[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-03-09 Thread nablusoss1008
Purusha was fully operative in January 1982. Stationed in Germany and Holland it took us 7 years to bring down the Berlin wall. Montsanto ? It's already doomed.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-03-09 Thread authfriend
Do you not want readers to know what post you're responding to? That's the only reason I can think of why you wouldn't click Show message history. One mouse click, that's all it takes, yet you refuse to extend us that very simple courtesy. Purusha was fully operative in January 1982.

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2014-03-09 Thread Michael Jackson
miserable falling apart from its own weight. On Sun, 3/9/14, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, March 9, 2014, 6

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-03-09 Thread salyavin808
7 years! Wow, instant results. Almost too much time to draw a target round the arrow - but not quite. I guess anything good that happens after a purusha group is set up can be claimed as a hit. Anything badnot claimed of course. I love the use of the word stationed, it's like you

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-03-09 Thread anartaxius
As Bhairitu mentioned ' With the advent of computers and the Internet we can grow plenty of crops without them being genetically modified though the GMO crops are modified for one thing: profit.' The companies are now moving into technology, using sensors etc., on tractors and farm equipment to

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-03-09 Thread steve.sundur
Strange to me how someone could be so impervious to a simple, common sense suggestion. He has it stuck in his mind that it is a simple matter to go back and follow the discussion. His postings must be totally drive by and reactive. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend@...

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2014-03-09 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 3/9/2014 5:00 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote: His postings must be totally drive by and reactive. Maybe he knows nobody cares so he just posts whatever comes to his mind at the time. I don't need to see a history because I already know what he is going to post when I see his name. You

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2014-01-24 Thread Share Long
Seraph, one hears all sorts of interesting spiritual tidbits when one lives in FF. The tidbits are as if floating in the air, swimming in the puddles of melting snow, etc. I don't remember that there was an explanation but it made sense to me given that the feminine is the receptive in the

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2014-01-24 Thread doctordumbass
Also, and more importantly, I believe that a woman takes on a man's karma when they have intercourse. Sounds like pure 24 karat bullshit, to me, derived from sexual repression, and a desire to escape the mundane existence of a dull nervous system. No offense.:-) Before Awakening,

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-23 Thread s3raphita
Re Share's Also, and more importantly, I believe that a woman takes on a man's karma when they have intercourse.: That's an intriguing speculation. Where have you encountered that suggestion before? (And why shouldn't a man take on a woman's karma when a couple make love?) Of course, the

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-22 Thread dhamiltony2k5
As the transcendental meditators generally arrived in Fairfield, Iowa during the mid and late 1970's and throughout the 1980's the Fairfield group meditations then were large and inclusive of the whole TM meditating community. The group meditations once facilitated in the 1980's by the TM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-22 Thread Jason
Barry Wrote: But then AIDS came along. And suddenly the old fears came with them. And the world changed again, but this time in a more restrictive, more fearful direction. --- awoelflebater@... wrote: I think much of the fear around AIDS has faded away and I think a lot of this has to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-22 Thread Jason
--- doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: I think absent any social codes, the difference in sexual promiscuity between males and females comes down to consequences. Prior to birth control, if a female had sex with a male, she could be literally burdened with offspring. Not so for the male.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-19 Thread doctordumbass
I think absent any social codes, the difference in sexual promiscuity between males and females comes down to consequences. Prior to birth control, if a female had sex with a male, she could be literally burdened with offspring. Not so for the male. Add in the greater physical strength of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: I think absent any social codes, the difference in sexual promiscuity between males and females comes down to consequences. Prior to birth control, if a female had sex with a male, she could be literally burdened with offspring. Not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-19 Thread awoelflebater
Barry Wrote: But then AIDS came along. And suddenly the old fears came with them. And the world changed again, but this time in a more restrictive, more fearful direction. I think much of the fear around AIDS has faded away and I think a lot of this has to do with the passage of

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2014-01-19 Thread Share Long
Ann, years ago in a communications class I learned that young people in certain ways feel invincible, like they will never die. Consequently ads against drinking and driving that featured a skeleton did not have any impact. So they changed to ads saying *friends don't let friends drive drunk*

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2014-01-19 Thread Share Long
Seraph, I would say that if a culture is putting women on a pedestal, look more deeply and one will find someplace where that same culture is also demonizing and or discounting the feminine. The pedestal is merely overcompensation imo. I have come to the conclusion that in general deification

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-19 Thread doctordumbass
Yeah, good points. The AIDS thing is quite a mind-fuck, having a fatal, largely incurable disease, emerge in the West, in the last quarter, of a century, that saw the virtual eradication of cholera, typhus, diphtheria, polio, and many other once fatal and crippling diseases.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-18 Thread Jason
--- s3raphita wrote: The line I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code was copied over (by Yahoo not me!) from a post by Jason. I don't advocate any dress codes. Jason can defend that view if he wishes. --- TurquoiseB turquoiseb@ wrote: Just in case

