[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhoja-vRtti translation?

2010-09-03 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_re...@... wrote: but Fairfield Life group owner or server did not want to accept my gift [:(] http://www.vedicbooks.net/advanced_search_result.php?search_in_descript\ ion=1inc_subcat=1keywords=Govind%20Sastri so give

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhoja-vRtti translation?

2010-09-03 Thread merudanda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: Has anybody got a translation of Bhoja-vRtti (English, German, Swedish, Russian)? Just noticed that Bhoja's comment for instance on 'saMprajñaata-samaadhi' (YS I 17) is *way more* detailed (16 rows in DN) than that of

[FairfieldLife] Light therapy with gems

2010-09-03 Thread cardemaister
http://www.gemlight.dk/eng/page4/page4.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin's Temper

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
Ahem. I'm not convinced that a self-professed Zionist and Tea Party fan should be throwing around derogatory terms for intellectual Other than as contrast to his own views and limited ability to think, that is. Only in America (and in China during Mao's great purge) is the term intellectual

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: For a scientist, Hawking makes a lot of stupid comments. He's either trying to sell his new book or is already senile. He's making science the new religion of the masses. His statements are full of of faith in theories that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhoja-vRtti translation?Book Banning ?

2010-09-03 Thread merudanda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: but Fairfield Life group owner or server did not want to accept my gift [:(]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhoja-vRtti translation?Book Banning ?

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
Ah. The unmistakable behavior of the species Cultus Fanaticus. Wave a book and claim that the people are afraid of it, and him. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_re...@... wrote: ...seems that Archer Rick and/or Alex Stanley do not like it to have it on this FFL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Djwahl Khul

2010-09-03 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: http://www.crystalinks.com/djwhalkhul.html Nice, thanks for posting this !

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhoja-vRtti translation?Book Banning ?

2010-09-03 Thread merudanda
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Ah. The unmistakable behavior of the species Cultus Fanaticus. hahaha thanks for the flowers (haven't got any more since MMY passing) Cultus eius fanaticus tempore belli? nay-- me maybe more a Crocus banaticus [:D] species

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Very few scientists have any training in Western philosophy, much less Eastern. The same goes for training (or even basic classes) in the philosophy of science. Most of them look even more foolish when they open their

[FairfieldLife] Negative Space

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
No, it's not the latest Hagelin theory. Negative space is what graphic designers sometimes use to create images with more than one meaning. I've been a fan of this tech- nique for years, and this page shows a bunch of very creative logos done using this technique. It even explains them, for those

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Library and The Book

2010-09-03 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, krysto kry...@... wrote: One thing to add: Rebecca seemed genuinely puzzled by what would motivate people to claim publicly that she is a banner of books, people who do not know her and do not know anything about the situation. I have seen much

[FairfieldLife] Re: King Tony Cometh

2010-09-03 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: King Tony, along with his wife and kids, is coming to Fairfield. The Mansion, which was purchased for $1 million years ago for him to live in (he lived there a few days) is being renovated. Bevan, Neil Paterson, and other

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
I'm not sure what exactly Hawking's position is on the creation of the universe, but I should point out that there are some physicists who don't believe that there ever was one. They are joined in this view by Buddhists, who believe that the universe has always been, is now, and will always be.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
Still riffing on this, I think that many people's issue with an eternal universe is not that it postulates No God (although that pushes a LOT of buttons because It just isn't *done* to question God's existence), but because it implies No Purpose. I think that a lot of folks are drawn to the God

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhoja-vRtti translation?Book Banning ?

