[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jyouells2000 Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:54 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons My condolences as well Geezer, truer devotion I have not seen... Every time I loose a dog, another shows up 6 to 9 months later to correct my errant ways. Mine, too. Dogs are great. I think Nabby's problem is that he doesn't have one, so his heart is underdeveloped and he ridicules me for having and helping them. What do you say, Nabby, is there a little pooch in your future? I had several as a child, these days a busy chedule does't give room for one. Perhaps later.
[FairfieldLife] 'Flash-Back: November, 1983'
The sky that November was bright, at night... I didn't live too far from where they were erected this big building; Had to get it done, quick; Maharishi had said it needed to house up to 7,000 people meditating together... The Zimmerman'$ had put up the money for the thing And, then those bright lights, at night... Lit up the sky, outside my window, that whole month, of November of '83. My wife was also used to gaze out the window, in the bedroom, amazed at the site, bright at night. Those bright nights, a prelude to what was to come, to climax, but it was all so subtle... We never realized how subtle the whole thing was... How this little man from India, had got us all tripping to his song. We were saving the world, somewhere inside we thought that. Maharishi had said it was necessary to gather together, and so we did. For that one moment in that crazy time, he created that strange dreamlike setting. The building stood almost vacant, for many years later... Weeds grew, and the Master passed away. Since then, the time has gone and went and we still search, for meaning, in the meaningless. In all those years ago, but not far away. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] '9/11 and Wall St. Madness'
Maybe some of the people down there on Wall St. are just suffering from PT SD, in some of the decisions, that were being made, and different ways to escape the reality of living in kind of mental war zone. And come to think of it, some of that energy, in Washington D.C., also... I wonder if there is some kind of way for a mass exorcism? or, some huge ceremony of most great proportions... President Obama has to deal with some of these energies, in dealing with the same characters, who are sort of imbibed with this old stuff. I can see why he must enjoy getting out of D.C. when he can, the static of living in the White House must be quite different than growing up on the Island. I wonder if he can really get the new thinking in there, that will bring the change he seeks, for the country and the world. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Is this brahmacaryachallenger Chinese??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: http://www.gypsii.com/place.cgi?op=viewid=461776 She might be Chinese, but perhaps, then again, not... Never seen a Chinese chick with Ambersons like those! Anyhoo, the poster seems to be... As the T-shirt hints, she's prolly a Scorpio-land lassie with lots of Roman genes! ; )
[FairfieldLife] 'Meditation Group Thwarted Nuclear War;
I was surprised to hear Gregg Braden(Coast to Coast Radio Show)- On Fractal Time... He claims, that the Soviet Union, during the 1983-1984 period, was considering a '1st strike', against the United States...saying that the Soviets were afraid the U.S. was considering retaliation over a passenger jet, which was shot down over Soviet air space. The show can be downloaded below. He credits the large group of meditators, along with Guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who were assembled in Fairfield, Iowa, at that time... for settling down the influences, which were very unstable at that time... Posted by, R.Gimbel Madison, WI Tuesday March 17Th, 2009 Listen: Windows Media Real Media Time Codes 2012 Author Gregg Braden discussed how he merged the ancient understanding of cycles with modern views of nature's patterns. Such patterns or fractals repeat on a cyclic basis following the rhythms of nature, and so we can predict the return of these conditions,... more Host: George Noory Bio New York Times Best selling author Gregg Braden has been a featured guest for international conferences, and media specials, exploring the role of ancient wisdom and spirituality in science. A former Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin Marietta Aerospace, Computer geologist for Phillips Petroleum and a Technical Operations Manager for Cisco Systems, Braden is now considered a leading authority on bridging the wisdom of our past with the science and peace of our future. Through his journeys into the remote mountain villages, temples and monasteries of times past, Braden marries the wisdom of ancient traditions and modern science to benefit our lives today. From his groundbreaking books, Awakening to Zero Point and Walking Between the Worlds, to his pioneering work in The Isaiah Effect, he offers meaningful solutions to the unique challenges of our time. In his newest book, The God Code, Gregg Braden ventures beyond the traditional boundaries of science and spirituality, revealing the words of an ancient and timeless message encoded as the DNA of all life.
[FairfieldLife] Is this brahmacaryachallenger Chinese??
http://www.gypsii.com/place.cgi?op=viewid=461776 She might be Chinese, but perhaps, then again, not... Never seen a Chinese chick with Ambersons like those! Anyhoo, the poster seems to be...
[FairfieldLife] 'Bush/War Huber Bubbles'
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 6:57 AM Ten Trillions of Dollars... This is what was spent, during the Bush years... Figure in the war, and the Huber costs, there. Figure in the Huber inflation of the Huber real estate market. Figure in the Huber gas guzzlers, of SUV's. Figure in the Huber borrowing principles, of those years. Figure in the Huber derivatives and Huber packaging of Huber real estate deals. Figure in the hubris's self delusion of this whole thing. And, before we knew it, we had the last grasp of hubris's. Spec; the oil market, and bleed the last blood, from the from our gas guzzlers. Then, they sucked as much money as you can, fast as fast as they could, in their last grasp for the last penny... To hold up the Huber banks, too hubris to fail. Bingo, Bongo, that Bushie ain't so dumb, huh? No wonder why he has not too much to say, these days. So, where do we go from here? Try to re-coup some of those trillions of dollars, War bubbles, busted bubbles, and psychopthic greed. How do you get from that to something else, When we had our heads in the sand for so long? R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak geezerfr...@... wrote: snip Curtis you make me smile today, even though I had to put my beloved dog down today. Thank you. I've had to do that for two cats, each of whom had been with me for almost 20 years. Even knowing it's a kindness to the animal, it's unspeakably sad. So sorry.
[FairfieldLife] Dollhouse -- the Joss episode
OK, this is the first episode that's lived up to my expectations for this series. Not coincidentally, it's the first episode since the pilot actually written by the creator of the series, Joss Whedon. And to make a long review short, I thought that this episode JUST FUCKING ROCKED. It redeems all that has gone before and puts it back into perspective as the necessary back story it was, and makes it less of a disappointment and more of a setup, all of which was required to bring us to this point. Episode 6 is titled Man on the Street, and it is actually punctuated with a series of When Harry Meets Sally-like interviews, talking with people on the street about the urban legend of the Dollhouse. In these interviews, all of the people being interviewed react to the idea of the Dollhouse. Some are shocked and outraged. Others, once the idea of it sinks in, talk a little more honestly about what *they* might do if the Dollhouse were real, and what *their* fantasy might be. And that's the essence of the episode, and finally, the series -- ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS. Things are not black and white. It's classic Joss Whedon. The evil owners of the Doll- house are not always evil. The predatory customers who rent the dolls are not always predatory; sometimes they are even sympathetic. The sympathetic characters may not be as sympathetic as they appeared. The handlers, whose job it is to protect the dolls, may need someone to protect the dolls from them. All is not as it seems. This episode also displays the thing that the series has been lacking most so far, instances of Whedonesque humor. Joss is a FUNNY man, and that hasn't been there in the writing so far. Now it's starting to creep in. As an example, this is the dialog between the FBI agent trying to track down rumors of the Dollhouse, sitting on a sofa in front of the TV eating Chinese food out of the containers with his next-door neighbor, Mellie, who has a major crush on him: Mellie: You have a very glamorous job. Ballard: How do you think I can afford to take you to all of these glamorous places? Mellie: Hey, this is the nicest offer I've had this month. Or...last month. Ballard: Weren't you seeing someone? Rick? Mellie: Dick. Ballard: Really? I thought it was Rick. Mellie: Oh, his name is Rick. Ballard: Ooooh. Mellie: He said he didn't see me as a long-term investment. Said he wanted to dump the stock before it went public. He talks like that. He works in a donut shop. Ballard: What a Rick. Even Echo gets a funny line. Ballard barges into the house where she is on assignment, believing herself to be the naive wife of a schlubby rich nerd who has paid for her company to act out his most secret fantasy -- being married to a beautiful but naive wife. Ballard identifies himself as an FBI agent, and Echo (still brainwashed and in char- acter) decides it's because the schlub has been making Internet porn. The rich schlub's security guards barge in and all hell breaks loose and Echo's Dollhouse handler tries to drag her away and out of trouble. As he drags her past the bedroom, Echo (still in character) looks inside and sees that the schlub has romantically covered the bed with rose petals. She says, the very personification of shocked naivete, Porn! And then Joss does a Joss, and turns the rich schlub into a smart, almost *sympathetic* rich schlub, who puts Ballard on the spot and tells him that his pursuit of Echo, trying his best to be the gallant knight rescuing her from the Dollhouse, is *just as much a fantasy* as him renting her from the Dollhouse. And then the schlub keeps talking about the nature of *his* fantasy, and you realize how *sweet* it is, how non-smarmy and *human* it is (trying to relive the anniversary gift he never got to give to his real naive wife, who died), and for a moment it breaks your heart -- and your expectations. It's that fucking with your expectations that is Joss Whedon's signature. I've been missing it so far in this series. It's good to know that it's back. And it's there -- in spades -- for the rest of the episode. Joss sets us up to expect one thing, based on all five episodes of back story that have gone into the setup, and then he jerks the rug out from under us and does some- thing we never expected. And then he does it again. And again. And again. And he even comments on it. In the last of the man on the street interviews, Joss has one of the interviewees say, Forget morality. Imagine it's true. Imagine this technology being used. Now imagine it being used on YOU. Everything you believe -- gone. Everyone you love -- strangers, maybe enemies. Every part of you that makes you more than a walking cluster of neurons -- dissolved. At someone else's whim. And that is exactly what has just been done to YOU, as viewer, in this episode. At someone else's whim. Welcome to the Dollhouse. After six episodes, it's finally on the air.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Don't Look Here...Look Over There!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_lives@ wrote: snip Obama got more last year because it was clear he was going to win (except to pumas who thought he was an inadequate black male). Stepping in for Dave Barry who is not here to assume his role as Mister Language Person and correct faulty English, may I point out that to a PUMA the word black in that last sentence above is redundant and unnecessary. And wrong, and profoundly offensive. But so is male, of course. Does Barry really think PUMAs were all chauvinist women? Does he really think they were all women, for that matter? Does he think all who supported Hillary were PUMAs? Does either Boo or Barry have *any* idea of what the PUMAs were all about? Apparently not. But both seem to want to refight old battles. How sad.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Don't Look Here...Look Over There!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: snip [The the banks and AIG who are benefiting from bail out money, are the same folks who got us into an economic mess, and helped Obama get elected. The bail out money is just payback.] Did the economists who keep insisting that the bailouts are essential to keep the financial system from collapsing all get contributions from AIG and the banks too? Are they all on the payroll?
[FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Duveyoung wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFMtq5g8N4 Vaj, What do you make of Ken Wilber's ability to control his EEG waves? snip He actually lists the different types of meditation he used in one of his books. When I first posted it here years ago, it really upset some people--their reactions were as interesting as the video! No, that's false, nobody was the slightest bit upset by it. Check out the thread. It was called EEG of Nirvikalpa, Witnessing and Mantra mediation [sic], and it appeared on May 27 and 28, 2005. The video is called Ken Stops His Brainwaves! and its description absurdly claims that Wilber was able to flatline his brain waves. What actually happened is that a few people *mocked* that idea, and *Vaj* got upset (and still is, apparently, since he feels he needs to lie about what the reaction was.)
