[FairfieldLife] 'In Reagan We Trust?'

2009-03-24 Thread Robert
The Republicans would have Reagan on the money, wouldn't ya know? He gave all the almighty power to A.I.G., don't ya know? Way back, when... The market is Almighty God, don't ya know?. Ya, think that the insurance companies have our country, by the balls, perhaps?  All kinds of violations of law, i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why there are no Pleiadians...

2009-03-24 Thread guyfawkes91
>   > Why there are no Pleiadians. >   The Pleiadies are a young cluster of hot stars which have had barely enough time to form planets let alone develop an advanced race of super beings on the said planets. Best estimates is that they've only been going for 100 million years. On Earth which

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why there are no Pleiadians...

2009-03-24 Thread Peter
This is such typical Scorpius bull crap. At the last galactic federation meeting of interdimensional beings (by the way, it was most pleasing to see Off there again running the complex divisional DNA sanctioning process! He is such a joker!) these cosmic 'tards from Scorpius again tried to fudge

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread Duveyoung
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote: > > > > "John" wrote: > > > Intuitively, I do appreciate the idea that a musician like Andrea Bocelli > > > can be considered a scientist of the genius kind. The same could be said >

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > > As usual, Ruth doesn't dare quote me, but she figures > > she's responding to the post of mine that John was > > commenting on. > > > > Perhaps she should hav

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread authfriend
Whack-a-mole time: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:06 AM, guyfawkes91 wrote: > [Vaj wrote:] > > > Well, it's been hinted that Hagelin was pretty much > > > forced to write his paper > > > > That's interesting, who's doing the hinting? How > > recently

[FairfieldLife] 2001 Vedic Fliers on Invincible America

2009-03-24 Thread I am the eternal
http://invincibleamerica.org/tallies.html The bad news is that some of them have come over from the Republic of Ireland. When they arrived in FF the trouble arose in Northern Ireland.

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread Duveyoung
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote: > > > > "John" wrote: > > > Intuitively, I do appreciate the idea that a musician like Andrea Bocelli > > > can be considered a scientist of the genius kind. The same could be said >

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > > > Quantum mechanics explains a lot, but the big problems > > > arise when trying to form a unified fiel

[FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Duveyoung
"shempmcgurk" wrote: > I can really identify with Kirk today. > I'm in a transition in my life in which I am feeling really, really low. > I've lost almost all confidence in myself. And I cry a lot (yeah, that's > pretty sappy considering that I'm a 54 year old male). > Any kind words or advise

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Sure it does. Anyone who doesn't participate in the > > traditional religious interpretation of meditation > > experiences can enjoy it as a secular practice. And > > it is also not required to believe that you are > > experiencing s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Samadhi Smarat

2009-03-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > > A spectacular sight to be seen on the banks of the auspicious > > Triveni Sangam (the confluence of the three holy rivers: Ganges, > > Yamuna and Saraswati), and visibl

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread yifuxero
--Neither have become reconciled to the prospect of life in a subtle body after death. Buddhism, otoh, does provide for that. Nityananda's "Siddhaloka" is not part of Advaita Vedanta. MMY claims to be a proponent of A.V. but that's nihilist: after Unity then physical death, no more relative ex

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Samadhi Smarat

2009-03-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > http://maharishisamadhi.org/ I sure hope that the Mandaps (special name for a gaudy building) has a place for us to buy a stick of incense to burn in the temple so that Maharishi can hear our prayers and intercede for us with th

[FairfieldLife] Gov. Palin & Alaska's Biggest Disaster!

2009-03-24 Thread Arhata Osho
This isanother reason why we all need to keep informed and do what little we can do to encourage greater communication and action.  Here's where reading and sitting around just isn't enough.  Every voice can be heard by many by putting it out there.  All these religious myths are an example - no

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:06 AM, guyfawkes91 wrote: > > >>> > > Well, it's been hinted that Hagelin was pretty much forced to write > > his paper > >>> > > That's interesting, who's doing the hinting? How recently was it > > hinted? > > >

[FairfieldLife] Why there are no Pleiadians...