2010-09-03 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_re...@... wrote: seems that Archer Rick and/or Alex Stanley do not like it to have it on this FFL forum - this fairy field live forever [:)] or may be- do not want it to have it in FFL library ...donated by me merudanda afraid of the man

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Library and The Book

2010-09-03 Thread krysto
So denizen is name-calling? It may be an old-fashioned word, but I hardly think it is a slur. As for the other attributes I used, I should have made it clearer that it is only a rather small number of posters here that, in my opinion, exhibit those qualities rather frequently and sometimes

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Library and The Book

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, krysto kry...@... wrote in an earlier post: Let me close by saying that some of the denizens of Fairfield Life once again showed their nastiness and their terribly small- mindedness in the rush to judgment about Rebecca. A striking lack of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Still riffing on this, I think that many people's issue with an eternal universe is not that it postulates No God (although that pushes a LOT of buttons because It just isn't *done* to question God's existence), but because

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread emptybill
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/popular.html If you have never read it, then Max Tegmark's Parallel Universes is a mind blower. He's an astrophysical cosmologist at MIT who points out that cosmological theorizing still breaks down into Platonic and Aristotelian modes of thinking, which he then

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Still riffing on this, I think that many people's issue with an eternal universe is not that it postulates No God (although that pushes a LOT of buttons

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhoja-vRtti translation?Book Banning ?

2010-09-03 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda no_reply@ wrote: but Fairfield Life group owner or server did not want to accept my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin's Temper

2010-09-03 Thread sgrayatlarge
I always enjoy your analysis, you write well, at least from my limited perspective, I thought your Occultist trailer Trash Palin label was inspired, you would have made CW Leadbetter proud, in fact all the lodges would cheer you on. After I read your gem, I happen to notice that the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tiger's Nest and kumbhaya mantra

2010-09-03 Thread Vaj
On Sep 2, 2010, at 10:43 PM, emptybill wrote: Ever been to any part of the Shambhala mandala? Yes, quite beautiful and terrifying.

[FairfieldLife] Colbert fans propose the perfect response to Glenn Beck's rally

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
Internet Petitions Stephen Colbert To Hold 'Restoring Truthiness' Rally At Lincoln Memorial http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/03/restoring-truthiness-colbert-r\ ally-beck_n_704578.html A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread sgrayatlarge
So are you saying people are naturally good and will do the right (not shitty thing)? Or only Buddhists and atheists? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Leap of faith or folly?

2010-09-03 Thread raunchydog
He leaps with ease from wall to wall Doesn't stop to linger, Consider risk of taking fall, He clings by just one finger. Death defying, amazing feat, His name the stars have writ. Fortune, fame within his grasp, His last words were, Oh, shit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PocMsI_mtWs

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_re...@... wrote: So are you saying people are naturally good and will do the right (not shitty thing)? Or only Buddhists and atheists? I am saying that some people try to do the right thing, and that doing so has nothing whatsoever to do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Leap of faith or folly?

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
I've seen guys (and the occasional gal) doing this in Paris. It's almost a kind of street artform. They call it parkour or free running. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_running If you want to see it taken to the level of art, watch the opening sequence of the James Bond movie, Casino Royale.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Palin's Temper

2010-09-03 Thread Bhairitu
BTW, I might know some of those first 50 named. ;-) Although I voted for Obama I'm not happy with his Wall Street crew and doing little for Main Street. But I was not expecting miracles. Go back and look at my posts here in summer 2008 where I said that the Republicans had 30 years of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread Bhairitu
I don't think there is any guy in the sky micromanaging things which is what a lot of people believe. But one might call whatever the process of the universe's existence is in it's totality God or whang or whatever. Even the best and brightest of the human race is probably incapable of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Leap of faith or folly?

2010-09-03 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I've seen guys (and the occasional gal) doing this in Paris. It's almost a kind of street artform. They call it parkour or free running. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_running If you want to see it taken to the

[FairfieldLife] Machete: today's the day

2010-09-03 Thread Bhairitu
Robert Rodriguez's latest film Machete releases in the US today. We discussed this and it's controversial trailer here a couple months back. I plan to see it but probably not until Tuesday to avoid the Labor Day crowds and especially opening day crowds.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin's Temper

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Bottom line: Republicans won't be able to clean their mess either. Not in 2012 nor any other time. America is finished. Very possibly, he says from Europe. :-) As you've possibly noticed, I don't get into many of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: I don't think there is any guy in the sky micromanaging things which is what a lot of people believe. But one might call whatever the process of the universe's existence is in it's totality God or whang or whatever.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tiger's Nest and kumbhaya mantra

2010-09-03 Thread emptybill
Orgyen Kusum Lingpa, my first Tibetan teacher, lived in Golok, Tibet (now part of China). He believed in Shambhala quite literally. In fact when he first came to the West (1994) and saw blond haired people he thought they were from Shambhala. He was a terton and saw many such people in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Leap of faith or folly?

