[FairfieldLife] 'B.B.C. Wants Your News'

[Robert]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7829027.stm


  

[FairfieldLife] Free movie code Redbox

[bob_brigante]

Use this code today only Wed Mar 11 at Redbox:  JBG123

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[FairfieldLife] Free movie code Redbox

[bob_brigante]

Use this code today only Wed Mar 11 at Redbox:

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[FairfieldLife] Re: Cell Phone Tower Proposal

[bob_brigante]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"
 wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" rick@ wrote:
> >
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > Many of you have contacted me regarding the proposed cell phone
> > base station (tower) installation here in Fairfield. I have
> > answered the same questions so many times that I have written
> > an article on one of my blogs that addresses this topic.
> >
> > If you would like to view the article, please visit:
> > http://robertpalma.blogspot.com/
>




> He really does an excellent job of deconstructing the hysteria
surrounding the proposed cell phone tower. I love the delicious irony
that putting a tower right in town will actually reduce our exposure to
RF by allowing our cellphones to operate with less power output.
>


*

The power output of each cell phone is adjusted (if WCDMA is typical of
cell systems, this adjustment occurs 1500 times a second) so that each
phone gets equal treatment -- so it might be the case that a user on the
edge of the cell will see an increase in his cell phone power output if
there are many users closer to the tower at that time, until a threshold
value is reached which will trigger handover to another cell which does
not require as much transmit power from the user's cell phone. See
section 3.1 Power Control & 3.2:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6388180/WCDMA-Radio-Access-Network

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of I am the eternal
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:14 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused

 

So many people are complaining that the man in office now is not the
man they voted for. 

That's because they romanticized him to the skies. Obama's been pretty
straightforward all along about who he is, what his limitations are, and
what he plans to do. So far he's pretty much on track:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: China responds to Dalia Lama

[enlightened_dawn11]

i am not surprised. Tibet was certainly not any place those in the West that 
demonstrate so fervently for Tibetan autonomy would have wanted to live. and 
who can blame the DL for wanting the life he was born into, back? but nothing 
wrong with seeing the place for what it is, and was. is there?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> Actually I know some pretty heavy duty Indiaphiles who say the same 
> thing and they're also respectful of Buddhism.
> 
> enlightened_dawn11 wrote:
> > it certainly looks like the lot of those in Tibet has improved considerably 
> > since China liberated it from the Lamas' theocracy. Also makes sense after 
> > reading this why the Dalai Lama is constantly agitating to be returned to 
> > power. 
> >
> > (yeah, i know it is heretical to speak this way with our resident buddhists 
> > about...but isn't the expression, "if you see the buddha on the road...?)
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex"  wrote:
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Glorifying U.S. Power and Levitation Machines'

[Joe Smith]

I waiting for weapons using electric magnetic-laser-microwave-focused 
neutrino-guided lightning strike capability-lightsabers in a full array of 
colors. All this post world war II stuff is getting boring. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert  wrote:
>
> 
> Click here: Cool Pictures - Military #1
> 
>  
> 
> Click here: Cool Pictures - Military #2
>  
> 
> Click here: Cool Pictures - Military #3
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Glorifying U.S. Power and Levitation Machines'

[Joe Smith]

I waiting for weapons using electric magnetic-laser-microwave-focused 
neutrino-guided lightning strike capability-lightsabers in a full array of 
colors. All this post world war II stuff is getting boring. 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert  wrote:
>
> 
> Click here: Cool Pictures - Military #1
> 
>  
> 
> Click here: Cool Pictures - Military #2
>  
> 
> Click here: Cool Pictures - Military #3
>

[FairfieldLife] 'Glorifying U.S. Power and Levitation Machines'

[Robert]

Click here: Cool Pictures - Military #1

 

Click here: Cool Pictures - Military #2
 

Click here: Cool Pictures - Military #3


  

[FairfieldLife] Tracking Obama's Promises

[Joe Smith]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused

[Robert]

 (snip)
> > In case you haven't noticed, Obama has been in office for a lot longer than 
> > a few days, and he's still very much alive.
> >
> 
> **
> 
> "But the link between gray hair and psychological stress is little more than 
> folk wisdom, unsupported by numerous scientific studies. That didn't stop 
> widespread speculation last week, in The New York Times and elsewhere, that 
> the newly noticed salt and pepper above President Obama's temples were the 
> first physical manifestations of some of the highest job pressures on the 
> planet.
> 
> A more likely explanation is that Mr. Obama is starting to turn gray for the 
> same reasons other people do. He's getting older. The age of graying seems to 
> be determined by heredity, The Journal of Investigative Dermatology reported 
> in 2005. Whites tend to gray first, often as early as their mid-30s, followed 
> by Asians and then Africans. About half of 50-year-olds are at least 50 
> percent gray. So it would seem that Mr. Obama, at 47, is a little late to the 
> graying game.
>(snip)
It must be very stressful to be president, in any enviornment;
And extremely stressful, during this time, specifically.
President Obama, is handling himself, fine, although he must feel 'compressed' 
in the WH, as there is so much 'noise' in that place, and with all the pressure 
of being the first African American President.
In viewing his chart, this morning, of transits, I could see he would be going 
through a personal transition anyway, at this time in his life.
I like to 'hold a space' for him, in my prayers, for his complete success, and 
the success of our culture, to lead the world, in new technologies, and 
educational systems, which can benefit all the people in the world.
This is a time of great transition, as we all feel and know it to be.
So, I would say: Send him your good energy, from your deep meditation, and ask 
for him to be guided for the 'Highest Good of All'...
R.g.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cell Phone Tower Proposal

[Alex Stanley]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>  
> Many of you have contacted me regarding the proposed cell phone
> base station (tower) installation here in Fairfield. I have 
> answered the same questions so many times that I have written
> an article on one of my blogs that addresses this topic.
>  
> If you would like to view the article, please visit:
> http://robertpalma.blogspot.com/

He really does an excellent job of deconstructing the hysteria surrounding the 
proposed cell phone tower. I love the delicious irony that putting a tower 
right in town will actually reduce our exposure to RF by allowing our 
cellphones to operate with less power output.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused

[bob_brigante]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"  
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jimjim5886"  wrote:
> >
> >  People seem to think that Barack Obama is going to save this
> > country from ruin during this crisis were in. But they are going
> > to be very disappointed because Obama will die suddenly and
> > mysteriously after only a few days in office without really
> > acomplishing much of anything. 
> 

> In case you haven't noticed, Obama has been in office for a lot longer than a 
> few days, and he's still very much alive.
>

**

"But the link between gray hair and psychological stress is little more than 
folk wisdom, unsupported by numerous scientific studies. That didn't stop 
widespread speculation last week, in The New York Times and elsewhere, that the 
newly noticed salt and pepper above President Obama's temples were the first 
physical manifestations of some of the highest job pressures on the planet.

A more likely explanation is that Mr. Obama is starting to turn gray for the 
same reasons other people do. He's getting older. The age of graying seems to 
be determined by heredity, The Journal of Investigative Dermatology reported in 
2005. Whites tend to gray first, often as early as their mid-30s, followed by 
Asians and then Africans. About half of 50-year-olds are at least 50 percent 
gray. So it would seem that Mr. Obama, at 47, is a little late to the graying 
game.



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/health/10well.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse

[dhamiltony2k5]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal  wrote:
>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html
> 
> 
> What will be left?
> 

In the face of secularism as cause that is mentioned otherwise in the article
a paragraph in the middle catches one problem of the TM movement in reformation:

< •A small band will work hard to rescue the movement from its demise
through theological renewal. This is an attractive, innovative, and
tireless community with outstanding media, publishing, and leadership
development. Nonetheless, I believe the coming ( ) collapse
will not result in a second reformation, though it may result in
benefits for many (other meditation forms)churches and the beginnings of new 
(meditation) churches. >

You can see on the David Lynch page already how hard the TM pitch is on 
uniqueness and being 'only'.  Yet, the marketplace is proly beyond that in 
similar meditation offerrings.  

Like the evangelicals themselves are too culturally wierd for words, so the 
TMorg and its rajas.  Like with the evangelical collapse, beneficiaries of the 
work of re-promoting (re-evangelizing) TM is proly also going to be the 
Catholic, Protestant and established liberal type Churches with their own wide 
promulgations of 'Centering Prayer' meditations as spirituality.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Close Shave....

[Joe Smith]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
>> 
> Just for the heck of it, here's me as Edith, more
> than 45 years ago:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/36189...@n02/3344309202/
> 

Great picture! 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse

[yateendrajee]

To offer a slight clarification, this article expresses Mr. Spencer's opinion 
and not that of the CS Monitor or Christian Science Church (I'm a branch church 
member and did a "double take" until I checked the source page). 

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal  wrote:
>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html
> 
> The coming evangelical collapse
> An anti-Christian chapter in Western history is about to begin. But
> out of the ruins, a new vitality and integrity will rise.
> By Michael Spencer

[FairfieldLife] Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse

[I am the eternal]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html

The coming evangelical collapse
An anti-Christian chapter in Western history is about to begin. But
out of the ruins, a new vitality and integrity will rise.
By Michael Spencer

from the March 10, 2009 edition

Oneida, Ky. - We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major
collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the
deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will
fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the
West.

Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of
half its occupants. (Between 25 and 35 percent of Americans today are
Evangelicals.) In the "Protestant" 20th century, Evangelicals
flourished. But they will soon be living in a very secular and
religiously antagonistic 21st century.

This collapse will herald the arrival of an anti-Christian chapter of
the post-Christian West. Intolerance of Christianity will rise to
levels many of us have not believed possible in our lifetimes, and
public policy will become hostile toward evangelical Christianity,
seeing it as the opponent of the common good.

Millions of Evangelicals will quit. Thousands of ministries will end.
Christian media will be reduced, if not eliminated. Many Christian
schools will go into rapid decline. I'm convinced the grace and
mission of God will reach to the ends of the earth. But the end of
evangelicalism as we know it is close.

Why is this going to happen?

1. Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war
and with political conservatism. This will prove to be a very costly
mistake. Evangelicals will increasingly be seen as a threat to
cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America,
bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society.

The evangelical investment in moral, social, and political issues has
depleted our resources and exposed our weaknesses. Being against gay
marriage and being rhetorically pro-life will not make up for the fact
that massive majorities of Evangelicals can't articulate the Gospel
with any coherence. We fell for the trap of believing in a cause more
than a faith.

2. We Evangelicals have failed to pass on to our young people an
orthodox form of faith that can take root and survive the secular
onslaught. Ironically, the billions of dollars we've spent on youth
ministers, Christian music, publishing, and media has produced a
culture of young Christians who know next to nothing about their own
faith except how they feel about it. Our young people have deep
beliefs about the culture war, but do not know why they should obey
scripture, the essentials of theology, or the experience of spiritual
discipline and community. Coming generations of Christians are going
to be monumentally ignorant and unprepared for culture-wide pressures.

3. There are three kinds of evangelical churches today:
consumer-driven megachurches, dying churches, and new churches whose
future is fragile. Denominations will shrink, even vanish, while fewer
and fewer evangelical churches will survive and thrive.

4. Despite some very successful developments in the past 25 years,
Christian education has not produced a product that can withstand the
rising tide of secularism. Evangelicalism has used its educational
system primarily to staff its own needs and talk to itself.

5. The confrontation between cultural secularism and the faith at the
core of evangelical efforts to "do good" is rapidly approaching. We
will soon see that the good Evangelicals want to do will be viewed as
bad by so many, and much of that work will not be done. Look for
ministries to take on a less and less distinctively Christian face in
order to survive.

6. Even in areas where Evangelicals imagine themselves strong (like
the Bible Belt), we will find a great inability to pass on to our
children a vital evangelical confidence in the Bible and the
importance of the faith.

7. The money will dry up.

What will be left?

•Expect evangelicalism to look more like the pragmatic, therapeutic,
church-growth oriented megachurches that have defined success.
Emphasis will shift from doctrine to relevance, motivation, and
personal success – resulting in churches further compromised and
weakened in their ability to pass on the faith.

•Two of the beneficiaries will be the Roman Catholic and Orthodox
communions. Evangelicals have been entering these churches in recent
decades and that trend will continue, with more efforts aimed at the
"conversion" of Evangelicals to the Catholic and Orthodox traditions.

•A small band will work hard to rescue the movement from its demise
through theological renewal. This is an attractive, innovative, and
tireless community with outstanding media, publishing, and leadership
development. Nonetheless, I believe the coming evangelical collapse
will not result in a second reformation, though it may result in
benefits for many churches and the beginnings of new churches.

•The emerg

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused

[I am the eternal]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Alex Stanley
 wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jimjim5886"  wrote:
>>
>>  People seem to think that Barack Obama is going to save this
>> country from ruin during this crisis were in. But they are going
>> to be very disappointed because Obama will die suddenly and
>> mysteriously after only a few days in office without really
>> acomplishing much of anything.
>
> In case you haven't noticed, Obama has been in office for a lot longer than a 
> few days, and he's still very much alive.
>

So many people are complaining that the man in office now is not the
man they voted for.  Well, it isn't.  This is another Moon Over
Parador plot playing out.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused

[Alex Stanley]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jimjim5886"  wrote:
>
>  People seem to think that Barack Obama is going to save this
> country from ruin during this crisis were in. But they are going
> to be very disappointed because Obama will die suddenly and
> mysteriously after only a few days in office without really
> acomplishing much of anything. 

In case you haven't noticed, Obama has been in office for a lot longer than a 
few days, and he's still very much alive.

