[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[card]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > I've got nothing much more to say on this topic,
> > but am replying to it anyway to point out the
> > contrast between what I wrote (below) and the
> > angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get-
> > Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy, 
> > Ann, and Ravi. 
> > 
> > Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?  :-)
> 
> No. Or not the way you'd like to think.
> 
> No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your
> fantasy, and also an example of what we've been
> talking about.
> 
> The contrast is between what you wrote below
> and the sick, twisted, dishonest, sadistic crap
> you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/
> DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are
> your stock in trade, the smarmy "I'm just 
> pushing buttons" garbage, the faux-Tantra
> nonsense, the utter lack of even the faintest
> wisp of self-knowledge.
> 
> You can dish it out, but you can't take it,
> never have been able to take it, not since I've
> known you. You think you're entitled to 
> gratuitously shit on anybody you feel like
> shitting on without ever having to take
> responsibility for it. You're a coward and a
> bully and a cheat and a phony and just generally
> a disgrace as a human being.
> 
> One pretty little word picture and photo does
> not erase all that ugliness we're forced to
> endure from you. If you feel put-upon because
> you're getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish
> instead of getting strokes for your "creative"
> effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having
> to live with you either.
>  

Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how
anybody would be forced to read what Barry, or anyone
else, for that matter, writes... :o

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"  
wrote:
>
> ... As for "Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with 
> Alcyone", a quick Google search shows that being 
> claimed to happen on May 20, 2012. Once every 25,000 
> years? More like twice a year!
> 
> Ordinary mundane existence got you down? Don't just 
> sit there sulking. Pull a planetary alignment out of 
> thin air and everything becomes mystical and full of woo!

And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y 
and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because 
of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
that happened yesterday, right. Hey...I know...
let's look at the News to see how the world is 
coping with it being such a Heaven On Earth, eh?

3 Shot And Killed In Mich... 18-Year-Old Shot Multiple 
Times, Dies... Man Kills Wife, Teen, Himself... Man 
Shoots, Kills Own Son... Cops Shoot Teen Dead... Man 
Gunned Down In Parking Lot... 5 Dead In Spate Of 
Shootings... 2 Murdered In Philly... 2 Kansas Cops Shot 
Dead... Shooter Killed... 4 Die In Apparent Murder-Suicide... 
Ga. Cop Dies From Gunshot... Argument Leads Teen To Shoot 
Friend... Man Shot To Death... Teen Dies After Being Tied 
Up, Shot... Man Shot Dead In Street... Drug Deal Leads To 
Shooting Death... Mother Of 2 Killed In Road Rage Shooting... 
Man Shoots, Kills Intruder... 1 Killed In Coney Island... 
Man Dies From Gunshot Wounds... Cops Investigate Gun Death... 
Shooting Victim's Body Found On Bike Trail... Man Charged 
With Shooting Own Brother Dead... Man Dies After Being Shot 
In Chest... Body Of Shooting Victim Found In Pickup... Teen 
Arrested For Robbery Shooting Death... Man Carrying 2-Year-
Old Son Shot Dead... Man Fatally Shot Near Home... Parolee 
Dies In Shooting... 1 Killed In Buffalo Shooting... Man 
Shot Dead In Apartment Complex... Street Gun Battle Kills 
Grandma Bystander... Man, Woman Dead In Apparent Murder-
Suicide... Woman Shot Dead By Intruder... 14-Year-Old 
Arrested Over Fatal Gun Attack... Man Found Shot Dead In 
Parking Lot... Woman Shot In Face By Ex-Boyfriend... 
1 Woman, 3 Men Shot Dead... 2 Die In Attempted Robbery... 
Army Reservist Shot To Death In Alley... Man Shot To Death 
In Bodega... 2 Shot Dead In Burned House... Man Shot During 
Break-In... Man Fatally Shot... 20-Year-Old Gunned Down... 
Man Shoots Self During Police Pursuit... 1 Killed In 
Baltimore Shooting... Cops ID Shooting Victim... 60-Year-
Old Man Shot Dead... Shot Man's Body Found In Vacant 
House Woman Shot And Killed Outside Her Home... 
Shooting Victim Was 'Trying To Turn Life Around'... Slain 
Shooting Victim Found In Street Driving Altercation 
Leads To Shooting, 1 Dies... 3-Year-Old Dies In Accidental 
Shooting... Man Turns Self In After Allegedly Shooting 
Wife... Man Shot Dead Outside Home... 3 Slain In Separate 
New Orleans Shootings... Cops Investigate Shooting Death... 
Man Shot Dead In Ohio... Teen Shot To Death... Man Dies 
After Being Shot Multiple Times... Man Charged Over Son's 
Shooting Death... Cops Find 2 Men Shot Dead... 1 Dies In 
Shooting... Man Charged Over Gun Killing... 1 Shot Dead 
In Confrontation... Man Charged With Murder Over Shooting... 
Motel-Owner Shot And Killed... Husband Shoots Estranged 
Wife Dead... Suspect Arrested Over Deputy's Shooting 
Death... Police Probe Fatal Shooting... Cops Kill 2 
Suspects In 3 Shooting Deaths... Man Killed Fighting Back 
Against Robber... Man Killed In Home Invasion 
Nightclub Shooting Kills 1... Child Brain Dead After 
Drive By Shooting... Man Charged Over Shooting Of Ex-Wife... 
Body Found In Vacant House... Teen Fatally Shot... 

That's *one morning's headlines* in America, now 
that the Glorious New Age is finally upon us. 

Here in the Netherlands, things are somewhat quieter.
Scanning the local news, I see that the Big Story is
about the guy who imbibed a bit too much Christmas
cheer and drove his bicycle into the canal. Bystanders
pulled him out. No one was shot, in the entire country.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got nothing much more to say on this topic,
> > > but am replying to it anyway to point out the
> > > contrast between what I wrote (below) and the
> > > angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get-
> > > Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy, 
> > > Ann, and Ravi. 
> > > 
> > > Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?  :-)
> > 
> > No. Or not the way you'd like to think.
> > 
> > No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your
> > fantasy, and also an example of what we've been
> > talking about.
> > 
> > The contrast is between what you wrote below
> > and the sick, twisted, dishonest, sadistic crap
> > you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/
> > DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are
> > your stock in trade, the smarmy "I'm just 
> > pushing buttons" garbage, the faux-Tantra
> > nonsense, the utter lack of even the faintest
> > wisp of self-knowledge.
> > 
> > You can dish it out, but you can't take it,
> > never have been able to take it, not since I've
> > known you. You think you're entitled to 
> > gratuitously shit on anybody you feel like
> > shitting on without ever having to take
> > responsibility for it. You're a coward and a
> > bully and a cheat and a phony and just generally
> > a disgrace as a human being.
> > 
> > One pretty little word picture and photo does
> > not erase all that ugliness we're forced to
> > endure from you. If you feel put-upon because
> > you're getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish
> > instead of getting strokes for your "creative"
> > effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having
> > to live with you either.
> 
> Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how
> anybody would be forced to read what Barry, or anyone
> else, for that matter, writes... :o

Card, what you don't understand is that some people
cannot tell the difference between being compelled
to do something by their *own* obsessions and hatreds,
and being "forced" to do it by something outside of
themselves. 

You and many others seem to have no problem picking
and choosing among the posts here, and focusing only
on the ones that interest you. But "something" or
"someone" is FORCING Judy and the people she refers
to as "We" to read them and get all purple-faced
apoplectic about what they read. Poor babies.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y 
> and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because 
> of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
> that happened yesterday, right. Hey...I know...
> let's look at the News to see how the world is 
> coping with it being such a Heaven On Earth, eh?

By the way, before someone freaks out and has 
a Nitpick Attack and chokes to death on her own
bile, the following list of headlines are not 
from one day's news in the United States. They're 
from *seven* days' news -- these are all the gun-
related deaths and injuries in the week since 
the school shootings in Connecticut. 

Just as a comparison, the number of dead and 
injured during this fairly normal week in America
(over 100) is larger than the number of people 
killed or injured in the Netherlands in firearm-
related incidents in the last year and a half. 

> 3 Shot And Killed In Mich... 18-Year-Old Shot Multiple 
> Times, Dies... Man Kills Wife, Teen, Himself... Man 
> Shoots, Kills Own Son... Cops Shoot Teen Dead... Man 
> Gunned Down In Parking Lot... 5 Dead In Spate Of 
> Shootings... 2 Murdered In Philly... 2 Kansas Cops Shot 
> Dead... Shooter Killed... 4 Die In Apparent Murder-Suicide... 
> Ga. Cop Dies From Gunshot... Argument Leads Teen To Shoot 
> Friend... Man Shot To Death... Teen Dies After Being Tied 
> Up, Shot... Man Shot Dead In Street... Drug Deal Leads To 
> Shooting Death... Mother Of 2 Killed In Road Rage Shooting... 
> Man Shoots, Kills Intruder... 1 Killed In Coney Island... 
> Man Dies From Gunshot Wounds... Cops Investigate Gun Death... 
> Shooting Victim's Body Found On Bike Trail... Man Charged 
> With Shooting Own Brother Dead... Man Dies After Being Shot 
> In Chest... Body Of Shooting Victim Found In Pickup... Teen 
> Arrested For Robbery Shooting Death... Man Carrying 2-Year-
> Old Son Shot Dead... Man Fatally Shot Near Home... Parolee 
> Dies In Shooting... 1 Killed In Buffalo Shooting... Man 
> Shot Dead In Apartment Complex... Street Gun Battle Kills 
> Grandma Bystander... Man, Woman Dead In Apparent Murder-
> Suicide... Woman Shot Dead By Intruder... 14-Year-Old 
> Arrested Over Fatal Gun Attack... Man Found Shot Dead In 
> Parking Lot... Woman Shot In Face By Ex-Boyfriend... 
> 1 Woman, 3 Men Shot Dead... 2 Die In Attempted Robbery... 
> Army Reservist Shot To Death In Alley... Man Shot To Death 
> In Bodega... 2 Shot Dead In Burned House... Man Shot During 
> Break-In... Man Fatally Shot... 20-Year-Old Gunned Down... 
> Man Shoots Self During Police Pursuit... 1 Killed In 
> Baltimore Shooting... Cops ID Shooting Victim... 60-Year-
> Old Man Shot Dead... Shot Man's Body Found In Vacant 
> House Woman Shot And Killed Outside Her Home... 
> Shooting Victim Was 'Trying To Turn Life Around'... Slain 
> Shooting Victim Found In Street Driving Altercation 
> Leads To Shooting, 1 Dies... 3-Year-Old Dies In Accidental 
> Shooting... Man Turns Self In After Allegedly Shooting 
> Wife... Man Shot Dead Outside Home... 3 Slain In Separate 
> New Orleans Shootings... Cops Investigate Shooting Death... 
> Man Shot Dead In Ohio... Teen Shot To Death... Man Dies 
> After Being Shot Multiple Times... Man Charged Over Son's 
> Shooting Death... Cops Find 2 Men Shot Dead... 1 Dies In 
> Shooting... Man Charged Over Gun Killing... 1 Shot Dead 
> In Confrontation... Man Charged With Murder Over Shooting... 
> Motel-Owner Shot And Killed... Husband Shoots Estranged 
> Wife Dead... Suspect Arrested Over Deputy's Shooting 
> Death... Police Probe Fatal Shooting... Cops Kill 2 
> Suspects In 3 Shooting Deaths... Man Killed Fighting Back 
> Against Robber... Man Killed In Home Invasion 
> Nightclub Shooting Kills 1... Child Brain Dead After 
> Drive By Shooting... Man Charged Over Shooting Of Ex-Wife... 
> Body Found In Vacant House... Teen Fatally Shot... 
> 
> That's *one morning's headlines* in America, now 
> that the Glorious New Age is finally upon us. 
> 
> Here in the Netherlands, things are somewhat quieter.
> Scanning the local news, I see that the Big Story is
> about the guy who imbibed a bit too much Christmas
> cheer and drove his bicycle into the canal. Bystanders
> pulled him out. No one was shot, in the entire country.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Alex Stanley]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card"  wrote:
>
> Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how
> anybody would be forced to read what Barry, or anyone
> else, for that matter, writes... :o

Hey, wait a minute! You mean I'm the only one being forced by you to learn 
Vedic Sanskrit?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[merudanda]

we're lucky having you
here at FFLife   too

have a great cosy holiday

  [http://www.foxstonestable.com/images/stallion16.jpg]
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
>
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" jr_esq@ wrote:
> >
> > Ann,
> >
> > Is that your picture?  If it is, he is indeed very lucky. :)
>
> No,alas. I am older, blonder and far less exotic looking but he is
lucky to be married to me nonetheless!
> >
> > JR
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
> > >
> > > This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
above
> > > the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> > >
> > >   [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption]
> > >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[Buck]

So, your husband you drag in here to FFL is he a meditator?  Does he go back to 
the Robin cult days along with you?  Has he ever been to Fairfield?
Just wondering for context.
-Buck

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda  wrote:
>
> we're lucky having you
> here at FFLife   too
> 
> have a great cosy holiday
> 
>   [http://www.foxstonestable.com/images/stallion16.jpg]
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" jr_esq@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Ann,
> > >
> > > Is that your picture?  If it is, he is indeed very lucky. :)
> >
> > No,alas. I am older, blonder and far less exotic looking but he is
> lucky to be married to me nonetheless!
> > >
> > > JR
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
> above
> > > > the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> > > >
> > > >   [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption]
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[Alex Stanley]

So, it's all about Dennis.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
>
> So, your husband you drag in here to FFL is he a meditator?  Does he go back 
> to the Robin cult days along with you?  Has he ever been to Fairfield?
> Just wondering for context.
> -Buck
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda  wrote:
> >
> > we're lucky having you
> > here at FFLife   too
> > 
> > have a great cosy holiday
> > 
> >   [http://www.foxstonestable.com/images/stallion16.jpg]
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" jr_esq@ wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Ann,
> > > >
> > > > Is that your picture?  If it is, he is indeed very lucky. :)
> > >
> > > No,alas. I am older, blonder and far less exotic looking but he is
> > lucky to be married to me nonetheless!
> > > >
> > > > JR
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
> > above
> > > > > the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> > > > >
> > > > >   [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption]
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[Buck]

Life!  What a beautiful day it is.  The presence of the Unified Field so 
streamed live clear all through the end of times yesterday for anyone who sat 
with it and had eyes to see it.  It was particularly nice to have the 8,500 
Mayan meditators join us from their mountain top in sync with all the 
meditation world-wide.  It was quite a shift spiritually.  It is called 
spiritual as a group magnification otherwise known scientifically as the 
Meisnner Effect of Natural Law.
I attended with It as an old governor and sat with the meditators in the Peace 
Palace here through the mid-day magnification.  The Unified Field as God 
creator was extremely vivid in Light and Presence flowing in and through out 
everyone.  It was extremely beautiful and powerful to Be with.  I am honored to 
have been here and  had the opportunity to sit with these other meditators as 
tuned instruments bringing light in to the world and human life.  It was one of 
those days in large spiritual life I will always remember proudly.  Being part 
of the group magnification on that Day,
-Buck

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y 
> > and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because 
> > of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
> > that happened yesterday,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[merudanda]

what a change from this beauty

  [http://dennisbater.com/images/dennisbater_ad.jpg] to these
http://dennisbater.com/ 
So if  someone here at Faith in Fake en Life "are comfortable in their
own skin" and are sure to "want" to be shot, instead of just "hop(p)ing"
Dennis Bater is" very understanding"
You may  take your MUA or a stylists to make (you)up  e.g. like this
http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/121124/11/50b121557a850.jpg

http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/121014/09/507aebbab6fa9.jpg

  Please,please don't stand him up "but give (him) a few days notice to
fill that slot".
And if you want to take Turquesb with you as a  voyeuristic bodyguard,
forget it not allowed because  "it takes away from the flow between the
photographer and (you)the model"
http://www.modelmayhem.com/2255660 
An option for awoelflebater?
  [http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/120722/17/500c982b54ac8.jpg]
Dear Turquesb
Dear Turquesb
  please please invite me to sit at  the canal
  to watch your Herengracht
and immerse into the world of Light On Water
will convert to any drink you offer me
 
[https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR3ht2BgUluFoKva41\
SzQ2A_x-LXCocHZjOD3K4zvx8lqHRTiYM]
  [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2465/5701358563_91e8cf8efa_z.jpg]

and listen to
De Mus

Tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp tjielp
tjielp tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp
tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp
tjielp tjielp tjielp

Tjielp
etc.

and
The Sparrow

Chirp chirp - chirp chirp chirp
chirp chirp chirp- chirp chirp
chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp
chirp chirp chirp

Chirp
etc.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn  wrote:
>
> Check out the fake eyelashes! Â I think she'd be prettier without
them, but I'm just being my judgmental self. Â
>
>
>
> >
> > From: Ann awoelflebater@...
> >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> >Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:42 PM
> >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Lucky Guy
> >
> >
> >Â
> >This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
above the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[Richard J. Williams]

Alex Stanley:
> So, it's all about Dennis.
>
Photography is all about placement and positioning.

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda  wrote:
>
> we're lucky having you
> here at FFLife   too
> 
> have a great cosy holiday

And you too; I feel honoured to be remembered by you, you are beautiful and 
special in who you are and how and what you post. And now you have chosen this 
very wonderful picture of these horses, you have an aesthetic that even allowed 
you to pick that so appropriately. They look a lot like horses my friends own - 
OH MY GOD! They are my friend's horses, it is Foxstone Stables, my very good 
friend and former jumper trainer Norah Ross runs that bar - I thought it looked 
Kupido and probably Kenzo. How did you find THAT?? They are father and son. 
> 
>   [http://www.foxstonestable.com/images/stallion16.jpg]
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" jr_esq@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Ann,
> > >
> > > Is that your picture?  If it is, he is indeed very lucky. :)
> >
> > No,alas. I am older, blonder and far less exotic looking but he is
> lucky to be married to me nonetheless!
> > >
> > > JR
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
> above
> > > > the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> > > >
> > > >   [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption]
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn  wrote:
>
> Check out the fake eyelashes!  I think she'd be prettier without them, 
> but I'm just being my judgmental self.  

You may be correct there Em. And beauty is certainly in the eye... but Dennis 
gets his models from the general population around Victoria. None of them are 
professionals, just regular girls and women who want to sit in front of a 
camera and have their picture taken. This is a woman about 24 years old who has 
two children (!) and probably works at KMart the rest of the week. 

I know that under the lights it can really wash you out so if you want to look 
like you're wearing any make up at all you have to put about three times more 
on than you would in 'real life'. I think she's stunning. I always wanted to 
have that dark hair and olive skin. Maybe next time.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > From: Ann 
> >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> >Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:42 PM
> >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Lucky Guy
> > 
> >
> >  
> >This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio above the 
> >stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> >
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches

[Share Long]

Hmmm, could it be that we three are a bit ancient compared to you? (-:
Anyway, glad it just gets better and better, woo woo or not





 From: Emily Reyn 
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"  
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
 

  
Gz, I don't know about you three.  I woke up grounded, centered, clear, and 
out of the higher and higher anxiety I've been experiencing most of this month. 
 So high, in fact, I was waking up in tears the last two days and spontaneously 
crying my way through the whole day.  It's a good thing it's been raining here 
- no one can tell on my ever-longer dog walks.  This AM, I woke up early and 
completely calm - it was very woo woo as I was expecting another day of 
emotional hell.  Of course, not believing in the power of 12-21-12, I am going 
to start with some preventative actions in my daily life - I suck at self-care. 
 Anyhow, a welcome relief.  And then, the fortune in my fortune cookie tonight 
said "this is a good month to take a financial risk."  It just gets better and 
better



>
> From: seventhray27 
>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 12:21 PM
>Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
> 
>
>  
>I just checked in for a moment.  Tell me you're kidding.  This morning, 
>getting ready for work, I was getting my coat out of the closet and my wife 
>was close by checking the mail.  I had to step to the side of her where there 
>happened to be a desk lamp we had recently purchased at an estate sale.  I 
>knocked it over and it broke, and I had a mini tirade.  I apologized to her, 
>and proceeded with my day. She of course had done nothing wrong, and my tirade 
>wasn't directed at her, but just one of those, "why do I have to fight so hard 
>for everything little thing" type of tirade. 
>
>
>Anyway.  In better balance now.  Got to be.
>
>
>
>
>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long  wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm, must be something in the planets.  I bashed into my Mom's glass
 coffee table with my knee.  Had to apologize to her afterwards for the 
cussing that ensued.  Hope you feel better soon.  I bet that Carol O of Bat 
would know who has crutches.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  From: Rick Archer rick@...
>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:05 AM
>> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Crutches
>> 
>> 
>>   
>> Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on 
>> the ice and hurt my knee.
>>  
>>
>
>
>
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got nothing much more to say on this topic,
> > > but am replying to it anyway to point out the
> > > contrast between what I wrote (below) and the
> > > angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get-
> > > Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy, 
> > > Ann, and Ravi. 
> > > 
> > > Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?  :-)
> > 
> > No. Or not the way you'd like to think.
> > 
> > No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your
> > fantasy, and also an example of what we've been
> > talking about.
> > 
> > The contrast is between what you wrote below
> > and the sick, twisted, dishonest, sadistic crap
> > you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/
> > DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are
> > your stock in trade, the smarmy "I'm just 
> > pushing buttons" garbage, the faux-Tantra
> > nonsense, the utter lack of even the faintest
> > wisp of self-knowledge.
> > 
> > You can dish it out, but you can't take it,
> > never have been able to take it, not since I've
> > known you. You think you're entitled to 
> > gratuitously shit on anybody you feel like
> > shitting on without ever having to take
> > responsibility for it. You're a coward and a
> > bully and a cheat and a phony and just generally
> > a disgrace as a human being.
> > 
> > One pretty little word picture and photo does
> > not erase all that ugliness we're forced to
> > endure from you. If you feel put-upon because
> > you're getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish
> > instead of getting strokes for your "creative"
> > effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having
> > to live with you either.
> >  
> 
> Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how
> anybody would be forced to read what Barry, or anyone
> else, for that matter, writes... :o

Card, sometimes it is unavoidable and what he writes spills over into so many 
other topics that you can't escape. Kind of like peeing in the pool - as long 
as you're in the water it's gonna touch you sooner or later.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas

[Richard J. Williams]

mjackson74:
> Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the
> New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone.
>
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and everyone!