2009-03-24 Thread fflmod
  "Interdimensional beings such as the Pleiadian's, Serians and Arcturians are just a few of the advanced races that will be overseeing a new economic system in place. This new system will be based on small family groups taking care of one another through bartering and g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > "..it seems to me that many > > people enjoy their TM -- while a significant minority > > have problems such as depression, anxiety, dissociation, > > involuntary tics, etc." > > Every once in a while John's mask slips, and what's > be

[FairfieldLife] Teaching young people meditation (McCartney/lynch concert)

2009-03-24 Thread bill smith
In posting here , doesn't mean i agree with the views of others who post here.   When I learned TM as a young school student , the presentation as i perceived it, was that, even though we where to give flowers and cloth , the teaching was non religious and the teacher does the puja and we where n

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta wrote: > > > > Meditation is for Self realization and God realization. > > Not when I do it. > > > Secular meditation simply does not exist. > > Sure it does. Anyone who do

Re: [FairfieldLife] An "Informed" opinion on musicians of the 60's

2009-03-24 Thread Bhairitu
Vaj wrote: > > It seemed to me those that got into drugs were trying to emulate the > high the got being on the stage. It can give you a feeling like you're > on top of the world, of great elation and invulnerability. Maybe for the next half generation but most musicians got into drugs, as I poi

[FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" wrote: > I went to the doctor last week and he prescribed Xanax > for me. But I refuse to even fill the prescription. > I've seen members of my own family get on this sorts of > drugs and it fucks them up for a lifetime. Whether that would hap

[FairfieldLife] Movie on Ayurveda

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Archer
>From a friend: I really enjoyed this film. It shows different Vaidyas and clinics in India. One of the Vaidya is very involved in making rasayanas from precious gems, metals and herbs, and it shows him making these. ~~

[FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: Having re-read my list of things I do to keep my mental head above water, I just want to declare everything I wrote as bullshit as a response to Shemp and Kirk's issues. If you guys are seriously depressed I hope you get some med

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta wrote: > > Secular meditation simply does not exist. > > Sure it does. > > > You are claiming that secular meditation develops higher state of > consciousness too. No I'm not. I don't see any evidence that they do. I think meditation height

[FairfieldLife] What TMers and "anti-TMers" have in common (was Re: Free Web Event)

2009-03-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > Doncha think it's fascinating that "graduates" > of TMO indoctrination use *exactly the same > techniques* to present their arguments and > demonize the other side? One of your more stupid posts, Barry. No matter who uses it, or how val

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John M. Knapp, LMSW" > > wrote: > > > > > I'd sure be more comfortable if researchers would > > > stick to experimenting on mo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Eating Too Much Red Meat May Shorten Life

2009-03-24 Thread Arhata Osho
Wouldn't it be a better world if men ate twice as much red meat? Is the value of men over rated anyway? Could be a way of reducing the male population. MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Diets high in red meat and in processed meat shorten life span not just from

[FairfieldLife] For Shemp [despondency]

2009-03-24 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Just pointing out that it could be the former. > > Doesn't really matter. Would you consider seeking > > out some counseling? > > > > Yes. > > A friend suggested I c

Re: [FairfieldLife] More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Bhairitu
shempmcgurk wrote: > I can really identify with Kirk today. > > I'm in a transition in my life in which I am feeling really, really low. > > I've lost almost all confidence in myself. And I cry a lot (yeah, that's > pretty sappy considering that I'm a 54 year old male). > > Any kind words or advi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John M. Knapp, LMSW" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John M. Knapp, LMSW" > > wrote: > > > > > On the other hand, I know of a court in New Jersey > > > that ruled TM was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Samadhi Smarat

2009-03-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > A spectacular sight to be seen on the banks of the auspicious > Triveni Sangam (the confluence of the three holy rivers: Ganges, > Yamuna and Saraswati), and visible everywhere from the city of > Prayag (Allahabad). The architecture

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
> > > Secular meditation simply does not exist. > > > > > Sure it does. > > Zoran Krneta wrote: > So what are the differences between them? > There is no difference. Meditation means simply to thinks things over. TM is based on thinking, and hardly a person could be found that doesn't think. Med

[FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
shempmcgurk wrote: > Actually, it was sheer irresponsibility on my > part and in my heart of hearts I knew it was > not the right course of action. > > Now it's catching up to me. > > But I am beating myself up on it all. Because > I feel I deserve to be beaten up for all the > things I've f

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp

2009-03-24 Thread Arhata Osho
Hmmm? So 'herbs' are worthless if one has problems already manifesting!  Inneresting Herbs are basically bullshit. They are fine if you are fine, they will not heal problems already manifesting. That's why all gurus eventually go to medical doctors. - Origina

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread Vaj
On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:06 AM, guyfawkes91 wrote: Well, it's been hinted that Hagelin was pretty much forced to write his paper That's interesting, who's doing the hinting? How recently was it hinted? In message #139273, Patrick Gillam shared his recollection (emphases mine), in rega

[FairfieldLife] Those poor demonized lobbyists

2009-03-24 Thread do.rflex
Oh woes! Lobbyists are joining those other poor souls, Wall Street bankers, on the list of the persecuted. >From Roll Call - The Newspaper of Capitol Hill Since 1955: Irate over the demonization of their profession, lobbyists say they will push back against a new White House directive aimed

[FairfieldLife] Two Silver Trees

2009-03-24 Thread do.rflex
Pleasant tasty diversionary snippet of tune and imagery Two Silver Trees by Calexico http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCA0_bNXAao

[FairfieldLife] Eating Too Much Red Meat May Shorten Life

2009-03-24 Thread do.rflex
MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Diets high in red meat and in processed meat shorten life span not just from cancer and heart disease but from Alzheimer's, stomach ulcers and an array of other conditions as well, a U.S. National Cancer Institute study has found. In fact, reducing meat co

[FairfieldLife] Re: New element added to the periodic chart: Governmentium

2009-03-24 Thread guyfawkes91
What a wonderful description of the World Government of the Age of Englightenment aka Global Country of World Peace. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal wrote: > > Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to > science. The new element, Governmentium

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread Zoran Krneta
Secular meditation simply does not exist. Sure it does. You are claiming that secular meditation develops higher state of consciousness too. If you are right than Self realization/God realization are reachable by your "secular" meditation also. So what are the differences between them?

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
Vaj wrote: > The Marshy said they should. So they did... > Ken Wilber pretty much agrees with the Marshy when it comes to meditation - Wilber is known for practiceing meditation techniques on a daily basis. Wilber co-wrote a review of spiritual teachers, and seems to approve of the practice o

[FairfieldLife] Re: tmo banking

2009-03-24 Thread guyfawkes91
> > Lol ! ... Your scheme is a reasonable as a Bar Mitzvah in a Bankok > Brothel. > That's not a valid argument. In any case most people with a knowledge of human nature would consider it very reasonable to suggest that an unaccountable organization which uses locations known for banking secrecy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread Zoran Krneta
In my personal life, sure. In state-sponsored public schools? No. In my Country in state-sponsored public schools children have religion classes and they participating on the voluntary basis. Other confessions have the same chance. Nobody makes problems about that. Meditation has many different pu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Humiliation

2009-03-24 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I'd much rather > live in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass. :-) > > > Return ye ransomed non-meditator. > > I've always been a meditator. Still am. Just not > a "TM meditator." While I understand that many > see "not a TM med

[FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread grate . swan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" wrote: > > > > > But my despondency is big. And I have no one to blame > > > but myself for the horrible mess I'm

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread guyfawkes91
>> Well, it's been hinted that Hagelin was pretty much forced to write his paper >> That's interesting, who's doing the hinting? How recently was it hinted? I can imagine that Hagelin, having been trained as a physicist, and having worked with some of the best minds in the business would have be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread John M. Knapp, LMSW
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > John, one question: > > well several: > > 1) who is sponsoring your website about this stuff? > 2) who sponsoring your media event about this stuff? > 3) who is paying for your google advertising of the above? > > Inquiring minds, and a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta wrote: > > Meditation is for Self realization and God realization. Not when I do it. > > Secular meditation simply does not exist. Sure it does. Anyone who doesn't participate in the traditional religious interpretation of meditation experi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread John M. Knapp, LMSW
Kirk, No offense taken! You actually touch on something that I agree with, "all education is an experiment." I could rant about that, too. That being said, two wrongs don't make a right. I'd just as soon that education were more evidenced-based AND that TM not be taught in public schools. J.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread John M. Knapp, LMSW
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Zoran Krneta wrote: > > Meditation is for Self realization and God realization. > > Secular meditation simply does not exist. If Sufi meditation HELPS me to > realize my Self and finally God I would accept it. > > > > You wouldn't? > In my personal life,

