[FairfieldLife] Re: Spong on Fundamentalism
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: from Bishop Spong; (Bishop Spong is a modern Gnostic, a non-believer in the Redemption theme of the Crucifixion of Jesusthis, from his pov, the death of Christ provided no payment for the sins of mankind.) Biship Spong is a powerful speaker with a very important message. But some of his views will clash with some religious authorities namely the Pope among others. See the link below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZM3FXlLMug Deb McCollister from Nebraska writes: Militant fundamentalism in any family of faith seems to threaten our world. Readers of your newsletter are aware of Christian scholars who examine long-held assumptions. Can you tell us about penetrating scholarship in other faith walks, study that examines history while seeking meaning and deeper truths? Dear Deb, A very good question. The intellectual revolution that started with Copernicus and traveled through Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein and many others has had an enormous impact on the religious tradition of the west in both Judaism and Christianity. We have also in both traditions been dealing with critical biblical scholarship for about 200 years. That scholarship, while welcomed by many, has also served to create a fundamentalist backlash in parts of Christianity and Judaism. We have certainly seen evidence of this in the political arena, where the religious right has been very vocal in America in the fight to restore prayer to the classrooms of public schools, to resist the teaching of evolution, to oppose sex education and to keep people like Terri Schiavo alive well after anything resembling real life had long departed. In the less developed and less well educated parts of the world, religion serves a variety of purposes. It gives hope to the hopelessness of the poor and downtrodden. It links people with their ancestral past. It helps them deal with the radical insecurity of human existence. When threatened by challenging insights into the origins of these faith traditions, many religious people who are unable to embrace or to process new religious ideas turn defensive and become both rejecting and fundamentalist. There is not as yet a tradition of radical religious scholarship in Islam that would call into question the way fundamentalist Muslims today use the Koran to justify violence. In the world of Buddhism and Hinduism I find today that the intellectually elite simply walk out of religion into secularism. Religion therefore becomes more and more the activity of the unlearned. It is therefore more and more likely to resist change, which makes modernizing that religious system all but impossible. I am convinced that my religious heritage points me to truth that no religion in and of itself can envision. I do not believe that secular non-belief is the only alternative to being religious, but it takes hard work, deep understanding, rich dialogue and a willingness to embrace vast amounts of fear and insecurity to reach this conclusion. I can testify, however, that to me it has been well worthwhile. As a witness to this truth let me quote a retired bishop who said, The older I get the more deeply I believe, but the fewer beliefs I have. I think that is where I am and I believe that is where all religious systems will have to go if they want to live in our 21st century world. Change must come, however, from within the religious system itself. It can never be imposed from outside. So you and I, Deb, must work within the faith of our fathers and mothers. I have found my journey into the depths of Christianity to be the most exciting adventure and the most affirming experience of my life. I invite others to journey with me into the unfathomable mystery of God and life and being. John Shelby Spong
[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: An exceprt appeared in the New Yorker a few months ago. I was shocked in reading it. Why? Not because it seemed a satire but because it was so straight and very, very un-Crumb-like. Like most people in the world, you don't know Robert Crumb at all. He's the straightest arrow on Earth...doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do drugs. And the shyest person you've ever met. My immediate impression was that Crumb had become a born- again because the strip so adhered to orthodoxy Christianity. Didn't you even read the review? The book is the text of Genesis -- all of it -- with literally every scene illustrated. Never been done before. What was fascinating to watch is this guy you characterize as only a satirist forming around him a cadre of religious scholars and historians to check his drawings for inaccuracies. And they were there -- he had unconsciously drawn in things that were anachronisms to the time, or clothing that wouldn't have been worn in the times, only much later in history. So he went back and changed things. This book will be considered his master- work, although I don't think it is. That title applies to some of the private-edition erotic works. (Don't bother looking for them unless you have several thousand dollars to spend.) This book will sell for the normal price...he even refused to let them sell a limited-edition private (read expensive) version of it. So I am surprised by what is written in the article above because if the New Yorker excerpt is representative of the work as a whole, it is neither a satire nor a Crumb-like comic but more like the Classic Comics version of the Bible without any liberties taken. The difference is that the artists who did Classic Comic books 1) weren't very good artists, 2) didn't know their history or the periods of time they were illustrating (or didn't care) and thus made it all up, and 3) didn't have a real feel for the source material, and a desire to bring it to life. Robert's work has been compared favorably to the best artists in the world; his drawing style was called by one noted art critic Second to none, and I include Breughel and Michaelangelo in that statement. Get over Zap Comix, Shemp...Robert did decades ago.