 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Share Long]

Namaste (-:





 From: Alex Stanley 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 6:42 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water
 

  


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card"  wrote:
>
> Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how
> anybody would be forced to read what Barry, or anyone
> else, for that matter, writes... :o

Hey, wait a minute! You mean I'm the only one being forced by you to learn 
Vedic Sanskrit?


 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" cardemaister@ wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've got nothing much more to say on this topic,
> > > > but am replying to it anyway to point out the
> > > > contrast between what I wrote (below) and the
> > > > angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get-
> > > > Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy,
> > > > Ann, and Ravi.
> > > >
> > > > Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?  :-)
> > >
> > > No. Or not the way you'd like to think.
> > >
> > > No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your
> > > fantasy, and also an example of what we've been
> > > talking about.
> > >
> > > The contrast is between what you wrote below
> > > and the sick, twisted, dishonest, sadistic crap
> > > you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/
> > > DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are
> > > your stock in trade, the smarmy "I'm just
> > > pushing buttons" garbage, the faux-Tantra
> > > nonsense, the utter lack of even the faintest
> > > wisp of self-knowledge.
> > >
> > > You can dish it out, but you can't take it,
> > > never have been able to take it, not since I've
> > > known you. You think you're entitled to
> > > gratuitously shit on anybody you feel like
> > > shitting on without ever having to take
> > > responsibility for it. You're a coward and a
> > > bully and a cheat and a phony and just generally
> > > a disgrace as a human being.
> > >
> > > One pretty little word picture and photo does
> > > not erase all that ugliness we're forced to
> > > endure from you. If you feel put-upon because
> > > you're getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish
> > > instead of getting strokes for your "creative"
> > > effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having
> > > to live with you either.
> >
> > Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how
> > anybody would be forced to read what Barry, or anyone
> > else, for that matter, writes... :o
>
> Card, what you don't understand is that some people
> cannot tell the difference between being compelled
> to do something by their *own* obsessions and hatreds,
> and being "forced" to do it by something outside of
> themselves.
>
> You and many others seem to have no problem picking
> and choosing among the posts here, and focusing only
> on the ones that interest you. But "something" or
> "someone" is FORCING Judy and the people she refers
> to as "We" to read them and get all purple-faced
> apoplectic about what they read. Poor babies.  :-)



  [Cartoon angry man isolated on white background  Stock Photo - 8576418]

>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[Share Long]

I was on the edge of the bed in the bedroom where my step Dad slept in the last 
years before he died.  The YF was wonderful (-:





 From: Buck 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 8:13 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced
 

  
Life!  What a beautiful day it is.  The presence of the Unified Field so 
streamed live clear all through the end of times yesterday for anyone who sat 
with it and had eyes to see it.  It was particularly nice to have the 8,500 
Mayan meditators join us from their mountain top in sync with all the 
meditation world-wide.  It was quite a shift spiritually.  It is called 
spiritual as a group magnification otherwise known scientifically as the 
Meisnner Effect of Natural Law.
I attended with It as an old governor and sat with the meditators in the Peace 
Palace here through the mid-day magnification.  The Unified Field as God 
creator was extremely vivid in Light and Presence flowing in and through out 
everyone.  It was extremely beautiful and powerful to Be with.  I am honored to 
have been here and  had the opportunity to sit with these other meditators as 
tuned instruments bringing light in to the world and human life.  It was one of 
those days in large spiritual life I will always remember proudly.  Being part 
of the group magnification on that Day,
-Buck 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y 
> > and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because 
> > of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
> > that happened yesterday,


 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
>
> So, your husband you drag in here to FFL is he a meditator?  Does he go back 
> to the Robin cult days along with you?  Has he ever been to Fairfield?
> Just wondering for context.
> -Buck

Hi Buck, Merry Christmas!
Dennis hasn't been 'dragged', he has been 'referred to', or so I would prefer 
to think. He was initiated and occasionally meditates, probably much more than 
I do but I wouldn't call him a meditator any more. I met him in the Fall of 
1986, about two months after my final showdown at the OK Corral with Robin. I 
took Dennis to FF once way back in about 1988 when we were visiting my parents 
for Christmas in Chicago and we were heading to Omaha to visit some close 
'ex-cult' friends and drove on through.
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda  wrote:
> >
> > we're lucky having you
> > here at FFLife   too
> > 
> > have a great cosy holiday
> > 
> >   [http://www.foxstonestable.com/images/stallion16.jpg]
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" jr_esq@ wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Ann,
> > > >
> > > > Is that your picture?  If it is, he is indeed very lucky. :)
> > >
> > > No,alas. I am older, blonder and far less exotic looking but he is
> > lucky to be married to me nonetheless!
> > > >
> > > > JR
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
> > above
> > > > > the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> > > > >
> > > > >   [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption]
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[doctordumbass]

No, it is not "pretty interesting". It is boring. You know why? Because you are 
SO predictable! I knew, and waited for the blowing sunshine up our butts post 
from you (see below), after I called you on your BS. I've seen it SO MANY times 
before. And your screwed up "understanding" of TANTRA was hilarious!!!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> I've got nothing much more to say on this topic,
> but am replying to it anyway to point out the
> contrast between what I wrote (below) and the
> angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get-
> Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy, 
> Ann, and Ravi. 
> 
> Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?  :-)
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool.
> > 
> > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose to 
> > celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to 
> > celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family.
> > 
> > And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. 
> >
> > Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday 
> > submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few minutes, 
> > consider it one of my last comments on it.
> > 
> > One of the benefits of living in a tight, 
> > crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that you 
> > get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal that 
> > used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, was built 
> > in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to predate the 
> > lifestyles of those who profited from it.
> > 
> > The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant of 
> > the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings 
> > gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style 
> > as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're cool 
> > and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual canal 
> > itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of Light 
> > On Water.
> > 
> > The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this 
> > whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light reflected 
> > from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and the occasional 
> > (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, cooler than they were 
> > when they arrived.
> > 
> > It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the  incoming 
> > light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and reflecting 
> > it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A  streetlight seen 
> > directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look at the reflection of 
> > the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this pulsating, everchanging 
> > globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no particular need to adapt 
> > itself to them.
> > 
> > It's a cool effect. I kinda like it.
> > 
> >  
> > [https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/598589_530703030287168_411824051_n.jpg]
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[doctordumbass]

That is the thing I noticed about Barry also; his cowardice. I would respect 
him a lot more if he would be open about his constant negative screeds. But he 
does have this phoney baloney idea of himself as a pretty awesome nice 
uplifting spiritually knowledgeable fellow, that he just retreats into. As I 
said earlier, the topic could be woodworking and he'd still find something to 
twist his nuts around (I like that image!). 

Since we are supposedly supposed to be seeking the truth relative or otherwise, 
here, I just don't see why cowards like him are supposed to get a free ride. He 
is like an impotent fool, fully dressed, at a nudist colony - making fun of 
others' exposures, but too terrified to take off the hazmat suit. In a word, a 
consummate bullshit artist. I don't like those types. Never have, and never 
will. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > I've got nothing much more to say on this topic,
> > but am replying to it anyway to point out the
> > contrast between what I wrote (below) and the
> > angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get-
> > Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy, 
> > Ann, and Ravi. 
> > 
> > Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?  :-)
> 
> No. Or not the way you'd like to think.
> 
> No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your
> fantasy, and also an example of what we've been
> talking about.
> 
> The contrast is between what you wrote below
> and the sick, twisted, dishonest, sadistic crap
> you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/
> DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are
> your stock in trade, the smarmy "I'm just 
> pushing buttons" garbage, the faux-Tantra
> nonsense, the utter lack of even the faintest
> wisp of self-knowledge.
> 
> You can dish it out, but you can't take it,
> never have been able to take it, not since I've
> known you. You think you're entitled to 
> gratuitously shit on anybody you feel like
> shitting on without ever having to take
> responsibility for it. You're a coward and a
> bully and a cheat and a phony and just generally
> a disgrace as a human being.
> 
> One pretty little word picture and photo does
> not erase all that ugliness we're forced to
> endure from you. If you feel put-upon because
> you're getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish
> instead of getting strokes for your "creative"
> effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having
> to live with you either.
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool.
> > > 
> > > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then chose 
> > > to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, prior to 
> > > celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended adoptive family.
> > > 
> > > And the walk was just smokin', which is why I'm writing about it. 
> > >
> > > Really uplifting and wonderful. Consider this my belated Wussy Wednesday 
> > > submission. Also, just in case the world really does end in a few 
> > > minutes, consider it one of my last comments on it.
> > > 
> > > One of the benefits of living in a tight, 
> > > crowded-by-some-people's-standards, inner-city, European 'hood is that 
> > > you get to Walk In History. The house behind ours, situated on the canal 
> > > that used to be just inside the fortified walls of this medieval city, 
> > > was built in 1660. The canal predates it, commerce tending in history to 
> > > predate the lifestyles of those who profited from it.
> > > 
> > > The Herengracht is not officially one of the biggest or most significant 
> > > of the waterways in my city, but it has its charms. All of the buildings 
> > > gracing its banks are built using the same Dutch red brick building style 
> > > as the 1660 house, although many were built more recently. And they're 
> > > cool and all. But turn aside from them, walk a few feet to the actual 
> > > canal itself and look around, and what you find yourself in is a world of 
> > > Light On Water.
> > > 
> > > The water in the canal is not static. It's not a passive watcher of this 
> > > whole scene. It's more of an active participant, taking the light 
> > > reflected from the street lights and the house lights and the moon and 
> > > the occasional (it's the Netherlands) star, and reflecting them on, 
> > > cooler than they were when they arrived.
> > > 
> > > It's almost as if the water in the canal is an artist, taking the  
> > > incoming light and then bouncing it off of its everchanging surface and 
> > > reflecting it onward kinda bent, and thus more interesting. A  
> > > streetlight seen directly is all solid and all...kinda boring. But look 
> > > at the reflection of the streetlight in the Herengracht and you see this 
> > > pulsating, everchanging globule of light, with no fixed boundaries and no 
> > > particular need to adapt itself to them.
> > > 

[FairfieldLife] Creatures for the new bak'tun?

[PaliGap]

Walking the cow-dog...
http://youtu.be/hNUeSUXOc-w

Hovering Dalek prototype
http://youtu.be/yN_rQ7UAWco

In the Mayan Popol Vuh, the 'Heart of Sky' had several stabs at
creating people. We're the 'maize people' I believe. 
Perhaps we're about to be ditched for silicon?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got nothing much more to say on this topic,
> > > but am replying to it anyway to point out the
> > > contrast between what I wrote (below) and the
> > > angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get-
> > > Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy, 
> > > Ann, and Ravi. 
> > > 
> > > Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?  :-)
> > 
> > No. Or not the way you'd like to think.
> > 
> > No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your
> > fantasy, and also an example of what we've been
> > talking about.
> > 
> > The contrast is between what you wrote below
> > and the sick, twisted, dishonest, sadistic crap
> > you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/
> > DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are
> > your stock in trade, the smarmy "I'm just 
> > pushing buttons" garbage, the faux-Tantra
> > nonsense, the utter lack of even the faintest
> > wisp of self-knowledge.
> > 
> > You can dish it out, but you can't take it,
> > never have been able to take it, not since I've
> > known you. You think you're entitled to 
> > gratuitously shit on anybody you feel like
> > shitting on without ever having to take
> > responsibility for it. You're a coward and a
> > bully and a cheat and a phony and just generally
> > a disgrace as a human being.
> > 
> > One pretty little word picture and photo does
> > not erase all that ugliness we're forced to
> > endure from you. If you feel put-upon because
> > you're getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish
> > instead of getting strokes for your "creative"
> > effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having
> > to live with you either.
> >  
> 
> Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how
> anybody would be forced to read what Barry, or anyone
> else, for that matter, writes... :o

Yeah, I don't think I said anything about anybody being
forced to read what anyone writes, did I?

I believe the phrases I used were "forced to endure" and
"live with." It's hard to ignore as prolific a poster as
Barry. Even if one doesn't read his original posts, 
chances are they'll be quoted and commented on.

Plus which, card, you aren't one of his "enemies." If you
were, you might find you would want to at least scan his
posts to see what lies he'd told about you, because he
tells whoppers, and not everyone here is smart enough to
know when he's lying.

But Ann put it best: We're all swimming in this pool, and
with Barry constantly peeing in it, you really can't avoid
getting some of it on you, even if you close your eyes.

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[Alex Stanley]

Today, the meteorologico-viatical affliction is greatly diminished, plus the 
Earth is in perfect orbital alignment with the Sun, so it's a most spiritually 
auspicious time to go shopping at the indoor farmers market and Everybody's 
Whole Foods.

Jai Guru Dev!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
>
> Life!  What a beautiful day it is.  The presence of the Unified Field so 
> streamed live clear all through the end of times yesterday for anyone who sat 
> with it and had eyes to see it.  It was particularly nice to have the 8,500 
> Mayan meditators join us from their mountain top in sync with all the 
> meditation world-wide.  It was quite a shift spiritually.  It is called 
> spiritual as a group magnification otherwise known scientifically as the 
> Meisnner Effect of Natural Law.
> I attended with It as an old governor and sat with the meditators in the 
> Peace Palace here through the mid-day magnification.  The Unified Field as 
> God creator was extremely vivid in Light and Presence flowing in and through 
> out everyone.  It was extremely beautiful and powerful to Be with.  I am 
> honored to have been here and  had the opportunity to sit with these other 
> meditators as tuned instruments bringing light in to the world and human 
> life.  It was one of those days in large spiritual life I will always 
> remember proudly.  Being part of the group magnification on that Day,
> -Buck
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y 
> > > and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because 
> > > of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
> > > that happened yesterday,
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[merudanda]

What a change from this beauty

  [http://dennisbater.com/images/dennisbater_ad.jpg] to these
http://dennisbater.com/ 
So if  someone here at Faith in Fake en Life  "are comfortable in their
own skin" and are sure to "want" to be shot,  instead of just
"hop(p)ing"  Dennis Bater is" very understanding"
You may  take your MUA or a stylists with you to make (you)up  e.g. like
this
http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/121124/11/50b121557a850.jpg

http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/121014/09/507aebbab6fa9.jpg

  Please,please don't stand Dennis up "but give (him) a few days notice
to fill that slot".
And  if you want to take Turquesb with you as a  voyeuristic bodyguard, 
forget it, not allowed because  "it takes away from the flow between the
photographer and (you)the model"
http://www.modelmayhem.com/2255660 
An option for awoelflebater?
  [http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/120722/17/500c982b54ac8.jpg]
Dear Turquesb
Dear Turquesb
  please please invite me to sit at  the canal
  to watch your Herengracht and

I'll backpedal even from far away into this moment and skim off the
desperation.Remember the sweat, the joyful loss of breath and the
promise of every cyclist manically buzzing by
and soon immerse into the world of Light On Water
will convert to any drink you offer me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2esxR1Z6t1U

 
[https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR3ht2BgUluFoKva41\
SzQ2A_x-LXCocHZjOD3K4zvx8lqHRTiYM]
  [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2465/5701358563_91e8cf8efa_z.jpg]

and we'll soon  listen to
De Mus
immortalized by Dutch poet Jan Hanlo on the side wall of the building at
Nieuwe Rijn 107


Tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp tjielp
tjielp tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp
tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp
tjielp tjielp tjielp

Tjielp
etc.

and
The Sparrow

Chirp chirp - chirp chirp chirp
chirp chirp chirp- chirp chirp
chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp
chirp chirp chirp

Chirp
etc.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn  wrote:
>
> Check out the fake eyelashes! Â I think she'd be prettier without
them, but I'm just being my judgmental self. Â
>
>
>
> >
> > From: Ann awoelflebater@...
> >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> >Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:42 PM
> >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Lucky Guy
> >
> >
> >Â
> >This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
above the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[doctordumbass]

Your reply here IS reply of the WEEK - I love simplicity - Barry describes his 
mental state, in contrast to his actions, and you plainly state the label that 
then must apply. The whole thing is brilliant!

BARRY
> I have *never* -- not once -- felt "pissed off and
> nasty" during this last "posting month" on FFL.

JUDY
If that's really the case, then you're a psychopath.




--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@  wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't get it. Are you talking about the contrast in 
> > > my sn? What I mean with the other guy, is he acts all 
> > > pissed off and nasty, and seemingly out of the blue 
> > > (actually prodded by his own sense of self-image on 
> > > FFL), he goes all reflective and cute-sy on us. Its 
> > > the reverse of the way other people act - i.e. nice 
> > > for the most part, with an occasional tirade. I don't 
> > > think you even tried to answer my question.
> > 
> > We *understand* that you don't get it. Could that 
> > possibly have something to do with the fact that
> > you feel the need to classify the things you see 
> > into little "good" and "bad" boxes, and that you 
> > will NEVER, in ANY lifetime, understand the concept 
> > of Tantra -- the coexistence of and non-contradictory
> > nature of seeming opposites?  :-)
> 
> Balderdash. We *understand* that you're full of it,
> Barry. We *understand* that you suffer from out-of-
> control rages. We *understand* that the only thing
> that makes you feel you exist is to crap all over
> people. We *understand* that your concept of "Tantra"
> is just an excuse you use to indulge in psychological
> sadism and has nothing to do with real Tantra.
> 
> > Be careful about announcing to the world the sad
> > limitations of your ability to perceive that world.
> 
> No, the issue is the limitations of your ability to
> control your behavior.
>  
> > It's one thing if you keep them to yourself and 
> > attempt to hide them, as many here do,
> 
> That would be you. But we can all see them.
> 
>  but quite 
> > another when you lay them on everyone else and expect 
> > them to identify with the sad and often pitiful 
> > boundaries you impose upon yourself.
> 
> Speaks the Master of Projection himself. 
> 
> > I have *never* -- not once -- felt "pissed off and
> > nasty" during this last "posting month" on FFL.
> 
> If that's really the case, then you're a psychopath.
> 
> > If 
> > you believe that I have, that is what YOU project
> > onto what I write, based on what YOU feel in *reaction*
> > to what I write.
> 
> No. No, what you write demonstrates how you feel almost
> all the time: pissed off and nasty and filled with
> hatred.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas

[curtisdeltablues]

I feel for you.  I was in your shoes for my 18 YO Abyssinian two years ago 
around this time of year.  I'm glad you were able to make this final act of 
kindness, and I know it is hard.

I was preparing my guitar case for a show last month.  I found a few 
distinctively ticked brown hairs in it and it brought instant tears.

Ginger used to love to lie in the soft interior of my guitar cases, even though 
I would constantly chase her out because the top could fall on her.  When I 
would catch her, usually as I was packing for a show, she would raise up her 
tiny head, defiant.  My preliminary scolding hiss would only make her hunker 
down deeper into the plush.

"Make me", her steady eyes conveyed.

