[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield, and Mother Meera in Chicago
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mother Meera: http://www.mmdarshanamerica.com/ Just curious, is she perhaps from the North of India? Chicago Program: http://www.mothermeeraashram.org/default.jsp -Gov Doug,FF
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html Many thanks for this, Bob. Such a funny, well- written review makes me want to order the book. The Bar is certainly a source of fascination. Honestly, I really don't drink that much -- too fuckin' old to get away with it -- but I really do appreciate a good bar. I'm a fan of the Bars With Ambiance Of Their Own. It doesn't have to be a classy, upscale, designer-Buddhist ambiance, like the Buddhabars in Paris and in Barcelona. Obviously. I blew out of the Nirvana bar in Sitges within minutes. By comparison, the Bar Pay Pay down the block is tacky to the max. But it's got soul, man. One feels good sitting here and watching the passersby. One has cool conversations here, and has them consistently. What more can one ask of a bar? The social lubricants of human society such as aloohol have been around as long as there have been humans, and thus are an important part of the sociology of the human race. I mean, *cave men* found ways to distill plants and get high. Ponder that. Even though they were only one rung up the evolutionary ladder from chimpanzees, the earliest humans carried with them the chimps' inherent desire to get high, to shift their state of attention. In the absence of technologies such as meditation, bars are where humans go to shift their state of attention. Most of the humans on this planet are unaware of technologies such as meditation. There- fore, in my book, bars are interesting. That's where you would go if you were a seeker who had found no other way to shift your state of attention. The best bar I've ever had the privilege of sitting and writing in is no more. It was Windows On The World, in the World Trade Center. *Magnif- icent* ambiance. The next best bar I've ever been in is the bar at Yab Yum in Amsterdam. This may be a stretch for those still attached to the puri- tanical ways of the TMO; Yab Yum is a brothel, the highest-class brothel in Amsterdam, at the time I was going there. But, it's also the kind of brothel where you might run into the Stones at the bar, or politicians from major countries of the world. It's a real trip. Man, how prejudiced you are. Around about 1978 (+-) there was this rare Yogi who visited Seelisberg. Almost every night Maharishi let him lecture in the Main Assembly Hall. All he would talk about was unity in all it's facets. Evening after evening. Unity, unity, unity and the need for seclusion to reach that state. Nothing wrong with that, the Yogi, who's name I no longer recall, was obviously firmly established in that state. One day Maharishi told his secretary to take the fellow on a trip to Lucern. And he was rather surprized to suddenly find himself in a well known bar in that city where the secretary insisted they should spend quite some time. When the Yogi's time in Seelisberg was up and he was going home to India someone asked him how his stay had been. Marvelous he said, then he declared that Maharishi is a generous and great Mahapurusha. But, he said, Maharishis secretaries are rather strange ! The lesson ? Perhaps the Yogi needed to grow into Brahman, to experience that he was in fact everything, including bars and their inhabitants. Would Maharishi denounce brothels ? Me think not.
[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Attempts to amass money is not bad. Taking money from well-meaning donators under the auspices of a non- profit organisation and then using it for your own personal gains IS bad. And it's not holy either. If many of the posters on this forum are to be believed, that is precisely what is happening with both Girish and his family. Is it true? I don't know. I've never seen formally audited financial statements of the Movement's goings-on in India in order to confirm whether it's true. Hey, I hope these nay-sayers are wrong...and it would be great to be proven wrong. But I ask: Do such audited documents exist? If so, what do they say? Do they contradict the charges against Girish et. al. that have been made here? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: For automatic deduction from a bank account: I authorize the University to collect my monthly pledge from my checking account/ savings account. Enclosed is a voided check or savings deposit slip from my current account. ... The Dome is is at the heart and soul of our community, so please send your donation or pledge now so we can make the deposit required to make a repair appointment this summer. ... They are fundamental to our cherished goals of invincibility for our country, and for creating a more perfect world. ... Maharishi is allowing us the honor to carry on his very precious work. Please make your donation or pledge now at whatever level you can, and thank you in advance for your support. ... Think of it as a small way to repay Maharishi's recent generosity... There has never been so much given to this community for so little cost. ?? What does the above have to do with anything? Did I incorrectly read the Kaplan posts that were posted here? Did I not read here that if you cross the Shrivastava family that you do it risking your own physical safety? Did I not read here that a donor who once sent $1 million to the Movement in India was told that the money was lost in transit? What does the fucking cultspeak that you blather above mean in this conversation?? Oh Dear Shemp, may be it is their cry of wolf too much. But it may be up they are up against it. You know, a lot of money over the dam and under the bridge. They might be up against it with people like you and the Kaplans wanting an accounting and all. Hey,I was hoping that betwx the two of us may be we could come up with a hundred dollars of shingles to fix the roof. I already gave a hundred dollars to the roof last week when the letter first came out. May be if you would match me, then between the two of us there could be a hundred dollars of shingles. Who knows? May be that is part of the problem. A lot of people have voted with their feet. I mean,now come show your faith, belief, or experience? How about a hundred bucks, from FFL? Your Friend, JGD, Gov Doug fra FF ...and a big, wet, juicy kiss from the Easter Bunny to you!
[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Attempts to amass money is not bad. Taking money from well-meaning donators under the auspices of a non- profit organisation and then using it for your own personal gains IS bad. And it's not holy either. If many of the posters on this forum are to be believed, that is precisely what is happening with both Girish and his family. Is it true? I don't know. I've never seen formally audited financial statements of the Movement's goings-on in India in order to confirm whether it's true. Hey, I hope these nay-sayers are wrong...and it would be great to be proven wrong. But I ask: Do such audited documents exist? If so, what do they say? Do they contradict the charges against Girish et. al. that have been made here? For automatic deduction from a bank account: I authorize the University to collect my monthly pledge from my checking account/ savings account. Enclosed is a voided check or savings deposit slip from my current account. ... The Dome is is at the heart and soul of our community, so please send your donation or pledge now so we can make the deposit required to make a repair appointment this summer. ... They are fundamental to our cherished goals of invincibility for our country, and for creating a more perfect world. ... Maharishi is allowing us the honor to carry on his very precious work. Please make your donation or pledge now at whatever level you can, and thank you in advance for your support. ... Think of it as a small way to repay Maharishi's recent generosity... There has never been so much given to this community for so little cost. Nice !
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: The best bar I've ever had the privilege of sitting and writing in is no more. It was Windows On The World, in the World Trade Center. *Magnif- icent* ambiance. The next best bar I've ever been in is the bar at Yab Yum in Amsterdam. This may be a stretch for those still attached to the puri- tanical ways of the TMO; Yab Yum is a brothel, the highest-class brothel in Amsterdam, at the time I was going there. But, it's also the kind of brothel where you might run into the Stones at the bar, or politicians from major countries of the world. It's a real trip. Man, how prejudiced you are. Me? I used to *hang* at Yab Yum. Never sampled the merchandise, other than the beverages, but I really enjoyed my time there. Some fascinating conversations, and some good writing that came out of those conversations. Around about 1978 (+-) there was this rare Yogi who visited Seelisberg. Almost every night Maharishi let him lecture in the Main Assembly Hall. All he would talk about was unity in all it's facets. Evening after evening. Unity, unity, unity and the need for seclusion to reach that state. Nothing wrong with that, the Yogi, who's name I no longer recall, was obviously firmly established in that state. As (I think) you point out below, if he was so firmly established in that state, what was it about Unity that he couldn't find in the bar? One day Maharishi told his secretary to take the fellow on a trip to Lucern. And he was rather surprized to suddenly find himself in a well known bar in that city where the secretary insisted they should spend quite some time. When the Yogi's time in Seelisberg was up and he was going home to India someone asked him how his stay had been. Marvelous he said, then he declared that Maharishi is a generous and great Mahapurusha. But, he said, Maharishis secretaries are rather strange ! It's an open question as to whether going to the bar was the secretary's idea or Maharishi's, but the outcome was the same in either case -- the firmly established in Unity yogi got to exper- ience just how fragile and artificial his estab- lishment was. In some spiritual traditions, one of the first things that the teachers suggest when a student starts having strong enlightenment experiences is that they go out into the world and see if it sticks. If it does, cool. And if it doesn't, cool. Either way, you've learned something. The test of enlightenment, as I see it, is how well you maintain in *all* circumstances and environments, not just the ones you prefer or consider refined and spiritual. I've met yogis who could radiate samadhi consistently in the meeting hall, but who turned into frightened little mice when having to navigate a busy city street. I don't know about you, but that makes me wonder just how established they really were. The lesson ? Perhaps the Yogi needed to grow into Brahman, to experience that he was in fact everything, including bars and their inhabitants. I would agree with you that that's the lesson of the story. The author of the story (whether Maharishi or his secretary) remains a matter of speculation. Would Maharishi denounce brothels ? Me think not. I've never heard him make a comment on them one way or another; I'd suspect, from his general attitudes towards sex (There is only the married householder or the recluse; anything else is a waste of life.) that his take on them wouldn't be positive, but that's just a guess. Me, I don't mind them because I've managed to have some Class-A spiritual conversations in brothels. With the women, with the patrons, and with the owners. I've sat in the bars of brothels and had long, deep conversations on karma and dharma, on reincarnation, on meditation and its value, on sexuality and how it works on an occult level, and on other fascinating topics. I even taught meditation once in a brothel, to one of the women. I paid the fee for her services myself, went to the room she usually took people to have sex with them, and taught her how to meditate. Because it was at Yab Yum and the time in the rooms cost 200 Euros an hour, that little experience of teaching meditation cost *me* something like 500 Euros, but it was worth every centime...one of the highest experiences of my life. She is now retired, but still meditates. I really don't know why I like these places. Maybe there is something about the basic honesty of why everyone is there that bleeds over into the conver- sations they have in such places. I don't know. All I know is that sometimes I prefer the honesty and openness of the conversations I find in bars and brothels to the dogmatism and reject-the-joys-of- the-world-ness I often find in temples and ashrams and meditation centers. Part of it is a Tantric thing for me, being drawn to
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: The best bar I've ever had the privilege of sitting and writing in is no more. It was Windows On The World, in the World Trade Center. *Magnif- icent* ambiance. The next best bar I've ever been in is the bar at Yab Yum in Amsterdam. This may be a stretch for those still attached to the puri- tanical ways of the TMO; Yab Yum is a brothel, the highest-class brothel in Amsterdam, at the time I was going there. But, it's also the kind of brothel where you might run into the Stones at the bar, or politicians from major countries of the world. It's a real trip. Man, how prejudiced you are. Me? I used to *hang* at Yab Yum. Never sampled the merchandise, other than the beverages, but I really enjoyed my time there. Some fascinating conversations, and some good writing that came out of those conversations. Your prejudices pertain to the TMO Around about 1978 (+-) there was this rare Yogi who visited Seelisberg. Almost every night Maharishi let him lecture in the Main Assembly Hall. All he would talk about was unity in all it's facets. Evening after evening. Unity, unity, unity and the need for seclusion to reach that state. Nothing wrong with that, the Yogi, who's name I no longer recall, was obviously firmly established in that state. As (I think) you point out below, if he was so firmly established in that state, what was it about Unity that he couldn't find in the bar? Please read above man ! He didn't need any knowledge of Unity but of Brahman. Geez... One day Maharishi told his secretary to take the fellow on a trip to Lucern. And he was rather surprized to suddenly find himself in a well known bar in that city where the secretary insisted they should spend quite some time. When the Yogi's time in Seelisberg was up and he was going home to India someone asked him how his stay had been. Marvelous he said, then he declared that Maharishi is a generous and great Mahapurusha. But, he said, Maharishis secretaries are rather strange ! The lesson ? Perhaps the Yogi needed to grow into Brahman, to experience that he was in fact everything, including bars and their inhabitants. I would agree with you that that's the lesson of the story. The author of the story (whether Maharishi or his secretary) remains a matter of speculation. Maharishi instructed the secretary, making that rather obvious. I'd like to see the secretary with the guts to bring International guests to bars...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield, and Mother Meera in Chicago
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Mother Meera: http://www.mmdarshanamerica.com/ Just curious, is she perhaps from the North of India? No, she is from Andhra Pradesh, south India. She was born in a small village not too far from Hyderbad, in Nalgond district. She is very light-colored if that is what you mean, but people in Andhra are not necessarily as dark as in Tamil. In the 1980s she had a nose-operation, because her nostrils were to small, which destroyed the indian shape of her nose. Now her indian home is in Madanapalle, also the birth place of Jai Krishnamurty, about 2 hrs from Bangalore. Chicago Program: http://www.mothermeeraashram.org/default.jsp -Gov Doug,FF