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-18 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jedi_spock@... wrote: --- s3raphita wrote: The line I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code was copied over (by Yahoo not me!) from a post by Jason. I don't advocate any dress codes. Jason can defend that view if he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-18 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Yep, out of balance fucking and gone fucking too far Over-Secularization; Heck, we're talking bad upbringing that allows for all this destructive spirituality of ill-disciplined over-sexualization. What are parents thinking when they let their offspring dress like they do? A lot of children

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-18 Thread Jason
It's a paradox. Capitalism drives innovation and works well for the economic system. But, the same capitalism also has a destructive effect on the Political system and a destructive effect on the Cultural system. One of the major challenges for any modern civilisation is to insulate and protect

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-18 Thread s3raphita
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. - Bertrand Russell The human race has emerged from prehistory and has developed its culture for millennia but we're still

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-18 Thread s3raphita
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. - Bertrand Russell The human race has emerged from prehistory and has developed its culture for millennia but we're still

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2014-01-16 Thread Share Long
Fascinating, Richard and I appreciate how you show the connections among Wicca and tantra and shamanism and siddhis. On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:08 AM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:   On 1/14/2014 6:46 AM, Share Long wrote: All women have some witch in them One

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-15 Thread s3raphita
Re make it count on more than one level.: I guess actors have an excuse for doing some serious workouts . . . You're casting the role of Achilles in Troy. You've got a choice between Charles Hawtrey . . . . . . or Brad Pitt. How long do you want to think about it?

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2014-01-14 Thread doctordumbass
In most cases,with all that long, grey hair, they look to me, as if they can't wait to get home, to push Hansel and Gretel into the oven. Natural color is natural, but trimming the split ends, using a conditioner, and styling the cut, is my vast preference for women's grey or silver hair. As

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2014-01-14 Thread Share Long
And don't you forget it, Doc! All women have some witch in them cackle cackle. Of course witch comes from the same root as wise and many witches were herbalists and midwives and thus called up before The Inquisition and tortured and burned to death or drowned, etc. Go figure! On Tuesday,

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2014-01-14 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/14/2014 6:17 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote: Sincerely, Doctor Dumbass, style consultant, and inveterate loudmouth So, you informants ARE interested in what people wear. LoL!!!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-14 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: And don't you forget it, Doc! All women have some witch in them cackle cackle. Of course witch comes from the same root as wise and many witches were herbalists and midwives and thus called up before The Inquisition and tortured and burned

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2014-01-14 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/14/2014 7:14 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: All women have some witch in them cackle cackle. Of course witch comes from the same root as wise and many witches were herbalists and midwives and thus called up before The Inquisition and tortured and burned to death or drowned, etc. Go figure! */A

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2014-01-14 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/14/2014 6:46 AM, Share Long wrote: All women have some witch in them One physical existence of Materia Mater - Mother Nature, (not to deny the existence of the Sky Gods, Gauda, etc.) Wicca in a nutshell: the ability to cause change at will. Henotheism is the worship of one God, Mother

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2014-01-14 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: In most cases,with all that long, grey hair, they look to me, as if they can't wait to get home, to push Hansel and Gretel into the oven. Natural color is natural, but trimming the split ends, using a conditioner, and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-14 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: And don't you forget it, Doc! All women have some witch in them cackle cackle. Of course witch comes from the same root as wise and many witches were herbalists and

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2014-01-14 Thread doctordumbass
Its a funny (not really) thing, to see, as men in our culture, become softer and softer, they compensate with these ridiculous masculine stereotypes. The last accountant I saw on some game show, looked like a lifer in a maximum security prison. In 20 or 30 years, someone is going to clean up

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-14 Thread s3raphita
Re The last accountant I saw on some game show, looked like a lifer in a maximum security prison.: I always wonder when I see a muscular type whether they're unemployed or have just got out of prison. Who else has the time to put in?

