[FairfieldLife] Re: mothers of men - TMO press release
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not only does it relegate women to the level of breed sows for the planet, it's only their men children that count. this is missing the point; in light of the rest: It's the term that *lasts*, George, not their explanation. The explanation won't be present when women around the world hear the term and realize what Maharishi and the TMO really think of women. And they DO. I've heard Maharishi actually talk to a woman after she got her second Ph.D. and tell her, That's good...you'll have some- thing to talk about with your husband and children when you finally have them. She left the movement that day. The administration of the mothers' wing of the Movement will be on the level of silence functioning within itself. Our administration will not be through human endeavour but through human surrender -- from where silence operates. The mothers' wing will offer to every mother in the world the opportunity to swing in the value of Saraswati -- the Divine Mother,Goddess of Knowledge. We will offer to every mother the opportunity to be mother at home, at home within her own transcendental bliss consciousness. the mothers get to sit home and swing in their bliss. Which is downright *offensive* to some women. whereas, the men have to waste their time, tending to mere human endeavor. Equally offensive to many woman, who claim the *right*, not the *burden* of supporting them- selves and paying for their own lives themselves. George, this is a reworking of the white man's burden, just leaving out the white. It's one of the major problems all along with the TMO and Maharishi's vision, from my perspective. Some teacher treat their students as adults; MMY has always treated them like children, unable to make their own decisions for themselves. Instead, as the benevolent father figure, he gets to make them for them. Now he's extending that right to the *men* he's left in charge after he croaks. *They* get to make all the decisions for the women. Didn't you notice the reactions a couple of years back when they trotted out the rajas in their uniforms and no mention was even *made* of their wives? Do you think that was just some kind of oversight. It wasn't. They don't count. They're not men. it doesnt say the men count (thats a male fantasy); the men are just worker bees, serving the queen mother. Which is a sexist fantasy, a way of keeping women in a subservient position, dependent on the men. Read some feminist literature, dude. It's *right* about many things.
[FairfieldLife] Re: mothers of men - TMO press release
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_lives@ wrote: As resolved on the 22nd of November, the final day of the European Assembly of National Leaders, there will now be two wings of administration of the Global Country of World Peaceone for men, and one for the mothers of men. Wow. Just when I thought that the TMO couldn't possibly come up with a more inappropriate term than invincibility. Mothers of men. Not only does it relegate women to the level of breed sows for the planet, it's only their men children that count. You are a true pervert to be able to read something like that into the announcement ! You and Vaj has really lost it. How else to interpret it? It's not Men and Women, it's not even Men and Mothers, which would be weird enough. It's Men and Mothers' of Men, the word men has to be part of the female side for it to be mentionable. Exactly. This is one of the most revealing terms that Maharishi and the TMO have ever coined. Both about him and the way he thinks, and about those who rush to defend it. Decades of conditioning are difficult to drop.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: I didn't see it that way. What I got from their posts is that taking a break let them reflect and see how futile it is for them to argue with those who haven't died in the dark night and had their perspective flipped inside out. My guess is that they're looking at the status quo knee-jerk reactions to today's posts and thinking they made the right choice in bowing out. You are soo stuck in the matrix dude. If that's the case, lemme just say that there's not *nearly* enough Keanu in here for my taste. I wish I still had my Keanu connection and could forward him your comment, Alex. He would just love it, and laugh his socks off. Although straight, he was more than aware of his popularity in the gay community, and even used it -- in his Southern Boy way -- to protect his long-time girlfriend from paparazzi and other celebrity stalkers. He carefully never denied any of the rumors of his gayness in the press, instead cultivating them to 1) increase his audience, and 2) throw paparazzi off the trail. Smart dude, with more than his fair share of spiritual exper- iences under his belt. He really wasn't a bad choice to play the young Buddha IMO. I just wish he was a better actor, and could have externalized the feelings he really had inside about enlight- enment and such things better.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy Sh*t BushMan!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even Bush's crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bush's recent trip to Vienna. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/excrement-in-the-news_b_24536.html Wonderful link. I'm not a regular follower of the Huffington site, and hadn't noticed that Krassner was part of it. His work with The Realist back in the 60s and 70s was classic. Here's the...uh...poop on the teaser Bhairitu provides above. It's the very personification of anal retentive. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush's visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House 'toilet security' (TOILSEC), which has Austrians talking the most. The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bush's personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bush's security, the veil of secrecy extends over the president's bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bush's feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bush's waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Ok, you're toast. Let the withdrawal begin! I would say from the posts I see here and the amount of posting some folks do have an Internet addiction. I think it is becoming quite common these days though not wholly recognized (too much money to be made off of it). Ironic if those most awake are the most addicted. Not so ironic if awake is more an expression of manic behavior. (and dark nights the depression part of the cycle) The manic depression suggestion seems particularly apt IMO. That's what it's always felt like to me. I've never had any issues with Jim and Rory when they're just posting their blissy experiences; more power to them for doing so. It's the *followups* that seem to be the issue. They post something blissy, someone doesn't buy it, or its accompanying claim of 'way high states of consciousness, and the manic part of the cycle begins. Post after post after post, defending the original post and the *image* of themselves as enlightened. THAT is the part that doesn't ring true to me (along with some of their pronounce- ments about what the path to their kinda enlight- enment must be for others). It all sounds a lot to me like an ego defending itself, which doesn't fit in well with their claims that they don't have one any more. It's the cognitive dissonance of the claims vs. the behavior that's the issue, not the content of their rare posts when they're *not* caught in a gotta-defend-myself-against-this-criticism- or-disbelief cycle. Those standalone, reportage of what it's like to be me posts are often charming and sweet; the gotta-defend posts provide a *counterpoint* to that that is hard to ignore. In a way, it's like watching the abuse cycle in a father who is stuck in it. I love you kids...you mean the world to me. WHACK! SLAP! I love you kids...don't misunderstand that I just whacked you upside the head. WHACK! Bottom line for me, before dropping the subject, is that their walk rarely matched their talk.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Turq, Curt, and Peter, accept Off's competition challenge
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings wrote: I will put my foot through a 2x4. We'll let the veiwers do the math. Lurk: Let's do it. Shouldn't be difficult to film and post. I certainly can't wait to do it when Curtis comes to Vermont, and when I take my summer trip to France to meet Turquise. And when Peter gets out of psychiatric incarceration, I will meet with him too. In all cases, we will have an adjudicated competitive sparring match, and I will tap them around a bit with my foot (head, stomach, ankles, adams apple, knees, etc.) whilst they wonder where it is coming from in their goon-like stupor. Then, I will put my foot through a 2x4. We will video the whole thing and post it for all to see. The viewers will be left to do the math. Shotokan kick attempt, clinch, take down, choke or arm bar. I'll decide. While I have no questions about how the smackdown match between Curtis and Off will turn out, when Off gets out of the hospital and makes his way to France to duke it out with me, he'll have a much better chance of succeeding. I live in Spain. :-) Then again, that's the kinda match Off seems to prefer -- no opponent, just talk.
[FairfieldLife] Re: mothers of men - TMO press release
I'll riff on this some more, because this is a subject of some interest to me. Whatever his faults -- and there were many of them -- the Rama fellow I studied with for some time was really big on the enlightenment of women. He went out of his way to cultivate an environ- ment that supported strong, independent, non- subservient-to-men women seekers. As a result, I got to interface with and become good friends with literally hundreds of strong, independent, non-subservient-to-men women, and learn a great deal from them. Both about women and how they see the traditional world of spirituality, and about how they see the men who try to keep it that way. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Samadhi Is Much Closer Than You Think -- Really! -- It's A No-Brainer. Who'd've Thunk It? DharmaMitra1@ wrote: There will be many in the world, especially from North America, who are so out of touch with other cultures they will not comprehend this message nor the meaning(s) of some of the words in it, including surrender and mother, despite some of them having even been born feemale. In the vast majority of the world the subtle influences of and respect for women and motherhood is rich and has much gravitas in personal and collective life, whereas nowhere in the world do mothers and motherhood have such vicious disdain in concept and factuality as in North America where motherhood, at best, is nothing more than a paradigm of chauvinistic indemnity and insatiable consumptionism in stark contrast to nature, to dharma anywhere in the universe as well as the rest of humanity around the globe. Nowhere in the world are females and all aspects of womanhood, including motherhood, held in such vicious disdain as in the traditional fundamentalist religious sects of Islam, Hinduism and Christianity, probably in that order. I could not agree more. Woman and mothers are generally respected much more in progressive North America than in much of the traditional world. People who truly understand and respect the feminine, including traditions that worship the divine feminine, do not restrict the female to the role of mother and do not exclude the female from decision-making processes in society. And that relegation to the role of motherhood is *exactly* the intent of this new TM buzzword IMO. The very structure of the organization that MMY plans to leave behind him prevents women from having any real say or presence in its decision- making. As boo pointed out, he added the women in as a reluctant afterthought, a bone thrown to them so that it *appeared* that they had some say in things. But then he gave them a title -- mothers of men -- which betrays the role he *really* sees for them. Let's face it -- Maharishi is really not a person who is likely to have any realistic impression of what a strong woman is. His experience with women consists of his own mother, and after that, a series of women who were *disciples*, and thus were not about to stand up to him and tell him what they really thought about things. If he's *ever* had a woman be honest with him, and give him feedback on something he's said, I have never seen it. The woman I mentioned before, who bailed from the movement bailed immediately after having been told that the only thing that her Ph.D. and her mind were good for was bring- ing up children, didn't even bother. She just turned around and walked out of the room and never walked back into another one. She'd been around long enough to know what happens to *anyone* -- male or female -- who disputes MMY's holy word. They also celebrate the birth of both girls and boys (there is no distinction between mothers of women and mothers of men) - how many millions of baby girls are either aborted or even killed after birth in Asia and Africa purely for being girls not boys. And people with half a brain in this century have come to understand that flowery religious language about woman staying mothers at home has to do with chauvinism not dharma. Exactly. And it's an extension of the greater evolved man's burden dogma that permeates the rest of the TM movement. MMY talks about those who deserve to lead, because they practice TM and are more evolved. Well, he's just clarified what *sex* those who deserve to lead have to be, that's all. While I perceive poor word choices in the construction of the original announcement, ever more do I anticipate vicious convulsions of presumed and feigned victimhood from many people who will blow gratuitously from the bowels of [P]ostured [C]ondescensions blowing in the[ir] windmills of their static minds. Such are the disabilities of materialistic minds with petrified hearts aflame with the last vestiges of life screaming at the world who having been blessed with the privilege of the how-to of transcendent meditation yet will not
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Who's your candidate?