[FairfieldLife] Bill Maher v Coulter

[bob_brigante]

Skeptical of Ms. Coulter's claim that many scientists do not believe in 
evolution, Mr. Maher told her, "You're just being a dunk-tank clown, looking to 
sell more baseballs."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/arts/television/11deba.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: China responds to Dalia Lama

[Bhairitu]

Actually I know some pretty heavy duty Indiaphiles who say the same 
thing and they're also respectful of Buddhism.

enlightened_dawn11 wrote:
> it certainly looks like the lot of those in Tibet has improved considerably 
> since China liberated it from the Lamas' theocracy. Also makes sense after 
> reading this why the Dalai Lama is constantly agitating to be returned to 
> power. 
>
> (yeah, i know it is heretical to speak this way with our resident buddhists 
> about...but isn't the expression, "if you see the buddha on the road...?)
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex"  wrote:
>   

[FairfieldLife] Green Goddess

[yifuxero]

http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/2-hot-2-handle/2727?nc

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[FairfieldLife] Re: China responds to Dalia Lama

[do.rflex]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, enlightened_dawn11  wrote:
>
> it certainly looks like the lot of those in Tibet has improved considerably 
> since China liberated it from the Lamas' theocracy. Also makes sense after 
> reading this why the Dalai Lama is constantly agitating to be returned to 
> power. 
> 
> (yeah, i know it is heretical to speak this way with our resident buddhists 
> about...but isn't the expression, "if you see the buddha on the road...?)


Chinese sources generally claim progress towards a prosperous and free society 
in Tibet, with its pillars being economic development, legal advancement, and 
peasant emancipation. 

These claims, however, have been refuted by the Tibet Government-in-Exile and 
some indigenous Tibetans, who claim of genocide in Tibet from the Chinese 
government, comparing it to Nazi Germany.[52] 

The official doctrine of the PRC classifies Tibetans as one of its 56 
recognized ethnic groups and part of the greater Zhonghua Minzu or multi-ethnic 
Chinese nation. 

The Central Tibetan Administration states that the number that have died of 
starvation, violence, or other indirect causes since 1950 is approximately 1.2 
million,[58] which the Chinese Communist Party denies...

Warren Smith, an independent scholar and a broadcaster with the Tibetan Service 
of Radio Free Asia[53][54][55], whose work became focused on Tibetan history 
and politics after spending five months in Tibet in 1982, portrays the Chinese 
as chauvinists who believe they are superior to the Tibetans, and claims that 
the Chinese use torture, coercion and starvation to control the Tibetans.[56]

The government of the Peoples Republic of China [PRC] also rejects claims that 
the lives of Tibetans have deteriorated, and states that the lives of Tibetans 
have been improved immensely compared to self rule before 1950.[68] 

Belying these claims, some 3,000 Tibetans brave hardship and danger to flee 
into exile every year.[69]...

In 1995, the Dalai Lama named 6 year old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th 
Panchen Lama without the approval of the government of China, while the PRC 
named another child, Gyancain Norbu in conflict. 

Gyancain Norbu was raised in Beijing and has appeared occasionally on state 
media. The PRC-selected Panchen Lama is rejected by exiled Tibetans and 
anti-China groups who commonly refer to him as the "Panchen Zuma" (literally 
"fake Panchen Lama"). 

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima and his family have gone missing — believed by some to be 
imprisoned by China — and under a hidden identity for protection and privacy 
according to the PRC...

In 2005, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao offered to hold talks with the 14th Dalai 
Lama on the Tibet issue, provided he dropped the demand for independence. 

The Dalai Lama said in an interview with the South China Morning Post "We are 
willing to be part of the People's Republic of China, to have it govern and 
guarantee to preserve our Tibetan culture, spirituality and our environment." 

This statement was seen as a renewed diplomatic initiative by the Tibetan 
government-in-exile. He had already said he would accept Chinese sovereignty 
over Tibet but insisted on real autonomy over its religious and cultural life. 

The Tibetan government-in-exile called on the Chinese government to 
respond.[76] Beijing has repeatedly rebuffed this offer, insisting that the 
Dalai Lama is intent on complete independence, or the splitting apart of China 
iteself. [77]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet#Tibet_under_The_People.27s_Republic_of_China

http://snipurl.com/dk1i5


 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex"  wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > Who's not telling the truth?
> > 
> > 
> > Dalai Lama's utter distortion of Tibet history
> > 
> > 2009-03-11
> > http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/11/content_10987232.htm
> > 
> > 
> > BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- On March 10, 1959, the Dalai Lama and his 
> > supporters started an armed rebellion in a desperate attempt to preserve 
> > Tibet's feudal serfdom and split the region from China.
> > 
> > On Tuesday, exactly 50 years later, the Dalai Lama claimed that 
> > Tibetans have been living in "hell on earth," as if the Tibet under the 
> > former feudal serfdom ruled by him were a heaven.
> > 
> > The Dalai Lama also alleged at a gathering in India's Dharamsala to 
> > mark his 50 years in exile that "these 50 years have brought untold 
> > suffering and destruction to the land and people of Tibet."
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the Dalai Lama has not only been on the wrong side of 
> > history, but also has got the history upside down. Miseries of "hell on 
> > earth" and "untold suffering" occurred nowhere but in the slavery Tibet 
> > symbolized by the Dalai Lama.
> > 
> > Even from historical books written by Western scholars, people can draw 
> > the conclusion that Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lama clique was a 
> > society of feudal serfdom that trampled human rights and 

[FairfieldLife] Jon Stewart More Completely destroys CNBC's Cramer, [et al]

[do.rflex]

Jon Stewart to Jim Cramer: 'F**k you!' ~Part Two~

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/jon-stewart-jim-cramer-fck-you

[FairfieldLife] Re: China responds to Dalia Lama

[enlightened_dawn11]

it certainly looks like the lot of those in Tibet has improved considerably 
since China liberated it from the Lamas' theocracy. Also makes sense after 
reading this why the Dalai Lama is constantly agitating to be returned to 
power. 

(yeah, i know it is heretical to speak this way with our resident buddhists 
about...but isn't the expression, "if you see the buddha on the road...?)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex"  wrote:
>
> 
> 
> Who's not telling the truth?
> 
> 
> Dalai Lama's utter distortion of Tibet history
> 
> 2009-03-11
> http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/11/content_10987232.htm
> 
> 
> BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- On March 10, 1959, the Dalai Lama and his 
> supporters started an armed rebellion in a desperate attempt to preserve 
> Tibet's feudal serfdom and split the region from China.
> 
> On Tuesday, exactly 50 years later, the Dalai Lama claimed that Tibetans 
> have been living in "hell on earth," as if the Tibet under the former feudal 
> serfdom ruled by him were a heaven.
> 
> The Dalai Lama also alleged at a gathering in India's Dharamsala to mark 
> his 50 years in exile that "these 50 years have brought untold suffering and 
> destruction to the land and people of Tibet."
> 
> Unfortunately, the Dalai Lama has not only been on the wrong side of 
> history, but also has got the history upside down. Miseries of "hell on 
> earth" and "untold suffering" occurred nowhere but in the slavery Tibet 
> symbolized by the Dalai Lama.
> 
> Even from historical books written by Western scholars, people can draw 
> the conclusion that Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lama clique was a 
> society of feudal serfdom that trampled human rights and easily reminded 
> visitors of the dark age of medieval Europe.
> 
> The feudal serfdom had truly brought "untold suffering and destruction" 
> to the serfs and slaves who accounted for 90 percent of the then population.
> 
> The slavery Tibet was just "hell on earth" as Carles Bell, who lived in 
> Lhasa as a British trade representative in the 1920s, observed that the Dalai 
> Lama's theocratic position enabled him to administer rewards and punishments 
> as he wished. That was because he held absolute sway over both this life and 
> the next of the serfs and coerced them with that power.
> 
> In 1959, after the failed rebellion by the Dalai Lama and his followers, 
> the central government of China carried out the long-delayed emancipation of 
> millions of serfs and slaves in Tibet.
> 
> Great achievements have been made in Tibet since then in various fields 
> such as politics, economy and culture. The following are just a few examples 
> of those achievements:
> 
> -- The central government has adopted a policy of "political unity, 
> freedom of religious belief and separation of politics and religion" in Tibet 
> to ensure locals' political rights and that all religious beliefs are 
> politically equal.
> 
> -- Tibet has seen its gross domestic product soar from 174 million yuan 
> (25.4 million U.S. dollars) in 1959 to 39.591 billion Yuan (5.78 billion 
> dollars) in 2008, with an annual growth rate of8.9 percent.
> 
> -- Tibet's roads totaled 51,300 km in 2008, a sharp increase from the 
> 7,300 km in 1959.
> 
> -- The average life expectancy in Tibet has increased from 35.5years in 
> 1959 to 67 years at present.
> 
> Anyone without prejudice will recognize the remarkable progress in Tibet.
> 
> "Tibet has achieved remarkable economic progress and undergone profound 
> changes since 1959 when its democratic reform began," Argemiro Procopio, a 
> professor of international relations at the University of Brasilia, said 
> after a trip to Tibet.
> 
> Louise T. Blouin Macbain, a well-known publisher and philanthropist, said 
> after traveling to Tibet that "what I have seen is positive and I am 
> especially thankful to the great efforts made by China over the years in 
> preserving Tibetan cultural independence and its monasteries."
> 
> When the Dalai Lama claimed there is "cultural genocide" in Tibet, "I 
> don't know which Tibet is he actually describing," she said. "As for me, it's 
> not the one that I have seen with my own eyes."
> 
> Why then such a distortion of historical facts by the so-called Nobel 
> Peace Prize winner? Because it is only through the distortion of history 
> could he deceive Western audiences and disguise his true intentions.
> 
> Since their exile, the Dalai Lama and his followers have never stopped 
> pursuing activities to split Tibet from China and restore their theocratic 
> rule despite his claims to the opposite.
> 
> But just as the rebellion by the Dalai Lama clique failed disgracefully 
> 50 years ago, its fantasy of "Tibet Independence" is also doomed to failure, 
> because of the firm opposition from the Chinese people, including the 
> Tibetans in Tibet.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Little Boy and Fat Man

[bob_brigante]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> yifuxero wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
> >
> >
> >  
 
> In the late 1970's the Seattle TM Center honored University of 
> Washington physicist Dr. Seth Neddermeyer in one of their "Age of 
> Enlightenment" celebrations.  Neddermeyer devised the implosion device 
> that made the bomb work.  His daughter was a TM teacher.
>



Making weapons is legitimate work in a world full of violence to avoid having 
one's society overrun by barbarians. Using weapons against women and children 
and other noncombatants is wrong, but those decisions are made by politicians 
and generals, not scientists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Neddermeyer

Re: [FairfieldLife] Little Boy and Fat Man

[Bhairitu]

yifuxero wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
>
>
>   
In the late 1970's the Seattle TM Center honored University of 
Washington physicist Dr. Seth Neddermeyer in one of their "Age of 
Enlightenment" celebrations.  Neddermeyer devised the implosion device 
that made the bomb work.  His daughter was a TM teacher.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Little Boy and Fat Man

[yifuxero]

---Creation of the nuclear bombs by the Manhattan project:
http://images.tomshardware.com/2007/07/31/comp-manhatten.jpg


 In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero"  wrote:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
> >
> 
> ***
> 
> 4x as many people were killed by firebombing before the abombing, and they 
> were just as dead and burnt as Hiroshima/Nagasaki folks:
> 
> http://snipurl.com/djr8o  [en_wikipedia_org]
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Signs of Kali Yuga

[Bhairitu]

John wrote:
> Kalki is supposed to be the manifestation of divine retribution here on 
> earth.  If this occurs, I wouldn't want to be in this world.  We just started 
> Kali Yuga.  So, we got another 432,000 years, give or take a few years, to 
> wait for this cataclysmic event to happen.
>   
John, you are "off program."  Didn't MMY declare before he died that it 
was actually Sat Yuga?  :-D

Yup, Kali yuga is pretty bad.  I have a little version of "It's Howdy 
Doody Time" (which is of course the old song "Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-Di-Yay") 
called "It's Kali Yuga Time."

Buffalo Bob:

"Hey, boys and girls, what time is it!"

(Sing along now)

It's Kali yuga time,
it's Kali yuga time,
it's time for sin and crime,
it Kali yuga time.

(add your own verses here)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Little Boy and Fat Man

[bob_brigante]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero"  wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
>

***

4x as many people were killed by firebombing before the abombing, and they were 
just as dead and burnt as Hiroshima/Nagasaki folks:

http://snipurl.com/djr8o  [en_wikipedia_org] 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Signs of Kali Yuga

[bob_brigante]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
>
> Kalki is supposed to be the manifestation of divine retribution here on 
> earth.  If this occurs, I wouldn't want to be in this world.  We just started 
> Kali Yuga.  So, we got another 432,000 years, give or take a few years, to 
> wait for this cataclysmic event to happen.
> 
> 

*

MMY says that it is possible for SatYuga to intrude in the lifespan of the 
Kaliyuga, because the wrongdoing of this age makes it weak, and possible to end 
its life early, just as a human whose life is full of wrongdoing can come to an 
early end of life. And this so-called cataclysmic event is really nothing from 
the point of view of infinite consciousness -- the picture on the screen of the 
long dream just switches to a picture with only happy people around instead of 
the miserable inhabitants of the Kaliyuga hitting each other over the head with 
tiki clubs.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Little Boy and Fat Man

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero"  wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

This is a Generalized Rap.

It is NOT about anyone here, no matter
how self-important they feel themselves
to be.

It is only a rap about how self-important
I feel *myself* to be, because hereditarily
I share some of the responsibility for Fat
Man and Little Boy.

My grandfather helped build them.

My DNA contains neucleotides that invented
megadeath. 

Actually, it doesn't...that was just drama
queen shit, because my father was adopted,
and thus I never inherited any of my grand-
father's physicist DNA. 

But, metaphorically, because my father bears
the same last name as Winthrop Wright, one of 
the unsung inventors of Fat Man and Little Boy,
I bear some of the responsibility for them.

I *clearly* remember the first moment in this
incarnation that I realized the extent of my 
Family Karma. It was exiting the theater after 
having seen the movie "On The Beach." 

*Fifty years ago* I got my first glimpse into
my hereditary responsibility for the precarious
state the world found itself in. I walked out
of that theater in a state of shock nigh unto
Robert Oppenheimer's at the Trinity explosion.

I was thinking, "Holy shit! What hath we 
wrought? For the FIRST TIME on this planet,
we have invented the ability to make the whole
planet GO AWAY. And my grandfather helped to
invent it."

I was not even BORN when my grandfather helped
to invent Fat Man and Little Boy. But I feel
a little guilty about it anyway. Go figure.