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-14 Thread dhamiltony2k5
There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God (the Unified Field). It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-14 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Quaker Meeting for Worship, 17th Century. Entering into this form of worship. . “… the first that enters into the place of your meeting, be not careless, nor wander up and down either in body or mind, but innocently sit down in some place and turn in thy mind to the Light, and wait upon

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-14 Thread doctordumbass
Looks like Al's little known half-nephew, Esposito E=me 2 Einstein, doing time, for defrauding the celebrity look-alike outfit he was signed up with, and other related offenses. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re The last accountant I saw on some game show, looked

[FairfieldLife] RE: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-14 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita@... wrote: Re The last accountant I saw on some game show, looked like a lifer in a maximum security prison.: I always wonder when I see a muscular type whether they're unemployed or have just got out of prison. Who else has the time to put

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2014-01-13 Thread Share Long
The uni sex dress CODE? Will the code include enforcement and punishment? Sounds like censorship and tyranny to me, the Inquisition reappearing, taking a new angle on repressing and suppressing sexuality. Besides being wrong imo, it's also impractical, doesn't work, backfires, causes backlash,

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2014-01-13 Thread Share Long
Buck, what about the woman who walks around FF in shapeless bibs, with her long blond hair streaming...down to her ankles?! You gonna make her cut her very feminine hair? Have everybody shave their heads?! Sexual energy is life force energy. Suppress or repress at your peril. Better to teach

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2014-01-13 Thread Share Long
Ann, bibs is farmer shortcut language for shapeless pale peach colored or coloured bib overalls and yes, they go down to the ankles. I think they wear them for warmth. Go figure! On Monday, January 13, 2014 8:54 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:   ---In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, s3raphita wrote: The line I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code was copied over (by Yahoo not me!) from a post by Jason. I don't advocate any dress codes. Jason can defend that view if he wishes. Just in case you were wondering, I understood

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2014-01-13 Thread Share Long
turq, good point that unisex means women dressing like men. I hadn't thought of that because for me wearing uniforms happened in Catholic schools and they did want the girls to look different from the boys, albeit, like one another. I think part of uniform wearing is to simplify life and help

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2014-01-13 Thread Share Long
Judy, I've only seen one woman in FF with hair down to her ankles but lots of women in the Dome with hair down to their waist, etc. I like that older women feel free enough to let their grey or greying hair grow long. On Monday, January 13, 2014 10:26 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com

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2014-01-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: turq, good point that unisex means women dressing like men. I hadn't thought of that because for me wearing uniforms happened in Catholic schools and they did want the girls to look different from the boys, albeit, like one another. I

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2014-01-13 Thread Share Long
hmmm, I wonder if that group of Seelisburg higher ups included anyone on FFL and if he noticed... Jeez, I can be so point value! On Monday, January 13, 2014 10:40 AM, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: turq, good point that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: hmmm, I wonder if that group of Seelisburg higher ups included anyone on FFL and if he noticed... Jeez, I can be so point value! Not likely. By that time (early 1977) very few Americans were left in the ultimate TM hierarchy as I

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2014-01-13 Thread Share Long
Judy, your admonition doesn't make any sense. I've already replied to both you and Ann! On Monday, January 13, 2014 11:43 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:   Translation: Barry's afraid Share will mess up again if she responds to questions posed to her. Share, don't

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2014-01-13 Thread Michael Jackson
You have a ton of great old TM stories - thanks for posting that one Barry. On Mon, 1/13/14, TurquoiseB turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-13 Thread Jason
--- s3raphita wrote: The line I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code was copied over (by Yahoo not me!) from a post by Jason. I don't advocate any dress codes. Jason can defend that view if he wishes. --- TurquoiseB turquoiseb@... wrote: Just in case you were wondering, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-13 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason wrote: --- s3raphita wrote: The line I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code was copied over (by Yahoo not me!) from a post by Jason. I don't advocate any dress codes. Jason can defend that view if he wishes. ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-12 Thread Jason
Seraph, Yoga is essentially balance, ie life within parameters. Tolstoy gave the right advice. The prostitution industry is dangerous because it is one-sided and has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. There is something called 'financial-economic differential'. Wherever such a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-12 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason wrote: An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes prejudice and bias on a very subtle level. I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code. Jason, I think you still must

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-12 Thread Jason
Something like this might be better? --- Jason wrote: An asymmetric dress-code is bad because it is one-sided and has nothing to do with egalitarian sexuality. It promotes prejudice and bias on a very subtle level. I am a great believer in the uni-sex dress-code. ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-04 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: Turqb, my people are old Quaker and I too am Quaker and by experience I take that very seriously and even deadly seriously, which is why I am in Fairfield, Iowa as an attender of the large group meditations in the Golden Domes of the Fairfield

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion that doesn't take itself deadly seriously

2014-01-04 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: No brag just fact. I'm pointing out that the fact you're so proud of is something that most people worth knowing got over a long time ago -- being deadly serious about something as silly as religion. Just to offer a contrast, Buck, my father was

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2014-01-04 Thread Richard Williams
Just to offer a contrast, Buck, my father was raised in a Quaker household, too. But he lived his entire life without ever saying a word about it to any of his kids. It wasn't that it didn't mean anything to him. Quite the contrary. It meant enough to him that he kept it to himself and never