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[FairfieldLife] Re: mothers of men - TMO press release
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He went out of his way to cultivate an environ- ment that supported strong, independent, non- subservient-to-men women seekers. Some of them decided to have kids *in addition to* being strong, independent women with good careers who needed *no one* to support them, some decided not to have kids. [warning -- strong but non-gratuitous language used] And without a man / husband, their kids are bastards, son of a bitch. The word bitch has long been in use to refer to a woman in contempt, as shown in an 1811 dictionary which describes bitch as the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore. ... Bitch is a term for the female of a canine species in general. It is also frequently used as an offensive term for a woman, taken to mean that she is malicious, spiteful, domineering, intrusive, or unpleasant. This second meaning has been in use since around 1400.[1] Those [guys who defined that are literally] motherfuckers!. So a woman is at best, at her best, a mother of men. An she has to be a mother of men with a proper man, in a proper subservient relationship. Otherwise she is not a real mother, because her kids are then bastards and sons of a bitch -- which is means they are less than sons of whores, they are sons of malicious, spiteful, domineering, intrusive, or unpleasant women Thats because being a malicious, spiteful, domineering, intrusive, or unpleasant woman is worse than being a whore. Well, I say, the guys that made up that crap are real motherfuckers. They are fucking with women, they are fucking women, they are fucked-up, and they are just plain fuckers. And I am not sure what is worse, being a plain fucker or a motherfucker. btw, what do you call a guy who only likes to fuck malicious, spiteful, domineering, intrusive, or unpleasant women? I guess thats a bitchfucker. Anyway, its fucked-up. He's a real sonna ma bitch. I just hope hes not a muddafucker on top of that. = And Iya digressa here, butta maya cousin, he a sayd id best bouta sonna ma bitch: One day ima gonna Malta to bigga hotel. Ina morning I go to eat breakfast. I tella waitress I wanna two pissis toast. She brings me only one piss. I tella her I want to piss. She says go to the toilet. I say you no understand. I wanna to piss onna my plate. She say you better not piss onna plate, you sonna ma bitch. I don't even know the lady and she calla me a sonna ma bitch. Later I go to eat at the bigga restaurant. The waitress brings me a spoon and a knife but no fock. I tella her I wanna fock. She tella me everyone wanna fock. I tella her you no understand. I wanna fock on the table. She say better not fock on the table, you sonna ma bitch. I don't even know the lady and she calla me a sonna ma bitch. So I go to my room inna hotel and there is no sheit onna my bed. I calla the manager and tella him I wanna sheit. He tella me to go to the toilet. I say you no understand. I wanna sheit on my bed. He say you better not sheit onna bed, you sonna ma bitch. I don't even know the man and he calla me a sonna ma bitch. I go to the checkout and the man at the desk say: Peace on you. I say piss on you too, you sonna ma bitch. I gonna back to Italy.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Vaj wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may be misjudging this, but I'm sensing a I'm taking my football and going home reaction in Rory's and Jim's desire to drop out because they were shut down for a week. Not that it's their football, but somehow they seem miffed. As if they were asked to take a timeout from the game and their response was, I'm quitting altogether. I didn't want to play this game anyway. I didn't see it that way. What I got from their posts is that taking a break let them reflect and see how futile it is for them to argue with those who haven't died in the dark night and had their perspective flipped inside out. My guess is that they're looking at the status quo knee-jerk reactions to today's posts and thinking they made the right choice in bowing out. Dying in the dark night? Samadhi is death, and I'm sure more than a few here have experienced this, but not everyone has long, drawn out dark nights. And there's nothing more boring on this list than speculations about enlightenment. :D Yes I knowBUT please let me tell you about mine! :-)
[FairfieldLife] What is it?
What is it? The poor have it. The rich need it. What is greater than God? What is more evil than the devil? If you eat it you'll die? An interesting stat, is that 70% of Stanford University students couldn't work it out, however 80% of Kindergarten kids could. And I am not going to tell you the answer. I am not going to tell you nothing.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:23 PM, new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, you're toast. Let the withdrawal begin! I would say from the posts I see here and the amount of posting some folks do have an Internet addiction. I think it is becoming quite common these days though not wholly recognized (too much money to be made off of it). Ironic if those most awake are the most addicted. Not so ironic if awake is more an expression of manic behavior. (and dark nights the depression part of the cycle) One of the issues with siddhis (as a negative path) is when certain nadis are activated they can do precisely what you are hinting at New Morn: a neurochemical roller coaster ride. According to Joan Harrigan and her master from the Saraswati order, this is a well known pattern in those with certain styles of kundalini unfoldment. What was interesting to me was that they not only recognized this issue and it's underlying cause (from a yogic perpspective) but the texts which guide their tradition (the sat-chakra-nirupana, etc.) even though quite old, seem to be aware of the neurochemical ups-and-downs. Once I get home later, I'll post the relevant section in Joan's work which describes this yogic disorder.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream
On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:49 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I haven't played a Martin in years, although i was fond of the 00 series. I really am hooked on my 12-string Taylor so much, I'm considering another. Although I have to admit, that Martin you mentioned really has me wondering. I think Taylor rules the mid and high tones, Martin rules the bass. But they both are gorgeous hunks of wood. I'm sure you have some sweet axes in your harem. Every different guitar gives you a different voice doesn't it? I think you might dig the Martin Orchestra models if you love your Taylor. It is so bright, it sings. The Clapton is Orchestra sized. I love to play Robert Johnson stuff on it. Playing fingerstyle, I've shied away from the larger Martin's mainly because of their action (historically), as I prefer to have acoustics with the action of an electric. My primary dreadnaught is a handmade Washburn, which just has impeccable action, tone and bass. Years ago Washburn and Martin were competitors. Now they're made by a family of luthiers in Japan and mass produced. It's rare to find one of their handmade guitars, so I'm happy in that regard. I live in a great area for guitars and guitar work, as we have a lot of great acoustic guitarists in this area. Paul Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary lives down the road. Just beyond him is Dan Fogelberg. And Don Mclean lives nearby as well. Don's luthier does excellent work and he's going to do some fine adjustments on my Taylor 12 which he says he can do no problem. These same people make hand-mades to order, if you want to drop 4000 and up. I know guitars are so matrix, but thanks for bringing them up! Lately I've been going to CD baby and typing in acoustic Christmas. You can hear most of each song, and if you use the play all button it makes great background music. I have studio speakers on my computer and play through my MOTU digitizer as my sound card. All for free. Every year I think I am going to work on a bunch of acoustic finger picking Christmas songs and every year there is some new obscure Charley Patton or Skip James song I am too obsessed with to go Christmas. They would sound great on your 12 string brother! I too have a weakness for rendering acoustic arrangements of various X- mas songs. My current favorite is Jingle Bell Rock which I'm only addicted to for its opening (and repeating) riff (actually a standard D chord, riffed off of at the 12th position). If you care to send any stuff to me email I would love to hear it. Thanks.
Re: [FairfieldLife] What is it?
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/wishfor.asp On Dec 6, 2007, at 7:41 AM, new.morning wrote: What is it? The poor have it. The rich need it. What is greater than God? What is more evil than the devil? If you eat it you'll die? An interesting stat, is that 70% of Stanford University students couldn't work it out, however 80% of Kindergarten kids could. And I am not going to tell you the answer. I am not going to tell you nothing.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Vaj wrote: Dying in the dark night? Samadhi is death, and I'm sure more than a few here have experienced this, but not everyone has long, drawn out dark nights. And there's nothing more boring on this list than speculations about enlightenment. :D Yes I knowBUT please let me tell you about mine! :-) This strikes me as more of a real insight than it is a snippy remark. :-) That's really the whole *problem* with discussing subjective experiences of enlightenment or the enlightenment process -- they're subjective. They are just the experiences that *one person* had with the enlightenment process and, because others might have *different* experiences, might not be relatable to by others, much less be some kind of roadmap for them. It strikes me that describing one's personal exper- iences of realization or enlightenment are a lot like telling someone about the powerful dream you had last night. You woke up from the dream still reeling from the profundity it had for you; it was a kind of revelation. And so you sit down over coffee or tea with a friend and try to tell them about the dream you are still so caught up in. The problem is, when this happens you are often SO caught up in it that you don't notice that your friend's eyes glazed over after 20 seconds and that they're sitting there politely pretending to listen to you while really thinking, When will this END? :-) To some extent, I perceive a similar problem when it comes to trying to relate experiences of enlight- enment to others. I've been around the spiritual block enough to know that there are a HUGE variety of experiences that people talk about and attach the term realization or enlightenment to. Some of them I can relate to my own experiences, some I cannot. The ones I can relate to are at times interesting and/or useful to me. The ones I can't relate to in any way tend to make my eyes glaze over. And I don't think I'm alone in this reaction. I mean, if you were to be sat down over a cup of coffee and tea and forced to listen to Shankara's tales of his personal experiences with enlighten- ment, they'd be kinda different than if Milarepa had sat down opposite you. Or Chogyam Trungpa. Or the Sixth Dalai Lama. Milarepa would be filtering his subjective experiences of enlight- enment through his personal history of being a badass siddha and a murderer; Trungpa through his personal history of being a womanizer and a drunk; and the Sixth Dalai Lama just a womanizer and a rebel who wanted no *part* of the role they'd cast him in. Could you relate to their experiences, if yours had been more along the lines of Shankara's, or those of some other sweet saint? And yet all of them *might* have been enlightened. So now consider the problem of listening to the descriptions of enlightenment across the Internet, coming from people we've never even met. For all I know, they *might* be enlightened. But if their tales of *their* subjective experiences of the enlightenment process don't map to mine, then either the result is going to be boredom or a sense of cognitive dissonance, not the imparting of useful information. Me, I'm comfortable with the idea that pretty much everyone who has ever had the long-term experience of realization or enlightenment has gotten there their own Way, and that the subjective experience of both the path that took them to where they had always already been and what life looked like once they got there could be completely different. Given 100 enlightened beings, I would expect to hear 100 *different* stories, 100 *different* sets of experiences. And yet, in tradition after tradition, in teacher after teacher, the language they use when discussing enlightenment to others tends to be along the same lines as if they were discussing one of their dreams. They merely assume that the way that *they* exper- ienced things is the way that others will experience them. They don't *understand* when the eyes of people who have never experienced a dark night glaze over when they start talking about theirs as if it's a universal truth, a step that everyone has to go through on the pathway to enlightenment. It's as if in the early excited, gotta tell every- body stages of realization or enlightenment, the newness of the experience is still overwhelming for the people trying to sit people down and lecture them about what it's like, just as it would be if they were trying to relate a dream. They're still so overwhelmed by their own experience that they don't get that they're not conveying anything useful or meaningful to the people they're lecturing to. Maybe over time the enlightenment or realization settles in and they can find some way of pointing a finger at it that enables everyone who listens to look in the same direction for what it's pointing to. I hope so. But I sure know that
[FairfieldLife] Hilarious British analysis of the sub-prime debacle
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_qK4g6ntM
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mulholland Drive
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:14 PM, new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: No that's not what I wanted folks to think How can you want others to think a certain way. Thoughts just come. Who knows where Judy comes up with this stuff? Apparently a number of us make it a hobby to tinker with the collective thought-field of the planet in an effort to manipulate public opinion, I dunno. :-) Do we really believe that neither new morning nor Vaj has ever encountered the concept of propaganda? They've never seen advertising? They've never watched a political speech? They've never heard of persuasion? Or brainwashing? Do they truly believe the only way to manipulate public opinion is by some siddhi-like tinkering with the collective thought field? Or do both of them want to *make us think* that's the case? (Or was new morning just doing his usual shtick, whereas Vaj is rather desperately trying to cover his tracks?)
