Re: [FairfieldLife] Movie Time

2014-08-24 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com   I rented Transcendence last night on Blu-ray. Thought it was rather flat. It's like they had a hard time figuring out a concept for the film. It is NOT BTW, a pro-Singularity movie. I've also been

[FairfieldLife] Willin'

2014-08-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm back in Leiden but still on vacation. Meaning that this time the frosty, almost (dare I say it?) spiritual Road Trip Mindset I always get while on vacation didn't go away when I stepped off the road. In a weird way, it's like experiencing hours of deep, thoughtless samadhi while meditating,

[FairfieldLife] For Salyavin

2014-08-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A long read, but one that provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of -- and perils of -- trying to be a scientist in this increasingly unscientific age. The Aftershocks               The Aftershocks Seven of Italy’s top scientists were convicted of manslaughter after a catastrophic

[FairfieldLife] Live Nude Cabaret

2014-08-25 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A fairly new song by an old favorite wordsmith of mine, Jackson Browne. He has a new album coming out soon, as does Leonard Cohen. I've already pre-ordered both. In my experience, old poets can either just get old and frayed as they age, like socks, or they can get better, like wine. I'm

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Live Nude Cabaret

2014-08-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I always loved Jackson Browne. I used to see him perform at the Troubadour in L.A. on open mic night back in the 60s, painfully shy and almost ashamed of his own voice, preferring other singers' cover versions of his songs to his own. There is a great moment in the recent documentary on The

Re: [FairfieldLife] Guru

2014-08-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 11:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Guru  

[FairfieldLife] The TMO Disease: Hypochondria

2014-08-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I've been staying out of the Alternative Therapies free-for-all for a number of reasons. First, it's been done to death here before, so the whole faux outrage thing has a decidedly been there, done that, don't need to do it again vibe to it. Second, possibly because I bailed from the TMO early,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Asians?

2014-08-26 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mjackson74@... wrote : How can these guys be called Asians, Sal? Ethnicity, they're big on it over here.  We are all subdivided to make sure officials aren't discriminating against anyone but I wish they'd

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sally Kempton: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 08/26/2014

2014-08-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nice graphic. Is that new? From: 'Rick Archer' r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com; fairfieldc...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 6:41 PM Subject:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sally Kempton: New Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump - 08/26/2014

2014-08-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sweet, Rick. Just the kinda place I'd like to pull in to top up while on a Road Trip. In my mind I envision encountering this place after pulling off the road in some gawdawful Nowhere in the middle of the Northwestern New Mexico desert, miles from the nearest town, and finding it to be (to my

Gettin' Into Dodge (was Re: [FairfieldLife] Sally Kempton: New Interview)

2014-08-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
sought comfort there found some. I certainly did, and I didn't even partake of the merchandise. :-) From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent

Re: Gettin' Into Dodge (was Re: [FairfieldLife] Sally Kempton: New Interview)

2014-08-27 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
visited Fairfield I flew into Iowa City and staying overnight at a hotel by the airport looked in the phone directory to see what the local entertainment was.  Prominently listed was a gentleman's club.   On 08/27/2014 12:10 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:   OK

Re: [FairfieldLife] Attack of the killer robots!

2014-08-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You also can't stop cluelessness. Just the other day my brother discovered this list on Wikipedia of all the companies so lacking in social awareness, irony, or shame that they named their products Skynet. WTF, dudes. Didn't you *see* the Terminator movies? Don't you *understand* how pissed off

Re: [FairfieldLife] Out-evolving the amygdala!

2014-08-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This really is exciting stuff -- being able to hack the brain on a physical level to change the emotional component that we *attach* to a memory or an experience. There is nothing inherently good, bad, happy-making, or fear-making about the memory or experience itself; our reaction is based on

[FairfieldLife] The Future Foretold: That Man In Rio

2014-08-28 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For some reason, there is a revival goin' on lately of a 1964 film that I loved dearly when it came out. Newly-restored prints of this film are being shown in New York, Paris, and London, and people of note are coming out of their respective celluloid closets and talking about how much this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Embodied experience?