[FairfieldLife] Re: EEG definition of Yoganidra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal L.Shaddai@ wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Actually, I'm told by my fellow TMSP friends who would know such things, TMSP really turns up the gain on bipolar disorder such that where once there was none evident now there is. So there are times of sleep jags and times of sleeplessness. It's actually a known side effect in a certain kundalini disorder, which produces a bipolar type pattern. Yogis are familiar with it in any event. I'll bite, and worse yet, commingle my post with those of a a a Buddhist. What's the kundalini disorder called? * Snakes on a brain LOL!
[FairfieldLife] A Gift for Barry (was: Re: Barry is Cun...Cun...CONFUSED)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: snip --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Me, I don't give a shit about Whodunnit? in this case. In this case there seems to be little question that AIG's lawyers *would* have sued the U.S. government if the bill had forced it to abrograte its contracts with its hideously incapable employees. It was a monumental fuckup caused by pond scum (corporate lawyers). Actually, Bar, AIG is currently 80 percent owned by the U.S. government (i.e., the taxpayers). If their bonuses are abrogated, the AIG executives who were to receive them might well attempt to sue AIG, but AIG itself ain't gonna be suing the U.S. government anytime soon. *I* goofed on this one. I hadn't thought it was possible for AIG to sue its majority owner, but in fact it can, and is doing so--not with regard to the contracts, but rather to get back some $306 million in tax payments from the IRS: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/business/20aig.html http://tinyurl.com/cpaybv
[FairfieldLife] Re: Now We Really ARE Screwed
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willy...@... wrote: A bare congressional desire to harm a politically unpopular group? The frantic passage of the Populist Rage Tax was a new low in the US government's response to this crisis. It shows just how likely we are to doom ourselves to a decade or more of misery�by choking our markets, closing our borders, turning our banks into tools of social policy, and wrecking what's left of our economy. Read more: '90% Tax? Now We Really ARE Screwed' By Henry Blodget Business Insider, March 19, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/c7a9kx Blodget who is barred from working on wall street due to securities fraud thinks AIG executives deserve bonuses for bankrupting the company. go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Don't Look Here...Look Over There!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip [The the banks and AIG who are benefiting from bail out money, are the same folks who got us into an economic mess, and helped Obama get elected. The bail out money is just payback.] Did the economists who keep insisting that the bailouts are essential to keep the financial system from collapsing all get contributions from AIG and the banks too? Are they all on the payroll? Yes but many are upset about some of the details here. Why are billions flowing thru AIG to Goldman which is a perfectly healthy bank. And the billions flowing thru to euro banks - why not some help from euro taxpapers there? There should at least be haircuts taken on these carrythroughs.
[FairfieldLife] Judy was Wuh...Wuh...WRONG (was Re: Backpedaling on AIG?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Methinks someone is still carrying a torch for Hillary and determined to find any way possible to demonize the (spit) man who done her wrong. That's been consistent and obvious ever since some time before and after Hillary lost. The comical poor loser fringe Hillarizoid maintains a seething bitter grudge and it permeates her relentless predictable ever- nasty continuous anti-Obama and anti-Obama supporter invective. It's one thing when a person writes a stupid post full of obvious absurdities. It's quite another when somebody else reads that post and *agrees with it* despite the obvious absurdities, then adds their own. What was it Barry used to call you, John, when you were fawning all over me and hating on Barry? Oh, yes, toady. That, he was right about. How pathetic. The folks who are unable to get out from under the specter of Evil Hillary are the Obamazoids like John and Barry and Sal. They have to do everything they can think of to protect their idol from any criticism whatsoever, and rather than actually addressing the criticisms, the only way they can think to manage it is by dragging out Hillary and attributing the criticisms to a seething bitter grudge and carrying a torch. What utter boobs. Grow up. Obama's not perfect, but he's doing a far better job than one would have expected based on the juvenile mentality of his more fanatical devotees.
[FairfieldLife] Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - The Poem
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! - Percy Bysshe Shelley A poem, in free verse, composed entirely of snippets from the works of our Most Important Poster: An inflated sense of her own ability to affect other people you almost gotta feel bad about having to set him straight his confusion on this point is amusing enough but it gets even better it's because he's hopelessly confused as he would have realized if he'd been reading my posts with any attention he genuinely doesn't understand this shortcoming along with his fanatical bias against me is responsible for the series of howlers in his current spate of posts his many attacks on me this past week were a function of his freakout this is his fantasy, not the reality I never lie I just love the way she is afraid even of quoting me man, how insecure do you have to be?? as usual, it's her who doesn't know what she's talking about she is afraid her own sour and significantly ignorant view poor stupid her she leaves herself open to making so many more idiotic mistakes than she really has to by reading only responses to my posts rather than my posts themselves she not only swims around in the barrel waiting to be shot, she bedecks her fins with bright flashing neon lights she's going to steal the Master of Inadvertent Irony crown for sure as she knows (unless she's smoking dope and her memory isn't working properly) she is hallucinating again where I'm concerned perhaps you should go back to my original post and see what my point was, rather than introducing all kinds of irrelevances Non Sequitur City it's quite astonishing how often the TM critics here fog up even without the benefit of drugs please look up the word in Mr. Dictionary over-the-top demonization is a sign that something just isn't right in the heads of those indulging in it betcher boots I've always loathed phonies I keep telling the truth and make you look bad you did your level best and failed miserably all this was precipitated by my having owned *you* the meltdowns all along have been yours, not mine yes, I will continue to expose your lies, hypocrisy, and illogic as long as you continue to indulge in them and you'll continue to go mad with frustration and rage it's appalling to me that folks here treat you as if you were a decent human being when you so obviously are not the people on alt.m.t had more of a sense of ethics than the folks here nonetheless, I shall persevere
[FairfieldLife] Re: Don't Look Here...Look Over There!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_li...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip [The the banks and AIG who are benefiting from bail out money, are the same folks who got us into an economic mess, and helped Obama get elected. The bail out money is just payback.] Did the economists who keep insisting that the bailouts are essential to keep the financial system from collapsing all get contributions from AIG and the banks too? Are they all on the payroll? Yes but (I hope you mean, No, but...) many are upset about some of the details here. Why are billions flowing thru AIG to Goldman which is a perfectly healthy bank. And the billions flowing thru to euro banks - why not some help from euro taxpapers there? There should at least be haircuts taken on these carrythroughs. Agreed, we need a whole lot more transparency and coherent, detailed explanation of what's going on. What Democrats seem to have a very hard time figuring out is that if they allow an information vacuum to exist, Republicans will step right up to fill it in with their own twisted interpretation, and folks will latch onto that because they lack the necessary information to recognize how twisted it is.
[FairfieldLife] Judy was Wuh...Wuh...WRONG (was Re: Backpedaling on AIG?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip That's been consistent and obvious ever since some time before and after Hillary lost. The comical poor loser fringe Hillarizoid maintains a seething bitter grudge and it permeates her relentless predictable ever- nasty continuous anti-Obama and anti-Obama supporter invective. It's one thing when a person writes a stupid post full of obvious absurdities. It's quite another when somebody else reads that post and *agrees with it* despite the obvious absurdities, then adds their own. What was it Barry used to call you, John, when you were fawning all over me and hating on Barry? Oh, yes, toady. That, he was right about. How pathetic. The folks who are unable to get out from under the specter of Evil Hillary are the Obamazoids like John and Barry and Sal. They have to do everything they can think of to protect their idol from any criticism whatsoever, and rather than actually addressing the criticisms, the only way they can think to manage it is by dragging out Hillary and attributing the criticisms to a seething bitter grudge and carrying a torch. What utter boobs. Grow up. Obama's not perfect, but he's doing a far better job than one would have expected based on the juvenile mentality of his more fanatical devotees. It looks like layers of an onion and, there are quite a few left. I would bet that few have figured out who is responsible for the created problems we now see. Debating cures for symptoms is usually a waste of time N.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - The Poem
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! - Percy Bysshe Shelley A poem, in free verse, composed entirely of snippets from the works of our Most Important Poster: An inflated sense of her own ability to affect other people you almost gotta feel bad about having to set him straight his confusion on this point is amusing enough but it gets even better it's because he's hopelessly confused as he would have realized if he'd been reading my posts with any attention he genuinely doesn't understand this shortcoming along with his fanatical bias against me is responsible for the series of howlers in his current spate of posts his many attacks on me this past week were a function of his freakout this is his fantasy, not the reality I never lie I just love the way she is afraid even of quoting me man, how insecure do you have to be?? as usual, it's her who doesn't know what she's talking about she is afraid her own sour and significantly ignorant view poor stupid her she leaves herself open to making so many more idiotic mistakes than she really has to by reading only responses to my posts rather than my posts themselves she not only swims around in the barrel waiting to be shot, she bedecks her fins with bright flashing neon lights she's going to steal the Master of Inadvertent Irony crown for sure as she knows (unless she's smoking dope and her memory isn't working properly) she is hallucinating again where I'm concerned perhaps you should go back to my original post and see what my point was, rather than introducing all kinds of irrelevances Non Sequitur City it's quite astonishing how often the TM critics here fog up even without the benefit of drugs please look up the word in Mr. Dictionary over-the-top demonization is a sign that something just isn't right in the heads of those indulging in it betcher boots I've always loathed phonies I keep telling the truth and make you look bad you did your level best and failed miserably all this was precipitated by my having owned *you* the meltdowns all along have been yours, not mine yes, I will continue to expose your lies, hypocrisy, and illogic as long as you continue to indulge in them and you'll continue to go mad with frustration and rage it's appalling to me that folks here treat you as if you were a decent human being when you so obviously are not the people on alt.m.t had more of a sense of ethics than the folks here nonetheless, I shall persevere What is the difference between free verse and prose done with faulty margin settings? curious It is just that I enjoy ones that rhyme better.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 3 - Where's Waldo?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip Call me an idiot, or someone who has missed the point, but I really don't GET this quest for importance. Maybe I've read too much Zen poetry written by guys who not only were comfortable with their unimportance in the Grand Scheme Of Things, but managed to turn it into art. Maybe I'm just aware of my own limitations, and comfortable with the fact that I probably am NOT very important in the Grand Scheme Of Things. Maybe I'm just not as evolved as the folks who believe that they saved planet Earth from imminent destruction by bouncing on their butts on slabs of polyeurythane. This is called the More Unimportant Than Thou Syndrome. Paint all other spiritual seekers with a garish shade of Self-Importance, then paint yourself a nice subdued shade of Unimportance, and guess what? You'll stand out very well indeed. In your own mind, at least. Thought experiment: If some genie were to appear and hand you the cure for cancer, and he told you all you had to do to end cancer forever was to send it anonymously to the National Institutes of Health, BUT that once you'd sent it, you would die instantly and never get to see the outcome nor get any recognition for your sacrifice--nor even get to spend any time congratulating yourself--would you do it? I'd like to think I would. I'll bet many of us here would do it in a heartbeat. Maybe even Barry would. People who follow a famous spiritual teacher may well do so because they think his/her teachings have the greatest potential to do good in the world, not because they want to Feel Important or think it's a way to ensure their memory survives them. We'd be perfectly happy to know that on our collective tombstone will be engraved Who? and that even it will crumble into dust in a few generations, if it means there will be less suffering for humanity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 3 - Where's Waldo?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Call me an idiot, or someone who has missed the point, but I really don't GET this quest for importance. Maybe I've read too much Zen poetry written by guys who not only were comfortable with their unimportance in the Grand Scheme Of Things, but managed to turn it into art. Maybe I'm just aware of my own limitations, and comfortable with the fact that I probably am NOT very important in the Grand Scheme Of Things. Maybe I'm just not as evolved as the folks who believe that they saved planet Earth from imminent destruction by bouncing on their butts on slabs of polyeurythane. This is called the More Unimportant Than Thou Syndrome. snip,, I find it to be difficult to be anonymous- is that some similar type of nutcase?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Don't Look Here...Look Over There!