I feel, more than anything else, a supreme
sense of sadness that the inhabitants of a 
blue-green ball in black space as beautiful
as planet Earth can find nothing better to 
do with it than find some way to make it 
GO AWAY.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused

[jimjim5886]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal  wrote:
> People seem to think that Barack Obama is going to save this country from 
> ruin during this crisis were in. But they are going to be very disappointed 
> because Obama will die suddenly and mysteriously after only a few days in 
> office without really acomplishing much of anything. Other than to raise 
> taxes.
>The bible says in Rev. 17:10 that there are 7 kings 5 are fallen and 1 
> "is"(present tense). I figured out who the first 6 kings were when Geoge W. 
> Bush was President(During his frist term) and i realilized that there were 
> still 5 former pres. still alive at that point in time. They were Ford, 
> Carter, Reagan,  Bush, Clinton. And of course Geoge W. would be #6 who is 
> spoken of in the present tense because of course he was the president then at 
> that point in time, and still is untill Obama becomes king #7 on Jan. 20th.   
>  
> I saw in 1 of my visions where my wife said to some other women "the 
> president is allready dead". In the vision she was in Fargo, N. Dak. and she 
> was looking in the direction of a plane that had just taken off from the 
> airport in Fargo. I thing that plane might have been airforce 1.  
>
> Acording to the catholic bible in Dan. 11 the person who is king or pres. 
> just before the anti-christ comes along will die during a crises. Which is 
> where we are now and its probably going to get worse. 
>  I started  
> my web page in 2004.  www.prophetelijahspeaks.freewebspace.com  read the 
> black print.I knew Who the frist 6 kings were. And i knew that whoever 
> became pres. after Geoge W. Bush would be the 7th king. I thought for sure 
> that people would be smart enough to see that Bush was wrong in going to war 
> in Iraq. And that they would never reelect him, but i was wrong. And after 
> the election i thought forsure that they would wake up and come to there 
> senses and impeach him. But i was wrong again. But now that Obama has been 
> elected i finely know for sure that he is the 7th king the bible speaks of 
> and the 1 my wife spoke of in my vision.  
> Also The angel Gabriel told me that 
> Jimmy Carter is the anti-christ. So he will be the 8th king and is also one 
> of the previous 7 kings as it says in Rev.17:10. Gabriel also told me that 
> Jimmy Carter was going to change his name and divorce his wife.   
>   
>   
>   
> 
> A Jyotish friend of mine cast Obama's chart and tells me he's in grave
> danger.  Details in a few days.
> 
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4953523/Barack-Obama-too-tired-to-give-proper-welcome-to-Gordon-Brown.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/adh8jv
> 
> 
> Barack Obama 'too tired' to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown
> Barack Obama's offhand approach to Gordon Brown's Washington visit
> last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over
> America's economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs,
> the Sunday Telegraph has been told.
> 
> 
> By Tim Shipman in Washington
> Last Updated: 10:03PM GMT 07 Mar 2009
> 
> Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been
> "overwhelmed" by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that
> the new president is not getting enough rest.
> 
> British officials, meanwhile, admit that the White House and US State
> Department staff were utterly bemused by complaints that the Prime
> Minister should have been granted full-blown press conference and a
> formal dinner, as has been customary. They concede that Obama aides
> seemed unfamiliar with the expectations that surround a major visit by
> a British prime minister.
> 
> But Washington figures with access to Mr Obama's inner circle
> explained the slight by saying that those high up in the
> administration have had little time to deal with international
> matters, let alone the diplomatic niceties of the special
> relationship.
> 
> Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr
> Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's
> surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk.
> 
> A well-connected Washington figure, who is close to members of Mr
> Obama's inner circle, expressed concern that Mr Obama had failed so
> far to "even fake an interest in foreign po

[FairfieldLife] Little Boy and Fat Man

[yifuxero]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

[FairfieldLife] Re: Signs of Kali Yuga

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
>
> Kalki is supposed to be the manifestation of divine 
> retribution here on earth.  

If I might ask, retribution for *what*, John?

What is it that you perceive the world as having
"done wrong" that requires "retribution?"

And why is it that those capable of "retribution,"
if they´re so "divine," CAN´T HANDLE these 
things, and feel instead that these things are 
in need of "retribution?"

I´m asking these things in good faith, John.

What ARE the behaviors of "Kali Yuga," in your
opinion, that are worthy of "retribution?"

Am I in danger of retribution because I merely
lusted after the Japanese tourist I had dinner
with the other night, or would it have required
me to act on that lust to be worthy of retrib-
ution?

I´m askin´ what the Rules are here, John.

You seem to write as if you know. So dish, girl-
friend. What can I get away with here on planet
Earth in the early (you and I both hope) Kali 
Yuga and what can I not get away with?

I´m an a-theist. I don´t believe in "the´s."
Can I skate behind that, or is God going to 
smite me for not believing in Him? What are the
Rules about Sex? Can I skate behind merely 
appreciating the sway of skirts, or do I venture
into "retribution territory" only when I start
messing around under those skirts? 

Curious minds want to know, John. You seem to
present yourself sometimes as if you DO know. 
So dish.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Signs of Kali Yuga

[John]

Kalki is supposed to be the manifestation of divine retribution here on earth.  
If this occurs, I wouldn't want to be in this world.  We just started Kali 
Yuga.  So, we got another 432,000 years, give or take a few years, to wait for 
this cataclysmic event to happen.



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk"  wrote:
>
> Don't trust that bhagavan kalki bastard. Or nirmala devi. they are both 
> aweful scoundrels.
>   - Original Message - 
>   From: cardemaister 
>   To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:28 PM
>   Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Signs of Kali Yuga
> 
> 
> 
>   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
>   >
>   > To All:
>   > 
>   > A recent article shows that we are undergoing the effects of Kali Yuga. 
> It is said that eventually the entire world population will be occupied 
> mostly by mlecchas, the lowest type of human beings ever. At that time, Kalki 
> will incarnate to wreak havoc among the population of the earth.
>   > 
>   > 
>   > 
> 
> 
>   Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon: Search Results
> 1 mleccha m. a foreigner , barbarian , non-Aryan , man of an outcast 
> race , any person who does not speak Sanskr2it and does not conform to the 
> usual Hindu1 institutions S3Br. &c. &c. (%{I} f.) ; a person who lives by 
> agriculture or by making weapons L. ; a wicked or bad man , sinner L. ; 
> ignorance of Sanskr2it , barbarism Nya1yam. Sch. ; n. copper L. ; vermilion L.
>

[FairfieldLife] The Evil Science Of Generalized Rants

[TurquoiseB]

Because the company I contract to "froze" its next
release yesterday, denying to the creative prog-
rammers the right to add any new features, I am
enjoying a few delightful Days Off. I'm ahead of
the curve. I've already documented all of the
new features so far. So I can coast for a few
days and relax until next week's "GUI freeze,"
at which point I have to start retaking every
screenshot in the 1,500 pages of documentation
I am responsible for because the creative prog-
rammers (and IBM) felt the need to Reinvent The
Wheel. Such are the joys of tech writing.

Anyway, the bottom line is that I can take advan-
tage of these Days Off to just kick back and write 
a few Generalized Rants. 

I'm a generalization kinda guy. Yeah, I understand
that (as the olde one-liner says), "All generaliz-
ations are false, including this one," but I have
FUN coming up with Generalized Rants. They are 
one of my ego's ways of trying to have FUN with
trying to make sense of That Which Probably Does
Not Make Sense.

I know ahead of time that my generalizations are
false. They are just this particular self's proj-
ections onto reality of my rose-colored-glasses
view of that reality. They are not Declarations 
Of Truth. They are merely passing attempts to 
have FUN with reality, whatever the fuck it is.

But -- and this is where the "science" of The 
Science Of Generalized Rants comes in -- if one
writes one's Generalized Rants well enough, a
certain number of people out there are going to 
believe that I'm ranting about THEM. 

It's like that moment in Father Flynn's first
sermon in the film "Doubt" when he is delivering 
a Generalized Rant about Doubt, and one person 
in the congregation decides (in her narcissism 
and fear of her own Doubts being discovered) that 
the sermon is a rant about HER. You can see it 
in Meryl Streep's face and body language as it 
occurs in the film. She suddenly "knows" that 
Father Flynn has seen through all of her care-
fully-constructed masks to the Doubt that lies 
within, and that HER Doubt inspired his sermon. 
She is convinced in that moment that she has 
been exposed, attacked, and humiliated.

And it never happened.

( In my humble opinion as a Film Critic At Large, 
that is. Not as any kind of Declaration Of Truth. )

My subjective "take" on that sermon is that Father
Flynn was on a Generalized Rant roll. He had been
thinking about Doubt -- his own and others' -- all
week, because that's The Sorta Stuff He Thinks
About, and he'd decided to make his sermon a Gener-
alized Rant about Doubt. It really *wasn't* about
Sister Aloysious. She just thought it was, because
of her narcissism. 

And all hell broke out in the movie, all over some-
thing that never happened.

Sometimes, in my opinion, Generalized Rants can be
nothing more than Generalized Rants. A cigar CAN
be only a cigar. 

The fact that someone out there thinks that making
a joke about cigars means that we're really talking 
about dicks -- and in fact talking about HIS dick --
doth not make it so. 

So tonight's Generalized Rant -- whatever it winds
up being about, because I just sat down and started
to rant without having anything in particular to
rant about -- is not "about" anyone here. It's just
a Generalized Rant.

But if someone out there thinks it's about THEM,
and feels the need to respond as if they have been
personally exposed, attacked, and humiliated, that 
would probably be more interesting than the rant 
itself, right?

Whatever it winds up being about.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: NBC's 'Kings'

[Bhairitu]

TurquoiseB wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>   
>> Now this might be interesting if well executed.  It is a series 
>> about the US as a corporate backed monarchy with Ian McShane 
>> ("Deadwood") as the King. It's is a modern update of the Biblical 
>> King David story.  Debuts this Sunday on NBC.
>> http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/06/nbcs-kings-scri.html
>> 
>
> This sounds interesting. Ian McShane alone
> makes it a "must see" series, at least long
> enough to give it a chance.
>
> My copy of "Castle" is still downloading, so
> I can't comment on it. I don't have high hopes
> for it; I just love Nathan Fillion, and hope
> that he lands a role someday that is halfway
> as good as Captain Tightpants in "Firefly."
>
> I'm still fuming about my "guilty pleasure"
> series, "The L Word." After having set us up
> all season to find out who killed the horrific
> megabitch that we in the audience all wanted
> to kill, too...they didn't. They "played it
> out" such that *everyone* at the party at which
> she wound up dead in the swimming pool had good
> reason to want her dead. And then they left it
> there. Interesting, I guess, but I'm left feel-
> ing the same thing that one reviewer of the
> episode said in the title of his or her review:
> "The L Words: Lame, Lousy Letdown."
>
> And, thanks to you, I'm now stuck watching "24."
> As comedy, mind you, but sometimes it's so bad
> that the laughs come few and far between. A
> bunch of terrorists finding a secret way into
> the *White House* and taking the President 
> hostage...yeah...that's gonna happen.
>
> It looks as if "Life On Mars US" is not going
> to be renewed, which gives me reason to doubt
> my own rant about "deserves" this morning. If
> any terrible remake of a great British TV show
> "deserved" to die a horrible death, it's this
> one.  :-)
>
> But with any luck a second 8-episode season of
> "Ashes To Ashes" (the British followup series
> to "Life On Mars") will be back soon, so I can
> get back into that alternative reality the way
> it was supposed to be done. Philip Glenister
> as Gene Hunt could have eaten Harvey Keitel as
> Gene Hunt for breakfast, and had room for 
> seconds. I actually *like* Harvey Keitel some-
> times, but this is even worse than his perform-
> ance in that godawful Jane Campion disaster
> "Holy Smoke," with him as the stupidest anti-
> cult deprogrammer in the known universe. And 
> if you had the misfortune to see "Holy Smoke," 
> you know how bad bad can be.
I thought last night's "24" was little better than their usual scripts.  
I have "Holy Smoke" on DVD and thought it was fine.   If you ever saw 
Campion's film "Sweetie" then you would strongly suspect she was a TM'er 
(of course who wasn't back in the 1970s).   It includes a group checking 
session  and one of the characters is a TM teacher.   As for "Holy 
Smoke" I kinda liked the mind game that the Winslet character played on 
the Keitel character.   And I'm sure there are lots of dumb 
deprogrammers out there too.  ;-)

There are so many talented people in the world who could do much better 
shows than Hollywood produces for TV but Hollywood is a closed shop.  
Either you fight your way in or have an uncle or aunt in the business.  
And then the bean counters destroy many shows.  The film industries of 
about every country (including Mexico) produce far superior creative 
products.  America is a country of money worshipers or lucratavists (an 
old IBEW term) and they destroyed the place.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Problematic Word In Spirituality

[TurquoiseB]

I just LOVE narcissists.  :-)

They are so self-involved that they can't even
TELL when they are being set up to respond to
a generalized rap THAT WASN'T ABOUT THEM,
as if it *had* been about them.

And yes, I did this on purpose, knowing that
you and Judy would BOTH assume (because I used
your quotes to springboard off of, and because
of your naricissism) that it was All About You.

It wasn't. Judy's silly quote in response to
yours merely provided an excuse to write a 
generalized rap that had been "building up"
for some time. And the only *purpose* in 
writing the rap was to HAVE FUN DOING 
IT, not to "inculcate" it. That's what YOU
do, Edg, not what I do. YOUR ego is in the
business of trying to convince other egos 
that its silly, stuck-in-adolescence ideas 
are worth "implanting" in them. Me, my ego 
is more like Cindy Lauper's. Egos just want 
to have fun.  :-)

But, at the same time, it didn't hurt knowing
that both of you *were* going to react as if 
my generalized rap *was* really All About You. 
OF COURSE you assume that Everything Barry 
Writes Is All About You. "How could it NOT 
be...we're so important and all."  :-)

Dude...to quote Freud on his deathbed...some-
times a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a
rap written in a beachside cafe just for the
fuck of it is just a rap, one that has 
NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.