2014-08-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Card, I don't know what your sister is into, but it doesn't sound to me as if either of you understands what synesthesia is. That's what happens when information perceived by one sense triggers a simultaneous perception in another, unrelated sense but with no direct input that could cause this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Searching Re: Post Count Fri 29-Aug-14 00:15:05 UTC

2014-08-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Hey Buck, there are websites where Yahoo users complain about Neo, and list things not fixed. I have noticed that they seem to be taking certain functions offline, and then put them back, possibly an attempt to fix

Re: [FairfieldLife] More cool brain stuff...

2014-08-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : Consciousness is the field. Simply put, no objects exist independently of their being known Believe what you like, I'm not religious. You have to admit, though...Willy's statement

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Ganesh Chaturthi !

2014-08-29 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Happy birthday, Michael. May your metaphorical...uh...trunk of power ever be perky and ready for action. :-) From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where is Barry Wright?

2014-08-30 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com He has been on vacation. But FFL seems to have gone mostly to fluff lately, with a lot of short spammy twinkie brain posts so there is not much to read here any more, no discussions of any substance. Well, I think

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Where is Barry Wright?

2014-08-30 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: dmevans...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Yep. Interesting what has happened. The limits were removed. Wham. Almost immediately, Richard and Share ushered the forum into its evolution as a chat room - characterized as all are by a preponderence of

[FairfieldLife] Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

2014-08-31 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Even though I'm not a big fan of the comic book/graphic novel genre, or movies made from them, I loved the original Sin City. It look the look and feel of Frank Miller's dark, twisted world and rendered it onscreen faithfully. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For continues the tradition. It is rated So

[FairfieldLife] More brain zapping stuff

2014-09-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Following up on Salyavin's post about neuroscientists being able to zap brains with blue light to create more positive emotional associations with memories and thus treat PTSD, here's another article showing that this brain-zapping psychiatry stuff now seems to be a trend. I'm not sure how I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More brain zapping stuff

2014-09-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Following up on Salyavin's post about neuroscientists being able to zap brains with blue light to create more positive emotional associations with memories and thus treat PTSD, here's

Re: [FairfieldLife] 600 HP car runs on salt water

2014-09-01 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is one serious presentation. I really don't know what to make of it. It could be one of the great breakthroughs of our century, or it could be a put-on. And of course if it's for real the big question for all but supercar buyers is What is that *second* electrolyte solution the car runs

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New FFL Rule, was where is what's his name?

2014-09-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com If she who shall not be named wants to be anonymous, she should not post here with a subscription tied to her real name. As much as I like said person, her demands for anonymity under a non-anonymous

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New FFL Rule, was where is what's his name?

2014-09-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : From: j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com If she who shall not be named wants to be anonymous, she should not post here with a subscription tied to her

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: New FFL Rule, was where is what's his name?

2014-09-02 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com As for me, I don't have the time or patience to deal with FFL management beyond what I'm doing right now. My beloved has been in poor health for the past year, and my days are filled with her pain and

[FairfieldLife] WTF - For Rick

2014-09-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
A friend who used to post here sent this short reaction to dropping by FFL for a look today to me in email. I thought it was worth sharing with the forum: No wonder I never bother looking in. Tex is outta control! Or maybe it’s just that there is no “there” there anymore. Tex’s eruptions are

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: WTF - For Rick

2014-09-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jedi_sp...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To flood the forum like a huge dump truck is clearly malicious intent. I think he's gone totally nuts. For those whose brains are so atrophied from the practice of TM that they cannot do math, so far this week Richard

[FairfieldLife] Overposting = DoS

2014-09-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Some who have avoided the common TM malady of having brain matter the consistency of the lightness of cotton fiber :-) may have heard of DoS -- a Denial of Service attack. That's where hackers and other social perverts use technological means to keep users of a popular site from contacting that

[FairfieldLife] Burning Man 2014, by Mark Morford

2014-09-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
While all of you highly-evolved, oh-so-special people were here trying to piss on each other and declare the things YOU believe the only TRUE beliefs on earth, 66,000 more highly-evolved and FAR more grounded folks created a city in the desert, for fun, and then disassembled it and went away.

