[FairfieldLife] Re: Spong on Fundamentalism

2009-09-29 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: from Bishop Spong; (Bishop Spong is a modern Gnostic, a non-believer in the Redemption theme of the Crucifixion of Jesusthis, from his pov, the death of Christ provided no payment for the sins of mankind.) Biship Spong

[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible

2009-09-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: An exceprt appeared in the New Yorker a few months ago. I was shocked in reading it. Why? Not because it seemed a satire but because it was so straight and very, very un-Crumb-like. Like most people in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible

2009-09-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: You're to be commended, Barry, for minimizing your well- established trait of name-dropping. And you're to be pitied for still running on the J-OS operating system after all these years of meditating. Jealous of me for

[FairfieldLife] The Seven Deadly Sins Map

2009-09-29 Thread TurquoiseB
Great infographic from Kansas State University, via Wired. It maps the seven deadly sins to the states they most appear in. Iowa scores fairly big on envy, wrath, lust and pride: http://www.wired.com/culture/education/magazine/17-09/st_sinmaps

[FairfieldLife] Re: of Negative Energy

2009-09-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: I didn't bother to read it. I refer you instead to this writeup from Wikipedia, which I think better describes the phenomenon [ snip Wiki

[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma

2009-09-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Looking up Joss on www.imdb.com I found that not only was his dad a TV writer going back to Captain Kangaroo in 1955 but so was his grandfather who wrote in the early days of television (Lux Theater). John Whedon

[FairfieldLife] The Guru Dev parampara (lineage)

2009-09-29 Thread Premanand
Have just put up a few pointers about this at:- http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html

[FairfieldLife] Has the Right Wing lost its Mind?

2009-09-29 Thread raunchydog
If we had our guns, we would have fought a bloody battle. So, keep your guns, and buy more guns, and buy ammunition. [...] Take back America. Don't let them take the country into Socialism. And I refer again, Hitler's party was National Socialism. [...] And that's what we are having here right

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map

2009-09-29 Thread raunchydog
In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of the spectrum and not the devilish end as he would have us believe. Can we say pants on fire or just plain stupid? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map

2009-09-29 Thread TurquoiseB
Replying to the Message View snark: :-) Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map ../../../../message/230925 In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of the spectrum and not the devilish... I said only that Iowa scored fairly

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map

2009-09-29 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Replying to the Message View snark: :-) Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map ../../../../message/230925 In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map

2009-09-29 Thread authfriend
Great catch. Hilarious. Chalk up another meltdown for Barry. What a loser. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of the spectrum and not

[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible

2009-09-29 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: You're to be commended, Barry, for minimizing your well- established trait of name-dropping. And you're to be pitied for still running on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map

2009-09-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Replying to the Message View snark: :-) Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map ../../../../message/230925 In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma

2009-09-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip I'm actually not that big a Joss Whedon fanboy. I discovered him only with Firefly and have never (gulp...forgive me, Saint Joss) seen an episode of either Buffy or Angel. :-) Barry, 3/21/09 (#212517): ...My past

[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible

2009-09-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: You're to be commended, Barry, for minimizing your well- established trait

[FairfieldLife] Buddhism Wins Best Religion in the World Award

2009-09-29 Thread Vaj
Someone just sent this to me. Pretty funny, but sadly so. - Jonna Hult, Director of Research for ICARUS said It wasn't a surprise to me that Buddhism won Best Religion in the World, because we could find literally not one single instance of a war fought in the name of Buddhism, in

[FairfieldLife] Facebook poll: should Obama be killed or not?

2009-09-29 Thread It's just a ride
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/28/facebook.poll/index.html The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Obama should be killed. I wish that just once people wouldn't act

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map

2009-09-29 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Replying to the Message View snark: :-) Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map

[FairfieldLife] How goes survival in FF?

2009-09-29 Thread It's just a ride
IIRC, about a year ago there were announcements on FFL for the formation of a group of survivalists who intended to weather a storm with the economy collapsed, surviving by hunting, gathering, growing and just making do, bartering because money would be worthless. Just wondering how this group is

[FairfieldLife] Burning Down The House

2009-09-29 Thread TurquoiseB
For those of us who have been watching House for the previous five episodes, this two-part season opener was an inevitability. Greg House (Hugh Laurie) has been pushing the envelope of karma for a long time now, and had to get a return on his investment sooner or later. And, as karma often does,

[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible

2009-09-29 Thread authfriend
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: An exceprt appeared in the New Yorker a few months ago. I was shocked in reading it. Why? Not because it seemed a satire but because it was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhism Wins Best Religion in the World Award

2009-09-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: However, there was one snag. Basically we can't find anyone to give it to, said Groehlichen in a followup call late Tuesday. All the Buddhists we call keep saying they don't want the award. I nominate Nabby to accept the

[FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?

2009-09-29 Thread WillyTex
bill hicks wrote: IIRC, about a year ago there were announcements on FFL for the formation of a group of survivalists who intended to weather a storm with the economy collapsed, surviving by hunting, gathering, growing and just making do, bartering because money would be worthless. Just

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Guru Dev parampara (lineage)

2009-09-29 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand premanandp...@... wrote: Have just put up a few pointers about this at:- http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html I wonder how many really catch the monumentally staggering and far reaching evolutionary significance of what you have

[FairfieldLife] The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin

2009-09-29 Thread do.rflex
The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin Michelle Flynn Teacher Laura H. Carnell Elementary School Dear Mrs. Flynn mailto:mfl...@phila.k12.pa.us , [BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386718438772051762] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Mh1TZAM-AWU/SsF34UgODzI/Cgk/tb1TSMkDu\ go/s1600-h/child.png

[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible

2009-09-29 Thread WillyTex
Like most people in the world, you don't know Robert Crumb at all. He's the straightest arrow on Earth...doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do drugs. And the shyest person you've ever met. Judy wrote: Of course, this is entirely irrelevant to Shemp's comment, which was referring to

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin

2009-09-29 Thread WillyTex
John wrote: The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin Don't you just hate those straight, white, American Christians!

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin

2009-09-29 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin White Christian Merkins? From Wikipedia: Merkin (first use 1617) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin#cite_note-0 is a pubic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_hair wig

[FairfieldLife] The Creepy Mentality of Wingnut World

2009-09-29 Thread do.rflex
[This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow]

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Guru Dev parampara (lineage)

2009-09-29 Thread Premanand
Still tinkering with the webpage on the Guru Dev parampara, adding little bits of info - http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand premanandpaul@ wrote: Have just

[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible

2009-09-29 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: An exceprt appeared in the New Yorker a few months ago. I was shocked in reading it. Why? Not because it seemed a satire but because it was so

[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible

2009-09-29 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Like most people in the world, you don't know Robert Crumb at all. He's the straightest arrow on Earth...doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do drugs. And the shyest person you've ever met. Judy wrote: Of

[FairfieldLife] David Lynch shames the TM Movement

2009-09-29 Thread ShempMcGurk
The stupid schmuck has signed a petition in support of child rapist Roman Polanski: http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html

[FairfieldLife] Bill Clinton on Right Wing Conspiracy

2009-09-29 Thread John
Obama is the target. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45_09YojZYkfeature=related

Re: [FairfieldLife] David Lynch shames the TM Movement

2009-09-29 Thread Bhairitu
ShempMcGurk wrote: The stupid schmuck has signed a petition in support of child rapist Roman Polanski: http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html As a rock musician in the 60's I can tell you that under age girls were always a problem. They

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma

2009-09-29 Thread Bhairitu
FYI, Firefly was a series that came later than Buffy and Angel. Barry's saying he liked Firefly enough to check out Whedon's earlier series. I only became aware of Firefly after a friend who owned a local video rental recommended the DVDs of the series. I was aware of Buffy but it was too

[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma

2009-09-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: FYI, Firefly was a series that came later than Buffy and Angel. Barry's saying he liked Firefly enough to check out Whedon's earlier series. Well, actually, no, he's saying he has *never seen* an episode of either Buffy or

[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch shames the TM Movement

2009-09-29 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: ShempMcGurk wrote: The stupid schmuck has signed a petition in support of child rapist Roman Polanski: http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html As a rock musician in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?

2009-09-29 Thread Bhairitu
WillyTex wrote: bill hicks wrote: IIRC, about a year ago there were announcements on FFL for the formation of a group of survivalists who intended to weather a storm with the economy collapsed, surviving by hunting, gathering, growing and just making do, bartering because money would

[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma

2009-09-29 Thread azgrey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfiend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: FYI, Firefly was a series that came later than Buffy and Angel. Barry's saying he liked Firefly enough to check out Whedon's earlier series. Well,

[FairfieldLife] Duetto buffo di due gatti

2009-09-29 Thread do.rflex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjtVDG0drG0

[FairfieldLife] Rotten Tomatoes Worst of the Worst 2000-2009

2009-09-29 Thread Bhairitu
100 worst movies of the period. How many have you seen? I've seen only a few. Some like Babylon AD might be better if we ever get to see the movie the director wanted to make. Some are so bad they are campy fun to watch. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rotten Tomatoes Worst of the Worst 2000-2009

2009-09-29 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: 100 worst movies of the period. How many have you seen? I never even heard of any on the 91-100 page, so I skipped ahead to the 1-10 page. Never heard of any of them, either.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rotten Tomatoes Worst of the Worst 2000-2009

2009-09-29 Thread Bhairitu
Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: 100 worst movies of the period. How many have you seen? I never even heard of any on the 91-100 page, so I skipped ahead to the 1-10 page. Never heard of any of them, either. Turq recently

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2009-09-29 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 2009 End Date (UTC): Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 2009 190 messages as of (UTC) Wed Sep 30 00:14:23 2009 32 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 22 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 20 WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com 15

Re: [FairfieldLife] David Lynch shames the TM Movement

2009-09-29 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Bhairitu wrote: ShempMcGurk wrote: The stupid schmuck has signed a petition in support of child rapist Roman Polanski: http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html As a rock musician in the 60's I can tell you

[FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?

2009-09-29 Thread meowthirteen
- Eat red clover flowers and sun gaze for nutrition One really doesn't need much food to thrive, actually. -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: WillyTex wrote: bill hicks wrote: IIRC, about a year ago there were announcements on FFL for the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?

2009-09-29 Thread Bhairitu
Thanks, Bambi. :-D meowthirteen wrote: - Eat red clover flowers and sun gaze for nutrition One really doesn't need much food to thrive, actually.

[FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?

2009-09-29 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Thanks, Bambi. :-D Mmmm... Bambi... meowthirteen wrote: - Eat red clover flowers and sun gaze for nutrition One really doesn't need much food to thrive, actually.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma

2009-09-29 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfiend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: FYI, Firefly was a series that came later than Buffy and Angel. Barry's saying he liked