Once again I would reach in and scoop her up placing her on her much plusher, 
but not forbidden so less interesting, bed.  She would stretch, give me one 
last withering gaze, and settle into a nap, triumphant in getting me to react, 
which was the whole point of the exercise.

All the best for your own healing heart. 


 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> Yeah too many posts last week and I had to have my 18 year old cat put to 
> sleep - I was very attached to her - so I been kinda quiet since then
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  From: authfriend 
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:59 PM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
>  
> 
>   
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mjackson74"  wrote:
> >
> > Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings
> > goodness and contentment to everyone.
> 
> Thanks, Michael, and to you as well. Missed you this past week!
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Creatures for the new bak'tun?

[Share Long]

I thought we were the tofu people (-:





 From: PaliGap 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:14 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Creatures for the new bak'tun?
 

  
Walking the cow-dog...
http://youtu.be/hNUeSUXOc-w

Hovering Dalek prototype
http://youtu.be/yN_rQ7UAWco

In the Mayan Popol Vuh, the 'Heart of Sky' had several stabs at
creating people. We're the 'maize people' I believe. 
Perhaps we're about to be ditched for silicon?


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[Share Long]

Everybodys!  Yay!  I miss you!  Whole Foods, bah humbug!  Though acknowledge 
that my beloved Cashew Cookie Larabars containing dates cashews and NO SUGAR  
are only $1.29 at Whole Foods; sixty cents more at Everybodys unless on sale 
for a dollar because about to explode from self fermentation.  Is there such a 
thing?


Anyway, waiting for 49 year old half sister to fetch me.  Same father, 
different mothers. We're going last minute shopping and lunch.  I think we must 
be nuts to go anywhere near a store today, but that's just me (-:



 From: Alex Stanley 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:18 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced
 

  
Today, the meteorologico-viatical affliction is greatly diminished, plus the 
Earth is in perfect orbital alignment with the Sun, so it's a most spiritually 
auspicious time to go shopping at the indoor farmers market and Everybody's 
Whole Foods.

Jai Guru Dev!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
>
> Life!  What a beautiful day it is.  The presence of the Unified Field so 
> streamed live clear all through the end of times yesterday for anyone who sat 
> with it and had eyes to see it.  It was particularly nice to have the 8,500 
> Mayan meditators join us from their mountain top in sync with all the 
> meditation world-wide.  It was quite a shift spiritually.  It is called 
> spiritual as a group magnification otherwise known scientifically as the 
> Meisnner Effect of Natural Law.
> I attended with It as an old governor and sat with the meditators in the 
> Peace Palace here through the mid-day magnification.  The Unified Field as 
> God creator was extremely vivid in Light and Presence flowing in and through 
> out everyone.  It was extremely beautiful and powerful to Be with.  I am 
> honored to have been here and  had the opportunity to sit with these other 
> meditators as tuned instruments bringing light in to the world and human 
> life.  It was one of those days in large spiritual life I will always 
> remember proudly.  Being part of the group magnification on that Day,
> -Buck 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y 
> > > and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because 
> > > of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
> > > that happened yesterday,
>


 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got nothing much more to say on this topic,
> > > but am replying to it anyway to point out the
> > > contrast between what I wrote (below) and the
> > > angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get-
> > > Barry reaction to it by DocDumbass, Judy, 
> > > Ann, and Ravi. 
> > > 
> > > Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say?  :-)
> > 
> > No. Or not the way you'd like to think.
> > 
> > No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your
> > fantasy, and also an example of what we've been
> > talking about.
> > 
> > The contrast is between what you wrote below
> > and the sick, twisted, dishonest, sadistic crap
> > you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/
> > DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are
> > your stock in trade, the smarmy "I'm just 
> > pushing buttons" garbage, the faux-Tantra
> > nonsense, the utter lack of even the faintest
> > wisp of self-knowledge.
> > 
> > You can dish it out, but you can't take it,
> > never have been able to take it, not since I've
> > known you. You think you're entitled to 
> > gratuitously shit on anybody you feel like
> > shitting on without ever having to take
> > responsibility for it. You're a coward and a
> > bully and a cheat and a phony and just generally
> > a disgrace as a human being.
> > 
> > One pretty little word picture and photo does
> > not erase all that ugliness we're forced to
> > endure from you. If you feel put-upon because
> > you're getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish
> > instead of getting strokes for your "creative"
> > effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having
> > to live with you either.
> >  
> 
> Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how
> anybody would be forced to read what Barry, or anyone
> else, for that matter, writes... :o

This is not the right question, Card. If one posts on a forum like this one, it 
is *unnatural* not to see what everyone else is saying. Even about oneself. Is 
it your inclination *not* to read posts that are addressed personally to you, 
and which either challenge your views, or disparage your person? I think most 
persons posting on this forum are interested in expressing their opinions and 
judgments--that's why they post; that's why they read what others post.

This response of yours, you think it answers to all the acrimonious debates 
that have raged here on FFL? You think it the *solution* to the fierce 
contesting of what is true, what is right, what is real?

It is a small-minded idea and it cost you nothing. If people are cruel or 
unfair or dishonest--or if they are sincere or fair or honest: this means 
something. To propose what you do here, in what way does that possibly 
encompass what it means to be a human being with an investment in your beliefs 
and feeling for what should count in the universe?

No one is forced even to read anything on FFL--or even post on FFL. Why not, 
since there is so much violent argument, just quit reading and writing on FFL? 
Why, in view of these intense disagreements, not have everyone just stop 
contributing to FFL *so it can just shut down*.

When you make a suggestion like this, the criterion of is validity has to be: 
Does my suggestion somehow take in the reality and meaning of what happens on 
FFL in the controversy over who is right and who is wrong? It seems like a 
perfect solution--what you say here--but does it seem as if that would have 
prevented all the tension and disputation that seems so serious here on FFL?

Again, in argument, in life, one wants to bring an idea or proposition that 
really gathers as much reality into itself, so that it is a just and sensible 
and *meaningful* idea. Yours is the equivalent of saying: Well, if you were 
hurt in love, why ever get romantic with someone again? If you don't like the 
NRA, why do you read about what they have to say about the massacre in Newtown?

You would make your proposal something more significant and truthful than 
authfriend's sincerely felt analysis of the sweet and disinterested 
consciousness in Holland. If I read authfriend's post and then I read yours: Is 
is possible to believe that your post essentially makes authfriend's post 
(about the Holland guy) superfluous?

Look at the response from Holland (to your post): this is the proof of how 
irrelevant and meaningless your admonition was.

Hamlet is a tragedy--it makes people sad. Why not just read comedy?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see

[Share Long]

I don't know.  I'll have to ask her.  




 From: authfriend 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:45 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fw: see photo: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to 
see
 

  
She doesn't really think it's a *photo*, does she? Or
that, if such an alignment were ever to take place (not),
we could actually see what the image depicts?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"  
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius"  
> wrote:
> >
> > Nope, no photo.
> 
> The photo came through in email but not on the website. As for "Earth, the 
> Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone", a quick Google search shows that 
> being claimed to happen on May 20, 2012. Once every 25,000 years? More like 
> twice a year!
> 
> Ordinary mundane existence got you down? Don't just sit there sulking. Pull a 
> planetary alignment out of thin air and everything becomes mystical and full 
> of woo!

> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long  wrote:
> > >
> > > Hope photo comes through...
> > > 
> > > >PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we're about to see, feel and participate
> > > happened between 21 and 23 December and will have its peak 
> > > between 11:16 pm and 11:26 am the morning of 22/12.

Got your verb tenses a little mixed up there. And as noted,
not only are we not about to "see, feel, and participate" it,
it's not happening in the first place.

> Our planet Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with Alcyone,
> the largest star, the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Alcyone is the brightest star in the Pleiades. It is by no
means "the largest star," nor is it in the center of our
galaxy.

> Astrologically marks a special moment because it is an event
> that occurs every 25,000 years

Wrong. There is no such alignment, no such event. Where did
you get all this misinformation?

> and no doubt will be felt within each of us.


 

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[Buck]

It should not go without saying:

Today, our thoughts and gratitude are with those meditators who came out for 
the group magnification, just as we must always honour our heroes. Our 
meditators represented the highest ideals of citizenship, sacrifice and 
service.   This commitment is characteristic of the extraordinary courage, 
skill and patriotism that our meditators show every day in the Domes of 
spiritual Fairfield. We are grateful. We are a special group with an uncommon 
bond that exists only in special karmas of Dharma. I am proud to have served 
with each meditator here. You deserve long and happy lives in peace. 
 -Buck in the Dome 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"  
wrote:
>
> Today, the meteorologico-viatical affliction is greatly diminished, plus the 
> Earth is in perfect orbital alignment with the Sun, so it's a most 
> spiritually auspicious time to go shopping at the indoor farmers market and 
> Everybody's Whole Foods.
> 
> Jai Guru Dev!
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> >
> > Life!  What a beautiful day it is.  The presence of the Unified Field so 
> > streamed live clear all through the end of times yesterday for anyone who 
> > sat with it and had eyes to see it.  It was particularly nice to have the 
> > 8,500 Mayan meditators join us from their mountain top in sync with all the 
> > meditation world-wide.  It was quite a shift spiritually.  It is called 
> > spiritual as a group magnification otherwise known scientifically as the 
> > Meisnner Effect of Natural Law.
> > I attended with It as an old governor and sat with the meditators in the 
> > Peace Palace here through the mid-day magnification.  The Unified Field as 
> > God creator was extremely vivid in Light and Presence flowing in and 
> > through out everyone.  It was extremely beautiful and powerful to Be with.  
> > I am honored to have been here and  had the opportunity to sit with these 
> > other meditators as tuned instruments bringing light in to the world and 
> > human life.  It was one of those days in large spiritual life I will always 
> > remember proudly.  Being part of the group magnification on that Day,
> > -Buck
> > 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y 
> > > > and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because 
> > > > of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
> > > > that happened yesterday,
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Raj Patel: The Gift of Empowerment

[nablusoss1008]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RICpCPCUA_Y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool.
> >
> > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then
> > chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in,
> > prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended
> > adoptive family.
>
> Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water
from
> the location pictured below.

Yes. It's a couple of hundred meters from where I live. Good Googling!

Haarlemerstraat, at the upper left of the ariel view, is Leiden's
main shopping drag. I went shopping on it today, with Paris and
Pippin in their Christmas attire. The photo below shows them in
their little reindeer antlers and Santa hat, but from an earlier
Christmas in Paris, the city. The dogs are a bit greyer around the
muzzle now, as am I. :-)

  [Barry';s Christmas Dogs]

We were quite a hit. Stupidly, I forgot to bring my iPhone (same
camera that took the other photo of the canal) with me, so I don't
have any "reaction shots" of the often-dour Dutch cracking up and
smiling. A few even laughed out loud. I consider that a win.

Even though no one asked, dinner was smashing. We went to a
Thai restaurant called Buddhas (http://www.buddhas.nl/
 ) and
it was delightful -- one of the few Dutch restaurants I've found in
which the food was worth what they were charging for it. Spain
and France spoil you when it comes to eating out.

After dinner we walked around and looked at the Christmas lights
and at the skaters on the rink they have erected over the canal in
front of the town hall. Not Rockefeller Center, but cool. Then I let
the others walk home and I climbed up to the Citadel (a castle
from the 11th century that is one of the oldest (and interestingly,
since it is in the center of Leiden, one of the most silent areas of
the city) and meditated for a while.

  [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2071/2115542556_1343492e48.jpg]

Not because of the so-called Apocalypse, not because I wanted to
tune in to some grand global W00 Woo Fest...just because I felt
like meditating. It was an OK meditation, just your normal, every-
day stuff like seeing visions of Shiva dancing Gangnam style with
an unidentified Hindu goddess almost wearing the sexiest see-
through sari I've ever seen, followed by God herself coming down
for a chat, sharing a champagne glass full of soma with me and
commending me for my infinite patience in dealing with FFL
stalkers.

Oh wait. That didn't happen. I must have been channeling that.
That's what TMers might consider an OK meditation. :-)

Mine was just silence. Pure, infinite silence.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Hurt Community

[Buck]

Xeno, the model of Bevan as the supreme TM leader to follow is different than 
Hagelin's.  The general on the Western Front of the British army at the Somme 
who then again followed after the Somme at Ypres is the better example of 
Bevan.  The commonwealth general was committed to massive infantry frontal 
assault against the machine gun and other modern weaponry well past the time 
when it had been well proven obsolete.  That guy was pig-headed as a character 
trait.  He had all the credentials to leadership and was certainly supremely 
confident in himself, so much so that he could not see any problem with his 
play book or reason to change or do something otherwise.  It was only a matter 
of will to carry the infantry assault to the breakthrough!  On the opening day 
of the Somme the Brits took 20,000 casualties.  Within weeks it was 400,000.  
The flower of Greater Britain.  He had all the credentials and that way of 
confidence about him.  After the Somme he went on and did it again at Ypres 
with another 250,000 casualties.  He got brought home as the unassailable 'hero 
of the Somme'.  Little ground, heavy casualties.  The numbers tell the story of 
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig sort of like the tenure of our university 
President with the movement's Dome numbers.  Like Haig our guy has certainly 
been resolute to a fault.   
-Buck   

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" 
 wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> 
> > Authfriend and Rick Archer are right here about Hagelin.  Hagelin is in it 
> > for the long haul and a tantamount leader of meditators everywhere.  He is 
> > larger than life and among us.  He is extremely sharp witted, funny, he 
> > listens, is methodical, and does not suffer fools.  He has been incredibly 
> > productive in re-mapping the teaching movement strategically from even 
> > before Maharishi died.  You guys who are not here do not see him but he 
> > walks among us and is our wise and careful leader in this.  He is not in a 
> > position to rule by decree as there is a junta to bring along including 
> > Bevan and some other Rajas of varying merit.  Hagelin is a leader in a way 
> > Bevan will probably never be of the larger meditating movement because 
> > Bevan carries the weight of so much bad in his wake.  It is just the way it 
> > is and Bevan has earned his own merit in this.  Hagelin is interesting 
> > because he has emerged with his reputation in tact.  Part figurehead but in 
> > action it is Hagelin more than anyone else who has resuscitated and kept 
> > the old TM teaching movement in tact and put it on the move again.  He 
> > demonstrates a kind of endurance that he also demands of his people with 
> > him.  Here at home or on the trail he is present, visible to us, and 
> > tireless.  This is the guy who is in fact rallying things, skillfully 
> > directing battle, and looked to.  This is not Bevan hold up in some 
> > mansion.  Hagelin is a guy who commands respect by not demanding it.  And 
> > look at the people around him likewise.  He grants a same direct access 
> > from all grades and makes his decisions.  Tireless yet by his willing 
> > sharing the general lot of his people Hagelin engenders admiration as well 
> > as loyalty.  He obviously enjoys being alongside in the old meditating 
> > community with good barbs and dialect.  However in the work of the movement 
> > he certainly imposes authority as if the Unified Field itself had descended 
> > to earth in the form of this common meditator and physicist.
> > I swear my allegiance,
> > -Buck in the Dome
> 
> I have been enjoying your reports Buck. John's speaking style I have always 
> found lackluster, kind of sing-song. He is a really bright guy. I am not so 
> familiar with what he does with the Fairfield community now. I did know him a 
> little bit, long ago, and remember mostly the fiery Margaret fuming over him 
> while he mostly ignored her as he typed away on a computer.
> 
> I think some acting lessons might help his speaking image.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[feste37]

Some of these photos are very, very, hot. Mr. Bater has a good eye for 
beautiful women, but I do wish these young ladies would not get tattoos. It 
spoils them. A total turn-off. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda  wrote:
>
> What a change from this beauty
> 
>   [http://dennisbater.com/images/dennisbater_ad.jpg] to these
> http://dennisbater.com/ 
> So if  someone here at Faith in Fake en Life  "are comfortable in their
> own skin" and are sure to "want" to be shot,  instead of just
> "hop(p)ing"  Dennis Bater is" very understanding"
> You may  take your MUA or a stylists with you to make (you)up  e.g. like
> this
> http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/121124/11/50b121557a850.jpg
> 
> http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/121014/09/507aebbab6fa9.jpg
> 
>   Please,please don't stand Dennis up "but give (him) a few days notice
> to fill that slot".
> And  if you want to take Turquesb with you as a  voyeuristic bodyguard, 
> forget it, not allowed because  "it takes away from the flow between the
> photographer and (you)the model"
> http://www.modelmayhem.com/2255660 
> An option for awoelflebater?
>   [http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/120722/17/500c982b54ac8.jpg]
> Dear Turquesb
> Dear Turquesb
>   please please invite me to sit at  the canal
>   to watch your Herengracht and
> 
> I'll backpedal even from far away into this moment and skim off the
> desperation.Remember the sweat, the joyful loss of breath and the
> promise of every cyclist manically buzzing by
> and soon immerse into the world of Light On Water
> will convert to any drink you offer me
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2esxR1Z6t1U
> 
>  
> [https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR3ht2BgUluFoKva41\
> SzQ2A_x-LXCocHZjOD3K4zvx8lqHRTiYM]
>   [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2465/5701358563_91e8cf8efa_z.jpg]
> 
> and we'll soon  listen to
> De Mus
> immortalized by Dutch poet Jan Hanlo on the side wall of the building at
> Nieuwe Rijn 107
> 
> 
> Tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp tjielp
> tjielp tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp
> tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp
> tjielp tjielp tjielp
> 
> Tjielp
> etc.
> 
> and
> The Sparrow
> 
> Chirp chirp - chirp chirp chirp
> chirp chirp chirp- chirp chirp
> chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp
> chirp chirp chirp
> 
> Chirp
> etc.
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn  wrote:
> >
> > Check out the fake eyelashes! Â I think she'd be prettier without
> them, but I'm just being my judgmental self. Â
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > From: Ann awoelflebater@
> > >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > >Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:42 PM
> > >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Lucky Guy
> > >
> > >
> > >Â
> > >This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
> above the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool.
> > >
> > > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then
> > > chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in,
> > > prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended
> > > adoptive family.
> >
> > Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water
> from
> > the location pictured below.
> 
> Yes. It's a couple of hundred meters from where I live. Good Googling!
> 
> Haarlemerstraat, at the upper left of the ariel view, is Leiden's
> main shopping drag. I went shopping on it today, with Paris and
> Pippin in their Christmas attire. The photo below shows them in
> their little reindeer antlers and Santa hat, but from an earlier
> Christmas in Paris, the city. The dogs are a bit greyer around the
> muzzle now, as am I. :-)
> 
>   [Barry';s Christmas Dogs]
> 
> We were quite a hit. Stupidly, I forgot to bring my iPhone (same
> camera that took the other photo of the canal) with me, so I don't
> have any "reaction shots" of the often-dour Dutch cracking up and
> smiling. A few even laughed out loud. I consider that a win.
> 
> Even though no one asked, dinner was smashing. We went to a
> Thai restaurant called Buddhas (http://www.buddhas.nl/
>  ) and
> it was delightful -- one of the few Dutch restaurants I've found in
> which the food was worth what they were charging for it. Spain
> and France spoil you when it comes to eating out.
> 
> After dinner we walked around and looked at the Christmas lights
> and at the skaters on the rink they have erected over the canal in
> front of the town hall. Not Rockefeller Center, but cool. Then I let
> the others walk home and I climbed up to the Citadel (a castle
> from the 11th century that is one of the oldest (and interestingly,
> since it is in the center of Leiden, one of the most silent areas of
> the city) and meditated for a while.
> 
>   [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2071/2115542556_1343492e48.jpg]
> 
> Not because of the so-called Apocalypse, not because I wanted to
> tune in to some grand global W00 Woo Fest...just because I felt
> like meditating. It was an OK meditation, just your normal, every-
> day stuff like seeing visions of Shiva dancing Gangnam style with
> an unidentified Hindu goddess almost wearing the sexiest see-
> through sari I've ever seen, followed by God herself coming down
> for a chat, sharing a champagne glass full of soma with me and
> commending me for my infinite patience in dealing with FFL
> stalkers.
> 
> Oh wait. That didn't happen. I must have been channeling that.
> That's what TMers might consider an OK meditation. :-)
> 
> Mine was just silence. Pure, infinite silence.

Robin: Well, that's good, Barry. In fact that's *really* good. "Pure, infinite 
silence". 

You are a fun guy, Barry. Did Curtis every get around to telling you that you 
weren't supposed to eat Irish children because of the shortage of potatoes?

I don't believe authfriend has ever said anything about you that was 
objectively false. And yet, you have never come back at her to refute her--You 
think her severe analysis of you refutes itself?