[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch and Psychosis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 3, 2007, at 5:07 PM, bob_brigante wrote: Lynch drinks 20 cups of coffee a day (a level of caffeination that puts him into the range consumed by Brian Wilson at the low point of his craziness, trying to float his personality through a deep depression), and although he quit smoking some time after starting TM, he resumed a packaday habit after going without for 20 years. These habits are unusual for a longterm TMer and are markers of a nervous system so strongly stressed and twisted that it might indeed be fairly characterized as borderline psychotic. Uh, no. Chain smoking, maybe (although there would need to be many more symptoms), but a pack a day is fairly moderate. I suspect he may have an anxiety disorder at least -- and I gotta tell ya, coffee is a common precipitator of anxiety disorder and/or panic attacks. Actually, there's a wide range of individual responses to caffeine. For both my parents, coffee (not decaf) was their beverage of choice right before bed as well as a wake-me-up in the morning. Neither suffered from anxiety disorder or panic attacks, and both slept like logs. I'd be interested to know if anyone could cite first- hand, up-close-and-personal observations of Lynch that suggested anxiety or depression or any other serious emotional disorder. Everything I've read along these lines has indicated just the opposite (often to the surprise of the observers, who were expecting him to be messed up because of how highly wrought his films are). The psychological analyses of Lynch by TM critics here are really very funny. Talk about a river in Egypt...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Shotokan Accuracy
This guy would not be any match for William Jones - Original Message From: off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2007 2:23:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Shotokan Accuracy Unbeaten in 11 pro fights, Brazil's Lyoto Machida is one of the most accurate and technical strikers in the game today. Owner of wins over BJ Penn, Rich Franklin, and Stephan Bonnar, Machida entered the UFC Octagon for the first time in February of 2007 and he has since scored wins over Sam Hoger and David Heath. In September, Machida fought the most impressive fight of his UFC career when he soundly outpointed PRIDE vet Kazuhiro Nakamura. On December 29th, he will be pushed to the limit by the hard-hitting Sokoudjou. http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detailgid=8674pid=519 Note the above comment about Machida: Brazil's Lyoto Machida is one of the most accurate and technical strikers in the game today. This is what I have been saying about Shotokan dominating martial arts all along. Its all over for UFC. The Shotokan has arrived in UFC. From now on Shotokan will rise and the UFC goons shall diminish into cartoonland. 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 Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[FairfieldLife] This is hilarious!
It's only 43 seconds long but REALLY funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6bW5iarpPg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:49 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I haven't played a Martin in years, although i was fond of the 00 series. I really am hooked on my 12-string Taylor so much, I'm considering another. Although I have to admit, that Martin you mentioned really has me wondering. I think Taylor rules the mid and high tones, Martin rules the bass. But they both are gorgeous hunks of wood. I'm sure you have some sweet axes in your harem. Every different guitar gives you a different voice doesn't it? I think you might dig the Martin Orchestra models if you love your Taylor. It is so bright, it sings. The Clapton is Orchestra sized. I love to play Robert Johnson stuff on it. Playing fingerstyle, I've shied away from the larger Martin's mainly because of their action (historically), as I prefer to have acoustics with the action of an electric. My primary dreadnaught is a handmade Washburn, which just has impeccable action, tone and bass. Years ago Washburn and Martin were competitors. Now they're made by a family of luthiers in Japan and mass produced. It's rare to find one of their handmade guitars, so I'm happy in that regard. I live in a great area for guitars and guitar work, as we have a lot of great acoustic guitarists in this area. Paul Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary lives down the road. Just beyond him is Dan Fogelberg. And Don Mclean lives nearby as well. Don's luthier does excellent work and he's going to do some fine adjustments on my Taylor 12 which he says he can do no problem. These same people make hand-mades to order, if you want to drop 4000 and up. But can they knock you out with the first chord?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Mulholland Drive
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:14 PM, new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: No that's not what I wanted folks to think How can you want others to think a certain way. Thoughts just come. Who knows where Judy comes up with this stuff? Apparently a number of us make it a hobby to tinker with the collective thought-field of the planet in an effort to manipulate public opinion, I dunno. :-) Do we really believe that neither new morning nor Vaj has ever encountered the concept of propaganda? They've never seen advertising? They've never watched a political speech? Gee, what do you think. What thoughts just come?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stand up and be counted (George Carlin - Who Really Controls America)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, she probably would have dismissed him out of hand just because he was a Freemason, which is one reason I didn't bring him up. But the thing about Pike is that not only did he predict WWIII, he also predicted WWI and WWII accurately long before they happened. Would that carry any weight with her? Moreover, he studied at Harvard. Angela, this kind of nonsense is why I don't take you seriously on this conspiracy stuff, and why I find your reluctance to cite your sources very suspicious. First, to dismiss somebody out of hand just because he was a Freemason, obviously I'd have to also dismiss out of hand many of the most prominent figures in modern history, so that's just a ridiculous surmise on your part. But there are plenty of other good reasons to dismiss Pike. Second (speaking of the other reasons), it isn't at all clear that Pike's purported predictions weren't a fraud, written at a much later date. The prediction of the third world war is way off anyway, given that it appears to describe only prolonged conventional, non- nuclear warfare. In any all-out world war in this day and age, nuclear weapons would be used, and it would be over very quickly. If he didn't foresee nuclear weapons, he wasn't much of a psychic. Third, Pike didn't study at Harvard. He passed the entrance exams but couldn't afford the tuition. And even if he had, having attended Harvard does not automatically immunize a person against crackpottery. This isn't the first time by a long shot that you've revealed bad judgment and very poor command of the facts.
[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch and Psychosis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Actually, there's a wide range of individual responses to caffeine. For both my parents, coffee (not decaf) was their beverage of choice right before bed as well as a wake-me-up in the morning. Neither suffered from anxiety disorder or panic attacks, and both slept like logs. The reference to coffee in Message View caught my eye. :-) So I'll reply. Given that Barry is actually agreeing with me here about coffee, it's a shame to have to point out that the word coffee (or caffeine) does not, in fact, appear in Message View for the post of mine Barry quotes. That's 50 for me this week, folks. See yez on Saturday.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are soo stuck in the matrix dude. If that's the case, lemme just say that there's not *nearly* enough Keanu in here for my taste. That was perfect. Life is rich. And ignorance is bliss, I'd say.
