[FairfieldLife] Jagger vs. jaeger?

2011-03-13 Thread cardemaister
Quite often one sees Sanskrit long vowels ignored by people who are not familiar with that language. That's also done in the case of substandard Roman transliteration of devanaagarii texts. One widespread example is 'samadhi' for 'samaadhi (or some other trick to indicate the length of the

[FairfieldLife] 'Earthquake map Viewer'

2011-03-13 Thread Robert
http://mapserver.gis.ttu.edu/japanquake/

[FairfieldLife] The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread turquoiseb
Aikido is one of the weirdest martial arts going. It was developed by Morihei Ueshiba (a master of several other forms of martial arts including jiu-jitsu, ken-jutsu, and karate) as a kind of synthesis of martial arts, philosophy and religion. Ueshiba's take on what was wrong with the existing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread Vaj
On Mar 12, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: There are experiences, but do all experiences reside in thinking (that is conceptual thinking, naming things etc.)? Conceptual thinking creates an analogue of non-verbal, direct experience, a description that seems to have some

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola, mud...hmmm...which is which?

2011-03-13 Thread WillyTex
emptybill: All truth is relative is an absolutist statement. WTF? vajradhatu: This is Little Willy for godsakes. Can you cite any evidence that 'Little Willy' exists absolutely? WTF? Talk about a mixed-up! Vaj and Bill don't even make any sense anymore. Vaj must be REALLY upset about my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola, mud...hmmm...which is which?

2011-03-13 Thread WillyTex
All truth is relative is an absolutist statement. Neither from itself nor from another, Nor from both, Nor without a cause, Does anything whatever, anywhere arise. emptybill: So how can you live with yourself knowing you're just a lie? Because there is no 'self' and no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola...hmmm...which is which?

2011-03-13 Thread WillyTex
But I say the same sorts of things on other forums, where the majority of people's lives have revolved around other teachers... Ravi Yogi: OMG, my suspicion when I first joined the list was right. You denied it then but it was quite obvious to me that you are an attention vampire who

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread WillyTex
So, it's all about Judy. turquoiseb: Aikido is one of the weirdest martial arts going. It was developed by Morihei Ueshiba (a master of several other forms of martial arts including jiu-jitsu, ken-jutsu, and karate) as a kind of synthesis of martial arts, philosophy and religion.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Aikido is one of the weirdest martial arts going. It was developed by Morihei Ueshiba (a master of several other forms of martial arts including jiu-jitsu, ken-jutsu, and karate) as a kind of synthesis of martial arts,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Christiane Amanpour

2011-03-13 Thread Peter
Ha ha! This is pretty funny, Mike! --- On Sun, 3/13/11, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Christiane Amanpour To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 11:14 AM I was

[FairfieldLife] Christiane Amanpour

2011-03-13 Thread Mike Dixon
I was greatly disappointed this morning, waiting for This Week to come on, I fully expected Christiane Amanpour to be dressed in full Geisha regalia to interview Japanese guests on the program today. Well at least she didn't wear the burqa today.

[FairfieldLife] The Most Paranoid Man in America

2011-03-13 Thread Vaj
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/talk-radios-alex-jones-the-most-paranoid-man-in-america-20110302 LINK Meet Alex Jones, the Talk Radio Host Behind Charlie Sheen's Crazy RantsThe most paranoid man in America is trying to overthrow the 'global Stasi Borg state,' one conspiracy theory at

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Barry made a grand exit not too long ago and we got along without him just fine. Aikido could have been such a lovely topic but now it's all about Barry's whiny-ass appeal for us to stroke him for being a victim of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: At any rate, I wish him the best. I said nothing about leaving. I merely rapped about aikido and posed a couple of theoretical questions, which have already been answered several times since I made the original post.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:30 AM, seventhray1 wrote: I've got to assume that at this point Barry is purposely becoming a caricature. Comparing anything and everything to TMO, as kind of a joke. At least I hope that is the case (for his sake). But one fact remains: since his return, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Part of the problem is there are entire swaths of our own mental landscape that we're not familiar with. In a mental technique, as awareness of mentation expands into other areas, there's always the danger that we'll attach some

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: At any rate, I wish him the best. I said nothing about leaving. Nor did Steve say anything about your leaving. I merely rapped about aikido and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: At any rate, I wish him the best. I said nothing about leaving. I merely rapped about aikido and posed a couple of theoretical questions, which

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread whynotnow7
He has become the crashing bore at the party, the one trick pony, the embodiment of tedium who has stayed well after all of the other guests have gone, obliviously rapping about topics that are divorced from reality. Weird. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: snip Just curious. Do you find all channeled knowledge as bunk? Just asking. I don't have an ulterior motive. I have on occassion gotten value from this venue (reading books) in the past, but haven't gone that route

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:30 AM, seventhray1 wrote: I've got to assume that at this point Barry is purposely becoming a caricature. Comparing anything and everything to TMO, as kind of a joke. At least I hope that is the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: Has maybe this whole topic brought up something for you that maybe you were trying to avoid in your own life, and therein lies the rub? Just wondering. There really seems to be no end to the going on and on about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: snip Just curious. Do you find all channeled knowledge as bunk? Just asking. I don't have an ulterior motive. I have on occassion gotten value from