Your hatred of FF, TM, the TMO, and MMY: this tempts you into deliberate 
exaggeration and misrepresentation of your own meditation experience: "Pure, 
infinite silence": this is a description motivated by your antipathy about TM & 
MMY--Did that cynicism not exist, you would probably have said: "It was 
pleasant enough. Quite relaxing. But no big deal."

The "pure, infinite silence": Simply an anti-Bevan remark.

Although I don't disagree with you--contra Buck--about the charismatic 
potential John Hagelin. 

Eliot said that Santayana's philosophy lectures at Harvard were soporific. I 
like the mystery of tragedy in Bevan more than the unseriousness (in some 
unpreventable way) of soul in John Hagelin. Santayana, he would seem on fire.

Merry Christmas, Barry. Your dogs look like they don't know who you are.

Not enough individuation of first person ontology.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

It's early in the week but already we have a strong contender for the "Joke of 
the Week" ! The Turq on meditation:
 
> Mine was just silence. Pure, infinite silence.

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
>
> It should not go without saying:
>
> Today, our thoughts and gratitude are with those meditators who came
out for the group magnification, just as we must always honour our
heroes. Our meditators represented the highest ideals of citizenship,
sacrifice and service.   This commitment is characteristic of the
extraordinary courage, skill and patriotism that our meditators show
every day in the Domes of spiritual Fairfield. We are grateful. We are a
special group with an uncommon bond that exists only in special karmas
of Dharma. I am proud to have served with each meditator here. You
deserve long and happy lives in peace.
>  -Buck in the Dome
>
What did you sacrifice? What form does your heroism take? What is a
"hero" in your estimation? How does meditating qualify one as
demonstrating the highest ideals of citizenship? To what country? How
does meditating demonstrate "extraordinary courage"? Skill? I would like
to hear what you have to say to clarify this.
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"
j_alexander_stanley@ wrote:
> >
> > Today, the meteorologico-viatical affliction is greatly diminished,
plus the Earth is in perfect orbital alignment with the Sun, so it's a
most spiritually auspicious time to go shopping at the indoor farmers
market and Everybody's Whole Foods.
> >
> > Jai Guru Dev!
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Life!  What a beautiful day it is.  The presence of the Unified
Field so streamed live clear all through the end of times yesterday for
anyone who sat with it and had eyes to see it.  It was particularly nice
to have the 8,500 Mayan meditators join us from their mountain top in
sync with all the meditation world-wide.  It was quite a shift
spiritually.  It is called spiritual as a group magnification otherwise
known scientifically as the Meisnner Effect of Natural Law.
> > > I attended with It as an old governor and sat with the meditators
in the Peace Palace here through the mid-day magnification.  The Unified
Field as God creator was extremely vivid in Light and Presence flowing
in and through out everyone.  It was extremely beautiful and powerful to
Be with.  I am honored to have been here and  had the opportunity to sit
with these other meditators as tuned instruments bringing light in to
the world and human life.  It was one of those days in large spiritual
life I will always remember proudly.  Being part of the group
magnification on that Day,
> > > -Buck
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y
> > > > > and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because
> > > > > of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
> > > > > that happened yesterday,
> > >
> >
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches

[Emily Reyn]

Could be.  I've always been told I was an "old soul," but it was mostly a 
pick-up line when I was younger.  I have no doubt I'll be back again in Kali 
Yuga.  And my intuition tells me you will too.  



>
> From: Share Long 
>To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"  
>Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 6:32 AM
>Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
> 
>
>  
>Hmmm, could it be that we three are a bit ancient compared to you? (-:
>Anyway, glad it just gets better and better, woo woo or not
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Emily Reyn 
>To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"  
>Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 12:01 AM
>Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
> 
>
>  
>Gz, I don't know about you three.  I woke up grounded, centered, clear, 
>and out of the higher and higher anxiety I've been experiencing most of this 
>month.  So high, in fact, I was waking up in tears the last two days and 
>spontaneously crying my way through the whole day.  It's a good thing it's 
>been raining here - no one can tell on my ever-longer dog walks.  This AM, I 
>woke up early and completely calm - it was very woo woo as I was expecting 
>another day of emotional hell.  Of course, not believing in the power of 
>12-21-12, I am going to start with some preventative actions in my daily life 
>- I suck at self-care.  Anyhow, a welcome relief.  And then, the fortune in my 
>fortune cookie tonight said "this is a good month to take a financial risk."  
>It just gets better and better
>
>
>
>>
>> From: seventhray27 
>>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>>Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 12:21 PM
>>Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Crutches
>> 
>>
>>  
>>I just checked in for a moment.  Tell me you're kidding.  This morning, 
>>getting ready for work, I was getting my coat out of the closet and my wife 
>>was close by checking the mail.  I had to step to the side of her where there 
>>happened to be a desk lamp we had recently purchased at an estate sale.  I 
>>knocked it over and it broke, and I had a mini tirade.  I apologized to her, 
>>and proceeded with my day. She of course had done nothing wrong, and my 
>>tirade wasn't directed at her, but just one of those, "why do I have to fight 
>>so hard for everything little thing" type of tirade. 
>>
>>
>>Anyway.  In better balance now.  Got to be.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hmmm, must be something in the planets.  I bashed into my Mom's glass
 coffee table with my knee.  Had to apologize to her afterwards for the 
cussing that ensued.  Hope you feel better soon.  I bet that Carol O of Bat 
would know who has crutches.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  From: Rick Archer rick@...
>>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:05 AM
>>> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Crutches
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   
>>> Does anyone here in FF have a pair of crutches I may borrow? I slipped on 
>>> the ice and hurt my knee.
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> 
>
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[doctordumbass]

A premature congrats to you! As the Doctor would say, "This is a positive 
development". I admire your SPUNK. This makes almost two positive posts for 
you, in a row! Granted you have years ahead of you as the nice guy, to create 
the true impression of your fantasy, and yet, hey, you gotta start somewhere - 
don't let us down, and glad to see you pushed into this corner of your mind - 
Please, for God's sake, stay there. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool.
> > >
> > > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then
> > > chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in,
> > > prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended
> > > adoptive family.
> >
> > Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water
> from
> > the location pictured below.
> 
> Yes. It's a couple of hundred meters from where I live. Good Googling!
> 
> Haarlemerstraat, at the upper left of the ariel view, is Leiden's
> main shopping drag. I went shopping on it today, with Paris and
> Pippin in their Christmas attire. The photo below shows them in
> their little reindeer antlers and Santa hat, but from an earlier
> Christmas in Paris, the city. The dogs are a bit greyer around the
> muzzle now, as am I. :-)
> 
>   [Barry';s Christmas Dogs]
> 
> We were quite a hit. Stupidly, I forgot to bring my iPhone (same
> camera that took the other photo of the canal) with me, so I don't
> have any "reaction shots" of the often-dour Dutch cracking up and
> smiling. A few even laughed out loud. I consider that a win.
> 
> Even though no one asked, dinner was smashing. We went to a
> Thai restaurant called Buddhas (http://www.buddhas.nl/
>  ) and
> it was delightful -- one of the few Dutch restaurants I've found in
> which the food was worth what they were charging for it. Spain
> and France spoil you when it comes to eating out.
> 
> After dinner we walked around and looked at the Christmas lights
> and at the skaters on the rink they have erected over the canal in
> front of the town hall. Not Rockefeller Center, but cool. Then I let
> the others walk home and I climbed up to the Citadel (a castle
> from the 11th century that is one of the oldest (and interestingly,
> since it is in the center of Leiden, one of the most silent areas of
> the city) and meditated for a while.
> 
>   [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2071/2115542556_1343492e48.jpg]
> 
> Not because of the so-called Apocalypse, not because I wanted to
> tune in to some grand global W00 Woo Fest...just because I felt
> like meditating. It was an OK meditation, just your normal, every-
> day stuff like seeing visions of Shiva dancing Gangnam style with
> an unidentified Hindu goddess almost wearing the sexiest see-
> through sari I've ever seen, followed by God herself coming down
> for a chat, sharing a champagne glass full of soma with me and
> commending me for my infinite patience in dealing with FFL
> stalkers.
> 
> Oh wait. That didn't happen. I must have been channeling that.
> That's what TMers might consider an OK meditation. :-)
> 
> Mine was just silence. Pure, infinite silence.
>

[FairfieldLife] Hey, Curtis...

[turquoiseb]

...not that I'm picking on you or anything, it's just that I thought
you'd be a good person to aim this generic rap at, because I think
you'll get it, whereas many here will not.  :-)

Have you ever noticed that the Hater Tots on Fairfield Life tend to
react the most strongly, the most vehemently, and the most
out-of-control angrily when we post something creative, something that
reflects the FUN we're having in the moment of having written it?

It's like something in them feels the need to warp reality into their
shadow view of it:

  [http://i.huffpost.com/gen/867522/thumbs/s-ILLUSION-large300.jpg?4]
In this case (the illusion), the chair is bent but as the result of
careful spotlight placement the shadow seems normal. The Hater Tots tend
to do the opposite -- they see an interesting reality, and transform it
in their minds (and in their posted words) into something misshapen,
something hateful. Go figure.

I sometimes wonder about this phenomenon. It's not -- obviously -- as if
I lose any sleep over this pondering, or actually spend any time
actually pondering it, but I sometimes wonder what it IS in some people
that makes them believe that because they post something on an Internet
forum, someone OWES them for their efforts.

They see something that someone else has written and they react to it.
Sometimes rather strongly. Rather than deal with the essence of what the
other person said that pushed their buttons and that put them into
reactive mode, they focus all of their button-pushéd wrath on the
person who said it.

It's like on some level they're screaming, "How DARE they be having FUN
with their lives when we've spent so much time and energy trying to
prevent that? How DARE they get positive feedback from other posters
here *for* having FUN with their lives when we've done all that we could
possibly do over the years to "poison the well" and try to insure that
no one EVER views them positively?" Go figure.

I've always identified with the title of a great little book about
American expats in Paris during the Golden Age of Expats. It was all
about the era that Woody Allen romanticized so well in his film
"Midnight In Paris," the era of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and
Cole Porter and Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Dali
and Bunuel and Man Ray and Josephine Baker together in Paris, the last
era in which the City Of Lights really blazed with creative light. I
always loved the title of the book. It seemed to get the point,
especially when it came to these free-thinkers, hounded and chased out
of their native lands, only to end up in a Better Place, having a Better
Time than those who had chased them away.

The name of the book was "Living Well Is The Best Revenge."

Here's my thinking...if the people who seem to have dedicated their
lives to hounding US, and to trying to make us feel as bummed out and
dead-ended as they must feel seem to be so powerfully affected by
indications that we're having a good time with our lives, we should just
strive to have even MORE of a good time with our lives, and to post
about these good times on FFL.

Is that mean of me? Does that make me look like a sadist, or as some
would suggest, a psychopath?

I think it just makes me look like someone who cares more about having a
good time than about the opinions of those who have never -- in some
cases given over 22, 550 posts to FFL -- demonstrated their ability to
have one. They can live in the past and base their lives and their
behavior on past impressions if they want to. I, for one, feel no need
to do so. Today is today, and damn!...it's kinda groovy. Given any luck,
it could turn into a groovy future. :-)

 
[https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/12155_5162658650\
73531_151404639_n.jpg]


  

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[doctordumbass]

LOL - just as the balloons of hot air have reigned for such a damned long time, 
the needles of discrimination are beginning to emerge!!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
>
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> >
> > It should not go without saying:
> >
> > Today, our thoughts and gratitude are with those meditators who came
> out for the group magnification, just as we must always honour our
> heroes. Our meditators represented the highest ideals of citizenship,
> sacrifice and service.   This commitment is characteristic of the
> extraordinary courage, skill and patriotism that our meditators show
> every day in the Domes of spiritual Fairfield. We are grateful. We are a
> special group with an uncommon bond that exists only in special karmas
> of Dharma. I am proud to have served with each meditator here. You
> deserve long and happy lives in peace.
> >  -Buck in the Dome
> >
> What did you sacrifice? What form does your heroism take? What is a
> "hero" in your estimation? How does meditating qualify one as
> demonstrating the highest ideals of citizenship? To what country? How
> does meditating demonstrate "extraordinary courage"? Skill? I would like
> to hear what you have to say to clarify this.
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"
> j_alexander_stanley@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Today, the meteorologico-viatical affliction is greatly diminished,
> plus the Earth is in perfect orbital alignment with the Sun, so it's a
> most spiritually auspicious time to go shopping at the indoor farmers
> market and Everybody's Whole Foods.
> > >
> > > Jai Guru Dev!
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Life!  What a beautiful day it is.  The presence of the Unified
> Field so streamed live clear all through the end of times yesterday for
> anyone who sat with it and had eyes to see it.  It was particularly nice
> to have the 8,500 Mayan meditators join us from their mountain top in
> sync with all the meditation world-wide.  It was quite a shift
> spiritually.  It is called spiritual as a group magnification otherwise
> known scientifically as the Meisnner Effect of Natural Law.
> > > > I attended with It as an old governor and sat with the meditators
> in the Peace Palace here through the mid-day magnification.  The Unified
> Field as God creator was extremely vivid in Light and Presence flowing
> in and through out everyone.  It was extremely beautiful and powerful to
> Be with.  I am honored to have been here and  had the opportunity to sit
> with these other meditators as tuned instruments bringing light in to
> the world and human life.  It was one of those days in large spiritual
> life I will always remember proudly.  Being part of the group
> magnification on that Day,
> > > > -Buck
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y
> > > > > > and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because
> > > > > > of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
> > > > > > that happened yesterday,
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] A famous opera sextet aria

[emptybill]

The famous sextet aria "Chi me frena in tal momento" from Lucia
di Lammermoor with Anna Netrebko


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ghb8sjV734

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, Curtis...

[doctordumbass]

Sure. OK. Prove it to me Barry. Keep having fun. Keep writing about the fun you 
are having. Even if the only way you can have fun is to justify it as getting 
back at your perceived hater tots. I don't care about the reason. I just want 
to keep reading about you having fun! So, please go have some fun, and then 
write me about it. On your mark, get set, GO!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> ...not that I'm picking on you or anything, it's just that I thought
> you'd be a good person to aim this generic rap at, because I think
> you'll get it, whereas many here will not.  :-)
> 
> Have you ever noticed that the Hater Tots on Fairfield Life tend to
> react the most strongly, the most vehemently, and the most
> out-of-control angrily when we post something creative, something that
> reflects the FUN we're having in the moment of having written it?
> 
> It's like something in them feels the need to warp reality into their
> shadow view of it:
> 
>   [http://i.huffpost.com/gen/867522/thumbs/s-ILLUSION-large300.jpg?4]
> In this case (the illusion), the chair is bent but as the result of
> careful spotlight placement the shadow seems normal. The Hater Tots tend
> to do the opposite -- they see an interesting reality, and transform it
> in their minds (and in their posted words) into something misshapen,
> something hateful. Go figure.
> 
> I sometimes wonder about this phenomenon. It's not -- obviously -- as if
> I lose any sleep over this pondering, or actually spend any time
> actually pondering it, but I sometimes wonder what it IS in some people
> that makes them believe that because they post something on an Internet
> forum, someone OWES them for their efforts.
> 
> They see something that someone else has written and they react to it.
> Sometimes rather strongly. Rather than deal with the essence of what the
> other person said that pushed their buttons and that put them into
> reactive mode, they focus all of their button-pushéd wrath on the
> person who said it.
> 
> It's like on some level they're screaming, "How DARE they be having FUN
> with their lives when we've spent so much time and energy trying to
> prevent that? How DARE they get positive feedback from other posters
> here *for* having FUN with their lives when we've done all that we could
> possibly do over the years to "poison the well" and try to insure that
> no one EVER views them positively?" Go figure.
> 
> I've always identified with the title of a great little book about
> American expats in Paris during the Golden Age of Expats. It was all
> about the era that Woody Allen romanticized so well in his film
> "Midnight In Paris," the era of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and
> Cole Porter and Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Dali
> and Bunuel and Man Ray and Josephine Baker together in Paris, the last
> era in which the City Of Lights really blazed with creative light. I
> always loved the title of the book. It seemed to get the point,
> especially when it came to these free-thinkers, hounded and chased out
> of their native lands, only to end up in a Better Place, having a Better
> Time than those who had chased them away.
> 
> The name of the book was "Living Well Is The Best Revenge."
> 
> Here's my thinking...if the people who seem to have dedicated their
> lives to hounding US, and to trying to make us feel as bummed out and
> dead-ended as they must feel seem to be so powerfully affected by
> indications that we're having a good time with our lives, we should just
> strive to have even MORE of a good time with our lives, and to post
> about these good times on FFL.
> 
> Is that mean of me? Does that make me look like a sadist, or as some
> would suggest, a psychopath?
> 
> I think it just makes me look like someone who cares more about having a
> good time than about the opinions of those who have never -- in some
> cases given over 22, 550 posts to FFL -- demonstrated their ability to
> have one. They can live in the past and base their lives and their
> behavior on past impressions if they want to. I, for one, feel no need
> to do so. Today is today, and damn!...it's kinda groovy. Given any luck,
> it could turn into a groovy future. :-)
> 
>  
> [https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/12155_5162658650\
> 73531_151404639_n.jpg]
> 
> 
>   
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[Bhairitu]

On 12/22/2012 01:33 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" 
>  wrote:
>> ... As for "Earth, the Moon and Sun are aligned with
>> Alcyone", a quick Google search shows that being
>> claimed to happen on May 20, 2012. Once every 25,000
>> years? More like twice a year!
>>
>> Ordinary mundane existence got you down? Don't just
>> sit there sulking. Pull a planetary alignment out of
>> thin air and everything becomes mystical and full of woo!
> And the world suddenly becomes all sugar plum-y
> and perfect and Age Of Enlightenment-y because
> of the HUUGE shift in the planetary energies
> that happened yesterday, right. Hey...I know...
> let's look at the News to see how the world is
> coping with it being such a Heaven On Earth, eh?

Except there was no huge shift in planetary energies.  Anyone who 
actually knows astrology would know that.  What you had was BAD 
astrology by BAD astrologers. :-D

What we do see is how people who by now given all the years they've 
meditated should not be obsessed by anything but they still are.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[Bhairitu]

On 12/22/2012 02:07 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
>
> Here in the Netherlands, things are somewhat quieter.
> Scanning the local news, I see that the Big Story is
> about the guy who imbibed a bit too much Christmas
> cheer and drove his bicycle into the canal. Bystanders
> pulled him out. No one was shot, in the entire country.

They didn't report that Steve Jobs yacht had been impounded?  That was 
the big news out of Holland yesterday where it was moored.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/steve-jobs-yacht-impounded-over-unpaid-bill-1C7659308

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[Emily Reyn]

Merudanda is magical.  



>
> From: Ann 
>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 6:25 AM
>Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy
> 
>
>  
>
>
>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda  wrote:
>>
>> we're lucky having you
>> here at FFLife   too
>> 
>> have a great cosy holiday
>
>And you too; I feel honoured to be remembered by you, you are beautiful and 
>special in who you are and how and what you post. And now you have chosen this 
>very wonderful picture of these horses, you have an aesthetic that even 
>allowed you to pick that so appropriately. They look a lot like horses my 
>friends own - OH MY GOD! They are my friend's horses, it is Foxstone Stables, 
>my very good friend and former jumper trainer Norah Ross runs that bar - I 
>thought it looked Kupido and probably Kenzo. How did you find THAT?? They are 
>father and son. 
>> 
>>   [http://www.foxstonestable.com/images/stallion16.jpg]
>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" jr_esq@ wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Ann,
>> > >
>> > > Is that your picture?  If it is, he is indeed very lucky. :)
>> >
>> > No,alas. I am older, blonder and far less exotic looking but he is
>> lucky to be married to me nonetheless!
>> > >
>> > > JR
>> > >
>> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann"  wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
>> above
>> > > > the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
>> > > >
>> > > >   [fbPhotosSnowliftCaption]
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>
>
> 
>
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

> Just as a comparison, the number of dead and 
> injured during this fairly normal week in America
> (over 100) is larger than the number of people 
> killed or injured in the Netherlands in firearm-
> related incidents in the last year and a half.

For the record, the appropriate way to compare gun
violence in the U.S. vs. the Netherlands takes
account of the significant difference in population
size of the two countries. There's still a lot more
of it here, but the statistic above doesn't really
give you any idea of how *much* more. Just citing
these totals without reference to population makes
the difference sound much greater than it is.

The population of the Netherlands is less than 6
percent that of the U.S. Per 100,000 population, the
U.S. has about 3 times the number of gun homicides
as the Netherlands.

Re: [FairfieldLife] A famous opera sextet aria

[Emily Reyn]

Ho ho ho...this is wonderful.  Such a beautiful mix of voicessuch 
lyricswhat a scene.  