[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch and Psychosis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, there's a wide range of individual responses to caffeine. For both my parents, coffee (not decaf) was their beverage of choice right before bed as well as a wake-me-up in the morning. Neither suffered from anxiety disorder or panic attacks, and both slept like logs. The reference to coffee in Message View caught my eye. :-) So I'll reply. T'would seem that different people's reactions to caffeine is very much individual, and even varies across types of caffeine and types of coffee. For whatever reason, I could never drink a cup of coffee in France after dinner because it would keep me up, but have no problem doing so in Spain. Different type of beans, perhaps. Also, interestingly, coffee is used as the basis of a common homeopathic remedy that is used to treat insomnia. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream
But can they knock you out with the first chord? My guitar has made a few articles of clothing drop off of a listener, does that count? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:49 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I haven't played a Martin in years, although i was fond of the 00 series. I really am hooked on my 12-string Taylor so much, I'm considering another. Although I have to admit, that Martin you mentioned really has me wondering. I think Taylor rules the mid and high tones, Martin rules the bass. But they both are gorgeous hunks of wood. I'm sure you have some sweet axes in your harem. Every different guitar gives you a different voice doesn't it? I think you might dig the Martin Orchestra models if you love your Taylor. It is so bright, it sings. The Clapton is Orchestra sized. I love to play Robert Johnson stuff on it. Playing fingerstyle, I've shied away from the larger Martin's mainly because of their action (historically), as I prefer to have acoustics with the action of an electric. My primary dreadnaught is a handmade Washburn, which just has impeccable action, tone and bass. Years ago Washburn and Martin were competitors. Now they're made by a family of luthiers in Japan and mass produced. It's rare to find one of their handmade guitars, so I'm happy in that regard. I live in a great area for guitars and guitar work, as we have a lot of great acoustic guitarists in this area. Paul Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary lives down the road. Just beyond him is Dan Fogelberg. And Don Mclean lives nearby as well. Don's luthier does excellent work and he's going to do some fine adjustments on my Taylor 12 which he says he can do no problem. These same people make hand-mades to order, if you want to drop 4000 and up. But can they knock you out with the first chord?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream
Playing fingerstyle, I've shied away from the larger Martin's mainly because of their action (historically), as I prefer to have acoustics with the action of an electric. They do come from the factory with a higher action for the tone, but you should be able to adjust it any way you prefer. It sounds like you have what you need already. My guitars are all jacked up with heavy strings. 16 on the high E string for slide leads. I use a super heavy thumb pick and three finger picks and play like a barbarian, almost claw hammer style, snapping strings and pinching parts of the cord. Since mine is a retro act from when they didn't have mikes I am going for volume. When I try to play a guitar with low action the strings buzz. It does limit my quickness on my left hand but for my style it is the right hand doing most of the heavy lifting. You really do live in an area of guitarist's guitarists! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:49 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I haven't played a Martin in years, although i was fond of the 00 series. I really am hooked on my 12-string Taylor so much, I'm considering another. Although I have to admit, that Martin you mentioned really has me wondering. I think Taylor rules the mid and high tones, Martin rules the bass. But they both are gorgeous hunks of wood. I'm sure you have some sweet axes in your harem. Every different guitar gives you a different voice doesn't it? I think you might dig the Martin Orchestra models if you love your Taylor. It is so bright, it sings. The Clapton is Orchestra sized. I love to play Robert Johnson stuff on it. Playing fingerstyle, I've shied away from the larger Martin's mainly because of their action (historically), as I prefer to have acoustics with the action of an electric. My primary dreadnaught is a handmade Washburn, which just has impeccable action, tone and bass. Years ago Washburn and Martin were competitors. Now they're made by a family of luthiers in Japan and mass produced. It's rare to find one of their handmade guitars, so I'm happy in that regard. I live in a great area for guitars and guitar work, as we have a lot of great acoustic guitarists in this area. Paul Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary lives down the road. Just beyond him is Dan Fogelberg. And Don Mclean lives nearby as well. Don's luthier does excellent work and he's going to do some fine adjustments on my Taylor 12 which he says he can do no problem. These same people make hand-mades to order, if you want to drop 4000 and up. I know guitars are so matrix, but thanks for bringing them up! Lately I've been going to CD baby and typing in acoustic Christmas. You can hear most of each song, and if you use the play all button it makes great background music. I have studio speakers on my computer and play through my MOTU digitizer as my sound card. All for free. Every year I think I am going to work on a bunch of acoustic finger picking Christmas songs and every year there is some new obscure Charley Patton or Skip James song I am too obsessed with to go Christmas. They would sound great on your 12 string brother! I too have a weakness for rendering acoustic arrangements of various X- mas songs. My current favorite is Jingle Bell Rock which I'm only addicted to for its opening (and repeating) riff (actually a standard D chord, riffed off of at the 12th position). If you care to send any stuff to me email I would love to hear it. Thanks.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But can they knock you out with the first chord? My guitar has made a few articles of clothing drop off of a listener, does that count? Well, thats a nice assertion. But I think we need proof. In the ring. Each contestant will play for 5 minutes, and the judges will count, and rate by a complex scoring system, the number and type of clothing that was dropped. And other obvious factors. The Guitarist Groupie World Championships. Televised world wide in High Def. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:49 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I haven't played a Martin in years, although i was fond of the 00 series. I really am hooked on my 12-string Taylor so much, I'm considering another. Although I have to admit, that Martin you mentioned really has me wondering. I think Taylor rules the mid and high tones, Martin rules the bass. But they both are gorgeous hunks of wood. I'm sure you have some sweet axes in your harem. Every different guitar gives you a different voice doesn't it? I think you might dig the Martin Orchestra models if you love your Taylor. It is so bright, it sings. The Clapton is Orchestra sized. I love to play Robert Johnson stuff on it. Playing fingerstyle, I've shied away from the larger Martin's mainly because of their action (historically), as I prefer to have acoustics with the action of an electric. My primary dreadnaught is a handmade Washburn, which just has impeccable action, tone and bass. Years ago Washburn and Martin were competitors. Now they're made by a family of luthiers in Japan and mass produced. It's rare to find one of their handmade guitars, so I'm happy in that regard. I live in a great area for guitars and guitar work, as we have a lot of great acoustic guitarists in this area. Paul Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary lives down the road. Just beyond him is Dan Fogelberg. And Don Mclean lives nearby as well. Don's luthier does excellent work and he's going to do some fine adjustments on my Taylor 12 which he says he can do no problem. These same people make hand-mades to order, if you want to drop 4000 and up. But can they knock you out with the first chord?
[FairfieldLife] BBC article
A friend of mine sent me this link to the BBC article about the recently declassified document from the US National Archives that uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen including Prescott Bush, GW's grandfather. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.15/1173 - Release Date: 12/5/2007 9:29 PM
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: You are soo stuck in the matrix dude. If that's the case, lemme just say that there's not *nearly* enough Keanu in here for my taste. That was perfect. Life is rich. And ignorance is bliss, I'd say. Huh? I don't understand your comment. With what part of that light-hearted exchange are you taking issue?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Shotokan Accuracy
My basset hound, Pete!, could whip both of those guys. Aren't words fun? --- Louis McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This guy would not be any match for William Jones - Original Message From: off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2007 2:23:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Shotokan Accuracy Unbeaten in 11 pro fights, Brazil's Lyoto Machida is one of the most accurate and technical strikers in the game today. Owner of wins over BJ Penn, Rich Franklin, and Stephan Bonnar, Machida entered the UFC Octagon for the first time in February of 2007 and he has since scored wins over Sam Hoger and David Heath. In September, Machida fought the most impressive fight of his UFC career when he soundly outpointed PRIDE vet Kazuhiro Nakamura. On December 29th, he will be pushed to the limit by the hard-hitting Sokoudjou. http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detailgid=8674pid=519 Note the above comment about Machida: Brazil's Lyoto Machida is one of the most accurate and technical strikers in the game today. This is what I have been saying about Shotokan dominating martial arts all along. Its all over for UFC. The Shotokan has arrived in UFC. From now on Shotokan will rise and the UFC goons shall diminish into cartoonland. 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 Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who's your candidate?
He DOES have a great sense of humor. He's the one that said Giuliani uses 3 words in every sentence. A noun, a verb 9-11! This was his actual quote about 7-11. (Many Indians coming to this country DO go for small businesses they can run on their own.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIT3jUrNTX0 I thought the comments under this on youtube were pretty good. That's the trouble with sound bit psychology. like Edwards haircut. It's hard to see why that's offensive. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/5/07 10:23:32 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joe Biden ** Integrity, Wisdom, Intelligence Does he still not shop in a 7-11 unless the clerk has a slight Indian accent? (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop000301)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch and Psychosis
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, there's a wide range of individual responses to caffeine. For both my parents, coffee (not decaf) was their beverage of choice right before bed as well as a wake-me-up in the morning. Neither suffered from anxiety disorder or panic attacks, and both slept like logs. The reference to coffee in Message View caught my eye. :-) So I'll reply. T'would seem that different people's reactions to caffeine is very much individual, and even varies across types of caffeine and types of coffee. For whatever reason, I could never drink a cup of coffee in France after dinner because it would keep me up, but have no problem doing so in Spain. Different type of beans, perhaps. Also, interestingly, coffee is used as the basis of a common homeopathic remedy that is used to treat insomnia. Go figure. In metabolic typing therapy, which is just another way of looking at things, coffee calms sympathetic types and stimulates parasympathetic types. Parasympathetic types tend to be more common today than there were 100 years ago. Also in metabolic typing your type can flip with therapy back to your base or constitutional type. With reference to ayurveda the kapha type can be more like the sympathetic type and vata the parasympathetic type. Metabolic typing deals with how the autonomic is functioning in terms of which part is dominant. The goal of course is to bring the autonomic system back into balance just as tridosha or balance is the goal of ayurveda. In ayurveda coffee can be useful in decreasing kapha and aggravate vata.
[FairfieldLife] Re: mothers of men - TMO press release
I think the term mother of men is not mother of males, but contrasted with mother of gods - - I believe that Mary is given the same title and respect in the purest of Catholic Traditions. I must admit the 'mother is at home' beats 'mother is working out of the home to earn extra cash so I can have a Playstation 3'. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As resolved on the 22nd of November, the final day of the European Assembly of National Leaders, there will now be two wings of administration of the Global Country of World Peaceone for men, and one for the mothers of men. The administration of the mothers' wing of the Movement will be on the level of silence functioning within itself. Our administration will not be through human endeavour but through human surrenderfrom where silence operates. The mothers' wing will offer to every mother in the world the opportunity to swing in the value of Saraswatithe Divine Mother, Goddess of Knowledge. We will offer to every mother the opportunity to be mother at home, at home within her own transcendental bliss consciousness. There will be a global video connection from 28 December, 8:00-9:30 p.m. Central European Time, so all who are unable to attend can watch on the Maharishi Channel, the MOU channel, or via the internet at www.Maharishichannel.org.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Holy Sh*t BushMan!
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even Bush's crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bush's recent trip to Vienna. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/excrement-in-the-news_b_24536.html Wonderful link. I'm not a regular follower of the Huffington site, and hadn't noticed that Krassner was part of it. His work with The Realist back in the 60s and 70s was classic. Here's the...uh...poop on the teaser Bhairitu provides above. It's the very personification of anal retentive. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush's visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House 'toilet security' (TOILSEC), which has Austrians talking the most. The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bush's personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bush's security, the veil of secrecy extends over the president's bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bush's feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bush's waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop. They must believe it is holy shit. Or maybe they feed it to prisoners at Gitmo.
Re: [FairfieldLife] BBC article
Rick Archer wrote: A friend of mine sent me this link to the BBC article about the recently declassified document from the US National Archives that uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen including Prescott Bush, GW's grandfather. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml In an interview with Naomi Wolf the other day Alex Jones revealed that his staff has acquired footage of the hearings that took place about that coup. These may prove be very interesting. I'm beginning to think that just because we defeated the Nazis in WWII they didn't go away but went into hiding (or the closet) to plan their next coup. That's why Thom Hartmann refers to the right as the Reich.
[FairfieldLife] Re: BBC article
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine sent me this link to the BBC article about the recently declassified document from the US National Archives that uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen including Prescott Bush, GW's grandfather. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml That was a mind blower Rick! Fascinating.