Your belief that it DOES have something to 
do with you is pathetic, not cosmic.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung  wrote:
>
> Turq,
> 
> What's wrong with having a sense of justice that is personal and deep?
> 
> I don't propose that there SHOULD BE laws mandating that others be kinder, 
> sweeter and truer, but I know that if those qualities were more available in 
> daily life, it would be a better world.  That abused maid in the F&L book was 
> merely an example I could point to that would show where my personal values 
> were being clobbered by Hunter even though it was a work of fiction -- the 
> "innocent bystander" maid episode was where my lines in the sand were being 
> crossed.  I was being required by the author to, as if, put a slasher movie 
> into my consciousness.  If I saw an actual maid being abused like the maid in 
> the book, what kind of person would I be to "just stand there?"  
> 
> Yeah, maybe the real life maid would turn out to be some creep who was 
> getting the same kind of abuse she'd been heaping on others all her life, so 
> I would be wrong if I thought she didn't have it coming (generally speaking 
> -- not specific to the moment,) but in the moment, my knee jerk is to say, 
> "Hey, WTF is going on here?  Let's have some proprieties.  Unbind that 
> terrified maid, and let's get to the bottom of this."  
> 
> If I helped a guy up out of a ditch, only to find that it is Hitler I've 
> helped by my "blanket Samaritanism," where's the loss to the world?  Hitler 
> may have copped a freebie off of me, but he at least had to process the fact 
> that good-hearted neighborly acts can come from those he might despise and 
> his POV will be slightly adjusted thereby -- however small.
> 
> My sense of fairness is personal, and I get to espouse my values, just as you 
> get to espouse yours.  
> 
> Are you really not seeing that your opining below is as personal to you as my 
> own?  Can't you see that you're trying as hard to inculcate your "logical 
> opinions" as others do here?  
> 
> You take on the job of defending the concept that "anyone who thinks they can 
> have clarity about what another person deserves is misguided at the least."  
> Fine.  Defend it. I might even help you do so, but to make it a hammer to 
> bonk me or Judy is merely a cheap shot.  If we're wrong, hammering us will 
> make us wronger still if your bludeoning is potent enough to excite a skewing 
> negativity within our minds.  Why try to harm our "motivation to get clarity" 
> by diverting us with stinging jibes about how worthless our personalities are 
> to you?  
> 
> Yeah, we've both smacked you goodly amounts, and who could blame you for 
> retaliating, but do you actually see what you're doing or is this a blind 
> knee jerking?
> 
> Either way, you might benefit from stepping forward -- retaliation only is 
> upon the one who retaliates, and knee jerking is almost always suspect.  Take 
> your integrity up a notch.
> 
> You've confessed to having been abused by many in your travels.  Yet, you 
> seem hardly moved EVER here by the travails of others here who may be 
> obviously less intelligent than you and have come here intuitively seeking 
> guidence.  Instead, you snark.  Is that a measure of how much abuse you've 
> truly had? Do you have a broken spirit? Have you never been given a break by 
> another that you didn't expect?  Sure you have -- the world is filled with 
> loving folks who did you endless solids -- why aren't you passing it forward 
> here?  
> 
> Okay, you get to abuse me and Judy "cuz we started it," er, maybe, but I see 
> you like som

[FairfieldLife] China responds to Dalia Lama

[do.rflex]

Who's not telling the truth?


Dalai Lama's utter distortion of Tibet history

2009-03-11
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/11/content_10987232.htm


BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- On March 10, 1959, the Dalai Lama and his 
supporters started an armed rebellion in a desperate attempt to preserve 
Tibet's feudal serfdom and split the region from China.

On Tuesday, exactly 50 years later, the Dalai Lama claimed that Tibetans 
have been living in "hell on earth," as if the Tibet under the former feudal 
serfdom ruled by him were a heaven.

The Dalai Lama also alleged at a gathering in India's Dharamsala to mark 
his 50 years in exile that "these 50 years have brought untold suffering and 
destruction to the land and people of Tibet."

Unfortunately, the Dalai Lama has not only been on the wrong side of 
history, but also has got the history upside down. Miseries of "hell on earth" 
and "untold suffering" occurred nowhere but in the slavery Tibet symbolized by 
the Dalai Lama.

Even from historical books written by Western scholars, people can draw the 
conclusion that Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lama clique was a society of 
feudal serfdom that trampled human rights and easily reminded visitors of the 
dark age of medieval Europe.

The feudal serfdom had truly brought "untold suffering and destruction" to 
the serfs and slaves who accounted for 90 percent of the then population.

The slavery Tibet was just "hell on earth" as Carles Bell, who lived in 
Lhasa as a British trade representative in the 1920s, observed that the Dalai 
Lama's theocratic position enabled him to administer rewards and punishments as 
he wished. That was because he held absolute sway over both this life and the 
next of the serfs and coerced them with that power.

In 1959, after the failed rebellion by the Dalai Lama and his followers, 
the central government of China carried out the long-delayed emancipation of 
millions of serfs and slaves in Tibet.

Great achievements have been made in Tibet since then in various fields 
such as politics, economy and culture. The following are just a few examples of 
those achievements:

-- The central government has adopted a policy of "political unity, freedom 
of religious belief and separation of politics and religion" in Tibet to ensure 
locals' political rights and that all religious beliefs are politically equal.

-- Tibet has seen its gross domestic product soar from 174 million yuan 
(25.4 million U.S. dollars) in 1959 to 39.591 billion Yuan (5.78 billion 
dollars) in 2008, with an annual growth rate of8.9 percent.

-- Tibet's roads totaled 51,300 km in 2008, a sharp increase from the 7,300 
km in 1959.

-- The average life expectancy in Tibet has increased from 35.5years in 
1959 to 67 years at present.

Anyone without prejudice will recognize the remarkable progress in Tibet.

"Tibet has achieved remarkable economic progress and undergone profound 
changes since 1959 when its democratic reform began," Argemiro Procopio, a 
professor of international relations at the University of Brasilia, said after 
a trip to Tibet.

Louise T. Blouin Macbain, a well-known publisher and philanthropist, said 
after traveling to Tibet that "what I have seen is positive and I am especially 
thankful to the great efforts made by China over the years in preserving 
Tibetan cultural independence and its monasteries."

When the Dalai Lama claimed there is "cultural genocide" in Tibet, "I don't 
know which Tibet is he actually describing," she said. "As for me, it's not the 
one that I have seen with my own eyes."

Why then such a distortion of historical facts by the so-called Nobel Peace 
Prize winner? Because it is only through the distortion of history could he 
deceive Western audiences and disguise his true intentions.

Since their exile, the Dalai Lama and his followers have never stopped 
pursuing activities to split Tibet from China and restore their theocratic rule 
despite his claims to the opposite.

But just as the rebellion by the Dalai Lama clique failed disgracefully 50 
years ago, its fantasy of "Tibet Independence" is also doomed to failure, 
because of the firm opposition from the Chinese people, including the Tibetans 
in Tibet. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Problematic Word In Spirituality

[Duveyoung]

Turq,

What's wrong with having a sense of justice that is personal and deep?

I don't propose that there SHOULD BE laws mandating that others be kinder, 
sweeter and truer, but I know that if those qualities were more available in 
daily life, it would be a better world.  That abused maid in the F&L book was 
merely an example I could point to that would show where my personal values 
were being clobbered by Hunter even though it was a work of fiction -- the 
"innocent bystander" maid episode was where my lines in the sand were being 
crossed.  I was being required by the author to, as if, put a slasher movie 
into my consciousness.  If I saw an actual maid being abused like the maid in 
the book, what kind of person would I be to "just stand there?"  

Yeah, maybe the real life maid would turn out to be some creep who was getting 
the same kind of abuse she'd been heaping on others all her life, so I would be 
wrong if I thought she didn't have it coming (generally speaking -- not 
specific to the moment,) but in the moment, my knee jerk is to say, "Hey, WTF 
is going on here?  Let's have some proprieties.  Unbind that terrified maid, 
and let's get to the bottom of this."  

If I helped a guy up out of a ditch, only to find that it is Hitler I've helped 
by my "blanket Samaritanism," where's the loss to the world?  Hitler may have 
copped a freebie off of me, but he at least had to process the fact that 
good-hearted neighborly acts can come from those he might despise and his POV 
will be slightly adjusted thereby -- however small.

My sense of fairness is personal, and I get to espouse my values, just as you 
get to espouse yours.  

Are you really not seeing that your opining below is as personal to you as my 
own?  Can't you see that you're trying as hard to inculcate your "logical 
opinions" as others do here?  

You take on the job of defending the concept that "anyone who thinks they can 
have clarity about what another person deserves is misguided at the least."  
Fine.  Defend it. I might even help you do so, but to make it a hammer to bonk 
me or Judy is merely a cheap shot.  If we're wrong, hammering us will make us 
wronger still if your bludeoning is potent enough to excite a skewing 
negativity within our minds.  Why try to harm our "motivation to get clarity" 
by diverting us with stinging jibes about how worthless our personalities are 
to you?  

Yeah, we've both smacked you goodly amounts, and who could blame you for 
retaliating, but do you actually see what you're doing or is this a blind knee 
jerking?

Either way, you might benefit from stepping forward -- retaliation only is upon 
the one who retaliates, and knee jerking is almost always suspect.  Take your 
integrity up a notch.

You've confessed to having been abused by many in your travels.  Yet, you seem 
hardly moved EVER here by the travails of others here who may be obviously less 
intelligent than you and have come here intuitively seeking guidence.  Instead, 
you snark.  Is that a measure of how much abuse you've truly had? Do you have a 
broken spirit? Have you never been given a break by another that you didn't 
expect?  Sure you have -- the world is filled with loving folks who did you 
endless solids -- why aren't you passing it forward here?  

Okay, you get to abuse me and Judy "cuz we started it," er, maybe, but I see 
you like some gang member who delights in newbies cuz he can kick their asses 
in the initiation procedure. You glad hand the newbies often enough, points for 
you introductory welcoming, but also we see some crusader arrive here and 
attempting to "save us," and you just unload on the person instead of seeing if 
there's anything you can do to open a fruitful dialog -- you write the person 
off forever and piss them off enough to do that in return.  You create an enemy 
for life like that -- I've seen you do it time and time again.  And, I've done 
it too, so I'm an authority on this sort of thing.  

Who could come here that you wouldn't have an immediate snark response towards? 
 I really don't know you well enough to answer that, but I'm guessing that a 
sincerely written post from some of the greatest minds that have ever existed 
would be trounced by you first and foremost instead of, say, you finding the 
parts of the posts that do resonate with you and dwelling thereon primarily.  

Which of the following folks could post anything at FFl that you wouldn't take 
some offense with?  Mother Teresa.  Dali Lama.  Ramana. Chopra. Paul McCartney. 
 

See? 

These astoundingly successful folks would find you here ready and willing to 
snark at their POVs by making personal attacks.  If you see yourself otherwise 
and instead would insist that you would be someone who respected their stats 
and would give them a "DESERVED" forbearance in how you handle their "unfounded 
conclusions about spirituality," then, hey, only to the degree that you can 
show this kind of circumspection for "lesser folks" can 

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Problematic Word In Spirituality

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> This sunny, not-having-to-work-today cafe rap 
> was inspired by an exchange between Edg and 
> Judy, but as much fun as that is, it's not 
> really an attempt to slam them personally for 
> anything they said. It's more of an examination 
> of a *concept* that I think is at the heart of
> most of what is wrong with spirituality. The
> exchange went like this:
> 
> > > Thanks for the support, but I do think that Turq
> > > correctly nailed me on being a hypocrite in kind
> > > even if my degree of using negative imagery is
> > > arguably less than the intensity of Hunter's
> > > fictions.
> > 
> > It's not the degree of intensity so much as the
> > nature of the target. I'd say it's worse to inflict
> > (even fictionally) one's sadistic impulses on
> > innocent bystanders than on perceived villains.
> > This distinction was obscured by deleting that
> > part of your comments. That's what I was pointing
> > out.
> 
> What Judy seems to be concerned about in the quote
> above is the "innocent bystanders." It's "worse" 
> that Bad Things happen to them than if they happened
> to Bad People. Bad Things should only happen to "per-
> ceived villains." It's as if the "distinction" she is
> making is that the innocent bystanders don't *deserve* 
> the Bad Things happening to them.

Oh, BTW, Barry, would you say this falls into the
category of "Perceived Villains Who Deserve to Have
Bad Things Happen to Them (Fictional Division)"?

"In related news, a poll conducted at bellweather
Internet chat site Fairfield Life indicates that the
popularity rating on that site for posters Raunchydog
and Judy Stein (considered representative of Republican
tactics) has dropped in the last week from the next-to-
lowest Category Y ('Strident revenge harpies from Hell')
to the lowest possible Category Z ('"Dumb angry cunts
too stupid to live.')"

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Needs Your Help

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Actually, Rick, the worst thing that one can do if they are a TM 
> > > supporter is to visit the link.
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > > 
> > > This is a diary entry on dailykos. Thousands of
> > > members of dailykos submit entries daily. ONLY THE
> > > ONES THAT HAVE THE MOST HITS/ADDED COMMENTS GET
> > > PRIORITY/EXPOSURE ON THE DAILYKOS HOME PAGE.
> > 
> > Wrong. Diaries get on the front page Recommended
> > list via recommendations (a specific process) from
> > registered Daily Kos users, not from "hits" or
> > comments. All nonregistered folks can do on the
> > site is read the diaries and comments (but you
> > *can* vote in the polls).
> 
> Then what people should do if they don't want this article to get attention 
> is to register and do a "non-recommend" (if such an option exists).

Read the rest of what I wrote, please.

> > Also:
> > 
> > You can't make a comment unless you're a registered
> > user.
> > 
> > If you register, you aren't allowed to comment for
> > 24 hours.
> > 
> > Diaries can only be recommended for 24 hours after
> > they're posted. Knapp's diary was posted on Friday,
> > so it's too late.

[FairfieldLife] Benefit Conscert; with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr sold out

[nablusoss1008]

http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused, says you

[I am the eternal]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:32 AM, menkemeyer  wrote:
> Dear Dear eternal,
>
>    i predict Obama has the "Force"  with him and you are still hording Y2K 
> rations in your basement.
> Chris
>

Hmm.  Thanks for the reminder.  Yup, Y2K was real.  It was just offset
by a decade.

Having a cellar full of food sounds like a good idea about now.

