[FairfieldLife] Mirror Image?

>From the NYT, April 19, 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/world/asia/19swami.html?hp

[FairfieldLife] Housing and the End of Upward Mobility in the U.S.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/199135-housing-and-the-end-of-upward-mobility-in-the-u-s   "Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love."    - Amma 

[FairfieldLife] Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco

After having breakfast at a Thai restaurant near the Ocean Beach, I decided to visit the Japanese Center. When I got there, I realized that today was the Cherry Blossom Festival. There was a parade of organization members of the Japanese community, including a float of the annual festival quee

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

Dude, you've got more big words here than we've heard in a long time. I pretty much bailed after the first sentence. But based on what seems to be your very dry and academic assessment, I can see where these accounts would have been right up your alley.. -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "m

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote: > > > I had (and may continue, but I'm on pause right now) a very very long > conversation with one of the BATGP folks, Dan, over months of time, and > I took the tact that I would assume he was enlightened and just, you > know, sincerely a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, m 13 wrote: Cities promote monkey mind. Little itty bitty towns have peace and bliss that promotes serenity. > My opinion. Oh yea. This is definitely the case. How one raises kids etc. has nothing to do with it. Itty bitty towns are just magical, idylli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

I guess you've got something about Saturday nights, Richard. I am guessing that you must have sensitive about it in junior high school, and not having "plans" on that night. Fortunately, Richard we are at least, chrnologically past that point in our lives, and we may, or may not have plans on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

On Apr 18, 2010, at 7:24 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: > What I can't figure out is, who would really want to talk about themselves > like this? It's kind of like talking about your sex life. It's sort of > personal thing. Sometimes these types of experiences come up in > conversations her

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

What I can't figure out is, who would really want to talk about themselves like this? It's kind of like talking about your sex life. It's sort of personal thing. Sometimes these types of experiences come up in conversations here, but usually as side bar, not the main dish. --- In Fairfield

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Volcanic Ash Cloud Turns Out to Be Finale of "Lost"

WillyTex wrote: > Bhairitu: > >> "ancient Egypt with the sun obelisks which were >> of course phallic symbols because "the king had >> to have a bigger dick than everyone else..." >> >> > An Egyptian stele or obelisk is a funery monument, > not a phallic symbol. Ancient Egyptian obelisk

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 17 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 24 00:00:00 2010 128 messages as of (UTC) Mon Apr 19 00:02:42 2010 26 tartbrain 15 TurquoiseB 14 authfriend 10 yifuxero 9 Bhairitu 6 Hugo 5 curtisdeltablues 5 Willy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Carol" wrote: > > "Tough cookie." Ha. Not sure about that, but I am putting > on weight, becoming a larger cookie. ;-) > I don't know how far you read the narrative and if you read > about my dad. He was (and still is in memory), one tough > cookie. Afte

[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcanic Ash Cloud Turns Out to Be Finale of "Lost"

Bhairitu: > "ancient Egypt with the sun obelisks which were > of course phallic symbols because "the king had > to have a bigger dick than everyone else..." > An Egyptian stele or obelisk is a funery monument, not a phallic symbol. Ancient Egyptian obelisks are designed after the petrified r

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

I had (and may continue, but I'm on pause right now) a very very long conversation with one of the BATGP folks, Dan, over months of time, and I took the tact that I would assume he was enlightened and just, you know, sincerely ask questions as if he were sorta a personal guru with whom I might hav

[FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus

Indeed. Dino Valenti (IMO) basically ruined an incredible band with his ego-mad, semi-serviceable vocals. Nicky was a wonderful pianist but he was much to mellow to compete with Valenti or even to get Valenti to lighten up a bit. Valenti ended up writing practically all the material after that.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Smoke on the Water

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > Animation of ash cloud over Europe from Iceland's volcano: > > http://www2.dmu.dk/atmosphericenvironment/Vulkansky/dreameu_ani.gif > > Notice in this animation the one cou

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

I think all of that is good. However, as stated, I have not found it very interesting, yet. I have not listened as extensively as you, and there may be great gems that I missed. However, others seem to be having the same problem as I -- in maintaining interest. Perhaps these may be raw feeds tha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

On Apr 18, 2010, at 5:14 PM, mainstream20016 wrote: > For more than two weeks I have repeatedly and closely listened to the BATGAP > episodes via iTunes downloads via a portable iPod. The BATGAP episodes are a > fascinating record of the personal histories and subjective perspectives of > perso

[FairfieldLife] Re: Smoke on the Water

Hmmm, even God can miss now and then -- I suggest you spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder. He's sure to try again. My job is to not get between you two. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Smoke on the Water

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > Animation of ash cloud over Europe from Iceland's volcano: > http://www2.dmu.dk/atmosphericenvironment/Vulkansky/dreameu_ani.gif Notice in this animation the one country not covered by the cloud. Some have suggested that this is becaus

