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[FairfieldLife] Shit Native New Yorkers Say
I remember back when I first moved to New York -- and from California, which is pretty much Zorba's full catastrophe. In my first week there, learning that I was a NYC Newbie, a woman in a bar told me two jokes that she introduced by saying that they'd help me understand where I was. Both turned out to be prophetic. In the first joke, a guy is walking down a busy New York street and someone stops him and says, Hey Buddy...you got a minute? Guy barely breaks stride, and says, Yeah, but I'm using it! The second joke was explaining the difference between New York and California. In California, the women say 'Fuck me, Fuck me.' In New York, they say 'Fuck you.' Anyway, this collection of Things Said On The Streets Of New York struck me as funny. Actual or artificial, spontaneous or scripted...doesn't matter. Just as with the two jokes, it captures the mindset. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/28/shit-native-new-yorkers-say_n_1239143.html
[FairfieldLife] Shit New Age Girls Say
Forwarded without comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOavbyDKSi0
[FairfieldLife] Shit Yogis Say
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMC1_RH_b3k
[FairfieldLife] Shit, shinola...hmmm...which is which?
I couldn't help but notice the Thoreau-like simplicity and humility of the Dalai Lama's recent announcement, and mentally compare both the message and the layout of the Web page to TMO pronouncements on their Websites. Compare and contrast the following pages, and do the feel test as to which one seems to reflect qualities you'd associate with compassion, egolessness, and what it might be like to be a fairly human human being, and which one...uh...you'd not associate with those qualities so much. The Dalai Lama's recent announcement of his intention to step down as political leader of Tibet-In-Exile, in favor of free elections: http://dalailama.com/news/post/655-statement-of-his-holiness-the-dalai-l\ ama-on-the-52nd-anniversary-of-the-tibetan-national-uprising-day http://dalailama.com/news/post/655-statement-of-his-holiness-the-dalai-\ lama-on-the-52nd-anniversary-of-the-tibetan-national-uprising-day Couldn't find a similar announcement by Da King...yet, but here's what his pronouncements look and feel like: http://www.vedicknowledge.com/nader.html http://www.vedicknowledge.com/nader.html Which personality seems more about ego and which feels more about egolessness? Which site uses designers with a color sense that could be described as 'subtle' and 'appropriate' and which hires designers whose work would be considered 'gaudy' in kindergarten classes? Which speaks in clear, plain English and which speaks in buzzwords that no one other than a pre-brainwashed elite would understand? Which seems in touch with the real world and which does not? Which uses language that seems to indicate that he cares about the people he leads and for all people, and which does not? Which is shinola and which is the real shit? You decide. Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the 52nd Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day March 10th 2011 Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the Tibetan people's peaceful uprising of 1959 against Communist China's repression in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, and the third anniversary of the non-violent demonstrations that took place across Tibet in 2008. On this occasion, I would like to pay tribute to and pray for those brave men and women who sacrificed their lives for the just cause of Tibet. I express my solidarity with those who continue to suffer repression and pray for the well-being of all sentient beings. For more than sixty years, Tibetans, despite being deprived of freedom and living in fear and insecurity, have been able to maintain their unique Tibetan identity and cultural values. More consequentially, successive new generations, who have no experience of free Tibet, have courageously taken responsibility in advancing the cause of Tibet. This is admirable, for they exemplify the strength of Tibetan resilience. This Earth belongs to humanity and the People's Republic of China (PRC) belongs to its 1.3 billion citizens, who have the right to know the truth about the state of affairs in their country and the world at large. If citizens are fully informed, they have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Censorship and the restriction of information violate basic human decency. For instance, China's leaders consider the communist ideology and its policies to be correct. If this were so, these policies should be made public with confidence and open to scrutiny. China, with the world's largest population, is an emerging world power and I admire the economic development it has made. It also has huge potential to contribute to human progress and world peace. But to do that, China must earn the international community's respect and trust. In order to earn such respect China's leaders must develop greater transparency, their actions corresponding to their words. To ensure this, freedom of expression and freedom of the press are essential. Similarly, transparency in governance can help check corruption. In recent years, China has seen an increasing number of intellectuals calling for political reform and greater openness. Premier Wen Jiabao has also expressed support for these concerns. These are significant indications and I welcome them. The PRC is a country comprising many nationalities, enriched by a diversity of languages and cultures. Protection of the language and culture of each nationality is a policy of the PRC, which is clearly spelt out in its constitution. Tibetan is the only language to preserve the entire range of the Buddha's teachings, including the texts on logic and theories of knowledge (epistemology), which we inherited from India's Nalanda University. This is a system of knowledge governed by reason and logic that has the potential to contribute to the peace and happiness of all beings. Therefore, the policy of undermining such a culture, instead of protecting and developing it, will in the long run amount to the destruction of humanity's common heritage. The Chinese government frequently states that stability and development in Tibet is the
Re: [FairfieldLife] Shit, shinola...hmmm...which is which?