>
> From: emptybill 
>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:10 AM
>Subject: [FairfieldLife] A famous opera sextet aria
> 
>
>  
>The famous sextet aria "Chi
me frena in tal momento" from Lucia di Lammermoor with Anna Netrebko
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ghb8sjV734
>
>
> 
>
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> On 12/22/2012 02:07 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
> >
> > Here in the Netherlands, things are somewhat quieter.
> > Scanning the local news, I see that the Big Story is
> > about the guy who imbibed a bit too much Christmas
> > cheer and drove his bicycle into the canal. Bystanders
> > pulled him out. No one was shot, in the entire country.
> 
> They didn't report that Steve Jobs yacht had been impounded?  
> That was the big news out of Holland yesterday where it was 
> moored.
> 
> http://www.nbcnews.com/business/steve-jobs-yacht-impounded-over-unpaid-bill-1C7659308

Steve who?

:-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

> Card, what you don't understand is that some people
> cannot tell the difference between being compelled
> to do something by their *own* obsessions and hatreds,
> and being "forced" to do it by something outside of
> themselves. 
> 
> You and many others seem to have no problem picking
> and choosing among the posts here, and focusing only
> on the ones that interest you. But "something" or
> "someone" is FORCING Judy and the people she refers
> to as "We" to read them and get all purple-faced
> apoplectic about what they read. Poor babies.  :-)

Typical psychopath's reaction in response to criticism
of his behavior: blame the victims.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[PaliGap]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"  
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card"  wrote:
> >
> > Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how
> > anybody would be forced to read what Barry, or anyone
> > else, for that matter, writes... :o
> 
> Hey, wait a minute! You mean I'm the only one being forced by you to learn 
> Vedic Sanskrit?

What a relief. So glad you've 'come out'. I thought it was just me.
Can I now just bin all these Sanskrit declension primers I've
invested in? Blimey, what. Could this mean I get some time to
myself? Finally!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, Curtis...

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> ...not that I'm picking on you or anything, it's just that I thought
> you'd be a good person to aim this generic rap at, because I think
> you'll get it, whereas many here will not.  :-)
> 
> Have you ever noticed that the Hater Tots on Fairfield Life tend to
> react the most strongly, the most vehemently, and the most
> out-of-control angrily when we post something creative, something that
> reflects the FUN we're having in the moment of having written it?

A clear lie. I enjoy your posts when you are not vicious and stupid, Barry. 
These recent ones (except for the part I singled out) were quite wonderful--as 
are many of Curtis's posts.

I can assure you, when you write passionately in some way which is not the 
occasion to say silly and tendentious (and untrue) things, I enjoy your 
writing--and even hold out some notion of you being a really good guy.

But examples like this, destroy whatever credibility you might have. You think 
I look for confirmation of my judgment of you, Barry? You are wrong. I look for 
redemption posts. 

One thing that is always the case with you, Barry: when someone goes after you, 
your reaction always expresses itself in the form of exactly what the person's 
description is of you. You are always proving the charges against you. Whereas 
all you would have to do is to deny what someone says about you FROM THE PLACE 
WHERE YOU KNOW IT IS NOT TRUE.

As it is, you attack from inside the very character of yourself which has been 
the subject of satire or devastating judgment. 

I have no hatred for you--and I liked your photographs and your essay.

But what you say here--pleading with your friend Curtis who is now 
heart-to-heart with Ravi (and appreciative of Authfriend's humour)--is what 
gives you bad press around here--did act upon laughinggull's exhortation to 
read my post to Curtis?

Nobody hates on this forum except you, Barry.

Does this post manifest the frustration and meanness you accuse me and others 
of harbouring in our souls because you (and Curtis) are HAVING SUCH A GOOD TIME 
OUT THERE?

You'll figure it out some day, Barry; I am pretty sure of this. But you might 
have to give up everything before this happens. But that it will happen, I am 
convinced of this.

The people who give you the hard time you deserve, they are the most loving 
among us, I reckon.

You there, Barry? Send me some Christmas love, I am lonely.



> It's like something in them feels the need to warp reality into their
> shadow view of it:
> 
>   [http://i.huffpost.com/gen/867522/thumbs/s-ILLUSION-large300.jpg?4]
> In this case (the illusion), the chair is bent but as the result of
> careful spotlight placement the shadow seems normal. The Hater Tots tend
> to do the opposite -- they see an interesting reality, and transform it
> in their minds (and in their posted words) into something misshapen,
> something hateful. Go figure.
> 
> I sometimes wonder about this phenomenon. It's not -- obviously -- as if
> I lose any sleep over this pondering, or actually spend any time
> actually pondering it, but I sometimes wonder what it IS in some people
> that makes them believe that because they post something on an Internet
> forum, someone OWES them for their efforts.
> 
> They see something that someone else has written and they react to it.
> Sometimes rather strongly. Rather than deal with the essence of what the
> other person said that pushed their buttons and that put them into
> reactive mode, they focus all of their button-pushéd wrath on the
> person who said it.
> 
> It's like on some level they're screaming, "How DARE they be having FUN
> with their lives when we've spent so much time and energy trying to
> prevent that? How DARE they get positive feedback from other posters
> here *for* having FUN with their lives when we've done all that we could
> possibly do over the years to "poison the well" and try to insure that
> no one EVER views them positively?" Go figure.
> 
> I've always identified with the title of a great little book about
> American expats in Paris during the Golden Age of Expats. It was all
> about the era that Woody Allen romanticized so well in his film
> "Midnight In Paris," the era of Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and
> Cole Porter and Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Dali
> and Bunuel and Man Ray and Josephine Baker together in Paris, the last
> era in which the City Of Lights really blazed with creative light. I
> always loved the title of the book. It seemed to get the point,
> especially when it came to these free-thinkers, hounded and chased out
> of their native lands, only to end up in a Better Place, having a Better
> Time than those who had chased them away.
> 
> The name of the book was "Living Well Is The Best Revenge."
> 
> Here's my thinking...if the people who seem to have dedicated their
> lives to hounding US, and to trying to make us feel as bummed out and
> de

[FairfieldLife] Re: A famous opera sextet aria

[emptybill]

Better scene than obscene.
Glad you enjoyed it.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn  wrote:
>
> Ho ho ho...this is wonderful. Â Such a beautiful mix of
voicessuch lyricswhat a scene. Â
>
>
>
> >
> > From: emptybill emptybill@...
> >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> >Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:10 AM
> >Subject: [FairfieldLife] A famous opera sextet aria
> >
> >
> >Â
> >The famous sextet aria "Chi
> me frena in tal momento" from Lucia di Lammermoor with Anna Netrebko
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ghb8sjV734
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas

[PaliGap]

Was this Texas in winter WillyTex? Or is Texas - nay, surely
not - lacking in something?

Best of Texas:
http://youtu.be/Y7SezI3PgTI

Merry Christmas Willy.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams"  wrote:
>
> mjackson74:
> > Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the
> > New Year brings goodness and contentment to everyone.
> >
> Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and everyone!
> 
>  
>  >
>

[FairfieldLife] Auditory Christmas

[turquoiseb]

Having just returned from a walk with Paris and 
Pippin, I can report that Leiden, Netherlands
still announces its fervor for the Christmas 
season using church bells.

Because one of my moonlighting gigs involves
ghostwriting articles for audiologists who hope
to make money by pretending that they actually
write the articles on their websites (*most* of
the the articles written by "doctors" on the
Internet don't really have anything to do with
the actual writing of them), I can report that
reality just *isn't* the way you perceive it
to be. :-)

One of the things I learned in my ghostwriting
activities for these sleazeball audiologists
is that the human ear is remarkably *directional*, 
meaning that it can accurately interpret the 
approximate physical source of a sound, just
by hearing it. 

Tonight, as I was walking my dogs, I located
no fewer than five different sources of church
bells, calling the few "faithful" who heard them
to prayer, in my neighborhood. On the walk, I
passed three of them. No one was responding to
the "call." 

You can parse that information however you choose
to. I'm just presenting the facts. You can spin
them any way you want to. :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas

[Michael Jackson]

I have to admit reading your experience made me cry again. I felt like a 
traitor for not being willing to do anything and everything possible to keep 
her alive. I even have a holistic vet friend who was willing to guide me with 
regards to diet, herbs and treatment (she lives in Spokane and was Shakti's vet 
years ago when she lived in SC)

The night before I was up about half the night, and as I sat with her, I could 
tell or at least I felt she was already not fully in her body - the other thing 
was for me to choose to keep her alive I would have had to move her to my new 
place and she would have had to become an indoor cat after nearly 18 years of 
traipsing around in the woods outside my old house - I just didn't want to put 
her through the stress of a new strange environment and then have to put her to 
sleep in that strange environment - the vet I took her to said she might have a 
year, or she might go down hill in 2-3 weeks. (it was kidney failure - we 
completely missed what few symptoms were there - mainly drinking way more water 
than she usually did - in fact that was the only symptom for about 3 months and 
I was stupid enough to be happy that she was being well hydrated)

I just wanted her to go in the same place she had lived and known for all those 
years - it was still a very strange thing to place her on the table after they 
had give the tranquilizer and step back so the vet and her assistant could 
administer the euthanasia drug.

She survived all those years, lost an eye to our other cat when she was about 
4, got bitten by a copperhead once, escaped a fox that chased her right up the 
cat ladder that led to her cat door in the window, brought innumerable live 
mice into the house and let them loose, plus the 2 flying squirrels she let 
loose in my bedroom - she even caught a bat one night - that really freaked me 
out - I didn't know it was possible for a cat to catch a bat.

Once my roommate had planted some small bushes that died mysteriously until she 
pulled on one and it came straight up in her hand - from having been bitten 
half into by a mole - she was so mad - she looked around at Shakti and said 
"Why don't you go kill those moles?"


Less than 5 minutes later Shakti came up with the muffled maowing that denoted 
a kill and damned if she didn't have a mole in her mouth.

So thank you Curtis and everyone for your condolences - I really appreciate it 
more than I can say. 





 From: curtisdeltablues 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:27 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
 

  
I feel for you.  I was in your shoes for my 18 YO Abyssinian two years ago 
around this time of year.  I'm glad you were able to make this final act of 
kindness, and I know it is hard.

I was preparing my guitar case for a show last month.  I found a few 
distinctively ticked brown hairs in it and it brought instant tears.

Ginger used to love to lie in the soft interior of my guitar cases, even though 
I would constantly chase her out because the top could fall on her.  When I 
would catch her, usually as I was packing for a show, she would raise up her 
tiny head, defiant.  My preliminary scolding hiss would only make her hunker 
down deeper into the plush.

"Make me", her steady eyes conveyed.

Once again I would reach in and scoop her up placing her on her much plusher, 
but not forbidden so less interesting, bed.  She would stretch, give me one 
last withering gaze, and settle into a nap, triumphant in getting me to react, 
which was the whole point of the exercise.

All the best for your own healing heart. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> Yeah too many posts last week and I had to have my 18 year old cat put to 
> sleep - I was very attached to her - so I been kinda quiet since then
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  From: authfriend 
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:59 PM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
> 
> 
>   
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mjackson74"  wrote:
> >
> > Hope everyone has a very fine holiday(s) and the New Year brings
> > goodness and contentment to everyone.
> 
> Thanks, Michael, and to you as well. Missed you this past week!
>


 

[FairfieldLife] Happy Christmas FFL

[Bob Price]

Happy Christmas FFL


For TURQB



http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken



For EMILY



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM



For SEVENTHRAY27



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y



For LORDKNOWS:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw



For CM



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen



For RAUNCHY



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk



For RAJA RAVI:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I



For EMPTYBILL:



http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up



For AUTHFRIEND: 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU



For SHARE



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk



For LG



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU



For ANN



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI



For BUCK



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw



For MASKEDZEBRA:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI


HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE  
   

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, Curtis...

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:

> In this case (the illusion), the chair is bent but as the
> result of careful spotlight placement the shadow seems normal.
> The Hater Tots tend to do the opposite -- they see an
> interesting reality, and transform it in their minds (and in
> their posted words) into something misshapen, something
> hateful. Go figure.

Notice the very deliberate and malicious twisting here
(because Curtis surely will not point it out):

Nobody was criticizing Barry's "Light on Water" post--to
the contrary. The issue was that although he's perfectly
capable of posting something pleasant, like that post, he
almost always chooses to post something unpleasant, like
the post I'm responding to.


> Here's my thinking...if the people who seem to have dedicated
> their lives to hounding US, and to trying to make us feel as
> bummed out and dead-ended as they must feel seem to be so 
> powerfully affected by indications that we're having a good
> time with our lives, we should just strive to have even MORE
> of a good time with our lives, and to post about these good
> times on FFL.

Here's a challenge: For two weeks, post *only* about the
good times in your life. Don't allow any zingers to creep
in, no putdowns, no criticisms. Just be 100 percent positive.

See if you find anybody hounding you.

(You might want to fix your bungled syntax in the first part
of the sentence above. In my observation, you tend to do that
a lot when you're upset.)

> Is that mean of me? Does that make me look like a sadist, or
> as some would suggest, a psychopath?

Here's what makes you look like a psychopath:

> I think it just makes me look like someone who cares more
> about having a good time than about the opinions of those
> who have never -- in some cases given over 22,550 posts to
> FFL -- demonstrated their ability to have one.

You give yourself away once again: For you, considering
that about 95 percent of your posts involve bashing the
folks you don't like, that's what you consider "having a
good time."

Come to think of it, makes you look like a sadist too.

And BTW, there is nobody on FFL such as you describe
above. (Chronic lying is one of the primary characteristics
of the psychopath.)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Auditory Christmas

[Michael Jackson]

There must be something wrong with me then cause I am not good at figuring out 
where sounds are coming from, especially in the woods where I have been living.

How long have you lived in the Netherlands?





 From: turquoiseb 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 1:06 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Auditory Christmas
 

  
Having just returned from a walk with Paris and 
Pippin, I can report that Leiden, Netherlands
still announces its fervor for the Christmas 
season using church bells.

Because one of my moonlighting gigs involves
ghostwriting articles for audiologists who hope
to make money by pretending that they actually
write the articles on their websites (*most* of
the the articles written by "doctors" on the
Internet don't really have anything to do with
the actual writing of them), I can report that
reality just *isn't* the way you perceive it
to be. :-)

One of the things I learned in my ghostwriting
activities for these sleazeball audiologists
is that the human ear is remarkably *directional*, 
meaning that it can accurately interpret the 
approximate physical source of a sound, just
by hearing it. 

Tonight, as I was walking my dogs, I located
no fewer than five different sources of church
bells, calling the few "faithful" who heard them
to prayer, in my neighborhood. On the walk, I
passed three of them. No one was responding to
the "call." 

You can parse that information however you choose
to. I'm just presenting the facts. You can spin
them any way you want to. :-)


 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas

[authfriend]

Michael, you *absolutely* did the right thing, as painful as
it was for you. Humans can live meaningful, fulfilling lives
even if the *quality* of their lives is circumscribed by
illlness, because they have virtually infinite mental and
spiritual resources to draw on.

For animals, quality of life is much more important because
their other resources are limited, at least comparatively
speaking. It is not kind to an animal to prolong its life
if the quality is seriously diminished. We tend to want to
do that for ourselves because we love the animal and don't
want to lose it, but it's a greater act of love to be
willing to let the animal go.



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> I have to admit reading your experience made me cry again. I felt like a 
> traitor for not being willing to do anything and everything possible to keep 
> her alive. I even have a holistic vet friend who was willing to guide me with 
> regards to diet, herbs and treatment (she lives in Spokane and was Shakti's 
> vet years ago when she lived in SC)
> 
> The night before I was up about half the night, and as I sat with her, I 
> could tell or at least I felt she was already not fully in her body - the 
> other thing was for me to choose to keep her alive I would have had to move 
> her to my new place and she would have had to become an indoor cat after 
> nearly 18 years of traipsing around in the woods outside my old house - I 
> just didn't want to put her through the stress of a new strange environment 
> and then have to put her to sleep in that strange environment - the vet I 
> took her to said she might have a year, or she might go down hill in 2-3 
> weeks. (it was kidney failure - we completely missed what few symptoms were 
> there - mainly drinking way more water than she usually did - in fact that 
> was the only symptom for about 3 months and I was stupid enough to be happy 
> that she was being well hydrated)
> 
> I just wanted her to go in the same place she had lived and known for all 
> those years - it was still a very strange thing to place her on the table 
> after they had give the tranquilizer and step back so the vet and her 
> assistant could administer the euthanasia drug.
> 
> She survived all those years, lost an eye to our other cat when she was about 
> 4, got bitten by a copperhead once, escaped a fox that chased her right up 
> the cat ladder that led to her cat door in the window, brought innumerable 
> live mice into the house and let them loose, plus the 2 flying squirrels she 
> let loose in my bedroom - she even caught a bat one night - that really 
> freaked me out - I didn't know it was possible for a cat to catch a bat.
> 
> Once my roommate had planted some small bushes that died mysteriously until 
> she pulled on one and it came straight up in her hand - from having been 
> bitten half into by a mole - she was so mad - she looked around at Shakti and 
> said "Why don't you go kill those moles?"
> 
> 
> Less than 5 minutes later Shakti came up with the muffled maowing that 
> denoted a kill and damned if she didn't have a mole in her mouth.
> 
> So thank you Curtis and everyone for your condolences - I really appreciate 
> it more than I can say. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  From: curtisdeltablues 
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:27 AM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
>  
> 
>   
> I feel for you.  I was in your shoes for my 18 YO Abyssinian two years ago 
> around this time of year.  I'm glad you were able to make this final act of 
> kindness, and I know it is hard.
> 
> I was preparing my guitar case for a show last month.  I found a few 
> distinctively ticked brown hairs in it and it brought instant tears.
> 
> Ginger used to love to lie in the soft interior of my guitar cases, even 
> though I would constantly chase her out because the top could fall on her.  
> When I would catch her, usually as I was packing for a show, she would raise 
> up her tiny head, defiant.  My preliminary scolding hiss would only make her 
> hunker down deeper into the plush.
> 
> "Make me", her steady eyes conveyed.
> 
> Once again I would reach in and scoop her up placing her on her much plusher, 
> but not forbidden so less interesting, bed.  She would stretch, give me one 
> last withering gaze, and settle into a nap, triumphant in getting me to 
> react, which was the whole point of the exercise.
> 
> All the best for your own healing heart. 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
> >
> > Yeah too many posts last week and I had to have my 18 year old cat put to 
> > sleep - I was very attached to her - so I been kinda quiet since then
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  From: authfriend 
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:59 PM
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
> > 
> > 
> >   
> > --- In Fairf

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius"  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool.
> > > >
> > > > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then
> > > > chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in,
> > > > prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended
> > > > adoptive family.
> > >
> > > Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water
> > from
> > > the location pictured below.
> > 
> > Yes. It's a couple of hundred meters from where I live. Good Googling!
> > 
> > Haarlemerstraat, at the upper left of the ariel view, is Leiden's
> > main shopping drag. I went shopping on it today, with Paris and
> > Pippin in their Christmas attire. The photo below shows them in
> > their little reindeer antlers and Santa hat, but from an earlier
> > Christmas in Paris, the city. The dogs are a bit greyer around the
> > muzzle now, as am I. :-)
> > 
> >   [Barry';s Christmas Dogs]
> > 
> > We were quite a hit. Stupidly, I forgot to bring my iPhone (same
> > camera that took the other photo of the canal) with me, so I don't
> > have any "reaction shots" of the often-dour Dutch cracking up and
> > smiling. A few even laughed out loud. I consider that a win.
> > 
> > Even though no one asked, dinner was smashing. We went to a
> > Thai restaurant called Buddhas (http://www.buddhas.nl/
> >  ) and
> > it was delightful -- one of the few Dutch restaurants I've found in
> > which the food was worth what they were charging for it. Spain
> > and France spoil you when it comes to eating out.
> > 
> > After dinner we walked around and looked at the Christmas lights
> > and at the skaters on the rink they have erected over the canal in
> > front of the town hall. Not Rockefeller Center, but cool. Then I let
> > the others walk home and I climbed up to the Citadel (a castle
> > from the 11th century that is one of the oldest (and interestingly,
> > since it is in the center of Leiden, one of the most silent areas of
> > the city) and meditated for a while.
> > 
> >   [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2071/2115542556_1343492e48.jpg]
> > 
> > Not because of the so-called Apocalypse, not because I wanted to
> > tune in to some grand global W00 Woo Fest...just because I felt
> > like meditating. It was an OK meditation, just your normal, every-
> > day stuff like seeing visions of Shiva dancing Gangnam style with
> > an unidentified Hindu goddess almost wearing the sexiest see-
> > through sari I've ever seen, followed by God herself coming down
> > for a chat, sharing a champagne glass full of soma with me and
> > commending me for my infinite patience in dealing with FFL
> > stalkers.
> > 
> > Oh wait. That didn't happen. I must have been channeling that.
> > That's what TMers might consider an OK meditation. :-)
> > 
> > Mine was just silence. Pure, infinite silence.
> 
> Robin: Well, that's good, Barry. In fact that's *really* good. "Pure, 
> infinite silence". 
> 
> You are a fun guy, Barry. Did Curtis every get around to telling you that you 
> weren't supposed to eat Irish children because of the shortage of potatoes?
> 
> I don't believe authfriend has ever said anything about you that was 
> objectively false. And yet, you have never come back at her to refute 
> her--You think her severe analysis of you refutes itself?
> 
> Your hatred of FF, TM, the TMO, and MMY: this tempts you into deliberate 
> exaggeration and misrepresentation of your own meditation experience: "Pure, 
> infinite silence": this is a description motivated by your antipathy about TM 
> & MMY--Did that cynicism not exist, you would probably have said: "It was 
> pleasant enough. Quite relaxing. But no big deal."
> 
> The "pure, infinite silence": Simply an anti-Bevan remark.
> 
> Although I don't disagree with you--contra Buck--about the charismatic 
> potential John Hagelin. 
> 
> Eliot said that Santayana's philosophy lectures at Harvard were soporific. I 
> like the mystery of tragedy in Bevan more than the unseriousness (in some 
> unpreventable way) of soul in John Hagelin. Santayana, he would seem on fire.
> 
> Merry Christmas, Barry. Your dogs look like they don't know who you are.
> 
> Not enough individuation of first person ontology.