To me the problem is that all the politicians know that if everything is to be opened up to the public about all that had to happen to make the AIG mess possible, then that will whet the public's appetite for full disclosures in many other venues. This is where I think Obama's integrity is being eroded -- he's trying to keep a lid on things such that the public isn't given a set of tools with which to unravel not just business crimes but also government secret doings. For instance: if a law is passed that says that all the electronic and paper-trails of government are to be databased by an independent agency, then that same law will apply to many other situations -- for instance, the Dick Cheney death squads information could be easily resolved if all the emails etc. were obtainable. Well, name me a politician who wants that hanging over their head? Ask the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, et al about such a law. Yet, it is absolutely commonplace now that the corporations of American have the right to know about all the electronic activities of their employees -- the employees have no privacy protection in that regard. Well, we're the employers of government workers, and they should know that we can look at their emails and phone records and IMs etc. My fingers-crossed hope is that Obama has integrity but he also sees that if the whole truth were to be revealed then the entire structure of our culture would be shaken violently. AIG executives are already fearful of actually being hauled out of their homes by angry mobs and strung up -- even politicians are saying some precision vigilantism would be a good thing in a half-hearted, just-kidding way. How close are we to mass riots? Not far if Pandora's Box is opened and out pours the truth about ALL the smoke filled rooms. Obama can't force the truth to come out when he knows that his own Democrats are as filthy in many ways as any AIG manager. He's got a Lincolnesque situation -- he has to save the nation even if it means keeping the slaves still in economic thrall to the Masters of Fraud on Wall Street. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives boo_lives@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: snip [The the banks and AIG who are benefiting from bail out money, are the same folks who got us into an economic mess, and helped Obama get elected. The bail out money is just payback.] Did the economists who keep insisting that the bailouts are essential to keep the financial system from collapsing all get contributions from AIG and the banks too? Are they all on the payroll? Yes but (I hope you mean, No, but...) many are upset about some of the details here. Why are billions flowing thru AIG to Goldman which is a perfectly healthy bank. And the billions flowing thru to euro banks - why not some help from euro taxpapers there? There should at least be haircuts taken on these carrythroughs. Agreed, we need a whole lot more transparency and coherent, detailed explanation of what's going on. What Democrats seem to have a very hard time figuring out is that if they allow an information vacuum to exist, Republicans will step right up to fill it in with their own twisted interpretation, and folks will latch onto that because they lack the necessary information to recognize how twisted it is.
[FairfieldLife] I am he as you are he as you are me . . .
We were talking - about the space between us all And the people - who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late - when they pass away. We were talking - about the love we all could share - when we find it To try our best to hold it there - with our love With our love - we could save the world-if they only knew. Try to realise it's all within yourself No-one else can make you change And to see you're really only very small, And life flows within you and without you. We were talking - about the love that's gone so cold and the people, Who gain the world and lose their soul They don't know - they can't see - are you one of them? When you've seen beyond yourself - then you may find, peace of mind, Is waiting there And the time will come when you see we're all one, - and life flows on within you and without you. ~~ George Harrison (1943-2001) - Within You, Without You = Know Thyself In the true theological sense, Know Thyself is a fundamental tenet of the question of life's meaning. The saying Know thyself may refer by extension to the ideal of understanding human behavior, morals, and thought, because ultimately to understand oneself is to understand other humans as well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself = I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together... ~~ John Lennon (1940-1980) - I Am the Walrus
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dollhouse -- the Joss episode 2
For those few who may have been following this badly-reviewed but possibly-more-revealing-of- the-reviewers'-mindset-than-it-is-of-the-series television series, I highly recommend the occult exercise of WATCHING IT TWICE. Have you ever seen The Usual Suspects? If so, did you watch it only once? If you did, you have robbed yourself of one of the most educational four hours in cinema. The Usual Suspects is positively Dorothy Dunnettean. The Big Picture is right in front of your face from the first moment of the film to the last. Hell, it was there on the POSTER for the film, with one and only one character shown partway cropped out of the photo. You really don't appreciate how good the film is until you've seen it twice. I've just watched episode 6 of Dollhouse for the second time today. Uh...ditto for Dollhouse, episode 6. This is one smokin' hour of television. And, in all seriousness, and without a gram of putdown or smarm, I invite Bhairitu or anyone else (like...uh...Stu) to weigh in and tell me WHY it's such a smokin' hour of television. I really LIKE this episode of television. It grabs me and moves me. But I cannot precisely tell you WHY just yet. Unlike many, swayed by the critics and by the Ratings Gods, I have been giving Dollhouse a Get Out Of Jail Free card for the previous five episodes. I have been doing this because my past experience with Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel and Firefly and Serenity and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has convinced me that in Joss Whedon I am dealing with a very talented human being. Because of this bias on my part, I have been giving this series a pass. I have overlooked past seeming mediocrity, hoping beyond hope that it might be mere back story provided by a writer with a broader view, with a greater grasp on the Big Picture, to set us up for Something More Interesting. This is the first episode that has poured fuel on that hope, and not cold water. But so far, after only two viewings, I don't com- pletely understand WHY. I'll stake my rep as an armchair film reviewer on it -- this was an episode of Great Television, GTV. But I'm still reacting as a viewer, and as a bit of a fanboy. If Bhairitu or Stu or any of you out there who have more of a real education in the Film Arts than I do happen to agree with me (and it's OK if you don't), please weigh in and educate me. WHY is it you think this episode grabbed me in a way that none of the previous five did? What is it that you feel is the magic behind being able to reach an audience and not? Do tell. All I know is that this episode reached me. And good on it and on Joss Whedon for having done so. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: OK, this is the first episode that's lived up to my expectations for this series. Not coincidentally, it's the first episode since the pilot actually written by the creator of the series, Joss Whedon. And to make a long review short, I thought that this episode JUST FUCKING ROCKED. It redeems all that has gone before and puts it back into perspective as the necessary back story it was, and makes it less of a disappointment and more of a setup, all of which was required to bring us to this point. Episode 6 is titled Man on the Street, and it is actually punctuated with a series of When Harry Meets Sally-like interviews, talking with people on the street about the urban legend of the Dollhouse. In these interviews, all of the people being interviewed react to the idea of the Dollhouse. Some are shocked and outraged. Others, once the idea of it sinks in, talk a little more honestly about what *they* might do if the Dollhouse were real, and what *their* fantasy might be. And that's the essence of the episode, and finally, the series -- ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS. Things are not black and white. It's classic Joss Whedon. The evil owners of the Doll- house are not always evil. The predatory customers who rent the dolls are not always predatory; sometimes they are even sympathetic. The sympathetic characters may not be as sympathetic as they appeared. The handlers, whose job it is to protect the dolls, may need someone to protect the dolls from them. All is not as it seems. This episode also displays the thing that the series has been lacking most so far, instances of Whedonesque humor. Joss is a FUNNY man, and that hasn't been there in the writing so far. Now it's starting to creep in. As an example, this is the dialog between the FBI agent trying to track down rumors of the Dollhouse, sitting on a sofa in front of the TV eating Chinese food out of the containers with his next-door neighbor, Mellie, who has a major crush on him: Mellie: You have a very glamorous job. Ballard: How do you think I can afford to take you to all of these glamorous places? Mellie: Hey, this is the nicest offer I've had this month. Or...last month. Ballard: Weren't
RE: [FairfieldLife] Ozymandius Syndrome 3 - Where's Waldo?
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of TurquoiseB Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:39 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ozymandius Syndrome 3 - Where's Waldo? Call me an idiot, or someone who has missed the point, but I really don't GET this quest for importance. I think it has to do with a misplaced quest for immortality, which we intuitively know (albeit hazily) we already are but which, failing to locate that which is truly eternal, we try to secure by glomming on to ephemeral things.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:38 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of jyouells2000 Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:54 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons My condolences as well Geezer, truer devotion I have not seen... Every time I loose a dog, another shows up 6 to 9 months later to correct my errant ways. Mine, too. Dogs are great. I think Nabby's problem is that he doesn't have one, so his heart is underdeveloped and he ridicules me for having and helping them. What do you say, Nabby, is there a little pooch in your future? I had several as a child, these days a busy chedule does't give room for one. Perhaps later. Good answer. Thanks. Sometimes you've said things which gave me the impression that those who like dogs are somehow inferior, which I've found to be an India bias.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Credit where credit is due
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willy...@... wrote: Bhairitu wrote: Like I say, we need to name this economic depression the George W. Bush Depression... Does the president have anything to do with the economy in free market capitalism? Isn't it the job of congress to pass regulatory laws? http://rawstory.com/news/2008 First there is no such thing as complete free market capitalism anywhere in the world and never has been. Anyone who thinks the actions of the president have no effect on the economy is living in some sort of fairyland. I'm not sure what regulatory laws means. There are laws passed by congress and either signed or vetoed by the president, and there are regulations from the executive branch agencies who are implementing certain laws. The devil is generally in the details, ie regulations. What willy really means to say is bush is not responsible as president for any problems, obama as president is.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
Before Judy spontaneously cuts and pastes, look at Judy's posts. Judy would have been pissed off. What Judy seems to be concerned about-- what IMO Judy is upset about-- the thing that pisses Judy off the most-- Judy VERY MUCH wants to debunk her own preferred sources that *her* bias wishes to affix blame to. Judy cites posts from the Paleolithic Age, tends to shout Non sequitur and throw snit fits, is the one always spoiling for a fight, and has even admitted to having smoked marijuana in her youth. Judy's silly quote in response to yours began to attack you to demonize the culprit du jour. The day Judy can write a CREATIVE putdown, using this *same* situation to smear Obama, Judy will continue doing anything she can think of to say that HER sources are *better*. Judy is trying Yet Again to destroy, But look at Judy's posts, Judy's death threat meltdown. A TM peon, Judy has no such other side. Judy is completely unaware that she is describing anyone else. Your biggest weakness, Judy-- The cited articles are OPINION, Judy. I *owned* you, Judy. People are starting to stray from the Holy Judy Doctrine. Judy is Hall Monitor Of The Gods. People can call Judy bat-shit insane all they want. I really don't hate Judy. JUDY STEIN-ABSONDERLICHLIEBE I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I was wrong, Judy. I was wrong, Judy. I was wrong, Judy. You were right, Judy. You were right, Judy. You are *always* right, Judy. You're the best, Judy. You're the best, Judy. You're the best, Judy.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't springboarded off of her insight. But did you notice that in your parody of my parody of Ruth's parody that you ended with the very lines that you've so wanted to hear, and for so long? I reiterate the Subject line: Ozymandius Syndrome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I was wrong, Judy. I was wrong, Judy. I was wrong, Judy. You were right, Judy. You were right, Judy. You are *always* right, Judy. You're the best, Judy. You're the best, Judy. You're the best, Judy.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't springboarded off of her insight. But did you notice that in your parody of my parody of Ruth's parody that you ended with the very lines that you've so wanted to hear, and for so long? Uh, not from you, actually. I reiterate the Subject line: Ozymandius Syndrome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I was wrong, Judy. I was wrong, Judy. I was wrong, Judy. You were right, Judy. You were right, Judy. You are *always* right, Judy. You're the best, Judy. You're the best, Judy. You're the best, Judy.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't springboarded off of her insight. Delia had it nailed years ago on alt.m.t with her all-purpose Barry post: Blah, blah, Judy, yada yada Judy, blah. Yada, Judy, blah yada yada, then Judy will blah blah yada blah, because Judy blah blah yada, etc. But Judy blah blah, so that Judy yada yada, as everyone can see. But even though Judy blah, blah, yada yada, I really don't care about Judy and Judy is No Big Deal to me, because Judy blah blah Judy yada yada. But I don't think about Judy much at all, it's just that Judy blah blah yada yada. If Judy blah blah yada blah, then I would blah blah yada blah, but Judy yada yada, etc. blah blah, so Judy blah blah.
[FairfieldLife] Watch the spirits dance on channel 3. :-)
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't springboarded off of her insight. Delia had it nailed years ago on alt.m.t with her all-purpose Barry post: Blah, blah, Judy, yada yada Judy, blah. Yada, Judy, blah yada yada, then Judy will blah blah yada blah, because Judy blah blah yada, etc. But Judy blah blah, so that Judy yada yada, as everyone can see. But even though Judy blah, blah, yada yada, I really don't care about Judy and Judy is No Big Deal to me, because Judy blah blah Judy yada yada. But I don't think about Judy much at all, it's just that Judy blah blah yada yada. If Judy blah blah yada blah, then I would blah blah yada blah, but Judy yada yada, etc. blah blah, so Judy blah blah. Uh...Judy...have you even *noticed* that you are responding to my jabs of the last few days that you are devoid of creativity, *even in your putdowns*, by attempting to repost a putdown written by someone else? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't springboarded off of her insight. But did you notice that in your parody of my parody of Ruth's parody that you ended with the very lines that you've so wanted to hear, and for so long? Uh, not from you, actually. Just as a question, and for fun, from whom? Wouldn't wanting to hear them from ANYONE or ANYTHING put your ego in the same category as the ego of the God of the Old Testament? Who is it you *would* have wanted these lines to come from? Just askin'... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I was wrong, Judy. I was wrong, Judy. I was wrong, Judy. You were right, Judy. You were right, Judy. You are *always* right, Judy. You're the best, Judy. You're the best, Judy. You're the best, Judy.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't springboarded off of her insight. Delia had it nailed years ago on alt.m.t with her all-purpose Barry post: Blah, blah, Judy, yada yada Judy, blah. Yada, Judy, blah yada yada, then Judy will blah blah yada blah, because Judy blah blah yada, etc. But Judy blah blah, so that Judy yada yada, as everyone can see. But even though Judy blah, blah, yada yada, I really don't care about Judy and Judy is No Big Deal to me, because Judy blah blah Judy yada yada. But I don't think about Judy much at all, it's just that Judy blah blah yada yada. If Judy blah blah yada blah, then I would blah blah yada blah, but Judy yada yada, etc. blah blah, so Judy blah blah. Uh...Judy...have you even *noticed* that you are responding to my jabs of the last few days that you are devoid of creativity, *even in your putdowns*, by attempting to repost a putdown written by someone else? You're suffering from a rather major misconception here. Can you guess what it is?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't springboarded off of her insight. Delia had it nailed years ago on alt.m.t with her all-purpose Barry post: Blah, blah, Judy, yada yada Judy, blah. Yada, Judy, blah yada yada, then Judy will blah blah yada blah, because Judy blah blah yada, etc. But Judy blah blah, so that Judy yada yada, as everyone can see. But even though Judy blah, blah, yada yada, I really don't care about Judy and Judy is No Big Deal to me, because Judy blah blah Judy yada yada. But I don't think about Judy much at all, it's just that Judy blah blah yada yada. If Judy blah blah yada blah, then I would blah blah yada blah, but Judy yada yada, etc. blah blah, so Judy blah blah. Uh...Judy...have you even *noticed* that you are responding to my jabs of the last few days that you are devoid of creativity, *even in your putdowns*, by attempting to repost a putdown written by someone else? You're suffering from a rather major misconception here. Can you guess what it is? Nope. Fill me in. While you're at it, consider this. In all honesty (and I know that will make you chortle), I am trying to taunt you into doing something higher here, something more worthy of you. Look at the record. You keep referring to the parody I wrote of you as the Red Queen in Alice In Blunderland YEARS AGO as the best thing Barry has ever written to any of our mutual forums. Cool, I guess. So what's the best thing YOU have ever written? Surely you can point us to it with a URL, as you did with my best effort. And if not, WHY NOT? I'm taunting you as a weird kind of FAVOR, Judy. I'm hoping to taunt you into TRYING YOUR HAND AT CREATIVE WRITING, instead of riding on the coattails of other creative writers by cutting-and-pasting their ideas, and their words. IMO you've done that long enough. You have more than enough chops to write your OWN stinging putdowns, if that is where your creative urges lie. There is nothing wrong with that, IMO. Look at Oscar Wilde. The world is *enriched* as the result of his literate and creative putdowns. Go for it. Enrich the world. Do something creative for a change, instead of relying on other sources to do it for you. I dare you. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't springboarded off of her insight. But did you notice that in your parody of my parody of Ruth's parody that you ended with the very lines that you've so wanted to hear, and for so long? Uh, not from you, actually. Just as a question, and for fun, from whom? Wouldn't wanting to hear them from ANYONE or ANYTHING put your ego in the same category as the ego of the God of the Old Testament? Uh, hardly. Who is it you *would* have wanted these lines to come from? People for whom I have some respect.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Cool comeback. I wondered whether you'd have the balls to respond. Almost creative, if Ruth hadn't thought of it first, and if I hadn't springboarded off of her insight. Delia had it nailed years ago on alt.m.t with her all-purpose Barry post: Blah, blah, Judy, yada yada Judy, blah. Yada, Judy, blah yada yada, then Judy will blah blah yada blah, because Judy blah blah yada, etc. But Judy blah blah, so that Judy yada yada, as everyone can see. But even though Judy blah, blah, yada yada, I really don't care about Judy and Judy is No Big Deal to me, because Judy blah blah Judy yada yada. But I don't think about Judy much at all, it's just that Judy blah blah yada yada. If Judy blah blah yada blah, then I would blah blah yada blah, but Judy yada yada, etc. blah blah, so Judy blah blah. Uh...Judy...have you even *noticed* that you are responding to my jabs of the last few days that you are devoid of creativity, *even in your putdowns*, by attempting to repost a putdown written by someone else? You're suffering from a rather major misconception here. Can you guess what it is? Nope. Fill me in. Actually there were two misconceptions. The first one I address below. The other is that the point wasn't to respond to your jabs that I am devoid of creativity but to highlight your *obsession* with me. You should have gotten that when I reposted Delia's putdown. While you're at it, consider this. In all honesty (and I know that will make you chortle), You got that right. I am trying to taunt you into doing something higher here, something more worthy of you. Look at the record. You keep referring to the parody I wrote of you as the Red Queen in Alice In Blunderland YEARS AGO as the best thing Barry has ever written to any of our mutual forums. Actually what I've said is that it's the best of your satirical pieces (by a very long shot). Cool, I guess. So what's the best thing YOU have ever written? Surely you can point us to it with a URL, as you did with my best effort. And if not, WHY NOT? Because I don't obsess over the quality of my writing; it's not what defines me. I'm taunting you as a weird kind of FAVOR, Judy. I'm hoping to taunt you into TRYING YOUR HAND AT CREATIVE WRITING, instead of riding on the coattails of other creative writers by cutting-and-pasting their ideas, and their words. Might as well quit, Barry. You taunt at scars that never felt a wound (your first misconception). I'm an *editor*. What I do here is much more editorial than writerly. Unlike you, I don't consider the latter better than the former. As to whether I do what I do better than you do what you do, well, that's another question, isn't it?
RE: [FairfieldLife] Ozymandius Syndrome 3 - Where's Waldo?
Call me an idiot, or someone who has missed the point, but I really don't GET this quest for importance. I think it has to do with a misplaced quest for immortality, which we intuitively know (albeit hazily) we already are but which, failing to locate that which is truly eternal, we try to secure by glomming on to ephemeral things. Yeah, either that or the obvious, that chicks dig important guys. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Sat, 3/21/09, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote: From: Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Ozymandius Syndrome 3 - Where's Waldo? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 12:13 PM From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of TurquoiseB Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:39 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ozymandius Syndrome 3 - Where's Waldo? Call me an idiot, or someone who has missed the point, but I really don't GET this quest for importance. I think it has to do with a misplaced quest for immortality, which we intuitively know (albeit hazily) we already are but which, failing to locate that which is truly eternal, we try to secure by glomming on to ephemeral things.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Credit where credit is due
boo_lives wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams willy...@... wrote: Bhairitu wrote: Like I say, we need to name this economic depression the George W. Bush Depression... Does the president have anything to do with the economy in free market capitalism? Isn't it the job of congress to pass regulatory laws? http://rawstory.com/news/2008 First there is no such thing as complete free market capitalism anywhere in the world and never has been. Anyone who thinks the actions of the president have no effect on the economy is living in some sort of fairyland. I'm not sure what regulatory laws means. There are laws passed by congress and either signed or vetoed by the president, and there are regulations from the executive branch agencies who are implementing certain laws. The devil is generally in the details, ie regulations. What willy really means to say is bush is not responsible as president for any problems, obama as president is. And of course Obama is really not responsible for problems Bush created. Bush very definitely is. This week I got a couple recorded calls from my congressman that he was holding a town hall meeting this morning at city hall. So I decided to drop by on my way to my usual morning waterfront park walk. Saturday mornings in the spring in this baseball crazed town (hometown of Joe DiMaggio who I also once met about 15 years ago -- yeh, I know some of the guys here will be thinking you met the guy who...) are probably bad for any turnouts for a town hall meeting and usually these might fill up a room but still with some standing room in the back. In fact, my congressman, George Miller (if you stayed with Obama's recent talk to the nation he was the tall white haired and mustached dude right behind Obama and Harry Reid as Obama was leaving the hall), often just hold coffee klatches at Starbucks instead. But today as I approached city hall I noted that the usually empty streets were full with cars and the crowd was overflowed onto the steps of the building. I passed and I'm sure the local Bay Area stations had crews there so can catch in on their news broadcasts. I didn't notice any torches or pitch forks but I'm sure he faced that kind of crowd.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: I'm an *editor*. What I do here is much more editorial than writerly. Unlike you, I don't consider the latter better than the former. As to whether I do what I do better than you do what you do, well, that's another question, isn't it? Cool. I guess. If you are content to go through the rest of your life parroting (or trying to correct) the words of others instead of creating your own, you are correct -- who am I to say that it's lesser than Thinking For Yourself. Whatever floats your boat...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 3 - Where's Waldo?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ffl...@... wrote: Call me an idiot, or someone who has missed the point, but I really don't GET this quest for importance. I think it has to do with a misplaced quest for immortality, which we intuitively know (albeit hazily) we already are but which, failing to locate that which is truly eternal, we try to secure by glomming on to ephemeral things. Yeah, either that or the obvious, that chicks dig important guys. Gotta give you that one. That's probably the reason that Krishna tried to make himself more important, too. Who ya gonna go home from the prom with, the guy who brung ya, or the guy with the longest flute? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Dollhouse Season 1 Begins
They could have just thrown the first 5 episodes in to the garbage can. While Dollhouse was on I was watching the outstanding series finale of Battlestar Gallactica on my DVR. I paused the DVR at a break which happened to be at 9 PM and saw just the very intro TV remote that they opened the show with. Just write there it telegraphed that this was going to be a great episode which I did watch after finishing BSG. The one thing that particularly struck me other than opening segments with mock TV street interviews about the existence of a Dollhouse was the editing. Tight and nicely done. Bad editing can destroy a work and good editing can save a poorly filmed one. The subtext that was introduced last week was better woven into this episode. And this episode wasn't all about Eliza's character. In fact in a way seemed to get back a little to the kind of character she can play well (give her some comic relief) that I saw in Nobel Son on DVD earlier in the week. I'm not sure but that may have been Whedon himself doing a cameo (sporting long hair and beard) in the last TV interview. Ronald Moore the creator of the new BSG appears at the newstand at the end of the BSG finale. We can hope that this episode sets a series bible for future episodes to follow to keep them up to snuff. Disclaimer: no personal pronouns were mistreated or harmed in any way during the making of this post.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - The Poem
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2...@... wrote: the truth and make you look bad you did your level best and failed miserably all this was precipitated by my having owned *you* the meltdowns all along have been yours, not mine yes, I will continue to expose your lies, hypocrisy, and illogic as long as you continue to indulge in them and you'll continue to go mad with frustration and rage it's appalling to me that folks here treat you as if you were a decent human being when you so obviously are not the people on alt.m.t had more of a sense of ethics than the folks here nonetheless, I shall persevere What is the difference between free verse and prose done with faulty margin settings? curious It is just that I enjoy ones that rhyme better. I think it must have something to do with synesthesia, or stuff. At least I perceived the rhythm quite a lot differently with the faulty margin settings...
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Secret Swami - Sai Baba (BBC)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: LINK The Secret Swami - Sai Baba Maitreya Sai Baba [Sri Sathy Sai Baba] Sai Baba is a teacher or guru in south India with an enormous following. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps one or two million people from all over the world would claim to be his devotees. These Followers see him as God, the creator of the universe. He is a cosmic avatar. Sai Baba and Maitreya both embody the same energy--what we call the Christ principle, the energy of Love --- Sai Baba at the cosmic level, Maitreya at the planetary level. The relation of Sai Baba to the Christ: The Christ is a planetary avatar, Sai Baba is a cosmic avatar. He is a Spiritual Regent, sent into the world by the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, on Shamballa. A regent stands in for the king. Similarly, a Spiritual Regent stands in for God, for the Logos, Whose reflection Sanat Kumara is. Sai Baba embodies the energy of Love at a cosmic level (the Christ embodies this energy at the planetary level) and his work, in part, is to prepare humanity for the work of the Christ. By awakening the love principle in humanity, Sai Baba will prepare people for the Initiatory work of the Christ. As the Hierophant, the Initiator, at the first two planetary initiations, the Christ will lead humanity gradually out of the strictly human kingdom into the Hierarchy, the Kingdom of Souls, or the Kingdom of God. That is his major work in the coming age of Aquarius. These two Great Ones work together in daily contact, complete harmony and shared purpose in the evolution of mankind. http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_others.htm http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_others.htm
[FairfieldLife] U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would be one of a number delivered to the United Nations on March 25 by the U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform. It is a good moment to move to a shared reserve currency, he said. Central banks hold their reserves in a variety of currencies and gold, but the dollar has dominated as the most convincing store of value -- though its rate has wavered in recent years as the United States ran up huge twin budget and external deficits. Some analysts said news of the U.N. panel's recommendation extended dollar losses because it fed into concerns about the future of the greenback as the main global reserve currency, raising the chances of central bank sales of dollar holdings. Speculation that major central banks would begin rebalancing their FX reserves has risen since the intensification of the dollar's slide between 2002 and mid-2008, CMC Markets said in a note. Russia is also planning to propose the creation of a new reserve currency, to be issued by international financial institutions, at the April G20 meeting, according to the text of its proposals published on Monday. It has significantly reduced the dollar's share in its own reserves in recent years. GOOD TIME Persaud said that the United States was concerned that holding the reserve currency made it impossible to run policy, while the rest of world was also unhappy with the generally declining dollar. There is a moment that can be grasped for change, he said. Today the Americans complain that when the world wants to save, it means a deficit. A shared (reserve) would reduce the possibility of global imbalances. Persaud said the panel had been looking at using something like an expanded Special Drawing Right, originally created by the International Monetary Fund in 1969 but now used mainly as an accounting unit within similar organizations. The SDR and the old Ecu are essentially combinations of currencies, weighted to a constituent's economic clout, which can be valued against other currencies and indeed against those inside the basket. Persaud said there were two main reasons why policymakers might consider such a move, one being the current desire for a change from the dollar. The other reason, he said, was the success of the euro, which incorporated a number of currencies but roughly speaking held on to the stability of the old German deutschemark compared with, say, the Greek drachma. Persaud has long argued that the dollar would give way to the Chinese yuan as a global reserve currency within decades. A shared reserve currency might negate this move, he said, but he believed that China would still like to take on the role. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H2CY20090318?sp=true
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:38 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of jyouells2000 Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:54 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons My condolences as well Geezer, truer devotion I have not seen... Every time I loose a dog, another shows up 6 to 9 months later to correct my errant ways. Mine, too. Dogs are great. I think Nabby's problem is that he doesn't have one, so his heart is underdeveloped and he ridicules me for having and helping them. What do you say, Nabby, is there a little pooch in your future? I had several as a child, these days a busy chedule does't give room for one. Perhaps later. Good answer. Thanks. Sometimes you've said things which gave me the impression that those who like dogs are somehow inferior, which I've found to be an India bias. I could say alot about this; crying for a dead pet for example. Why are some fools crying for a pet which could be perfectly happy in a dead state, striving as it is for further accomplishments and finally a human nervous-system ? They are reminded of their own eventual death, and the sense of loss is self-pity rather than love for the animal. In my experience seing people grieve for a pet is purely pathetic founded on intense ignorance and love for everything past. Then there is the rather complicated factor of how much energy an animal could draw from your own resourses. Touch an animal and you will immediately know the answer to this question from the immediate reaction in your hand and arm. Some animals are harmless and will be good for you. Others are drawn to you because it is desperate to get a human nervous-system, or it is ill and wants your energy to be healed. India bias ? Not really.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I'm an *editor*. What I do here is much more editorial than writerly. Unlike you, I don't consider the latter better than the former. As to whether I do what I do better than you do what you do, well, that's another question, isn't it? Cool. I guess. If you are content to go through the rest of your life parroting (or trying to correct) the words of others instead of creating your own, you are correct -- who am I to say that it's lesser than Thinking For Yourself. Whatever floats your boat... Saved for the next time you let loose with one of your no opinion is any 'better' or 'more authoritative' than any other rants. snicker
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Secret Swami - Sai Baba (BBC)
Nab, Sai Baba's a pedophile -- this was told to me directly by Andy Rymer who was with Sai Baba for five years -- as one of his head-honcho in-the-know, skin-carrier types. The guy is a monster, and so, hey, no wonder Rymer ended up with him. Nab, Nab, Nab . . . so many here fear for thee. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: LINK The Secret Swami - Sai Baba Maitreya Sai Baba [Sri Sathy Sai Baba] Sai Baba is a teacher or guru in south India with an enormous following. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps one or two million people from all over the world would claim to be his devotees. These Followers see him as God, the creator of the universe. He is a cosmic avatar. Sai Baba and Maitreya both embody the same energy--what we call the Christ principle, the energy of Love --- Sai Baba at the cosmic level, Maitreya at the planetary level. The relation of Sai Baba to the Christ: The Christ is a planetary avatar, Sai Baba is a cosmic avatar. He is a Spiritual Regent, sent into the world by the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, on Shamballa. A regent stands in for the king. Similarly, a Spiritual Regent stands in for God, for the Logos, Whose reflection Sanat Kumara is. Sai Baba embodies the energy of Love at a cosmic level (the Christ embodies this energy at the planetary level) and his work, in part, is to prepare humanity for the work of the Christ. By awakening the love principle in humanity, Sai Baba will prepare people for the Initiatory work of the Christ. As the Hierophant, the Initiator, at the first two planetary initiations, the Christ will lead humanity gradually out of the strictly human kingdom into the Hierarchy, the Kingdom of Souls, or the Kingdom of God. That is his major work in the coming age of Aquarius. These two Great Ones work together in daily contact, complete harmony and shared purpose in the evolution of mankind. http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_others.htm http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_others.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons
Nab, You've just broken the FFL record for world-class-asshole cruelty. We invest our identities into our pets. I remember letting my cat out the back door and watching him approach the woods. No lion could have entered the woods with any more on the hunt intensity. Here's this four pound animal walking into the unknown with every sort of very real danger -- and embracing it like a warrior. I was filled with pride that I knew such a person. So, in case you didn't hear my tone, let me spell it out for you about your finger wagging at Geezer: fuck you. But, your own words say it better; you're purely pathetic [and] founded on intense ignorance. Usually I can find some sort of compassion for you, cuz, god knows, I've been as blinded by a cult as you are now, but to choose a moment of deep loss to give one of your chastising finger-wagging sermons is a new low by any standard heretofore set at FFL. I'll notify Willy to surrender the infamous twit title and give you the crown. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:38 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of jyouells2000 Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:54 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons My condolences as well Geezer, truer devotion I have not seen... Every time I loose a dog, another shows up 6 to 9 months later to correct my errant ways. Mine, too. Dogs are great. I think Nabby's problem is that he doesn't have one, so his heart is underdeveloped and he ridicules me for having and helping them. What do you say, Nabby, is there a little pooch in your future? I had several as a child, these days a busy chedule does't give room for one. Perhaps later. Good answer. Thanks. Sometimes you've said things which gave me the impression that those who like dogs are somehow inferior, which I've found to be an India bias. I could say alot about this; crying for a dead pet for example. Why are some fools crying for a pet which could be perfectly happy in a dead state, striving as it is for further accomplishments and finally a human nervous-system ? They are reminded of their own eventual death, and the sense of loss is self-pity rather than love for the animal. In my experience seing people grieve for a pet is purely pathetic founded on intense ignorance and love for everything past. Then there is the rather complicated factor of how much energy an animal could draw from your own resourses. Touch an animal and you will immediately know the answer to this question from the immediate reaction in your hand and arm. Some animals are harmless and will be good for you. Others are drawn to you because it is desperate to get a human nervous-system, or it is ill and wants your energy to be healed. India bias ? Not really.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Nab, You've just broken the FFL record for world-class-asshole cruelty. Happy to hear that, thanks :-) Now, take your medicines.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Secret Swami - Sai Baba (BBC)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Nab, Nab, Nab . . . so many here fear for thee. Edg Have no fear. Try to see behind ridicoulous accusations about Masters about whom humaity knows next to nothing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: LINK The Secret Swami - Sai Baba Maitreya Sai Baba [Sri Sathy Sai Baba] Sai Baba is a teacher or guru in south India with an enormous following. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps one or two million people from all over the world would claim to be his devotees. These Followers see him as God, the creator of the universe. He is a cosmic avatar. Sai Baba and Maitreya both embody the same energy--what we call the Christ principle, the energy of Love --- Sai Baba at the cosmic level, Maitreya at the planetary level. The relation of Sai Baba to the Christ: The Christ is a planetary avatar, Sai Baba is a cosmic avatar. He is a Spiritual Regent, sent into the world by the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, on Shamballa. A regent stands in for the king. Similarly, a Spiritual Regent stands in for God, for the Logos, Whose reflection Sanat Kumara is. Sai Baba embodies the energy of Love at a cosmic level (the Christ embodies this energy at the planetary level) and his work, in part, is to prepare humanity for the work of the Christ. By awakening the love principle in humanity, Sai Baba will prepare people for the Initiatory work of the Christ. As the Hierophant, the Initiator, at the first two planetary initiations, the Christ will lead humanity gradually out of the strictly human kingdom into the Hierarchy, the Kingdom of Souls, or the Kingdom of God. That is his major work in the coming age of Aquarius. These two Great Ones work together in daily contact, complete harmony and shared purpose in the evolution of mankind. http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_others.htm http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_others.htm
[FairfieldLife] Creativity (Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat)
TurquoiseB wrote: [bigass snip] Uh...Judy...have you even *noticed* that you are responding to my jabs of the last few days that you are devoid of creativity, [snip} Turq, I have a world-class ability to create. In fact, I could give some quite good mental techniques to boost anyone's creativity, and I have a long track record of coming up with unique, one of a kind, new ideas. I'm an expert by most measures. But, it would be a sham if I said anyone should bow to me, cuz I've never met a person less creative than me. I thought about toys etc. they think of other things etc. Every mind I've ever encountered comes up with thought after thought after thought that THEY'VE NEVER HAD BEFORE IN THEIR LIFE. Note also the creativity of Nazis making lamp shades from human skin -- amazing out of the box thinking! Recyling redefined! Fuck creativity. Judy's red penciling is like DaVinci's red chalk drawings -- ART -- I could never come up with all the shit she smears you with -- she surprises me again and again how she can find purchase in some of your most -- seemingly -- innocuous posts. And, she outstandingly is able to create blurbs devoid of rancor that precisely lay bare your ruses -- I'm astounded by her ability to hold her space. Your outputs are no less creative, but your false pride is a sign to all of us that you're goething before a fall. Edg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - The Poem
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: the truth and make you look bad you did your level best and failed miserably all this was precipitated by my having owned *you* the meltdowns all along have been yours, not mine yes, I will continue to expose your lies, hypocrisy, and illogic as long as you continue to indulge in them and you'll continue to go mad with frustration and rage it's appalling to me that folks here treat you as if you were a decent human being when you so obviously are not the people on alt.m.t had more of a sense of ethics than the folks here nonetheless, I shall persevere What is the difference between free verse and prose done with faulty margin settings? curious It is just that I enjoy ones that rhyme better. I think it must have something to do with synesthesia, or stuff. At least I perceived the rhythm quite a lot differently with the faulty margin settings... Not being very musical, I missed any rhythm - not very observant I guess.
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would be one of a number delivered to the United Nations on March 25 by the U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform. It is a good moment to move to a shared reserve currency, he said. Central banks hold their reserves in a variety of currencies and gold, but the dollar has dominated as the most convincing store of value -- though its rate has wavered in recent years as the United States ran up huge twin budget and external deficits. Some analysts said news of the U.N. panel's recommendation extended dollar losses because it fed into concerns about the future of the greenback as the main global reserve currency, raising the chances of central bank sales of dollar holdings. Speculation that major central banks would begin rebalancing their FX reserves has risen since the intensification of the dollar's slide between 2002 and mid-2008, CMC Markets said in a note. Russia is also planning to propose the creation of a new reserve currency, to be issued by international financial institutions, at the April G20 meeting, according to the text of its proposals published on Monday. It has significantly reduced the dollar's share in its own reserves in recent years. GOOD TIME Persaud said that the United States was concerned that holding the reserve currency made it impossible to run policy, while the rest of world was also unhappy with the generally declining dollar. There is a moment that can be grasped for change, he said. Today the Americans complain that when the world wants to save, it means a deficit. A shared (reserve) would reduce the possibility of global imbalances. Persaud said the panel had been looking at using something like an expanded Special Drawing Right, originally created by the International Monetary Fund in 1969 but now used mainly as an accounting unit within similar organizations. The SDR and the old Ecu are essentially combinations of currencies, weighted to a constituent's economic clout, which can be valued against other currencies and indeed against those inside the basket. Persaud said there were two main reasons why policymakers might consider such a move, one being the current desire for a change from the dollar. The other reason, he said, was the success of the euro, which incorporated a number of currencies but roughly speaking held on to the stability of the old German deutschemark compared with, say, the Greek drachma. Persaud has long argued that the dollar would give way to the Chinese yuan as a global reserve currency within decades. A shared reserve currency might negate this move, he said, but he believed that China would still like to take on the role. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H2CY20090318?sp=true Another page in the effort to create problems here as if we don't do pretty well on our own. What BS.
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would be one of a number delivered to the United Nations on March 25 by the U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform. It is a good moment to move to a shared reserve currency, he said. Central banks hold their reserves in a variety of currencies and gold, but the dollar has dominated as the most convincing store of value -- though its rate has wavered in recent years as the United States ran up huge twin budget and external deficits. Some analysts said news of the U.N. panel's recommendation extended dollar losses because it fed into concerns about the future of the greenback as the main global reserve currency, raising the chances of central bank sales of dollar holdings. Speculation that major central banks would begin rebalancing their FX reserves has risen since the intensification of the dollar's slide between 2002 and mid-2008, CMC Markets said in a note. Russia is also planning to propose the creation of a new reserve currency, to be issued by international financial institutions, at the April G20 meeting, according to the text of its proposals published on Monday. It has significantly reduced the dollar's share in its own reserves in recent years. GOOD TIME Persaud said that the United States was concerned that holding the reserve currency made it impossible to run policy, while the rest of world was also unhappy with the generally declining dollar. There is a moment that can be grasped for change, he said. Today the Americans complain that when the world wants to save, it means a deficit. A shared (reserve) would reduce the possibility of global imbalances. Persaud said the panel had been looking at using something like an expanded Special Drawing Right, originally created by the International Monetary Fund in 1969 but now used mainly as an accounting unit within similar organizations. The SDR and the old Ecu are essentially combinations of currencies, weighted to a constituent's economic clout, which can be valued against other currencies and indeed against those inside the basket. Persaud said there were two main reasons why policymakers might consider such a move, one being the current desire for a change from the dollar. The other reason, he said, was the success of the euro, which incorporated a number of currencies but roughly speaking held on to the stability of the old German deutschemark compared with, say, the Greek drachma. Persaud has long argued that the dollar would give way to the Chinese yuan as a global reserve currency within decades. A shared reserve currency might negate this move, he said, but he believed that China would still like to take on the role. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H2CY20090318?sp=true Another page in the effort to create problems here as if we don't do pretty well on our own. What BS. Factual reality is a problem for you, Nelson?
[FairfieldLife] Ween
Spinal Meningitus. Ween Spinal Meningitis (Got me Down) Lyrics: Why they wanna see my spine mommy? Why they wanna see my spine? It's gonna hurt again mommy Much worse than last time Am I gonna see God, mommy? Am I gonna die? It really hurts mommy! Am I gonna die? Smile on mighty Jesus Spinal meningitis got me down I'm feelin' greasy mommy Please don't let me die Stinky vaseline mommy Please don't let me die Am I gonna see God, mommy? Am I gonna die? It really hurts mommy! Am I gonna die? Smile on mighty Jesus Spinal meningitis got me down Here's to you Buddy, will miss you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would be one of a number delivered to the United Nations on March 25 by the U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform. It is a good moment to move to a shared reserve currency, he said. snip Another page in the effort to create problems here as if we don't do pretty well on our own. What BS. Factual reality is a problem for you, Nelson? Just observing that the efforts to make us into a third world country are making progress. Like Tourq says facts are often determined by your point of view (or something like that). Unlike many people, I determine my own POV.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Secret Swami - Sai Baba (BBC)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: LINK The Secret Swami - Sai Baba Maitreya Sai Baba [Sri Sathy Sai Baba] Sai Baba is a teacher or guru in south India with an enormous following. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps one or two million people from all over the world would claim to be his devotees. These Followers see him as God, the creator of the universe. He is a cosmic avatar. Sai Baba and Maitreya both embody the same energy--what we call the Christ principle, the energy of Love --- Sai Baba at the cosmic level, Sorry, but: http://hotlard.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/puke-01.jpg : /
[FairfieldLife] was: Non-Duality Cartoons; now:TMO bias against animal companions.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:38 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of jyouells2000 Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:54 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons My condolences as well Geezer, truer devotion I have not seen... Every time I loose a dog, another shows up 6 to 9 months later to correct my errant ways. Mine, too. Dogs are great. I think Nabby's problem is that he doesn't have one, so his heart is underdeveloped and he ridicules me for having and helping them. What do you say, Nabby, is there a little pooch in your future? I had several as a child, these days a busy chedule does't give room for one. Perhaps later. Good answer. Thanks. Sometimes you've said things which gave me the impression that those who like dogs are somehow inferior, which I've found to be an India bias. I could say alot about this; crying for a dead pet for example. Why are some fools crying for a pet which could be perfectly happy in a dead state, striving as it is for further accomplishments and finally a human nervous-system ? They are reminded of their own eventual death, and the sense of loss is self-pity rather than love for the animal. In my experience seing people grieve for a pet is purely pathetic founded on intense ignorance and love for everything past. Then there is the rather complicated factor of how much energy an animal could draw from your own resourses. Touch an animal and you will immediately know the answer to this question from the immediate reaction in your hand and arm. Some animals are harmless and will be good for you. Others are drawn to you because it is desperate to get a human nervous-system, or it is ill and wants your energy to be healed. India bias ? Not really. - Nabby parrots the thirty-plus years TMO propaganda against animal companions. What Nabby will never realize is that MMY and the TMO, pretending to offer loving wisdom and guidance to TBers, in reality sought to maximize TBers allegiance to MMY and his TMO by marginalizing those who competed with them for the time and attention of the TBers. With slogans like 'The Movement belongs to those who move', etc. animal companions, and sometimes reluctant spouses, lost out to the corporate-like demands of the TMO to serve the need of MMY/TMO by putting MMY/TMO first. The widespread celibacy found in the TMO full-timers is another example of the Movement first orientation that was expected of 'inside ' TBers. It's amusing to read Nabby's rationalizations regarding the dangers of animal companions. I wonder what he thinks about celibacy. I wouldn't be surprised if nary another human has had sexual relations with Nabby for over thirty years, either.
[FairfieldLife] Re: was: Non-Duality Cartoons; now:TMO bias against animal companions.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 mainstream20...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 1:38 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of jyouells2000 Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:54 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons My condolences as well Geezer, truer devotion I have not seen... Every time I loose a dog, another shows up 6 to 9 months later to correct my errant ways. Mine, too. Dogs are great. I think Nabby's problem is that he doesn't have one, so his heart is underdeveloped and he ridicules me for having and helping them. What do you say, Nabby, is there a little pooch in your future? I had several as a child, these days a busy chedule does't give room for one. Perhaps later. Good answer. Thanks. Sometimes you've said things which gave me the impression that those who like dogs are somehow inferior, which I've found to be an India bias. I could say alot about this; crying for a dead pet for example. Why are some fools crying for a pet which could be perfectly happy in a dead state, striving as it is for further accomplishments and finally a human nervous-system ? They are reminded of their own eventual death, and the sense of loss is self-pity rather than love for the animal. In my experience seing people grieve for a pet is purely pathetic founded on intense ignorance and love for everything past. Then there is the rather complicated factor of how much energy an animal could draw from your own resourses. Touch an animal and you will immediately know the answer to this question from the immediate reaction in your hand and arm. Some animals are harmless and will be good for you. Others are drawn to you because it is desperate to get a human nervous-system, or it is ill and wants your energy to be healed. India bias ? Not really. - Nabby parrots the thirty-plus years TMO propaganda against animal companions. What Nabby will never realize is that MMY and the TMO, pretending to offer loving wisdom and guidance to TBers, in reality sought to maximize TBers allegiance to MMY and his TMO by marginalizing those who competed with them for the time and attention of the TBers. With slogans like 'The Movement belongs to those who move', etc. animal companions, and sometimes reluctant spouses, lost out to the corporate-like demands of the TMO to serve the need of MMY/TMO by putting MMY/TMO first. The widespread celibacy found in the TMO full-timers is another example of the Movement first orientation that was expected of 'inside ' TBers. It's amusing to read Nabby's rationalizations regarding the dangers of animal companions. I wonder what he thinks about celibacy. I wouldn't be surprised if nary another human has had sexual relations with Nabby for over thirty years, either. +=+=+ Ramana Maharshi's presence invoked a remarkable and transformational impression of benevolence and dignity, kindness and simplicity. which proved to be fundamental to the movement toward spiritual enlightenment in the Western world. Ramana saw God in everything. He had the utmost respect for animals, and there are many wonderful stories of his interactions with them, some of which I have recounted below. Sri Ramana Maharshi and the Ashram Animals. Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi the Indian Saint showed the same consideration to the animals whom destiny had brought into contact with him as to the people. And animals were drawn to him just as people were. Birds and squirrels would build their nests close to him and mother monkeys were often seen to bring their babies to him for blessings in the same way human mothers would bring their children for blessings. He never referred to animals in the usual Indian style as `it' but always as `he' or `she.' At meal time at the ashram the animals were always fed first, then any beggers who might have chanced by, and then the devotes. He referred to the ashram dogs as the Lads. Many animals found their way to the ashram including dogs, cats, cows, peacocks, squirrels, birds and monkeys. Squirrels would hop through the window of Ramana's room. He always kept
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Well it's clear that the world is ready for the Raam. I think Hagelin and Bevan should march down to Luxembourg and demand to be taken seriously.
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Well it's clear that the world is ready for the Raam. I think Hagelin and Bevan should march down to Luxembourg and demand to be taken seriously. chuckle Wasn't that crackpot idea declared illegal?
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Nelson nelsonriddle2...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would be one of a number delivered to the United Nations on March 25 by the U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform. It is a good moment to move to a shared reserve currency, he said. snip Another page in the effort to create problems here as if we don't do pretty well on our own. What BS. Factual reality is a problem for you, Nelson? Just observing that the efforts to make us into a third world country are making progress. Like Tourq says facts are often determined by your point of view (or something like that). Unlike many people, I determine my own POV. Just like too many Americans do...and that would be why America is in the mess it is. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Secret Swami - Sai Baba (BBC)
--Reminds me of the Benjamin Creme nonsense. He's an Avatar because so and so says he's an Avatar because so and so says he's an Avatar.. Could be an interesting new type of child-molesting Avatar. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: LINK The Secret Swami - Sai Baba Maitreya Sai Baba [Sri Sathy Sai Baba] Sai Baba is a teacher or guru in south India with an enormous following. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps one or two million people from all over the world would claim to be his devotees. These Followers see him as God, the creator of the universe. He is a cosmic avatar. Sai Baba and Maitreya both embody the same energy--what we call the Christ principle, the energy of Love --- Sai Baba at the cosmic level, Maitreya at the planetary level. The relation of Sai Baba to the Christ: The Christ is a planetary avatar, Sai Baba is a cosmic avatar. He is a Spiritual Regent, sent into the world by the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, on Shamballa. A regent stands in for the king. Similarly, a Spiritual Regent stands in for God, for the Logos, Whose reflection Sanat Kumara is. Sai Baba embodies the energy of Love at a cosmic level (the Christ embodies this energy at the planetary level) and his work, in part, is to prepare humanity for the work of the Christ. By awakening the love principle in humanity, Sai Baba will prepare people for the Initiatory work of the Christ. As the Hierophant, the Initiator, at the first two planetary initiations, the Christ will lead humanity gradually out of the strictly human kingdom into the Hierarchy, the Kingdom of Souls, or the Kingdom of God. That is his major work in the coming age of Aquarius. These two Great Ones work together in daily contact, complete harmony and shared purpose in the evolution of mankind. http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_others.htm http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_others.htm
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[FairfieldLife] NYT: Administration Seeks Increase in Oversight of Executive Pay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l46t_nrySg4feature=related Oh Hail, our Savior Obama (remember that little ditty)? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/us/politics/22regulate.html?_r=2hp=pagewanted=print http://tinyurl.com/ctnoa4 March 22, 2009 Administration Seeks Increase in Oversight of Executive Pay By STEPHEN LABATON WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, government officials said. The outlines of the plan are expected to be unveiled this week in preparation for President Obama’s first foreign summit meeting in early April. Increasing oversight of executive pay has been under consideration for some time, but the decision was made in recent days as public fury over bonuses has spilled into the regulatory effort. The officials said that the administration was still debating the details of its plan, including how broadly it should be applied and how far it could range beyond simple reporting requirements. Depending on the outcome of the discussions, the administration could seek to put the changes into effect through regulations rather than through legislation. One proposal could impose greater requirements on the boards of companies to tie executive compensation more closely to corporate performance and to take other steps to assure that outsize bonuses are not paid before meeting financial goals. The new rules will cover all financial institutions, including those not now covered by any pay rules because they are not receiving federal bailout money. Officials say the rules could also be applied more broadly to publicly traded companies, which already report about some executive pay practices to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last month, as part of the stimulus package, Congress barred top executives at large banks getting rescue money from receiving bonuses exceeding one-third of their annual pay. Beyond the pay rules, officials said the regulatory plan is expected to call for a broad new role for the Federal Reserve to oversee large companies, including major hedge funds, whose problems could pose risks to the entire financial system. It will propose that many kinds of derivatives and other exotic financial instruments that contributed to the crisis be traded on exchanges or through clearinghouses so they are more transparent and can be more tightly regulated. And to protect consumers, it will call for federal standards for mortgage lenders beyond what the Federal Reserve adopted last year, as well as more aggressive enforcement of the mortgage rules. The plan is being put together in advance of the meeting of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations in London, which is expected to be dominated by the global financial crisis and discussions about better oversight of large financial companies whose problems could threaten to undermine international markets. An important part of the plan still under debate is how to regulate the shadow banking system that Wall Street firms use to package and trade mortgage-backed securities, the so-called toxic assets held by many banks and blamed for the credit crisis. Officials said the plan would also call for increasing the levels of capital that financial institutions need to hold to absorb possible losses. But in a sign of the fragility of the economic system officials said the administration would emphasize that those heightened standards should not be imposed now because they could discourage more lending. Rather, they would be put in place after the economy began to rebound. “The argument some are making is that they don’t want to be stepping on the gas pedal and the brake at the same time,” said Morris Goldstein, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former top official at the International Monetary Fund. Administration officials are also debating how tightly to supervise hedge funds. A broad consensus has emerged among regulators and administration officials that hedge funds must be registered and more closely monitored, probably by the Securities and Exchange Commission. But officials have not decided how much the funds will have to disclose about their investments and trading practices. A central aspect of the plan, which has already been announced by the administration, would give the government greater authority to take over and resolve problems at large, troubled companies that are not now regulated by Washington, like insurance companies and hedge funds. That proposal would, for instance, make it easier for the government to cancel bonus contracts like those given to executives at the American International Group, which have stoked a political furor. Under the proposal, the Treasury secretary would have the authority to seize and wind down a struggling institution after consulting with the president and upon
[FairfieldLife] Even Animals Know the Truth of Love
2009-03-21
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Samadhi Is Much Closer Than You Think -- Really! -- It's A No-Brainer. Who'd've Thunk It?
Nothing more than a thin veneer separates any entity from another in this vast Universe. As we develop rapport, respect acceptance of each other the ubiquity of love that precedes and sustains us rings true in our conscious awareness, even with animals. Those who practice yoga already, meditate on the singularity of the Universe, and relinquish all physical, material, psychic and social selfishness and tribalism already know this and act accordingly. The pimps and whores of himsa are the anti-thesis of this truth and have no business in leadership of anyone. Bring their rule to an end, today.
[FairfieldLife] FW: Non-Duality Cartoons
-Original Message- From: not...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:not...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nondualtoon Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:42 PM To: Rick Archer Subject: Re: Non-Duality Cartoons --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: http://advaitatoons.blogspot.com/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Kirk kirk_bernha...@... wrote: Those are slogans with shitty artwork on them. Here's a message to Kirk. I created the toon he mentions above. The quality of the artwork is of no importance and the slogan is just a slogan. The important thing here is to look at where they point to. If that is done you are left with NO-THING and from that NO-Thing the source of everything appears. The thing being offered is a key. You must be the one to turn it, to open the door. If you find a shitty piece of artwork and a slogan still there then it's done it's job. LOL. IT IS WHAT IT IS.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Word On The Nature Of Film Criticism And Spiritual Belief
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I wouldn't. I know that I saw it, whatever it was that I saw. Hundreds of times. Among groups of hundreds of other people, who also saw the same things. But does that make what we saw a fact? I think not. It only makes what we saw an *experience*, one that can be interpreted many ways. I should know...I have interpreted those experiences many ways myself. Still do. I have always appreciated that you know that your experience could have a number of causes. I lean towards favoring causes that are consistent with what we know about the world and what we know about people. But I also know that we do not know everything about the world and everything about people. I also know that sometimes we are wrong. But in general, science is a building block process and what we learn is built on what we already know. We always can be wrong but we have to live in the physical world and make decisions so I make many decisions based on probability, not on the claim that anything is possible. I would not place a bet on the fact of levitation. If I was betting it would be on another explanation, from magic tricks, to group hysteria or some combination. I, of course, would love to see you levitate and then see what I would think about it. Most likely I would think you had learned a cool trick.
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[FairfieldLife] Dogs, Death, and Emotions. Was: Non-Duality Cartoons
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 2:48 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons I could say alot about this; crying for a dead pet for example. Why are some fools crying for a pet which could be perfectly happy in a dead state, striving as it is for further accomplishments and finally a human nervous-system ? They are reminded of their own eventual death, and the sense of loss is self-pity rather than love for the animal. In my experience seing people grieve for a pet is purely pathetic founded on intense ignorance and love for everything past. The same could be said, mistakenly in my opinion, about someone who cries when a child dies, even though they may firmly believe that life doesn't end with the death of the body. It's natural to have human emotions as long as you're human. The Vedic literature is full of stories about enlightened sages becoming very emotional over the death or loss of loved ones. Maharishi often displayed a range of normal emotions (though perhaps not often enough), including becoming distraught when someone close to him like Vernon was sick. I saw him so worried over Vernon that he couldn't work. He didn't say, Vernon will live on even if his body dies. He was worried. Then there is the rather complicated factor of how much energy an animal could draw from your own resourses. Touch an animal and you will immediately know the answer to this question from the immediate reaction in your hand and arm. Some animals are harmless and will be good for you. Others are drawn to you because it is desperate to get a human nervous-system, or it is ill and wants your energy to be healed. I suspect that all you're doing here is speculating based on things you've heard MMY say. You regard your beliefs as facts, but you actually have no way of knowing whether they are true. YOu just have an habitual tendency to regard your opinions as fact. India bias ? Not really. Most Indians I've encountered are afraid of dogs and think of dogs as low and unworthy of human companionship. Slumdog is not a complimentary term.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons
Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: We invest our identities into our pets. I remember letting my cat out the back door and watching him approach the woods. No lion could have entered the woods with any more on the hunt intensity. Here's this four pound animal walking into the unknown with every sort of very real danger -- and embracing it like a warrior. Are you sure about the four pounds part? That's pretty darned light.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: I could say alot about this; crying for a dead pet for example. Why are some fools crying for a pet which could be perfectly happy in a dead state, striving as it is for further accomplishments and finally a human nervous-system ? They are reminded of their own eventual death, and the sense of loss is self-pity rather than love for the animal. In my experience seing people grieve for a pet is purely pathetic founded on intense ignorance and love for everything past. So your whole spirituality front is just a cover for being a callus, heartless person devoid of the lowest level of emotional intelligence? Then there is the rather complicated factor of how much energy an animal could draw from your own resourses. Touch an animal and you will immediately know the answer to this question from the immediate reaction in your hand and arm. Some animals are harmless and will be good for you. Others are drawn to you because it is desperate to get a human nervous-system, or it is ill and wants your energy to be healed. India bias ? Not really.