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

For more than two weeks I have repeatedly and closely listened to the BATGAP episodes via iTunes downloads via a portable iPod. The BATGAP episodes are a fascinating record of the personal histories and subjective perspectives of persons who have courage to publicly discuss permanently establis

[FairfieldLife] Smoke on the Water

Animation of ash cloud over Europe from Iceland's volcano: http://www2.dmu.dk/atmosphericenvironment/Vulkansky/dreameu_ani.gif

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

"Tough cookie." Ha. Not sure about that, but I am putting on weight, becoming a larger cookie. ;-) I don't know how far you read the narrative and if you read about my dad. He was (and still is in memory), one tough cookie. After his wreck and subsequent quadriplegia, he continued to live (13

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

Post sharing. :-D Don't mind at all. Nuttin' on the net is sacred, though some folks would like to think so. Not sure what Moma is and, of course, I am not going to touch the online relationship feud(s), for lack of a better word. I probably should clarify that I have no idea if Girard is a Chris

[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.

Used to live in Vegas.Constant air traffic, planes, helicoptors, be they police, with beams,TV news, or for pleasure helicoptor rides, and the hospital helicoptors. live in Iowa now. My kids exclaim, oh, there's  plane- like it's a really big amazing thing when we go into the cities here. I hear

[FairfieldLife] New book with words by Ellen Roth and photos by Werner Elmker........

check out this new book with words by Ellen Roth and photos by Werner Elmker... at this link you can actually flip through all 40 pages and also order the book..: http://www.blurb.com/booksto

[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcanic ash keeps flights across Europe grounded.....

Yea, I understand the sentiment. Kind of like the chick in the egg. We deplete one set of resources, and we have to find something new, hopefully more efficient. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" steve.su

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Carol" wrote: > > Judy, below is a link about Girard's theories if you or anyone is > interested. > http://www.kyrie.com/outer/girard/Girard_and_Theology_Part_I.pdf > Thanks! Interesting stu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Carol" wrote: > > Thanks for the kind words Judy. Of course, we all have > tough stuff. Yes, we all have our tough stuff, but usually-- providentially?--only in proportion to how tough *we* are. As I was reading your story at the links, I kept thinking, Man

[FairfieldLife] Mystical Placebos (Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > To me, its a fascinating illustration of projection manifesting -- a sort of > mystical placebo effect. If one believes a relic or symbol (or for that > matter practice, posture or pranayam -- or hug, darshan, or saintly > attention,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > Barry frantically tries to distract attention > > from the exposure of his lies in a previous > > post, his usual approach to dealing with being > > nailed. Never seems to

Re: [FairfieldLife] Volcanic Ash Cloud Turns Out to Be Finale of "Lost"

TurquoiseB wrote: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/volcanic-ash-cloud-turns_b_5\ > 40283.html > 540283.html> > > Volcanic Ash Cloud Turns Out to Be Finale of Lost > Andy Borowitz > > > ICELAND (The Borowitz Rep

[FairfieldLife] Re: Profiting from 12/21/2012 Hysteria--It's Happening Already

Why would any sane person go to a shelter (actually perhaps the question actually answers itself). The week preceding is going to be the most awesome party ever (making spring breaks look like puritan prayer meetings. Unprotected fornicating bodies everywhere (what you are going to put me in jai

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.

tartbrain wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: >> >>> This is what the sudden removal of the thousands of large >>> jets circling over the towns of southern England is like. >>> I can sit in my garden a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Carol" wrote: > > Judy, below is a link about Girard's theories if you or anyone is > interested. > http://www.kyrie.com/outer/girard/Girard_and_Theology_Part_I.pdf > > Cheers,~carol >

[FairfieldLife] Profiting from 12/21/2012 Hysteria--It's Happening Already

I'm not especially worried about the world ending on 12/21/2012--anymore than I think The Rapture is coming any time soon. However, I am worried about what seems to me the increasingly likely probability of lots

[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > This is what the sudden removal of the thousands of large > > jets circling over the towns of southern England is like. > > I can sit in my garden and without realizing wha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

Judy, below is a link about Girard's theories if you or anyone is interested. http://www.kyrie.com/outer/girard/Girard_and_Theology_Part_I.pdf Cheers,~carol --- I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > This is what the sudden removal of the thousands of large > jets circling over the towns of southern England is like. > I can sit in my garden and without realizing what it is > that's missing I can hear what bird song actually sounds > li

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Barry frantically tries to distract attention > from the exposure of his lies in a previous > post, his usual approach to dealing with being > nailed. Never seems to occur to him that this > tactic just results in his being nailed *ag

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Obscene" crucifix shocks parishioners.