[FairfieldLife] How to Mess with Telemarketers
Try this the next time you get a telemarketer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_PjRXV5l8
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream
On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:26 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: But can they knock you out with the first chord? My guitar has made a few articles of clothing drop off of a listener, does that count? Please list make, model and serial number. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream
On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:59 AM, new.morning wrote: I live in a great area for guitars and guitar work, as we have a lot of great acoustic guitarists in this area. Paul Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary lives down the road. Just beyond him is Dan Fogelberg. And Don Mclean lives nearby as well. Don's luthier does excellent work and he's going to do some fine adjustments on my Taylor 12 which he says he can do no problem. These same people make hand-mades to order, if you want to drop 4000 and up. But can they knock you out with the first chord? I didn't think so, but one of these will.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shotokan Accuracy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: Unbeaten in 11 pro fights, Brazil's Lyoto Machida is one of the most accurate and technical strikers in the game today. Owner of wins over BJ Penn, Rich Franklin, and Stephan Bonnar, Machida entered the UFC Octagon for the first time in February of 2007 and he has since scored wins over Sam Hoger and David Heath. In September, Machida fought the most impressive fight of his UFC career when he soundly outpointed PRIDE vet Kazuhiro Nakamura. On December 29th, he will be pushed to the limit by the hard-hitting Sokoudjou. http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detailgid=8674pid=519 Note the above comment about Machida: Brazil's Lyoto Machida is one of the most accurate and technical strikers in the game today. This is what I have been saying about Shotokan dominating martial arts all along. Its all over for UFC. The Shotokan has arrived in UFC. From now on Shotokan will rise and the UFC goons shall diminish into cartoonland. I have more respect for the other fighters, but I dig Lyoto is mixing in the old school. Remember he grew up in Brazil so he know more jiu jitsu from school yard fights than I will ever know. Yes, he learned Shotokan the most from an early age, then later added Jui Jitsu to it. Do you really think ju jitsu is used in schoolyard fights as much as say, Shotokan is used or wrestling or boxing is used in other countries. I doubt it, and if it was, it would be very poor quality and would traion someone in bad habits more than anything. But again, you are showing your inexperience in the field by thinking sshoolyard fights can train you in martial arts. It is the opposite, most of those untrained faux martial arts kids get hammered by untrained street fighting kids in the end. It is the Shotokan that he learned from his expert father from an early age that will dominate the fights in the future. He is also more humble than your other UFC goons. If he brings in more dinosaurs like you from the old school into MMA, he will do a lot for the sport. Shotokan is about to teach the UFC goon-world a lesson and you are thrashing around wildly the prospect. Don't fight it. Resistance is futile. Watch now as Shotokan starts to DOMINATE UFC over the next few years. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:23 PM, new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Ok, you're toast. Let the withdrawal begin! I would say from the posts I see here and the amount of posting some folks do have an Internet addiction. I think it is becoming quite common these days though not wholly recognized (too much money to be made off of it). Ironic if those most awake are the most addicted. Not so ironic if awake is more an expression of manic behavior. (and dark nights the depression part of the cycle) One of the issues with siddhis (as a negative path) is when certain nadis are activated they can do precisely what you are hinting at New Morn: a neurochemical roller coaster ride. According to Joan Harrigan and her master from the Saraswati order, this is a well known pattern in those with certain styles of kundalini unfoldment. What was interesting to me was that they not only recognized this issue and it's underlying cause (from a yogic perpspective) but the texts which guide their tradition (the sat-chakra-nirupana, etc.) even though quite old, seem to be aware of the neurochemical ups-and-downs. Once I get home later, I'll post the relevant section in Joan's work which describes this yogic disorder. Which verse in the Holy Bible would be your preferred treatment for this condition Vaj ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shotokan Accuracy
Yes, he learned Shotokan the most from an early age, then later added Jui Jitsu to it. Do you really think ju jitsu is used in schoolyard fights as much as say, Shotokan is used or wrestling or boxing is used in other countries. I doubt it, and if it was, it would be very poor quality and would traion someone in bad habits more than anything. But again, you are showing your inexperience in the field by thinking sshoolyard fights can train you in martial arts. Vale Tudo fights are right behind soccer as a national obsession. Now lets see, a kid into martial arts in the country who view the Gracie family as national heroes...yeah I'm thinking he was exposed to jiu jitsu at an early age. According to my Brazilian friends there is a fighting culture in Brazil so kids learn early. Challenge matches are common. That is what I meant by his schoolyard experience. He is also more humble than your other UFC goons. Is that a quality that you value? Really? Trying to make him seem more special among other MMA fighters because he trained in a style you studied is so lame. There are all sorts of people in MMA just like anywhere else. Your my guy is the bestest routine has worn thin. He doesn't have the record yet to support it. He needs to start finishing fights instead of letting them go to decisions if he wants to rise to the top in UFC. So far 7 out of 11 wins going to decision is not great in this sport. But you knew that because you are now a UFC expert right? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: Unbeaten in 11 pro fights, Brazil's Lyoto Machida is one of the most accurate and technical strikers in the game today. Owner of wins over BJ Penn, Rich Franklin, and Stephan Bonnar, Machida entered the UFC Octagon for the first time in February of 2007 and he has since scored wins over Sam Hoger and David Heath. In September, Machida fought the most impressive fight of his UFC career when he soundly outpointed PRIDE vet Kazuhiro Nakamura. On December 29th, he will be pushed to the limit by the hard-hitting Sokoudjou. http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detailgid=8674pid=519 Note the above comment about Machida: Brazil's Lyoto Machida is one of the most accurate and technical strikers in the game today. This is what I have been saying about Shotokan dominating martial arts all along. Its all over for UFC. The Shotokan has arrived in UFC. From now on Shotokan will rise and the UFC goons shall diminish into cartoonland. I have more respect for the other fighters, but I dig Lyoto is mixing in the old school. Remember he grew up in Brazil so he know more jiu jitsu from school yard fights than I will ever know. Yes, he learned Shotokan the most from an early age, then later added Jui Jitsu to it. Do you really think ju jitsu is used in schoolyard fights as much as say, Shotokan is used or wrestling or boxing is used in other countries. I doubt it, and if it was, it would be very poor quality and would traion someone in bad habits more than anything. But again, you are showing your inexperience in the field by thinking sshoolyard fights can train you in martial arts. It is the opposite, most of those untrained faux martial arts kids get hammered by untrained street fighting kids in the end. It is the Shotokan that he learned from his expert father from an early age that will dominate the fights in the future. He is also more humble than your other UFC goons. If he brings in more dinosaurs like you from the old school into MMA, he will do a lot for the sport. Shotokan is about to teach the UFC goon-world a lesson and you are thrashing around wildly the prospect. Don't fight it. Resistance is futile. Watch now as Shotokan starts to DOMINATE UFC over the next few years. OffWorld
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Stand up and be counted (George Carlin - Who Really Controls America)
authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, she probably would have dismissed him out of hand just because he was a Freemason, which is one reason I didn't bring him up. But the thing about Pike is that not only did he predict WWIII, he also predicted WWI and WWII accurately long before they happened. Would that carry any weight with her? Moreover, he studied at Harvard. Angela, this kind of nonsense is why I don't take you seriously on this conspiracy stuff, and why I find your reluctance to cite your sources very suspicious. First, to dismiss somebody out of hand just because he was a Freemason, obviously I'd have to also dismiss out of hand many of the most prominent figures in modern history, so that's just a ridiculous surmise on your part. But there are plenty of other good reasons to dismiss Pike. Second (speaking of the other reasons), it isn't at all clear that Pike's purported predictions weren't a fraud, written at a much later date. The prediction of the third world war is way off anyway, given that it appears to describe only prolonged conventional, non- nuclear warfare. In any all-out world war in this day and age, nuclear weapons would be used, and it would be over very quickly. If he didn't foresee nuclear weapons, he wasn't much of a psychic. Third, Pike didn't study at Harvard. He passed the entrance exams but couldn't afford the tuition. And even if he had, having attended Harvard does not automatically immunize a person against crackpottery. This isn't the first time by a long shot that you've revealed bad judgment and very poor command of the facts. Pike was just a starting point and yes when I mentioned him I was well aware of the controversy around him. Do you have any predictions about what will happen in the next 150 years?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:59 AM, new.morning wrote: I live in a great area for guitars and guitar work, as we have a lot of great acoustic guitarists in this area. Paul Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary lives down the road. Just beyond him is Dan Fogelberg. And Don Mclean lives nearby as well. Don's luthier does excellent work and he's going to do some fine adjustments on my Taylor 12 which he says he can do no problem. These same people make hand-mades to order, if you want to drop 4000 and up. But can they knock you out with the first chord? I didn't think so, but one of these will. How do you guys tune your axes? If I tune my cheapish Japa- nese Strat copy with a meter, I'm not quite satisfied with how it sounds. My 'Kitara-kirja' (Guitar Book) sez it's preferable to use several methods in sequence to get the best (tempered??) tuning that sounds good in most positions.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guitarist's Dream
How do you guys tune your axes? If I tune my cheapish Japa- nese Strat copy with a meter, I'm not quite satisfied with how it sounds. My 'Kitara-kirja' (Guitar Book) sez it's preferable to use several methods in sequence to get the best (tempered??) tuning that sounds good in most positions. When I am performing I can't really fool with going beyond my intellitouch tuner readout that is clamped to the headstock of my guitar. Since there are so many other variables in the sound of Delta blues like slide placement and how far I am bending strings, I may not have the need for that kind of exactness. The way I yank at my strings I am lucky when they don't break, let alone stay in tune! But with temperature changes and 4 guitars in my shows it is a real struggle to keep them all in tune without boring the audience. So theoretically I agree with your guitar book and at home I fiddle a bit with harmonics tuning, but at shows it is all visual from my tuner. You might want to try my bourbon whiskey tuning method. After a glass my guitar sounds wonderful! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajranatha@ wrote: On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:59 AM, new.morning wrote: I live in a great area for guitars and guitar work, as we have a lot of great acoustic guitarists in this area. Paul Noel Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary lives down the road. Just beyond him is Dan Fogelberg. And Don Mclean lives nearby as well. Don's luthier does excellent work and he's going to do some fine adjustments on my Taylor 12 which he says he can do no problem. These same people make hand-mades to order, if you want to drop 4000 and up. But can they knock you out with the first chord? I didn't think so, but one of these will. How do you guys tune your axes? If I tune my cheapish Japa- nese Strat copy with a meter, I'm not quite satisfied with how it sounds. My 'Kitara-kirja' (Guitar Book) sez it's preferable to use several methods in sequence to get the best (tempered??) tuning that sounds good in most positions.