Coda: I would love JH to become a charismatic leader/beautiful human being--who 
knows! maybe he will become this. But I side with Bevan in his fidelity to the 
purity of Maharishi's Teaching--also in the depth of his suffering and 
despair--he remains absolutely and properly true to Maharishi. If Buck gets his 
way--through championing the authority of JH--it will mean the death of that 
ultra innocent experience that an initiator can give to a initiate th

[FairfieldLife] When the Going Gets Tough, You Quit

[John]

That's what the prime minister of Italy did by resigning his post.  Since he 
did this three days before Christmas, he's obviously making his own statement 
to the state of affairs in the counry.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/italys-pm-says-intends-quit-021019561.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[John]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen"  wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool.
> > > > >
> > > > > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then
> > > > > chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in,
> > > > > prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended
> > > > > adoptive family.
> > > >
> > > > Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water
> > > from
> > > > the location pictured below.
> > > 
> > > Yes. It's a couple of hundred meters from where I live. Good Googling!
> > > 
> > > Haarlemerstraat, at the upper left of the ariel view, is Leiden's
> > > main shopping drag. I went shopping on it today, with Paris and
> > > Pippin in their Christmas attire. The photo below shows them in
> > > their little reindeer antlers and Santa hat, but from an earlier
> > > Christmas in Paris, the city. The dogs are a bit greyer around the
> > > muzzle now, as am I. :-)
> > > 
> > >   [Barry';s Christmas Dogs]
> > > 
> > > We were quite a hit. Stupidly, I forgot to bring my iPhone (same
> > > camera that took the other photo of the canal) with me, so I don't
> > > have any "reaction shots" of the often-dour Dutch cracking up and
> > > smiling. A few even laughed out loud. I consider that a win.
> > > 
> > > Even though no one asked, dinner was smashing. We went to a
> > > Thai restaurant called Buddhas (http://www.buddhas.nl/
> > >  ) and
> > > it was delightful -- one of the few Dutch restaurants I've found in
> > > which the food was worth what they were charging for it. Spain
> > > and France spoil you when it comes to eating out.
> > > 
> > > After dinner we walked around and looked at the Christmas lights
> > > and at the skaters on the rink they have erected over the canal in
> > > front of the town hall. Not Rockefeller Center, but cool. Then I let
> > > the others walk home and I climbed up to the Citadel (a castle
> > > from the 11th century that is one of the oldest (and interestingly,
> > > since it is in the center of Leiden, one of the most silent areas of
> > > the city) and meditated for a while.
> > > 
> > >   [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2071/2115542556_1343492e48.jpg]
> > > 
> > > Not because of the so-called Apocalypse, not because I wanted to
> > > tune in to some grand global W00 Woo Fest...just because I felt
> > > like meditating. It was an OK meditation, just your normal, every-
> > > day stuff like seeing visions of Shiva dancing Gangnam style with
> > > an unidentified Hindu goddess almost wearing the sexiest see-
> > > through sari I've ever seen, followed by God herself coming down
> > > for a chat, sharing a champagne glass full of soma with me and
> > > commending me for my infinite patience in dealing with FFL
> > > stalkers.
> > > 
> > > Oh wait. That didn't happen. I must have been channeling that.
> > > That's what TMers might consider an OK meditation. :-)
> > > 
> > > Mine was just silence. Pure, infinite silence.
> > 
> > Robin: Well, that's good, Barry. In fact that's *really* good. "Pure, 
> > infinite silence". 
> > 
> > You are a fun guy, Barry. Did Curtis every get around to telling you that 
> > you weren't supposed to eat Irish children because of the shortage of 
> > potatoes?
> > 
> > I don't believe authfriend has ever said anything about you that was 
> > objectively false. And yet, you have never come back at her to refute 
> > her--You think her severe analysis of you refutes itself?
> > 
> > Your hatred of FF, TM, the TMO, and MMY: this tempts you into deliberate 
> > exaggeration and misrepresentation of your own meditation experience: 
> > "Pure, infinite silence": this is a description motivated by your antipathy 
> > about TM & MMY--Did that cynicism not exist, you would probably have said: 
> > "It was pleasant enough. Quite relaxing. But no big deal."
> > 
> > The "pure, infinite silence": Simply an anti-Bevan remark.
> > 
> > Although I don't disagree with you--contra Buck--about the charismatic 
> > potential John Hagelin. 
> > 
> > Eliot said that Santayana's philosophy lectures at Harvard were soporific. 
> > I like the mystery of tragedy in Bevan more than the unseriousness (in some 
> > unpreventable way) of soul in John Hagelin. Santayana, he would seem on 
> > fire.
> > 
> > Merry Christmas, Barry. Your dogs look like they don't know who you are.
> > 
> > Not enough individuation of first person ontology.
> 
> Coda: I would love JH to become a charismatic leader/beautiful human 
> being--who knows! maybe he will become this. But I side with Bevan in his 
> fidelity to the purity of Maharish

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[Robin Carlsen]

Hey, Bob: Marvellous to hear from you. I have only got through the first video 
to TURQB--but it says everything I could ever conceive of saying to him, and if 
he ever gets his mind around that video (and how perfectly it speaks to him) I 
will take Jesus as my saviour. No one has addressed Barry as brilliantly as 
this. This might just be the most apposite video ever posted on FFL. I 
certainly think it the funniest. It is the metaphysical video I would send to 
Barry were I to try to tell him EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WANTED TO TELL HIM. I 
think no one need send another post--critically--to Mr Wright. But only those 
who really know Barry will get it. It is heavenly--and not incompatible with 
loving the Holland guy. This is irony beyond where I have ever gone. But irony 
only in the service of truth. It was made for TURQB.

I will now look at your other videos, Mozart. I am sure no one has more 
carefully chosen their Christmas gifts than you have here.

There is a Santa, Curtis. This proves it.

And if you don't laugh (in the context of knowing Barry) you are either 
dumb--or dishonest.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 
> Happy Christmas FFL
> 
> 
> For TURQB
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
> 
> 
> 
> For EMILY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
> 
> 
> 
> For SEVENTHRAY27
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
> 
> 
> 
> For LORDKNOWS:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
> 
> 
> 
> For CM
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
> 
> 
> 
> For RAUNCHY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
> 
> 
> 
> For RAJA RAVI:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
> 
> 
> 
> For EMPTYBILL:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
> 
> 
> 
> For AUTHFRIEND: 
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
> 
> 
> 
> For SHARE
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
> 
> 
> 
> For LG
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
> 
> 
> 
> For ANN
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
> 
> 
> 
> For BUCK
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
> 
> 
> 
> For MASKEDZEBRA:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
> 
> 
> HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE    
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucky Guy

[John]

The guy looks like Anton Levey, the long dead satanic cult leader.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda  wrote:
>
> What a change from this beauty
> 
>   [http://dennisbater.com/images/dennisbater_ad.jpg] to these
> http://dennisbater.com/ 
> So if  someone here at Faith in Fake en Life  "are comfortable in their
> own skin" and are sure to "want" to be shot,  instead of just
> "hop(p)ing"  Dennis Bater is" very understanding"
> You may  take your MUA or a stylists with you to make (you)up  e.g. like
> this
> http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/121124/11/50b121557a850.jpg
> 
> http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/121014/09/507aebbab6fa9.jpg
> 
>   Please,please don't stand Dennis up "but give (him) a few days notice
> to fill that slot".
> And  if you want to take Turquesb with you as a  voyeuristic bodyguard, 
> forget it, not allowed because  "it takes away from the flow between the
> photographer and (you)the model"
> http://www.modelmayhem.com/2255660 
> An option for awoelflebater?
>   [http://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/120722/17/500c982b54ac8.jpg]
> Dear Turquesb
> Dear Turquesb
>   please please invite me to sit at  the canal
>   to watch your Herengracht and
> 
> I'll backpedal even from far away into this moment and skim off the
> desperation.Remember the sweat, the joyful loss of breath and the
> promise of every cyclist manically buzzing by
> and soon immerse into the world of Light On Water
> will convert to any drink you offer me
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2esxR1Z6t1U
> 
>  
> [https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR3ht2BgUluFoKva41\
> SzQ2A_x-LXCocHZjOD3K4zvx8lqHRTiYM]
>   [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2465/5701358563_91e8cf8efa_z.jpg]
> 
> and we'll soon  listen to
> De Mus
> immortalized by Dutch poet Jan Hanlo on the side wall of the building at
> Nieuwe Rijn 107
> 
> 
> Tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp tjielp
> tjielp tjielp tjielp - tjielp tjielp
> tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp tjielp
> tjielp tjielp tjielp
> 
> Tjielp
> etc.
> 
> and
> The Sparrow
> 
> Chirp chirp - chirp chirp chirp
> chirp chirp chirp- chirp chirp
> chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp
> chirp chirp chirp
> 
> Chirp
> etc.
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn  wrote:
> >
> > Check out the fake eyelashes! Â I think she'd be prettier without
> them, but I'm just being my judgmental self. Â
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > From: Ann awoelflebater@
> > >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > >Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:42 PM
> > >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Lucky Guy
> > >
> > >
> > >Â
> > >This is what my husband gets to do on his day off. He has a studio
> above the stable and is loving his photography. No wonder.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen"  wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen"  wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius"  wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then
> > > > > > chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in,
> > > > > > prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended
> > > > > > adoptive family.
> > > > >
> > > > > Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water
> > > > from
> > > > > the location pictured below.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes. It's a couple of hundred meters from where I live. Good Googling!
> > > > 
> > > > Haarlemerstraat, at the upper left of the ariel view, is Leiden's
> > > > main shopping drag. I went shopping on it today, with Paris and
> > > > Pippin in their Christmas attire. The photo below shows them in
> > > > their little reindeer antlers and Santa hat, but from an earlier
> > > > Christmas in Paris, the city. The dogs are a bit greyer around the
> > > > muzzle now, as am I. :-)
> > > > 
> > > >   [Barry';s Christmas Dogs]
> > > > 
> > > > We were quite a hit. Stupidly, I forgot to bring my iPhone (same
> > > > camera that took the other photo of the canal) with me, so I don't
> > > > have any "reaction shots" of the often-dour Dutch cracking up and
> > > > smiling. A few even laughed out loud. I consider that a win.
> > > > 
> > > > Even though no one asked, dinner was smashing. We went to a
> > > > Thai restaurant called Buddhas (http://www.buddhas.nl/
> > > >  ) and
> > > > it was delightful -- one of the few Dutch restaurants I've found in
> > > > which the food was worth what they were charging for it. Spain
> > > > and France spoil you when it comes to eating out.
> > > > 
> > > > After dinner we walked around and looked at the Christmas lights
> > > > and at the skaters on the rink they have erected over the canal in
> > > > front of the town hall. Not Rockefeller Center, but cool. Then I let
> > > > the others walk home and I climbed up to the Citadel (a castle
> > > > from the 11th century that is one of the oldest (and interestingly,
> > > > since it is in the center of Leiden, one of the most silent areas of
> > > > the city) and meditated for a while.
> > > > 
> > > >   [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2071/2115542556_1343492e48.jpg]
> > > > 
> > > > Not because of the so-called Apocalypse, not because I wanted to
> > > > tune in to some grand global W00 Woo Fest...just because I felt
> > > > like meditating. It was an OK meditation, just your normal, every-
> > > > day stuff like seeing visions of Shiva dancing Gangnam style with
> > > > an unidentified Hindu goddess almost wearing the sexiest see-
> > > > through sari I've ever seen, followed by God herself coming down
> > > > for a chat, sharing a champagne glass full of soma with me and
> > > > commending me for my infinite patience in dealing with FFL
> > > > stalkers.
> > > > 
> > > > Oh wait. That didn't happen. I must have been channeling that.
> > > > That's what TMers might consider an OK meditation. :-)
> > > > 
> > > > Mine was just silence. Pure, infinite silence.
> > > 
> > > Robin: Well, that's good, Barry. In fact that's *really* good. "Pure, 
> > > infinite silence". 
> > > 
> > > You are a fun guy, Barry. Did Curtis every get around to telling you that 
> > > you weren't supposed to eat Irish children because of the shortage of 
> > > potatoes?
> > > 
> > > I don't believe authfriend has ever said anything about you that was 
> > > objectively false. And yet, you have never come back at her to refute 
> > > her--You think her severe analysis of you refutes itself?
> > > 
> > > Your hatred of FF, TM, the TMO, and MMY: this tempts you into deliberate 
> > > exaggeration and misrepresentation of your own meditation experience: 
> > > "Pure, infinite silence": this is a description motivated by your 
> > > antipathy about TM & MMY--Did that cynicism not exist, you would probably 
> > > have said: "It was pleasant enough. Quite relaxing. But no big deal."
> > > 
> > > The "pure, infinite silence": Simply an anti-Bevan remark.
> > > 
> > > Although I don't disagree with you--contra Buck--about the charismatic 
> > > potential John Hagelin. 
> > > 
> > > Eliot said that Santayana's philosophy lectures at Harvard were 
> > > soporific. I like the mystery of tragedy in Bevan more than the 
> > > unseriousness (in some unpreventable way) of soul in John Hagelin. 
> > > Santayana, he would seem on fire.
> > > 
> > > Merry Christmas, Barry. Your dogs look like they don't kno

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[turquoiseb]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
>
> Whatever happened to Tony Nader in all of this assessment?  
> He is after all the designated "King" of the TM movement 
> by MMY himself.

Isn't this a lot like asking, "What ever happened to 
the meaningless dweebnessitude that the Wizard Of Oz 
tried to distract people with?" 

No one ever CARED, because the "wizard" wasn't one.
Neither was Maharishi. 

"King Tony" was merely the latest -- and the lamest --
of a series of charisma-challenged people who Maharishi
tried to get people to focus on, just in case he should
someday...uh...die. He did. They didn't. 

There isn't enough charisma there to fill an ant's 
chamber pot. 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Christmas FFL

[Emily Reyn]

Dear Bob, so nice to hear from you and thank you for the great song.  

I wish the most wonderful days to you and your family - this Christmas and all 
days.  I am off on my daily dog walk - my older daughter has decided to go with 
me...gotta keep Mom from wandering too far from home.  

And, she wants a massage and some of that high-end facial cleanser for 
Christmas, the kind that can only be purchased from the "mall of the 1%," so 
off we will go.  It's unfortunate I have nothing appropriate to wear on the 
shopping expedition, but I'll do what I can.  It *is* time to buy clothes and 
get ready for the next phase

Best regards, Emily



>
> From: Bob Price 
>To: "fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com"  
>Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:09 AM
>Subject: [FairfieldLife] Happy Christmas FFL
> 
>
>  
>
>
>Happy Christmas FFL
>
>For TURQB
>
>http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
>
>For EMILY
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
>
>For SEVENTHRAY27
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
>
>For LORDKNOWS:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
>
>For CM
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
>
>For RAUNCHY
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
>
>For RAJA RAVI:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
>
>For EMPTYBILL:
>
>http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
>
>For AUTHFRIEND: 
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
>
>For SHARE
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
>
>For LG
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
>
>For ANN
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
>
>For BUCK
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
>
>For MASKEDZEBRA:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
>
>HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE 
>
>
> 
>
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[Emily Reyn]

Ah ha ha ha ha.I'm sorryI will come up with another brilliant comment 
in 2013.  



>
> From: Robin Carlsen 
>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 11:21 AM
>Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL
> 
>
>  
>Hey, Bob: Marvellous to hear from you. I have only got through the first video 
>to TURQB--but it says everything I could ever conceive of saying to him, and 
>if he ever gets his mind around that video (and how perfectly it speaks to 
>him) I will take Jesus as my saviour. No one has addressed Barry as 
>brilliantly as this. This might just be the most apposite video ever posted on 
>FFL. I certainly think it the funniest. It is the metaphysical video I would 
>send to Barry were I to try to tell him EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WANTED TO TELL 
>HIM. I think no one need send another post--critically--to Mr Wright. But only 
>those who really know Barry will get it. It is heavenly--and not incompatible 
>with loving the Holland guy. This is irony beyond where I have ever gone. But 
>irony only in the service of truth. It was made for TURQB.
>
>I will now look at your other videos, Mozart. I am sure no one has more 
>carefully chosen their Christmas gifts than you have here.
>
>There is a Santa, Curtis. This proves it.
>
>And if you don't laugh (in the context of knowing Barry) you are either 
>dumb--or dishonest.
>
>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price  wrote:
>>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Happy Christmas FFL
>> 
>> 
>> For TURQB
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For EMILY
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For SEVENTHRAY27
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For LORDKNOWS:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For CM
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For RAUNCHY
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For RAJA RAVI:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For EMPTYBILL:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For AUTHFRIEND: 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For SHARE
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For LG
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For ANN
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For BUCK
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> For MASKEDZEBRA:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
>> 
>> 
>> HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE   
>>   
>>
>
>
> 
>
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas

[Emily Reyn]

Judy, this is so compassionate and real at the same time.  I spent yesterday 
with my sister, who has a sick goat bedded in the house.  The goat has to be 
fed a special mixture of alfalfa pellets, soaked in water and heated on the 
stove with yoghurt and medicine and carefully administered with a syringe, but 
the vet told her the goat is dying.  Poor little goatie - she is so sweet but 
can't get up and likely won't recover. Sis didn't have the heart to put it down 
yesterday but I think I will send her this to help her.    



