[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Edge Research in Cosmology

2009-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
Can you say confirmation bias in your search for 'knowledge?' I think you can. See high- lighted section below. :-) John, just as a question, do you even *notice* that there is a trend in these scientific posts that you make here? They're all a way of saying, See? I'm right. The Vedas are right.

[FairfieldLife] Article for John (jr_esq)

2009-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
Since you like these confirmation bias articles, John, here's one that proves that Krishna could have existed just as described in the Vedic literature. :-) http://www.hair-n-skin-care.com/skin-conditions-and-diseases/blue-skin-disorder.html

[FairfieldLife] Deepak Chopra interview

2009-10-14 Thread eustace10679
Go to: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2009/10 WNYC: The Brian Lehrer show. Program: Healing Touch, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Click: Listen to the whole show The Media Player will open. On the right side (My Play List) click on the last segment. The program quite interesting. Among

[FairfieldLife] Hitopadesha: the rich and the poor?

2009-10-14 Thread cardemaister
If a man is very rich, he'll be honored even if he is a brahmin-killer. If he is poor, he'll be despised even if he comes from a family as noble as the lunar dynasty. brahmahaapi [brahmahaa + api - card] naraH pujyo yasyaasti [yasya + asti] vipulaM dhanam. shashinas tulyavaMsho 'pi nirdhanaH

[FairfieldLife] Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
The subject line comes from the Firesign Theater, and references their love for old-time radio shows: [Firesign Theatre, special promo code BOZOS or TIMES] http://www.itsmyseat.com/index.html It also, however, references a couple of things I've been thinking about lately while reading FFL.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting MUM Developments

2009-10-14 Thread dhamiltony2k5
The university is trying to translate this assessment into practical steps to become more relevant and appealing to students. I wonder whether all this is related to Bevan Morris' recent withdrawal from the board of trustees? If history has anything to say about it, their survival is

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Movement's Desolation

2009-10-14 Thread dhamiltony2k5
That was the 19th Century, this goes back to the 18th. Of Spiritual Revival and Loss, a prophecy that goes back even to the 18th century: Smaller and smaller shall you grow, fewer and fewer, till a child in its mother's arms can count the remnant, is the echo of a prophetic word that repeats

[FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Curious phenomenon, sez I. One would think that true seekers of knowledge wouldn't be peering so intently into the past merely to confirm what they already believe... Almost everything you mention in your post comes from the past, what you've read here in the past. You are to the point of

[FairfieldLife] Re: [R.L. is=Helter Skelter: A Bugged Out Bastard!]...

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Robert wrote: {Current Commentary on Rush Hudson Limbaugh... Don't you just hate that Rush Limbaugh! And Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity and Glen Beck and Alex Jones. Don't you just hate them all? Sometimes you just wake up in the morning wanting to hate somebody and wanting to post some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Personal Supercomputers

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Don't forget the 10,000 RPM hard disks. Vaj wrote: Don't forget SSD's... As long as we're being unreasonable, why not buy yourself a Cray?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: [R.L. is=Helter Skelter: A Bugged Out Bastard!]...

2009-10-14 Thread Mike Dixon
Rush Hudson Limbaugh...mmm...mmm...mmm. From: WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, October 14, 2009 6:26:40 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: [R.L. is=Helter Skelter: A Bugged Out Bastard!]...   Robert wrote: {Current

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Edge Research in Cosmology

2009-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Can you say confirmation bias in your search for 'knowledge?' I think you can. See high- lighted section below. :-) John, just as a question, do you even *notice* that there is a trend in these scientific posts that you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: The subject line comes from the Firesign Theater, and references their love for old-time radio shows: [Firesign Theatre, special promo code BOZOS or TIMES] http://www.itsmyseat.com/index.html It also, however,

[FairfieldLife] Re: [R.L. is=Helter Skelter: A Bugged Out Bastard!]...

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Mike Dixon wrote: Rush Hudson Limbaugh...mmm...mmm...mmm. Don't you just love those 'bugged out' bastards!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Judy wrote: Here's a little game: Let's see if we can think of criticisms Barry has made of others that do NOT also apply to him. Anybody got one? The discussions have to be based on the assumption that we are discussing matters of *opinion*. No one is right, no one is wrong. References

[FairfieldLife] Darwinopterus fills in the gaps in pterodactyloid evolution!

2009-10-14 Thread Hugo
(Is that the most unlikely to get clicked on headline on FFL yet!) Researchers in China and the UK say they have discovered the fossils of a new type of flying reptile that lived more than 160 million years ago. The find is named Darwinopterus, after Charles Darwin. Experts say it provides

[FairfieldLife] Twitter seance to contact Michael Jackson!