[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Downloadable History Channel Documentary on Maharishi
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:42:39 -0600 From: Ken Chawkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] For those of you who may have missed last week's wonderful documentary on Maharishi, someone has posted it as a download available for a short time. Enjoy! ~ JGD History International Channel Documentary on Maharishi http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=75341503781891736hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=75341503781891736hl=en http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=75341503781891736hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=75341503781891736amp;hl=en This is a recent, nicely done show on Maharishi, with many commentators (Donovan, David Lynch, Mike Love, John Hagelin, Jerry Jarvis, etc.).? Click on the link History of Maharishi.mpg http://download.yousendit.com/A75D8DD2774EDA91http://download.yousendit.com/A75D8DD2774EDA91 to download it to your computer to watch (it's not one that you watch streaming on the internet). Enjoy! Begin forwarded message: This is from Dec. 2, 2007. The file will be available to download for 14 days. You have a file or files called History of Maharishi.mpg http://download.yousendit.com/A75D8DD2774EDA91http://download.yousendit.com/A75D8DD2774EDA91 (1 file(s))?waiting for download. You can click on the following link to retrieve your File. The link will expire in 14 Days. Link: http://download.yousendit.com/A75D8DD2774EDA91http://download.yousendit.com/A75D8DD2774EDA91 http://download.yousendit.com/A75D8DD2774EDA91http://download.yousendit.com/A75D8DD2774EDA91 500 MB mpeg1 format Do not reply to this automatically-generated email. If you have any questions, please email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: You are soo stuck in the matrix dude. If that's the case, lemme just say that there's not *nearly* enough Keanu in here for my taste. That was perfect. Life is rich. And ignorance is bliss, I'd say. Huh? I don't understand your comment. With what part of that light-hearted exchange are you taking issue? No issue at all. Quote from Matrix.
[FairfieldLife] Is this Buddhist meditation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlBUy4ULWlsfeature=related
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:49 PM, new.morning wrote: But having one's perspective flip out may explain some things. And if there is no doer, what is left but reaction. (oh yes, God's Will) (Not to be confused with God's willie, thats another topic.) Some dark nights may be depression -- low, or easily quelched, serotonin and dopamine levels. Some awakened / dark night behaviors appears similar to manic-depressive cycles. If samadhi is death, the perhaps we should have called it Transcendental Suicide. A big draw for Sylvia Plath and Goth chicks. That would be an interesting mix among the drama queens. Do some have Boogie Nights instead of Dark Nights? Seeing FFL as a forum to argue with those who have a different perspective sort of explains a lot. Seeing futility in others views, and Perfection in one's own, perhaps is a dark night. Here's a style of meditational disorder seen in someone who has a vajra-nadi awakening, often precipitated by practices involving siddhis or magical practices: When a person with a rising through Vajra nadi is attracted to and excited by something, Kundalini Shakti rises and activates brain centers, which improves brain function but is followed by neurotransmitter deficits. Due to the instability of a rising through Vajra nadi, there are fluctuations in the experiences the person has. At times they may be brilliant and at others despondent, depending on the current location of Kundalini Shakti in Vajra nadi. Fluctuations may be precipitated by stressors or inspirations or may seem to vary of their own accord, cycling at varying speeds. Grandiosity and ego inflation contrast with the inevitable crash. Some men, in particular, with risings through Vajra nadi feel they do not function well without sex or substances due to the neurotransmitter deficiency caused by their rising, which is temporarily increased with these behaviors. To assuage the discomfort of the more difficult experiences, the person may turn to substance abuse, sexual indulgence, and other forms of acting out and driven behavior. These behaviors may become habitual coping strategies leading to obsessive-compulsive behaviors and addictions. In addition, the person may have a fascination for the occult, as occult methods would more easily yield skills in a person with a rising through Vajra nadi. Adherence to an ethical code thereby becomes more difficult. They may also become greatly attached to their talent and fall into despair when the muse mysteriously leaves. Vajra rising people can be marvelously creative and insightful and tragically afflicted with egoism and insatiable drives that undermine their success and survival. If a person with a rising through Vajra nadi works to remain spiritually focused and moderate in living, however, their symptoms can be blessedly less remarkable, and they can more easily achieve a diversion. Healthy, disciplined spiritual living always helps a Deflected rising. Here the term spiritual is defined as virtuous and devotional, without fascination for special abilities or psychic, healing, astral, or occult skills or interventions and with a devotional acknowledgement of a Higher Power. Spiritual paths, including twelve step programs, emphasize the importance of these qualities. When there is disinterest in phenomena and surrender to the Higher Power, spiritual life can blossom, and a new, balanced source of endorphins becomes available. Joan Harrigan, Kundalini Vidya
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: You are soo stuck in the matrix dude. If that's the case, lemme just say that there's not *nearly* enough Keanu in here for my taste. That was perfect. Life is rich. And ignorance is bliss, I'd say. Huh? I don't understand your comment. With what part of that light-hearted exchange are you taking issue? No issue at all. Quote from Matrix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BuQFUhsRM
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim and Rory back!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: You are soo stuck in the matrix dude. If that's the case, lemme just say that there's not *nearly* enough Keanu in here for my taste. That was perfect. Life is rich. And ignorance is bliss, I'd say. Huh? I don't understand your comment. With what part of that light-hearted exchange are you taking issue? No issue at all. Quote from Matrix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BuQFUhsRM Cool, thanks! I only watched the movie once, and that was a long time ago.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who's your candidate?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Horsfield wrote: All Democrats concerned about the war, need to see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC6D6uiLrgQ So, Brian, we are agreed that the U.S. is in a war. But the number 1 and number 2 issue in the upcoming caucus is border security, not the war in Iraq. The war in Iraq, after the recent surge, is a done deal. All we have to do now is hand off security of Iraq to the Iraqis, and then slowly get our troops out of there. However, no candidate except Duncan Hunter has the plan and the experience to make U.S. borders secure. All the other candidates are weak on border security. Sen. Chris Dodd predicted that Republicans would try to trash Democrats over immigration: They're going to use this as a wedge issue here, to inflame the passions and the fears of too many Americans, he said. We've seen it before in our country. It's dangerous politics. Read more: 'In NPR debate, Democrats delve more deeply into issues' By Tony Leys Des Moines Register, December 5, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/2uquq3 Yes I agree for many Iraq is old news and they are looking for some new issue to score political points. That's why I posted the YouTube - it's a marvelous way to get some perspective on issues outside of the traditional media. Suffering in Iraq is horrendous. And the US is building 13 military bases and an embassy compound bigger than Vatican City costing $600 million. Sure all the candidates can talk like they will end it. But for me it goes much deeper than campaign promises. There's a story out today to review the relationship of Central Bankers and War here; http://www.henrymakow.com/001583.html Getting Rid of the biggest special interest in the US today - the Federal Reserve - is what ignites so much support for Ron Paul. It transcends 2 party politics. In fact the vast majority of Ron Paul supporters did not vote Republican in the last election. On the border security - Ron Paul would bring ALL troops home from foreign lands and defend the borders at home. So many troops protecting places like Germany, South Korea, Japan. This is bankrupting the nation and destroying the dollar - as worldwide confidence erodes with the Fed printing more and more money to lend to the government with interest.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Is this Buddhist meditation?
On Dec 6, 2007, at 4:37 PM, cardemaister wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlBUy4ULWlsfeature=related The nomenclature is Hindu.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Holy Sh*t BushMan!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Even Bush's crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bush's recent trip to Vienna. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/excrement-in-the- news_b_24536.html Wonderful link. I'm not a regular follower of the Huffington site, and hadn't noticed that Krassner was part of it. His work with The Realist back in the 60s and 70s was classic. Here's the...uh...poop on the teaser Bhairitu provides above. It's the very personification of anal retentive. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush's visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House 'toilet security' (TOILSEC), which has Austrians talking the most. The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bush's personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bush's security, the veil of secrecy extends over the president's bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bush's feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bush's waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop. They must believe it is holy shit. Or maybe they feed it to prisoners at Gitmo. Analysis of its contents could reveal the presence of illegal substances, or whether he's taking psychoactive medication, and if so, the exact type and level of dosage. With poor approval numbers, almost any detailed info exacerbates the negativity ratings. The less known about the details of B43, the better. For instance, his father, late in his only term, revealed his hate for broccoli, to the disdain of broccoli growers. B43 is universally disliked to such a degree that the effect of his association with something creates a negative impression. With B43, even a positive association has negative effects. I wouldn't be surprised if B43s love of mountain biking has the effect of diminishing the sales of mountain bikes. ;)
[FairfieldLife] The New Dawn of Solar
HYPERLINK http://nanosolar.com/http://nanosolar.com/ Animation and slide show at . HYPERLINK http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/green/item_59.html; \nhttp://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/green/item_59.html The New Dawn of Solar Imagine a solar panel without the panel. Just a coating, thin as a layer of paint, that takes light and converts it to electricity. From there, you can picture roof shingles with solar cells built inside and window coatings that seem to suck power from the air. Consider solar-powered buildings stretching not just across sunny Southern California, but through China and India and Kenya as well, because even in those countries, going solar will be cheaper than burning coal. That¡¦s the promise of thin-film solar cells: solar power that¡¦s ubiquitous because it¡¦s cheap. The basic technology has been around for decades, but this year, Silicon Valley¡Vbased Nanosolar created the manufacturing technology that could make that promise a reality. The company produces its PowerSheet solar cells with printing-press-style machines that set down a layer of solar-absorbing nano-ink onto metal sheets as thin as aluminum foil, so the panels can be made for about a tenth of what current panels cost and at a rate of several hundred feet per minute. With backing from Google¡¦s founders and $20 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, Nanosolar¡¦s first commercial cells rolled off the presses this year. Cost has always been one of solar¡¦s biggest problems. Traditional solar cells require silicon, and silicon is an expensive commodity (exacerbated currently by a global silicon shortage). What¡¦s more, says Peter Harrop, chairman of electronics consulting firm IDTechEx, ¡§it has to be put on glass, so it¡¦s heavy, dangerous, expensive to ship and expensive to install because it has to be mounted.¡¨ And up to 70 percent of the silicon gets wasted in the manufacturing process. That means even the cheapest sol ar panels cost about $3 per watt of energy they go on to produce. To compete with coal, that figure has to shrink to just $1 per watt. Nanosolar¡¦s cells use no silicon, and the company¡¦s manufacturing process allows it to create cells that are as efficient as most commercial cells for as little as 30 cents a watt. ¡§You¡¦re talking about printing rolls of the stuff¡Xprinting it on the roofs of 18-wheeler trailers, printing it on garages, printing it wherever you want it,¡¨ says Dan Kammen, founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. ¡§It really is quite a big deal in terms of altering the way we think about solar and in inherently altering the economics of solar.¡¨ In San Jose, Nanosolar has built what will soon be the world¡¦s largest solar-panel manufacturing facility. CEO Martin Roscheisen claims that once full production starts early next year, it will create 430 megawatts¡¦ worth of solar c ells a year¡Xmore than the combined total of every other solar plant in the U.S. The first 100,000 cells will be shipped to Europe, where a consortium will be building a 1.4-megawatt power plant next year. Right now, the biggest question for Nanosolar is not if its products can work, but rather if it can make enough of them. California, for instance, recently launched the Million Solar Roofs initiative, which will provide tax breaks and rebates to encourage the installation of 100,000 solar roofs per year, every year, for 10 consecutive years (the state currently has 30,000 solar roofs). The company is ready for the solar boom. ¡§Most important,¡¨ Harrop says, ¡§Nanosolar is putting down factories instead of blathering to the press and doing endless experiments. These guys are getting on with it, and that is impressive.¡¨ nanosolar.com ¡XMICHAEL MOYER Nanosolar is a privately held company with financial backing from an elite group of private technology investors, including: X Benchmark Capital -- the venture firm behind such franchise companies as eBay, Handspring, Juniper Networks and Red Hat Software; X MDV - Mohr Davidow Ventures -- the venture firm behind such leading companies as Rambus, Epigram, FormFactor, and Agile Software; X SAC Capital -- one of the world's leading public/private investment funds; X GLG Partners -- one of the world's leading public/private investment funds; X Swiss Re -- the world's leading and most diversified reinsurer; X LGT Capital Group -- Europe's largest wealth and asset management group; X Grazia Equity -- the original backer of Conergy AG, the world's largest PV system integrator; X Mitsui Co., Ltd. -- Japan's oldest and largest international trading company with over 300 years of business presence in the world and m ore than $100 billion in annual business; X OnPoint Technologies -- the US Army's private equity fund; X Stanford University -- the place where many of our team members received their education; X Individual investors
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: Downloadable History Channel Documentary on Maharishi
On Dec 6, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Dick Mays wrote: Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:42:39 -0600 From: Ken Chawkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] For those of you who may have missed last week's wonderful documentary on Maharishi, someone has posted it as a download available for a short time. Enjoy! ~ JGD It appears to be a one-sided report of a writer just a spoon-fed movement press releases. As one of Mahesh's old secretaries commented It was sickening. Like pretending no one was hurt at Guantanamo.
