Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM memo on Lynch weekend
on 3/29/06 10:59 AM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- Rick Archer wrote: >> >> Do they have canoe rentals and a service that drops you off up-river? Can >> you recommend campgrounds? > > I'm afraid all that information has evaporated into the mists > of time. My adventures were in the 1970s. > > I did sleep in a campground one night on one trip, but the > other times, we either got permission to tent in someone's > field, or just beached the canoe and made ourselves at home. Much > could have changed in the past 30 years. Now there may be > Casey's General Stores at intervals along the way. I found stuff: http://tinyurl.com/f5kdv To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM memo on Lynch weekend
on 3/29/06 8:51 AM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- shempmcgurk wrote: >> >> --- bob_brigante wrote: >>> >>> A memo sent from MUM to FX resulted in that cable channel playing >>> Lynch's least florid film, "The Straight Story," (3 stars) from 2 >> to 4 AM tonight. >> >> Couldn't stand it. >> >> Saw about 20 minutes of it and then returned the video. > > I can imagine how The Straight Story would be less than fulfilling > on a small screen. I saw it in the theater, and loved it. But then, I > grew up in Iowa, and respond to arial views of the fall cornfields > of northern Iowa. I liked the characters and story, too. The > bicyclists were a great Iowa moment, coming upon Alvin > Straight like a horde of benevolent locusts. I liked it too. I like slow, easy-going movies. > > By the way, if any of you living in Fairfield have yet to canoe > the Upper Iowa river, I highly recommend it. Go this spring, > when the water is highest. The drive there is beautiful -- real > Grand Wood country. (Note: the Upper Iowa river flows through > northeast Iowa, as opposed to the Iowa river, which flows from > central Iowa through Iowa City.) Do they have canoe rentals and a service that drops you off up-river? Can you recommend campgrounds? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM memo on Lynch weekend
on 3/28/06 12:28 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hmmm... When Time Magazine has a cover article about TM > entitled "TM: >> The Cult of Greed and Power," you can make your point. Until then? >> > > When the day comes when Time Magazine has a cover story about TM -- > even one with a negative view, as you suggest -- I would > congratulate the TMO and MMY for being important enough for > warranting a Time Magazine cover. > > What planet are you on that you would think that anyone would > consider the TMO important enough for such a thing? TIME did a cover in 1975. Someone posted it the other day. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM memo on Lynch weekend
on 3/28/06 9:37 AM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB > wrote: Sounds like sensible advice to me, as sensible as realizing that such an email was necessary. >>> >>> So you're saying that no other organization would have >>> needed such an email? >> >> I am saying that no college in America *except* >> one founded by and run by a cult would have needed >> an email warning its students not to come off to >> visitors like cultists. >> > > H... I think I'd almost agree, except other such universities > would not see themselves as cults and wouldn't feel a need to warn > their students not to try to convert people BECAUSE they would > believe it the most important thing their students could be doing. It's not that MUM administrators don't want people "converted" (inspired to learn TM and become students), it's just that they realize that the natural behavior of many on campus might have the opposite effect. So they were asking people to check their natural tendencies and try to act more normal. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM memo on Lynch weekend
on 3/27/06 10:35 PM, bob_brigante at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A memo sent from MUM to FX resulted in that cable channel playing > Lynch's least florid film, "The Straight Story," (3 stars) from 2 to 4 > AM tonight. > > http://www.fxnetworks.com/ (schedule) How do you know a memo was sent? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: MUM memo on Lynch weekend
I was going to say...you can be sure with instructions like that, that the idea *is* to sell them whatever they can, and to convince them that they can't live without it. Sal On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:31 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: The only thing that screams louder than being an actual cult is an email edict instructing how NOT to appear to be an actual cult. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer > wrote: > > > > From a friend: > > > > this email was sent last week within mum -- you can post this but > leave > > my name off > > > > Dear Faculty and Ideal Administrators, > > > > It now appears that about 750-800 people will be joining us from > around > > the country. Here are some thoughts regarding our interactions with > > visitors: > > > > We're not trying to sell the visitors anything, nor convince of > them of > > anything.