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I've seen guys (and the occasional gal) doing this in Paris. It's almost a kind of street artform. They call it parkour or free running.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread emptybill
Huh? Post-ulating? It sounds indecent. Is this what they do with each other in Europe? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: For a scientist, Hawking makes a lot of stupid comments. He's either

[FairfieldLife] Re: Leap of faith or folly?

2010-09-03 Thread curtisdeltablues
I am so gonna tell their mothers about this! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: He leaps with ease from wall to wall Doesn't stop to linger, Consider risk of taking fall, He clings by just one finger. Death defying, amazing feat, His name the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Huh? Post-ulating? It sounds indecent. Is this what they do with each other in Europe? It is indecent, and is considered such everywhere in Europe (and on a par with necrophilia) except The Netherlands. I'm into pre-ulating

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread sgrayatlarge
Fair enough, but when does it start to matter to them, and where do they get the notion of what is the right thing to do? When one raises a child, do we say well you know the right thing to do, just do it! Or are they taught right from wrong, what are good actions and what are bad- manners,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: The Intelligent Design key point - fine tuning - seems to be even less compelling as an argument, says Hawking. The best argument I can think of for a lack of intelligent design at work in the universe is seeing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin's Temper

2010-09-03 Thread sgrayatlarge
Vote Pelosi and Reid out, keep Obama but have a Republican Congress, just like Clinton had, better times ahead. Also once Pelosi took over Congress, big downturn, have a balance, all is not lost. Maybe I should have said Yakima, you know folks there too? How about Forks or Snoqualmie? Hood

[FairfieldLife] Re: Leap of faith or folly?

2010-09-03 Thread Joe
Really hard to imagine anyone following in the shadow of Noomi Rapace's Lisbeth. Hers was (is..just saw the second in the series) a force of nature performance. Rooney Mara has big balls taking this on. I wish her luck! (Barry is the third film out in Europe yet?) --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hawking: God did not create the Universe

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_re...@... wrote: Fair enough, but when does it start to matter to them, and where do they get the notion of what is the right thing to do? A good question. Hopefully, in my ideal society, they never get a lecture on what is the right

[FairfieldLife] Re: Leap of faith or folly?

2010-09-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote: Really hard to imagine anyone following in the shadow of Noomi Rapace's Lisbeth. Hers was (is..just saw the second in the series) a force of nature performance. Rooney Mara has big balls taking this on. I wish her luck!

[FairfieldLife] Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape

2010-09-03 Thread yifuxero
review: Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the most common justificati9on for religious faith. It is also the primary reason why so many secularists and religious moderates feel obligated to respect the hardened superstitions of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape

2010-09-03 Thread yifuxero
latest Harris essays: http://www.samharris.org/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: review: Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the most common justificati9on for religious faith. It is also the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhoja-vRtti translation?Book Banning ?

2010-09-03 Thread emptybill
He's Theosophist. He made it up! What else would you expect? When I read this back in '76 it didn't make sense to me and after I found the classical commentaries it was obviously his attempt to supply speculation for understanding. This is why I questioned you about using Taimini and why I don't

[FairfieldLife] ET morality

2010-09-03 Thread emptybill
Who has written or theorized about morality in our possible future contacts with ET-s? How could we even evaluate them enough to judge if there is any form of moral code. That means no human analogues. WTF?