[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch and Psychosis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Actually, there's a wide range of individual responses to caffeine. For both my parents, coffee (not decaf) was their beverage of choice right before bed as well as a wake-me-up in the morning. Neither suffered from anxiety disorder or panic attacks, and both slept like logs. The reference to coffee in Message View caught my eye. :-) So I'll reply. T'would seem that different people's reactions to caffeine is very much individual, and even varies across types of caffeine and types of coffee. For whatever reason, I could never drink a cup of coffee in France after dinner because it would keep me up, but have no problem doing so in Spain. Different type of beans, perhaps. Also, interestingly, coffee is used as the basis of a common homeopathic remedy that is used to treat insomnia. Go figure. ** For normal people Ritalin is a stimulant like amphetamines; for kids with ADHD, Ritalin calms them down: Ritalin will increase the brain's ability to inhibit itself. This allows the brain to focus on the right thing at the right time, and to be less distracted, and less impulsive. Ritalin will increase the signal to noise ratio in the brain. http://newideas.net/adhd/medication/ritalin
[FairfieldLife] Totality through relaxing
'So when we want to give the knowledge of total reality, then this is what we bring to the student, the basic seven states of consciousness. Then we put them to experience seven states of consciousness. Three they are already experiencingsometime waking, dreaming, sleeping. That they don't have to practise. The fourth [Transcendental Consciousness], they have to let come without effort, just as waking to dreaming comes without effort. It's a different thing, but one doesn't take an effort for that. Just one relaxes, and it comes. And then, one relaxes, and comes the deep sleep. So by relaxing, one comes to all these four states of consciousness. 'Relaxing more, one comes to five [Cosmic Consciousness]; relaxing more, one comes to six [God Consciousness]; relaxing more, completely no effortBrahman Consciousness [the seventh state of consciousness Unity]. http://tinyurl.com/yqbhhd http://www.globalgoodnews.com/education-news-a.html? art=11968899178263879
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: Downloadable History Channel Documentary on Maharishi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears to be a one-sided report of a writer just a spoon-fed movement press releases. I'm watching it now, and sadly, I have to agree somewhat. The documentary was clearly made with the full cooperation of the TMO, otherwise they wouldn't have had access to all of the photos and archive footage that they used. And they clearly told them who to interview, people who are still movement-friendly or who have a history of not speaking ill about it (like Chopra). The producers obviously settled for this, and didn't dig much further. That said, it *was* fun to see all those old, familiar faces again, both then and now. Jerry still looks jolly. Donovan is still a blissninny, but looks to me old and not terribly healthy, at least to me. Mike Love's still clearly as big an egomaniac as he ever was, trying to take writing credit for a Beatles song. :-) We get to see glimpses of David and Jessamine Verril, Charley, Walter Koch, and other early leaders of the movement. It was fascinating hearing David Lynch talking about his ever- present anger before starting to meditate, and relating that to his own comic strip, The Angriest Dog In The World. Bevan, whom I have not seen in person since 1977, was a major revelation -- it's difficult to fathom the degree of physical degradation he's undergone unless you know what he looked like before. Theresa Olsen still looks pretty good. Hagelin was an embarrassment in my opinion, but I'm sure some will think that he came across well. Despite Vaj's characterization, the narrator did mention Maharishi's tendency to exaggerate, and the loss of credibility that followed the introduction of the siddhis. They also included a short clip from Geoff Gilpin that was not completely On The Program and expressed mainly nostalgia for the times when one could still believe in it all, and disappointment in what it had become. On the other hand, the narrator blithely repeats the claim that six million people now practice TM. In their dreams. All in all, though, it was a fascinating trip down memory lane, a lot like visiting one's old elementary school and trying to remember what it felt like to be the person who went to classes there. Does anyone know who the dark-haired woman was talking to Maharishi in the film clip from Lake Tahoe. with the lake in the background? She looked familiar to me, but I just can't put a name to the face.
[FairfieldLife] Re: mothers of men - TMO press release
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the term mother of men is not mother of males, but contrasted with mother of gods - - I believe that Mary is given the same title and respect in the purest of Catholic Traditions. I must admit the 'mother is at home' beats 'mother is working out of the home to earn extra cash so I can have a Playstation 3'. Waitaminute ! From where did this sane voice come ?
[FairfieldLife] How did your congressman vote on H.R. 1955?
Find out here how they voted on the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act and give them hell if they voted for it! http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2007-993
[FairfieldLife] Re: Turq, Curt, and Peter, accept Off's competition challenge
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings wrote: I will put my foot through a 2x4. We'll let the veiwers do the math. Lurk: Let's do it. Shouldn't be difficult to film and post. I certainly can't wait to do it when Curtis comes to Vermont, and when I take my summer trip to France to meet Turquise. And when Peter gets out of psychiatric incarceration, I will meet with him too. In all cases, we will have an adjudicated competitive sparring match, and I will tap them around a bit with my foot (head, stomach, ankles, adams apple, knees, etc.) whilst they wonder where it is coming from in their goon-like stupor. Then, I will put my foot through a 2x4. We will video the whole thing and post it for all to see. The viewers will be left to do the math. Shotokan kick attempt, clinch, take down, choke or arm bar. I'll decide. While I have no questions about how the smackdown match between Curtis and Off will turn out, when Off gets out of the hospital and makes his way to France to duke it out with me, he'll have a much better chance of succeeding. I live in Spain. France/Spain, same thing on my Europass. See you in Barthelona ! Bring your 2x4. You'll need it. OffWorld
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: mothers of men - TMO press release
2007-12-06
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Samadhi Is Much Closer Than You Think -- Really! -- It's A No-Brainer. Who'd've Thunk It?