[FairfieldLife] MIU Promo Video 1981

2014-09-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The shock is not how incredibly brainwashed these people are as they parrot buzzphrases and display absolutely no individuality whatsoever. The shock is that 34 years later people still think like this and talk like this, some of them here on this very forum.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For Ann, was For Rick

2014-09-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I wish I could find a non-Facebook version of this video to post. With this one, you probably can't see it unless you have a FB account. Too bad, if that's true. It's a perfect re-enactment of the Willytex-Salyavin championship fight below. Willytex postures, but Sal delivers the goods. :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MIU Promo Video 1981

2014-09-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Dr. Pete, who commented on this video on Facebook today (where I saw it, because he's a FB Friend of mine), seems to agree more with my characterization of these people as brainwashed than he agrees with yours. Sure, they were young, idealistic, and inspired. They were *also* brainwashed,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MIU Promo Video 1981

2014-09-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: feste37 no_re...@yahoogroups.com You're cherry-picking the comments. Have another look and you'll see many positive ones. There was nothing sinister or cult-like in the fact that the University provided an intellectual framework in which students could have some understanding of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MIU Promo Video 1981

2014-09-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
of his students. :-) From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 4, 2014 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MIU Promo Video

Re: [FairfieldLife] Philip K rolls over in his grave

2014-09-04 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I've had it for some time but have never been able to get past the first few minutes and watch it. It's been in production for a really, really, really long time (I first started hearing about it over five years ago), and that often means a movie that has been made but is so terrible they can't

Re: [FairfieldLife] The invention of telepathy. Sort of....

2014-09-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This morning I logged into Yahoo and, as has become my morning ritual, deleted 70 posts from Richard, Steve, Share, Ann, Nabby, Jim, and Dan without opening them. Out of curiosity, I then did a string search on the folder containing these deleted posts, and found that my name or ID was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: For Salya

2014-09-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I just *knew* there was a reason to keep reading FFL, when most evidence would suggest otherwise... :-) From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ... Consider this. Once, when I was a newbie meditator with no involvement with the movement and no knowledge

[FairfieldLife] Win-Win

2014-09-05 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think I reached a cusp with regard to my participation in this tiny frog pond in cyberspace we call Fairfield Life recently, during my vacation in France and after returning to Leiden. As I've said before, due to the overposting of a few and the Duh! quotient of a few others, I realized that

[FairfieldLife] Flow State, captured on film

2014-09-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For those who have never had a creative outlet that allowed them to completely lose themselves in the creative process, here's what it looks like. Glenn Gould In Rapture Glenn Gould In Rapture You don't get to see this too often: a man (in this case, a very talented man)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Milky-Way is on the outskirts of Laniakea supercluster

2014-09-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: jedi_sp...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Our galaxy Milky-Way is on the outskirts of a massive supercluster called Laniakea, which consists of 100,000 large galaxies. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/03/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Short History of TMer Newsgroups, Part 1

2014-09-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: wgm4u no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 12:57 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: A Short History of TMer Newsgroups, Part 1 At first I though Judy was a 'plant' by the tmorg to defend MMY and the TMO's reputation, then I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reading or Not Reading Posts

2014-09-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 2:38 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reading or Not Reading Posts ...Barry, Michael, others basically bring to light here people's samskaras, to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reading or Not Reading Posts

2014-09-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] I enjoy Barry's and Michael's posts because they dredge up conditioned responses. Like how people react when they've been told that they've been dumped, and are neither interesting nor intelligent enough to ever pay any

[FairfieldLife] Judgemental, yes. Hilariously spot-on, also yes.