On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:10 AM, turquoiseb wrote: I couldn't help but notice the Thoreau-like simplicity and humility of the Dalai Lama's recent announcement, and mentally compare both the message and the layout of the Web page to TMO pronouncements on their Websites. Compare and contrast the following pages, and do the feel test as to which one seems to reflect qualities you'd associate with compassion, egolessness, and what it might be like to be a fairly human human being, and which one...uh...you'd not associate with those qualities so much. The Dalai Lama's recent announcement of his intention to step down as political leader of Tibet-In-Exile, in favor of free elections: http://dalailama.com/news/post/655-statement-of-his-holiness-the- dalai-lama-on-the-52nd-anniversary-of-the-tibetan-national-uprising- day Couldn't find a similar announcement by Da King...yet, but here's what his pronouncements look and feel like: http://www.vedicknowledge.com/nader.html Which personality seems more about ego and which feels more about egolessness? Which site uses designers with a color sense that could be described as 'subtle' and 'appropriate' and which hires designers whose work would be considered 'gaudy' in kindergarten classes? Which speaks in clear, plain English and which speaks in buzzwords that no one other than a pre-brainwashed elite would understand? Which seems in touch with the real world and which does not? Which uses language that seems to indicate that he cares about the people he leads and for all people, and which does not? Which is shinola and which is the real shit? You decide. It used to be meditation consumers looking for a meditation method to chill with would look at what was out there and the most prominent contender, with glossy brochures and faux-research was TM, front and foremost, ready to sell. Now that's changing. TM has largely been exposed for what it is, along with it's founder. I recently changed physicians (old one is retiring) and picked a new one trained under Andrew Weil and an expert in Integrative Medicine. She passed on to me a number of recommendations, including the current integrative prescription for meditation. Part and parcel of that prescription is the now established fact that more compassionate minds are healthier for themselves and those around them. Less heart problems and a host of other benefits. TM is sometimes mentioned but is towards the bottom of the list. And I suspect modern meditation consumers will see right through the sattvic paste-on smile of the TM dweeb selling them their mantra with a load of quantum crapola. Consider the following list, from my physician: Practitioners of meditation may experience the following effects: Increased sense of self-determination and freedom, instead of feeling like a passive victim [i.e. unlike long-term TM followers] Less focus on self (own desires and needs) in exchange for enhanced love and compassion for others [less narcissistic rather than more narcisisstic] Deepening of spiritual life and religious experience [No need to relinquish your own life for a mythical but superior Vedic lifestyle]. With time and persistent practice, release of negative habits of grasping, desire, aversion, anger, and fear [beyond end of world fear scenarios] Feeling of oneness and connection increasing in frequency and duration [actual expansion of consciousness rather than nurturing delusions and psychological disorders] Allocentric meditation is in, narcissistic meditation methods and groups are passe. The world depends on it. TM, is on it's way out.
[FairfieldLife] Shit-eaters Inc (Re: FFL used to be such an intelligent ... )
TB - I did not expect a reply. Now that I have one, a tome the size of the Old Testament I don't need to read. Why? The length of your reply makes me realize I just perfected my art of shadba marma, i.e. how to kill an enemy by delivering sounds that goes to work on certain of his (or hers) esoteric nerve centers - in your case the muscles controlling your lower abdomen. You may not have realized it, but you are dying from literal diarrhea. The only known cure to this condition is to re-digest your shiite, hoping that there's is left some nourishment in the brown stuff you're chewing on. Doing so shouldnät be a problem - looking at your postings so far, I give the impression of having actualyl acquired a taste for human chocolate. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replying, but out of sequence: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, peterklutz peterklutz@ wrote: Before the adrenaline-surge hits your brain this time, and your hands attack your keyboard, do yourself a favor and presuppose that this post is written in earnest and then internalize it. Peter, in all honesty when I read your post I wasn't planning to reply AT ALL until I got to this last part, and realized that you desperately WANTED a reply. Then I remembered that you had actually replied to a post of mine yesterday without acting like a crazy, and realized that I owed you one, so here goes...a reply to the only things in your post I can possibly think of a reply to: Reflections: (1) Like everything else in the non-absolute reality of life, your argument works both ways - and may just as equally be applied to you and Vaj. In my view more appropriately so because you and Vaj usually strike first. An interesting point. I cannot speak for Vaj, but my suggestion to you is to do a search of my posts for the last few months (say since the beginning of the year) and repost here the ones in which I directly attack Maharishi, TM, TMers as a group (as opposed to individual TMers I might criticize as nut cases because...uh...they're acting like nut cases), etc. It is my perception that many on this forum who keep posting that all Barry does is attack these things are living in their own minds and in the past. That said, I readily admit to striking first against *individual* posters here who, in my opinion, are acting in a manner that reflects badly not only on TM and that tradition, but on ALL spiritual trad- itions. Sometimes I strike first by taunting them and pushing their buttons, SO THAT they will react by going a little crazy and revealing to even more people the extent of their craziness. At other times I strike first by poking fun at these individuals -- laughing uproariously at them and inviting others here to join in the laughter. I do this SO THAT more people *will* laugh at these people, and in the hope that someday a few of them might learn to laugh at themselves. What is meant by strike first? There is a principle in the martial arts, that whoever strikes first loses. Because to strike at another takes you off your center, re-your imbalance, and opens you up. With all due respect, it sounds as if you have read more about the martial arts than you have practiced them. Anyone who believes that to strike (or strike first) one has to go off balance just hasn't spent much time in a dojo or on the contest mats. The impulse that pushes you to take action, to strike out at another, takes you down the path of a specific energy, a specific possibility - and takes you out of the place of all possibilities. So you're saying that by choosing one possibility (the path, for example, of poking fun at someone silly so that others will laugh at them...definitely a form of attack), one has been taken out of the place of all possibilities? Well, Ok, I guess, but one could make the case that by choosing *any* possibility one has *equally* taken oneself out of the place of all possibilities. Only by remaining as inactive as a turnip can one choose no specific possibility from the pool of all possibilities. A master warrior knows that as soon as you feel that desire come up, and then yield to it and let it turn into action, you've already lost. Found at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/108709 Oh. No WONDER you're confused. You're basing your view of what martial arts is about on the writings of Michael Dean Goodman. Well duh. What's HE going to do as a martial artist -- TALK you to death? A guy comes up to him in a bar and starts to pick a fight and in response Michael sits down and writes out a 7,000-word essay and flings it at him? :-) (2) The only way to truly externalize this dance between object, subject and the process of their mutual cognition/ interaction (during which they tint and transform each other, which you