But...we don't have cellars here.  You see we build on top of bedrock
here.  If you want a cellar you need to blast one out of bedrock.  Not
easy to get a permit to do such a thing if you want to spend the money
to do it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: NBC's 'Kings'

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
>
> Now this might be interesting if well executed.  It is a series 
> about the US as a corporate backed monarchy with Ian McShane 
> ("Deadwood") as the King. It's is a modern update of the Biblical 
> King David story.  Debuts this Sunday on NBC.
> http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/06/nbcs-kings-scri.html

This sounds interesting. Ian McShane alone
makes it a "must see" series, at least long
enough to give it a chance.

My copy of "Castle" is still downloading, so
I can't comment on it. I don't have high hopes
for it; I just love Nathan Fillion, and hope
that he lands a role someday that is halfway
as good as Captain Tightpants in "Firefly."

I'm still fuming about my "guilty pleasure"
series, "The L Word." After having set us up
all season to find out who killed the horrific
megabitch that we in the audience all wanted
to kill, too...they didn't. They "played it
out" such that *everyone* at the party at which
she wound up dead in the swimming pool had good
reason to want her dead. And then they left it
there. Interesting, I guess, but I'm left feel-
ing the same thing that one reviewer of the
episode said in the title of his or her review:
"The L Words: Lame, Lousy Letdown."

And, thanks to you, I'm now stuck watching "24."
As comedy, mind you, but sometimes it's so bad
that the laughs come few and far between. A
bunch of terrorists finding a secret way into
the *White House* and taking the President 
hostage...yeah...that's gonna happen.

It looks as if "Life On Mars US" is not going
to be renewed, which gives me reason to doubt
my own rant about "deserves" this morning. If
any terrible remake of a great British TV show
"deserved" to die a horrible death, it's this
one.  :-)

But with any luck a second 8-episode season of
"Ashes To Ashes" (the British followup series
to "Life On Mars") will be back soon, so I can
get back into that alternative reality the way
it was supposed to be done. Philip Glenister
as Gene Hunt could have eaten Harvey Keitel as
Gene Hunt for breakfast, and had room for 
seconds. I actually *like* Harvey Keitel some-
times, but this is even worse than his perform-
ance in that godawful Jane Campion disaster
"Holy Smoke," with him as the stupidest anti-
cult deprogrammer in the known universe. And 
if you had the misfortune to see "Holy Smoke," 
you know how bad bad can be.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TTC notes on initiating children

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:

> I'm sorry if I don't think that this project
> is likely to work out well. I'd like to see
> it work out well. 

Joke of the week !

[FairfieldLife] Krishna Das FF Concert

[dhamiltony2k5]

upcoming Krishna Das Kirtan (call and response chanting) concert that is 
happening in Fairfield on Monday, April 13th at 8PM in Fairfield.  The event 
will happen at the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts.  You can 
view the details at the Sondheim website 
http://www.fairfieldacc.com/sondheimcenter.html

This will be the third time Krishna Das has performed in our city and we are 
very excited to be welcoming him back again.  This time seating is RESERVED so 
you can select the area of the theater you want to sit in.  So get your tickets 
early for best seats.

Information and purchasing tickets can be done on Krishna Das's website at:  
www.krishnadas.com - see Tour Schedule - or directly at IowaTix at 
http://www.iowatix.com 

[FairfieldLife] NBC's 'Kings'

[Bhairitu]

Now this might be interesting if well executed.  It is a series about 
the US as a corporate backed monarchy with Ian McShane ("Deadwood") as 
the King.  It's is a modern update of the Biblical King David story.   
Debuts this Sunday on NBC.
http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/06/nbcs-kings-scri.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Needs Your Help

[shempmcgurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"  wrote:
> >
> > Actually, Rick, the worst thing that one can do if they are a TM supporter 
> > is to visit the link.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > This is a diary entry on dailykos. Thousands of
> > members of dailykos submit entries daily. ONLY THE
> > ONES THAT HAVE THE MOST HITS/ADDED COMMENTS GET
> > PRIORITY/EXPOSURE ON THE DAILYKOS HOME PAGE.
> 
> Wrong. Diaries get on the front page Recommended
> list via recommendations (a specific process) from
> registered Daily Kos users, not from "hits" or
> comments. All nonregistered folks can do on the
> site is read the diaries and comments (but you
> *can* vote in the polls).



Then what people should do if they don't want this article to get attention is 
to register and do a "non-recommend" (if such an option exists).





> 
> Also:
> 
> You can't make a comment unless you're a registered
> user.
> 
> If you register, you aren't allowed to comment for
> 24 hours.
> 
> Diaries can only be recommended for 24 hours after
> they're posted. Knapp's diary was posted on Friday,
> so it's too late.
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] For the Fillion Fans on FFL

[Bhairitu]

Bhairitu wrote:
> "Castle" tonight at 10 PM ET and PT on ABC.  I know Turq will be 
> downloading.
We'll see if it lasts any more than four episodes.  They've borrowed 
from "Californication" (book author with daughter), the mother from 
"Huff" (Blythe Danner's award winning portrayal of Huff's mother) and 
the rest is YADS (yet another detective series).  Not even Fillion's 
humor can save this one.

One interesting thing I've noticed with the "Sarah Conner Chronicles" is 
the switch to character driven episodes.  Like Asian films its much more 
about the character and what is happening to them rather than the focus 
on the action driven by the character in American films.  My guess is 
that the producers or Fox want the series to sell well to foreign 
audiences so forget about Americans who don't have any money to buy 
what's in the commercials anyway.  This is good because I've always 
preferred the way foreign films are made.  In a way this really makes 
"Chronicles" look like it was written by a bunch of writers from daytime 
soaps.  Let's see if this phenomenon spreads.
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused

[I am the eternal]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM, raunchydog  wrote:
> Presidentin' is Hard http://tinyurl.com/78zntd

Man, I wish I could find the spoof of former president Ronald Reagan
telling someone about the gig he had playing the President of the
United States.  The gig lasted an entire 8 years, much longer than his
stint with on TV sponsored by GE.  Funny and perhaps true, considering
the fact that Reagan was the ultimate delegater.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narcissism? Or? (Hunter S. Thompson, Was: Slide show of Brahmasthan of India)

[Duveyoung]

My narcissism has been a blessing in that I get to experience the world's 
indifference to ME -- a constant reminder that ego is not the place to identify 
with and reside within no matter how spectacular and divine it might be. In my 
case, of course, I have been given such a delicious brain that I am like 
Ulysses tied to the mast and hearing the siren call to the rocks of ignorance.

Anyone else out there want to admit to being a narcissist?  If not, then all 
must bow to my expertise!  Hee hee.

So far, none of the comments I've read seem to grok narcissism -- so that's 
good news, eh?  It must mean that none of you are true world class narcissists 
who have seen it from the inside.

Bwhahahahah!  At last I rule!

Narcissism is deafness.  You must struggle to hear another's POV -- not because 
"they're wrong," but because one's own views are so vast and as yet 
unmanifested in their full glory that there's no time to squeak into one's day 
any interest in others.  

Try it -- it's no vacation -- one's mind becomes as if an anti-ashram that 
forces one, by dint of a constant banging on the ego, to see that life within a 
single mind is to be eschewed.  Even when one is mindfully trying to be in 
someone's shoes, it's almost impossible to keep at bay a flurry of assumptions 
of one's ego and, instead, innocently take the other's mind "as it comes."  The 
narcissist's ego is a yapping nippy lapdog that violates any attempt at 
communion.  

Narcissism is a noise, a torturous droning of the ego's tin cup raking along 
its jailcell bars.

Edg




--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"  
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung  wrote:
> > >
> > > As a narcissist, I have to protest that the
> > > definition and use of the word is being
> > > fuzzified by the below kind of thinking.
> > 
> > A narcissist is much more than being self-absorbed.  I
> > think it does require the inflated sense of self
> > doesn't it?
> 
> But that inflation doesn't necessarily reflect high
> self-esteem.
> 
> My mother had very low self-esteem, but the way she
> behaved indicated a sub- (un-?)conscious sense that
> she was the actor and everybody else the passive
> recipient of what she did and said. She was unable
> to end a phone call, for example, even if the person
> had called her just to chat, because she was afraid
> if she did, their feelings would be terribly hurt.
> So she'd get stuck on the phone for hours with
> somebody she wasn't all that interested in chatting
> with, until *they* were out of things to say and
> ended the call.
> 
> In other words, even with the low self-esteem, she
> had an inflated sense of her own ability to affect
> other people, and because of her low opinion of
> herself, she was always concerned that she was going
> to do it *badly* and affect them negatively, way out
> of proportion to her real importance in their lives.
> 
> This was extremely stressful for her, needless to
> say, tied her in knots and really got in her way a
> lot of the time.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama is exhaused

[raunchydog]

Presidentin' is Hard http://tinyurl.com/78zntd



  [http://makethemaccountable.com/images/0903/PicturingALadder.jpg]



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal 
wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Rick Archer r...@... wrote:
> > Interesting. I saw a subtle look of dread cross his face as he
glanced at
> > the White House while getting off the helicopter returning from Camp
David
> > yesterday. Imagine how swamped an older, less capable man like John
McCain
> > would be at this point. I hope he keeps up his exercise routine,
stays off
> > the ciggies, and learns how to pace himself.
>
> More than likely he is micromanaging, as he wants to put the Obama
> stamp on everything.  Ronald Reagan was never overwhelmed.  Reagan was
> the ultimate CEO.  He asked people to give him the high concept of
> memos.  He believed that if you chose the right people, give them free
> reign, they'll do OK.  John McCain might not be so overwhelmed as
> Obama.
>
> Obama's idea of making whitehouse.gov a portal to and from the
> American people with blogs, texting, posting all regulations and
> legislation for comment didn't sound like a good idea and will most
> probably be abandoned.  Whitehouse business moves much to fast to keep
> this sort of thing up.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beyond Stem Cells: Obama Overturns Bush War On Science

[Duveyoung]

I'd like to see Obama take on the AMA -- The AMA prevents medical schools from 
expanding the number of students they admit, and they favor men over women too. 
 They want doctors to be rare so as to keep prices high.  There's tons and tons 
of smart folks being rejected solely because of this one reason.  Keeps doctors 
on their pedestals, ya see?  To the extent that any doctor supports this 
policy, he's violating his Hippocratic Oath.  We could easily have twice as 
many doctors in the USA in less than a decade if this policy were to be 
outlawed.  But, Obama's taking money from BigPharm, so it looks like we won't 
see Obama step up to this plate.

Edg

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex"  wrote:
> >
> > 
> 
> > 
> > "Promoting science isn't just about providing resources, it is also about 
> > protecting free and open inquiry," Obama said. "It is about letting 
> > scientists like those here today do their jobs, free from manipulation or 
> > coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when it's inconvenient 
> > especially when it's inconvenient. It is about ensuring that scientific 
> > data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda and that 
> > we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology."
> > 
> > He said his memorandum is meant to restore "scientific integrity to 
> > government decision-making." He called it the beginning of a process of 
> > ensuring his administration bases its decision on sound science; appoints 
> > scientific advisers based on their credentials, not their politics; and is 
> > honest about the science behind its decisions.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Science really suffered under Bush, including medical research.  One argument 
> I get when I work on promoting a national health care solution is that the US 
> will no longer be the lead in new health discoveries if we go to a national 
> system.  But the two are unrelated.  Many other countries, from France to 
> Russia, are pushing hard with research. Our government substantially reduced  
> funding of university research scientists, forcing them to take money from 
> special interests like drug companies.  Another economic stimulus:  finance 
> independent research.
>

[FairfieldLife] Dalai Lama says Tibet 'hell on earth' under China

[do.rflex]

The Dalai Lama said today more and more Chinese were beginning to see a problem 
with Beijing's rule over Tibet, lamenting how the homeland he fled 50 years ago 
had become a "hell on earth".

Speaking before some 10,000 Tibetans from around the world, the 73-year-old 
slammed China for bringing "untold suffering and destruction" during a series 
of repressive and violent campaigns in Tibet since 1959.

"These thrust Tibetans into such depths of suffering and hardship that they 
literally experienced hell on earth," he said from the main Buddhist temple in 
Dharamsala, the north Indian hill town where the Tibetan government-in-exile is 
based. 

"The immediate result of these campaigns was the deaths of hundreds of 
thousands of Tibetans."

China tightened security across ethnic Tibetan areas, aiming to head off 
potential unrest on the sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising that 
prompted the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in India.

Monks, who have initiated many Tibetan protests in recent years, told Reuters 
they were under close surveillance and riot police blocked roads and turned 
away foreign journalists from parts of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces.

Later today, the Dalai Lama told a news conference the voice of support for 
Tibet within China was rising steadily.

"More and more Chinese (are) now starting to acknowledge there is problem 
there," he said. "In fact, quite a number of Chinese high officials, (their) 
family members (are) showing interest in Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism."

About 20 young men and women, dressed mostly in black Tibetan dress to mourn 
victims of the crackdown, came in before today's speech playing drums and 
bagpipes and singing "Rise up, rise up".

The Tibetan anthem was also played and a minute's silence was observed in the 
memory of victims of last year's Chinese crackdown in Tibet.

The Dalai Lama mourned what he called the suffering and destruction wrought by 
Chinese Communist policies and campaigns.

Many were seen crying with folded hands as he said: "Even today, Tibetans in 
Tibet live in constant fear.

"Today, the religion, culture, language and identity, which successive 
generations of Tibetans have considered more precious than their lives, are 
nearing extinction. In short, the Tibetan people are regarded like criminals 
deserving to be put to death."

Shortly after the speech, thousands of Tibetans, many among them children, 
marched through the narrow streets of Dharamsala carrying "Free Tibet" posters 
and protesting against a Chinese security clampdown in Tibet.

"Whatever the Dalai Lama said is right, we totally believe in him and will 
follow him," Rinzin Choedon, a 12-year-old school student, said.

In the high plateau of Qinghai province which borders Tibet, meanwhile, riot 
police with signs banning firearms blocked roads and turned back reporters 
trying to enter the monastery town of Tongren, known as Rebkong in Tibetan.