[FairfieldLife] Charles Darwin on morals

2010-09-03 Thread yifuxero
... When two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into competition, if (other circumstances being equal) the one tribe included a great number of courageous, sympathetic and faithful members, who were always ready to warn each other of danger, to aid and defend each other,

[FairfieldLife] The Multiverse Hierarchy

2010-09-03 Thread yifuxero
The Multiverse Hierarchy, by Max Tegmark http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1283 Tegmark admits that there's a severe measurement problem. ... IMO that's where genuine Seers may come in; but I haven't seen many showing up lately.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Glenn Buck

2010-09-03 Thread Bhairitu
The context is the Idiocrats hating America. sgrayatlarge wrote: They or you hating America? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Yup, the Idiocrats are very sad. Why do they hate America? sgrayatlarge wrote: How sad --- In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Palin's Temper

2010-09-03 Thread Bhairitu
I'll give you booting Pelosi and Reid out but replacing them with younger more up to date people and not oligarchists (Republicans). I even would like to see someone worth electing to replace my congressman George Miller. Problem is these people are legislating things for technology,

[FairfieldLife] A great opportunity for service

2010-09-03 Thread nablusoss1008
Invite David Lynch to your country: http://dlf.tv/2009/change-begins-within-benefit-concert-highlights/

[FairfieldLife] Jersey Shore, 1905

2010-09-03 Thread yifuxero
http://citypaper.net/blogs/clog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/jshore1905.jpg

[FairfieldLife] An earlier Manhattan in BW

2010-09-03 Thread yifuxero
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5010page=1

[FairfieldLife] Was this man Awakened?

2010-09-03 Thread yifuxero
http://www.revelinnewyork.com/sites/default/files/capone6.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Dylan's Infidels outtakes

2010-09-03 Thread Vaj
Lossless versions of Dylan's Infidels sessions are circulating on the net and well worth the large download. The album is not only produced by Mark Knopfler, but includes his signature style as guitarist on many songs. Some of the songs on the outtakes are already included on The Bootleg

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tiger's Nest and kumbhaya mantra

2010-09-03 Thread Vaj
On Sep 3, 2010, at 12:42 PM, emptybill wrote: Orgyen Kusum Lingpa, my first Tibetan teacher, lived in Golok, Tibet (now part of China). He believed in Shambhala quite literally. In fact when he first came to the West (1994) and saw blond haired people he thought they were from Shambhala.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Charles Darwin on morals

2010-09-03 Thread emptybill
This is ordinary tribalism. What does this have to do with morality? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: ... When two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into competition, if (other circumstances being equal) the one tribe included a great

[FairfieldLife] Re: Charles Darwin on morals

2010-09-03 Thread yifuxero
Morals are born of behavior. There is an intrinsic Dharma in the Universe; but one should be careful about defining morals in terms of a set of a priori morals. They may not exist. In the context of Nichiren's Buddhism, morals would simply be an offshoot of an outcome of collective desires, and

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2010-09-03 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Aug 28 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Sep 04 00:00:00 2010 521 messages as of (UTC) Fri Sep 03 23:47:19 2010 50 Joe geezerfr...@yahoo.com 49 WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com 49 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 36 Rick

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin's Temper

2010-09-03 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge no_re...@... wrote: After I read your gem, I happen to notice that the unemployment rate rose to 9.6%, not exactly the Summer of Recovery that the administration touted in June. I suppose a true intellectual, regardless of how much internal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin's Temper

2010-09-03 Thread seventhray1
Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: ROFLMAO! What's the old saying? It takes a Jimmy Carter to make a Ronald Reagan. Well, it takes a Barrack Hussein Obama to create a Sarah Palin! Dix, tell me again what was so grand about George Bush and Dick Cheney, and their War on Terror we heard

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dylan's Infidels outtakes

2010-09-03 Thread Joe
Brilliant! Huge thank you Vaj! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: Lossless versions of Dylan's Infidels sessions are circulating on the net and well worth the large download. The album is not only produced by Mark Knopfler, but includes his signature style as

[FairfieldLife] Re: ET morality

2010-09-03 Thread pranamoocher
Correct. Phone home. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: Who has written or theorized about morality in our possible future contacts with ET-s? How could we even evaluate them enough to judge if there is any form of moral code. That means no human

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bhoja-vRtti translation?Book Banning ?

2010-09-03 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: He's Theosophist. He made it up! What else would you expect? When I read this back in '76 it didn't make sense to me and after I found the classical commentaries it was obviously his attempt to supply speculation for