it. It's a good read, phone book thick and very fascinating.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last post

2008-04-12 Thread Bhairitu
Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhamiltony2k5 Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:37 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Last post Seems most of the authors from Fairfield who used to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at 2:30 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: It's the distinction between non-attachment and detachment. Jim thinks he's displaying the

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Wow, yea, I only got the last part without the precding portion. And I'm not sure where I picked up from - Drudge or Fox, or wherever. Thanks for putting it in context. Makes alot of sense :) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at

[FairfieldLife] Re: What happened to TinyURL.com?

2008-04-12 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happened to TinyURL.com? OffWorld It's still there. If you want an even easier-to-use tinyurl and you use Firefox, go to their 'free Add-ons' and get their 'TinyUrl Creator'

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at 2:30 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: It's the

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am no fan of Bush. What an understatement. When Lou cited a poll that the approval rating was 28%, it struck me as impossible. Has an approval rating for a President ever been so low. And coming from

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cooties vs. Compassion

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, satvadude108 no_reply@ wrote: [...] Is this true? Why exclude him? Is it deemed that TM is not helpful

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ru bank robber gets 10 years

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps Maharishi's real task was to prevent nucular war and possible chaos caused by the psycho-social effects of the end of a millennium? No, his task was to get people doing a meditation technique. For

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfection in what IS

2008-04-12 Thread Larry
This may have nothin to do with nothin but it is yesterday's story and may be worth telling - I ride about Madison on a bike with a sign a friend made for me - it simply states Non consumption Changes Everything and occasionally it spurs up a conversation. especially with fellow bikers or peds

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Whatever his understanding of the economic situation in Pennsylvania, his understanding of the people is condescending and elitist at best. Like as not, he's never dealt with any. Its pretty much impossible to

RE: [FairfieldLife] What happened to TinyURL.com?

2008-04-12 Thread Rick Archer
It’s there: http://tinyurl.com/ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.12/1374 - Release Date: 4/11/2008 4:59 PM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfection in what IS

2008-04-12 Thread satvadude108
I was in a movie theatre in Madison some years back. A baby was crying very loudly for an extended period before someone yelled PLEASE take that child outside. Almost instantly a reply came. Kids have right too! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] Whatever his understanding of the economic situation in Pennsylvania, his understanding of the people is condescending and elitist at best.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] Whatever his understanding of the economic situation in Pennsylvania,

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread coldbluiceman
Richard J. Williams willytex wrote: Look, Mr. Blu, you're way out of your league here. The pundits here will wax you real good; they don't take too kindly to informers like you barging in and posting a bunch of nonsense syllables. You better watch what you say or, I'm warning you, Judy or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 12, 2008, at 12:20 PM, sparaig wrote: The universe may be perfection, but you are just a creepy TMO party-line human pretending to be 'enlightened'. Bak in the day, we used to call people like that mood-makers. Jim's mood-making gives honest mood-makers a good name. Sal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 12, 2008, at 11:51 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: I am no fan of Bush. What an understatement. When Lou cited a poll that the approval rating was 28%, it struck me as impossible. Has an approval rating for a President ever been so low. What I can't get over is what could

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Sal's description of you is right on you little fraud: That's it. Sterility. That's the word that comes to mind when reading Jim's posts as well as others who have been brainwashed by the TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see nothing wrong with the tone here on FFL Okay, but when you get comments like, So and So is pretty cool even though she doesn't believe the gov't orcestrataed 9-11. You once blasted me for being condescending.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at 12:20 PM, sparaig wrote: The universe may be perfection, but you are just a creepy TMO party-line human pretending to be 'enlightened'. Bak in the day, we used to call people like that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Louis McKenzie
The Gallup Organization has been tracking the ebb and flow of presidential popularity for decades. And in a survey it conducted Friday through Sunday (teamed with USA Today), here's the negative news for Bush: his job approval rating puts him in the bottom 3% of more than 1,300 Gallup polls

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Louis McKenzie
I have been a member here since 2005 I have seen all kinds of topics on the veda the secret, jyotish so many different topics the political can get animated but that is a good thing. Because it shows some level of alertness. Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lurkernomore20002000 wrote: ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: snip Sal's description of you is right on you little fraud: That's it. Sterility. That's the word that comes to mind when reading Jim's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Louis McKenzie
I find it amazing how things get twisted. Obama sometimes he says things innocently and even if the main idea is good the way people take what is said is as if Bush said it. Typical White Person, not a bad statement but was not wise in his position. He speaks to people sometimes very

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 12, 2008, at 12:31 PM, sparaig wrote: Like as not, he's never dealt with any. Its pretty much impossible to develop a realistic view of people if you've never met them and have to go by what Hollywood says about them. Um, Spare, he was a community organizer for years. Who exactly do

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Bhairitu
lurkernomore20002000 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see nothing wrong with the tone here on FFL Okay, but when you get comments like, So and So is pretty cool even though she doesn't believe the gov't orcestrataed 9-11. You