[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: You're to be commended, Barry, for minimizing your well- established trait of name-dropping. And you're to be pitied for still running on the J-OS operating system after all these years of meditating. Jealous of me for having seen levitation, jealous of me for having stumbled into having Robert Crumb as a next-door neighbor and a friend, jealous of pretty much everyone for having actually done the things you only sat on your fat ass and wished for or read about. Time's a wastin', dude. If you actually want to do something yourself before you die, you've got to shit or get off the pot. Continue on this way and when you reach the age of another J-OS user on this forum you'll be just like her.
[FairfieldLife] The Seven Deadly Sins Map
Great infographic from Kansas State University, via Wired. It maps the seven deadly sins to the states they most appear in. Iowa scores fairly big on envy, wrath, lust and pride: http://www.wired.com/culture/education/magazine/17-09/st_sinmaps http://www.wired.com/culture/education/magazine/17-09/st_sinmaps [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps8_f.jpg] [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps_f.jpg] Greed Average income compared with number of people living below the poverty line. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps2_f.jpg] Envy Total thefts (robbery, burglary, larceny, and grand theft auto) per capita. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps3_f.jpg] Wrath Number of violent crimes (murder, assault, and rape) per capita. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps4_f.jpg] Sloth Expenditures on art, entertainment, and recreation compared with employment. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps5_f.jpg] Gluttony Number of fast-food restaurants per capita. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps6_f.jpg] Lust Number of STD cases reported per capita. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps7_f.jpg] Pride Aggregate of the other six offensesbecause pride is the root of all sin.
[FairfieldLife] Re: of Negative Energy
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: I didn't bother to read it. I refer you instead to this writeup from Wikipedia, which I think better describes the phenomenon [ snip Wiki definition of boogeyman ] Oh no, Turq. Sorry you missed it. Yours is more descriptive while the other Is more practical. The other is more the FF take on negativity. The transcendental Look. I see it as trying to put a New Age spin on the fact that they're focusing on their fears, personifying them, and indulging in them. BTW, I did scan the letter you sent enough to get the gist of it before I wrote this, and as a result class it as the rank super- stition I think it is, Doug. Although a belief in rakshasas is not as prevalent as a belief in the things in this article, I'd class them all in the same category, and a belief in rakshasas on the same level as #5, voodoo. Same thing -- blaming one's own problems on an outer malevolent source. http://www.cracked.com/article/139_5-ridiculous-ancient-beliefs-that-thrive-internet/ Just because it's old doesn't mean it's true. And just because it provides a cool magical explanation for a mundane phenomenon and adds to one's own self importance (because you think you know how things work) doesn't mean that the magical explanation is true, either. The guy (I have to assume it's a guy, because of the level of self importance) who wrote the rap about rakshasas you like so much is proposing it as a sadhana to kill rakashasas and remove fear. And yet he's still locked up this way with his own sister, after a whole life together. Great sadhana.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Looking up Joss on www.imdb.com I found that not only was his dad a TV writer going back to Captain Kangaroo in 1955 but so was his grandfather who wrote in the early days of television (Lux Theater). John Whedon (grandfather): http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923735/ Tom Whedon (father): http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923737/ So writing and TV producing is the family dharma. Interesting. Despite your opinion to the contrary, I'm actually not that big a Joss Whedon fanboy. I discovered him only with Firefly and have never (gulp...forgive me, Saint Joss) seen an episode of either Buffy or Angel. :-) So I don't know for sure whether this guy (a true, certified Joss fanboy if there ever was one) is correct about the best episodes of those series. But I do agree with his assessment of the best episodes of Firefly and Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible, so he might be. 25 Best Whedonverse Episodes http://ca.tv.yahoo.com/blog/25-best-whedonverse-episodes--618
[FairfieldLife] The Guru Dev parampara (lineage)
Have just put up a few pointers about this at:- http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html
[FairfieldLife] Has the Right Wing lost its Mind?