>
> From: authfriend 
>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:40 AM
>Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
> 
>
>  
>Michael, you *absolutely* did the right thing, as painful as
>it was for you. Humans can live meaningful, fulfilling lives
>even if the *quality* of their lives is circumscribed by
>illlness, because they have virtually infinite mental and
>spiritual resources to draw on.
>
>For animals, quality of life is much more important because
>their other resources are limited, at least comparatively
>speaking. It is not kind to an animal to prolong its life
>if the quality is seriously diminished. We tend to want to
>do that for ourselves because we love the animal and don't
>want to lose it, but it's a greater act of love to be
>willing to let the animal go.
>
>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>>
>> I have to admit reading your experience made me cry again. I felt like a 
>> traitor for not being willing to do anything and everything possible to keep 
>> her alive. I even have a holistic vet friend who was willing to guide me 
>> with regards to diet, herbs and treatment (she lives in Spokane and was 
>> Shakti's vet years ago when she lived in SC)
>> 
>> The night before I was up about half the night, and as I sat with her, I 
>> could tell or at least I felt she was already not fully in her body - the 
>> other thing was for me to choose to keep her alive I would have had to move 
>> her to my new place and she would have had to become an indoor cat after 
>> nearly 18 years of traipsing around in the woods outside my old house - I 
>> just didn't want to put her through the stress of a new strange environment 
>> and then have to put her to sleep in that strange environment - the vet I 
>> took her to said she might have a year, or she might go down hill in 2-3 
>> weeks. (it was kidney failure - we completely missed what few symptoms were 
>> there - mainly drinking way more water than she usually did - in fact that 
>> was the only symptom for about 3 months and I was stupid enough to be happy 
>> that she was being well hydrated)
>> 
>> I just wanted her to go in the same place she had lived and known for all 
>> those years - it was still a very strange thing to place her on the table 
>> after they had give the tranquilizer and step back so the vet and her 
>> assistant could administer the euthanasia drug.
>> 
>> She survived all those years, lost an eye to our other cat when she was 
>> about 4, got bitten by a copperhead once, escaped a fox that chased her 
>> right up the cat ladder that led to her cat door in the window, brought 
>> innumerable live mice into the house and let them loose, plus the 2 flying 
>> squirrels she let loose in my bedroom - she even caught a bat one night - 
>> that really freaked me out - I didn't know it was possible for a cat to 
>> catch a bat.
>> 
>> Once my roommate had planted some small bushes that died mysteriously until 
>> she pulled on one and it came straight up in her hand - from having been 
>> bitten half into by a mole - she was so mad - she looked around at Shakti 
>> and said "Why don't you go kill those moles?"
>> 
>> 
>> Less than 5 minutes later Shakti came up with the muffled maowing that 
>> denoted a kill and damned if she didn't have a mole in her mouth.
>> 
>> So thank you Curtis and everyone for your condolences - I really appreciate 
>> it more than I can say. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  From: curtisdeltablues 
>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:27 AM
>> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
>> 
>> 
>>   
>> I feel for you.  I was in your shoes for my 18 YO Abyssinian two years ago 
>> around this time of year.  I'm glad you were able to make this final act of 
>> kindness, and I know it is hard.
>> 
>> I was preparing my guitar case for a show last month.  I found a few 
>> distinctively ticked brown hairs in it and it brought instant tears.
>> 
>> Ginger used to love to lie in the soft interior of my guitar cases, even 
>> though I would constantly chase her out because the top could fall on her.  
>> When I would catch her, usually as I was packing for a show, she would raise 
>> up her tiny head, defiant.  My preliminary scolding hiss would only make her 
>> hunker down deeper into the plush.
>> 
>> "Make me", her steady eyes conveyed.

[FairfieldLife] This is why it has been so famous for 200 years

[emptybill]

Another famous aria-trio from the Barber of Seville with Joyce DiDonato,
Juan Diego Florez, Peter Mattei:

Ah qual colpo inaspetatto!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAJUoLk4DqA


And a Barber-duet" with Florez and Mattei:
Numero quindici, a mano manca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fER7yS0I5dw





And this remarkable scene … one of the reasons this opera has been
so famous for 200 years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=u4pYCXC8XNA&feature=endscreen

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Robin Carlsen]

"I have been sprayed so many times I have developed an immunity to mace". 
Christopher Walken on SNL courtesy of Bob Price

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
> >
> > Whatever happened to Tony Nader in all of this assessment?  
> > He is after all the designated "King" of the TM movement 
> > by MMY himself.
> 
> Isn't this a lot like asking, "What ever happened to 
> the meaningless dweebnessitude that the Wizard Of Oz 
> tried to distract people with?" 
> 
> No one ever CARED, because the "wizard" wasn't one.
> Neither was Maharishi. 
> 
> "King Tony" was merely the latest -- and the lamest --
> of a series of charisma-challenged people who Maharishi
> tried to get people to focus on, just in case he should
> someday...uh...die. He did. They didn't. 
> 
> There isn't enough charisma there to fill an ant's 
> chamber pot.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 
> Happy Christmas FFL
> 
> 
> For TURQB
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
> 
> 
> 
> For EMILY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
> 
> 
> 
> For SEVENTHRAY27
 
A video from God. As inspired as God was when he thought: Why not a Woman? 
 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
> 
> 
> 
> For LORDKNOWS:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
> 
> 
> 
> For CM
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
> 
> 
> 
> For RAUNCHY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
> 
> 
> 
> For RAJA RAVI:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
> 
> 
> 
> For EMPTYBILL:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
> 
> 
> 
> For AUTHFRIEND: 
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
> 
> 
> 
> For SHARE
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
> 
> 
> 
> For LG
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
> 
> 
> 
> For ANN
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
> 
> 
> 
> For BUCK
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
> 
> 
> 
> For MASKEDZEBRA:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
> 
> 
> HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE    
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: PLANETARY ALIGNMENT we just experienced

[Ann]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
> >
> > On 12/22/2012 02:07 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
> > >
> > > Here in the Netherlands, things are somewhat quieter.
> > > Scanning the local news, I see that the Big Story is
> > > about the guy who imbibed a bit too much Christmas
> > > cheer and drove his bicycle into the canal. Bystanders
> > > pulled him out. No one was shot, in the entire country.
> > 
> > They didn't report that Steve Jobs yacht had been impounded?  
> > That was the big news out of Holland yesterday where it was 
> > moored.
> > 
> > http://www.nbcnews.com/business/steve-jobs-yacht-impounded-over-unpaid-bill-1C7659308
> 
> Steve who?

You know, the dead guy who used to have an apple orchard. He made wicked cider 
and great pies.
> 
> :-)
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas

[Michael Jackson]

You're right - as I spent time with her the night before I realized that most 
of the desire I was feeling to keep her alive was my own ego - the desire to be 
the big daddy, the savior and to be responsible - it really had nothing to do 
with her. As most of us might do I kept asking her inside myself "What do you 
want me to do?" and the only thing I heard was "What do you want to do?" - I 
imagined it came from her but it could have been my way of hallucinating. 





 From: authfriend 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 1:40 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
 

  
Michael, you *absolutely* did the right thing, as painful as
it was for you. Humans can live meaningful, fulfilling lives
even if the *quality* of their lives is circumscribed by
illlness, because they have virtually infinite mental and
spiritual resources to draw on.

For animals, quality of life is much more important because
their other resources are limited, at least comparatively
speaking. It is not kind to an animal to prolong its life
if the quality is seriously diminished. We tend to want to
do that for ourselves because we love the animal and don't
want to lose it, but it's a greater act of love to be
willing to let the animal go.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> I have to admit reading your experience made me cry again. I felt like a 
> traitor for not being willing to do anything and everything possible to keep 
> her alive. I even have a holistic vet friend who was willing to guide me with 
> regards to diet, herbs and treatment (she lives in Spokane and was Shakti's 
> vet years ago when she lived in SC)
> 
> The night before I was up about half the night, and as I sat with her, I 
> could tell or at least I felt she was already not fully in her body - the 
> other thing was for me to choose to keep her alive I would have had to move 
> her to my new place and she would have had to become an indoor cat after 
> nearly 18 years of traipsing around in the woods outside my old house - I 
> just didn't want to put her through the stress of a new strange environment 
> and then have to put her to sleep in that strange environment - the vet I 
> took her to said she might have a year, or she might go down hill in 2-3 
> weeks. (it was kidney failure - we completely missed what few symptoms were 
> there - mainly drinking way more water than she usually did - in fact that 
> was the only symptom for about 3 months and I was stupid enough to be happy 
> that she was being well hydrated)
> 
> I just wanted her to go in the same place she had lived and known for all 
> those years - it was still a very strange thing to place her on the table 
> after they had give the tranquilizer and step back so the vet and her 
> assistant could administer the euthanasia drug.
> 
> She survived all those years, lost an eye to our other cat when she was about 
> 4, got bitten by a copperhead once, escaped a fox that chased her right up 
> the cat ladder that led to her cat door in the window, brought innumerable 
> live mice into the house and let them loose, plus the 2 flying squirrels she 
> let loose in my bedroom - she even caught a bat one night - that really 
> freaked me out - I didn't know it was possible for a cat to catch a bat.
> 
> Once my roommate had planted some small bushes that died mysteriously until 
> she pulled on one and it came straight up in her hand - from having been 
> bitten half into by a mole - she was so mad - she looked around at Shakti and 
> said "Why don't you go kill those moles?"
> 
> 
> Less than 5 minutes later Shakti came up with the muffled maowing that 
> denoted a kill and damned if she didn't have a mole in her mouth.
> 
> So thank you Curtis and everyone for your condolences - I really appreciate 
> it more than I can say. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  From: curtisdeltablues 
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:27 AM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
> 
> 
>   
> I feel for you.  I was in your shoes for my 18 YO Abyssinian two years ago 
> around this time of year.  I'm glad you were able to make this final act of 
> kindness, and I know it is hard.
> 
> I was preparing my guitar case for a show last month.  I found a few 
> distinctively ticked brown hairs in it and it brought instant tears.
> 
> Ginger used to love to lie in the soft interior of my guitar cases, even 
> though I would constantly chase her out because the top could fall on her.  
> When I would catch her, usually as I was packing for a show, she would raise 
> up her tiny head, defiant.  My preliminary scolding hiss would only make her 
> hunker down deeper into the plush.
> 
> "Make me", her steady eyes conveyed.
> 
> Once again I would reach in and scoop her up placing her on her much plusher, 
> but not forbidden so less interesting, bed.  She would stretch, give me

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 
> Happy Christmas FFL
> 
> 
> For TURQB
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
> 
> 
> 
> For EMILY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
> 
> 
> 
> For SEVENTHRAY27
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
> 
> 
> 
> For LORDKNOWS:
 
I listened to all twenty-five minutes and thirty seconds--the genius of this in 
relation to person for whom it is a true Christmas gift--this goes beyond what 
can be told. But I feel I got it. Tubular Bells Part is what love wants to do 
for LK--but he will (likely) react strongly to this implication that someone 
can know him this well. What thoughtfulness and discrimination went into the 
choosing of this. There is even the chance for a momentary Merry Christmas 
here--for LK. I ain't this sensitive--I mean to find this. But does it ever 
make it. I *understand* this.
 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
> 
> 
> 
> For CM
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
> 
> 
> 
> For RAUNCHY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
> 
> 
> 
> For RAJA RAVI:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
> 
> 
> 
> For EMPTYBILL:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
> 
> 
> 
> For AUTHFRIEND: 
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
> 
> 
> 
> For SHARE
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
> 
> 
> 
> For LG
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
> 
> 
> 
> For ANN
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
> 
> 
> 
> For BUCK
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
> 
> 
> 
> For MASKEDZEBRA:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
> 
> 
> HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE    
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Xenophaneros Anartaxius]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> 
> > Card, what you don't understand is that some people
> > cannot tell the difference between being compelled
> > to do something by their *own* obsessions and hatreds,
> > and being "forced" to do it by something outside of
> > themselves. 
> > 
> > You and many others seem to have no problem picking
> > and choosing among the posts here, and focusing only
> > on the ones that interest you. But "something" or
> > "someone" is FORCING Judy and the people she refers
> > to as "We" to read them and get all purple-faced
> > apoplectic about what they read. Poor babies.  :-)
> 
> Typical psychopath's reaction in response to criticism
> of his behavior: blame the victims.

I found this quote about psychopathic behaviour to criticism. I am not sure if 
this is from a professional source:

'Usually the psychopath will be hypersensitive to criticism. They can dish it 
out but can't take it themselves; they get angry when confronted with their 
shortcomings. Otherwise, they may seem totally unaffected by criticism. This 
points to their utter lack of caring about the opinions of others. At any rate, 
the psychopath will likely be extreme in reaction; there's rarely a middle 
ground for them.'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas

[Ann]

MJ, I feel I need to say one thing. Your deep and abiding relationship and 
devotion to your cat Shakti meant that whatever you did, whenever you did it 
was the right thing. When you have owned and lived with an animal for as long 
as you did and loved her as much as you did you will know exactly when it is 
time to no longer prolong a/her life. A life that would probably be fraught 
with pain, confusion and imminent death anyway. It is no gift to keep applying 
extraordinary measures to keep a creature breathing for another few days or 
weeks. These beautiful souls rely on us to be sensitive enough to them to know 
and do what is right. Sometimes you don't have to actually think about it, you 
will find yourself doing it. 

Do not second guess yourself; you did everything exactly right and Shakti would 
have expected nothing less. You were true to her until the end. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> I have to admit reading your experience made me cry again. I felt like a 
> traitor for not being willing to do anything and everything possible to keep 
> her alive. I even have a holistic vet friend who was willing to guide me with 
> regards to diet, herbs and treatment (she lives in Spokane and was Shakti's 
> vet years ago when she lived in SC)
> 
> The night before I was up about half the night, and as I sat with her, I 
> could tell or at least I felt she was already not fully in her body - the 
> other thing was for me to choose to keep her alive I would have had to move 
> her to my new place and she would have had to become an indoor cat after 
> nearly 18 years of traipsing around in the woods outside my old house - I 
> just didn't want to put her through the stress of a new strange environment 
> and then have to put her to sleep in that strange environment - the vet I 
> took her to said she might have a year, or she might go down hill in 2-3 
> weeks. (it was kidney failure - we completely missed what few symptoms were 
> there - mainly drinking way more water than she usually did - in fact that 
> was the only symptom for about 3 months and I was stupid enough to be happy 
> that she was being well hydrated)
> 
> I just wanted her to go in the same place she had lived and known for all 
> those years - it was still a very strange thing to place her on the table 
> after they had give the tranquilizer and step back so the vet and her 
> assistant could administer the euthanasia drug.
> 
> She survived all those years, lost an eye to our other cat when she was about 
> 4, got bitten by a copperhead once, escaped a fox that chased her right up 
> the cat ladder that led to her cat door in the window, brought innumerable 
> live mice into the house and let them loose, plus the 2 flying squirrels she 
> let loose in my bedroom - she even caught a bat one night - that really 
> freaked me out - I didn't know it was possible for a cat to catch a bat.
> 
> Once my roommate had planted some small bushes that died mysteriously until 
> she pulled on one and it came straight up in her hand - from having been 
> bitten half into by a mole - she was so mad - she looked around at Shakti and 
> said "Why don't you go kill those moles?"
> 
> 
> Less than 5 minutes later Shakti came up with the muffled maowing that 
> denoted a kill and damned if she didn't have a mole in her mouth.
> 
> So thank you Curtis and everyone for your condolences - I really appreciate 
> it more than I can say. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  From: curtisdeltablues 
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:27 AM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
>  
> 
>   
> I feel for you.  I was in your shoes for my 18 YO Abyssinian two years ago 
> around this time of year.  I'm glad you were able to make this final act of 
> kindness, and I know it is hard.
> 
> I was preparing my guitar case for a show last month.  I found a few 
> distinctively ticked brown hairs in it and it brought instant tears.
> 
> Ginger used to love to lie in the soft interior of my guitar cases, even 
> though I would constantly chase her out because the top could fall on her.  
> When I would catch her, usually as I was packing for a show, she would raise 
> up her tiny head, defiant.  My preliminary scolding hiss would only make her 
> hunker down deeper into the plush.
> 
> "Make me", her steady eyes conveyed.
> 
> Once again I would reach in and scoop her up placing her on her much plusher, 
> but not forbidden so less interesting, bed.  She would stretch, give me one 
> last withering gaze, and settle into a nap, triumphant in getting me to 
> react, which was the whole point of the exercise.
> 
> All the best for your own healing heart. 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
> >
> > Yeah too many posts last week and I had to have my 18 year old cat put to 
> > sleep - I was very attached to her - so I been kinda quiet since then
> > 
> > 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 
> Happy Christmas FFL
> 
> 
> For TURQB
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
> 
> 
> 
> For EMILY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
> 
> 
> 
> For SEVENTHRAY27
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
> 
> 
> 
> For LORDKNOWS:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
> 
> 
> 
> For CM
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
> 
> 
> 
> For RAUNCHY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
> 
> 
> 
> For RAJA RAVI:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
> 
> 
> 
> For EMPTYBILL:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
> 
> 
> 
> For AUTHFRIEND: 
 
What a brilliant conversation here. Nothing better. Bob Price has demonstrated 
the knowledge of the character and mind of our resident editor. "I think the 
Dove should descend". Let us have a discussion which will "wallow in 
agreement": This video was superb. I think Authfriend just received the highest 
compliment.  
 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
> 
> 
> 
> For SHARE
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
> 
> 
> 
> For LG
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
> 
> 
> 
> For ANN
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
> 
> 
> 
> For BUCK
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
> 
> 
> 
> For MASKEDZEBRA:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
> 
> 
> HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE    
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Xenophaneros Anartaxius]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen"  wrote: 
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card"  wrote: 
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote: 
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote: 

 I've got nothing much more to say on this topic, but am replying to it 
 anyway to point out the contrast between what I wrote (below) and the 
 angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get- Barry reaction to it by 
 DocDumbass, Judy, Ann, and Ravi. 

 Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say? :-)

>>> No. Or not the way you'd like to think.

>>> No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your fantasy, and also an example 
>>> of what we've been talking about.

>>> The contrast is between what you wrote below and the sick, twisted, 
>>> dishonest, sadistic crap you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/ 
>>> DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are your stock in trade, the 
>>> smarmy "I'm just pushing buttons" garbage, the faux-Tantra nonsense, the 
>>> utter lack of even the faintest wisp of self-knowledge.

>>> You can dish it out, but you can't take it, never have been able to take 
>>> it, not since I've known you. You think you're entitled to gratuitously 
>>> shit on anybody you feel like shitting on without ever having to take 
>>> responsibility for it. You're a coward and a bully and a cheat and a phony 
>>> and just generally a disgrace as a human being.

>>> One pretty little word picture and photo does not erase all that ugliness 
>>> we're forced to endure from you. If you feel put-upon because you're 
>>> getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish instead of getting strokes for 
>>> your "creative" effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having to live 
>>> with you either.

>> Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how anybody would be forced 
>> to read what Barry, or anyone else, for that matter, writes... :o 

> This is not the right question, Card. If one posts on a forum like this one, 
> it is *unnatural* not to see what everyone else is saying. Even about 
> oneself. Is it your inclination *not* to read posts that are addressed 
> personally to you, and which either challenge your views, or disparage your 
> person? I think most persons posting on this forum are interested in 
> expressing their opinions and judgments--that's why they post; that's why 
> they read what others post.

> This response of yours, you think it answers to all the acrimonious debates 
> that have raged here on FFL? You think it the *solution* to the fierce 
> contesting of what is true, what is right, what is real?

> It is a small-minded idea and it cost you nothing. If people are cruel or 
> unfair or dishonest--or if they are sincere or fair or honest: this means 
> something. To propose what you do here, in what way does that possibly 
> encompass what it means to be a human being with an investment in your 
> beliefs and feeling for what should count in the universe?

> No one is forced even to read anything on FFL--or even post on FFL. Why not, 
> since there is so much violent argument, just quit reading and writing on 
> FFL? Why, in view of these intense disagreements, not have everyone just stop 
> contributing to FFL *so it can just shut down*.

> When you make a suggestion like this, the criterion of is validity has to be: 
> Does my suggestion somehow take in the reality and meaning of what happens on 
> FFL in the controversy over who is right and who is wrong? It seems like a 
> perfect solution--what you say here--but does it seem as if that would have 
> prevented all the tension and disputation that seems so serious here on FFL?

> Again, in argument, in life, one wants to bring an idea or proposition that 
> really gathers as much reality into itself, so that it is a just and sensible 
> and *meaningful* idea. Yours is the equivalent of saying: Well, if you were 
> hurt in love, why ever get romantic with someone again? If you don't like the 
> NRA, why do you read about what they have to say about the massacre in 
> Newtown?

> You would make your proposal something more significant and truthful than 
> authfriend's sincerely felt analysis of the sweet and disinterested 
> consciousness in Holland. If I read authfriend's post and then I read yours: 
> Is is possible to believe that your post essentially makes authfriend's post 
> (about the Holland guy) superfluous?

> Look at the response from Holland (to your post): this is the proof of how 
> irrelevant and meaningless your admonition was.

> Hamlet is a tragedy--it makes people sad. Why not just read comedy?

Hamlet did not make me sad. 

Robin, why must reality be somehow infused, or invested in what a person says? 
Thoughts come spontaneously. That should say something about whether we can 
actually control their content. If they come spontaneously, who is the author? 
People have a perfect freedom to say trivial things if that is what comes out. 
It is not necessary

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Christmas FFL

[Ravi Chivukula]

Dear Bob - welcome back to FFL !!! Excellent choice of video - one for Raja
Ravi that is :-) - don't have time to watch the rest - surely later or read
Robin's comments.