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would be one of a number delivered to the United Nations on March 25 by the U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform. It is a good moment to move to a shared reserve currency, he said. snip Another page in the effort to create problems here as if we don't do pretty well on our own. What BS. Factual reality is a problem for you, Nelson? Just observing that the efforts to make us into a third world country are making progress. Like Tourq says facts are often determined by your point of view (or something like that). Unlike many people, I determine my own POV. Just like too many Americans do...and that would be why America is in the mess it is. OffWorld Too many Americans are complacent and, not observing what is happening around them. The crew in Washington is a disaster in progress-keep watching.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ozymandius Syndrome 4 - Tit for Tat
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I'm an *editor*. What I do here is much more editorial than writerly. Unlike you, I don't consider the latter better than the former. As to whether I do what I do better than you do what you do, well, that's another question, isn't it? Cool. I guess. If you are content to go through the rest of your life parroting (or trying to correct) the words of others instead of creating your own, you are correct -- who am I to say that it's lesser than Thinking For Yourself. To add a bit here that I didn't have time for earlier this afternoon: The main reason I have zero respect for you is that your creativity consists primarily of making up derogatory stuff about people you don't like, and of misrepresenting yourself as more admirable than they are. One of the definitions of creative in the dictionary is deceptively arranged so as to conceal or defraud. That's the kind of creativity you practice. It has no integrity. I liked your Alice in Blunderland piece so much better than anything you've written along those lines since because it *did* have integrity. It exaggerated, as good satire should, but without misrepresenting the situation you were satirizing. Look at your description above of what I do here--parroting (or trying to 'correct') the words of others instead of creating your own and not Thinking For Yourself. You know that's wildly inaccurate; anyone who reads my posts knows it. I do *some* cutting and pasting; I do *some* correcting. But I also write a whole lot of my own words and do a whole lot of thinking for myself. Your kind of creativity ain't worth spit. It's a fraud, a cheat. It debases and dishonors what writing gifts you have. You've become so afraid of consensus reality and so insecure about your own ability to think clearly and coherently that you can't even come up with a stinging putdown that's fundamentally honest. That isn't being a creative writer; that's being a charlatan.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Non-Duality Cartoons
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: I could say alot about this; crying for a dead pet for example. Why are some fools crying for a pet which could be perfectly happy in a dead state, striving as it is for further accomplishments and finally a human nervous-system ? They are reminded of their own eventual death, and the sense of loss is self-pity rather than love for the animal. In my experience seing people grieve for a pet is purely pathetic founded on intense ignorance and love for everything past. So your whole spirituality front is just a cover for being a callus, heartless person devoid of the lowest level of emotional intelligence? Then there is the rather complicated factor of how much energy an animal could draw from your own resourses. Touch an animal and you will immediately know the answer to this question from the immediate reaction in your hand and arm. Some animals are harmless and will be good for you. Others are drawn to you because it is desperate to get a human nervous-system, or it is ill and wants your energy to be healed. India bias ? Not really. The prospect of re-enlivenment of the mythical Vedic civilization sounds worse than living in Germany in the 1930s.
[FairfieldLife] Companion Animal Satsa House
http://www.namdrolingmt.org/satsahouse/index.html Namdroling Companion Animal Satsa House * Honoring the passing of our animal companions * Creating sacred form with the ashes of our beloved animal friends * Safe housing for ash cremains on our Temple grounds * Continued blessings from the resident and visiting Lamas It is said that a loved one is assured auspicious rebirth when the remains are consecrated and formed into a satsa (small statue) and placed in a shrine during a puja (Buddhist ceremony). At Namdroling Montana, we have built a satsa house specifically dedicated to house cremains of the special animals that have been our companions through the journeys of our lives. Our intention is to alleviate the suffering of all sentient beings. May all beings benefit. For additional information, please contact us Namdroling Satsa House sa...@namdrolingmt.org
[FairfieldLife] 'Obama Requests Evolutionary Leaders'
The Evolutionary Leaders Counsel has been asked by the Obama administration to offer information on what is taking place on the planet and how we can change it. They requested a signed petition offering information on how many people are in favor of the changes suggested. Many of these Evolutionary Leaders are friends, associates and Board Members of the Global Coherence Initiative. As a gesture of support we are sharing their message with you. Please read the information below that was submitted to the Obama administration. If you agree with it we suggest you click the following link where you will be able to sign the petition. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/248704259 Thanks for your consideration. All the best, Global Coherence Initiative Steering Committee Obama Administration Requests Info on Planetary Challenges Sat Feb 7, 2009 1:04 pm (PST) The Obama Administration has asked the Evolutionary Leaders to communicate about what is transpiring on the planet, and how we can change the course of the unprecedented events that are challenging this planet. This is a window of opportunity that must be taken! A deadline was given for this information to be conveyed to the Obama Administration. The Evolutionary Leaders like Deepak Chopra, Gregg Braden, Michael Beckwith and many, many others, gathered together to write up the information to present to the Obama Administration.. They are also asking us to sign a petition to show the Administration how many people are in favor for these changes to occur. They need 10,000 signatures. We need your help to reach that number and beyond! Below is the information presented to the New Administration. The petition link will follow with the next post: By the Evolutionary Leaders The human family is in the midst of the most significant transformation of consciousness since its emergence in Africa over one hundred thousand years ago. Consciousness has been evolving for billions of years from the first cell to us. We are becoming aware that through our own consciousness the universe can know itself. This awareness reveals incredible new potential for our individual and collective humanity. Simultaneously, we are the first species on this Earth aware that we can destroy ourselves by our own action. This may be the greatest wake-up call to the evolution of consciousness since the origin of Homo sapiens. We now realize that we are affecting our own evolution by everything we do. This knowledge awakens in us the aspiration to become more conscious through subjective practices including meditation, reflection, prayer, intuition, creativity, and conscious choice making that accelerate our evolution in the direction of unity consciousness and inspire us to deeply align our collective vision. THE CHALLENGE At this juncture in human history, urgent global crises challenge us to learn to live sustainably, in harmony and gratitude with one another and with the living universe. The changes required of humanity are broad, deep, and far reaching. Only by acting swiftly and creatively can we birth a planetary culture that will bring well-being to every form of life in the Earth community. The good news is that a compelling new story of our potential as a whole human species is emerging-a story of collaboration, citizen action, dialogue and new understandings propelled by unprecedented levels of democratic freedom, multicultural exchange, and access to communication technologies. It is nothing less than the story of our collective evolution. OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION We recognize that the inner and outer aspects of life evolve together. A dramatic awakening in consciousness will involve an equally dramatic shift in outward aspects of our lives. In particular, we see the following as vital opportunities for our conscious evolution, both personally and collectively: Cultivating a Paradigm of Aliveness: We regard the universe as deeply alive and conscious by nature. In a living universe, our sense of subtle connection and participation with life around us is the basis for a compassionate and cooperative approach to living. Educating for an Evolving Consciousness: Awakening consciousness is the foundation for all the change we seek to see in the world. We can work to elevate our capacity for conscious reflection and creative action in our personal lives as well as our collective lives as communities. We must support research and educational strategies that optimize human capacities and explore the nature of consciousness. Restoring Ecological Balance: The balance of planetary ecosystems is fundamental to our survival. We must reverse the pollution of our global commons-the water, air and soil that nourish all life. We must encourage the proliferation of clean, renewable energy sources and expend all necessary resources toward mitigating the effects of climate change. Encouraging Conscious Media: We must find innovative ways to use the new electronic
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Nelson nelsonriddle2...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Nelson nelsonriddle2001@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the dollar. Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would be one of a number delivered to the United Nations on March 25 by the U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform. It is a good moment to move to a shared reserve currency, he said. snip Another page in the effort to create problems here as if we don't do pretty well on our own. What BS. Factual reality is a problem for you, Nelson? Just observing that the efforts to make us into a third world country are making progress. Like Tourq says facts are often determined by your point of view (or something like that). Unlike many people, I determine my own POV. Just like too many Americans do...and that would be why America is in the mess it is. OffWorld Too many Americans are complacent and, not observing what is happening around them. The crew in Washington is a disaster in progress-keep watching. When the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I suppose you are planning on telling me See I told you so Sorry ... but I'll be too busy going medieval on people and making them my slaves, when your armageddon arrives, to be able to hear your jibe. :-) OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Even Animals Know the Truth of Love
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Samadhi Is Much Closer Than You Think -- Really! -- It's A No-Brainer. Who'd've Thunk It? dharmamit...@... wrote: Nothing more than a thin veneer separates any entity from another in this vast Universe. As we develop rapport, respect acceptance of each other the ubiquity of love that precedes and sustains us rings true in our conscious awareness, even with animals. Those who practice yoga already, meditate on the singularity of the Universe, and relinquish all physical, material, psychic and social selfishness and tribalism already know this and act accordingly. The pimps and whores of himsa are the anti-thesis of this truth and have no business in leadership of anyone. Bring their rule to an end, today. When was the last time you ate an animal? Please be specific.Date. Type of animal -- mammal, fish, insect, bird, etc? Male or female animal? Farm or wild? OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dog-Lover Mahasiddha
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: One of the greatest Mahasiddhas of India and Himalayas was a dog- lover, the saint Kukkuripa. [Kukkuripa thanka] Kukkuripa, The Dog Lover Kukkuripa - Sanskrit meaning: Guarding from, and dissapating the degenerate goblin OffWorld
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Dog-Lover Mahasiddha
On Mar 21, 2009, at 10:19 PM, off_world_beings wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: One of the greatest Mahasiddhas of India and Himalayas was a dog- lover, the saint Kukkuripa. [Kukkuripa thanka] Kukkuripa, The Dog Lover Kukkuripa - Sanskrit meaning: Guarding from, and dissapating the degenerate goblin What makes you think his name is in Sanskrit? Since Kukkuripa was known to have vastly different appearances to those who visited him: in some cases he appeared as a bird with his head tucked under his wing, to others, a monkey, many consider him to have attained an immortal illusory light-body early on--what we might today call a shapeshifter. Using this, he could shatter people's illusory perceptions and awaken them beyond their prejudices of clean and unclean. Given that when one of the greatest saints of Asia approached him for teachings on the tantra of Great Illusion, he was instead given all the other unheard of teachings on mahamaya, one could easily conclude that he deeply knew a lot about illusory appearances.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@... wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 2009 End Date (UTC): Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 2009 80 messages as of (UTC) Sun Mar 22 00:11:28 2009 Sparaig 0 'nuff said. Lawson