If we had our guns, we would have fought a bloody battle. So, keep your guns, and buy more guns, and buy ammunition. [...] Take back America. Don't let them take the country into Socialism. And I refer again, Hitler's party was National Socialism. [...] And that's what we are having here right now, which is bordering on Marxism. Read More: Think Progress: http://snipurl.com/s7njo Video: http://snipurl.com/s7ne1
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map
In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of the spectrum and not the devilish end as he would have us believe. Can we say pants on fire or just plain stupid? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Great infographic from Kansas State University, via Wired. It maps the seven deadly sins to the states they most appear in. Iowa scores fairly big on envy, wrath, lust and pride: http://www.wired.com/culture/education/magazine/17-09/st_sinmaps http://www.wired.com/culture/education/magazine/17-09/st_sinmaps [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps8_f.jpg] [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps_f.jpg] Greed Average income compared with number of people living below the poverty line. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps2_f.jpg] Envy Total thefts (robbery, burglary, larceny, and grand theft auto) per capita. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps3_f.jpg] Wrath Number of violent crimes (murder, assault, and rape) per capita. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps4_f.jpg] Sloth Expenditures on art, entertainment, and recreation compared with employment. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps5_f.jpg] Gluttony Number of fast-food restaurants per capita. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps6_f.jpg] Lust Number of STD cases reported per capita. [http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1709/st_sinmaps7_f.jpg] Pride Aggregate of the other six offensesbecause pride is the root of all sin.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map
Replying to the Message View snark: :-) Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map ../../../../message/230925 In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of the spectrum and not the devilish... I said only that Iowa scored fairly big, without specifying at which end of the scale. T'would seem that Raunchy associates big with devilish, which should come as no surprise to those who have read her fantasies about cutting off men's private parts. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Replying to the Message View snark: :-) Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map ../../../../message/230925 In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of the spectrum and not the devilish... I said only that Iowa scored fairly big, without specifying at which end of the scale. T'would seem that Raunchy associates big with devilish, which should come as no surprise to those who have read her fantasies about cutting off men's private parts. :-) O.K. then, not stupid. Just pants on fire with balls a-roasting.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map
Great catch. Hilarious. Chalk up another meltdown for Barry. What a loser. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of the spectrum and not the devilish end as he would have us believe. Can we say pants on fire or just plain stupid? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Great infographic from Kansas State University, via Wired. It maps the seven deadly sins to the states they most appear in. Iowa scores fairly big on envy, wrath, lust and pride: http://www.wired.com/culture/education/magazine/17-09/st_sinmaps
[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: You're to be commended, Barry, for minimizing your well- established trait of name-dropping. And you're to be pitied for still running on the J-OS operating system after all these years of meditating. I have no idea what J-OS means, try as I might to figure it out. Jealous of me for having seen levitation, Actually, I feel sad for you because: 1) You didn't see levitation but were hypnotized into seeing it by your cult master or saw a David Blaine type trick (see youtube for how they do it); 2) After seeing levitation once, it must be quite boring. 3) In your post-cult-leader addled state, you still pathetically cling to a silly happenstance of non-reality. 4) Like the cult members of the TMO which you constantly rail against, you are hung up on levitation. jealous of me for having stumbled into having Robert Crumb as a next-door neighbor and a friend, Ah, yes. This one I will cop to. I think it would be wonderful to meet and know Robert Crumb whom I think is a fascinating individual. jealous of pretty much everyone for having actually done the things you only sat on your fat ass and wished for or read about. I am jealous of Bill Gates, yes. But that's silly of me to think that I could have achieved what he did. Oh, and I'm not dead YET, Barry, so for the things in life I still aspire to, there is still time. Time's a wastin', dude. If you actually want to do something yourself before you die, you've got to shit or get off the pot. Wise words coming from someone who writes tomes and tomes on this forum and others against a woman he has had an ongoing hate-fest dialogue for 12 years. How much time during the day must that take? And what dreams of YOUR'S does that take away from (unless, of course, arguing and hating Judy IS your life's dream, which is not outside the realm of possibility). Continue on this way and when you reach the age of another J-OS user on this forum you'll be just like her. Barry, you're WAY too sensitive to have had such a negative reaction to my rather innoculous yet honest post about your name-dropping. Oh, and one more thing: if you are truly the cosmopolitain man-about-Europe that you make yourself out to be? When you move back to France think about shedding the cloth of the arrogant American that you are and actually learn French why don't you instead of spending 10 years there, as you did, without learning the language. Certainly, you have freedom of speech and don't have to speak the language of the majority but restricting your associations and conversations with fellow ex-pats and accomodating Europeans that, out of pity, will speak English with unilinguals such as yourself is neither cosmopolitain or urbane. You're just an ugly American with a wallet.