Curtis: > For me the lingham/yoni worship is one of the > more honest versions of spirituality. There > is magic between those two that transcends > their Ginger Rogers Fred Astaire coupling... > That seems to be the idea: the sexual opposites united in order to spiritually transcend the mun

[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcanic ash keeps flights across Europe grounded.....

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , cardemaister wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , "Hugo"

[FairfieldLife] Mystical Placebos (Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)

To me, its a fascinating illustration of projection manifesting -- a sort of mystical placebo effect. If one believes a relic or symbol (or for that matter practice, posture or pranayam -- or hug, darshan, or saintly attention, or wafer/wine, incense and flowers, murtis and icons, herbs and inc

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

Thanks for the kind words Judy. Of course, we all have tough stuff. As my son often quotes (or close to a quote) Biblo Baggins, "It's dangerous business going out your front door." :-) Yay for life and gratitude for all the good! I had never heard of Christian Universalism either until 2007. At

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

Barry frantically tries to distract attention from the exposure of his lies in a previous post, his usual approach to dealing with being nailed. Never seems to occur to him that this tactic just results in his being nailed *again*. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > Hilar

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

lurker: > Then again, I don't have time to do > a lot of speculative exploring... > Well, you seem to have had time to post to FFL on Saturday night! LOL!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > The most recent findings I know of are that the face is > identical to one of Leonardo's drawings that he made of > a cadaver he was studying in one of his pursuits of > understanding how the body really worked. Facial recognition > software

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Obscene" crucifix shocks parishioners.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > Hopefully world museums and collectors will ban together > and gift the world the art of the ages in digital form. > if anything, it will increase their "traffic" -- the more > one gets hooked on great art -- the more one will go out > of t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life

Wow, Carol, you've been through a lot. Congrats on making it out the other end! I read most of your narratives. Tough stuff. Also read up a bit on Christian Universalism, which I'd never heard of. It seems like a very appealing approach if one feels an affinity for the essence of Christianity but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > It seems the swath of fabric carbon tested, was from the patched > material. Carbon dating on the same kind of fabric, linen, found in Egyptian > tombs, have been *off* by seven hundred years or more due to contamination by > bacter

[FairfieldLife] New Maharishi book hits the streets...

As far as I know it's new anyway. I think this is the one Shemp was after reading. http://www.robesofsilkfeetofclay.com/

[FairfieldLife] Look on the bright side.

The reply function seems to be not working today so I'll expound on my reply to Lurker here. Do you remember the TM intro lecture when one of the benefits proposed was that a reduction in the background noise of the mind would allow you to hear deep thoughts more clearly This is what the sudden

[FairfieldLife] A flabbergasting Today's Message from Ramana Maharshi !

A Flabbergasting Message from Ramana Maharshi Message List Reply | Delete Message #12333 of 12334 < Prev | Next > In the middle of a dispute in french on a french blog "Perles de Bonheur" on ND I wrote an answer saying that present interpretation of Ramanas words were corrupting and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Statement from the EU Parliament in Brussels about "The Cloud"

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > As many of you know, European Union immigration and visa > procedures have been criticized in the past as being cum- > bersome, discriminatory, vague, and a nightmare of bureau- > cracy run wild. We have tried to fix this problem the >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................

Was all that doggin' Lou? I don't know why. I find the messages he posts inspirational. Methinks I am out of the loop. This is a spiritual forum which beings that aspire to vibrate higher log onto. Negative makes the tummy hurt y'all.   Help the digestion and re write that.   Just sayin'     -MeoOO

[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcanic ash keeps flights across Europe grounded.....

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > It's like going back in time a century, the high price of oil > > keeps most cars off the road so us cyclists are having a super > > time, and on a straw poll of f

[FairfieldLife] Statement from the EU Parliament in Brussels about "The Cloud"

As many of you know, European Union immigration and visa procedures have been criticized in the past as being cum- bersome, discriminatory, vague, and a nightmare of bureau- cracy run wild. We have tried to fix this problem the old-fashioned way, by throwing additional bureaucrats at it, but that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcanic ash keeps flights across Europe grounded.....

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > I'm hoping mount Eyjafjallajokull (will we ever learn how to > > pronounce that) > > http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/pronounce-eyjafjallajokull-10392613 > > I re

[FairfieldLife] Volcanic Ash Cloud Turns Out to Be Finale of "Lost"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/volcanic-ash-cloud-turns_b_5\ 40283.html Volcanic Ash Cloud Turns Out to Be Finale of Lost Andy Borowitz ICELAND (The Borowitz Report )

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues

Gotta agree. I love the concept of the project, but I've been bored senseless by the people themselves, for almost exactly the reasons tartbrain puts into words so well below. As for the Yahoo discussion group, "way into their heads" is too kind. One visit was enough. I can't see most "people on t