Curtis, Okay, I deserved a comeback from you for my elbow dig.
And, yeah, good call, I do have to watch my wallowing in self pity. But, hey, read the below and tell me that Bush isn't about to begin bombing Iran. The Mideast has gone Web-dark. If the nukes drop, there will only be CNN to report it to us -- not a million bloggers with cell-phone vids of the mushroom clouds. See? Angst and self pity are a gimme if I only read the headlines from BigMedia -- I can hardly stand to read the counter-culture Web sites. There's doom afoot, Watson! But first, this message from our sponsor. "Let them eat cake!" Translation: Watch the Superbowl and shut the fuck up you grimy masses. Bread and circuses -- an old old ruse that works as well today. And the Patriots won their 19 games by cheating with spy tactics -- how perfect for America. Edg Undersea internet cable cut A leading internet provider in the Emirates said an undersea cable had been cut in the Persian Gulf. The break caused severe phone line disruptions and compounded an already existing internet outage across large parts of the Middle East and Asia after two other undersea cables were earlier damaged north of Egypt. Omar Sultan, chief executive of Dubai's IPS DU, said that the incident was "very unusual". He said it was not known how the underwater Flag Falcon cable, stretching between the United Arab Emirates and Oman, had been damaged. "The situation is critical for us in terms of congestion" on international lines, Sultan said, but refused to speculate on the extent of the damage. DU said in a press release that the cause of the incident "had not yet been identified". The owner of the Falcon cable, UK Flag Telecom, said the cable was cut at 05:59 GMT on Friday, 34.8 miles off the coast of Dubai and that a "repair ship has been notified and expected to arrive at the site in the next few days". The company is also the owner of one of the undersea cables that were sliced on Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea. That damage triggered wide internet outages, hampering businesses and private usage across the Middle East and Asia. A Flag official in India said workers were still trying to determine how the Persian Gulf cable was cut. He declined to comment on whether the cut was somehow linked to Wednesday's cut in Egypt, but said he did not believe Flag's cables were deliberately targeted. As in the case of the Mediterranean damage, which Egyptian officials said was caused by a ship's anchor when a vessel could not dock in the port of Alexandria, there was also speculation that an anchor had sliced the Persian Gulf cable. DU said the incident "added further complications to the existing cuts on the Flag Europe-Asia and SEA-ME-WE4 cables" off the coast of Egypt and that the Persian Gulf cut "impacted all international voice calls through the DU network", leading to "severe congestion and degradation of international voice calls". It said national calls in the Emirates and internet access were not affected. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Careful, Lurk. > > > > If you keep liking my stuff, I'll get addicted to your stuff, and then > > the next thing ya know, we'll be patting each other's backs so often > > that huge humps of calloused harden skin will form -- you know, like > > the Curtis and Turq love affair is presently forming on their backs. > > > Nice save Edg, you almost let a ray of sunshine into your pity party. > > > > > > > > Just what this party needs -- four cavorting QuasiModels who are deaf > > to the throngs below us as we swing like apes in the bell tower. > > > > We don't need David Lynch; we need Mel Brooks to do for the TMO what > > he did for the Frankenstein tale. > > > > Raja to Igor: I've got a mantra that will cure your hump. > > > > Igor: What 'ump? > > > > Edg > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" > > <steve.sundur@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Now this is what I like about Saturdays. I get to read these good > posts > > > in their entirety. Good reading, good tea, two kids building a > snowman > > > in the front yard. > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Dear David Lynch, > > > > > > > > Please don't listen to the below entreaties. Stick to your day job, > > > > but, hey, if'n ya jest gotta do this, consider this concept: Get > > > > someone who doesn't look like death warmed over to represent the > "new > > > > wave" of TM -- you're scaring toddlers out there: scroll to the > bottom > > > > of this page: http://tinyurl.com/2teqr9 > > > > > > > > Yeah, I'm no fan of your wares that offer "entertainments" to our > > > > common weal that are saturated with the psychic toe-jam found in the > > > > dark corners of panicked minds. No wonder you look so haggard if you > > > > spend all your time spotlighting the ichor and effluvia of diseased > > > > personalities. > > > > > > > > In anything you've created, gotta ask ya, where's the pure sweetness > > > > of angels that TM says is our birthright? I must have been > absent the > > > > day they covered "how to nuture one's sweetness" in my teacher > > > > training course, and, yep, now I'm as crabby as a centipede with > > > > ingrown toenails despite my three decades of four hours a day > program. > > > > > > > > You too? > > > > > > > > I shudder to imagine what your tarred hands might do when > handling the > > > > white-on-white utopianism-pap that the TMO has used as its first > foot > > > > in the doors of unsuspecting minds. > > > > > > > > No matter how TM gets reformatted, the Wayback Machine > > > > http://www.archive.org/index.php will always have copies of TMO