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Replying to the Message View snark: :-) Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map ../../../../message/230925 In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of the spectrum and not the devilish... I said only that Iowa scored fairly big, without specifying at which end of the scale. T'would seem that Raunchy associates big with devilish, which should come as no surprise to those who have read her fantasies about cutting off men's private parts. :-) O.K. then, not stupid. Just pants on fire with balls a-roasting. Actually both. He got it wrong and is now lying in an attempt to cover up his stupidity. Scoring big means the devilish end of the scale in these maps: more theft (envy), more violent crime (rage), more STD cases (lust), and aggregate of the other six offenses (pride), because pride is the root of all sin. Iowa scores low (saintly), not big, on all the above.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip I'm actually not that big a Joss Whedon fanboy. I discovered him only with Firefly and have never (gulp...forgive me, Saint Joss) seen an episode of either Buffy or Angel. :-) Barry, 3/21/09 (#212517): ...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. Barry, 2/21/09 (#209588): I missed a lot of 'Buffy' and 'Angel'... Barry to Lawson, 6/17/05 (#62778): Never watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer?!!! You've missed out. It's actually tremendously clever. And Buffy is a babe-and-a-half. This is a demonstration of how in the moment Barry is: In moments in February and March of this year, and in June of '05, Barry had seen at least some episodes of Buffy and Angel. In the moment today, he's never seen any of them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: You're to be commended, Barry, for minimizing your well- established trait of name-dropping. And you're to be pitied for still running on the J-OS operating system after all these years of meditating. I have no idea what J-OS means, try as I might to figure it out. Jealousy operating system. snip Barry, you're WAY too sensitive to have had such a negative reaction to my rather innoculous yet honest post about your name-dropping. It wasn't a *negative* reaction, it was a *positive* reaction. You gave him a golden opportunity to fantasize that you're jealous of him. That's what motivates shallow people like Barry to drop names, so they can imagine they inspire jealousy in others. It makes them feel Important and Special. Boy, how deprived do you have to be of satisfaction in your life to get off on the fantasy that other people are jealous of you??
[FairfieldLife] Buddhism Wins Best Religion in the World Award
Someone just sent this to me. Pretty funny, but sadly so. - Jonna Hult, Director of Research for ICARUS said It wasn't a surprise to me that Buddhism won Best Religion in the World, because we could find literally not one single instance of a war fought in the name of Buddhism, in contrast to every other religion that seems to keep a gun in the closet just in case God makes a mistake. We were hard pressed to even find a Buddhist that had ever been in an army. These people practice what they preach to an extent we simply could not document with any other spiritual tradition. Freedom From Religion: Buddhism Wins Best Religion in the World Award Wednesday July 15, 2009 Categories: Buddhism, Merit/Demerit Badge In light of the ongoing Freedom From Religion Foundation case, I found this news item interesting. Linda Moulin | 15.07.2009 | 16:55 Tribune de Geneve In advance of their annual Leading Figure award to a religious figure who has done the most to advance the cause of humanism and peace, the Geneva-based International Coalition for the Advancement of Religious and Spirituality (ICARUS) has chosen to bestow a special award this year on the Buddhist Community. We typically prefer an under-the- radar approach for the organization, as we try to embody the spirit of modesty found in the greatest traditions, said ICARUS director Hans Groehlichen in a phone conference Monday. But with organized religion increasingly used as a tool to separate and inflame rather than bring together, we felt we had to take the unusual step of creating a Best Religion in the World award and making a bit of a stir, to inspire other religious leaders to see what is possible when you practice compassion. Groehlichen said the award was voted on by an international roundtable of more than 200 religious leaders from every part of the spiritual spectrum. It was interesting to note that once we supplied the criteria, many religious leaders voted for Buddhism rather than their own religion, said Groehlichen. Buddhists actually make up a tiny minority of our membership, so it was fascinating but quite exciting that they won. Criteria included factors such as promoting personal and community peace, increasing compassion and a sense of connection, and encouraging preservation of the natural environment. Groehlichen continued The