2014-09-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
http://judgmentalmaps.com/post/78473663186/losangeles

Re: [FairfieldLife] I Want to Publicly Thank s3erifina

2014-09-06 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com We live in South Carolina - daughter is 14 and her mother had a mandatory guidance counselor meeting with student, parent and counselor. The idea was to try to give the kids some sense of direction in

[FairfieldLife] Why you can't trust your own perception

2014-09-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
How many triangles do you see in this image? The correct answer is None. http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/design-technology/kanisza-triangle-you-cant-believe-your-eyes/

[FairfieldLife] Interesting article about the origins of religion

2014-09-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
One that brings up the question: What if Maharishi's insistence on the value of doing TMSP in groups had nothing *whatsoever* to do with the supposed effects that the group was supposedly creating, either for the participants or for the world. What if it was always just about getting people to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why you can't trust your own perception

2014-09-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Cool class experiment. I should remember to try it around my artist friends. Would they be less likely to see red in a color only close to it on the spectrum, or more likely? I have a natural fascination for this stuff, you must understand, because I have had a number of perceptions that it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why you can't trust your own perception

2014-09-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Cool class experiment. I should remember to try it around my artist friends. Would they be less likely to see red in a color only close to it on the spectrum, or more likely? You'll have

[FairfieldLife] Yoga Mat For Sale

2014-09-07 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Guy Posts 'Yoga Mat For Sale' Ad On Craigslist. This Is Hilarious. Guy Posts 'Yoga Mat For Sale' Ad On Craigslist. This Is ... Click To Enlarge View on www.tickld.com Preview by Yahoo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why you can't trust your own perception

2014-09-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Cool class experiment. I should remember to try it around my artist friends. Would they be less likely to see red

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why you can't trust your own perception

2014-09-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
trust your own perception On 09/07/2014 01:47 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: How many triangles do you see in this image? The correct answer is None. http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/design-technology/kanisza-triangle-you-cant-believe-your

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Interview with Sam Harris at the New York Times opinionator: there is no self

2014-09-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Good article, I get an idea of where he's coming from. Nothing to do with mystic woo woo at all. In fact, he's a man after my own heart. Mine, too. He manages to bring concepts that most people get all hazy and Woo Woo about into crystal clarity.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jack the Ripper unmasked!

2014-09-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It's funny...I had exactly the same response, wondering how many people who have *seriously* invested in claiming that they have *the* solution for who the Ripper was will find some way to deny this. Science, after all, is no match for True Believerism. :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jack the Ripper unmasked!

2014-09-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
. Will Benny Creme deny the validity of DNA evidence if it contradicts his (imaginary) Masters? Only time will tell. In the meanwhile, here are some other non-scientific theories: From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jack the Ripper unmasked!

2014-09-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : It's funny...I had exactly the same response, wondering how many people who have *seriously* invested in claiming that they have *the* solution for who the Ripper was will find some way to

[FairfieldLife] My Sense Of Humor

2014-09-08 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Be warned... :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY

2014-09-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think I've figured out what this is all about. It's not about the event. There's never actually going to ever BE an event, either live or streamed. It's all about gathering the names and email addresses of those who RSVP. What this is is a brilliant scam to generate the Ultimate Spam List Of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY

2014-09-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com Everybody be like: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jNwjOksqJQk/UTuWKhdSG7I/AIc/7ShPOljGM0Y/s1600/cm-47778-0510a9f8f4a84d.gif View on 3.bp.blogspot.com Preview by Yahoo Funny. And even funnier because you just *know* that

Re: [FairfieldLife] 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY

2014-09-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It was a JOKE, Alex. Of course, if they *were* collecting email addresses, they could do so easily without providing any kind of space on a form in which to type one -- press the RSVP button, and the system automatically knows your email ID. Duh. I was just riffing on the utter STUPIDITY

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY

2014-09-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY I doubt the Movement

Re: [FairfieldLife] 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY

2014-09-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: 'Rick Archer' r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:11 PM Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY Funny that Jerry is involved in this. Jerry is famous