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread whynotnow7
Turq's presence here as a cautionary tale is useful though. The separate ego, or attachment to the isolated self, pays a really heavy price for its insistence on being as Turq ironically says, the bestest. Notice how many regular posters here have now commented on Turq's set-ups and stories

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: snip Just curious. Do you find all channeled knowledge as bunk? Just asking. I don't have an ulterior motive. I have on occassion gotten value from

[FairfieldLife] Girl Walks Into A Bar

2011-03-13 Thread turquoiseb
No, not the opening line of a joke, a movie. The first film with fairly major stars made exclusively for the Internet. Good cast: * Carla Gugino as Francine Driver * Zachary Quinto as Nick * Josh Hartnett as Sam Salazar * Danny DeVito as Aldo * Rosario Dawson as June

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola, mud...hmmm...which is which?

2011-03-13 Thread emptybill
You're professing like a rong-tong. No wonder that you assert that you don't exist. No wonder that you assert that nothing exists. It is just b.s. Willy. Go study shen-tong/zhentong maadhyama. Yer just a wrong-tong at this point. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Girl Walks Into A Bar

2011-03-13 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/13/2011 09:33 AM, turquoiseb wrote: No, not the opening line of a joke, a movie. The first film with fairly major stars made exclusively for the Internet. Good cast: * Carla Gugino as Francine Driver * Zachary Quinto as Nick * Josh Hartnett as Sam Salazar *

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread whynotnow7
*When I say resonated I am saying that among the Hindu pantheon of deities it also the feminine I have had the greatest affinity for, as in Durga. I don't think she would not fit anyone's description of dainty (-: Durga kicks ass! Very cool - yeah, I have been finding it fascinating for

[FairfieldLife] Jamie's Food Revolution!

2011-03-13 Thread cardemaister
I guess almost everyone in America is already aware of this: http://www.jamieoliver.com/foundation/jamies-food-revolution/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:11 AM, seventhray1 wrote: Several month ago Barry talked about how much fun it was helping to take care of a 18 month old. (who I presume is now 2 yrs old). I enjoyed those posts, and being the great psycho analyst I am, I thought it was culturing a hitherto

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: snip I merely describe behavior, and then kick back and wait for those who exhibit that behavior to demonstrate it, on cue. They will continue to, whether I criticize TM, Maharishi and the TMO, or not. The behavior I'm

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:11 AM, seventhray1 wrote: Several month ago Barry talked about how much fun it was helping to take care of a 18 month old. (who I presume is now 2 yrs old). I enjoyed those posts, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: seventhray1 wrote: Does that make any sense? (-: It does, altho I disagree on the negative label, as I usually do, having seen that used over and over pretty much to silence the opposition. Ok, fine. Negative can be a pretty subjective thing. Barry

[FairfieldLife] The Book Of Mormon, by...uh...Trey Parker Matt Stone

2011-03-13 Thread turquoiseb
If you don't recognize the names, and look forward to their Broadway musical take on one of the world's great cults, you're kinda out of it. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. :-) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/11/trey-parker-matt-stone-on_n_834679.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Book Of Mormon, by...uh...Trey Parker Matt Stone

2011-03-13 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/13/2011 11:25 AM, turquoiseb wrote: If you don't recognize the names, and look forward to their Broadway musical take on one of the world's great cults, you're kinda out of it. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread whynotnow7
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@... wrote: On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:11 AM, seventhray1 wrote: Several month ago Barry talked about how much fun it was helping to take care of a 18 month old. (who I presume is now 2 yrs old). I enjoyed those posts, and

[FairfieldLife] Happy DST USA!

2011-03-13 Thread Bhairitu
Except for Arizona and Hawaii residents. Arizona because they voted against it and Hawaii because in the tropics the sun rise and set at widely varying times throughout the year so it is rather superfluous (India for the same reason doesn't observe it). I live pretty much by light time or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread Vaj
On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:56 AM, seventhray1 wrote: Just curious. Do you find all channeled knowledge as bunk? Just asking. I don't have an ulterior motive. I have on occassion gotten value from this venue (reading books) in the past, but haven't gone that route (or any route for that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Girl Walks Into A Bar

2011-03-13 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/13/2011 10:00 AM, Bhairitu wrote: On 03/13/2011 09:33 AM, turquoiseb wrote: No, not the opening line of a joke, a movie. The first film with fairly major stars made exclusively for the Internet. Good cast: * Carla Gugino as Francine Driver * Zachary Quinto as Nick

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy DST USA!

2011-03-13 Thread whynotnow7
I read an explanation attributing the daylight savings craze in the USA as one to extend evening light, and give people more of an opportunity to go shopping and spending. So jet lag twice a year for the country apparently brings in more $$. I always set my clocks around Saturday afternoon, so

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy DST USA!