Love,
Ravi

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Bob Price  wrote:

> **
>
>
>
>
> Happy Christmas FFL
>
> For TURQB
>
> http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
>
> For EMILY
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
>
> For SEVENTHRAY27
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
>
> For LORDKNOWS:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
>
> For CM
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
>
> For RAUNCHY
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
>
> For RAJA RAVI:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
>
> For EMPTYBILL:
>
> http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
>
> For AUTHFRIEND:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
>
> For SHARE
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
>
> For LG
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
>
> For ANN
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
>
> For BUCK
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
>
> For MASKEDZEBRA:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
>
> HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE
>
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[doctordumbass]

...if the foo shits...omg.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" 
 wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > 
> > > Card, what you don't understand is that some people
> > > cannot tell the difference between being compelled
> > > to do something by their *own* obsessions and hatreds,
> > > and being "forced" to do it by something outside of
> > > themselves. 
> > > 
> > > You and many others seem to have no problem picking
> > > and choosing among the posts here, and focusing only
> > > on the ones that interest you. But "something" or
> > > "someone" is FORCING Judy and the people she refers
> > > to as "We" to read them and get all purple-faced
> > > apoplectic about what they read. Poor babies.  :-)
> > 
> > Typical psychopath's reaction in response to criticism
> > of his behavior: blame the victims.
> 
> I found this quote about psychopathic behaviour to criticism. I am not sure 
> if this is from a professional source:
> 
> 'Usually the psychopath will be hypersensitive to criticism. They can dish it 
> out but can't take it themselves; they get angry when confronted with their 
> shortcomings. Otherwise, they may seem totally unaffected by criticism. This 
> points to their utter lack of caring about the opinions of others. At any 
> rate, the psychopath will likely be extreme in reaction; there's rarely a 
> middle ground for them.'
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: This is why it has been so famous for 200 years

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill"  wrote:
>
> 
> Another famous aria-trio from the Barber of Seville with Joyce
> DiDonato, Juan Diego Florez, Peter Mattei:
> 
> Ah qual colpo inaspetatto!
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAJUoLk4DqA
> 

This is just fabulous--the singing, the staging, everything.
And what a magnificent number.

DiDonato is terrific, I think.

Haven't had a chance to watch the others.
 
> And a Barber-duet" with Florez and Mattei:
> Numero quindici, a mano manca
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fER7yS0I5dw
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> And this remarkable scene … one of the reasons this opera has been
> so famous for 200 years:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=u4pYCXC8XNA&feature=endscreen
> 
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" 
 wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen"  wrote: 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card"  wrote: 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote: 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote: 
> 
>  I've got nothing much more to say on this topic, but am replying to it 
>  anyway to point out the contrast between what I wrote (below) and the 
>  angry, panicked, out-of-control, gotta-get- Barry reaction to it by 
>  DocDumbass, Judy, Ann, and Ravi. 
> 
>  Pretty interesting, wouldn't you say? :-)
> 
> >>> No. Or not the way you'd like to think.
> 
> >>> No panic, nothing out-of-control. That's your fantasy, and also an 
> >>> example of what we've been talking about.
> 
> >>> The contrast is between what you wrote below and the sick, twisted, 
> >>> dishonest, sadistic crap you usually write, the gotta-get-Judy/Ann/Ravi/ 
> >>> DrD/Robin/whoever hysterical tirades that are your stock in trade, the 
> >>> smarmy "I'm just pushing buttons" garbage, the faux-Tantra nonsense, the 
> >>> utter lack of even the faintest wisp of self-knowledge.
> 
> >>> You can dish it out, but you can't take it, never have been able to take 
> >>> it, not since I've known you. You think you're entitled to gratuitously 
> >>> shit on anybody you feel like shitting on without ever having to take 
> >>> responsibility for it. You're a coward and a bully and a cheat and a 
> >>> phony and just generally a disgrace as a human being.
> 
> >>> One pretty little word picture and photo does not erase all that ugliness 
> >>> we're forced to endure from you. If you feel put-upon because you're 
> >>> getting reamed out for your toxic rubbish instead of getting strokes for 
> >>> your "creative" effort, tough. Live with it. We don't like having to live 
> >>> with you either.
> 
> >> Judy, I must say I just can't understand why and how anybody would be 
> >> forced to read what Barry, or anyone else, for that matter, writes... :o 
> 
> > This is not the right question, Card. If one posts on a forum like this 
> > one, it is *unnatural* not to see what everyone else is saying. Even about 
> > oneself. Is it your inclination *not* to read posts that are addressed 
> > personally to you, and which either challenge your views, or disparage your 
> > person? I think most persons posting on this forum are interested in 
> > expressing their opinions and judgments--that's why they post; that's why 
> > they read what others post.
> 
> > This response of yours, you think it answers to all the acrimonious debates 
> > that have raged here on FFL? You think it the *solution* to the fierce 
> > contesting of what is true, what is right, what is real?
> 
> > It is a small-minded idea and it cost you nothing. If people are cruel or 
> > unfair or dishonest--or if they are sincere or fair or honest: this means 
> > something. To propose what you do here, in what way does that possibly 
> > encompass what it means to be a human being with an investment in your 
> > beliefs and feeling for what should count in the universe?
> 
> > No one is forced even to read anything on FFL--or even post on FFL. Why 
> > not, since there is so much violent argument, just quit reading and writing 
> > on FFL? Why, in view of these intense disagreements, not have everyone just 
> > stop contributing to FFL *so it can just shut down*.
> 
> > When you make a suggestion like this, the criterion of is validity has to 
> > be: Does my suggestion somehow take in the reality and meaning of what 
> > happens on FFL in the controversy over who is right and who is wrong? It 
> > seems like a perfect solution--what you say here--but does it seem as if 
> > that would have prevented all the tension and disputation that seems so 
> > serious here on FFL?
> 
> > Again, in argument, in life, one wants to bring an idea or proposition that 
> > really gathers as much reality into itself, so that it is a just and 
> > sensible and *meaningful* idea. Yours is the equivalent of saying: Well, if 
> > you were hurt in love, why ever get romantic with someone again? If you 
> > don't like the NRA, why do you read about what they have to say about the 
> > massacre in Newtown?
> 
> > You would make your proposal something more significant and truthful than 
> > authfriend's sincerely felt analysis of the sweet and disinterested 
> > consciousness in Holland. If I read authfriend's post and then I read 
> > yours: Is is possible to believe that your post essentially makes 
> > authfriend's post (about the Holland guy) superfluous?
> 
> > Look at the response from Holland (to your post): this is the proof of how 
> > irrelevant and meaningless your admonition was.
> 
> > Hamlet is a tragedy--it makes people sad. Why not just read comedy?
> 
> Hamlet did not make me sad. 
> 
> Robin, why must reality be somehow infused, or invested in what a person 
> sa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" 
 wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > 
> > > Card, what you don't understand is that some people
> > > cannot tell the difference between being compelled
> > > to do something by their *own* obsessions and hatreds,
> > > and being "forced" to do it by something outside of
> > > themselves. 
> > > 
> > > You and many others seem to have no problem picking
> > > and choosing among the posts here, and focusing only
> > > on the ones that interest you. But "something" or
> > > "someone" is FORCING Judy and the people she refers
> > > to as "We" to read them and get all purple-faced
> > > apoplectic about what they read. Poor babies.  :-)
> > 
> > Typical psychopath's reaction in response to criticism
> > of his behavior: blame the victims.
> 
> I found this quote about psychopathic behaviour to criticism. I am not sure 
> if this is from a professional source:
> 
> 'Usually the psychopath will be hypersensitive to criticism. They can dish it 
> out but can't take it themselves; they get angry when confronted with their 
> shortcomings. Otherwise, they may seem totally unaffected by criticism. This 
> points to their utter lack of caring about the opinions of others. At any 
> rate, the psychopath will likely be extreme in reaction; there's rarely a 
> middle ground for them.'


Exactly. Whoever wrote this must know Barry.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[doctordumbass]

He *would* certainly make their research a whole lot easier - no need to 
interview multiple subjects - "text book case":. :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius"  
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Card, what you don't understand is that some people
> > > > cannot tell the difference between being compelled
> > > > to do something by their *own* obsessions and hatreds,
> > > > and being "forced" to do it by something outside of
> > > > themselves. 
> > > > 
> > > > You and many others seem to have no problem picking
> > > > and choosing among the posts here, and focusing only
> > > > on the ones that interest you. But "something" or
> > > > "someone" is FORCING Judy and the people she refers
> > > > to as "We" to read them and get all purple-faced
> > > > apoplectic about what they read. Poor babies.  :-)
> > > 
> > > Typical psychopath's reaction in response to criticism
> > > of his behavior: blame the victims.
> > 
> > I found this quote about psychopathic behaviour to criticism. I am not sure 
> > if this is from a professional source:
> > 
> > 'Usually the psychopath will be hypersensitive to criticism. They can dish 
> > it out but can't take it themselves; they get angry when confronted with 
> > their shortcomings. Otherwise, they may seem totally unaffected by 
> > criticism. This points to their utter lack of caring about the opinions of 
> > others. At any rate, the psychopath will likely be extreme in reaction; 
> > there's rarely a middle ground for them.'
> 
> 
> Exactly. Whoever wrote this must know Barry.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Auditory Christmas

[doctordumbass]

Sorry, I got distracted by another thread. This is cool - I have very poor 
directional hearing (when I walk into the house, can't tell if my wife is 
upstairs or down when she calls out, and it is a small house...), but some 
people don't. Anyway, thanks for sharing this.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb  wrote:
>
> Having just returned from a walk with Paris and 
> Pippin, I can report that Leiden, Netherlands
> still announces its fervor for the Christmas 
> season using church bells.
> 
> Because one of my moonlighting gigs involves
> ghostwriting articles for audiologists who hope
> to make money by pretending that they actually
> write the articles on their websites (*most* of
> the the articles written by "doctors" on the
> Internet don't really have anything to do with
> the actual writing of them), I can report that
> reality just *isn't* the way you perceive it
> to be. :-)
> 
> One of the things I learned in my ghostwriting
> activities for these sleazeball audiologists
> is that the human ear is remarkably *directional*, 
> meaning that it can accurately interpret the 
> approximate physical source of a sound, just
> by hearing it. 
> 
> Tonight, as I was walking my dogs, I located
> no fewer than five different sources of church
> bells, calling the few "faithful" who heard them
> to prayer, in my neighborhood. On the walk, I
> passed three of them. No one was responding to
> the "call." 
> 
> You can parse that information however you choose
> to. I'm just presenting the facts. You can spin
> them any way you want to. :-)
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 
> Happy Christmas FFL
> 
> 
> For TURQB
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
> 
> 
> 
> For EMILY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
> 
> 
> 
> For SEVENTHRAY27
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
> 
> 
> 
> For LORDKNOWS:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
> 
> 
> 
> For CM
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
> 
> 
> 
> For RAUNCHY
 
Yes. 
 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
> 
> 
> 
> For RAJA RAVI:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
> 
> 
> 
> For EMPTYBILL:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
> 
> 
> 
> For AUTHFRIEND: 
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
> 
> 
> 
> For SHARE
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
> 
> 
> 
> For LG
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
> 
> 
> 
> For ANN
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
> 
> 
> 
> For BUCK
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
> 
> 
> 
> For MASKEDZEBRA:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
> 
> 
> HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE    
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[doctordumbass]

HC2U,2!!

Shakti Beat:
(c) T-Dog

https://www.box.com/s/rjd6wb75d14to0s9khb0



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 
> Happy Christmas FFL
> 
> 
> For TURQB
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
> 
> 
> 
> For EMILY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
> 
> 
> 
> For SEVENTHRAY27
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
> 
> 
> 
> For LORDKNOWS:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
> 
> 
> 
> For CM
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
> 
> 
> 
> For RAUNCHY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
> 
> 
> 
> For RAJA RAVI:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
> 
> 
> 
> For EMPTYBILL:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
> 
> 
> 
> For AUTHFRIEND: 
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
> 
> 
> 
> For SHARE
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
> 
> 
> 
> For LG
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
> 
> 
> 
> For ANN
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
> 
> 
> 
> For BUCK
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
> 
> 
> 
> For MASKEDZEBRA:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
> 
> 
> HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE    
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Light On Water

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robin Carlsen"  wrote:

> 
> Coda: I would love JH to become a charismatic leader/beautiful human 
> being--who knows! maybe he will become this. But I side with Bevan in his 
> fidelity to the purity of Maharishi's Teaching--also in the depth of his 
> suffering and despair--he remains absolutely and properly true to Maharishi. 
> If Buck gets his way--through championing the authority of JH--it will mean 
> the death of that ultra innocent experience that an initiator can give to a 
> initiate the moment he begins to repeat the mantra after the initiator has 
> sung the Puja. There is nothing like TM, and there never has been anything 
> like it. And there is no one like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi either.
> 
> John Hagelin is a brilliant physicist. He is devoted to Maharishi and 
> believes in the metaphysical integrity of Maharishi's Teaching-and his vision 
> for the whole world. But he will never be taken as seriously as Bevan, 
> because Bevan has a very perfect read on Maharishi himself--as Bevan's 
> Master. The purity of The Teaching is held inside Bevan Morris's soul. If 
> there is some silent coup d'etat, it will be the end of Transcendental 
> Meditation and the the last light of the brilliance of what the TM Movement 
> once was (up to the ruling in the New Jersey case) will go out.
> 
> Bevan has the potential to command respect. John Hagelin, were he not a 
> remarkable scientist and thinker, could not command, would never command, 
> that respect. "Bevan from Heaven" was once a real phenomenon.
> 
> Bevan still feels the holiness of his experience of his Master; he acts out 
> of a sense of felt supernatural inspired obedience. The Buck revolution, it 
> comes from someone who never really felt what we initiators felt, say in the 
> early seventies. For me, it is either Maharishi and TM all the way, or it is 
> nothing. It is sort of parallel to Newman saying there is no medium between 
> atheism and Catholicism. If you are not a Catholic, you are 
> essentially--functionally--an atheist.



Couldn't agree more. Nobody I know in the Movement has made a stronger 
application for 3'rd degree Initiation and eventual Masterhood without being 
enlightened (as far as I know) than Bevan Morris. 

It seems Buck doesn't or can't see the range of his critisism. He should give 
it up and focus on what he knows best; being on the programme.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[Robin Carlsen]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 
> Happy Christmas FFL
> 
> 
> For TURQB
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.spike.com/video-clips/ifl7g8/snl-christopher-walken
> 
> 
> 
> For EMILY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEq0NNH1AM
> 
> 
> 
> For SEVENTHRAY27
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
> 
> 
> 
> For LORDKNOWS:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60s70qX-xw
> 
> 
> 
> For CM
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj5Egv0GYG4&feature=endscreen
> 
> 
> 
> For RAUNCHY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbvtB_0pKk
> 
> 
> 
> For RAJA RAVI:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I
 
Floating safely down to earth. Keep talking Ravi: you can see he's in control. 
You are in a control descent. He's down on the earth, safely back! Down on his 
knees. So he has the new record. I clocked you at 729 mph for a while there, 
Ravi. How does it feel? 

> For EMPTYBILL:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.archive.org/stream/interpersonaldia00learrich#page/n0/mode/2up
> 
> 
> 
> For AUTHFRIEND: 
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMa38CZCSU
> 
> 
> 
> For SHARE
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWwgwytdzk
> 
> 
> 
> For LG
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EEaEQrU
> 
> 
> 
> For ANN
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_7l87prmI
> 
> 
> 
> For BUCK
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZcHLpjiEdw
> 
> 
> 
> For MASKEDZEBRA:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULjCSK0oOlI
> 
> 
> HAPPY CHRISTMAS FFL
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW_WSQpewNY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j_ZcdxAAkc
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-2iAkqtylY
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11s0w9UNlg
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knau6er2yow
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47lNr5jK8QE    
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[authfriend]

BOB!!!

What a treat you've brought us (including a glimpse of 
your charming self, even if it's just a quickie).

Thank you so much for the video. I won't have time to
watch the whole thing until after Christmas (I'm getting
ready to go out of town tomorrow), but I took a look at
the first few minutes, and I know I'm going to enjoy it
a lot.

Most cordial wishes to you and The Wife for a superb
holiday. You sure have started ours out with a bang.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@...  wrote:
>
> HC2U,2!!
> 
> Shakti Beat:
> (c) T-Dog
> 

> https://www.box.com/s/rjd6wb75d14to0s9khb0

Nice ! Reminds me of the fellows who probably envented some of those beats, 
very, very loud is a must:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBmkFYym9hE

[FairfieldLife] Gene Autry - the original

[Emily Reyn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVewSzpa44g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Christmas FFL

[card]

Somehow reminds me of a famous (prolly fabricated) "tankero" (expression of 
lousy command of the English language) by a former Finnish foreign minister, 
Mr. Ahti Karjalainen (Karelian):

tuu tii tu törtti-tuu

(2 T 2 32)


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@...  wrote:
>
> HC2U,2!!
> 

[FairfieldLife] FFL hi!

[Doug Hamilton]

check this out http://bit.ly/Td71xc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas

[Michael Jackson]

You are very very kind. Thank you. Your words and energy are making this 
holiday time a little better. I appreciate it very much.





 From: Ann 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 3:55 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
 

  
MJ, I feel I need to say one thing. Your deep and abiding relationship and 
devotion to your cat Shakti meant that whatever you did, whenever you did it 
was the right thing. When you have owned and lived with an animal for as long 
as you did and loved her as much as you did you will know exactly when it is 
time to no longer prolong a/her life. A life that would probably be fraught 
with pain, confusion and imminent death anyway. It is no gift to keep applying 
extraordinary measures to keep a creature breathing for another few days or 
weeks. These beautiful souls rely on us to be sensitive enough to them to know 
and do what is right. Sometimes you don't have to actually think about it, you 
will find yourself doing it. 

Do not second guess yourself; you did everything exactly right and Shakti would 
have expected nothing less. You were true to her until the end. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson  wrote:
>
> I have to admit reading your experience made me cry again. I felt like a 
> traitor for not being willing to do anything and everything possible to keep 
> her alive. I even have a holistic vet friend who was willing to guide me with 
> regards to diet, herbs and treatment (she lives in Spokane and was Shakti's 
> vet years ago when she lived in SC)
> 
> The night before I was up about half the night, and as I sat with her, I 
> could tell or at least I felt she was already not fully in her body - the 
> other thing was for me to choose to keep her alive I would have had to move 
> her to my new place and she would have had to become an indoor cat after 
> nearly 18 years of traipsing around in the woods outside my old house - I 
> just didn't want to put her through the stress of a new strange environment 
> and then have to put her to sleep in that strange environment - the vet I 
> took her to said she might have a year, or she might go down hill in 2-3 
> weeks. (it was kidney failure - we completely missed what few symptoms were 
> there - mainly drinking way more water than she usually did - in fact that 
> was the only symptom for about 3 months and I was stupid enough to be happy 
> that she was being well hydrated)
> 
> I just wanted her to go in the same place she had lived and known for all 
> those years - it was still a very strange thing to place her on the table 
> after they had give the tranquilizer and step back so the vet and her 
> assistant could administer the euthanasia drug.
> 
> She survived all those years, lost an eye to our other cat when she was about 
> 4, got bitten by a copperhead once, escaped a fox that chased her right up 
> the cat ladder that led to her cat door in the window, brought innumerable 
> live mice into the house and let them loose, plus the 2 flying squirrels she 
> let loose in my bedroom - she even caught a bat one night - that really 
> freaked me out - I didn't know it was possible for a cat to catch a bat.
> 
> Once my roommate had planted some small bushes that died mysteriously until 
> she pulled on one and it came straight up in her hand - from having been 
> bitten half into by a mole - she was so mad - she looked around at Shakti and 
> said "Why don't you go kill those moles?"
> 
> 
> Less than 5 minutes later Shakti came up with the muffled maowing that 
> denoted a kill and damned if she didn't have a mole in her mouth.
> 
> So thank you Curtis and everyone for your condolences - I really appreciate 
> it more than I can say. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  From: curtisdeltablues 
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:27 AM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Christmas
> 
> 
>   
> I feel for you.  I was in your shoes for my 18 YO Abyssinian two years ago 
> around this time of year.  I'm glad you were able to make this final act of 
> kindness, and I know it is hard.
> 
> I was preparing my guitar case for a show last month.  I found a few 
> distinctively ticked brown hairs in it and it brought instant tears.
> 
> Ginger used to love to lie in the soft interior of my guitar cases, even 
> though I would constantly chase her out because the top could fall on her.  
> When I would catch her, usually as I was packing for a show, she would raise 
> up her tiny head, defiant.  My preliminary scolding hiss would only make her 
> hunker down deeper into the plush.
> 
> "Make me", her steady eyes conveyed.
> 
> Once again I would reach in and scoop her up placing her on her much plusher, 
> but not forbidden so less interesting, bed.  She would stretch, give me one 
> last withering gaze, and settle into a nap, triumphant in getting me to 
> react, which was the whole poi