[FairfieldLife] Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't enlightened

2014-09-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
OK, it was kinda inevitable that *somebody* would come along claiming to be able to pass along Maharishi's messages from beyond the grave. I'm surprised that it hasn't happened before now. The thing I'm confused about is how anyone who claims to believe that *by his own standards and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY

2014-09-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
For the record, Edg, I get that your post is intended to be at least partly funny, and riffs off of stuff that only we Old School TMer Old Farts could ever be really interested in. And it made me laugh a few times. But just so you understand, my first post in this thread really *was* a joke.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't enlightened

2014-09-09 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't

Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Ideal India, Lighthouse of Peace on Earth' by Maharishi ~ Excerpt

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As you often do, Rick, you posted this without comment. So what do YOU think of this quote? To me it's one of the clearest revelations of Maharishi's often-hidden Hindu Supremacy agenda ever. Not to mention his superstition and devotion to Woo Woo. Secularism is bad, but devatas and yagyas

Re: [FairfieldLife] Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't enlightened

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
think he would see. Me, I'd go for both/and -- Maharishi was WRONG about what happens after dying in enlightenment AND he was never enlightened. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reading or Not Reading Posts

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] What I was implying was, say someone is extremely passive, a spiritual type, and you really bore down on him with taunts and insults etc., that person may just suddenly explode at you because you have triggered some normally

[FairfieldLife] Tapas

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No, not that silly practice that wannabee yogis perform when they want to feel all self-important for abstaining from doing something they'd rather be doing than abstaining from. Tapas, the cuisine from Spain. I felt like having some today, and fortunately in Leiden one can find pretty much any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Has Rick decided to kill the Group? (Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't enlightened)

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
In all seriousness, I suspect that Rick has done exactly that. He really doesn't seem to even notice that the group has developed a couple of mentally unbalanced types whose highest goal in life seems to be to post the most. Or that other people on the forum are actually encouraging them

[FairfieldLife] Advaitan self inquiry, as performed by Cheech and Chong

2014-09-10 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Self? Self's not here, man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nxK_hGLTN4feature=youtu.be :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Important Question for Sal

2014-09-11 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Alright Sal, we all know that in a few days the Scots will vote on whether or not to form their own country. Now forget all the nonsense about whether the country will prosper by itself. The real

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sam Harris Book

2014-09-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I've been away in Amsterdam for a bit, but while there found this book myself. I'm enjoying it a great deal. Not having read Sam Harris' books before (only many of his online articles or interviews), I'm finding that I really like his writing style. And not just the clarity of it...I really

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sam Harris Book

2014-09-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: waybac...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com It was delivered to my doorstep the other day and just a few pages I enjoy his writing style - he is clear and articulate and really nails things. I will read it this weekend. And Barry, as you know, he says there is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sam Harris Book

2014-09-12 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com I've been working on taxes today and had to delay continuing with the book, but the clarity is welcome after the lax mental sprawl that has become FFL of late. Harris really has a gift for organising material. If you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: My anger is my proof

2014-09-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't read any of 7th ray's posts any more, so I don't know what he might have said, but I sure recognize the vibe you're discussing. Something happened at some point and he became really nasty. I've written him off. From: waybac...@yahoo.com

[FairfieldLife] Good quote from Sam Harris' new book passed along from a former FFL poster

2014-09-13 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Seems like everybody's reading this book, except the people here on FFL who assume they already know everything and don't need to, that is. :-) This is a great quote that I'll pass along because 1) my friend already did all the typing so I don't have to, and 2) I love the simple and perfect

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi keeps his promises (was Why MMY's Bhagavad Gita will never be a classic.

2014-09-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] My read folder Ann, contains certain posters who tend to not just post one liners or irrelevant comments. Edg is in the read post. Another criterion for this folder is a person does not post excessively. As you now have

[FairfieldLife] A whole scifi film in 14 minutes 30 seconds...