[FairfieldLife] The French Election
We'll know tonight how the French feel about the world and their place in it. Approximately 90% of them are expected to vote today -- compare that to the voting rates in the U.S. However, at this point the polls are saying that Sarko has the lion's share, and that's a sad thing, in my opinion. Sarko is a mini-me version of George W. Bush. He's smarter, and much more polished, but his fake compassionate conservatism lacks compas- sion, and he tends towards 1) violence towards those who don't share his views (he has a history of this in his time as a minister) and 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. Segolene Royal is, in contrast, a remarkably balanced politician, one who manages to juggle practical economic reforms with compassion and social programs that benefit *all* of the people, not just the rich ones. We'll see who the French identify with more, tonight. I think it would be a giant step backwards if Sarko wins, but there you jolly well are, aren't you? One of the biggest issues facing this planet is immi- gration and how to handle it gracefully, and the tendency one sees in country after country is towards reactionary, protective thinking, and handling it rather ungracefully. Bon chance, France. Not being able to vote in your election, I lift my glass to you from the South and wish you well -- both in your choices in the voting booths, and your karmas as a result of making them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Man, how prejudiced you are. Around about 1978 (+-) there was this rare Yogi who visited Seelisberg. Almost every night Maharishi let him lecture in the Main Assembly Hall. All he would talk about was unity in all it's facets. Evening after evening. Unity, unity, unity and the need for seclusion to reach that state. Nothing wrong with that, the Yogi, who's name I no longer recall, was obviously firmly established in that state. One day Maharishi told his secretary to take the fellow on a trip to Lucern. And he was rather surprized to suddenly find himself in a well known bar in that city where the secretary insisted they should spend quite some time. When the Yogi's time in Seelisberg was up and he was going home to India someone asked him how his stay had been. Marvelous he said, then he declared that Maharishi is a generous and great Mahapurusha. But, he said, Maharishis secretaries are rather strange ! The lesson ? Perhaps the Yogi needed to grow into Brahman, to experience that he was in fact everything, including bars and their inhabitants. Would Maharishi denounce brothels ? Me think not. Did his name start with an M.? Msomethingananda? I think I remember him and remember hearing the story. He was a very nice guy. If its the same one Maharishi sent him to different places in the movement, on a tour through europe, like Skandinavia, also Rhineweiler where I was. He visited again, when Shantanand was in Seelisberg in 83. He had a lot of Ashrams in India. I remember seeing him and the Shankaracharya off with Maharishi at Zürich airport.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html The reality of drinking... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgiZp3LDRNg
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Stunning' Nepal Buddha art find
Well I will try to give her a call..I tired a few days ago but no answer ...once I get moved I will let her know my new info and you too - Original Message - From: jim_flanegin To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 8:53 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Stunning' Nepal Buddha art find --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6624117.stm 'Stunning' Nepal Buddha art find   The discovery has been likened to finding a treaure trove Paintings of Buddha dating back at least to the 12th century have been discovered in a cave in a remote area of Nepal's north-central region. I am just curious why they date the paintings just back to the 12th century? I am thinking they could be much older. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/780 - Release Date: 4/29/2007 6:30 AM
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting
Morning thank you for the warm welcome. I will be sure to keep that whip close by! A small blurb about me ok well I am HellBug (Bug for short) a nickname friends many moons ago gave me cause my opinions about life, government and politics annoy some yet I'm loyal to a fault. I am head strong, determined and yet I care about others which IMO most of the human race is lacing compassion most of the time. I'm 36, a Libra, born in California but moved to Oklahoma when my youngest son was born wanting the kids to have a better life away from the city. I'm a huge animal lover I have five Chihuahua's plan to start breeding them soon and like to write poetry and short stories. Hope this works as my introduction and its really nice to meet you all on this list. Bug - Original Message - From: Duveyoung To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 5:35 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting Buggy, Welcome to the group! Howzbout ya present us with a blurb about yourself? And, er, what kind of buggy should we be thinking of ya over here? Baby? Kookoo? Pissy? Insectoid? Flawed? Infested? Shay? Bugs Bunny? Wood Critter? Please don't say all the above! My mother was blind, so yeah gang, put your comments on the top of the emails! Hell, even us sighted folks hate scrolling down for 30 seconds only to find a two word (Yo Adrian!) response. Buggy, if you're the shay type, keep your whip handy. There's highwaymen, yapping dogs, and saints here, so you've been warned. Yappy Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Morning I need to warn you all now I cannot snip as I truly cannot figure out how to do that on this program yet:) I apologize for any inconvenience - Original Message - From: Sal Sunshine To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting On May 4, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote: Incidentally, Buggy's situation, as a blind person, is a good reason for all of us snipping. If he's using a program which reads emails aloud, then if we don't snip, he has to listen to many minutes of junk to get to the new material embedded in it. Which oftentimes turns out to be junk as well, so maybe the non-trimmers are doing Buggy a favor, albeit inadvertently. :) Sal -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/780 - Release Date: 4/29/2007 6:30 AM -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/780 - Release Date: 4/29/2007 6:30 AM
[FairfieldLife] Re: Designing Utopia
If the bees go back to Venus, we'll all be planting backyard gardens and hand pollinating our flowering veggies. That would be a wonderful thingy, cuz suddenly everyone would have this in common, and we'd start talking to each other again over the back fence. We'd be great big bees, ya see, wiggling our butts for each other in Tantric dances -- doing our spring planting boogies -- like that. Yeah, it'd be about mulching etc., but community would strengthen tremendously. A funny thing about growing a garden is that Mother Nature is so generous that one starts giving away tomatoes like they were handfuls of pennies flung to urchins. It expands the spirit to give materially, eh? So give it all away! Okay, keep yer flatscreened, metrosexy, lifestyle, but at least start with the tomatoes. Once the bees are gone, it could be a huge wake up call, cuz it's one thing to know the last polar bear ever could be walking the earth TODAY, but howzbout one sees a bee in one's backyard after reading that almost no bees are found anywhere on earth? How precious will that last bee be to thee, see? How deep the impact on one then to lose an ever-present little creature that has peppered our lives from the get-go? What then will you make of the Silence of the Clover Fields, Clarice? We'll all be that American Indian with one tear flowing down his cheek. But, nope, the geeks will think, hey, just import this here insect from Australia, and it pollinates like the bees did, and hey, let's add a few bits of swine DNA to it while we're at it. And the next thing you know, a nice sweet little downunder bug decides it should overrun upover environment, and then it's common to be sitting on a plane on the tarmac for an hour waiting for a sky-darkening swarm to pass before we take off. Simpler life -- most of us with a garden to tend -- that's such a big step towards Utopia, than I find myself satisfied with a job well done. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working on a fiction idea lately that has left me thinking a lot about utopias. And I thought today that this might be an interesting thread for Fairfield Life. Any number of authors have tried their hand at designing a fictional utopia, from Sir Thomas More's island to Aldous Huxley's. I would be interested in hearing about some of the characteristics that the seekers here on FFL (who, after all, have had some hands on experience in pursuing utopias) would design into a real-life utopia of their own. Assuming anyone is interested in sharing cool ideas for an aspect of life -- be it social, religious, health-related, education-related...whatever -- you'd want to see in your personal utopia, I'd love to keep the thread as positive as possible. In other words, rather than discussing the things we *wouldn't* want to see in our inner perfect world, we could discuss a few of the things we *would* like to see in such a perfect world. They could be your own ideas or inter- esting ideas you read about in some work of fiction or in scripture or from any other source, be it spiritual or mundane. The first one I can think of is a very small thing, but remembering it recently has made me smile ever since, so I'll share it. On Huxley's Island, (if I remember correctly...it's been over 35 years since I read it) they had trained the wild parrots to say Karuna or Here and now, boys! I really like that. As you walk through the jungle, every so often a bird- voice comes out of the trees to remind you to pay attention to here and now, or to the importance of kindness. My own utopian ideas are at this point still in flux, so I have little to share, except that I'd like to see a system of government that has taking care of its people -- *all* of its people, in terms of food, shelter, health care and education -- as its first and highest priority. I'll work on how I'm going to accomplish that in real life and get back to you later... :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Troubled past
(Warning: this discussion may only be relevant to Judy and myself, and people who enjoy reading our disagreements. If I have done my part it may at times cause you to spill your coffee or Chai tea while reading.) snip Judyjim have presented a criticism of my total commitment and sincere efforts when I was a part of organization a few times here, as if following MMY's strictest programs, sidhaland and MIU was a personal failure of mine. Judy: What I was pointing out by quoting what you told the D.C. City Paper was (a) that you went *way* overboard, embellishing your program with all kinds of things that had nothing to do with what MMY teaches; and (b) that the tone in which you described all this very clearly indicated that you yourself found it troubling that you had gone to these extreme lengths to get a buzz. Me: They had nothing to with what MMY taught YOU. My use of all those things were recommended by MMY's top leaders to me personally. This included Nandkashore, my TTC phase III course leader and the Indian movement leader who actually got me the deer skin in India. It was not troubling to me at the time, it was a total blast. It is from the perspective that I gained when I left the movement that I could see how odd it all was. In the context of the culture of the fulltime monks in the movement that I lived with it was normal behavior. The phrase getting a buzz reflects my perspective that the higher states of consciousness we were experiencing were altered states with little epistemological significance. You have no idea what my subjective experiences were at the time, so you have no way to tell if I was overboard. From the perspective of a non-TM teacher, who has never lived fulltime, the whole structure of the programs I lived in were over your chosen board. They also point to my willingness to share my new perspective with those who were interested as if this too reveals a defect in my character. Judy: Wrong. The defect in your character is your attempt to deny that your previous perspective was a troubled one. I certainly don't believe, and I'll bet Jim doesn't either, that having had a troubled past is equivalent to having a defect in character. Me: How many times do I have to say that I had a great time in the movement before you stop this nonsense. I got nothing but strokes for my participation in the organization. I learned a lot and had a blast. My perspective was certified and lauded by numerous TM organizations including MIU, TTC, the National movement and DC council of 300 governors. There was not only nothing troubling in my movement perspective according to the movement, I was chosen as its spokesperson in many different contexts. The fact that I decided that my perspective was wrong, or that looking back on it all I see the humor, has nothing to do my past. This is a fantasy you have persisted in concerning my movement participation. I think it stems from your inability to accept that someone could have a great time in the movement, experience MMY's predicted state of mind, and then decide that it was an incorrect perspective and walk away. You are trying to discredit my participation in the movement, but the problem is that you didn't know me then. So you use snippets of a reporter's recollections about what I said in a long interview as evidence of my flawed perspective. This is in the face of actual evidence of my role in the organization. I was no more troubled than anyone, but that doesn't mean that I was correct in what I believed at the time. Judy: There is, perhaps, a defect in character involved when the new perspective views the troubled past exclusively in terms of victimization and consists of excessively, exaggeratedly negative portrayals of the purported victimizers. Curtis: Since I have repeated numerous times that I was not victimized by the movement, this statement is knowingly false. I had a blast, learned a lot, and decided it was not the way I wanted to view life. Many of the things seem funny to me now. There are people who left the movement who felt victimized, so you are attempting to apply a staw man to my situation. I chose my participation, enjoyed it, and even in the cases where manipulative techniques were used, I chose to put myself in the contexts where they could be used. I am not victim of the TM organization, I am a successful graduate of its perspective. I value both my participation and my choice to leave. The attempt to paint my life as troubled because I was sincerely focused on MMY's teachings for 15 years, and since 1989 have expressed another point of view on his teaching, is lame. What's lame is this characterization of what Jim and I have been saying. Rather then discussing ideas, it is the last resort to attempt to attack the person rather than an argument. It is the lowest form of discourse. It takes neither imagination or intellectual insight. Then why are you doing it in this post?
[FairfieldLife] Re: This guy Girish is creepy
Just be honest and tell me what happened to all the money. Peter wrote: All the money? When I taught TM I sent all of it to National and half was returned to me. The cost of learning TM was $125.00 for a working adult when I taught. So, when are you going to return the money to the poor people that you told would reach enlightenment in 5-7 years?
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Stunning' Nepal Buddha art find
jim flanegin wrote: I am just curious why they date the paintings just back to the 12th century? Because they are 12th century paintings? I am thinking they could be much older. Not much older, because tantric Buddhism wasn't introduced into Tibet before 774 AD with the arrival of Padmasambhava.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ever wonder where the prudery in the TMO came from?
Jason Spock wrote: Tell us something about Tien Tai. Tian Tai is Buddhist Madyamika, which postulates that all things are void of true nature and that they are without an essential reality; that all things are real and unreal at the same time, according to Nagarjuna's Middle Way, similar to Shankaracharys's notion that Maya is unreal yet real - an appearance only.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield, and Mother Meera in Chicago
In a message dated 5/6/2007 2:00:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com) , dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mother Meera: _http://www.mmdarshahttp://wwhttp_ (http://www.mmdarshanamerica.com/) Just curious, is she perhaps from the North of India? No. She is from the South. Lsoma. Chicago Program: _http://www.mothermehttp://wwwhttp://www.mhtt_ (http://www.mothermeeraashram.org/default.jsp) -Gov Doug,FF ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
[FairfieldLife] A new poll
OK, having some free time this morning, I thought I'd pull a Barry. :) So here's our latest poll, on who uses inflammatory language the most, since that seems to be a hot topic lately (apart from flinging dung, of course). Now I'm not drawing any conclusions one way or another, it's just a topic of conversation. We report, you decide. :) These are culled from all the posts made by these posters since they started posting here: Judy, Curtis, Barry, and, just for balance, yours truly. :) # of posts with the word 'liar' in them: Judy: 137 Curtis: 19 Barry: 47 Sal: 8 # of posts with the word 'lying' in them: Judy: 188 Curtis: 32 Barry: 84 Sal: 9 # of posts with the word 'hypocrite' in them: Judy: 40 Curtis: 9 Barry: 19 Sal: 6 # of posts with the word 'hypocrisy' in them: Judy: 132 Curtis: 10 Barry: 29 Sal: 8
[FairfieldLife] Re: Troubled past
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Judy: What I was pointing out by quoting what you told the D.C. City Paper was (a) that you went *way* overboard, embellishing your program with all kinds of things that had nothing to do with what MMY teaches; and (b) that the tone in which you described all this very clearly indicated that you yourself found it troubling that you had gone to these extreme lengths to get a buzz. Me: They had nothing to with what MMY taught YOU. Or what he taught you, as you go on to confirm: My use of all those things were recommended by MMY's top leaders to me personally. This included Nandkashore, my TTC phase III course leader and the Indian movement leader who actually got me the deer skin in India. (Just out of curiosity, were these recommendations something they told you about on their own, or did you *ask* what more you could be doing to get your buzz?) It was not troubling to me at the time, it was a total blast. Of course. I'm not sure where you got the idea I was saying it was troubling to you at the time. It is from the perspective that I gained when I left the movement that I could see how odd it all was. Right. *That's* what I was saying. In the context of the culture of the fulltime monks in the movement that I lived with it was normal behavior. The phrase getting a buzz reflects my perspective that the higher states of consciousness we were experiencing were altered states with little epistemological significance. Right. You have no idea what my subjective experiences were at the time, so you have no way to tell if I was overboard. I never said your subjective experiences were overboard, Curtis. Again, I can't figure out where you got that idea. From the perspective of a non-TM teacher, who has never lived fulltime, the whole structure of the programs I lived in were over your chosen board. I don't know what over your chosen board means. snip I certainly don't believe, and I'll bet Jim doesn't either, that having had a troubled past is equivalent to having a defect in character. Me: How many times do I have to say that I had a great time in the movement before you stop this nonsense. Never said otherwise. Another straw man. snip The fact that I decided that my perspective was wrong, or that looking back on it all I see the humor, has nothing to do my past. Not sure how that works. If you can look back on it, it's your past by definition. This is a fantasy you have persisted in concerning my movement participation. I think it stems from your inability to accept that someone could have a great time in the movement, experience MMY's predicted state of mind, and then decide that it was an incorrect perspective and walk away. No, that's a fantasy you have about what you think is my fantasy. I have no problem accepting all that. You are trying to discredit my participation in the movement, No more than you are! but the problem is that you didn't know me then. So you use snippets of a reporter's recollections about what I said in a long interview as evidence of my flawed perspective. Were you misquoted, or quoted misleadingly? This is in the face of actual evidence of my role in the organization. I was no more troubled than anyone, but that doesn't mean that I was correct in what I believed at the time. Right. What I'm talking about is your perspective *now*. Judy: There is, perhaps, a defect in character involved when the new perspective views the troubled past exclusively in terms of victimization and consists of excessively, exaggeratedly negative portrayals of the purported victimizers. Curtis: Since I have repeated numerous times that I was not victimized by the movement, this statement is knowingly false. Well, no, it's not. It may be false, but not knowingly. It's based on what you've said here and on alt.m.t, and goodness knows I'm not the only person to understand it that way, your denials notwithstanding. But again, it has to do with your perspective *now*, not back then. snip Judy: Curtis, you almost invariably use ad hominem whenever you're challenged on something. You're no purer than anybody else in that regard. Your absurd attack on nablusos for hiding behind a fake name, which was entirely gratuitous, having nothing to do with nablusos's humorous dig at you, is a case in point. Me: You have overgeneralized the term ad hominem and have confused it with getting personal. ad hominem...literally, to the person 1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect 2 : marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made [Curtis to Nablusos] However, like Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, I have the courage of my own convictions and do not hide behind a fake name. [Curtis to me] Your continued hostility towards me personally speaks for itself
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
That was great. I'm just glad I was able to up my own numbers this morning before your count! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, having some free time this morning, I thought I'd pull a Barry. :) So here's our latest poll, on who uses inflammatory language the most, since that seems to be a hot topic lately (apart from flinging dung, of course). Now I'm not drawing any conclusions one way or another, it's just a topic of conversation. We report, you decide. :) These are culled from all the posts made by these posters since they started posting here: Judy, Curtis, Barry, and, just for balance, yours truly. :) # of posts with the word 'liar' in them: Judy: 137 Curtis: 19 Barry: 47 Sal: 8 # of posts with the word 'lying' in them: Judy: 188 Curtis: 32 Barry: 84 Sal: 9 # of posts with the word 'hypocrite' in them: Judy: 40 Curtis: 9 Barry: 19 Sal: 6 # of posts with the word 'hypocrisy' in them: Judy: 132 Curtis: 10 Barry: 29 Sal: 8
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
On May 6, 2007, at 11:03 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: That was great. I'm just glad I was able to up my own numbers this morning before your count! I figured you'd get a kick out of it, Curtis, especially the dung part. :) Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, having some free time this morning, I thought I'd pull a Barry. :) So here's our latest poll, on who uses inflammatory language the most, since that seems to be a hot topic lately (apart from flinging dung, of course). Now I'm not drawing any conclusions one way or another, it's just a topic of conversation. We report, you decide. :) Well, it's a good thing you aren't drawing any conclusions from this, Sal. You didn't actually *read the posts*, did you? Because if you had, you'd have discovered that by *far* the majority of my posts with the word liar in them, for example, are either quoting someone else using the word or defending somebody else from the charge of being a liar. This is based, admittedly, on a relatively small sample, the first 20 of the 137 Sal cites. Of that first 20 (15% of 137), in exactly 3 did I actually call someone a liar (15% of 20). Extrapolating, that would mean I've left 21 posts in which I called someone a liar. I'd be willing to bet that of this 21, the vast majority would be accusations directed at Barry (and for good reason). If anyone, God forbid, wants to check out the rest of my posts and those of others on Sal's list, I strongly suspect they'll find a similar breakdown. Nice try, Sal, but no cigar. These are culled from all the posts made by these posters since they started posting here: Judy, Curtis, Barry, and, just for balance, yours truly. :) # of posts with the word 'liar' in them: Judy: 137 Curtis: 19 Barry: 47 Sal: 8 # of posts with the word 'lying' in them: Judy: 188 Curtis: 32 Barry: 84 Sal: 9 # of posts with the word 'hypocrite' in them: Judy: 40 Curtis: 9 Barry: 19 Sal: 6 # of posts with the word 'hypocrisy' in them: Judy: 132 Curtis: 10 Barry: 29 Sal: 8
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
On May 6, 2007, at 11:22 AM, authfriend wrote: Well, it's a good thing you aren't drawing any conclusions from this, Sal. You didn't actually *read the posts*, did you? Because if you had, you'd have discovered that by *far* the majority of my posts with the word liar in them, for example, are either quoting someone else using the word or defending somebody else from the charge of being a liar. I figured this would be your standard line of defense, Judy, since taking any responsibility for your own words seems to be very difficult. Of course, many of the posts of the others I cited (including my own) are simply quoting *you,* which you conveniently left out. This is based, admittedly, on a relatively small sample, the first 20 of the 137 Sal cites. Of that first 20 (15% of 137), in exactly 3 did I actually call someone a liar (15% of 20). Extrapolating, that would mean I've left 21 posts in which I called someone a liar. I'd be willing to bet that of this 21, the vast majority would be accusations directed at Barry (and for good reason). But of course.
[FairfieldLife] Cows, Con't
TMO Cows A farm near Fairfield used to sell cows for $35. Over time the price went up with inflation. After a swim in the Unified Field, someone said if we called these Vedic cows, we could buy them cheap and sell them for thousands of dollars. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, we could milk the vedic cows and sell vedic milk for $500/pint. And put gold on the pint bottle to make it even more special. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, we could take the smelly cow dung and sell it as Vedic Nectar worthy of Vedic rites, and good to burn at home to purify the air. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, We could sell Vedic air purifiers so increase the vedic prana in the air and rid homes off toxins, including foul smells from unknown sources (which smelled ironically like cow dung). Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, if we make some cows King of all vedic Cows we could charge $5000, for a cup. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, the milk from my neighbors cow tastes as good as the King of Vedic Cow's milk and costs $3/gallon. And is fresher because it comes from next door each morning, and doesn't need to be shipped from India or the Netherlands where a lot of the Vedic and King cows were kept in large east facing barns. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, You will sink through all the many hells of the netherworld if you stop drinking the milk from the ONLY real cows, the King of vedic cows. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, and the one who heard this started to laugh, and laugh, and the laughter cuaght on and soon half the town was rolling on the floor laughing. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, maybe we could sell laughter as a great vedic healing vibration, but show research that it only works if you start laughing at the right thing. Then we could sell the Vedic right thing. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, I laughed using the right Vedic thing, and laughed on my own and well, I laughed just as hard. And THAT made me laugh even deeper and now I see the whole universe laughing with me. Then, after trying to take another swim in the Unified Field, he saw that it was a Unified Field of Laughter.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 6, 2007, at 11:22 AM, authfriend wrote: Well, it's a good thing you aren't drawing any conclusions from this, Sal. You didn't actually *read the posts*, did you? Because if you had, you'd have discovered that by *far* the majority of my posts with the word liar in them, for example, are either quoting someone else using the word or defending somebody else from the charge of being a liar. I figured this would be your standard line of defense, Judy, since taking any responsibility for your own words seems to be very difficult. Au contraire, I take full responsibility for calling people liars when I actually call them liars. (You aren't suggesting I should be taking responsibility for *other people* using inflammatory words, are you?) Of course, many of the posts of the others I cited (including my own) are simply quoting *you,* which you conveniently left out. No, dear, I took it explicitly into account (but, my goodness, you carefully *deleted* the part where I did so): If anyone, God forbid, wants to check out the rest of my posts and those of others on Sal's list, I strongly suspect they'll find a similar breakdown. Similar breakdown = quoting somebody else (e.g., me) or defending someone from the accusation. (You do realize, don't you, that someone else quoting me using the word liar doesn't *add* any to my total, right?) Still no cigar. Sorry!
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was great. I'm just glad I was able to up my own numbers this morning before your count! Is this a new yahoo feature? Or are you doing so in a mail client?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Troubled past
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the perspective of a non-TM teacher, who has never lived fulltime, the whole structure of the programs I lived in were over your chosen board. I don't know what over your chosen board means. The way you chose to approach the movement and its programs. snip You are trying to discredit my participation in the movement, No more than you are! I have changed my perspective on my experiences. You are attempting to characterize my experiences as an improper understanding of MMY's teaching while I was in the movement, which is comical because only one of us was actually certified as a spokesperson for his teaching. By applying the standard and culture of your part-time non teaching status to my own fulltime experiences, you are just revealing how little you know about MMY full teaching. snip Judy: What I was pointing out by quoting what you told the D.C. City Paper was (a) that you went *way* overboard, embellishing your program with all kinds of things that had nothing to do with what MMY teaches; and (b) that the tone in which you described all this very clearly indicated that you yourself found it troubling that you had gone to these extreme lengths to get a buzz. Me: They had nothing to with what MMY taught YOU. Or what he taught you, as you go on to confirm: My use of all those things were recommended by MMY's top leaders to me personally. This included Nandkashore, my TTC phase III course leader and the Indian movement leader who actually got me the deer skin in India. So your instructions in the movement all came from MMY himself? Mine came mostly from his designated representatives where were authorized to present his teaching. They were not only trusted to do so, challenging them on their authority to present MMY's teaching would have gotten me booted out. (Just out of curiosity, were these recommendations something they told you about on their own, or did you *ask* what more you could be doing to get your buzz?) They woke me up in the middle of the night and forced me to buy a deerskin against my will. That is how it works when you are fulltime and discussing your program with Nandkashore and your TTC course leaders. I have no idea what distinction you are driving at but I'm pretty sure it is not out of curiosity. Yo have seem to have no capacity to understand how a fulltime monk in the movement thinks or the teachings of MMY that apply to that lifestyle. but the problem is that you didn't know me then. So you use snippets of a reporter's recollections about what I said in a long interview as evidence of my flawed perspective. Were you misquoted, or quoted misleadingly? We went over the subtle distinctions in language ad nausium on AMT. The basic thrust and point was correct, and since you can't control the exact wording with a reporter I have to live with the words used. As an example, I was not claiming to be a little Maharishi, I was aspiring to become enlightened like my master. (do you think anyone else aspired to this in the fulltiime movement or was it just me?) My point was that I was living with a perfectionist standard which was the norm for fulltime monks. I have since decided that this standard is not useful for my life from any source, including when I try to hold myself to my own perfectionist standards. Aspiring to become a sidha is by definition a goal of perfection. Snip Curtis: Since I have repeated numerous times that I was not victimized by the movement, this statement is knowingly false. Well, no, it's not. It may be false, but not knowingly. It's based on what you've said here and on alt.m.t, and goodness knows I'm not the only person to understand it that way, your denials notwithstanding. So even though I do not consider myself a victim, because I chose my participation freely, you can label me a victim and criticize me for being a victim? You are having a conversation with yourself and supplying my side in a form that you can use against me. You can continue on your own then, you don't need me to confuse you with the facts concerning my own life.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
I suppose one conclusion could be that Judy is less of a hypocrite and liar than others since she is, apparently, being called such less. However, I am guessing some might take a different angle on this. But if the count had been of blogs on GWB, and many bloggers used copious amounts of the words stupid, inept, insane, dangerous, incompetent, shallow, hollow, phony, perverse, insincere, manipipulative and lazy -- what would be the possible conclusions? That the bloggers were all projecting their own qualities on to Bush? That all the bloggers were simply very negative people? If one counted high number of the words hypocrite, liar, etc in posts about Bevan, would it be the most logical conclusion to assume the posters were off the wall negative? Or might in some cases they have a point? If one counted high number of the words happpiness, bliss, peace, coherence etc in TMO press releases, many would undoubtly lament and decry the bliss-ninny view of the world. Yet, hard hitting language seems to be taboo too (liar, hypocrite, etc). What is the moral? That mediocre, bland language is aa sign of good writing and high moral character? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, having some free time this morning, I thought I'd pull a Barry. :) So here's our latest poll, on who uses inflammatory language the most, since that seems to be a hot topic lately (apart from flinging dung, of course). Now I'm not drawing any conclusions one way or another, it's just a topic of conversation. We report, you decide. :) These are culled from all the posts made by these posters since they started posting here: Judy, Curtis, Barry, and, just for balance, yours truly. :) # of posts with the word 'liar' in them: Judy: 137 Curtis: 19 Barry: 47 Sal: 8 # of posts with the word 'lying' in them: Judy: 188 Curtis: 32 Barry: 84 Sal: 9 # of posts with the word 'hypocrite' in them: Judy: 40 Curtis: 9 Barry: 19 Sal: 6 # of posts with the word 'hypocrisy' in them: Judy: 132 Curtis: 10 Barry: 29 Sal: 8
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html The reality of drinking... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgiZp3LDRNg FWIW, from Hasselhof's statement about the video: I am a recovering alcoholic. Despite [the fact] that I have been going through a painful divorce and...have recently been separated from my children due to my work, I have been successfully dealing with my issue, Hasselhoff had said Thursday after the tape showing him drunk was aired by Extra, Entertainment Tonight and The Insider. Unfortunately, I did have a brief relapse, but part of recovery is relapse. Because of my honest and positive relationship with my children, who were concerned for my well-being, there was a tape made when I had a relapse to show me what I was like. I have seen the tape. I have learned from it, and I am back on my game. I hope that someone else will learn from the tape, as I have. I thank God for the love and concern from my children. Long story on Yahoo News: http://tinyurl.com/ypcc64
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, ,Dr. PETE and ALEX
Thanks a lot, Authfriend. Isn't Celiac disease an Auto-immune dis-order.?? I'm glad the concerns about Sucralose are anecdotal and not on experiment. Funny, it was discovered way back in the 1970's authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 18:03:13 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, ,Dr. PETE and ALEX http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Oligosaccharide These aren't artificial; they're substances found in plants. They're not only safe but can be beneficial by nurturing friendly bacteria in the intestinal tract. http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Sucralose This is definitely artificial. There's a detailed discussion about its safety on this page. Concerns are theoretical and anecdotal, not based on experiment. http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Maltodextrin This is made from starch, so it isn't really artificial either. No known safety concerns, but it can aggravate celiac disease if it's made from starch from wheat or barley. It's used primarily as a thickening agent, not a sweetener, although it's mildly sweet. Almost certainly he wouldn't approve of sucralose, nor is it Vedic, since it was developed only recently. Ayurveda generally prefers fresh, unprocessed food, so maltodextrin would probably not be on the approved list. - Don't be flakey. Get Yahoo! Mail for Mobile and always stay connected to friends.
[FairfieldLife] Surfing Sitges
Just for the fun of it, here are a few of the things that caught my attention this weekend walking the streets of this Spanish beach town. * Music Of The Street Kind. I'm a fan of buskers, musicians who play on the streets and who not only make a living doing what they love to do, they seem to have *fun* doing it. I kinda judge any new town by the quality of its street musicians. Well, lemme tell you, Sitges rocks. In the courtyard of the Palau Maricel there is a guitarist obviously well trained in classical guitar, Flamenco, and jazz, and he adds chops of his own to create a dreamy soundscape that just sucks you in, and is very appropriate when standing in front of a 15th century Spanish palace. Just up the street you find a guy and a gal playing some kind of Swiss metal drum thingy that I've never seen before, but which produces a rather heavenly percussion sound. It sounds a little like what might happen if your steel drum got loose one night and mated with a marimba and these drums were their kids. Really sweet guy and gal, improvising 100% of their performance, just bouncing off of each other musically, having a ball. It was difficult for me not to have a ball along with them. * Weird Events Out Of The Blue. So I'm walking down at the south end of the beach last night around sunset, and I notice a small crowd milling around, looking out over the beach wall at the little quai that juts out into the ocean at that point. Curious, I walked up and damned if it's not a swimsuit model photo session in progress. I have to tell you, Edg, I almost got over my inhibitions about the word God and thanked Him right there. :-) *Very* entertaining. It was a crew from American Vogue, as far as I could tell, and they were really doing it up, with four or five photographers working with ten or twelve...uh... Major Fashion Magazine Swimsuit Models. I don't think I have ever seen more walking tributes to the plastic surgeon's and personal trainers' art in one place in my life. And it was entertaining to watch the Spanish guys and gals oggling this whole scene, too. They seemed as amused by it as I was. * Clothing Experiments Of The Deeply Disturbed. This is a beach town known for its liberal attitudes and its all-night nightclubs. Just walking down the street you can see someone walk by wearing ten-inch high heels, a Borat-inspired bathing suit, and a pink feather boa. And that's just the guys. (Just kidding, but only partly, because Sitges *is* a big gay mecca.) It's not really *that* over the top or flamboyant, but there is an amazingly wide range of creative fashion to be seen and dazzled by. Later last night I ran into the models from the photo shoot coming out of a restaurant, and boy! were they Dressed To Disco. I'll bet a few Spanish guys had their hearts broken last night, or at the very least had their standards raised. * The Smells. Sitges is a fairly small town that continas well over a hundred restaurants. Every one I've tried is not just good, but excellent. You walk by their outdoor terraces and the smells from each restaurant vie for your affections and for your Euros. You turn the corner and this aroma hits your nose, and you can't for the life of you identify all of its ingredients, but it smalls *really* good, and you know that you're a goner, and if you don't stop and eat there today, you will someday soon. * The Touchy-Feely Spanish. You might get the impression from watching French movies and all those bissous (cheek kisses) that the French are into touching each other a lot in public. Au contraire, Pierre. It's almost the opposite. The French ckeek kisses are very chaste and formal, whereas the Spanish cheek kisses might just get you a Wet Willie. The Spanish exchange kisses as well, both men and women, but they're more real kisses and they supplement them with lots of hugs and hand-holding. It's kinda neat to see after three years in France. The tendency to touch and stroke and hug a lot extends to their children, and I'd bet that Spanish kids grow up pretty happy and fairly well adjusted as a result. * The CD and DVD Counterfeiters. They're everywhere. You'll be walking along a street and look down and this young guy has a plastic sheet covered with CDs and DVDs. Curious, you stop to look at them and they're the *latest* CDs and DVDs, the ones just now appearing in stores or in theaters. They have covers, printed disk labels, the whole bit. Counerfeits, but quality counter- feits. The CDs sell for 2 Euros, the DVDs five. And when a cop appears in the distance, the guy just whips up the strings attached to the corners of his plastic sheet and, like that... (insert Kevin Spacey gesture at the end of The Usual Suspects here)...he's gone. * The Sidewalk Bars and Cafes. To Die For. The one I'm sitting in right now writing this is a chiringuito. I've been told that this term was originally applied to the clapboard beach shacks that sprang up along the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cows, Con't
I think it should read Queen of the Vedic Cows. The King is a Vedic Bull. What comes out of the bull's backside.?? new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 16:31:34 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Cows, Con't TMO Cows A farm near Fairfield used to sell cows for $35. Over time the price went up with inflation. After a swim in the Unified Field, someone said if we called these Vedic cows, we could buy them cheap and sell them for thousands of dollars. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, we could milk the vedic cows and sell vedic milk for $500/pint. And put gold on the pint bottle to make it even more special. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, we could take the smelly cow dung and sell it as Vedic Nectar worthy of Vedic rites, and good to burn at home to purify the air. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, We could sell Vedic air purifiers so increase the vedic prana in the air and rid homes off toxins, including foul smells from unknown sources (which smelled ironically like cow dung). Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, if we make some cows King of all vedic Cows we could charge $5000, for a cup. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, the milk from my neighbors cow tastes as good as the King of Vedic Cow's milk and costs $3/gallon. And is fresher because it comes from next door each morning, and doesn't need to be shipped from India or the Netherlands where a lot of the Vedic and King cows were kept in large east facing barns. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, You will sink through all the many hells of the netherworld if you stop drinking the milk from the ONLY real cows, the King of vedic cows. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, and the one who heard this started to laugh, and laugh, and the laughter cuaght on and soon half the town was rolling on the floor laughing. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, maybe we could sell laughter as a great vedic healing vibration, but show research that it only works if you start laughing at the right thing. Then we could sell the Vedic right thing. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, I laughed using the right Vedic thing, and laughed on my own and well, I laughed just as hard. And THAT made me laugh even deeper and now I see the whole universe laughing with me. Then, after trying to take another swim in the Unified Field, he saw that it was a Unified Field of Laughter. - Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food Drink QA.
[FairfieldLife] Creepy Pictures
I wonder if Girish thinks people on FFL look creepy? http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65 http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65?b=17m=to=0
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, ,Dr. PETE and ALEX
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot, Authfriend. You're welcome! I learned some things too. Isn't Celiac disease an Auto-immune dis-order.?? Yup. The small intestine apparently lacks an enzyme to deal with gluten, and this causes the immune system to attack the lining of the small intestine (don't ask me how!). I'm glad the concerns about Sucralose are anecdotal and not on experiment. Yes, but one of the concerns is that there haven't been any experiments on long-term use because it hasn't been available to consumers until quite recently, so nobody has been using it on a long-term basis. I'd guess stevia is probably the safest non-sugar sweetener. It hasn't been tested long-term either, but it's been used for a very long time, so you'd think any problems would have become obvious by now. And stevia is completely natural.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Creepy Pictures
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/view/4c65?b=21 is a cool one. Wonder how he did it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cows, Con't
Are you suggesting, by implication, that the TMO and its pronouncements are always logical, rational and doable? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it should read Queen of the Vedic Cows. The King is a Vedic Bull. What comes out of the bull's backside.?? new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 16:31:34 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Cows, Con't TMO Cows A farm near Fairfield used to sell cows for $35. Over time the price went up with inflation. After a swim in the Unified Field, someone said if we called these Vedic cows, we could buy them cheap and sell them for thousands of dollars. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, we could milk the vedic cows and sell vedic milk for $500/pint. And put gold on the pint bottle to make it even more special. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, we could take the smelly cow dung and sell it as Vedic Nectar worthy of Vedic rites, and good to burn at home to purify the air. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, We could sell Vedic air purifiers so increase the vedic prana in the air and rid homes off toxins, including foul smells from unknown sources (which smelled ironically like cow dung). Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, if we make some cows King of all vedic Cows we could charge $5000, for a cup. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, the milk from my neighbors cow tastes as good as the King of Vedic Cow's milk and costs $3/gallon. And is fresher because it comes from next door each morning, and doesn't need to be shipped from India or the Netherlands where a lot of the Vedic and King cows were kept in large east facing barns. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, You will sink through all the many hells of the netherworld if you stop drinking the milk from the ONLY real cows, the King of vedic cows. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, and the one who heard this started to laugh, and laugh, and the laughter cuaght on and soon half the town was rolling on the floor laughing. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, maybe we could sell laughter as a great vedic healing vibration, but show research that it only works if you start laughing at the right thing. Then we could sell the Vedic right thing. Which they did. Then, after another swim in the Unified Field, someone said, I laughed using the right Vedic thing, and laughed on my own and well, I laughed just as hard. And THAT made me laugh even deeper and now I see the whole universe laughing with me. Then, after trying to take another swim in the Unified Field, he saw that it was a Unified Field of Laughter. - Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food Drink QA.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
I did the exact same exercise for alt.meditation.transcendental about 4 years ago and Judy came out #1 there, too. Remember that, Judy? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, having some free time this morning, I thought I'd pull a Barry. :) So here's our latest poll, on who uses inflammatory language the most, since that seems to be a hot topic lately (apart from flinging dung, of course). Now I'm not drawing any conclusions one way or another, it's just a topic of conversation. We report, you decide. :) These are culled from all the posts made by these posters since they started posting here: Judy, Curtis, Barry, and, just for balance, yours truly. :) # of posts with the word 'liar' in them: Judy: 137 Curtis: 19 Barry: 47 Sal: 8 # of posts with the word 'lying' in them: Judy: 188 Curtis: 32 Barry: 84 Sal: 9 # of posts with the word 'hypocrite' in them: Judy: 40 Curtis: 9 Barry: 19 Sal: 6 # of posts with the word 'hypocrisy' in them: Judy: 132 Curtis: 10 Barry: 29 Sal: 8
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy Pictures
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/view/4c65?b=21 is a cool one. Wonder how he did it. No doubt, by making sure he was nowhere near any pretty girls wearing cheap CA clothing.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy Pictures
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if Girish thinks people on FFL look creepy? http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65 http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65?b=17m\ =to=0 Here's a photo of a sweet looking child, new.morning: Nice-looking kid, huh? Well, not so nice. His name is Adolf Hitler and he's personally responsible for up to 60 million deaths. Creepiness is a characteristic that seeps into a photo when one is in possession of more than just the electrons coming into one's cornea from a photograph. Girish is creepy because of what we know about him. Sweet-looking guy otherwise.
[FairfieldLife] Does anyone know how to do this photographic effect?
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/view/4c65?b=2 I've seen this effect on a lot of psychedelic posters from the '60s...anyone know how to do it?
[FairfieldLife] The Godfather of Climatology: global-warming fears absurd
http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Does anyone know how to do this photographic effect?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/view/4c65?b=2 I've seen this effect on a lot of psychedelic posters from the '60s...anyone know how to do it? Try posterize in Photoshop
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy Pictures
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if Girish thinks people on FFL look creepy? http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65 http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65? b=17m=to=0 Haha, Paul Mason wins that contest
Re: [FairfieldLife] Does anyone know how to do this photographic effect?
On May 6, 2007, at 1:46 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/view/4c65?b=2 I've seen this effect on a lot of psychedelic posters from the '60s...anyone know how to do it? Try the Glowing Edges filter in PS. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Conference in NYC targets UN ambassadors and government leaders
For Immediate Release Contact: Steven Yellin 641-470-1344 [GLOBAL FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF NEW YORK] http://gfcny.net 70 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 212-809-7000 (T) 212-809-7001 (F) [EMAIL PROTECTED] MEDIA ALERT Global Financial Capital of New York Holds New Series of Seven Scientific Conferences Highlights Unified Field-Based Solutions to Problems of Defense, Administration, Education, Health, Agriculture, Housing, Poverty Life Press Invited to Attend (NEW YORK) New, scientifically proven Unified Field-based solutions to the world's most intractable problems are now being presented to UN ambassadors and government leaders during a series of seven international scientific conferences at the Global Financial Capital of New York, 70 Broad Street, one block from the New York Stock Exchange. The conferences run from May 3 to May 22, begin at 11:30 a.m. (EDT), and are being broadcast live via satellite and webcast at www.GlobalFinancialCapitalNY.org http://www.GlobalFinancialCapitalNY.org . Keynote speakers include John Hagelin, Ph.D., world-renowned quantum physicist and Executive Director of the International Center for Invincible Defense; Dr. Bevan Morris, Prime Minister of the Global Country of World Peace and preeminent educator; Dr. Paul Potter, Raja (administrator) of New York and an expert in poverty removal; Dr. John Konhaus, Raja of California and an expert in organic agriculture; Dr. Bob LoPinto, Raja of Potomac Vedic America and expert in international finance; Dr. Rogers Badgett, Raja of Atlanta and an expert in prevention-oriented health care; and Dr. Kingsley Brooks, Raja of New England and an expert in Consciousness-Based education. Every government can secure the health, prosperity, and invincibility of its people These conferences will present scientifically proven solutions to the problems confronting every nation, Dr. Hagelin said. These solutions are based on the latest discoveries in quantum physics, physiology, neuroscience, agriculture, and architectureand will ensure that every government can immediately secure the health, prosperity, and invincibility of its people. Conference schedule WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 (11:30 A.M. EDT) Achieving Natural Security and Invincibility: A Unified Field-Based Approach to Defense MONDAY, MAY 7 (11:30 A.M. EDT) Creating Prevention-Oriented, Problem-Free Government: A Unified Field-Based Approach to Administration WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 (11:30 A.M. EDT) Developing the Total Brain and Optimizing Academic Outcomes: A Unified Field-Based Approach to Education FRIDAY, MAY 11 (11:30 A.M. EDT) Preventing Disease, Promoting Health, and Reducing Costs: A Unified Field-Based Approach to Health Care TUESDAY, MAY 15 (11:30 A.M. EDT) Producing Healthy Food for the Whole Population: A Unified Field-Based Approach to Organic Agriculture THURSDAY, MAY 17 (11:30 A.M. EDT) Building Fortune-Creating Homes and Workplaces: A Unified Field Based Approach to Architecture TUESDAY, MAY 22 (11:30 A.M. EDT) Eliminating Poverty: A Unified Field-Based Approach to Unlocking National Creativity and Productivity New programs of the Global Financial Capital of New York Dr. Hagelin said the speakers will also outline during the conferences the new $2.6 billion program of the Global Financial Capital of New York to build 200 unique hospitals and the $0.65 billion program to build 210 Invincibility Schools in the 37 countries with the highest income per capita. For more information on this offer, and to view replays of the first series of international conferences held at the Global Financial Capital of New York, see www.GlobalFinancialCapitalNY.org http://www.GlobalFinancialCapitalNY.org . Click here to unsubscribe http://invincibleamerica.org/unsubscribe/
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
Hi Sal, you forget to mention these gems of wisdom below from TurquoiseB for which he has never apologized and which at the time I found very offensive and disgusted by. MUCH MUCH WORSE than anything Judy has EVER said. Admit it Sal, or are you a prejudiced born-again fanatic like Bush, Rice, Ashcroft and cronies. Admit it Sal, and stop siding with such disgusting people JUST because they gel with your own agenda. That is what Nazis do. Admit that this below IS FAR WORSE BY FAR than anything Judy has ever said here: TurquoiseB referring to a poster he dislikes: I guess we all know who that was. Fuckin' retard. 82313 On the fact that he doesn't dominate the board with his long-winded monoloques: I think I speak for many people here in saying that all we're asking is for these three to CATCH A FUCKIN' CLUE and realize that what they are doing is socially unacceptable. 121753 Referring to a poster he disagrees with: All these years disappointed. So if I limit myself to the occasional cheap shot about her dried-up pussy, count yourself lucky. 81046 Referring to a poster he disagrees with: As for gone all cunty, well, that's definitely fair and accurate, so carry on 112581 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, having some free time this morning, I thought I'd pull a Barry. :) So here's our latest poll, on who uses inflammatory language the most, since that seems to be a hot topic lately (apart from flinging dung, of course). Now I'm not drawing any conclusions one way or another, it's just a topic of conversation. We report, you decide. :) These are culled from all the posts made by these posters since they started posting here: Judy, Curtis, Barry, and, just for balance, yours truly. :) # of posts with the word 'liar' in them: Judy: 137 Curtis: 19 Barry: 47 Sal: 8 # of posts with the word 'lying' in them: Judy: 188 Curtis: 32 Barry: 84 Sal: 9 # of posts with the word 'hypocrite' in them: Judy: 40 Curtis: 9 Barry: 19 Sal: 6 # of posts with the word 'hypocrisy' in them: Judy: 132 Curtis: 10 Barry: 29 Sal: 8
RE: [FairfieldLife] Conference in NYC targets UN ambassadors and government leaders
They have wisely refrained from putting photos of the rajas on the site, even they the email refers to them by that title. I suspect that in the actual conference, they'll be introduced by that title and wear their crowns. Wonder if anyone will be there to see that spectacle?
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 6, 2007, at 11:22 AM, authfriend wrote: Well, it's a good thing you aren't drawing any conclusions from this, Sal. You didn't actually *read the posts*, did you? Because if you had, you'd have discovered that by *far* the majority of my posts with the word liar in them, for example, are either quoting someone else using the word or defending somebody else from the charge of being a liar. I figured this would be your standard line of defense, Judy, since taking any responsibility for your own words seems to be very difficult. Of course, many of the posts of the others I cited (including my own) are simply quoting *you,* which you conveniently left out. If you are going to call people on this Sal you should do it properly as I have done and put the post numbers with them. This is not accurate and totally false the way you did it. This below is accurate: TurquoiseB referring to a poster he dislikes: I guess we all know who that was. Fuckin' retard. 82313 On the fact that he doesn't dominate the board with his long-winded monoloques: I think I speak for many people here in saying that all we're asking is for these three to CATCH A FUCKIN' CLUE and realize that what they are doing is socially unacceptable. 121753 Referring to a poster he disagrees with: All these years disappointed. So if I limit myself to the occasional cheap shot about her dried-up pussy, count yourself lucky. 81046 Referring to a poster he disagrees with: As for gone all cunty, well, that's definitely fair and accurate, so carry on 112581
[FairfieldLife] new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals!
this is just astonishing ... from NY Times ad: Investors are Invited to Consider our program of $2.6 Billion to build 200 unique Hospitals and $0.65 Billion to build 210 Invincible Schools in 37 countries with highest income per capita. Proposed Financing terms: 15 year loan with 10% Interest. source: http://www.globalfinancialcapitalny.org/ad/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy Pictures
In that picture of TurquoiseB I can't tell which one is him? Is it the one with the horn on his head, or the wacky looking one at the back, or the creepy looking old man in the foreground? OffWorld. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if Girish thinks people on FFL look creepy? http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65 http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65? b=17m=to=0
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sal, you forget to mention these gems of wisdom below from TurquoiseB for which he has never apologized and which at the time I found very offensive and disgusted by. MUCH MUCH WORSE than anything Judy has EVER said. Admit it Sal, or are you a prejudiced born-again fanatic like Bush, Rice, Ashcroft and cronies. Admit it Sal, and stop siding with such disgusting people JUST because they gel with your own agenda. That is what Nazis do. (Comparing her to Bush et al. is one thing, but don't trivialize the Nazis, please.) Admit that this below IS FAR WORSE BY FAR than anything Judy has ever said here: And what you go on to list barely begins to scratch the surface. TurquoiseB referring to a poster he dislikes: I guess we all know who that was. Fuckin' retard. 82313 On the fact that he doesn't dominate the board with his long-winded monoloques: I think I speak for many people here in saying that all we're asking is for these three to CATCH A FUCKIN' CLUE and realize that what they are doing is socially unacceptable. 121753 Referring to a poster he disagrees with: All these years disappointed. So if I limit myself to the occasional cheap shot about her dried-up pussy, count yourself lucky. 81046 Referring to a poster he disagrees with: As for gone all cunty, well, that's definitely fair and accurate, so carry on 112581
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy Pictures
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: I wonder if Girish thinks people on FFL look creepy? http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65 http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65? b=17m\ =to=0 Here's a photo of a sweet looking child, new.morning: Nice-looking kid, huh? Well, not so nice. His name is Adolf Hitler and he's personally responsible for up to 60 million deaths. Creepiness is a characteristic that seeps into a photo when one is in possession of more than just the electrons coming into one's cornea from a photograph. Girish is creepy because of what we know about him. Sweet-looking guy otherwise. I think that is your idol GW Bush as a kid. As kids these two looked the same so it is hard to tell but they both end up the same self- obsessed fanatical homocidal nutcases as adults. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Creepy Pictures
In that picture of TurquoiseB I can't tell which one is him? Is it the one with the horn on his head, or the wacky looking one at the back, or the creepy looking old man in the foreground? http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/view/4c65?b=16 OffWorld. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if Girish thinks people on FFL look creepy? http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65 http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/photos/browse/4c65? b=17m=to=0
[FairfieldLife] Re: A new poll
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: Hi Sal, you forget to mention these gems of wisdom below from TurquoiseB for which he has never apologized and which at the time I found very offensive and disgusted by. MUCH MUCH WORSE than anything Judy has EVER said. Admit it Sal, or are you a prejudiced born-again fanatic like Bush, Rice, Ashcroft and cronies. Admit it Sal, and stop siding with such disgusting people JUST because they gel with your own agenda. That is what Nazis do. (Comparing her to Bush et al. is one thing, but don't trivialize the Nazis, please.) Bush is a Nazi, and people who slander people, but ignore their own sides disgusting behaviour (as for example, Rick has done many times) and like Sal here just to strengthen their fanatical agenda is what Nazis do. Admit that this below IS FAR WORSE BY FAR than anything Judy has ever said here: And what you go on to list barely begins to scratch the surface. I know, this was 5 minutes research. I don't have the patience to do the rest, it would take hours to collect them all. OffWorld TurquoiseB referring to a poster he dislikes: I guess we all know who that was. Fuckin' retard. 82313 On the fact that he doesn't dominate the board with his long- winded monoloques: I think I speak for many people here in saying that all we're asking is for these three to CATCH A FUCKIN' CLUE and realize that what they are doing is socially unacceptable. 121753 Referring to a poster he disagrees with: All these years disappointed. So if I limit myself to the occasional cheap shot about her dried-up pussy, count yourself lucky. 81046 Referring to a poster he disagrees with: As for gone all cunty, well, that's definitely fair and accurate, so carry on 112581
[FairfieldLife] Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge - video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7678538942425297587q=vedic
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html The reality of drinking... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgiZp3LDRNg ** As Turq B said in this thread: In the absence of technologies such as meditation, bars are where humans go to shift their state of attention. Most of the humans on this planet are unaware of technologies such as meditation. There- fore, in my book, bars are interesting. That's where you would go if you were a seeker who had found no other way to shift your state of attention. * It's no good to just say no to alcohol and other drugs because people have needs that they will seek to meet. I quit alc after a few months of TM because that need to reduce anxiety was met by TM, and this is the usual response to consistent practice of TM, verified by studies of reduction of drug use by TMers (although I do know long- time TMers who are still into sauce or pot or whatever, but they are the rare exceptions). Bob
[FairfieldLife] Re: Conference in NYC targets UN ambassadors and government leaders
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have wisely refrained from putting photos of the rajas on the site, even they the email refers to them by that title. I suspect that in the actual conference, they'll be introduced by that title and wear their crowns. Wonder if anyone will be there to see that spectacle? What an ego smasher that must be for the rajas, and for those seeing them.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The French Election
In a message dated 5/6/07 5:46:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. Thank God! I wish him well. ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
[FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is just astonishing ... from NY Times ad: Investors are Invited to Consider our program of $2.6 Billion to build 200 unique Hospitals and $0.65 Billion to build 210 Invincible Schools in 37 countries with highest income per capita. Proposed Financing terms: 15 year loan with 10% Interest. source: http://www.globalfinancialcapitalny.org/ad/ Pretty amazing just the scope of the project. Some idealistic billionaire ought to take them up on it. And its a decent rate of return, so why not? The TMO would have to come through without playing shell games with the money, or else the billionaire would put contracts out on them, or have an army of lawyers after the TMO for decades to come. This call for funding these projects has been going on for a few years now, and its hard to believe no one has invested a cent. That being the case, we'd have heard by now if the TMO was defaulting on paying its investors the contractual returns.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The French Election
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/6/07 5:46:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. Thank God! I wish him well. According to http://tinyurl.com/2dmeer The DIXON name supposedly originates from DICKSON which has its origins in the Scottish Borders. We'll be looking for you on the outward bound boat too.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nirvana
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: the joy of drinking... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html Many thanks for this, Bob. Such a funny, well- written review makes me want to order the book. The Bar is certainly a source of fascination. Around about 1978 (+-) there was this rare Yogi who visited Seelisberg. Almost every night Maharishi let him lecture in the Main Assembly Hall. All he would talk about was unity in all it's facets. Evening after evening. Unity, unity, unity and the need for seclusion to reach that state. Nothing wrong with that, the Yogi, who's name I no longer recall, was obviously firmly established in that state. One day Maharishi told his secretary to take the fellow on a trip to Lucern. And he was rather surprized to suddenly find himself in a well known bar in that city where the secretary insisted they should spend quite some time. When the Yogi's time in Seelisberg was up and he was going home to India someone asked him how his stay had been. Marvelous he said, then he declared that Maharishi is a generous and great Mahapurusha. But, he said, Maharishis secretaries are rather strange ! The lesson ? Perhaps the Yogi needed to grow into Brahman, to experience that he was in fact everything, including bars and their inhabitants. Would Maharishi denounce brothels ? Me think not. Enjoyed this rememberance from you, and illustrating the difference between UC and Brahman.
[FairfieldLife] Vedic Agriculture Will Utilize the Chemistry of Sound
For Immediate Release May 7, 2007 Contact: Steven Yellin 641-470-1344 [GLOBAL FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF NEW YORK] http://gfcny.net 70 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 212-809-7000 (T) 212-809-7001 (F) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PRESS RELEASE Report on the Global Conference on Organic Agriculture New Unified Field-Based Approach to Organic Agriculture Will Bring Wealth to Poor Nations and Health to Wealthy Nations Will Utilize the Chemistry of Sound to Enliven Total Natural Law in Plants to Produce Maximally Nutritious Food (NEW YORK) The world's poor nations will become wealthier and the wealthy nations will become healthier as a new Unified Field-based approach to organic agriculture is adopted throughout the world. Such a revolutionary new approach will utilize the chemistry of sound to enliven the Unified FieldTotal Natural Lawin every plant to yield organic food that is maximally nutritious and life-supporting for the whole population. This was the extraordinary message delivered by Dr. John Hagelin, world-renowned quantum physicist and executive director of the International Center for Invincible Defense in New York City, and Dr. John Konhaus, professor of Vedic Organic Agriculture at the University of World Peace in Meru, Holland, during the Global Conference on Organic Agriculture. The conference was held recently at the Global Financial Capital of New York, 70 Broad Street, and was broadcast internationally via satellite and Internet webcast. (See www.GlobalFinancialCapitalNY.org http://www.GlobalFinancialCapitalNY.org for a replay of the conference and a schedule of upcoming conferences.) Profound difference between conventional organic and Unified Field-based organic agriculture Dr. Hagelin explained the profound difference between conventional organic agriculture, which raises plants without toxic chemicals, pesticides, and fertilizers, and Unified Field-based organic agriculture. Unified Field-based agriculture raises current organic standards to an entirely new level of purity and nutritional potency to produce maximum health-supporting benefits for the consumersuch as balanced physiological functioning, total brain functioning, and higher states of consciousness. The physics of Unified Field-based organic agriculture Dr. Hagelin said that to understand Unified Field-based organic agricultureand its power to transform the nutritional potency of a plantrequires an understanding of the Unified Field, which is the unified source of the diversified universe as brought to light by modern physics. According to Superstring theories, all the elementary particles, such as the electron, and all the forces, such as the photon of electromagnetism, are just the stable vibrational modes (energy eigenstates) of the Superstring. This also is true of atoms, molecules, and indeed of any stable object, whether microscopic or macroscopic, Dr. Hagelin said. The mechanics of transformation of one particle into another, or one chemical compound into another, is always through the application of sound. For example, to transform sugar into water, you add oxygen. To transform a diseased state of the physiology into a healthy state, you add herbs or pharmaceuticals. But ultimately, all such particles and compounds are just soundsvibrational modes of the Unified Field. This is the `chemistry of sound,' through which you can transform anything into anything, he said. Unified Field-based organic agriculture is the modern scientific reformulation of the ancient Vedic science of agriculture Dr. Hagelin said that Unified Field-based organic agriculture is the modern scientific reformulation of the ancient Vedic science of organic agricultureas brought to light by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Vedic science is the complete science of the Unified Field, including all of its vibrational modesor Vedic sounds. These Vedic sounds can be applied to transform anything into anythingincluding, in agriculture, transforming growing plants into exceptionally healthy, nutritious crops, Dr. Hagelin said. During key developmental stages of a maturing plant, the plant is highly sensitive to environmental influences. During these stages, Vedic organic agriculture utilizes specific Vedic sounds to ensure the proper development of the plant, including its precise protein sequences, to produce a maximum life-supporting benefit for the consumer. Global Financial Capital of New York offers governments programs in Unified Field-based organic agriculture Prof. John Konhaus explained the depth and scope of the programs of Unified Field-based organic agriculture that are being offered by the Global Financial Capital of New York. Prof. Konhaus said the programs will: 1. Develop the full potential of the farmer and his relationship with Natural Lawthrough Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, including Yogic Flying, which brings the support of Nature to the farmer and promotes balance in the
[FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest george.deforest@ wrote: this is just astonishing ... from NY Times ad: Investors are Invited to Consider our program of $2.6 Billion to build 200 unique Hospitals and $0.65 Billion to build 210 Invincible Schools in 37 countries with highest income per capita. Proposed Financing terms: 15 year loan with 10% Interest. source: http://www.globalfinancialcapitalny.org/ad/ Pretty amazing just the scope of the project. Some idealistic billionaire ought to take them up on it. And its a decent rate of return, so why not? The TMO would have to come through without playing shell games with the money, or else the billionaire would put contracts out on them, or have an army of lawyers after the TMO for decades to come. This call for funding these projects has been going on for a few years now, and its hard to believe no one has invested a cent. Generally speaking billionaires aren't complete idiots businesswise (or at least their advisors aren't) which is why no-one will ever take them up on these ludicrous ideas.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The French Election
TurquoiseB wrote: We'll know tonight how the French feel about the world and their place in it. Approximately 90% of them are expected to vote today -- compare that to the voting rates in the U.S. However, at this point the polls are saying that Sarko has the lion's share, and that's a sad thing, in my opinion. Sarko is a mini-me version of George W. Bush. He's smarter, and much more polished, but his fake compassionate conservatism lacks compas- sion, and he tends towards 1) violence towards those who don't share his views (he has a history of this in his time as a minister) and 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. Segolene Royal is, in contrast, a remarkably balanced politician, one who manages to juggle practical economic reforms with compassion and social programs that benefit *all* of the people, not just the rich ones. We'll see who the French identify with more, tonight. I think it would be a giant step backwards if Sarko wins, but there you jolly well are, aren't you? One of the biggest issues facing this planet is immi- gration and how to handle it gracefully, and the tendency one sees in country after country is towards reactionary, protective thinking, and handling it rather ungracefully. Bon chance, France. Not being able to vote in your election, I lift my glass to you from the South and wish you well -- both in your choices in the voting booths, and your karmas as a result of making them. Paper ballot I assume or electronic voting (without paper trail)? The latter as we well know in the US can be easily rigged.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The French Election
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We'll know tonight how the French feel about the world and their place in it. Approximately 90% of them are expected to vote today -- compare that to the voting rates in the U.S. However, at this point the polls are saying that Sarko has the lion's share, and that's a sad thing, in my opinion. Sarko is a mini-me version of George W. Bush. He's smarter, and much more polished, but his fake compassionate conservatism lacks compas- sion, and he tends towards 1) violence towards those who don't share his views (he has a history of this in his time as a minister) and 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. * An amusing stance for a guy whose father, Pál nagybócsai Sárközy, emigrated to France from Hungary... http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/33251.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] The French Election
Bhairitu wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: We'll know tonight how the French feel about the world and their place in it. Approximately 90% of them are expected to vote today -- compare that to the voting rates in the U.S. However, at this point the polls are saying that Sarko has the lion's share, and that's a sad thing, in my opinion. Sarko is a mini-me version of George W. Bush. He's smarter, and much more polished, but his fake compassionate conservatism lacks compas- sion, and he tends towards 1) violence towards those who don't share his views (he has a history of this in his time as a minister) and 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. Segolene Royal is, in contrast, a remarkably balanced politician, one who manages to juggle practical economic reforms with compassion and social programs that benefit *all* of the people, not just the rich ones. We'll see who the French identify with more, tonight. I think it would be a giant step backwards if Sarko wins, but there you jolly well are, aren't you? One of the biggest issues facing this planet is immi- gration and how to handle it gracefully, and the tendency one sees in country after country is towards reactionary, protective thinking, and handling it rather ungracefully. Bon chance, France. Not being able to vote in your election, I lift my glass to you from the South and wish you well -- both in your choices in the voting booths, and your karmas as a result of making them. Paper ballot I assume or electronic voting (without paper trail)? The latter as we well know in the US can be easily rigged. Yup, must've been rigged. Really backward for the French: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Sarkozy_sweeps_to_French_presidenti_05062007.html Fuck the right wing.
[FairfieldLife] haha, moonlighting rajas??
video link: Burger King Safety Dance http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individualvideoid=76\ 9969399 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individualvideoid=769\ 969399
[FairfieldLife] Re: The French Election
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. Does that include recently arrived americans?
[FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest george.deforest@ wrote: this is just astonishing ... from NY Times ad: Investors are Invited to Consider our program of $2.6 Billion to build 200 unique Hospitals and $0.65 Billion to build 210 Invincible Schools in 37 countries with highest income per capita. Proposed Financing terms: 15 year loan with 10% Interest. source: http://www.globalfinancialcapitalny.org/ad/ Pretty amazing just the scope of the project. Some idealistic billionaire ought to take them up on it. And its a decent rate of return, so why not? The TMO would have to come through without playing shell games with the money, or else the billionaire would put contracts out on them, or have an army of lawyers after the TMO for decades to come. This call for funding these projects has been going on for a few years now, and its hard to believe no one has invested a cent. That being the case, we'd have heard by now if the TMO was defaulting on paying its investors the contractual returns. Companies (and governments for that matter) get bond ratings. I wonder if the TMO has a bond rating? Anyone know?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Agriculture Will Utilize the Chemistry of Sound
All I can tell you is that when I eat the meals at the local Hari Krishna temple, my experience is one of transcendence and a wholesomeness and a contentment I don't get with food I eat anywhere else. All meals that they prepare are chanted over and first offered to Krishna before it is served. So I'll be the first to say that there's probably something to all this sound business. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For Immediate Release May 7, 2007 Contact: Steven Yellin 641-470-1344 [GLOBAL FINANCIAL CAPITAL OF NEW YORK] http://gfcny.net 70 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 212-809-7000 (T) 212-809-7001 (F) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PRESS RELEASE Report on the Global Conference on Organic Agriculture New Unified Field-Based Approach to Organic Agriculture Will Bring Wealth to Poor Nations and Health to Wealthy Nations Will Utilize the Chemistry of Sound to Enliven Total Natural Law in Plants to Produce Maximally Nutritious Food (NEW YORK) The world's poor nations will become wealthier and the wealthy nations will become healthier as a new Unified Field-based approach to organic agriculture is adopted throughout the world. Such a revolutionary new approach will utilize the chemistry of sound to enliven the Unified FieldTotal Natural Lawin every plant to yield organic food that is maximally nutritious and life-supporting for the whole population. This was the extraordinary message delivered by Dr. John Hagelin, world-renowned quantum physicist and executive director of the International Center for Invincible Defense in New York City, and Dr. John Konhaus, professor of Vedic Organic Agriculture at the University of World Peace in Meru, Holland, during the Global Conference on Organic Agriculture. The conference was held recently at the Global Financial Capital of New York, 70 Broad Street, and was broadcast internationally via satellite and Internet webcast. (See www.GlobalFinancialCapitalNY.org http://www.GlobalFinancialCapitalNY.org for a replay of the conference and a schedule of upcoming conferences.) Profound difference between conventional organic and Unified Field-based organic agriculture Dr. Hagelin explained the profound difference between conventional organic agriculture, which raises plants without toxic chemicals, pesticides, and fertilizers, and Unified Field-based organic agriculture. Unified Field-based agriculture raises current organic standards to an entirely new level of purity and nutritional potency to produce maximum health-supporting benefits for the consumersuch as balanced physiological functioning, total brain functioning, and higher states of consciousness. The physics of Unified Field-based organic agriculture Dr. Hagelin said that to understand Unified Field-based organic agricultureand its power to transform the nutritional potency of a plantrequires an understanding of the Unified Field, which is the unified source of the diversified universe as brought to light by modern physics. According to Superstring theories, all the elementary particles, such as the electron, and all the forces, such as the photon of electromagnetism, are just the stable vibrational modes (energy eigenstates) of the Superstring. This also is true of atoms, molecules, and indeed of any stable object, whether microscopic or macroscopic, Dr. Hagelin said. The mechanics of transformation of one particle into another, or one chemical compound into another, is always through the application of sound. For example, to transform sugar into water, you add oxygen. To transform a diseased state of the physiology into a healthy state, you add herbs or pharmaceuticals. But ultimately, all such particles and compounds are just soundsvibrational modes of the Unified Field. This is the `chemistry of sound,' through which you can transform anything into anything, he said. Unified Field-based organic agriculture is the modern scientific reformulation of the ancient Vedic science of agriculture Dr. Hagelin said that Unified Field-based organic agriculture is the modern scientific reformulation of the ancient Vedic science of organic agricultureas brought to light by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Vedic science is the complete science of the Unified Field, including all of its vibrational modesor Vedic sounds. These Vedic sounds can be applied to transform anything into anythingincluding, in agriculture, transforming growing plants into exceptionally healthy, nutritious crops, Dr. Hagelin said. During key developmental stages of a maturing plant, the plant is highly sensitive to environmental influences. During these stages, Vedic organic agriculture utilizes specific Vedic sounds to ensure the proper development of the plant, including its precise protein sequences, to produce a maximum life-supporting benefit for the consumer. Global
[FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest george.deforest@ wrote: this is just astonishing ... from NY Times ad: Investors are Invited to Consider our program of $2.6 Billion to build 200 unique Hospitals and $0.65 Billion to build 210 Invincible Schools in 37 countries with highest income per capita. Proposed Financing terms: 15 year loan with 10% Interest. source: http://www.globalfinancialcapitalny.org/ad/ Pretty amazing just the scope of the project. Some idealistic billionaire ought to take them up on it. And its a decent rate of return, so why not? The TMO would have to come through without playing shell games with the money, or else the billionaire would put contracts out on them, or have an army of lawyers after the TMO for decades to come. This call for funding these projects has been going on for a few years now, and its hard to believe no one has invested a cent. Generally speaking billionaires aren't complete idiots businesswise (or at least their advisors aren't) which is why no-one will ever take them up on these ludicrous ideas. ten percent is pretty good for a bond return.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic Agriculture Will Utilize the Chemistry of Sound
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I can tell you is that when I eat the meals at the local Hari Krishna temple, my experience is one of transcendence and a wholesomeness and a contentment I don't get with food I eat anywhere else. All meals that they prepare are chanted over and first offered to Krishna before it is served. So I'll be the first to say that there's probably something to all this sound business. muzak in supermarkets and stores influencing us to buy more, and my internal, automatic reaction to a crying baby come to mind. This is not rocket science...
Re: [FairfieldLife] The French Election
TurquoiseB wrote: We'll know tonight how the French feel about the world and their place in it. Approximately 90% of them are expected to vote today -- compare that to the voting rates in the U.S. However, at this point the polls are saying that Sarko has the lion's share, and that's a sad thing, in my opinion. Sarko is a mini-me version of George W. Bush. He's smarter, and much more polished, but his fake compassionate conservatism lacks compas- sion, and he tends towards 1) violence towards those who don't share his views (he has a history of this in his time as a minister) and 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. Segolene Royal is, in contrast, a remarkably balanced politician, one who manages to juggle practical economic reforms with compassion and social programs that benefit *all* of the people, not just the rich ones. We'll see who the French identify with more, tonight. I think it would be a giant step backwards if Sarko wins, but there you jolly well are, aren't you? WEB EXCLUSIVE By Christopher Dickey Newsweek Updated: 1:08 p.m. CT May 6, 2007 May 6, 2007 - Does France's new president speak American? Sure looks that way. Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy has defeated his Socialist Party rival, Ségolène Royal, by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent. Royal, the first woman ever to come this close to the French presidency, conceded within minutes. So now the man set to govern the oldest (and arguably the most temperamental) ally of the United States for the next five years is someone whose message will be easy to translate: lower taxes, harder work for more money, greater consumption as the key to more employment and ever tougher measures against criminals and terrorists. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18519993/site/newsweek/
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals!
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jim_flanegin Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 7:37 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals! Generally speaking billionaires aren't complete idiots businesswise (or at least their advisors aren't) which is why no-one will ever take them up on these ludicrous ideas. ten percent is pretty good for a bond return. Yes, and it's backed by the Raam, so there's no risk.
[FairfieldLife] Quiet Zone Update, report on recent meeting
Dear Friend Supporters, (sorry this took so long to get out-we are fielding lots of questions about the meeting last weekend) The Fairfield City Council Safety Committee voted 2 to1 in favor of a very strong and positive resolution to immediately form an Ad Hoc Committee to consolidate and verify the necessary information and steps to create a Quiet Zone for Fairfield. The resolution will be will be presented to the full City Council on Monday May 14th. We will need people to be at that meeting as well as there are some on the council who are not yet fully supporting the project. Congratulations-with your help we have raised about $60,000 to help fund the improvements for a Quiet Zone. This was an important benchmark. Right afterwards we held our first very successful formal meeting last weekend with the Fairfield City Council Safety Committee at City Hall. Over100 people who attended the meeting were all in support of a quiet Zone. The attendance and contributions made were instrumental in achieving our first step, meeting our April goals and getting this resolution on the floor and passed. FYI-what is still needed are tighter estimates of the final cost of the project and engineering challenges, and an updated crossing by crossing analysis. We are told that later there will be public hearings on how each crossing will be affected by a quiet zone. This committee would be made of both members of the community and interested members of the City Council. We have made a great leap forward to have a Fairfield Quiet Zone no later than New Year's Eve 2007. Yet we still have to do more to begin raising the second half of the cost, estimated to be about an additional $50,000 to $60,000 more, and receive those generous pledges that have been made. This was a huge step forward so please continue to contribute. The closer we get to the estimated cost, of $12 for the improvement the stronger our chances are for success. Make Tax Deductible Contributions to ALF-Fairfield Train Safety Quiet Zone, PO Box 2302, Fairfield, Iowa 52556. http://www.fairfieldquietzone.org/ www.fairfieldquietzone.org Bill Blackmore mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 919-1118 Thanks Bill
Re: [FairfieldLife] The French Election
In a message dated 5/6/07 6:00:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paper ballot I assume or electronic voting (without paper trail)? The latter as we well know in the US can be easily rigged. And the paper ballot can't be rigged? ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting
Hi, yes this program did read your lol as just that almost like a name lola but missing the a sound. Earlier email I typed IMO so it read it as I-M-O and my brain interpreted it as in my opinion. It will read abbreviations as lets to me then I figure out their meaning. The biggest issue is the spell checker if I am typing and mean to type this and it forgets the t then it reads it as his which is a word in the dictionary so at times it can make me sound like I cannot speak English lol I had a gentlemen yesterday tell me to get lost cause they wanted English speakers on their group and unfortunately I had to inform the close minded nit of my situation and the issues I am learning to deal with on this program. So truly my apologies to any of you this frustrates all I can say is hit delete:) If you all want to learn more about this program its called Jaws and can be found at http://www.freedomescientific.com and if you have questions I will answer them as best as I can. All pc's come with a accessibility feature and voice synthesizer under accessories its similar to the JAWS program just not as advanced. Thanks for the welcome. Bug - Original Message - From: TurquoiseB To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 8:13 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Thursday's Overposting --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buggy, if you're the shay type, keep your whip handy. There's highwaymen, yapping dogs, and saints here, so you've been warned. LOL. Welcome, Buggy. By the way, how did your software translate the word before I said, Welcome, Buggy? I spelled out the letters L, O, and L, which is a well-known Internet acronym for Laughing Out Loud. I really would be interested in learning how your software reads it, and tries to pronounce it aloud. Heck, I'd be interested in hearing more about the software, period. [ Note to Rick: It might be nice to repost the monthly FAQ about common FFL acronyms, so that Bug could let us know which ones are pronounced in an understandable way and which are not. ] What I am laughing out loud about, Bug, is Edg's description of Fairfield Life. Ne pretty much nails it. This forum really is a strange and interesting amalgam of yapping highwayman saints, a kind of cyberspace Mos Eisley Cantina. Welcome. Pull up a stool and tell us a little about yourself, and what drew you here. Oh...one more thing. Let the Wookie win. :-) [ Smiley face above, to indicate attempted humor. How did the software pronounce that? Did it laugh? ] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/780 - Release Date: 4/29/2007 6:30 AM
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The French Election
In a message dated 5/6/07 5:17:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. Thank God! I wish him well. According to _http://tinyurl.http://tin_ (http://tinyurl.com/2dmeer) The DIXON name supposedly originates from DICKSON which has its origins in the Scottish Borders. We'll be looking for you on the outward bound boat too. N, family been here too long, since 1640. However, I've considered what it would be like to return to my ancestral homeland but there are too many Muslims there now. They can have it. ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
[FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jim_flanegin Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 7:37 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals! Generally speaking billionaires aren't complete idiots businesswise (or at least their advisors aren't) which is why no-one will ever take them up on these ludicrous ideas. ten percent is pretty good for a bond return. Yes, and it's backed by the Raam, so there's no risk. *** Good news for S-land, tho -- the UK is slated for 8 schools and 10 hospitals: http://www.globalfinancialcapitalny.org/ad/spreadsheet.html Note the footnote at the bottom of the right (hospital) section: *This includes the most Boy, sure instills a lot of confidence in these enormous projects when they can't even proofread a spreadsheet...
[FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jim_flanegin Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 7:37 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: new plan: NY Times ad invites Investors for 200 Hospitals! Generally speaking billionaires aren't complete idiots businesswise (or at least their advisors aren't) which is why no-one will ever take them up on these ludicrous ideas. ten percent is pretty good for a bond return. Yes, and it's backed by the Raam, so there's no risk. It would be interesting to read the prospectus...
[FairfieldLife] Re: The French Election
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/6/07 5:17:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) an outspoken distaste for immigrants, many of whom he plans to ship back where they came from if he can. Thank God! I wish him well. According to _http://tinyurl.http://tin_ (http://tinyurl.com/2dmeer) The DIXON name supposedly originates from DICKSON which has its origins in the Scottish Borders. We'll be looking for you on the outward bound boat too. N, family been here too long, since 1640. However, I've considered what it would be like to return to my ancestral homeland but there are too many Muslims there now. They can have it. My daughter-in-law's dad is american indian and he'd still want to throw your ass out, back to scotland. On the boat with ya, newbie.
[FairfieldLife] Re: haha, moonlighting rajas??
ROFL ! Thanks! OffWorld --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: video link: Burger King Safety Dance http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=vids.individualvideoid=76\ 9969399 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=vids.individualvideoid=769\ 969399
[FairfieldLife] Re: Surfing Sitges
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for the fun of it, here are a few of the things that caught my attention this weekend walking the streets of this Spanish beach town. * Music Of The Street Kind. I'm a fan of buskers, musicians who play on the streets and who not only make a living doing what they love to do, they seem to have *fun* doing it. I kinda judge any new town by the quality of its street musicians. Well, lemme tell you, Sitges rocks. In the courtyard of the Palau Maricel there is a guitarist obviously well trained in classical guitar, Flamenco, and jazz, and he adds chops of his own to create a dreamy soundscape that just sucks you in, and is very appropriate when standing in front of a 15th century Spanish palace. Just up the street you find a guy and a gal playing some kind of Swiss metal drum thingy that I've never seen before, but which produces a rather heavenly percussion sound. It sounds a little like what might happen if your steel drum got loose one night and mated with a marimba and these drums were their kids. Really sweet guy and gal, improvising 100% of their performance, just bouncing off of each other musically, having a ball. It was difficult for me not to have a ball along with them. * Weird Events Out Of The Blue. So I'm walking down at the south end of the beach last night around sunset, and I notice a small crowd milling around, looking out over the beach wall at the little quai that juts out into the ocean at that point. Curious, I walked up and damned if it's not a swimsuit model photo session in progress. I have to tell you, Edg, I almost got over my inhibitions about the word God and thanked Him right there. :-) *Very* entertaining. It was a crew from American Vogue, as far as I could tell, and they were really doing it up, with four or five photographers working with ten or twelve...uh... Major Fashion Magazine Swimsuit Models. I don't think I have ever seen more walking tributes to the plastic surgeon's and personal trainers' art in one place in my life. And it was entertaining to watch the Spanish guys and gals oggling this whole scene, too. They seemed as amused by it as I was. * Clothing Experiments Of The Deeply Disturbed. This is a beach town known for its liberal attitudes and its all-night nightclubs. Just walking down the street you can see someone walk by wearing ten-inch high heels, a Borat-inspired bathing suit, and a pink feather boa. And that's just the guys. (Just kidding, but only partly, because Sitges *is* a big gay mecca.) It's not really *that* over the top or flamboyant, but there is an amazingly wide range of creative fashion to be seen and dazzled by. Later last night I ran into the models from the photo shoot coming out of a restaurant, and boy! were they Dressed To Disco. I'll bet a few Spanish guys had their hearts broken last night, or at the very least had their standards raised. * The Smells. Sitges is a fairly small town that continas well over a hundred restaurants. Every one I've tried is not just good, but excellent. You walk by their outdoor terraces and the smells from each restaurant vie for your affections and for your Euros. You turn the corner and this aroma hits your nose, and you can't for the life of you identify all of its ingredients, but it smalls *really* good, and you know that you're a goner, and if you don't stop and eat there today, you will someday soon. * The Touchy-Feely Spanish. You might get the impression from watching French movies and all those bissous (cheek kisses) that the French are into touching each other a lot in public. Au contraire, Pierre. It's almost the opposite. The French ckeek kisses are very chaste and formal, whereas the Spanish cheek kisses might just get you a Wet Willie. The Spanish exchange kisses as well, both men and women, but they're more real kisses and they supplement them with lots of hugs and hand-holding. It's kinda neat to see after three years in France. The tendency to touch and stroke and hug a lot extends to their children, and I'd bet that Spanish kids grow up pretty happy and fairly well adjusted as a result. * The CD and DVD Counterfeiters. They're everywhere. You'll be walking along a street and look down and this young guy has a plastic sheet covered with CDs and DVDs. Curious, you stop to look at them and they're the *latest* CDs and DVDs, the ones just now appearing in stores or in theaters. They have covers, printed disk labels, the whole bit. Counerfeits, but quality counter- feits. The CDs sell for 2 Euros, the DVDs five. And when a cop appears in the distance, the guy just whips up the strings attached to the corners of his plastic sheet and, like that... (insert Kevin Spacey gesture at the end of The Usual Suspects here)...he's gone. * The Sidewalk Bars and Cafes. To Die For. The
[FairfieldLife] Medical Practitioners Among Us
Occasionally there are matters about the body or psychology that more often than not only a medical practitioner can answer. I welcome learning who among us are in the medical profession who can assist in answering simple questions about the body and psychology for yoga students. All communication can be done privately, as some questions are a bit too intimate to be discussed openly. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. *Never turn down an opportunity of satya. Make every thought, word and deed, indeed every breath a conjugation of love with the Sublime in all its forms. *
[FairfieldLife] Feeding the world with organic agriculture
just like MMY predicted. I guess he IS right once in awhile, eh? http://tinyurl.com/ywdbob
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ever wonder where the prudery in the TMO came from?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Spock wrote: Tell us something about Tien Tai. Tian Tai is Buddhist Madyamika, which postulates that all things are void of true nature and that they are without an essential reality; that all things are real and unreal at the same time, according to Nagarjuna's Middle Way, similar to Shankaracharys's notion that Maya is unreal yet real - an appearance only. The Patriarch Chih-I (538-597) founded the T'ien T'ai school during the Sui dynasty in China. Like all other Buddhist lineages, the school maintained that enlightenment is achieved by realizing or seeing one's inherent Buddha nature. The school has a history closely tied to the Pure Land school and upholds the Lotus Sutra as its principle scripture. Chih-I founded this school in order to explain the various teachings of the Buddha. The Buddha taught different teachings in order to suit the different mental dispositions of sentient beings. Therefore, Chih-I clearly made the distinction between the absolute and relative truths in the Buddha's teachings. The school has three commentaries which include: The Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra, The Commentary of the Lotus Sutra and the Great Samatha/Vipasyana Commentary which describes the techniques to be used to recognize the Dharmakaya. Three views in which existence can described are: 1) All of existence depends on the existence of other factors, causes and conditions and therefore everything is insubstantial 2) Although phenomena and existence are merely temporary, it does have a real immediate existence that cannot be ignored 3) Middle Way: One must not fall into the extreme views of nihilism and eternalism. Therefore a Buddha recognizes the ultimate and relative truth simultaneously.