2009-10-14 Thread Hugo
The old world collides with the new. Is there an i-ching app for my i-phone yet? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6314882/Tweance-the-Twitter-seance-aims-to-contact-Michael-Jackson.html

[FairfieldLife] Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year, harm millions

2009-10-14 Thread do.rflex
Women will continue to seek abortion whether it is safe or not as long as the unmet need for contraception remains high, Camp said. With sufficient political will, we can ensure that no woman has to die in order to end a pregnancy she neither wanted nor planned for. - - LONDON, Oct 13

Re: [FairfieldLife] Twitter seance to contact Michael Jackson!

2009-10-14 Thread It's just a ride
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Hugo richardhughes...@hotmail.com wrote: The old world collides with the new. Is there an i-ching app for my i-phone yet? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6314882/Tweance-the-Twitter-seance-aims-to-contact-Michael-Jackson.html Also today,

[FairfieldLife] Re: 1.5 million studentsin brasilia will learn tm

2009-10-14 Thread do.rflex
Here's a news story about it from the Brazilian State Secretary of Education website [translated by Google Translation]: Transcendental Meditation comes to state schools The State Department of Education and the David Lynch Foundation signed an unprecedented partnership to provide students of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Twitter seance to contact Michael Jackson!

2009-10-14 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: The old world collides with the new. Is there an i-ching app for my i-phone yet?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year, harm millions

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
John wrote: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year, harm millions... In Brazil, abortion is legal only in cases of rape or when the mother's life is at risk. Brazil's abortion laws are among the strictest in Latin America, John.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 1.5 million studentsin brasilia will learn tm

2009-10-14 Thread It's just a ride
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:31 AM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: Here's a news story about it from the Brazilian State Secretary of Education website [translated by Google Translation]: Transcendental Meditation comes to state schools * The ceremony* The ceremony happens only

[FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread azgrey
: Willy, since fucking prairie dogs or whatever you do with your time doesn't seem to fill enough of it lately... Don't you just *hate* those prairie dog fuckers?

[FairfieldLife] Acting like a rational citizen

2009-10-14 Thread authfriend
The folks here suffering from confirmation bias who really *need* to read these two pieces--those who stupidly cling to the notion that all criticism of Obama comes from either the hard right or PUMAs and is therefore illegitimate--won't, of course, because they must avoid cognitive dissonance at

[FairfieldLife] Re: 1.5 million studentsin brasilia will learn tm

2009-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: TM is not a religion, Jai Guru Dev And if you don't agree, we won't include your name as one of the beneficiaries in the next yagya we perform to Vishnu.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_re...@... wrote: Willy, since fucking prairie dogs or whatever you do with your time doesn't seem to fill enough of it lately... Don't you just *hate* those prairie dog fuckers? LOL. You should post more often, dude. Your sense of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Willy, since fucking prairie dogs or whatever you do with your time doesn't seem to fill enough of it lately... azgrey wrote: Don't you just *hate* those prairie dog fuckers? Well, according to Barry, the discussions have to be based on the assumption that we are discussing matters

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread It's just a ride
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM, azgrey no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: : Willy, since fucking prairie dogs or whatever you do with your time doesn't seem to fill enough of it lately... Don't you just *hate* those prairie dog fuckers? I know the sheriff her very well. He'd rather

[FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Don't you just *hate* those prairie dog fuckers? TurquoiseB wrote: LOL. Wright may have been a bit of a prick in real life, but he was a genius with a T-square and a sheet of blank paper. His houses for other people take your breath away; this one he built for himself... The

Re: [FairfieldLife] Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: The other aspect of Forward, Into The Past I've been noticing lately is the orgy of Beatles nostalgia posted by Nabby yesterday and previously commented on by Bhairitu. What's up with that, eh? From my POV, what is happening when Nabby goes on one of these musical nostalgia

[FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Forward, Into The Past... Bill Hicks wrote: I know the sheriff her very well... This information was gathered at a past time... http://www.city-data.com/so/so-Lampasas-Texas.html This is really impressive, Bill!!!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Article for John (jr_esq)

2009-10-14 Thread Premanand
My eldest son was born blue, but the effect wore off very quickly, within hours as I recall. Someone said something about umbilical cord getting in a twist? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Since you like these confirmation bias articles, John, here's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Forward, Into The Past

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Judy wrote: I don't think I've ever encountered an individual who is so astonishingly clueless about his own tendencies... Judy, meet Barry2: Barry2 wrote: Are people posting them in hope that someone will explain it to them or the relevance they have? Or is it a holdover from

[FairfieldLife] Re: 1.5 million studentsin brasilia will learn tm

2009-10-14 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:31 AM, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Here's a news story about it from the Brazilian State Secretary of Education website [translated by Google Translation]:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Article for John (jr_esq)

2009-10-14 Thread ShempMcGurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand premanandp...@... wrote: My eldest son was born blue, but the effect wore off very quickly, within hours as I recall. Someone said something about umbilical cord getting in a twist? I've heard the British expression getting one's knickers

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Uneducated American

2009-10-14 Thread sgrayatlarge
I agree Republicans have lost their conservative ways, and the Democrats have embraced the left, but won't admit it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: ~~~ Republicans have become more rural and less educated ~~~ In an interview on Hardball, former Rep.