2014-09-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
...and better than most films that take 2+ hours to watch: Today's Must-Watch Short Film: 'Entangled,' From One Of The Writers Of 'Orphan Black' Today's Must-Watch Short Film: 'Entangled,' From One Of... Do we love sci-fi? Yeah, we do. But admitting our personal bias is the

[FairfieldLife] Rumours Of Glory

2014-09-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I recently wrote positively about a book that hadn't come out yet, my review more of an intuition than anything else, just gettin' a hit on how cool an upcoming book was going to be. That book was Sam Harris' Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion, and it now seems to be being read

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good quote from Sam Harris' new book passed along from a former FFL poster

2014-09-14 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Steve, You do need to pay attention to what other people say about enlightenment, otherwise there are no markers as to whether you have made progress or not. But then, who has the 'right' markers? There are lots of

[FairfieldLife] Waking Up - the art of pitching meditation to skeptics

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I finished Sam Harris' new book, and am up for discussing any parts of it with people here who have also read the book. It should go without saying that in addition to the folks whose posts I never read period (none of whom are likely to have the attention span or humility to read this book

[FairfieldLife] Sam Harris on choosing a guru :-)

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
So how does one of the world's great atheists and opponents of religion discuss the concept of gurus? Pretty well, actually, probably because he's been exposed to more of them than most people on this forum. Having realized that he was advising people to learn how to meditate and thus

[FairfieldLife] Mindfulness practice on FFL

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There was one section of Sam Harris' new book that resonated with me, because it described a type of mindfulness I've found myself practicing lately in the context of FFL -- screening out anger, so as no longer having to deal with that low mindstate, and get sucked into it. What he wrote was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris on choosing a guru :-)

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : So how does one of the world's great atheists and opponents of religion discuss the concept of gurus? Pretty well, actually, probably because he's been exposed to more of them than most

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris on choosing a guru :-)

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com those who, while still human, seemed to possess so much compassion and clarity of mind that they were nearly flawless examples of the benefits of spiritual practice Name them please. Read the book. Or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sam Harris on choosing a guru :-)

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
with guileless innocence seems like a recipe for disaster. From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:54 AM Subject

Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Great find, Geez. It's quite an experience watching this and listening to Maharishi and many people I know personally, just after reading Sam Harris' new book. Bevan's so insane it hurts to look at him. I love the Australian announcer's way of putting things...it's very dry and witty and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Book Reviews

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The Bible reviews made my day. :-) From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com; Yahoo! Groups no_re...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,

[FairfieldLife] This looks like THE film event of the year

2014-09-16 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Almost makes me want to be in New York to attend. Almost. :-) New York Film Fest: Top-Secret Edward Snowden Doc Added to Lineup New York Film Fest: Top-Secret Edward Snowden Doc A... The New York Film Festival is entering its 52nd year, but never before, in its long and rich

Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Excellent find, prison boy! That reporter came in all arrogant, and muck-raking, wanting to do his hit piece, and Maharishi tells him basically to fuck off, and leave the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendentalism: Established in Being, live your life

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5@... wrote : Om, there's a town here full of old meditators who meditate and who don't have a relationship with the TM movement. Lot of meditators would say, Yes I am a meditator but not that.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Re I found it quite entertaining but this is not serious journalism. It's a hatchet job, anyone can see that. I thought Bevan handled the reporter's questions very well, actually. : Yes, it's a hostile interview but

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Bevan Morris comes across as a one-man circle jerk. This has my vote for FFL One-Liner Of The Month. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Elsewhere in cult news...

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't know whether anyone here noticed the recent U2 debacle, but it's worth paying attention to. I've liked some of their music and not liked other of their music, just like everyone else, but while doing so it has not escaped my attention that the members of the band are all pretty strong

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com From: s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Bevan Morris comes across as a one-man circle jerk. This has my vote for FFL One-Liner Of The Month. :-) In fact, I hereby

Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over

2014-09-17 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Established in Being, let anger take over Yep, a hack. He came in dismissive and ignorant of the material

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