"Can't you see? It's so tense. What can I say about March 10? Look at all these 
soldiers and police here," said Manang, a farmer.

Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily carried an editorial today 
extolling Tibet's development in the last 50 years and slamming what it called 
the misery of the old feudal society, in which people fought dogs for food and 
illiteracy was widespread.

"Nobody hopes to go backwards in history, and only a few slave owners dwell on 
the life that once was. Tibet's happiness today is the happiness of the people, 
not that of the slave owners," it said.

The Dalai Lama also used the anniversary as a chance to renew a demand for 
"meaningful autonomy" for the region. But Beijing says his calls for Tibetan 
high-level autonomy are tantamount to a demand for independence.

Many exiled Tibetans would like to go further than the conciliatory approach of 
their spiritual leader. A meeting of exiles last November reaffirmed his 
"middle way" path, but many said their patience with Beijing may not last. 

~~The Independent [UK] - http://snipurl.com/diyqf

Re: [FairfieldLife] Obama is exhaused

[I am the eternal]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Rick Archer  wrote:
> Interesting. I saw a subtle look of dread cross his face as he glanced at
> the White House while getting off the helicopter returning from Camp David
> yesterday. Imagine how swamped an older, less capable man like John McCain
> would be at this point. I hope he keeps up his exercise routine, stays off
> the ciggies, and learns how to pace himself.

More than likely he is micromanaging, as he wants to put the Obama
stamp on everything.  Ronald Reagan was never overwhelmed.  Reagan was
the ultimate CEO.  He asked people to give him the high concept of
memos.  He believed that if you chose the right people, give them free
reign, they'll do OK.  John McCain might not be so overwhelmed as
Obama.

Obama's idea of making whitehouse.gov a portal to and from the
American people with blogs, texting, posting all regulations and
legislation for comment didn't sound like a good idea and will most
probably be abandoned.  Whitehouse business moves much to fast to keep
this sort of thing up.

[FairfieldLife] Skeptics Dispute Climate Worries and Each Other

[do.rflex]

"Major corporations are painting themselves 
green around global warming," Mr. Bast said, 
adding that the companies have shifted 
their lobbying and public relations efforts 
toward trying to shape climate legislation 
in their favor. He said that contributions, 
over all, had continued to rise.

But Kert Davies, a climate campaigner for 
Greenpeace, who is attending the Heartland 
event, said that the experts giving talks 
were "a shrinking collection of extremists" 
and that they were "left talking to themselves."

By ANDREW C. REVKIN - New York Times, March 8, 2009 


--More than 600 self-professed climate skeptics are meeting in a Times Square 
hotel this week to challenge what has become a broad scientific and political 
consensus: that without big changes in energy choices, humans will dangerously 
heat up the planet.

The three-day International Conference on Climate Change — organized by the 
Heartland Institute, a nonprofit group seeking deregulation and unfettered 
markets — brings together political figures, conservative campaigners, 
scientists, an Apollo astronaut and the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav 
Klaus.

Organizers say the discussions, which began Sunday, are intended to counter the 
Obama administration and Democratic lawmakers, who have vowed to tackle global 
warming with legislation requiring cuts in the greenhouse gases that scientists 
have linked to rising temperatures.

But two years after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change concluded with near certainty that most of the recent warming was a 
result of human influences, global warming's skeptics are showing signs of 
internal rifts and weakening support.

The meeting participants hold a wide range of views of climate science. Some 
concede that humans probably contribute to global warming but they argue that 
the shift in temperatures poses no urgent risk. Others attribute the warming, 
along with cooler temperatures in recent years, to solar changes or ocean 
cycles.

But large corporations like Exxon Mobil, which in the past financed the 
Heartland Institute and other groups that challenged the climate consensus, 
have reduced support. Many such companies no longer dispute that the greenhouse 
gases produced by burning fossil fuels pose risks.

>From 1998 to 2006, Exxon Mobil, for example, contributed more than $600,000 to 
>Heartland, according to annual reports of charitable contributions from the 
>company and company foundations.

Alan T. Jeffers, a spokesman for Exxon Mobil, said by e-mail that the company 
had ended support "to several public policy research groups whose position on 
climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how 
the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an 
environmentally responsible manner."

Joseph L. Bast, the president of the Heartland Institute, said Exxon and other 
companies were just shifting their stance to improve their image. The Heartland 
meeting, he said, was the last bastion of intellectual honesty on the climate 
issue.

"Major corporations are painting themselves green around global warming," Mr. 
Bast said, adding that the companies have shifted their lobbying and public 
relations efforts toward trying to shape climate legislation in their favor. He 
said that contributions, over all, had continued to rise.

But Kert Davies, a climate campaigner for Greenpeace, who is attending the 
Heartland event, said that the experts giving talks were "a shrinking 
collection of extremists" and that they were "left talking to themselves."

Organizers expected to top the attendance of about 500 at the first Heartland 
conference, held last year. They also point to the speaker's roster, which 
included Mr. Klaus and Harrison Schmitt, a geologist, Apollo astronaut and 
former senator.

A centerpiece of the 2008 meeting was the release of a report, "Nature, Not 
Human Activity, Rules the Planet." The document was expressly designed as a 
challenge to the reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

This year, the meeting will focus on a more nuanced question: "Global warming: 
Was it ever a crisis?"

Most of the talks at the meeting will challenge climate orthodoxy. But some 
presenters, including prominent figures who have been vocal in their criticism 
in the past, say they will also call on their colleagues to synchronize the 
arguments they are using against plans to curb greenhouse gases.

In a keynote talk Sunday night, Richard S. Lindzen, a professor at M.I.T. and a 
longtime skeptic of the mainstream consensus that global warming poses a 
danger, first delivered a biting attack on what he called the "climate alarm 
movement."

There is no solid scientific evidence to back up the models used by climate 
scientists who warn of dire consequences if warming continues, he said. But Dr. 
Lindzen also criticized widely publicized assertions by other skeptics that 
variations in the sun were d

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Signs of Kali Yuga

[Kirk]

Don't trust that bhagavan kalki bastard. Or nirmala devi. they are both aweful 
scoundrels.
  - Original Message - 
  From: cardemaister 
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:28 PM
  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Signs of Kali Yuga



  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John"  wrote:
  >
  > To All:
  > 
  > A recent article shows that we are undergoing the effects of Kali Yuga. It 
is said that eventually the entire world population will be occupied mostly by 
mlecchas, the lowest type of human beings ever. At that time, Kalki will 
incarnate to wreak havoc among the population of the earth.
  > 
  > 
  > 


  Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon: Search Results
1 mleccha m. a foreigner , barbarian , non-Aryan , man of an outcast 
race , any person who does not speak Sanskr2it and does not conform to the 
usual Hindu1 institutions S3Br. &c. &c. (%{I} f.) ; a person who lives by 
agriculture or by making weapons L. ; a wicked or bad man , sinner L. ; 
ignorance of Sanskr2it , barbarism Nya1yam. Sch. ; n. copper L. ; vermilion L. 




  

Re: [FairfieldLife] TM Needs Your Help

[Kirk]

I tried to comment but his page is being overhit right now. I am not afraid to 
say it. TM should be made available to school children, though it should be 
available for those kids to make their own clubs as extracurricular activities 
if they so choose. However TM should be taught as Eastern Spiritual technique 
basued in Hinduism and Yoga philosophy.  

The attempt to separate TM from its roots has made it a difficult 
transformative tool to fully integrate. Thus I have had problems integrating 
into society at large.  Not to mention constant asking for money. I hope people 
here get that riches in Hinduism are worshipped as Shri, thus the 'Glory' 
aspect of TMO will never be swept aside for some more noble humanist approach 
to life. 

TM is a good tool, especially with a strong support group. Hey when I went to 
MIU for four years I received some indoctrination. But later, after studying 
tantra I would say TM is dead on.  TMO is not. 

This is what I would have for J Knapp.  Of course, I was strong willed and not 
a person to easily give it over to anyone. Also, during my time at MIU there 
were no sexual abuse allegations that anyone had ever mentioned to me. So I 
strongly doubt it was widespread.  I would dare anyone so abused to step forth 
now here and declare it. 

Except for that loony named Lon from AMT. He was psycho. And no TMer. 
  - Original Message - 
  From: Rick Archer 
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:01 PM
  Subject: [FairfieldLife] TM Needs Your Help


  PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS

   

   

  We need your help, and it will only take two minutes... JUST CLICK ON 
THE LINK BELOW AND VOTE!!

   


  Dear Friend,

 As you know we are on the verge of an historical concert with 
Paul McCartney on April 4th to raise funds for millions of children to have the 
opportunity to learn TM on a voluntary basis and in the setting of their choice 
ie club, college, charter school etc. 

   

  Unfortunately one misguided man, Mr. John Knapp, has mounted a 
campaign against this laudible goal.  He is making waves on the internet with 
senseless allegations. We need to protect our reputation and the reputation of 
Sir Paul McCartney and all is musical guests who are so generously donating 
their time and talent for this worthy cause.

   

  Here is what to do:

   

  Click on this link and scroll to the bottom of the article and VOTE 
IN THE POLL.   

  Most likely you will want to select the first option.  

   

  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/6/12045/65504/403/705389

   

   

   

  If you have time please also ADD A COMMENT below the Poll Section.

   

  You may want to convey one or two of the following points in a brief 
comment:

   

  * Mr. Knapps accusations are nonsense

   

  * The David Lynch Foundation provides scholarships for young people 
to learn TM in a variety of settings including:  after school clubs, charter 
schools, community groups

   and always with thier parents permission.   There is no specific 
agenda to focus on Public Schools the foundation goes where it is invited by 
parents, teachers and students.

   

  * It is a totally voluntary program with a long waiting list of 
thousands of students and parents who want to learn

   

  * TM is a scientifically validated and non-religious program



  *The experience of you and your children with TM



   

   

  Thank you!




  -- 
  Keith DeBoer
  719-439-9128 Mobile and Voice Mail
  641-469-6028 Office (no voice mail)

 
   

   




  

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Needs Your Help

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity  wrote:
> >
> >  Mind Reading, a  Poem
> > 
> >  Ruth is afraid 
> >  how insecure 
> >  she'd much rather 
> >  makes her feel better
> >  her own sour and significantly ignorant view 
> >  She's just the kind of person 
> > 
> > :)
> 
> Very funny. But a more accurate
> Judy-analysis-of-Ruth poem IMO is:
> 
> Ruth is a bitch 
> who refuses to acknowledge
> that I am the Alpha dog here
> Must destroy
> 
> This is a multi-use Judypoem. Feel free to
> replace Ruth's name with Sal's, or the name
> of anyone else whom Judy looks upon as a 
> rival for her "authority." It's not so much 
> a TB thang as a pissing contest thang.

Fantasy, Barry. This is your fantasy, not the
reality.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narcissism? Or? (Hunter S. Thompson, Was: Slide show of Brahmasthan of India)

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" 
> >  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > As a narcissist, I have to protest that the
> > > > definition and use of the word is being
> > > > fuzzified by the below kind of thinking.
> > > 
> > > A narcissist is much more than being self-absorbed.  I
> > > think it does require the inflated sense of self
> > > doesn't it?
> > 
> > But that inflation doesn't necessarily reflect high
> > self-esteem.
> > 
> > My mother had very low self-esteem, but the way she
> > behaved indicated a sub- (un-?)conscious sense that
> > she was the actor and everybody else the passive
> > recipient of what she did and said. She was unable
> > to end a phone call, for example, even if the person
> > had called her just to chat, because she was afraid
> > if she did, their feelings would be terribly hurt.
> > So she'd get stuck on the phone for hours with
> > somebody she wasn't all that interested in chatting
> > with, until *they* were out of things to say and
> > ended the call.
> > 
> > In other words, even with the low self-esteem, she
> > had an inflated sense of her own ability to affect
> > other people...
> 
> This explains SO MUCH. 
> 
> And the amazing thing is that Judy is
> completely unaware that she is describing
> herself.

I was pretty sure Barry would attempt to push this
notion, even though it's completely contrary to
what I described of my mother's behavior.

Look at what Barry snipped:

"...and because of her low opinion of herself, she
was always concerned that she was going to do it
*badly* and affect them negatively, way out of
proportion to her real importance in their lives."

He couldn't possibly quote that part without having
his bash look utterly idiotic. So he snipped it.

What integrity.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TTC notes on initiating children

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> >
> > According to Lynch, a full follow-up program will be
> > provided. Also, faculty and staff will be trained in
> > supervision of the Quiet Time period.
> 
> I hear that one of the people doing the 
> training will be the Dean of MUM who was
> in charge of supervising Suvender Sem.
> 
> Ouch, right?
> 
> THAT is the problem with Lynch's project.
> The basic idea is well-intentioned and 
> might even work out except for one thing 
> -- it has to be implemented by the TM
> movement.
> 
> Has there ever been ANYTHING, no matter
> how simple, that the TM movement has not
> been able to fuck up?
> 
> I mean, the only people who will be *able*
> to teach these kids to meditate will be
> "recertified" TM teachers, right? So right
> there you are talking about a group of 
> people so on top of reality that they were
> willing to give up any existing careers, 
> pay a *second time* for a Teacher Training
> Course they had already attended, and then
> promise to work full-time for the rest of
> their lives for an organization that was
> going to pay them peanuts. And they actually
> *expected* the checks to arrive every month.
> 
> THESE are the people who are going to be
> supposedly teaching all these "millions" of
> kids to meditate, and "training" school
> officials and parents how to monitor them
> and deal with their questions.
> 
> I'm sorry if I don't think that this project
> is likely to work out well. I'd like to see
> it work out well. I'd like them to just teach
> these kids TM and then KEEP THEIR CULT 
> HANDS OFF OF THE KIDS AFTERWARDS.
> 
> NO trying to get them to learn "advanced tech-
> niques" or the siddhis. NO trying to indoc-
> trinate them in the "lifestyle choices" that
> we see imposed on MUM students. NO belief
> systems that claim that they are not religions
> but then have full-moon "celebrations" for 
> Hindu dieties. Just teach them to meditate
> and GO AWAY.
> 
> But is that likely to happen, given the nature
> of the "recerts?" Even NABBY was not fanatical
> enough to become a "recert," right? So what 
> does that say about the people who DID, and 
> who will be teaching these kids?
> 
> Think about it. Then think of the history of
> the TM movement. Going from "#1 market share" 
> in the world of meditation to being able to
> market TM *ONLY* to kids who are being PAID
> to learn it? That's not an accident; that is
> the result of the consciousness of the people
> who run the organization. 
> 
> THESE are the people who will be running the
> teach-a-million-kids-to-meditate program. This 
> thought must keep David Lynch awake at night, 
> or give him nightmares.