[FairfieldLife] Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) , Patriot and Intellectual Giant

2009-10-14 Thread do.rflex
His stunning intellectual depth is breathtaking. Watch as Mr Gohmert, a great supporter of former presidential candidate and true American patriot, Alan Keyes, does a brilliant and insightful job reviewing the gay rights issue. He explains how gay rights will lead to 'economic chaos' and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Edge Research in Cosmology

2009-10-14 Thread John
Barry, I was merely presenting a very fascinating theory that Dr. Susskind came up with in the midst of conflicting data or ideas that are available in the scientific community today. This lecture was an understated challenge, to say the least, to the other physicists about their

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Edge Research in Cosmology

2009-10-14 Thread yifuxero
thx, I've read 2 of his books. In his latest, he relates how, (over the years); he was able to refute Hawking's notion that information is lost in the Singularity of a Black Hole. Susskind claims to have used string theory to show that the information is actually stored (but scrambled) on the

[FairfieldLife] The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes?

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Things come down to choices: lower costs versus death panels; torture versus intelligence; equity versus growth. And politicians, ever eager to garner votes, never want to say this. They will always try to have it both ways. Even when politicians choose one road over the other, they take pains

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Edge Research in Cosmology

2009-10-14 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: thx, I've read 2 of his books. In his latest, he relates how, (over the years); he was able to refute Hawking's notion that information is lost in the Singularity of a Black Hole. Susskind claims to have used string

[FairfieldLife] Re: Article for John (jr_esq)

2009-10-14 Thread John
This post is non-sequitur. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Since you like these confirmation bias articles, John, here's one that proves that Krishna could have existed just as described in the Vedic literature. :-)

[FairfieldLife] The design for the new dollar

2009-10-14 Thread ShempMcGurk
Just announced by the Treasury today, all paper money denominations will be replaced. And the theme for the new currencies? Popular culture. Here's an example (the $100 bill):

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Article for John (jr_esq)

2009-10-14 Thread Bhairitu
I was born that way. The umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck. I had to be revived and so I got to meet death at birth. My family was concerned about some mental retardation but that was allayed fairly soon. I didn't know the medical term for blue baby until I was watching the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Article for John (jr_esq)

2009-10-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: This post is non-sequitur. Barry's posts are becoming less and less relevant to anything actually happening in reality, on FFL or elsewhere. He lives in a Barryworld constructed of his own fantasies. I suspect his whole life has been

[FairfieldLife] Most Don't Think America Has the Best Health Care

2009-10-14 Thread do.rflex
Pew Research http://pewresearch.org/databank/dailynumber/?NumberID=825 : According to Americans, the United States does not have the best health care in the world. Most see our health care as average (32%) or below average (27%) when compared with health care in other industrialized countries.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Most Don't Think America Has the Best Health Care

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
John wrote: Most Don't Think America Has the Best Health Care If it does break, I think that Democrats keep control of Congress just long enough to explain why they keep having to enact whopping new tax increases every few years. Republicans don't need to improve their message. They just

Re: [FairfieldLife] Most Don't Think America Has the Best Health Care

2009-10-14 Thread Bhairitu
A lot of other countries use preventative and alternative care in their programs. Big pharma controls too much of US medicine to allow that to happen. There are a lot of small ailments easily treated right out of the kitchen cabinet. People need to learn these. We could stand a system of

[FairfieldLife] Carbon Dioxide variations

2009-10-14 Thread yifuxero
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_Dioxide_400kyr.png

[FairfieldLife] Passing Health-Care Reform Could Change Political Landscape

2009-10-14 Thread do.rflex
How Passing Health-Care Reform Could Change the Political Landscape By Dan Balz Democrats also believe that Republicans' near-unanimous opposition to the bill will provide a double benefit. Not only will Democrats be seen as the responsible, governing party, they argue, but the GOP's image as a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Most Don't Think America Has the Best Health Care

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
Bhairitu wrote: I believe it will take the total collapse of the US economic and social systems to have real change... So, you don't have any health care insurance.