Web > > > > pages showing millionaires in jammies wearing tiaras while somberly > > > > posing as TM's priestly caste -- with beards that could have whole > > > > colonies of small birds inside them. > > > > > > > > I went to my first TM lecture and bothered the speaker, Stan Crowe, > > > > because I had read the Science of Being and the Art of Living and > > > > asked him about the angels and gods being touted by Maharishi -- he > > > > had to do a fast shuffle and slough me off and depended upon my > > > > naivety and good nature to not get testy with him as he struggled to > > > > portray TM as secular. > > > > > > > > I'm telling you, David, there is no way in any future history > that TM > > > > will be revived without a gang of "Christians" picketing the > lectures > > > > with large placards of our Cabal of Goofyassed Millionaires and > asking > > > > a zillion questions about the mantra, pujas, gods, rajas, > Girish, etc. > > > > > > > > Only a completely new skin will do for this ancient wine, and that > > > > means that all that the TMO has done must be simply abandoned. Bill > > > > Paxton as Hudson said it first: "Game over man... Game over!" > > > > > > > > No matter, it was a pack of lies mostly -- TM has never delivered > > > > anything that anyone ever was promised by the marketing blurbs. For > > > > GAWD's sake just examine the minds of the wrecks that have ended > up at > > > > Rick's party here -- where's the bliss? David, you're one step away > > > > from being another joke of BigMedia like Tom Cruise if you promote > > > > this crap -- you're besmirching your hard won authenticity's > > > coattails. > > > > > > > > I hope I've been ugly and dark and twisted enough in this memo > to get > > > > you to read to the end of it. > > > > > > > > Edg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > > > > dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" > > > > > mainstream20016 wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > David Lynch has been conspicuously unmanifest at TMO activities > > > > > >since the Berlin Raja > > > > > > fiasco last Fall. > > > > > > > > > > Dear David; > > > > > >David Lynch, are you out there ? Thank you for >your > dedication to > > > > > > students through your leadership in funding teaching TM > widely to > > > > > >students. The simple > > > > > > instruction of TM is a universally good thing. > > > > > > > > > > > > Might you direct a new secular TM instruction organization? TM's > > > > > >simplicity and > > > > > > universality are compromised by the overtly religious TMO of > 2008. > > > > > Association with the > > > > > current religious TMO makes the TM technique vastly irrelevant to > > > > > the larger world. The > > > > > inevitable partisan orientation of religious organizations makes > > > > > >the wide-scale teaching > > > > > > of TM highly unlikely as long as it is associated with the > current > > > > > overtly religious TMO. > > > > > > > > > > > > The timing is right for a return to the secular presentation of > > > > > TM. There are tens of > > > > > > thousands of TM teachers worldwide who might re-dedicate their > > > > > coming retirement years > > > > > > to teaching secular TM again, as it was taught until 1975. > Simple > > > > > TM am pm, with an > > > > > > occasional residence course... no products.... no > > > > > yagyas......etc. What do you think ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Good observation Mainstream. Separation along > secular/non-secular TM > > > > > lines has already happened. Most of the TMmovement has already > > > > > stepped away. That is past-tense. > > > > > > > > > > Proly too early for coalescence of a secular side from inside > while > > > > > Maharishi is still alive unless he initiates it. Seems the old > > > > > rascal is not, going instead ahead installing a discipline in his > > > own > > > > > way. There will be an organizational free-er hand to re-state it > > > > > once he is gone. There is a practicality in that. > > > > > > > > > > The secular teaching of the universal parts has already gone on > > > > > filling the need of its own, independent of brand or the liability > > > of > > > > > association with the nuttiness of the TMorganization or its moral > > > > > shortcomings of finances or behaviors. > > > > > > > > > > Do a google search for 'centering prayer meditation'. Lot of that > > > > > has come out of TM, from former TM teachers and practitioners. > That > > > > > is history. The TM branding has become its own liability now > making > > > > > it irrelevant, as you say. Sort of like in a same category as > > > > > Scientology. > > > > > > > > > > Two recent FFL posts with links come to mind as examples of how it > > > > > has gone: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.thequietpath.org/# > > > > > > > > > > http://www.introtomeditation.com/schedule.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David Lynch is quite a utopian living in the world and could > > > possibly > > > > > see meditation secularized on merit. Some of them inside > probably do > > > > > think about it. I know they do. It takes quite a lot of courage > > > > > though to go outside of the mainstream 'devotion' patterns of > inside > > > > > TMmovement when you've been there so close for so long. > > > > > > > > > > Good letter though. I hope you'll get a response from him. I'm > > > > > certain it would be deeply thoughtful in the way that he has been. > > > > > > > > > > Jai Guru Dev, > > > > > > > > > > -Doug in FF > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=F4wh_mc8hRE > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