[FairfieldLife] SIGG 2009

2009-03-24 Thread Richard J. Williams
"Join us in New Orleans in August for the highest quality, most timely educational experiences the community has to offer, presented by the most powerful and most engaging leaders in computer graphics and interactive techniques." Read more: SIGGRAPH 2009 New Orleans: http://www.siggraph.org/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp

2009-03-24 Thread Kirk
Herbs are basically bullshit. They are fine if you are fine, they will not heal problems already manifesting. That's why all gurus eventually go to medical doctors. - Original Message - From: "Alex Stanley" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:26 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread John M. Knapp, LMSW
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John M. Knapp, LMSW" > wrote: > > > On the other hand, I know of a court in New Jersey > > that ruled TM was religious and had no place in > > public schools. > > As you know, it was TM *plus S

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread Kirk
I like them all, it's rather confusing. Also I hate them all for fucking me over and stealing my father from me when I was eight. Nothing the Gods could do now could make up for that, so fuck em all I say. If the Gods' cared about making things better they would start by having people stop all t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp

2009-03-24 Thread Vaj
On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: From a friendly lurker Hey Rick I was just glancing at FFL and saw Shemp's post about being depressed. I would suggest he get a male hormone panel. Men at this age usually have a hu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread Zoran Krneta
Which you like…

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shemp

2009-03-24 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From a friendly lurker > > > > Hey Rick I was just glancing at FFL and saw Shemp's post about being > depressed. > I would suggest he get a male hormone panel. > Men at this age usually have a huge shift in the ratio of testosteron

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread Vaj
On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Hugo wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: If you look at early MIU textbooks (privately printed), students were required to take an interdisciplinary set of courses which included physics. The physics module, as per the overriding TM mytholo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread Kirk
Which God? - Original Message - From: Zoran Krneta To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:07 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools Meditation is for Self realization and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Vaj
On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Kirk wrote: I can tell you all about alprazolam and diazapam. They are depressant benzodiazapines, used for muscle relaxation and to promote sleep. Xanax has a short half life of only two hours so it also can put you to sleep but then you wake up in just a few

[FairfieldLife] Love the Compassion of the Pope

2009-03-24 Thread arhatafreespeech
In the mid-1980s, Pope Jon Paul 11 visited a squalid barrio in Tumaco, Columbia.  He was dressed to the holy hilt in his finest white vestments.  The cap, solid gold cross and Pontiff ducked through a hole cut into tin sheets and plastic and entered a shack that was the home of an unemplo

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > If you look at early MIU textbooks (privately printed), students were > required to take an interdisciplinary set of courses which included > physics. The physics module, as per the overriding TM mythology, > compared the experience of TM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Kirk
I can tell you all about alprazolam and diazapam. They are depressant benzodiazapines, used for muscle relaxation and to promote sleep. Xanax has a short half life of only two hours so it also can put you to sleep but then you wake up in just a few hours. It's not very good for sleep. It's much

Re: [FairfieldLife] An "Informed" opinion on musicians of the 60's

2009-03-24 Thread Vaj
On Mar 23, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I just read a laughable piece by a poster who I know is not a musician about the musicians in 60's bands. Thing is I knew many of these people. Many of us shared a similar background: we studied music seriously. Many of the rock musicians if they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Kirk
Since this point has been raised many times, I will answer it. There's a mean shaped fear within me that makes me squirm and cringe when I think about starting over with anything. Going from place to place is my worst mightmare, having to cook for strangers with no company to talk to. I like r

[FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Thanks Kirk, but I'm exempted this time around. I was responding to Shemp, who is having a rough time. But, I read with interest the after effects of Katrian within your circle of friends. It seems that you were able to avoid the initial devastation if I remember correctly. You were able to