Re: [FairfieldLife] The design for the new dollar

2009-10-14 Thread It's just a ride
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:59 PM, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@netscape.netwrote: Just announced by the Treasury today, all paper money denominations will be replaced. And the theme for the new currencies? Popular culture. Here's an example (the $100 bill): The Oregon State Hospital was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Passing Health-Care Reform Could Change Political Landscape

2009-10-14 Thread WillyTex
John wrote: Passing Health-Care Reform Could Change Political Landscape Forty-four percent (44%) of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That's little changed from a week ago. The latest Rasmussen Reports national

[FairfieldLife] 65% Want Public Health Option - New York Times/CBS poll

2009-10-14 Thread do.rflex
Poll: Public Option Favored By 65% Of Americans A New York Times/CBS poll found that 65% of respondents want a public health care option, while only 26% opposed such a plan. [CBS NY Times poll 65%_2a387.jpg] However, respondents said that President Obama had not been clear on health care

[FairfieldLife] Solanus Casey favors reported

2009-10-14 Thread yifuxero
Fr. Solanus Casey - miracle working Priest, lived in Detroit in the 30's. http://www.solanuscasey.org/favors.shtml

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes?

2009-10-14 Thread Bhairitu
We already have death panels. They are called health insurance companies. Most reasonable people don't want to be put on life support if they're going to wind up crippled or a vegetable. People on FFL should not fear death. Other countries have working single payer health care. They also

[FairfieldLife] Give India the Best Defence System in the World

2009-10-14 Thread michael
jai guru dev Give India the Best Defence System in the World Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand The late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi revived, from the ancient Vedic science of ... Scientists have named this phenomenon the Maharishi Effect in honor of ...

[FairfieldLife] Re: [R.L. is=Helter Skelter: A Bugged Out Bastard!]...

2009-10-14 Thread Robert
It's a righteous thing, to hate evil... Jesus hated evil, and so do I... Roberto --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Robert wrote: {Current Commentary on Rush Hudson Limbaugh... Don't you just hate that Rush Limbaugh! And Bill O'Reilly and Sean

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes?

2009-10-14 Thread authfriend
Total health expenditures per capita, 2003: United States$5711 Australia$2886 Austria $2958 Belgium $3044 Canada $2998 Denmark $2743 Finland $2104 France $3048 Germany $2983 Iceland

[FairfieldLife] Re: [R.L. is=Helter Skelter: A Bugged Out Bastard!]...

2009-10-14 Thread Robert
He is a 'Disgrace to our Generation' of optimistic idealists... These same club of bastards... They killed the Kennedy's and MLK, and who knows who else... That hate everything, good and love, and that would bring people together... Instead, they like to spit things up, into little pieces of

[FairfieldLife] Secretary Clinton will be on ABC's Nightline Tonight

2009-10-14 Thread raunchydog
Secretary Clinton will be on ABC's Nightline at 11:35 p.m. (U.S. Eastern time) tonight. Her interview was taped earlier today in Moscow, and if you can't watch it, you can read an edited transcript here. In the interview, Clinton discusses important issues such as Afghanistan strategy and Iran.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting MUM Developments

2009-10-14 Thread dhamiltony2k5
These children, What kind of students are they anyway? I understand now that they cowed, rebelled and whined when assigned only a 5 page paper To write in the sustainability program. We can't (won't) do that! like spoiled children, no discipline. Won't meditate, at MIU? Time to cull the herd

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) , Patriot and Intellectual Giant

2009-10-14 Thread It's just a ride
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:56 AM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: His stunning intellectual depth is breathtaking. Indeed it is. Thanks for the URL. This is a man I can get behind, so to speak.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Give India the Best Defence System in the World

2009-10-14 Thread Bhairitu
I'm sure India will gladly replace their missile defense system with a bunch of hopping meditators. :-D michael wrote: jai guru dev Give India the Best Defence System in the World Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand The late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi revived, from the ancient Vedic science of

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2009-10-14 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 2009 End Date (UTC): Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 2009 376 messages as of (UTC) Thu Oct 15 00:01:42 2009 49 authfriend jst...@panix.com 29 do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com 28 Robert babajii...@yahoo.com 26 TurquoiseB

[FairfieldLife] Afghan War is a Quagmire for the US

2009-10-14 Thread John
To All: Given the current political development in Afghanistan, I now believe that the US cannot win this war by itself. President Obama needs to put an Afghan face into this war. He can either do this by increasing the Afghan forces, or strike a deal with the Taliban to have peace in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Passing Health-Care Reform Could Change Political Landscape

2009-10-14 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: John wrote: Passing Health-Care Reform Could Change Political Landscape Forty-four percent (44%) of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Passing Health-Care Reform Could Change Political Landscape

2009-10-14 Thread It's just a ride
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:02 AM, ruthsimplicity no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Back to work.  I can report that the public option is not yet dead. Sweet lips, if you go back through the archives you'll discover I told you this would be the case two months ago. We've got a magic negro