2011-03-13 Thread Bhairitu
I don't live by clocks so I don't get disoriented at all. One thing they talked about this morning is because of cellphones fewer people have watches. My Android phone changed automatically. The tablet will too. The clock radio in the kitchen has a DST button on it you just press when DST

[FairfieldLife] TV Japan coverage

2011-03-13 Thread Bhairitu
If you have Comcast or other cable you may be able to watch TV Japan for earthquake coverage. It is a subscription channel but apparently will be unencrypted for this week. Here it is on channel 330 and the channel marked TVJPN.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy DST USA!

2011-03-13 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: I don't live by clocks so I don't get disoriented at all. One thing they talked about this morning is because of cellphones fewer people have watches. I've noticed this. You of all people may appreciate this, but I wear a

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Light at the End of the Tunnel

2011-03-13 Thread Dick Mays
From: Raja John Hagelin developm...@mum.edu Light at the End of the Tunnel A Message to our National Sidha Community From Raja John Hagelin These are certainly turbulent times. The Middle East is consumed by popular revolt and violent confrontation; extreme partisanship and political

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: I realize that people writing from the level of discursive thoughts can say very helpful, insightful, wise and worthwhile things. That's what a good fiction author does. So it's no surprise that just about anyone can do it in a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Light at the End of the Tunnel

2011-03-13 Thread Robert
Prime Minister Bevan will be returning from Europe soon, and is looking for an RV, to travel around the United States, in an effort to boost the number of souls in the Dome... So, that's the news... Good night, and good luck! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote: snip Just curious. Do you find all channeled knowledge as bunk? Just

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: The question is, are these insights you couldn't have found from non-channeled sources? Descriptions of changing patterns in the course of spiritual development are, forgive me, a dime a dozen, as are feminine perspectives on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread Vaj
On Mar 13, 2011, at 6:09 PM, seventhray1 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: I realize that people writing from the level of discursive thoughts can say very helpful, insightful, wise and worthwhile things. That's what a good fiction author does. So

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
Thanks. Now wouldn't that make a good opening scene for a movie! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: You can read most of the chapter (Wheel of Protection, p. 193) on Amazon for free. What I'd do is go to Look Inside, put in the word oracle and look for the page

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: The question is, are these insights you couldn't have found from non-channeled sources? Descriptions of changing patterns in the course of spiritual

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-03-13 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Mar 12 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Mar 19 00:00:00 2011 153 messages as of (UTC) Sun Mar 13 23:46:12 2011 23 authfriend jst...@panix.com 21 seventhray1 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net 14 turquoiseb

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Japan coverage

2011-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: If you have Comcast or other cable you may be able to watch TV Japan for earthquake coverage. It is a subscription channel but apparently will be unencrypted for this week. Here it is on channel 330 and the channel marked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola, mud...hmmm...which is which?

2011-03-13 Thread WillyTex
emptybill: You're professing like a rong-tong. No wonder that you assert that you don't exist. No wonder that you assert that nothing exists. It is just b.s. Willy. Go study shen-tong/zhentong maadhyama. Yer just a wrong-tong at this point. Well, I guess emptybill is just empty - no

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Enjoyable Evening In Holland

2011-03-13 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseb: This family is what you'd like to imagine Christians being like if Christians actually walked the walk of their talk. Funny, intelligent, charming, and without a hint of either prejudice or judgmentalism... So, did you tell the family that you were once a cult leader for Rama

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV Japan coverage

2011-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: snip Corrected URL: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release (Press releases from the company that runs the plants that are currently having such problems)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jagger vs. jaeger?

2011-03-13 Thread Ravi Yogi
Yeah used to be a pet peeve of mine, we have lot of Bhajans here at Ammachi Satsang and the older Bhajan books had poor transliteration causing Westerners lot of grief. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Quite often one sees Sanskrit long vowels ignored by

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote [from various posts; hopefully I am not scrambling his intent by this selection]: Part of the problem is there are entire swaths of our own mental landscape that we're not familiar with. In a mental technique, as awareness of mentation expands into other areas,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shit, shinola and Rong-Tong Willy

2011-03-13 Thread emptybill
Yep, like the Dalai Lama sez ... I'm just an eternally wandering bindu composed of prana and manas and I'm just drifting from body to body. But then he's a Rong-tong-pa and fer him it's all compost. Guess he's listening to you Willy. No self, No soul, No nutin' but nutin'. To bad fer me `cause I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy DST USA!

2011-03-13 Thread Bhairitu
On 03/13/2011 01:40 PM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: I don't live by clocks so I don't get disoriented at all. One thing they talked about this morning is because of cellphones fewer people have watches. I've noticed this. You of all

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: And more power to you. Insight's where you find it. The only way it might matter, it seems to me, would be if one gave special weight to channeled insights because of the purported source (which you're not doing), rather than

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Aikido Posting Experiment

2011-03-13 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:12 AM, turquoiseb wrote: Has maybe this whole topic brought up something for you that maybe you were trying to avoid in your own life, and therein lies the rub? Just wondering. There really seems to be no end to the going on and on about Barry. My point

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendence and Descriptive Language

2011-03-13 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: snip Spiritual development, call it what you will, seems directed to allowing a person to have a single irrefutable experience that settles the matter of the mystery of existence on the basis of their own