[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-08-01 Thread authfriend
Ann, I wish I had written this incisive analysis. You have done the impossible: You have actually managed to nail Jell-O to the wall. Deep bow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: Thanks for taking the time to re-answer this. I was originally asking the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-08-01 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend wrote: Ann, I wish I had written this incisive analysis. You have done the impossible: You have actually managed to nail Jell-O to the wall. Deep bow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@ wrote: Thanks

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-08-01 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: Thanks for taking the time to re-answer this. I was originally asking the Almighty Barry for his feedback but I appreciate yours. Let's see if I can make any sense of it and, in turn, offer something that appeals to your

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-31 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
---awoelflebater wrote (July 27): Teacher, teacher, my hand is up, pick me. *What can you say about the button pushers of the world? Probably not much. Because the human nervous system responds to situations in a stimulus response pattern, basically all our activity revolves around button

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: ---awoelflebater wrote (July 27): Teacher, teacher, my hand is up, pick me. *What can you say about the button pushers of the world? Probably not much. Right you are. But then, she wasn't asking

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: ---awoelflebater wrote (July 27): Teacher, teacher, my hand is up, pick me. *What can you say about the button pushers of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-31 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: ---awoelflebater wrote (July 27): Teacher, teacher,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-31 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: ---awoelflebater wrote (July 27): Teacher,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-31 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-31 Thread Ann
Thanks for taking the time to re-answer this. I was originally asking the Almighty Barry for his feedback but I appreciate yours. Let's see if I can make any sense of it and, in turn, offer something that appeals to your sensibility. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-31 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-26 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: (snip) If someone -- anyone -- can push your buttons and get you to react to them, over something -- anything -- then they OWN your ass, and you aren't *nearly* as spiritual or evolved as you think you are. Awful lot of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-26 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: Buddhists, like neo- and pseudo-Hindus, often get tangled up in issues or questions that are *all in their heads* -- questions without answers, essentially ways to waste time and waste one's life pondering things they'll

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-26 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Buddhists, like neo- and pseudo-Hindus, often get tangled up in issues or questions that are *all in their heads* -- questions without answers,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-26 Thread Ann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: Buddhists, like neo- and pseudo-Hindus, often get tangled

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Is reactivity the most unevolved human characteristic?

2013-07-26 Thread Ravi Chivukula
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Ann awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ann awoelflebater@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb