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[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never seen any evidence for the one strike one kill myth in karate anywhere in any fighting system I have seen. I think it is a story like yogis flying in the air. Well I probably give it a higher probability than flying, but you get my point. I really would like to belief that such a thing is possible, but like you say, its like yogis flying through the air. I'd luv to see it, but I doubt it. For so many centuries these karate and kung-fu guys have been believing their own press releases. As you have noted, UFC and MMA competition put all this killer striking ability to rest pretty quickly. Yep. The parallels between belief in magical abilities through siddhis and the belief in magical abilities through the martial arts is a strong one. As is the posturing we see in those who still believe the PR despite decades in the study without ever seeing even one demonstration of the myths. As a general rule in the martial arts, anyone who talks about how well they can kick ass can't. :-) Pretty much the same phenomenon as those who talk a lot about their darshan and how power- fully they can affect others' spiritual progress. The more talk, the less effect IMO. The few teachers I've encountered who seemed to really have some extraordinary abilities going for them -- either in the martial arts or in the realm of consciousness -- were pretty quiet about it. It was about action, not talk. And *after* the action, they never mentioned it again or tried to milk it for any PR or credit. They just did their jobs.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
I saw a pretty amazing guy in China do some things I'd have thought good work on the part of the special effects people in a movie. I'll describe briefly what he did and then I'd like your thoughts on what that was all about. I was sitting on a bench with a student in downtown Zhenjiang, a crowded place, when I noticed a guy starting to cross the square. He was very very old. No telling how old, but eighties at least if not nineties. And there was something strange about the way he walked--like he was in a different movie from the rest of us in which time moved more slowly or like he was walking on the moon where there's less gravity or under water. When he got opposite us, he was suddenly involved with three strong young girls, late teens, early twenties. He was juggling them--it's the only way I can put it. They tried to get away. He'd hold two of them, one in each hand, and the third one would try to run. Then he'd grab her, letting another one loose, who tried to run, but he'd grab her, letting another one loose, and so on. He made it look effortless. Finally the girls dropped to their knees and begged him to let them go. And he gave a little speech, which my student translated for me. Apparently, he'd caught those girls picking someone's pocket, and he was giving them a lecture about the social contract, and how you couldn't run a society with their attitude, and what would happen to them if they kept it up. Then he let them go. I sent my student to capture this guy and ask him if he'd be willing to talk for a while with this big nosed ghost, and he came over and sat down. He was blind! In China, they train blind men to do massage, so I became his weekly client. But he never would talk to me about his martial arts background. He was clearly a Daoist, though---that informed all his conversations with me, as he sat on a low stool and massaged my feet. TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never seen any evidence for the one strike one kill myth in karate anywhere in any fighting system I have seen. I think it is a story like yogis flying in the air. Well I probably give it a higher probability than flying, but you get my point. I really would like to belief that such a thing is possible, but like you say, its like yogis flying through the air. I'd luv to see it, but I doubt it. For so many centuries these karate and kung-fu guys have been believing their own press releases. As you have noted, UFC and MMA competition put all this killer striking ability to rest pretty quickly. Yep. The parallels between belief in magical abilities through siddhis and the belief in magical abilities through the martial arts is a strong one. As is the posturing we see in those who still believe the PR despite decades in the study without ever seeing even one demonstration of the myths. As a general rule in the martial arts, anyone who talks about how well they can kick ass can't. :-) Pretty much the same phenomenon as those who talk a lot about their darshan and how power- fully they can affect others' spiritual progress. The more talk, the less effect IMO. The few teachers I've encountered who seemed to really have some extraordinary abilities going for them -- either in the martial arts or in the realm of consciousness -- were pretty quiet about it. It was about action, not talk. And *after* the action, they never mentioned it again or tried to milk it for any PR or credit. They just did their jobs. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] Concentration Camps Already Built in America -- FOR Americans? Video with Evidence
*Is there a place for you by the Federally Enforced Management Authority?* *Complete with chains in the floor next to your bed to keep you there?* What have the administration and the eternal bureaucrats been doing to protect you, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare of Americans? Well, comrade, assuming you are the enemy is part of what they've done ... to protect themselves and make sure that you continue to consume, consume, consume and consume some more. So, when the economy collapses, for America and the world at large, what are they going to do with you? *http://Concentration-Camps-In-America.shows.it* http://concentration-camps-in-america.shows.it/ Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Journalism -- the free press -- used to be the avant gard of our freedoms, the defacto Fourth Branch of Government, yet has now become the annexed department of the Executive Branch and works as its ditto-heading disseminator of supposed facts and verifiable lies spilling forth from the bowels of KKKarl Rove and others in the nether world of the Animal House occupied by the unelected Idiot-in-Chief doing a more obscene job of it, by far, than that other actor, RayGun. The research has been done, by American libertarian Alex Jones. You may have heard him already, in the news, *on the radio http://alexjones-texanbarksbackatbush.playz.it/ *or through this or other newsgroups. Concerned *about your freedoms* -- all of our freedoms -- which are quickly being usurped by Bimbos-at-Large in the Animal House in DC, and forfeited by massive herds of all-too-busy and often too negligent American People, Alex finds the crap on BushCo and the NeoCons and presents it for *your consideration and concern*: *http://Concentration-Camps-In-America.shows.it* http://concentration-camps-in-america.shows.it/ While I don't always jive with some of Alex Jones' nuances of facts and history, I certainly comport with his concern and evidence about large portions of our government -- most all unelected federal workers -- intending to make knuckle-draggers of us all. From dumbing-down to buying votes through tax rebates, and making surveillance of your deservedly intimate life ubiquitous with your giddy delight in forfeiting your rights [and responsibilities] as a citizen, wittingly or unwittingly, the next threshold is a police state as the world responds, in unison, to the economic and political rape perpetrated by our government and companies: an incestuous fornication otherwise known in the dictionary and history books as fascism. Watch the video to learn more about how this is coming true -- right behind your very back, and even right before *your very eyes*: *http://Concentration-Camps-In-America.shows.it *http://concentration-camps-in-america.shows.it/ *Look-See* ** *Can* *Spirituality **, Social Justice, and Economic and Political ** Democracy** find * *synergy** and **synthesis** in a fair and equitable manner? * http://PROUT.shows.it http://prout.shows.it/ *find out how**!*
[FairfieldLife] “What the Beatles Gave Science” in Newsweek
“What the Beatles Gave Science” in Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/id/69587 Their visit popularized the notion that the spiritual East has something to teach the rational West. Nov 19, 2007 Issue Like millions of others who believed there must be more to life than the libertine exuberance of the '60s, the Beatles hoped that the Hindu teacher Mahesh Yogi—known as the Maharishi, or great saint— would help them fill some kind of hole, as Paul McCartney put it years later. So in the spring of 1968, the Fab Four traveled to the Maharishi's ashram overlooking the Ganges River in northern India, where they meditated for hours each day in search of enlightenment, as Bob Spitz recounts in his exhaustive 2005 biography, The Beatles. The high-profile visit still echoes 40 years later—in, of all places, science, for the trip popularized the notion that the spiritual East has something to teach the rational West. Soon the Maharishi was on Time magazine next to the line Meditation: The Answer to All Your Problems? It wasn't. But in the late 1960s a few intrepid scientists began dipping their toes into the exotic new waters to study the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM), which the Maharishi developed, and other forms of mental training. Most of that early research was just not of high caliber, says B. Alan Wallace, president of the Santa Barbara Institute of Consciousness Studies. Reputable scientists were told, 'We can't study that; we'll be tarred and feathered'. But just as meditation has become as mainstream as aerobics, research on it has achieved a respectability that astonishes those who remember the early floundering. With neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis, Wallace is leading a $1.4 million study of the effects of intensive meditation on attention, cognitive function and emotion regulation. Prestigious institutions such as the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center conduct studies on how Tibetan yoga improves sleep in patients with lymphoma, and top journals publish research on the brain waves of Buddhist monks. Studies of meditation are more than mainstream. They're expanding beyond the predictable—I mean, how surprising is it that meditating lowers stress?—into uncharted terrain, such as how different forms of meditation alter brain circuits in an enduring way. In large part, that research is making headway because it's much more rigorous than in the early days. Then, few studies accounted for the annoying little fact that meditators' low levels of stress might reflect self-selection (maybe only mellow people chose to meditate and stuck with it) rather than the practice itself. Nor did they consider that the reduction in stress, blood pressure, heart rate and other measures between the beginning and the end of a meditation course might reflect the placebo effect: you expect something good to happen, and it does. You can't really control for that, says Robert Schneider of Marahishi University in Iowa, a center of research on TM, but new studies come close. Although relaxation techniques and TM both lower blood pressure, for instance, the effect of TM is twice as big. Top hospitals from Stanford to Duke are convinced: they have instituted meditation programs for patients suffering chronic pain and other ailments. Afraid to sully their reputations, it took three decades for scientists to ask the obvious: does meditation change the brain? But in the 1990s British psychiatrist John Teasdale became intrigued with mindfulness meditation, a Buddhist practice in which you sit quietly and observe whatever thoughts and perceptions arise in your consciousness, but without judging them. He and colleagues showed that mindfulness training halves the rate at which people treated for depression relapse. That set the stage of studies showing that mere thought can alter brain activity in a long-lasting way that benefits other forms of mental illness. Neuropsychologist Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin had practiced meditation since the 1970s but didn't dare study it. Only in the 1990s did he come out of the closet, he says. Now Buddhist monks and yogis trek to his lab to have their brains scanned. They look different from the brains of undergraduates (but then, whose doesn't?), having stronger electrical waves of the kind that knit together disparate thoughts into the grand enterprise of consciousness. Even in novices, meditation leaves its mark. An eight-week course in compassion meditation, in which volunteers focus on the wish that all beings be free from suffering, shifted brain activity from the right prefrontal cortex to the left, a pattern associated with a greater sense of well-being. And three months of intensive training (10 to 12 hours a day) in mindfulness meditation had a remarkable effect on attention. Usually, when something attracts
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot test martial arts without using a Kmiti Shotokan style competition. I am a little unclear on your point. Is it that your Shotokan style is the bestest onliest realist ultimatist super duperist wowy dowiest toppermostist of the popermostist ultraist wammer jammerist supercalafracilisticexpialidoshisist fantabulous Mt. Everestic Vendantabulous martial art. (The one you studied) All other martial arts, not so much? Am I reading your fine point clearly? Let me summarize Off has the highest martial arts teaching. Everyone else, doesn't. Are we on the same page now? Curtis, you must have missed the memo! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It doesn't have to be Shotokan style. The right strike ends fights in a flash in UFC all the time. You don't curl in a ball to defend, you move in and out of range while striking yourself. For a straight line attack like traditional karate the movement is circular peppered with low kicks. That's the whole point. Peppering someone with inneffective side swipes with no power available behind them in a real situation is a joke. You might as well go play table tennis. Karate is designed to have the whole body and the force of every muscle in the body and the whole body lunging at full force to a cripple or kill spot at incredible speed. Anything else is a joke and you would get killed using anything else in a real situation. You cannot test martial arts without using a Kmiti Shotokan style competition. If any of those UFC people came to a Kmiti fight most of them would be humbled completely (and some bloody noses). The only legitimate test of the efficacy of a martial art is Kmiti, where the fight is stopped after a strike. Best out of three strikes. Otherwise it is a bar-room brawl and does not test what Shotokan is designed for. Instead of those goons claiming they can beat Shotokan at silly brawls that don't test what martial arts were designed for, let's see them come to a Kmiti competition. Shotokan has dominated such competitions in the past when other forms turned up to fight. Kmiti is the only true test of a martial art. The rest is worse than mud- wrestling because it doesn't test anything. You have to stop the fight after one strike for it to be a legitimate test. One strike could easily kill someone, and you are naive if you think it cannot. OffWorld To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snip Curtis, my neighbor (30 something guy) has trained in Muay Thai for several years. He works out a lot in his garage. I asked him to demonstrate some Muay Thai moves on me a while back. I'm an old judo guy so i do know somethings on the mat. My experience was like yours. That behind the neck lock-up is incredibly powerful. Peter, I was wondering when you would join in! Yeah, I was blown away by the Muay Thai clinch's control even without eating knees which is how Rich Franklin experienced it a few UFC's back. I dig their low kicks too. Judo is such a great tough sport. I did a lot of Judo in my first school. Learning to fall in a relaxed state while being thrown was a religious quest for me. One class I asked my teacher to throw me 25 times in a row so I could begin to stay conscious enough to experience the throw. It really helped. I learned how to slide my hand on their GI as I was flying over them to slow down my impact. But even with that it is really hard on your body to get thrown. Not to mention all the nasty ways to accelerate a throw that would pop up with certain sadistic partners! Like my TM intensive days, I am really happy to have experienced it, and really happy I am not into it like that now. The discussion with Off really brings me back to all those debates when UFC 2 blew the lid off. Those were exciting times when a little Gracie ground game could give you a huge advantage in a classically trained Jiu jitsu or Judo dojo. Now the sport is at such a high level. Last year I hit the mat with a purple belt Gracie fighter who I used to train with in the mid 90's. Very quickly it became obvious that the world had passed me by, his skill level was so radically different, I couldn't do a single thing to slow down the inevitable. What a brilliant system of body chess! But I have fallen off the board and I can't get up! When he described all his injuries and how messed up his fingers are I remembered why I had accepted my fate and hung up my GI. These days IFC is on cable, the UFC reality show has fights every week, and the day after UFC you can catch the fights online for free. It is really blowing up as a sport. But 70 UFCs ago Royce Gracie changed the way I viewed martial arts forever. And I sure wasn't the only one! UFC 1-6 were the best! What a shock to all the karate/gung-fu one-punch-kills-all dudes. That's why I'm surprised that there are martial arts afficinados out there that still believe in some superduper secret school of one punch destroys all. Really quite silly. I'd love to see it if it was true. I'd love to see some guy lift a horse with his ki the same way I'd love to see some siddha actually fly high in the dome. But I ain't waitin' anymore! I'm always open to the possibility but until i see it... Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
[FairfieldLife] Re: Everybody's a Dr. these days
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_lives@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: Actually, in this particular list, many if not most are actual PhDs or other doctorates or MDs or in the case of Lenny Goldman, an LLD (a lawyer, doctor of laws). No, lawyers are not referred to as Doctor. Who in this list is an actually PhD or MD?? Not Sands, Norton, Nevas, Schaefer, Monokian, Hensley, Brooks, Goldman or Rosania -- the others I'm not familiar with, but my guess is that only 1-2 qualify. The mov'ts doctrine of calling everyone a Doctor is at best weird. ** Lawyers do have a doctorate -- an LLD or other doctoral-level term, and although they are not addressed usually as doctor, when lawyers serve on law school faculty, they are considered to have completed the doctorate and listed as such in faculty stats: The Doctor of Juridical Science, J.S.D. (or S.J.D.), sometimes awarded as Doctor of the Science of Law, is the highest law degree awarded in the United States. Because of its rarity, most law schools in the United States accept the LL.B./J.D. degree as the basic entrance qualification for law school teaching. Laws schools that place an emphasis on legal scholarship have more professors holding advanced law degrees such as the LL.M. or the J.S.D./S.J.D. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Laws Yeah yeah I know what JD means - the issue was whether lawyers are called doctors and they aren't. Since you are careless enough not to bother researching even the first name in the list, Bill Sands, who does have a PhD ( an earned doctorate from MUM: http://www.mum.edu/faculty/sands_william.html ), I'm not going the legwork for you and demonstrate that several of the people on the list do have doctorates. I've known Bill Sands for over 20 yrs and don't need to research him - he's a nice guy but I don't consider a PhD in vedic science from MUM to be a real PhD.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
There are a good number of techniques in Taoist internal practices which are similar to what you describe. Some involve internal practices which are linked to movement. In external reality these would look like someone was doing Tai Chi or walking oddly, but in actuality the internal process was just being done in tune with the external movement. The teacher who taught me saw what largely passes as Tai Chi forms as a martial art. It's only when they were linked to the inner movement of Chi that they had any real power. That was supposed to be capable of all sorts of capacities, for example rooting someone to the ground or striking a blow to internal points...without ever touching the person. When it's practiced one does this weird walking/stalking kind of motion. Probably a Chi Kung master the way it sounds! On Nov 29, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Angela Mailander wrote: I saw a pretty amazing guy in China do some things I'd have thought good work on the part of the special effects people in a movie. I'll describe briefly what he did and then I'd like your thoughts on what that was all about. I was sitting on a bench with a student in downtown Zhenjiang, a crowded place, when I noticed a guy starting to cross the square. He was very very old. No telling how old, but eighties at least if not nineties. And there was something strange about the way he walked--like he was in a different movie from the rest of us in which time moved more slowly or like he was walking on the moon where there's less gravity or under water. When he got opposite us, he was suddenly involved with three strong young girls, late teens, early twenties. He was juggling them--it's the only way I can put it. They tried to get away. He'd hold two of them, one in each hand, and the third one would try to run. Then he'd grab her, letting another one loose, who tried to run, but he'd grab her, letting another one loose, and so on. He made it look effortless. Finally the girls dropped to their knees and begged him to let them go. And he gave a little speech, which my student translated for me. Apparently, he'd caught those girls picking someone's pocket, and he was giving them a lecture about the social contract, and how you couldn't run a society with their attitude, and what would happen to them if they kept it up. Then he let them go. I sent my student to capture this guy and ask him if he'd be willing to talk for a while with this big nosed ghost, and he came over and sat down. He was blind! In China, they train blind men to do massage, so I became his weekly client. But he never would talk to me about his martial arts background. He was clearly a Daoist, though---that informed all his conversations with me, as he sat on a low stool and massaged my feet.
[FairfieldLife] Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness
Nice linked article!Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and ConsciousnessClick here to read chapter 4.Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace’s “special theory of ontological relativity” suggests that mental phenomena are conditioned by the brain, but do not emerge from it. Rather, the entire natural world of mind and matter, subjects and objects, arises from a unitary dimension of reality that is more fundamental than these dualities, as proposed by Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung.To test his hypothesis, Wallace employs the Buddhist meditative practice of śamatha, refining one’s attention and metacognition, to create a kind of telescope to examine the space of the mind. Drawing on the work of the physicist John Wheeler, he then proposes a more general theory in which the participatory nature of reality is envisioned as a self-excited circuit. In comparing these ideas to the Buddhist theory known as the Middle Way philosophy, Wallace explores further aspects of his “general theory of ontological relativity,” which can be investigated by means of vipaśyanā, or insight, meditation. Wallace then focuses on the theme of symmetry in reference to quantum cosmology and the “problem of frozen time,” relating these issues to the theory and practices of the Great Perfection school of Tibetan Buddhism. He concludes with a discussion of the general theme of complementarity as it relates to science and religion.The theories of relativity and quantum mechanics were major achievements in the physical sciences, and the theory of evolution has had an equally deep impact on the life sciences. Yet rigorous scientific methods do not yet exist to observe mental phenomena, and naturalism has its limits for shedding light on the workings of the mind. A pioneer of modern consciousness research, Wallace offers a practical and revolutionary method for exploring the mind that combines the keenest insights of contemporary physicists and philosophers with the time-honored meditative traditions of Buddhism.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is too-too-five-sev'n?
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[FairfieldLife] Oldies but Goldies: Quantum suicide!
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[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
Angela, First of all I am fascinated with China. What an interesting life you must have had there! I know it only through Chinese friends and reading. I went through a rather obsessive period of reading stories of people who lived through the Cultural Revolution and the life of Mao. It kind of blew all my previous worries about how the TM organization operates out the window. Not because there aren't parallels, there are. But the scale and magnitude of what went down in China dwarfed the movement's influence so much I stopped caring about it so much. Now to your interesting story... When I used to practice martial arts I used to get paired with blue collar workers who had spent the day loading flats of plants as landscapers. The first time one of them grabbed me it seemed like a supernatural force. Their hands were so hardened from their years of labor that, compared to my lily whites,their grip was monstrous. As much as I train and weight lift, I never have achieved the natural strength of guys who earn a living with their bodies. So my first thought is that this guy may have worked physically hard all his life. If this guy did massage for a living, he had arms and grip that could easily control, not only these young girls, but almost anyone who didn't spend all day, every day working physically. Even at his advanced age those girls were no match. People who work outside can look much older than they are. My Shanghaiese buddy is only 10 years older than I am but he looks like he could be my dad. He spent the Cultural Revolution on a farm and it aged him terribly. The first time my Judo teacher shoved me with his whole body, it was like a truck hit me. Same with when he would pull me with his whole body engaged. It seemed supernatural to me until I learned to do it myself. Next these girls were probably not willing to really take on an elder after having committed a crime right? The implication of really decking the old guy would probably bring some consequences. So they may have been playing a bit rather then really going all out to resist him. This guy would have had a different experience with some of the homegirls in my neighborhood who wouldn't have given him any respect. The different levels of blindness can account for an ability to recognize shapes enough to grab a thing as big as a human. Finally, due to the fact that it was almost as if it was a show for your benefit, I can't rule out that it was not a bit of street hustle. Although you sent someone over to him, if you hadn't, he might have approached you. The chances that you would be a higher paying customer than a Chinese person makes such a display very worthwhile. I have had a team of street hustlers in DC approach me in a choreographed sequence, contrived spontaneity. It is quite convincing and dangerous. One lady in the group was pushing a baby in a baby carriage, how disarming is that! None of my speculations makes your story less interesting Angela. I am not attempting to explain what happened, just some possibilities that come to my mind. Thanks for asking for our POVs on this personal experience. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw a pretty amazing guy in China do some things I'd have thought good work on the part of the special effects people in a movie. I'll describe briefly what he did and then I'd like your thoughts on what that was all about. I was sitting on a bench with a student in downtown Zhenjiang, a crowded place, when I noticed a guy starting to cross the square. He was very very old. No telling how old, but eighties at least if not nineties. And there was something strange about the way he walked--like he was in a different movie from the rest of us in which time moved more slowly or like he was walking on the moon where there's less gravity or under water. When he got opposite us, he was suddenly involved with three strong young girls, late teens, early twenties. He was juggling them--it's the only way I can put it. They tried to get away. He'd hold two of them, one in each hand, and the third one would try to run. Then he'd grab her, letting another one loose, who tried to run, but he'd grab her, letting another one loose, and so on. He made it look effortless. Finally the girls dropped to their knees and begged him to let them go. And he gave a little speech, which my student translated for me. Apparently, he'd caught those girls picking someone's pocket, and he was giving them a lecture about the social contract, and how you couldn't run a society with their attitude, and what would happen to them if they kept it up. Then he let them go. I sent my student to capture this guy and ask him if he'd be willing to talk for a while with this big nosed ghost, and he came over and sat down. He was blind! In China, they train blind men to do massage, so I became his weekly client. But he never
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
Sounds right. I forgot to mention that he could put a candle out at a distance by just pointing at it. Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a good number of techniques in Taoist internal practices which are similar to what you describe. Some involve internal practices which are linked to movement. In external reality these would look like someone was doing Tai Chi or walking oddly, but in actuality the internal process was just being done in tune with the external movement. The teacher who taught me saw what largely passes as Tai Chi forms as a martial art. It's only when they were linked to the inner movement of Chi that they had any real power. That was supposed to be capable of all sorts of capacities, for example rooting someone to the ground or striking a blow to internal points...without ever touching the person. When it's practiced one does this weird walking/stalking kind of motion. Probably a Chi Kung master the way it sounds! On Nov 29, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Angela Mailander wrote: I saw a pretty amazing guy in China do some things I'd have thought good work on the part of the special effects people in a movie. I'll describe briefly what he did and then I'd like your thoughts on what that was all about. I was sitting on a bench with a student in downtown Zhenjiang, a crowded place, when I noticed a guy starting to cross the square. He was very very old. No telling how old, but eighties at least if not nineties. And there was something strange about the way he walked--like he was in a different movie from the rest of us in which time moved more slowly or like he was walking on the moon where there's less gravity or under water. When he got opposite us, he was suddenly involved with three strong young girls, late teens, early twenties. He was juggling them--it's the only way I can put it. They tried to get away. He'd hold two of them, one in each hand, and the third one would try to run. Then he'd grab her, letting another one loose, who tried to run, but he'd grab her, letting another one loose, and so on. He made it look effortless. Finally the girls dropped to their knees and begged him to let them go. And he gave a little speech, which my student translated for me. Apparently, he'd caught those girls picking someone's pocket, and he was giving them a lecture about the social contract, and how you couldn't run a society with their attitude, and what would happen to them if they kept it up. Then he let them go. I sent my student to capture this guy and ask him if he'd be willing to talk for a while with this big nosed ghost, and he came over and sat down. He was blind! In China, they train blind men to do massage, so I became his weekly client. But he never would talk to me about his martial arts background. He was clearly a Daoist, though---that informed all his conversations with me, as he sat on a low stool and massaged my feet. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] Levitation or a Magic Trick ?
He doesn't say much on the video. http://www.nbc4.com/news/14398492/detail.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: The reality of 'Aum'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Om is not really something you use as a chant or mantra. It comes to the body and mind by itself as a powerful wave that fills and expands all the body with some kind of power. Not sure if it is useful power or not, just know that that is the reality of Om. It comes as a RESULT of practice, spontaneaouly, not by choice, and not so much as a tool to get there, although I don't dismiss its use as a practice for some. OffWorld Thats interesting Off. It happens to you ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: What the Beatles Gave Science in Newsweek
Is that Nancy Cooke de Herrera in the upper left-hand corner? If it is, she reminds me of Zelig. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What the Beatles Gave Science in Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/id/69587 Their visit popularized the notion that the spiritual East has something to teach the rational West. Nov 19, 2007 Issue Like millions of others who believed there must be more to life than the libertine exuberance of the '60s, the Beatles hoped that the Hindu teacher Mahesh Yogiknown as the Maharishi, or great saint would help them fill some kind of hole, as Paul McCartney put it years later. So in the spring of 1968, the Fab Four traveled to the Maharishi's ashram overlooking the Ganges River in northern India, where they meditated for hours each day in search of enlightenment, as Bob Spitz recounts in his exhaustive 2005 biography, The Beatles. The high-profile visit still echoes 40 years laterin, of all places, science, for the trip popularized the notion that the spiritual East has something to teach the rational West. Soon the Maharishi was on Time magazine next to the line Meditation: The Answer to All Your Problems? It wasn't. But in the late 1960s a few intrepid scientists began dipping their toes into the exotic new waters to study the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM), which the Maharishi developed, and other forms of mental training. Most of that early research was just not of high caliber, says B. Alan Wallace, president of the Santa Barbara Institute of Consciousness Studies. Reputable scientists were told, 'We can't study that; we'll be tarred and feathered'. But just as meditation has become as mainstream as aerobics, research on it has achieved a respectability that astonishes those who remember the early floundering. With neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis, Wallace is leading a $1.4 million study of the effects of intensive meditation on attention, cognitive function and emotion regulation. Prestigious institutions such as the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center conduct studies on how Tibetan yoga improves sleep in patients with lymphoma, and top journals publish research on the brain waves of Buddhist monks. Studies of meditation are more than mainstream. They're expanding beyond the predictableI mean, how surprising is it that meditating lowers stress?into uncharted terrain, such as how different forms of meditation alter brain circuits in an enduring way. In large part, that research is making headway because it's much more rigorous than in the early days. Then, few studies accounted for the annoying little fact that meditators' low levels of stress might reflect self-selection (maybe only mellow people chose to meditate and stuck with it) rather than the practice itself. Nor did they consider that the reduction in stress, blood pressure, heart rate and other measures between the beginning and the end of a meditation course might reflect the placebo effect: you expect something good to happen, and it does. You can't really control for that, says Robert Schneider of Marahishi University in Iowa, a center of research on TM, but new studies come close. Although relaxation techniques and TM both lower blood pressure, for instance, the effect of TM is twice as big. Top hospitals from Stanford to Duke are convinced: they have instituted meditation programs for patients suffering chronic pain and other ailments. Afraid to sully their reputations, it took three decades for scientists to ask the obvious: does meditation change the brain? But in the 1990s British psychiatrist John Teasdale became intrigued with mindfulness meditation, a Buddhist practice in which you sit quietly and observe whatever thoughts and perceptions arise in your consciousness, but without judging them. He and colleagues showed that mindfulness training halves the rate at which people treated for depression relapse. That set the stage of studies showing that mere thought can alter brain activity in a long-lasting way that benefits other forms of mental illness. Neuropsychologist Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin had practiced meditation since the 1970s but didn't dare study it. Only in the 1990s did he come out of the closet, he says. Now Buddhist monks and yogis trek to his lab to have their brains scanned. They look different from the brains of undergraduates (but then, whose doesn't?), having stronger electrical waves of the kind that knit together disparate thoughts into the grand enterprise of consciousness. Even in novices, meditation leaves its mark. An eight-week course in compassion meditation, in which volunteers focus on the wish that all beings be free from suffering, shifted brain
Re: [FairfieldLife] Regulation and taxes: its here, its in gear, get used to it.
new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're the ONLY thing that works, Barfitu. Free market definition: A market economy based on supply and demand with little or no government control. A completely free market is an idealized form of a market economy where buyers and sells are allowed to transact freely (i.e. buy/sell/trade) based on a mutual agreement on price without state intervention in the form of taxes, subsidies or regulation. What we've seen of free market economics so far has been a disaster. It's only good for the asshole who wants to become the next Napoleon on their block. Why are you fighting strawmen? What markets in the US, or other developed countries, do not have some form of regulation, taxes and subsidies? Name some industries in the US economy that don't have any of those three things? Other than perhaps the underground economy -- selling pot perhaps. And maybe some hookers. And while many may debate the appropriate level of taxes, no majority, not anyone of any stature, is promoting no taxes on anything. And few, only a few fringe extreme radicals, no one who is making or influencing serious policy, is advocating no regulation. No one is advocating, of any stature an end to regulation pf pharmacuticals, the food industry, licensing of doctors, lawyers, and teachers, regulation of financial markets and banks, airlines, public utilities, international, interstate and fair trade, currency, copyrights and patents, public safety, etc. You are arguing against something that does not currently exist, and has not since about 1740 or before. Certainly the early US, with Hamilton etc, envisioned an implemented lots of regulation and state intervention. Though clearly a lot less then than now. Currently, some may call for less, some for more. No one but a few nuts are calling of nothing -- no taxes, no regulation, no subsidies for education across the entire spectrum of the economy. That is what you would get if you let a lot of big business have its way. So I rally against the talk a free markets because if you give big business an inch they'll take a mile. And soon things would be worse than they are now in Amerika the land of corporatism. There are basically two kinds of government regulation: one to protect consumers against fraud and unsafe products and the other pull the ladder up regulation put in place so a big corporation can keep competitors off it's turf. The latter is patently unfair and should not be allowed but they swoon legislators into passing them. Here's what Thom Hartmann has to say on free markets: The conservative belief in free markets is a bit like the Catholic Church's insistence that the Earth was at the center of the Solar System in the Twelfth Century. It's widely believed by those in power, those who challenge it are branded heretics and ridiculed, and it is wrong. In actual fact, there is no such thing as a free market. Markets are the creation of government. Governments provide a stable currency to make markets possible. They provide a legal infrastructure and court systems to enforce the contracts that make markets possible. They provide educated workforces through public education, and those workers show up at their places of business after traveling on public roads, rails, or airways provided by government. Businesses that use the free market are protected by police and fire departments provided by government, and send their communications - from phone to fax to internet - over lines that follow public rights-of-way maintained and protected by government. And, most important, the rules of the game of business are defined by government. Any sports fan can tell you that football, baseball, or hockey without rules and referees would be a mess. Similarly, business without rules won't work. More here: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0312-08.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
Curtis: Did you ever read Jasper Becker's Hungry Ghosts; Mao's Secret Famine? http://tinyurl.com/2esomb --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angela, First of all I am fascinated with China. What an interesting life you must have had there! I know it only through Chinese friends and reading. I went through a rather obsessive period of reading stories of people who lived through the Cultural Revolution and the life of Mao. It kind of blew all my previous worries about how the TM organization operates out the window. Not because there aren't parallels, there are. But the scale and magnitude of what went down in China dwarfed the movement's influence so much I stopped caring about it so much. Now to your interesting story... When I used to practice martial arts I used to get paired with blue collar workers who had spent the day loading flats of plants as landscapers. The first time one of them grabbed me it seemed like a supernatural force. Their hands were so hardened from their years of labor that, compared to my lily whites,their grip was monstrous. As much as I train and weight lift, I never have achieved the natural strength of guys who earn a living with their bodies. So my first thought is that this guy may have worked physically hard all his life. If this guy did massage for a living, he had arms and grip that could easily control, not only these young girls, but almost anyone who didn't spend all day, every day working physically. Even at his advanced age those girls were no match. People who work outside can look much older than they are. My Shanghaiese buddy is only 10 years older than I am but he looks like he could be my dad. He spent the Cultural Revolution on a farm and it aged him terribly. The first time my Judo teacher shoved me with his whole body, it was like a truck hit me. Same with when he would pull me with his whole body engaged. It seemed supernatural to me until I learned to do it myself. Next these girls were probably not willing to really take on an elder after having committed a crime right? The implication of really decking the old guy would probably bring some consequences. So they may have been playing a bit rather then really going all out to resist him. This guy would have had a different experience with some of the homegirls in my neighborhood who wouldn't have given him any respect. The different levels of blindness can account for an ability to recognize shapes enough to grab a thing as big as a human. Finally, due to the fact that it was almost as if it was a show for your benefit, I can't rule out that it was not a bit of street hustle. Although you sent someone over to him, if you hadn't, he might have approached you. The chances that you would be a higher paying customer than a Chinese person makes such a display very worthwhile. I have had a team of street hustlers in DC approach me in a choreographed sequence, contrived spontaneity. It is quite convincing and dangerous. One lady in the group was pushing a baby in a baby carriage, how disarming is that! None of my speculations makes your story less interesting Angela. I am not attempting to explain what happened, just some possibilities that come to my mind. Thanks for asking for our POVs on this personal experience. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: I saw a pretty amazing guy in China do some things I'd have thought good work on the part of the special effects people in a movie. I'll describe briefly what he did and then I'd like your thoughts on what that was all about. I was sitting on a bench with a student in downtown Zhenjiang, a crowded place, when I noticed a guy starting to cross the square. He was very very old. No telling how old, but eighties at least if not nineties. And there was something strange about the way he walked--like he was in a different movie from the rest of us in which time moved more slowly or like he was walking on the moon where there's less gravity or under water. When he got opposite us, he was suddenly involved with three strong young girls, late teens, early twenties. He was juggling them--it's the only way I can put it. They tried to get away. He'd hold two of them, one in each hand, and the third one would try to run. Then he'd grab her, letting another one loose, who tried to run, but he'd grab her, letting another one loose, and so on. He made it look effortless. Finally the girls dropped to their knees and begged him to let them go. And he gave a little speech, which my student translated for me. Apparently, he'd caught those girls picking someone's pocket, and he was giving them a lecture about the social contract, and how you couldn't run a society with their attitude, and what would happen to
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
Are you not quite believing my story? Those girls were big strong girls who had also done their share of physical labor and they worked hard and pulled no punches I could see. They were afraid that the scene would bring the cops and they were doing all they could to get out of Dodge. The man was as old as he looked. I went to see him twice a week after that for two years and got to know him very well. We had long conversations and became good friends. A show for my benefit would not be beyond to the Chinese to try to pull off. And they're good at it. But, like I said, I got to know this man well. And so, no, this was not street theater. At least not in the sense of something almost fraudulent, as you're suggesting. How blind was he? He was blind from birth. There's a book by a Frenchman who was blinded in an accident when he was a child. I forget how old he was. He became one of the important organizers of the French Resistance against the Germans. I'd read that book before going to China, so when I met Wu Zhaoqi, I told him the story. He recognized some of those experiences of light in the head. But exactly how blind was Wu Zhaoqi? He had to have someone point his hand at the candle, but then he could put it out from across the room. He was a simple and very humble man--the sort of humility I have never seen in the West. curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angela, First of all I am fascinated with China. What an interesting life you must have had there! I know it only through Chinese friends and reading. I went through a rather obsessive period of reading stories of people who lived through the Cultural Revolution and the life of Mao. It kind of blew all my previous worries about how the TM organization operates out the window. Not because there aren't parallels, there are. But the scale and magnitude of what went down in China dwarfed the movement's influence so much I stopped caring about it so much. Now to your interesting story... When I used to practice martial arts I used to get paired with blue collar workers who had spent the day loading flats of plants as landscapers. The first time one of them grabbed me it seemed like a supernatural force. Their hands were so hardened from their years of labor that, compared to my lily whites,their grip was monstrous. As much as I train and weight lift, I never have achieved the natural strength of guys who earn a living with their bodies. So my first thought is that this guy may have worked physically hard all his life. If this guy did massage for a living, he had arms and grip that could easily control, not only these young girls, but almost anyone who didn't spend all day, every day working physically. Even at his advanced age those girls were no match. People who work outside can look much older than they are. My Shanghaiese buddy is only 10 years older than I am but he looks like he could be my dad. He spent the Cultural Revolution on a farm and it aged him terribly. The first time my Judo teacher shoved me with his whole body, it was like a truck hit me. Same with when he would pull me with his whole body engaged. It seemed supernatural to me until I learned to do it myself. Next these girls were probably not willing to really take on an elder after having committed a crime right? The implication of really decking the old guy would probably bring some consequences. So they may have been playing a bit rather then really going all out to resist him. This guy would have had a different experience with some of the homegirls in my neighborhood who wouldn't have given him any respect. The different levels of blindness can account for an ability to recognize shapes enough to grab a thing as big as a human. Finally, due to the fact that it was almost as if it was a show for your benefit, I can't rule out that it was not a bit of street hustle. Although you sent someone over to him, if you hadn't, he might have approached you. The chances that you would be a higher paying customer than a Chinese person makes such a display very worthwhile. I have had a team of street hustlers in DC approach me in a choreographed sequence, contrived spontaneity. It is quite convincing and dangerous. One lady in the group was pushing a baby in a baby carriage, how disarming is that! None of my speculations makes your story less interesting Angela. I am not attempting to explain what happened, just some possibilities that come to my mind. Thanks for asking for our POVs on this personal experience. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw a pretty amazing guy in China do some things I'd have thought good work on the part of the special effects people in a movie. I'll describe briefly what he did and then I'd like your thoughts on what that was
[FairfieldLife] Nutball Pat Robertson on Yoga
Wednesday's 700 Club featured a question about the Christian view of yoga. A concerned viewer asked, Does it really have its origins in evil? Pat Robertson gave the verdict: Yes! According to Pat, stretching is fine, but by repeating common yoga mantras, you are actually praying to Hindu gods Vishnu and Krishna and you're not even aware of it! Check out the clip below and tell us what you think. Is it wrong for Christians to practice yoga? Video clip here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/29/pat-robertson-not-down-wi_n_74527.html The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. ~~ Pat Robertson
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nutball Pat Robertson on Yoga
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wednesday's 700 Club featured a question about the Christian view of yoga. A concerned viewer asked, Does it really have its origins in evil? Pat Robertson gave the verdict: Yes! According to Pat, stretching is fine, but by repeating common yoga mantras, you are actually praying to Hindu gods Vishnu and Krishna and you're not even aware of it! Check out the clip below and tell us what you think. Is it wrong for Christians to practice yoga? Video clip here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/29/pat-robertson-not-down- wi_n_74527.html The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. ~~ Pat Robertson Pat Robertson is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's a whole bunch of other wonderful quotes that make the above seem almost Gandhi-esque in comparison: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nutball Pat Robertson on Yoga
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Wednesday's 700 Club featured a question about the Christian view of yoga. A concerned viewer asked, Does it really have its origins in evil? Pat Robertson gave the verdict: Yes! According to Pat, stretching is fine, but by repeating common yoga mantras, you are actually praying to Hindu gods Vishnu and Krishna and you're not even aware of it! Check out the clip below and tell us what you think. Is it wrong for Christians to practice yoga? Video clip here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/29/pat-robertson-not-down- wi_n_74527.html The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. ~~ Pat Robertson Pat Robertson is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's a whole bunch of other wonderful quotes that make the above seem almost Gandhi-esque in comparison: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson ** No evangelical supports the idea of abortion, with the glaring exception of the cynical Robertson, who thinks it's OK for the Chinese. Why would he think that? Apparently because he has business interests in China and doesn't want to piss of the Chinese govt: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200106/ai_n8971465 Robertson, who acknowledged that he has business interests in China, went on to say that China suffers from tremendous unemployment and is plagued with antiquated factories owned by the government that will have to be shut down, spawning more loss of jobs. And the leadership is like on a teeter-totter board, he said. They can fall off if the population gets too restive. So, I think that right now they are doing what they have to do. I don't agree with forced abortion, but I don't think the United States needs to interfere with what they're doing internally in this regard.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is too-too-five-sev'n?
What is too-too-five-sev'n? Alex Stanley wrote: Why ask someone to do a Google search for you and sit there waiting for the answer when you can simply do the Google search yourself and have the answer in a matter of seconds? Why ask someone to do a Google search for you and sit there waiting for the answer when you can simply do the Google search yourself and have the answer in a matter of seconds? You seem to have plenty of time on your hand these days, Alex.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is too-too-five-sev'n?
cardemaister wrote: What is too-too-five-sev'n? So, you don't have all the answers. Why does the six fear the seven?
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
TurquoiseB wrote: Yep. The parallels between belief in magical abilities through siddhis and the belief in magical abilities through the martial arts is a strong one. As is the posturing we see in those who still believe the PR despite decades in the study without ever seeing even one demonstration of the myths. As a general rule in the martial arts, anyone who talks about how well they can kick ass can't. :-) Pretty much the same phenomenon as those who talk a lot about their darshan and how power- fully they can affect others' spiritual progress. The more talk, the less effect IMO. The few teachers I've encountered who seemed to really have some extraordinary abilities going for them -- either in the martial arts or in the realm of consciousness -- were pretty quiet about it. It was about action, not talk. And *after* the action, they never mentioned it again or tried to milk it for any PR or credit. They just did their jobs. Freddy Rama, your teacher, was a black belt!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What is too-too-five-sev'n?
Seven could be satanic. Better refer this important question to Pat Robertson. --- Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cardemaister wrote: What is too-too-five-sev'n? So, you don't have all the answers. Why does the six fear the seven? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you not quite believing my story? Truth is often stranger than fiction Angela, and you were there, I wasn't. It sounds like a fascinating relationship with an amazing person. Those girls were big strong girls who had also done their share of physical labor and they worked hard and pulled no punches I could see. They were afraid that the scene would bring the cops and they were doing all they could to get out of Dodge. The man was as old as he looked. I went to see him twice a week after that for two years and got to know him very well. We had long conversations and became good friends. A show for my benefit would not be beyond to the Chinese to try to pull off. And they're good at it. But, like I said, I got to know this man well. And so, no, this was not street theater. At least not in the sense of something almost fraudulent, as you're suggesting. How blind was he? He was blind from birth. There's a book by a Frenchman who was blinded in an accident when he was a child. I forget how old he was. He became one of the important organizers of the French Resistance against the Germans. I'd read that book before going to China, so when I met Wu Zhaoqi, I told him the story. He recognized some of those experiences of light in the head. But exactly how blind was Wu Zhaoqi? He had to have someone point his hand at the candle, but then he could put it out from across the room. He was a simple and very humble man--the sort of humility I have never seen in the West. curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angela, First of all I am fascinated with China. What an interesting life you must have had there! I know it only through Chinese friends and reading. I went through a rather obsessive period of reading stories of people who lived through the Cultural Revolution and the life of Mao. It kind of blew all my previous worries about how the TM organization operates out the window. Not because there aren't parallels, there are. But the scale and magnitude of what went down in China dwarfed the movement's influence so much I stopped caring about it so much. Now to your interesting story... When I used to practice martial arts I used to get paired with blue collar workers who had spent the day loading flats of plants as landscapers. The first time one of them grabbed me it seemed like a supernatural force. Their hands were so hardened from their years of labor that, compared to my lily whites,their grip was monstrous. As much as I train and weight lift, I never have achieved the natural strength of guys who earn a living with their bodies. So my first thought is that this guy may have worked physically hard all his life. If this guy did massage for a living, he had arms and grip that could easily control, not only these young girls, but almost anyone who didn't spend all day, every day working physically. Even at his advanced age those girls were no match. People who work outside can look much older than they are. My Shanghaiese buddy is only 10 years older than I am but he looks like he could be my dad. He spent the Cultural Revolution on a farm and it aged him terribly. The first time my Judo teacher shoved me with his whole body, it was like a truck hit me. Same with when he would pull me with his whole body engaged. It seemed supernatural to me until I learned to do it myself. Next these girls were probably not willing to really take on an elder after having committed a crime right? The implication of really decking the old guy would probably bring some consequences. So they may have been playing a bit rather then really going all out to resist him. This guy would have had a different experience with some of the homegirls in my neighborhood who wouldn't have given him any respect. The different levels of blindness can account for an ability to recognize shapes enough to grab a thing as big as a human. Finally, due to the fact that it was almost as if it was a show for your benefit, I can't rule out that it was not a bit of street hustle. Although you sent someone over to him, if you hadn't, he might have approached you. The chances that you would be a higher paying customer than a Chinese person makes such a display very worthwhile. I have had a team of street hustlers in DC approach me in a choreographed sequence, contrived spontaneity. It is quite convincing and dangerous. One lady in the group was pushing a baby in a baby carriage, how disarming is that! None of my speculations makes your story less interesting Angela. I am not attempting to explain what happened, just some possibilities that come to my mind. Thanks for asking for our POVs on this personal experience. --- In
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis: Did you ever read Jasper Becker's Hungry Ghosts; Mao's Secret Famine? Oh yeah! Really a powerful book. I also dug the one by his personal physician. The guy lived like a rock star with hundreds of groupies at dances for him every night. But he wouldn't wash or brush his green teeth! There are quite a few first person accounts of people who survived the Cultural Revolution whose titles I have forgotten. http://tinyurl.com/2esomb --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Angela, First of all I am fascinated with China. What an interesting life you must have had there! I know it only through Chinese friends and reading. I went through a rather obsessive period of reading stories of people who lived through the Cultural Revolution and the life of Mao. It kind of blew all my previous worries about how the TM organization operates out the window. Not because there aren't parallels, there are. But the scale and magnitude of what went down in China dwarfed the movement's influence so much I stopped caring about it so much. Now to your interesting story... When I used to practice martial arts I used to get paired with blue collar workers who had spent the day loading flats of plants as landscapers. The first time one of them grabbed me it seemed like a supernatural force. Their hands were so hardened from their years of labor that, compared to my lily whites,their grip was monstrous. As much as I train and weight lift, I never have achieved the natural strength of guys who earn a living with their bodies. So my first thought is that this guy may have worked physically hard all his life. If this guy did massage for a living, he had arms and grip that could easily control, not only these young girls, but almost anyone who didn't spend all day, every day working physically. Even at his advanced age those girls were no match. People who work outside can look much older than they are. My Shanghaiese buddy is only 10 years older than I am but he looks like he could be my dad. He spent the Cultural Revolution on a farm and it aged him terribly. The first time my Judo teacher shoved me with his whole body, it was like a truck hit me. Same with when he would pull me with his whole body engaged. It seemed supernatural to me until I learned to do it myself. Next these girls were probably not willing to really take on an elder after having committed a crime right? The implication of really decking the old guy would probably bring some consequences. So they may have been playing a bit rather then really going all out to resist him. This guy would have had a different experience with some of the homegirls in my neighborhood who wouldn't have given him any respect. The different levels of blindness can account for an ability to recognize shapes enough to grab a thing as big as a human. Finally, due to the fact that it was almost as if it was a show for your benefit, I can't rule out that it was not a bit of street hustle. Although you sent someone over to him, if you hadn't, he might have approached you. The chances that you would be a higher paying customer than a Chinese person makes such a display very worthwhile. I have had a team of street hustlers in DC approach me in a choreographed sequence, contrived spontaneity. It is quite convincing and dangerous. One lady in the group was pushing a baby in a baby carriage, how disarming is that! None of my speculations makes your story less interesting Angela. I am not attempting to explain what happened, just some possibilities that come to my mind. Thanks for asking for our POVs on this personal experience. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: I saw a pretty amazing guy in China do some things I'd have thought good work on the part of the special effects people in a movie. I'll describe briefly what he did and then I'd like your thoughts on what that was all about. I was sitting on a bench with a student in downtown Zhenjiang, a crowded place, when I noticed a guy starting to cross the square. He was very very old. No telling how old, but eighties at least if not nineties. And there was something strange about the way he walked--like he was in a different movie from the rest of us in which time moved more slowly or like he was walking on the moon where there's less gravity or under water. When he got opposite us, he was suddenly involved with three strong young girls, late teens, early twenties. He was juggling them--it's the only way I can put it. They tried to get away. He'd hold two of them, one in each hand, and the
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
To Deltablues: I understand your skepticism. Vaj posted a story about some dude whom cameras couldn't capture on film because of some magical properties of his body. Then he vanished into thin air in a blast of light. I don't believe a word of it. Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: Yep. The parallels between belief in magical abilities through siddhis and the belief in magical abilities through the martial arts is a strong one. As is the posturing we see in those who still believe the PR despite decades in the study without ever seeing even one demonstration of the myths. As a general rule in the martial arts, anyone who talks about how well they can kick ass can't. :-) Pretty much the same phenomenon as those who talk a lot about their darshan and how power- fully they can affect others' spiritual progress. The more talk, the less effect IMO. The few teachers I've encountered who seemed to really have some extraordinary abilities going for them -- either in the martial arts or in the realm of consciousness -- were pretty quiet about it. It was about action, not talk. And *after* the action, they never mentioned it again or tried to milk it for any PR or credit. They just did their jobs. Freddy Rama, your teacher, was a black belt! Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] Firefighters asked to report people who express discontent with the government
The latest on the War on America Citizens: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Homeland_Security_turns_firefighters_into_domestic_1129.html Welcome to the gulag, comrade.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Everybody's a Dr. these days
--- boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've known Bill Sands for over 20 yrs and don't need to research him - he's a nice guy but I don't consider a PhD in vedic science from MUM to be a real PhD. Well, it might be. You'd have to look at the curriculum and the dissertation. I don't think you can automatically dismiss a doctorate from MIU/MUM. i know their neuroscience doctorate was quite legit in the 1980's. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UFC 1-6 were the best! What a shock to all the karate/gung-fu one-punch-kills-all dudes. That's why I'm surprised that there are martial arts afficinados out there that still believe in some superduper secret school of one punch destroys all. Really quite silly. So Peter uses reasoning to deduce that if a very hard strike is given to the adam's apple, or the testicles, or the knees, or ankles, stomach, or break the jaw, that it is not dangerous and just carry on as if nothing happened. You and Curtis and the goons on UFC should get on stage with the Republican candidates for president that still believe the Earth was created 6,000 years ago. Get real imagine a hard strike to any number of places and understand --- you could die or be crippled temporarily. One strike is all it takes, and if you have not trained with that in mind...you are not a martial artist. Shotokan style Kmiti style competition is the only way to test a martial art. Other types of competition are mud- wrestling. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot test martial arts without using a Kmiti Shotokan style competition. I am a little unclear on your point. The point cannot be clearer: There are a dozen places such as you adams apple - on the human body where a sharp blow could easily kill you. You cannot easily defend them all at once. You MUST be able to block a strike, and strike one of those points very hard. Anything else is a joke and you would get killed using anything else in a real situation. You cannot test martial arts without using a Kmiti Shotokan style competition. If any of those UFC goons came to a Kmiti fight most of them would be humbled completely (and some bloody noses). The only legitimate test of the efficacy of a martial art is Kmiti, where the fight is stopped after a strike. Best out of three strikes. Let's see them come to a Kmiti competition? ? ? C'mon, let's see if they are really as good as you say they are. Why won't they come? There are such competitions that are open to others, but your goons won't come because they are not true martial artists who train every muscle and cell... to block...and and then cripple. Shotokan has dominated such competitions in the past when other forms turned up to fight. Kmiti is the ONLY true test of a martial art. The rest is worse than mud- wrestling because it doesn't test anything. You have to stop the fight after one strike for it to be a legitimate test. One strike could easily kill someone, therefore breeching someone's defences makes your point. The fight stops. Best out of three wins. All you are proving is your usual incapacity for rational thinking (as you do when you criticize something proven by scientific research published in peer reviewed journals ). You are making a fool of yourself if you think those goons of yours are kneeing someone in the face over and over again with full force. ROTFLMFA ! People would die if what you are watching was real ! It is all a stupid ratings show. Nothing more. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Archaeoastronomy
http://tinyurl.com/2en6bt http://www.globalgoodnews.com/cultural-news-a.html? art=11962732365078099 Dr Kumar's research presented the sacred sites and temples of India which is also called Veda Bhumi Bharat*as correlated with the neurological centres in the human brain and nervous system, through the scientific perspective of the physiology as an expression of the Vedic Literature. Dr Kumar said what controls the entire body is, of course, our brain. 'So from here, our discovery can start, and we are just going to relate the geography of Bharat, India, with the brain.' Dr Kumar said that the basis of this correlation is that Maharishi tells us that Rk Veda is at the basis of the entire functioning of the physiology. From this we can get the simple inference, or knowledge that Rk Veda also gives rise to the geography of Bharat. So they have a very common basis in the Unified Field. 'We can very beautifully and simply infer that Bharat and the human nervous system have Rk Veda as their common basis. If so, if two are having a common basis, then it's quite natural that those two will be related also,' said Dr Kumar. Dr Kumar pointed out that many years ago in one of his books, Maharishi had written that the physical shape of India is like the spiralling shape of Rk Veda: the total potential of Natural Law has expressed itself in the shape of India. Maharishi had written that Rk Veda forms the physiology of India; Rk Veda gives a physiological structure to India. India represents the holistic structure of Rk Veda, in which reside the Devas, the administrators or impulses of intelligence responsible for the administration of the universe. 'This clarion call was clearly given by Maharishi,' said Dr Kumar, 'and this was a great inspiration, and the discovery actually took place a few years ago. Maharishi often used to just say that all the Devatas are present in Bharat. And Maharishi and Maharaja Nader Raam had such beautiful discussions about Veda and physiology. Maharaja Nader Raam used to say, ''All the Devatas are in the brain.'' ' 'So it was just a simple correlation that occurred,' said Dr Kumar. The entire discussion was given out on the Maharishi Channel, long ago when it started, and Dr Kumar just had to correlate between those beautiful timeless words. The whole holistic functioning of human physiology is controlled by the human nervous system, and that is nothing but a reflection of Rk Veda, as Maharaja Nader Raam has clearly brought about. 'So now here we are with the vision of Veda in Vishwa [the universe],' said Dr Kumar. 'This is a superimposition analogy between the outline of Bharat and the brain.' He showed the outline of modern India and ancient Bharat. 'Bharat is not, as we see now, politically divided by humans, but ancient Bharat has an exact shape of the brain. Here you find that the outline of the sagittal sectionthat means the brain cut through the middle into the left and right halves that shape of the brain in the sagittal section and the shape of ancient undivided India, is almost the same. This is just a starting point from which we'll be seeing further miraculous correlations in each and every part of India and the brain.' Dr Kumar then spoke about the sacred pilgrimage sites in the geography of the world, and the neurological centres in the human nervous system. He mentioned a new field called archaeo-astronomy, which is a very precise correlation between the various heavenly bodies in the cosmos, and certain specific sites in the geography of the world. So these have been known since time immemorial; in all the civilizations, this knowledge has been there. 'If you take the ancient traditions, the Mayan tradition, Egyptians or Islam, everywhere the emphasis has been given to certain specific geographical points, and here we can see a beautiful correlation by the cosmosthe cosmic powers concentrated in certain spots in the planet Earthand these have been marked by various civilizations and different names: it could be temples, it could be mosques, it could be certain spots geographically marked as you will see the Stonehenge Head Stones and Pyramids, so all these have been having correlation with the cosmos.' And when our human physiology goes to these places at a particular time, that's very important, Dr Kumar said. At the time of particular astronomical conjunctions, an enlivenment takes place. 'And we have a very fascinating discovery, an insight brought by Maharishi, that the reverse also could be true. It's not only the cosmos influencing the earth, . . . the brain, our collective consciousness, our prayers, our meditation, our rituals, can influence the whole cosmos. . . .' Dr Kumar said that India, or even our human brain, is a cosmic switchboard, from which you can operate the whole universe; this is a beautiful reality now. We have here a simple wave created by the Vedic Pandits,
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Samadhi Is Much Closer Than You Think -- Really! -- It's A No-Brainer. Who'd've Thunk It? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what is the redeeming value of this demonstration, this thread - - the flagrantly ruthless wanton and rampant beastiality of moral retards, from whom we must learn to defend ourselves? Pay attention: True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice. --Gichin Funakoshi OffWorld *Of all that anyone leading or teaching has to convey, the most valuable thing to cultivate and convey to others is a moral conscience. Only such persons deserve to lead others, in any capacity. Anything less is a menace to society. * On 11/29/07, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: UFC 1-6 were the best! What a shock to all the karate/gung-fu one-punch-kills-all dudes. That's why I'm surprised that there are martial arts afficinados out there that still believe in some superduper secret school of one punch destroys all. Really quite silly. So Peter uses reasoning to deduce that if a very hard strike is given to the adam's apple, or the testicles, or the knees, or ankles, stomach, or break the jaw, that it is not dangerous and just carry on as if nothing happened. You and Curtis and the goons on UFC should get on stage with the Republican candidates for president that still believe the Earth was created 6,000 years ago. Get real imagine a hard strike to any number of places and understand --- you could die or be crippled temporarily. One strike is all it takes, and if you have not trained with that in mind...you are not a martial artist. Shotokan style Kmiti style competition is the only way to test a martial art. Other types of competition are mud- wrestling. OffWorld
Re: [FairfieldLife] IMDB Top Ranked Films and Eposodic Cable/TV
new.morning wrote: For film and eposodic TV buffs, There is a list of top 250 films, with Godfather top ranked at 9.1 / 10. But there is apparently no list top for eposodic TV / cable shows. But Sopranos is the highest ranked that I can find, at 9.5. Deadwood 9.3. Rome and Entourage 9.2 (which is an interesting show). Does anyone know a way to list all top eposodic TV? (there is a tv- mini-series one, but they do not include cable eposodic, like Sopranos). And should great eposodic be higher rated than great films? Opinions. For eposidic fans, how would you rank the series you have watch / are watching? And why. btw, HBO, and some Showtime series, pear season (typically 6-discs) have had 50% price cuts at BestBuy and on Amazon. Rome, Deadwood etc, each year, selling at around $40 down from $85 -- recent regular price at both outlets. How's that HD-DVD collection? Two very top rated shows for me are on Showtime: Dexter and Brotherhood. Brotherhood is one of the best episodic series I've ever seen and doesn't resort to gimmicks to keep you watching. It's just a well told tale about two brothers one who is a Rhode Island state assemblyman and the other who is a gangster. That's all the needed for a gimmick. And it is shot in Rhode Island not Canada standing in. Dexter is just a great dark comedy about a police forensics guy (played by Michael C. Hall of Six Feet Under) who is a serial killer but only kills people who have gotten away with crimes. Excellent acting, directing and writing. This season we got Keith Caradine as a quirky FBI agent and the introduction of a new love interest for Dexter, the vampish Lila, charmingly played by Jaime Murray (who definitely boosted ratngs among male viewers). It was also fun watching C.S. Lee play his role on Dexter and then a brief role but different role on NBC's Chuck. For a lightweight series I really like Reaper on CW. The pilot was done by Kevin Smith and the series is about a Gen X'er who works at a store like Lowe's and his parents sold his soul to the Devil who is apply played by Ray Wise (Twin Peaks). Smith continues as story consultant and his touch is definitely there. The goofiest Gen X'er of the bunch is actually the one that girls and had a relationship with a woman who works in the DA's office. We also get the lovely Missy Peregrym in a reversed role chasing after the lead character. Great comedy and well worth a watch: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/reaper Of course I'm still hooked on watching Pushing Daisies too. Unfortunately due to the strike looks like we're only going to get a couple more episodes for the time being. But the same is true for a lot of shows with 24 having been put off indefinitely (darn, I wanted to see how Janine Garafalo was going to fit in as an FBI agent). Fortunately we got all of the Heroes episodes for this season and all the episodes of Jericho second season are in the the can ready to go. And of course I'm waiting for the final season of Battlestar Galactica to start up though a little miffed that Comcast didn't get Sci-Fi HD in the line-up even though it was among the top networks requested by their viewers. I hate watching it in blurry vision (SD) though they usually play it delay a few weeks on Universal HD.
[FairfieldLife] What is five-five-one-seven-eight?
Hint: key it into your calculator and then turn it upside-down...
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: You cannot test martial arts without using a Kmiti Shotokan style competition. I am a little unclear on your point. The point cannot be clearer: There are a dozen places such as you adams apple - on the human body where a sharp blow could easily kill you. I just finished seeing the DVD of the movie Waitress directed by Adrienne Shelley. When I got to the bonus features section, there one one feature titled Adrienne Shelley, in memorium. So I googled her name and it turns out that this 40-year old mother/director/actress was in her Greenwich Village apartment and the 19-year-old fellow in the apartment directly below her was making too much noise so she went down to confront him, they exchanged words, she slapped him (according to him), he punched her once and killed her... So it can, indeed, take one well-placed punch... See: http://tinyurl.com/yg98xe You cannot easily defend them all at once. You MUST be able to block a strike, and strike one of those points very hard. Anything else is a joke and you would get killed using anything else in a real situation. You cannot test martial arts without using a Kmiti Shotokan style competition. If any of those UFC goons came to a Kmiti fight most of them would be humbled completely (and some bloody noses). The only legitimate test of the efficacy of a martial art is Kmiti, where the fight is stopped after a strike. Best out of three strikes. Let's see them come to a Kmiti competition? ? ? C'mon, let's see if they are really as good as you say they are. Why won't they come? There are such competitions that are open to others, but your goons won't come because they are not true martial artists who train every muscle and cell... to block...and and then cripple. Shotokan has dominated such competitions in the past when other forms turned up to fight. Kmiti is the ONLY true test of a martial art. The rest is worse than mud- wrestling because it doesn't test anything. You have to stop the fight after one strike for it to be a legitimate test. One strike could easily kill someone, therefore breeching someone's defences makes your point. The fight stops. Best out of three wins. All you are proving is your usual incapacity for rational thinking (as you do when you criticize something proven by scientific research published in peer reviewed journals ). You are making a fool of yourself if you think those goons of yours are kneeing someone in the face over and over again with full force. ROTFLMFA ! People would die if what you are watching was real ! It is all a stupid ratings show. Nothing more. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: IMDB Top Ranked Films and Eposodic Cable/TV
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For film and eposodic TV buffs, There is a list of top 250 films, with Godfather top ranked at 9.1 / 10. But there is apparently no list top for eposodic TV / cable shows. But Sopranos is the highest ranked that I can find, at 9.5. Deadwood 9.3. Rome and Entourage 9.2 (which is an interesting show). Does anyone know a way to list all top eposodic TV? (there is a tv- mini-series one, but they do not include cable eposodic, like Sopranos). Here's one: http://www.classic-tv.com/top100/ Although, right off the top, I disagree with it because Seinfeld is not #1... And should great eposodic be higher rated than great films? Opinions. For eposidic fans, how would you rank the series you have watch / are watching? And why. btw, HBO, and some Showtime series, pear season (typically 6-discs) have had 50% price cuts at BestBuy and on Amazon. Rome, Deadwood etc, each year, selling at around $40 down from $85 -- recent regular price at both outlets.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
2007-11-29
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Samadhi Is Much Closer Than You Think -- Really! -- It's A No-Brainer. Who'd've Thunk It?
So, what is the redeeming value of this demonstration, this thread -- the flagrantly ruthless wanton and rampant beastiality of moral retards, from whom we must learn to defend ourselves? *Of all that anyone leading or teaching has to convey, the most valuable thing to cultivate and convey to others is a moral conscience. Only such persons deserve to lead others, in any capacity. Anything less is a menace to society. * On 11/29/07, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UFC 1-6 were the best! What a shock to all the karate/gung-fu one-punch-kills-all dudes. That's why I'm surprised that there are martial arts afficinados out there that still believe in some superduper secret school of one punch destroys all. Really quite silly. So Peter uses reasoning to deduce that if a very hard strike is given to the adam's apple, or the testicles, or the knees, or ankles, stomach, or break the jaw, that it is not dangerous and just carry on as if nothing happened. You and Curtis and the goons on UFC should get on stage with the Republican candidates for president that still believe the Earth was created 6,000 years ago. Get real imagine a hard strike to any number of places and understand --- you could die or be crippled temporarily. One strike is all it takes, and if you have not trained with that in mind...you are not a martial artist. Shotokan style Kmiti style competition is the only way to test a martial art. Other types of competition are mud- wrestling. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] IMDB Top Ranked Films and Eposodic Cable/TV
For film and eposodic TV buffs, There is a list of top 250 films, with Godfather top ranked at 9.1 / 10. But there is apparently no list top for eposodic TV / cable shows. But Sopranos is the highest ranked that I can find, at 9.5. Deadwood 9.3. Rome and Entourage 9.2 (which is an interesting show). Does anyone know a way to list all top eposodic TV? (there is a tv- mini-series one, but they do not include cable eposodic, like Sopranos). And should great eposodic be higher rated than great films? Opinions. For eposidic fans, how would you rank the series you have watch / are watching? And why. btw, HBO, and some Showtime series, pear season (typically 6-discs) have had 50% price cuts at BestBuy and on Amazon. Rome, Deadwood etc, each year, selling at around $40 down from $85 -- recent regular price at both outlets.
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had a team of street hustlers in DC approach me in a choreographed sequence, contrived spontaneity. It is quite convincing and dangerous. One lady in the group was pushing a baby in a baby carriage, how disarming is that! Lurk: How does that work. I love a good story. Wait, let me pull up a chair. Okay, ready. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] What Do We Do Now
Are we supposed to be loading up our houses with food, water and guns? http://sachttp://sacdcweb01.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/11/28/foreign_captal_inflows/print.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I have had a team of street hustlers in DC approach me in a choreographed sequence, contrived spontaneity. It is quite convincing and dangerous. One lady in the group was pushing a baby in a baby carriage, how disarming is that! Lurk: How does that work. I love a good story. Wait, let me pull up a chair. Okay, ready. Black guys approaches me on H street in DC up the street from the old College of Natural Law. He tells me his Navy ship just pulled into Baltimore Harbor that day and he had a 24 hour leave. He reached in his pocket and pulled out a huge wad of bills, bigger than a softball, waves it in front of me and tells me that with only 24 hours he needs a local to help him find a hooker. And he tells me that he is willing to part with a chunk of that big wad to the guy who helps him find a girl, been on the ship for 6 months and all and ready to ship out for another 3 the next day. His eyes are clear and sincere, he holds my gaze without flinching. I like him almost instantly, he is radiating familiarity like I went to school with him or something. He needs my help in the worst way if I would only show a little compassion for a sailor in need, serving his country and in need of a little pussy for one night, hell the drinks are on him, we can all party together he has so much money to burn he doesn't care if he lays a few hundred on me he'll buy me a girl too if I want and where is he going to spend money in the middle of the ocean on a US Navy ship and can't I help a brother in need for God's sake, he only has one night... I start to back off and tell him that he doesn't need my help in the Capital city. He will do fine on his own. Just then a woman rolls up with a baby in a baby carriage, kinda blocks me in with it and joins the conversation. She tells me that we shouldn't miss this chance to work a deal and that she knows some Howard University college girls who turn tricks on the side. She needs my help cuz she has this baby see, and we can both make a bunch of money in such a short time, yessereee we would be fools to pass up a chance to make a few hundred dollars for almost no work at all, if I wont take the free money she certainly will, she is no fool... I realize that my ass is now in a sling with two people who wish me harm and who knows who else in the wings, so I briskly walk away cutting across moving traffic to get the F out of Dodge. It was only later that I contemplated whether I saw a man pull out a huge wad of bills or a man pulling out a few bills on the outside of a partial roll of toilet paper. Greed was the hook, and I didn't take the bait. But I learned a nice little lesson for the street. Now if someone asks me for the time, I step back first and look around me. Then I give them the time. I never take for granted the power of more than one person with me in their sights. Thanks for asking Lurk. I hope it did not disappoint. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: UFC Goons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I learned a nice little lesson for the street. Now if someone asks me for the time, I step back first and look around me. Then I give them the time. I never take for granted the power of more than one person with me in their sights. Thanks for asking Lurk. I hope it did not disappoint. Lurk: No, not at all. So the goal was to rob you at some point? My Uncle got caught up in a gambling scam. Unfortunately he took the bait. I can't remember all the details, (will have to ask my Dad), but they got him into a hotel room and at some point he is 10, 20 thousand in the hole. (after being way up of course) I forget how he got out of it, but somehow he did. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