From what I've witnessed in life your various assertions about the socio-religious cults seem to be what I've witnessed -- when confined within my, and perhaps yours, hardened and specific values. There's a spectrum of perspectives and sentiments humans can experience, and do, that are out of the purview of any individual, any hardenedly ensconced cultural paradigm. Having spanned the spectrum of what I've witnessed among so many cultures, not at those cultures but from within those cultures before I wrote my previous remarks, I spoke and speak of what I've witnessed and am clear of what I have said. In fact, the contentious responses I've witnessed hundreds of thousands of times by and from less magnanimous minds over the decades were anticipated again from having posted my remark about other flavors respecting women, womanhood and motherhood from different paradigms would be met with culturally chauvinistic convulsions from less magnanimous minds not positively affected by or less positively affected by the vistara that proper meditation brings through its capabilities to harmonize subjectivity and objectivity, introversion and extroversion to hold more lovingly truthfulness than any unconscionable vanity of body harboring cultural chauvinisms within that are denied without for others deemed inferior or exotic without further investigation borne of sincerity and magnanimity. On 12/5/07, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- 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: There will be many in the world, especially from North America, who are so out of touch with other cultures they will not comprehend this message nor the meaning(s) of some of the words in it, including surrender and mother, despite some of them having even been born feemale. In the vast majority of the world the subtle influences of and respect for women and motherhood is rich and has much gravitas in personal and collective life, whereas nowhere in the world do mothers and motherhood have such vicious disdain in concept and factuality as in North America where motherhood, at best, is nothing more than a paradigm of chauvinistic indemnity and insatiable consumptionism in stark contrast to nature, to dharma anywhere in the universe as well as the rest of humanity around the globe. Nowhere in the world are females and all aspects of womanhood, including motherhood, held in such vicious disdain as in the traditional fundamentalist religious sects of Islam, Hinduism and Christianity, probably in that order. Woman and mothers are generally respected much more in progressive North America than in much of the traditional world. People who truly understand and respect the feminine, including traditions that worship the divine feminine, do not restrict the female to the role of mother and do not exclude the female from decision-making processes in society. They also celebrate the birth of both girls and boys (there is no distinction between mothers of women and mothers of men) - how many millions of baby girls are either aborted or even killed after birth in Asia and Africa purely for being girls not boys. And people with half a brain in this century have come to understand that flowery religious language about woman staying mothers at home has to do with chauvinism not dharma. While I perceive poor word choices in the construction of the original announcement, ever more do I anticipate vicious convulsions of presumed and feigned victimhood from many people who will blow gratuitously from the bowels of [P]ostured [C]ondescensions blowing in the[ir] windmills of their static minds. Such are the disabilities of materialistic minds with petrified hearts aflame with the last vestiges of life screaming at the world who having been blessed with the privilege of the how-to of transcendent meditation yet will not have benefited from it properly, will not have flowed into the subtler realms of heart and mind for nothing more than conspicuous consumption has been their investment in this spiritually and morally liberating mudra of such a sublime meditation technique. I sometimes listen to TMO ceremonies and wonder how anybody could sit through such long winded glorious sounding nonsense, but clearly there are quite a few people who live in that mental state - but anyway, I do agree with you that vicious convulsions of victimhood are not warrented here. The TMO's trend towards chauvinism has been going on since the 80s and it really doesn't matter. The Mothers of Men are a few rajeswaris, most of whom aren't mothers of anything, all of whom have several hard working servants assigned to them -- that stuff about women staying at home floating in bliss applies to women with only -- and IMO even the Rajas don't really have any power in the mov't,
[FairfieldLife] Re: BBC article -- Shemp MDIXON gone quiet all of a sudden.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine sent me this link to the BBC article about the recently declassified document from the US National Archives that uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen including Prescott Bush, GW's grandfather. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml Shemp MDIXON gone quiet all of a sudden. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: BBC article -- Shemp MDIXON gone quiet all of a s...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/6/07 9:01:06 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A friend of mine sent me this link to the BBC article about the recently declassified document from the US National Archives that uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right- wing American businessmen including Prescott Bush, GW's grandfather. _http://www.bbc.http://www.bbhttp://www.bbc.http://wwwhttp://wwhttp:_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml) Shemp MDIXON gone quiet all of a sudden. OffWorld Um, why have you been silent about it for the past 74 years, Off? See my many posts on this very topic over the last year. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shotokan Accuracy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, he learned Shotokan the most from an early age, then later added Jui Jitsu to it. Do you really think ju jitsu is used in schoolyard fights as much as say, Shotokan is used or wrestling or boxing is used in other countries. I doubt it, and if it was, it would be very poor quality and would traion someone in bad habits more than anything. But again, you are showing your inexperience in the field by thinking sshoolyard fights can train you in martial arts. Vale Tudo fights are right behind soccer as a national obsession. Now lets see, a kid into martial arts in the country who view the Gracie family as national heroes...yeah I'm thinking he was exposed to jiu jitsu at an early age. According to my Brazilian friends there is a fighting culture in Brazil so kids learn early. Challenge matches are common. That is what I meant by his schoolyard experience. He is also more humble than your other UFC goons. Is that a quality that you value? Really? Trying to make him seem more special among other MMA fighters because he trained in a style you studied is so lame. There are all sorts of people in MMA just like anywhere else. Your my guy is the bestest routine has worn thin. He doesn't have the record yet to support it. He needs to start finishing fights instead of letting them go to decisions if he wants to rise to the top in UFC. So far 7 out of 11 wins going to decision is not great in this sport. But you knew that because you are now a UFC expert right? Shotokan will dominate your goons. You will live to see it. That is your future. OffWorld
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: BBC article -- Shemp MDIXON gone quiet all of a s...
In a message dated 12/6/07 9:01:06 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A friend of mine sent me this link to the BBC article about the recently declassified document from the US National Archives that uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen including Prescott Bush, GW's grandfather. _http://www.bbc.http://www.bbhttp://www.bbc.http://wwwhttp://wwhttp:_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml) Shemp MDIXON gone quiet all of a sudden. OffWorld Um, why have you been silent about it for the past 74 years, Off? **Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop000301)
[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO Tax-Exempt Status of 'Charitable' Non-profits
Regarding your question of Do the shells of the TMorg publish any of their 990 annual reporting forms and supporting documentation anywhere, such that donors could look at how the TMmovement reports itself? Please check and see if this is helpful: http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder.html for foundations and http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder.html for 990s Look for by name (i.e. Maharishi) or look up all foundations under a specific city and state (i.e. Fairfield, IA). Good luck, please keep my email private. Thanks --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a 42 item questionnaire to six leading televangelists inquiring into how their ministries spend the multi-millions of dollars that they receive in donations each year. The six are Kenneth Copeland, Paula White, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, Eddie Long and Joyce Meyer. The November 26th issue if Time details the issues that Senator Grassley wishes to examine and has hints that he may hold Congressional hearings on the subject. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/06/cbsnews_investigates/main345 6977.shtml Are the TMorgs 'charitable', 'educational' or 'religious' non-for- profit? Do the shells of the TMorg publish any of their 990 annual reporting forms and supporting documentation anywhere, such that donors could look at how the TMmovement reports itself? Or is the accounting all based on 'faith'?
[FairfieldLife] Re: new rajas today
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Almost all of the US money that's coming in is transferred out of the country to offshore accounts in the channel or jersey islands (near England), and from there into the secret untraceable world of offshore accounts. England may have officially been a demon country for MMY these past years, but he favors their offshore banking havens. The mov't also makes money off of its various businesses, primarily SV buildings, and Settle is giving MUM a million a month, but I think most of that gets spent on operations. You'll wait a long time before anyone is allowed to ask any of the tmo leaders in public what's being done with the $155 million that's been transferred to offshore banking accounts over the past 5 yrs. I assume about half goes to that bizarre spiritual mafia organization known as the Indian TMO and about half gets into individual offshore accounts of TMO leaders. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Oh,A million here, a million there; pretty soon we're talking real money. It's unbelievable, where is all this money coming from and where is it going? I know the TMO has bought lots of land recently and I bet those non-SV mansions cost a few quid, but that was from the last time the cap went round for the save the world with pundits. It's really serious cash now, what are they going to do with it all. The money is coming in $1 million increments from rich sidhas. From what I can tell the tmo is selling more real estate than buying in the US at least - it's selling all the old hotels it bought in the early 90s, it sold Avon Park (for about $14 million I think), it's sold some of its texas land. Almost all of the US money that's coming in is transferred out of the country to offshore accounts in the channel or jersey islands (near England), and from there into the secret untraceable world of offshore accounts. England may have officially been a demon country for MMY these past years, but he favors their offshore banking havens. The mov't also makes money off of its various businesses, primarily SV buildings, and Settle is giving MUM a million a month, but I think most of that gets spent on operations. You'll wait a long time before anyone is allowed to ask any of the tmo leaders in public what's being done with the $155 million that's been transferred to offshore banking accounts over the past 5 yrs. I assume about half goes to that bizarre spiritual mafia organization known as the Indian TMO and about half gets into individual offshore accounts of TMO leaders.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Tax-Exempt Status of 'Charitable' Non-profits
Senator Probes Megachurches' Finances NPR's morning edition, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16860611 Grassley said he wants to make sure that billions of dollars in donations are being used properly and not for personal gain. My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees, In each of the letters to the six churches, Senate Finance ? Committee ranking member Charles Grassley (R-IA) asks for audited financial statements, names of affiliated churches and integrated auxiliaries, board members' names and addresses, and the names and addresses of individuals who serve on compensation committees. He also asks about executive compensation, housing allowances, loans and personal use ? z.of assets such as jets, employees and vehicles. Grassley sought credit card receipts and the numbers of the church's offshore bank accounts Paste boo-lives writes: Almost all of the US money that's coming in is transferred out of the country to offshore accounts in the channel or jersey islands (near England), and from there into the secret untraceable world of offshore accounts. England may have officially been a demon country for MMY these past years, but he favors their offshore banking havens. The mov't also makes money off of its various businesses, primarily SV buildings, and Settle is giving MUM a million a month, but I think most of that gets spent on operations. You'll wait a long time before anyone is allowed to ask any of the tmo leaders in public what's being done with the $155 million that's been transferred to offshore banking accounts over the past 5 yrs. I assume about half goes to that bizarre spiritual mafia organization known as the Indian TMO and about half gets into individual offshore accounts of TMO leaders. (Grassley is no hick, he is pretty sharp in fact.) Is interesting to see what the committee is after by looking at the letter sent out copied on the NPR link towards the bottom of this NPR text of this segment.
[FairfieldLife] Re: TMO Tax-Exempt Status of 'Charitable' Non-profits
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or is the accounting all based on 'faith'? Regarding your question of Do the shells of the TMorg publish any of their 990 annual reporting forms and supporting documentation anywhere, such that donors could look at how the TMmovement reports itself? Please check and see if this is helpful: http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder.html for foundations and http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder.html for 990s Look for by name (i.e. Maharishi) or look up all foundations under a specific city and state (i.e. Fairfield, IA). Good luck, please keep my email private. Thanks That they just can't say it? Publish their own numbers, honestly? so interesting that some pretty good people are unable to do this. PR people, like a Chawkins, Roth, Orsatti or Hagelin. Administrative folks like Exec Presidents, University attorneys, develop people and Trustees and such. All good people. Mays. It is pretty obvious though the hang-up now. It is the money. Where has it gone? Why should any of us have to work to find it? The Tru- believers aside, it is about good-faith. Their silence, speaks a lot about it. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a 42 item ? questionnaire to six leading televangelists inquiring into how their ministries spend the multi-millions of dollars that they receive in donations each year. The six are Kenneth Copeland, Paula White, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, Eddie Long and Joyce Meyer. The November 26th issue if Time details the issues that Senator Grassley wishes to examine and has hints that he may hold Congressional hearings on the subject. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/06/cbsnews_investigates/main345 6977.shtml Are the TMorgs 'charitable', 'educational' or 'religious' non-for- profit? Do the shells of the TMorg publish any of their 990 annual reporting forms and supporting documentation anywhere, such that donors could look at how the TMmovement reports itself? Or is the accounting all based on 'faith'? ...
[FairfieldLife] PBS on why students sometimes fail to grasp basic concepts
Topic: why students sometimes fail to grasp basic concepts that are included in most schools' curricula, illustrated with a look at the teaching of photosynthesis. Show:Minds of our own http://www.pbs.org/search/search_programsaz.html#m
[FairfieldLife] Re: PBS on why students sometimes fail to grasp basic concepts
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Topic: why students sometimes fail to grasp basic concepts that are included in most schools' curricula, illustrated with a look at the teaching of photosynthesis. Show:Minds of our own http://www.pbs.org/search/search_programsaz.html#m * Minds of Our Own These three one-hour nationally broadcast programs are designed to make science teachers aware of students' preconceptions. An extension of the award-winning video, A Private Universe, Minds of Our Own shows that many of the things we assume about how children learn are simply not true, and that the education system we have built is based largely on a series of myths. These documentary programs take a hard look at how human beings learn new ideas and show why educators are leading a charge to change the way we run our nation's schools. more on this series, with video-on-demand of the three shows: http://tinyurl.com/9drs6
