--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" > <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_reply@> > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > what is the relationship of biosfuels to FFL? > > > > What spam is this? I kind of expect this kind unrelated stuff that > > could be read on CNN or FOX from Richard or Willytex. What up? > > How's it relate to FF or, FFL? Where do you live? > > > > > > "Fairfield Life focuses on topics of interest to seekers (and > > finders) of truth and liberation everywhere. Fairfield, Iowa is > home > > to Maharishi University of Management, founded by Maharishi Mahesh > > Yogi in 1971. There are about 2000 Transcendental Meditation > > practitioners here, as well as many others pursuing various > spiritual > > paths. > > > > "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find > out, > > which is the exact opposite." ~ Bertrand Russell > > > > We often discuss the trials and tribulations of the TM Movement, " > > > > Topics of interest to seekers? Well I find biofuels interesting. > And I doubt any stuff about the election would find it's way > here if we're going to be TM strict about it. > > As for the other stuff I post, I guess it depends where you > think truth may lie. And there's the problem, If science has > shown us anything it's that truth is a bit of a moving target, > what you expect to be true often turns out to be nothing of > the sort. The TMO makes great claims to be interested in science, > but are they really? I don't remember any experiments into yagyas > in the collected papers. They like it when it suits them, and I'm > only too happy to point that out. > > To be honest Bertrand Russel didn't have meditation in mind > when he made the remark above, quite the opposite actually, > it's a call to remove the blinkers religion puts on us. > The TMO is a religion so lets take an objective look at it > and see what stands up. > > Which is why I post the stuff I do, it's good to challenge > beliefs, if something can't withstand a bit of probing why > call it Truth. Personally, I think the TM experience is good > but the explantion is 5000 years out of date, or is it? To me, > that's what seeking the truth is all about. If you're happy > accepting the TM dogma and never asking questions, fine, we're all > different. > > Interestingly, the term spiritual comes from the latin *spiritus > animus* or That Which Animates Us. So I consider myself > spiritual because I want to know if the mind is just a machine > that evolved (the most likely option so far) and if it's functioning > can be improved using meditation or anything else that comes along. > If it turns out to be something else, I'm just as happy. > > "Take what you need and leave the rest" >
I enjoy reading your stuff and thanks for writing this post. Your insights are interesting and well presented. While I don't always agree with your POV, your posts strike some form of resonance with me. This certainly applies to a number of other people who post on this forum. The diversity, different POVs, and eclectic topics are often quite out of the realm of what I would find in day to day discussions in my world. Curtis's humor and Turq's RoadTrip stories are examples of posts that often cause me to stop and be mindful for a moment of things and a POV that I would not have discovered had I not taken a bit of my day to read FFL. Britain is a long way from Iowa, as is Spain and the DC area. Isn't it interesting how on some intellectual level, the resonance still occurs even accounting for widely diverse topics? Heat does seem to occur at times. Inevitable when strong opinions are held. The discourse seems to right itself without much intervention. The posting limit perhaps adds to this.