[FairfieldLife] Shemp

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Archer
>From a friendly lurker Hey Rick I was just glancing at FFL and saw Shemp's post about being depressed. I would suggest he get a male hormone panel. Men at this age usually have a huge shift in the ratio of testosterone to estrogen and believe it or not there are ways to adjust this herbally an

Re: [FairfieldLife] More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Vaj
On Mar 23, 2009, at 11:41 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: I can really identify with Kirk today. I'm in a transition in my life in which I am feeling really, really low. I've lost almost all confidence in myself. And I cry a lot (yeah, that's pretty sappy considering that I'm a 54 year old male)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread Vaj
On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:26 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:As usual, Ruth doesn't dare quote me, but she figures she's responding to the post of mine that John was commenting on. As usual, terrified of not being the center of attention, Judy tries to start Yet Another Argument with Ruth, who is *also* ignorin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Kirk
Well Lurk, you know you have my sympathy. I'm, otr we are not alone. Many people I know have had their lives washed away. I didn't realize it would effect me like it did since it wasn't my home town. But that's not the case cause it is my home town now, and so many people are feeling low here.

[FairfieldLife] Re: ! Transcend ! ye Sinners

2009-03-24 Thread dhamiltony2k5
> > > > > > > "Repent," is used in English > > > translations of the Gospels for the Greek word > > > "metanoia." But going back to the Greek, it turns > > > out that "metanoia" can also be understood to mean > > > "transcend" (beyond-mind). > > > > > Absolutely, > > > > ! Transcend ! you si

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Vaj
On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:10 PM, ruthsimplicity wrote: Private chef? Any thoughts on the idea of private cheffing--at different houses, once a weekcustom gourmet menus, for upscale clients? Work your magicdifferent places to work, different scenery, a different mandala of people? You're al

[FairfieldLife] Re: Humiliation

2009-03-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > At any moment I could be out of a > > job. Fortunately, because I live frugally and have > > no debt, I'm a couple of years away from living on > > the street, not a c

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Kirk
Thanks. Advice doesn't work in New Orleans. My two best friends - which I made over many many years have left the city. Not much advice can be given. One left about two years after Katrina, the other just this weekend. For someone rather unmotivated such as I - much of which I attribute to so

[FairfieldLife] Re: Humiliation

2009-03-24 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > At any moment I could be out of a > job. Fortunately, because I live frugally and have > no debt, I'm a couple of years away from living on > the street, not a couple of months, but basically I > am in the same position as an auto worker

[FairfieldLife] Jewish Buddhism

2009-03-24 Thread Arhata Osho
Jewish Buddhism If there is no self, whose arthritis is this? Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicat

[FairfieldLife] Humiliation

2009-03-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" > wrote: > > I was touched by this [lurkernomore's post] and by Judy's > sincere post. This is real live shit. For the record, so was I. I don't feel that I am

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John M. Knapp, LMSW" > wrote: > > > I'd sure be more comfortable if researchers would > > stick to experimenting on monkeys and leave the kids > > alone. > > Naah, how could anybody possibly t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools

2009-03-24 Thread Zoran Krneta
Meditation is for Self realization and God realization. Secular meditation simply does not exist. If Sufi meditation HELPS me to realize my Self and finally God I would accept it. You wouldn't?

[FairfieldLife] What TMers and "anti-TMers" have in common (was Re: Free Web Event)

2009-03-24 Thread TurquoiseB
This whole subject is so old I cannot develop even a hint of an interest in it. However, the thing I find interesting is that John Knapp and the "We don't trust the TMO" folks in this discussion are essentially saying the SAME THING as Judy and the "We don't trust John Knapp and the anti-TMers"

[FairfieldLife] Re: science can't fully describe reality

2009-03-24 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity wrote: > > Quantum mechanics explains a lot, but the big problems > > arise when trying to form a unified field theory, which > > Hawking and others continue to struggle with. But

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More despondency

2009-03-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Mar 24, 2009, at 12:06 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: I went to the doctor last week and he prescribed Xanax for me. But I refuse to even fill the prescription. I've seen members of my own family get on this sorts of drugs and it fucks them up for a lifetime. Wishing you the best, shemp, but do

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