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Bhairitu
I agree (of course) as politics is often a manifestation of our inner state as projected onto the world what responsibility we have as human being to it. The powers at be would just as soon we not talk religion and politics as things get too out of hand for them and soon folks notice who is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Louis McKenzie
Richard Adams in Washington The Guardian, Monday September 17 2007 Article history Alan Greenspan, the consummate Washington insider and long-time head of the US central bank, has backed the position taken by many anti-war critics - that the invasion of Iraq was motivated by oil. His claim comes

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Louis McKenzie
This article from the UN Weapons Inspectors should prove interesting. http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/sc7682.doc.htm There has not been a successful attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. Louis McKenzie wrote: Richard do you really believe what you are saying or do you like

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it amazing how things get twisted. Obama sometimes he says things innocently and even if the main idea is good the way people take what is said is as if Bush said it. That happens to Obama only a tiny

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at 12:31 PM, sparaig wrote: Like as not, he's never dealt with any. Its pretty much impossible to develop a realistic view of people if you've never met them and have to go by what Hollywood

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Louis McKenzie
Again even this part about God and guns is not wrong if said in the right way. Barack Obama is 15 months straight nearly non stop campaigning. Hillary too I guess, they are bound to say things the wrong way sometimes. The current climate in America has many people clinging to guns even the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Louis McKenzie
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0406g.asp Reagan’s WMD Connection to Saddam Hussein by Jacob G. Hornberger, June 18, 2004 Given all the indignant neoconservative “outrage” over the financial misdeeds arising from the UN’s socialist oil-for-food program during the 1990s, when the UN embargo was

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again even this part about God and guns is not wrong if said in the right way. Louis, you're not getting it. God and guns have *zilch* to do with the economic problems of the people he's talking about, which are

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] Whatever his understanding of the economic situation in Pennsylvania, his

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...]

[FairfieldLife] 'Bitter Americans= John Nuke 'Em McCain'

2008-04-12 Thread Robert
I think John McCain is the Best. He will nuke anyone who stands in our greedy way. He will use his POW anger, and take it out on everyone. He will support the rich, and screw the poor. He will acts like he believes in God, When he only believes in War. He's got my vote. Don't worry, Bush has

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it amazing how things get twisted. Obama sometimes he says things innocently and even if the main idea is good the way people take what is said is as if Bush said it. Typical White Person, not a bad

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at 12:31 PM, sparaig wrote: Like as not, he's never dealt with any. Its pretty much impossible to develop a realistic view of people if you've never met them and have to go by what Hollywood

[FairfieldLife] More Vedic Pandits coming

2008-04-12 Thread george_deforest
Global Good News / 9 April 2008 http://globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=120777152111752695 Raja Robert Wynne, Raja of New Zealand for the Global Country of World Peace and Mayor of Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, USA, spoke recently on Maharishi Global Family Chat about the increasing

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 12, 2008, at 3:36 PM, authfriend wrote: Did I say she was perfect, Lawson? She has her pluses and her minuses. Her ability to connect with working-class people is one of her big pluses. That's why she lost Iowa so miserably, a state made up of working-class people. I know, I know, it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread Bhairitu
Louis McKenzie wrote: Richard Adams in Washington The Guardian, Monday September 17 2007 Article history Alan Greenspan, the consummate Washington insider and long-time head of the US central bank, has backed the position taken by many anti-war critics - that the invasion of Iraq was

[FairfieldLife] The law is an ass

2008-04-12 Thread bob_brigante
http://tinyurl.com/4otpex

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread new . morning
Some thoughts from reading this thread When you smile at someone ... From what I observe, actions seem to create an effect. You smile at someone, they generally smile at you. Go to college, and more types of jobs are open to you. Save an invest some money, then later there is something

[FairfieldLife] Re: A friend named George

2008-04-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Al Gore is Abigail Williams

2008-04-12 Thread shempmcgurk
Just saw The Crucible on TV. The character played by Wynona Ryder, Abigail Williams, convinces most residents of Salem as well as the court that certain people are working in concert with the Devil. In fact, the more people doubt her, the stronger her declarations of possession.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 12, 2008, at 4:24 PM, new.morning wrote: When you smile at someone ... From what I observe, actions seem to create an effect. You smile at someone, they generally smile at you. If you smile at me I will understand Cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 12, 2008, at 4:24 PM, new.morning wrote: When you smile at someone ... From what I observe, actions seem to create an effect. You smile at someone, they generally smile at you. If you smile at me I

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I suppose it's entirely possible that someone established in the perfection of now could just blissfully zone out into inertia, inaction, and apathy. But, I think recognition of the perfection of now also offers a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: snip Sal's description of you is right on you little fraud:

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Trouble With Normal

2008-04-12 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This is a common false view often heard by Neo- and Pseudo- advaitins. Deviations from a balanced experience of the Two Truths (the relative and the absolute) are not always obvious, esp. when encoded in new age

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