Given that Lynch is funding the whole thing, the
TMO is going to have to take account of how he
wants the program run.

We certainly don't know that any of the awfulness
Barry proposes above is actually going to be the
way it's done. We do know the TMO is perfectly
capable of doing a 180 on its previous policies,
so to just *assume* it will be only recerts who
teach and follow up with the kids doesn't make a
lot of sense, nor does the assumption that the 
kids will be pushed to change their lifestyle or
learn additional techniques or participate in
celebrations.

Lynch just wants them to learn and practice plain-
vanilla TM. It's tough enough to convince parents
and teachers of the value of a Quiet Time program;
anything more would quickly wreck this goal.

Unless Lynch is a complete fool, he'll see to it 
that the program stays within those limits.

[FairfieldLife] It may be time to legalize marijuana

[Robert]

It may be time to legalize marijuana




By CURTIS PENFOLD/ VOICE CORRESPONDENT
THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER
Posted Mar 09, 2009 @ 11:54 PM




What do President Barack Obama, Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps and 
musician John Lennon all have in common?

They’ve all smoked pot. 

An anti-drug speaker once told a group of students that if we smoke pot, we 
won’t get anywhere. This speaker must not have been aware of these influential 
men. Any facts she had to show the evils of marijuana were made void by that 
statement.

I do not support the smoking of marijuana. Studies have shown it to be harmful 
to the lungs and the brain. But the same effects can be found with tobacco and 
alcohol, which are legal.

When 98 million Americans over age 12 have tried marijuana, according to the 
National Institute on Drug Abuse, maybe we need to reconsider the most popular 
illicit drug in America.

Those who would not like to legalize marijuana may argue that we can’t legalize 
every deviant behavior simply because many individuals do it. 

This was the same thinking that fueled prohibition in the early 20th century. 
Many people supported prohibition, but it failed miserably and created many 
problems that still affect America today. The largest of these problems was the 
growth of criminal organizations. Huge numbers of common people were willing to 
support these criminal organizations by buying alcohol.

Today, marijuana brings in more than $2 billion for the economy of Colombia. 
Most of the marijuana that comes into the United States is grown in Colombia, 
Mexico or Canada, and much of the trade is overseen by crime lords and 
distributed by street gangs. If marijuana were legalized today, all these crime 
lords and street gangs would lose their biggest investments, thus making the 
production of heroin and cocaine more difficult.

While we’re on the topic of heroin and cocaine, I do want to mention what a 
devastating effect these drugs have on people. Those are drugs that can lead 
quickly to the downfall of a society. 
We need to put as many efforts as we can into getting these drugs out of our 
country. 

And yet, so much of our law enforcement is wasted on punishing pot users. 
Sixty-five percent of pot-related arrests involve only possession, according to 
cannabisstatistics.com. Should Michael Phelps be arrested for doing what 98 
million Americans have done before?

Sometimes, marijuana is called a gateway drug. Nearly 50 percent of all high 
school seniors have tried marijuana, according to cannabisstatistics.com, and 
those who use marijuana are much more likely to use harder drugs. The reason is 
simple: When so many people participate 
in an illegal action with very few consequences, it makes them question the 
purpose of law. They are much more willing to participate in illegal behavior. 
The police have bigger fish to fry than pot users. 

If marijuana becomes legal, we can tax sales of the drug. We also can make its 
production safer, especially since marijuana is 10 to 15 times more potent than 
it was in the 1960s.

If we legalize marijuana, at least we know that if a person buys it, he or she 
is not funding crime. And let me tell you, a lot of people are buying it.

One of those who once used it now holds the most important position in America.
Curtis Penfold is a senior at Auburn High School.
 
Comments:



 



You make a lot of sense. Considering most all the boomers running this country 
have smoked it, maybe marijuana has a chance of being legalized. It is a 
powerful healing herb, reputed to be an ingredient in the anointing oil in the 
Bible (kanna-bosem). It relieves many health problems, such as seizures, pain, 
nausea, asthma (yes, even smoking it), no appetite, and many more. Most people 
do not get addicted and immediately start stealing or smoking crack. The worst 
thing that can happen to a pot smoker is that they are busted. This breaks up 
families and reduces people to poverty, all for a moralistic judgment that 
alcohol is good and marijuana is bad. 

I grew up in a home where alcohol and marijuana were present. I can tell you 
that with my parents, alcohol was by far a greater poison and hindrance to a 
functioning family life. After the alcohol was gone, the family functions fine 
with marijuana only present. I can tell you, alcohol is nearly pure evil for 
some people. However, I and many other people drink alcohol occasionally in 
moderation with no ill effects. 

Put the money we spend in marijuana prosecution into marijuana cultivation. Tax 
the sales, and our country will have a lot more revenue to work with. Our 
country is all about punishment, but we no longer have the economic means to 
punish people. The sooner we realize this, the better. We have to face facts, 
and decades of marijuana control and punishment simply do not work. Kids who go 
through DARE are more likely to smoke pot than kids who don't.
  


 


  

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Most Problematic Word In Spirituality

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> This sunny, not-having-to-work-today cafe rap 
> was inspired by an exchange between Edg and 
> Judy, but as much fun as that is, it's not 
> really an attempt to slam them personally for 
> anything they said. It's more of an examination 
> of a *concept* that I think is at the heart of
> most of what is wrong with spirituality. The
> exchange went like this:
> 
> > > Thanks for the support, but I do think that Turq
> > > correctly nailed me on being a hypocrite in kind
> > > even if my degree of using negative imagery is
> > > arguably less than the intensity of Hunter's
> > > fictions.
> > 
> > It's not the degree of intensity so much as the
> > nature of the target. I'd say it's worse to inflict
> > (even fictionally) one's sadistic impulses on
> > innocent bystanders than on perceived villains.
> > This distinction was obscured by deleting that
> > part of your comments. That's what I was pointing
> > out.
> 
> What Judy seems to be concerned about in the quote
> above is the "innocent bystanders." It's "worse" 
> that Bad Things happen to them than if they happened
> to Bad People. Bad Things should only happen to "per-
> ceived villains." It's as if the "distinction" she is
> making is that the innocent bystanders don't *deserve* 
> the Bad Things happening to them. 
> 
> That is the word that I think should be retired for-
> ever from the spiritual lexicon -- DESERVES. It 
> is IMO the source of most of the bigotry and hatred
> and intolerance that have been spread by religions 
> and "spiritual" people for centuries.

Note that this word, on which the rest of Barry's 
post focuses, is HIS word, not mine or Edg's.

It isn't in my vocabulary, either as a term or
conceptually, in the context of bad (or good) 
things happening to people, either innocent
bystanders or perceived villains, fictionally
or otherwise. I agree with Barry that it's
incredibly pernicious, so his attempt to slam
me and Edg (his disclaimer notwithstanding; we
all know that's crap) misses its target by a mile.

And it doesn't have a thing to do with the point
I was making in any case. It's Barry's attempt
to wiggle out of having deleted Edg's remark about
innocent bystanders so he'd have something to bash
Edg with.


> But the believers in DESERVES can't live with shit 
> just happening. Shit has to happen for a *reason*. They
> have to come up with some "explanation" for why Bad 
> Things happen to Good People, and vice-versa.

Me, I think if there is a God who makes conscious
decisions (and I don't believe that, but *if*...),
God decided not to interfere with human life so
that humans would have to work it out for
themselves and ultimately *reject* the idea of
"deserves."

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Close Shave....

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe Smith"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:

> > I love the mezzo voice, and the parts seem to be more
> > interesting, more character. What roles does she sing?
> > Have you had a chance to see her perform?
> 
> Fort Collins is 40 minutes from the university so
> anytime she performs, I go and attend. She performed
> with the TEATRO LIRICO D’EUROPA in Germany and was
> able to join them again last month when they came
> through Colorado last month.

That's an excellent company, I've heard.
 
> http://www.vilarpac.org/vpac/press-center.aspx?mode=detail&id=vpac09_3
> 
> Her role in Aida which they performed was one of the
> chorus, these were the slave girls of the queen.
> Freshman-sophomore students generally end up in chorus
> positions, lead roles generally offered to seniors or
> graduate students but this year, her third, she's been
> offered a lead role in Pirates of Penzance as one of
> the sisters,

Neat--that's either Edith, the role I had in the Oberlin
production of Pirates when I was there, or Kate.

Just for the heck of it, here's me as Edith, more
than 45 years ago:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36189...@n02/3344309202/

(I'm hardly an opera singer; I had just barely enough
of a voice to sing the mezzo roles in amateur G&S
productions; and I was a mezzo only by virtue of not
having any high notes!)

Your daughter should have great fun with this role.

> did an opera scene as Carmen, mezzo role, was Hansel
> in Hansel and Gretel which she did well.

First opera I ever saw, as a little kid.

> They have a woman's glee club which is the largest
> in the US, 120 girls and sounds remarkable. Each year,
> the university puts together a Gala which shows off
> every department in the music major from jazz, opera
> to symphony. At the end of the concert, they combine
> the symphony with the chorus, for example Handel's
> Messiah. It's unbelievable. The whole music program
> is fantastic because there's only a few hundred people
> in the entire music major,

Sounds like a fabulous program. What great experience
and training for her.

> everyone is friendly and you don't have that cut throat
> competition

Awful metaphor for singers!

> that you may find in the eastern schools. That's not to
> say that it's not competitive, you just don't find razor
> blades in the piano keys. (a rumor started about
> Julliard)

Sheesh, never heard that. Hope it wasn't true.
I do remember hearing gossip about nasty competition
at the Oberlin Conservatory, but nothing like that.

> The directors are amazingly talented, this one guy who
> puts the opera productions together is very talented.
> Melissa Malde, the voice teacher has done a lot of work
> with her for almost four years now.

That's terrific. How fortunate you live in the area.

Do you sing?


> 
> http://www.arts.unco.edu/pva/faculty/bios/malde.html
>

[FairfieldLife] 'Astrological Transits for President Obama'

[Robert]

 'Astrological Transits for President Obama'
 For Today:

-203 Opposition Jupiter - Sun

Negative aspect: There may be a tendency to wastefulness during this transit, 
as well as faulty decision-making due to over-optimism or arrogance. Avoid 
making any large purchases during this transit, as you might find that once 
Jupiter passes, you didn't really need the item. Jupiter is infusing you with a 
boost to your ego at this time, and it is up to you how to handle it. Your 
ambitions may outstrip your abilities. You may be too vain, impertinent, 
self-satisfied. You will tend to abuse the good things in life. Too many 
well-oiled small meals, substantial over-spending. Your methods for achieving 
success could be outside the law. Avoid making decisions that you know in your 
heart are not for the better good.

-173 Opposition Uranus - Mars

Negative aspect: You are likely to be impulsive and imprudent: you can easily 
lose the run of yourself and, only if you are predisposed, may well become 
violent. A complete lack of calm will characterize you.

It is recommended to take the greatest care during this transit. Watch out for 
machines, cars and be nice to your partner. Activities seem to STOP temporarily 
and this is a transit that was a last minute thought designed by the Universe 
to be a REAL PAIN IN THE BUTT! Your health may not be at its best now, so have 
you been overdoing it physically? Now is the time for rest.

Explosive situations can really get out of control at this time and changes are 
imposed on you now rather than chosen. Use caution as freak accidents can 
happen now and it's very easy to lose your cool, so watch what you say and do. 
Uncommon happenings are sure to happen and physical upsets can be experienced. 
Traffic jams, fires and bad tempered people can be encountered as well.

You may experience annoying impulses to do something that you know is wrong, 
but it still keeps eating away at you. Outbursts of anger that you experience 
now will be directed at everyone around you and you will find it very difficult 
to relate to others. Any interfering that you do in other peoples lives will be 
very disruptive to all concerned and you may notice fluctuations in your energy 
levels and have some muscle spasms as well.

Accidents can occur through careless behavior, so avoid working on or near 
electrical equipment, wiring, appliances, machinery, sharp tools, fireworks or 
automobiles. Do not give into peer pressure that dares you to do something that 
you wouldn't normally do. If this is the case, you might want to consider new 
friends.

Your behavior might cause separations or permanent breakups of relationships, 
friends and family. Expect nervous tension and an irritable nature to be your 
friend now, so spend some time by yourself and avoid getting into tiffs with 
close friends and associates. Temporarily, you are very erratic for no real 
reason. People will try to make you overreact, so don't fall victim to their 
ploys, but you won't choose to listen to advice, so do what you have to do. You 
may be leading a very reckless lifestyle now. Problems in joint finances, 
insurance, alimony, taxes, nervous stress, conflicts and outbursts are all 
influences of this transit.

-157 Opposition Mars - Uranus

Negative aspect: It will be a period when you will be very nervy. You will boil 
over and the slightest thing will make you explode. You could be particularly 
violent, and so suddenly that you won't be able to control yourself. Be careful 
about problems and accidents that might result from such an attitude.

-121 Opposition Pluto - Venus

Negative aspect: Your emotional life may well be stormy. You will have 
difficulty in sexual understanding with your partner. You will think you are no 
longer loved and that therefore there's someone else etc.: this will cause 
fits of jealousy sometimes accompanied by unfortunate acts.

In general, there is a sign of break-down, but a lot of couples can survive by 
picking up the pieces.

116 Trine Mercury - Venus

Positive aspect: You will certainly have an amorous adventure, you will travel 
to see your heart's choice, you will be in a good mood.

-97 Opposition Neptune - Uranus

Negative aspect: You will be disturbed, upset, troubled and tormented. You 
won't know why. A feeling that you've forgotten something, that something quite 
beyond you is threatening you, without knowing what it is. You will be 
dissatisfied, feel bad, fragile and nervous.

73 Conjunction Saturn - Mars

Positive aspect: Good physical resistance and stamina. You will be able to 
undertake lengthy tasks without getting too tired.

You will be realistic, but perhaps a little too hard. Work will take up all 
your time these days, and will count above everything else. You will not 
tolerate any contradiction, criticism or debate. You will temporarily distance 
yourself from family and your emotional life will be practically non-existent. 
Certainly, such behavior will

[FairfieldLife] Why can't I find anything else but roasted coffee beans (I guess)?

[cardemaister]

Human head in that pic??

http://www.gypsii.com/place.cgi?op=view&id=435887

[FairfieldLife] The Most Problematic Word In Spirituality

[TurquoiseB]

This sunny, not-having-to-work-today cafe rap 
was inspired by an exchange between Edg and 
Judy, but as much fun as that is, it's not 
really an attempt to slam them personally for 
anything they said. It's more of an examination 
of a *concept* that I think is at the heart of
most of what is wrong with spirituality. The
exchange went like this:

> > Thanks for the support, but I do think that Turq
> > correctly nailed me on being a hypocrite in kind
> > even if my degree of using negative imagery is
> > arguably less than the intensity of Hunter's
> > fictions.
> 
> It's not the degree of intensity so much as the
> nature of the target. I'd say it's worse to inflict
> (even fictionally) one's sadistic impulses on
> innocent bystanders than on perceived villains.
> This distinction was obscured by deleting that
> part of your comments. That's what I was pointing
> out.

What Judy seems to be concerned about in the quote
above is the "innocent bystanders." It's "worse" 
that Bad Things happen to them than if they happened
to Bad People. Bad Things should only happen to "per-
ceived villains." It's as if the "distinction" she is
making is that the innocent bystanders don't *deserve* 
the Bad Things happening to them. 

That is the word that I think should be retired for-
ever from the spiritual lexicon -- DESERVES. It 
is IMO the source of most of the bigotry and hatred
and intolerance that have been spread by religions 
and "spiritual" people for centuries.

It is also the source of most of their beliefs. 

The very *concept* of "God" is that there is someone
or something that susses us out and gives us what we
DESERVE -- no less, no more. We may not understand 
it, mere worms that we are compared to God, but He/She/It
knows what we DESERVE, and makes sure that we get 
it. Even Buddhists who don't believe in God believe in
karma. And again, according to karma, no one gets 
anything in life except what they DESERVE.

The little kid with the cute smile and infectious laugh
who has leukemia somehow DESERVED to get it. We may
not understand why, but we know it's true. The Bad People 
of New Orleans DESERVED to have their homes and their
lives destroyed by Katrina. Bevan DESERVES to be 
tortured, but the fictional chambermaid in Hunter 
Thompson's book doesn't.

The essence of DESERVES is that the people who believe
that it's a real thing believe to their souls that they
"know" what people DESERVE. When someone leaves the 
TM movement and later dies of cancer, that does not 
surprise them. The people who left the "highest path" 
DESERVE that kind of cosmic comeupance. But when 
someone leaves the TM movement and (like Deepak Chopra) 
becomes far more famous than Maharishi, they *don't* 
DESERVE that success. They DESERVE to have 
Bad Things happen to them. It's just not "right" that 
Bad Things *don't* happen to them.

I think it's all a crock of shit. "DESERVES" is a 
fiction invented by people who are afraid of randomicity 
and who feel they have to invent things to "explain" 
random acts of nature. Me, I don't think that "Nature" 
is sentient, and if it were I don't think it would give 
a shit whether anyone in the path of one of its periodic 
hurricane hissy fits DESERVES to be there or not. 
Shit just happens.

But the believers in DESERVES can't live with shit 
just happening. Shit has to happen for a *reason*. They
have to come up with some "explanation" for why Bad 
Things happen to Good People, and vice-versa. They comfort 
themselves by thinking that the frat boy whose only skill 
was being able to bankrupt a baseball team and who grew 
up to bankrupt the entire world will get what he 
DESERVES someday. Well, chances are he won't. He 
will live out the rest of his days a rich man, surrounded 
by the things that being rich can buy, as ignorant of the 
effects of his own actions on his dying day as he was on 
Inauguration Day. And there is nothing that the believers 
in DESERVES can ever do about that. 

THAT is the thing I think that pisses off the believers
in DESERVES more than anything else -- their impotence.
They'd like to be able to "enforce" DESERVES. They'd 
like to see "liars" PAY for being liars. They'd like to 
see people they'd *like* to "get what they DESERVE" 
get it. Hell, if they had their way, they'd be there 
with their BB guns *making* these people PAY, giving
them what they DESERVE.

Shit just happens, as far as I can tell. No one on this
planet "knows" what they or anyone else DESERVES. And
when they claim to, in the name of God or "seeing" or
"intuition" or "being in tune with the Laws Of Nature,"
or the writings of some ancient "scripture," I think 
they should be heartily laughed at by one and all. 
That's all they deserve. Ooops.

:-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM Needs Your Help

[Vaj]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 12:49 AM, ruthsimplicity wrote:


 Mind Reading, a  Poem


 Ruth is afraid
 how insecure
 she'd much rather
 makes her feel better
 her own sour and significantly ignorant view
 She's just the kind of person

:)



Judy Stein
Angry Psychic

Call 1-900-UASSHOL

I SAID DO IT NOW !

[FairfieldLife] Re: TTC notes on initiating children

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> Think about it. Then think of the history of
> the TM movement. Going from "#1 market share" 
> in the world of meditation to being able to
> market TM *ONLY* to kids who are being PAID
> to learn it? 

Sorry. Before Judy spontaneously combusts,
I meant to say "able to market only to kids
and their parents who are having their TM 
courses PAID for by someone else." 

As far as I know, the TM movement does not pay 
the kids to learn TM. They only do that for
people to bounce on their butts in Fairfield. 
And then they write emails complaining that
not enough people are bouncing on their butts. :-)

Again, to reiterate my point, THESE are the
people who are going to be implementing David
Lynch's noble idea. You *KNOW* it's only a 
matter of time until some local Raja insists
on being able to visit one of these "quiet
time" groups, *in costume*. You *KNOW* that
within a year of learning TM some of these
kids are going to be badgering their parents
for more money for the "next course," and 
then the next, and the next... 

People who have the "Yes, Maharishi...anything
you say, Maharishi" mentality enough to pay a
second time for Teacher Training are just *by
definition* not the most clueful individuals
on the planet. If there is a way to fuck this
noble idea up, they're going to find it. And
given the history of the TM movement, if they
manage to teach TM in 100 schools, they'll 
find 100 *different* ways to fuck it up.

And the result will be the same in the U.S.
school systems as what "TM science" has done
for "meditation science." All forms of medi-
tation will be tainted by the TM fuckups.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TTC notes on initiating children

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> According to Lynch, a full follow-up program will be
> provided. Also, faculty and staff will be trained in
> supervision of the Quiet Time period.

I hear that one of the people doing the 
training will be the Dean of MUM who was
in charge of supervising Suvender Sem.

Ouch, right?

THAT is the problem with Lynch's project.
The basic idea is well-intentioned and 
might even work out except for one thing 
-- it has to be implemented by the TM
movement.

Has there ever been ANYTHING, no matter
how simple, that the TM movement has not
been able to fuck up?

I mean, the only people who will be *able*
to teach these kids to meditate will be
"recertified" TM teachers, right? So right
there you are talking about a group of 
people so on top of reality that they were
willing to give up any existing careers, 
pay a *second time* for a Teacher Training
Course they had already attended, and then
promise to work full-time for the rest of
their lives for an organization that was
going to pay them peanuts. And they actually
*expected* the checks to arrive every month.

THESE are the people who are going to be
supposedly teaching all these "millions" of
kids to meditate, and "training" school
officials and parents how to monitor them
and deal with their questions.

I'm sorry if I don't think that this project
is likely to work out well. I'd like to see
it work out well. I'd like them to just teach
these kids TM and then KEEP THEIR CULT 
HANDS OFF OF THE KIDS AFTERWARDS.

NO trying to get them to learn "advanced tech-
niques" or the siddhis. NO trying to indoc-
trinate them in the "lifestyle choices" that
we see imposed on MUM students. NO belief
systems that claim that they are not religions
but then have full-moon "celebrations" for 
Hindu dieties. Just teach them to meditate
and GO AWAY.

But is that likely to happen, given the nature
of the "recerts?" Even NABBY was not fanatical
enough to become a "recert," right? So what 
does that say about the people who DID, and 
who will be teaching these kids?

Think about it. Then think of the history of
the TM movement. Going from "#1 market share" 
in the world of meditation to being able to
market TM *ONLY* to kids who are being PAID
to learn it? That's not an accident; that is
the result of the consciousness of the people
who run the organization. 

THESE are the people who will be running the
teach-a-million-kids-to-meditate program. This 
thought must keep David Lynch awake at night, 
or give him nightmares.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A Close Shave....

[Joe Smith]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe Smith"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>  > > Is your daughter training to sing opera?
> > 
> > She's a third year student at the University of Northern
> > Colorado, a public university with a small student
> > population. They have an excellent voice performance
> > department,the whole music department is tops, winning
> > first place awards each year. She's training with Malde
> > as a mezzo soprano-opera department and really enjoys it.
> > She spent this summer touring Europe with a professional
> > opera company. When she graduates next year, she hopes to
> > go back to Germany and join up, hopefully, with an opera
> > company. She said Germany has an opera theater on every
> > corner.
> 
> Yes, Germany's steeped in opera. That sounds fabulous.
> 
> I love the mezzo voice, and the parts seem to be more
> interesting, more character. What roles does she sing?
> Have you had a chance to see her perform?

Fort Collins is 40 minutes from the university so anytime she performs, I go 
and attend. She performed with the TEATRO LIRICO D’EUROPA in Germany and was 
able to join them again last month when they came through Colorado last month. 

http://www.vilarpac.org/vpac/press-center.aspx?mode=detail&id=vpac09_3

Her role in Aida which they performed was one of the chorus, these were the 
slave girls of the queen. Freshman-sophomore students generally end up in 
chorus positions, lead roles generally offered to seniors or graduate students 
but this year, her third, she's been offered a lead role in Pirates of Penzance 
as one of the sisters, did an opera scene as Carmen, mezzo role, was Hansel in 
Hansel and Gretel which she did well. They have a woman's glee club which is 
the largest in the US, 120 girls and sounds remarkable. Each year, the 
university puts together a Gala which shows off every department in the music 
major from jazz, opera to symphony. At the end of the concert, they combine the 
symphony with the chorus, for example Handel's Messiah. It's unbelievable. The 
whole music program is fantastic because there's only a few hundred people in 
the entire music major, everyone is friendly and you don't have that cut throat 
competition that you may find in the eastern schools. That's not to say that 
it's not competitive, you just don't find razor blades in the piano keys. (a 
rumor started about Julliard) The directors are amazingly talented, this one 
guy who puts the opera productions together is very talented. Melissa Malde, 
the voice teacher has done a lot of work with her for almost four years now.

http://www.arts.unco.edu/pva/faculty/bios/malde.html  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Devata yoga

[cardemaister]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill"  wrote:
> >
> > देवो भूत्वा देव
> > यजेत
> > devo bhuutvaa deva yajeta
> > Having become a deity, one should offer to the deity
> 
> I think the "second" /deva/ should be in the dative case (eg. to, for)
> thus /devaaya/. Be it as it may, the form /deva/ in 
> that case is in the vocative singular, er, case, I believe,
> which would render the syntax a bit odd, methinks.

Oops! According to CDSL, accusative (here: devam) is more common:

yaj...to consecrate , hallow , offer (with acc. , rarely dat. loc. or %{prati} 
, of the deity or person to whom ; dat. of the person for whom , or the thing 
for which ; and instr. of the means by which the sacrifice is performed ;


> 
> 
> > 
> > Whether Vaidika, Agamika or Bauddha Tantrika is it not the same?
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Devata yoga

[cardemaister]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill"  wrote:
>
> देवो भूत्वा देव
> यजेत
> devo bhuutvaa deva yajeta
> Having become a deity, one should offer to the deity

I think the "second" /deva/ should be in the dative case (eg. to, for)
thus /devaaya/. Be it as it may, the form /deva/ in 
that case is in the vocative singular, er, case, I believe,
which would render the syntax a bit odd, methinks.


> 
> Whether Vaidika, Agamika or Bauddha Tantrika is it not the same?
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Narcissism? Or? (Hunter S. Thompson, Was: Slide show of Brahmasthan of India)

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"  
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung  wrote:
> > >
> > > As a narcissist, I have to protest that the
> > > definition and use of the word is being
> > > fuzzified by the below kind of thinking.
> > 
> > A narcissist is much more than being self-absorbed.  I
> > think it does require the inflated sense of self
> > doesn't it?
> 
> But that inflation doesn't necessarily reflect high
> self-esteem.
> 
> My mother had very low self-esteem, but the way she
> behaved indicated a sub- (un-?)conscious sense that
> she was the actor and everybody else the passive
> recipient of what she did and said. She was unable
> to end a phone call, for example, even if the person
> had called her just to chat, because she was afraid
> if she did, their feelings would be terribly hurt.
> So she'd get stuck on the phone for hours with
> somebody she wasn't all that interested in chatting
> with, until *they* were out of things to say and
> ended the call.
> 
> In other words, even with the low self-esteem, she
> had an inflated sense of her own ability to affect
> other people...


This explains SO MUCH. 

And the amazing thing is that Judy is
completely unaware that she is describing
herself.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Needs Your Help

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity  wrote:
>
>  Mind Reading, a  Poem
> 
> 
>  Ruth is afraid 
>  how insecure 
>  she'd much rather 
>  makes her feel better
>  her own sour and significantly ignorant view 
>  She's just the kind of person 
> 
> :)


Very funny. But a more accurate
Judy-analysis-of-Ruth poem IMO is:

Ruth is a bitch 
who refuses to acknowledge
that I am the Alpha dog here
Must destroy


This is a multi-use Judypoem. Feel free to
replace Ruth's name with Sal's, or the name
of anyone else whom Judy looks upon as a 
rival for her "authority." It's not so much 
a TB thang as a pissing contest thang.