biggest factor for us is that ICARUS was founded by spiritual and religious people to bring the concepts of non-violence to prominence in society. One of the key questions in our voting process was which religion actually practices non-violence. When presenting the information to the voting members, ICARUS researched each of the 38 religions on the ballot extensively, offering background, philosophy, and the religions role in government and warfare. Jonna Hult, Director of Research for ICARUS said It wasn't a surprise to me that Buddhism won Best Religion in the World, because we could find literally not one single instance of a war fought in the name of Buddhism, in contrast to every other religion that seems to keep a gun in the closet just in case God makes a mistake. We were hard pressed to even find a Buddhist that had ever been in an army. These people practice what they preach to an extent we simply could not document with any other spiritual tradition. At least one Catholic priest spoke out on behalf of Buddhism. Father Ted O'Shaughnessy said from Belfast, As much as I love the Catholic Church, it has always bothered me to no end that we preach love in our scripture yet then claim to know God's will when it comes to killing other humans. For that reason, I did have to cast my vote for the Buddhists. And Muslim Cleric Tal Bin Wassad agreed from Pakistan via his translator. While I am a devout Muslim, I can see how much anger and bloodshed is channeled into religious expression rather than dealt with on a personal level. The Buddhists have that figured out. Bin Wassad, the ICARUS voting member for Pakistan's Muslim community continued, In fact, some of my best friends are Buddhist. And Rabbi Shmuel Wasserstein said from Jerusalem, Of course, I love Judaism, and I think it's the greatest religion in the world. But to be honest, I've been practicing Vipassana meditation every day before minyan (daily Jewish prayer) since 1993. So I get it. Groehlichen said that the plan was for the award to Buddhism for Best Religion in the World to be given to leaders from the various lineages in the Buddhist community. However, there was one snag. Basically we can't find anyone to give it to, said Groehlichen in a followup call late Tuesday. All the Buddhists we call keep saying they don't want the award. Groehlichen explained the strange behavior, saying Basically they are all saying they are a philosophical tradition, not a religion. But that doesn't change the
[FairfieldLife] Facebook poll: should Obama be killed or not?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/28/facebook.poll/index.html The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Obama should be killed. I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Replying to the Message View snark: :-) Re: The Seven Deadly Sins Map ../../../../message/230925 In his attempt to poke America in the eye...again, Barry goofed. According to the color graph Iowa is on the saintly end of the spectrum and not the devilish... I said only that Iowa scored fairly big, without specifying at which end of the scale. T'would seem that Raunchy associates big with devilish, which should come as no surprise to those who have read her fantasies about cutting off men's private parts. :-) O.K. then, not stupid. Just pants on fire with balls a-roasting. Actually both. He got it wrong and is now lying in an attempt to cover up his stupidity. Scoring big means the devilish end of the scale in these maps: more theft (envy), more violent crime (rage), more STD cases (lust), and aggregate of the other six offenses (pride), because pride is the root of all sin. Iowa scores low (saintly), not big, on all the above. Barry the weasel. LOL. It's interesting that the hot bed of conservatism, the fundies who are Oh so concerned about what happens in your bedroom and your sexual orientation, reside in the lusty states of the south. All except Florida. Too old to get it up or smart enough to wear protection?
[FairfieldLife] How goes survival in FF?
IIRC, about a year ago there were announcements on FFL for the formation of a group of survivalists who intended to weather a storm with the economy collapsed, surviving by hunting, gathering, growing and just making do, bartering because money would be worthless. Just wondering how this group is faring since where I live none of this has become necessary. I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.
[FairfieldLife] Burning Down The House
For those of us who have been watching House for the previous five episodes, this two-part season opener was an inevitability. Greg House (Hugh Laurie) has been pushing the envelope of karma for a long time now, and had to get a return on his investment sooner or later. And, as karma often does, it pays off not with an Old Testament-like judgment, but with a second chance. Great episode, great script, great acting by Hugh Laurie as usual (he'll probably finally get that Emmy for this one), helped along by stellar performances by Franka Potente and Andre Braugher. It's a fascinating moment in a multi-year TV series when its lead character actually is allowed to *change* his character. Will the audiences *allow* him to? Clint Eastwood's biggest box-office failures were in films where he wasn't the hero who rides off into the sunset. One of them (The Beguiled) contained some of his best work as an actor, but it flopped like a dead fish in theaters because audiences didn't want to *see* a different Clint Eastwood. They wanted the one they had gotten used to. Similarly, Paul Newman once said that his big- gest regret as an actor was that he'd never gotten the chance to play a villain. He'd tried, many times over the years, but no one would ever produce a film unless he was the hero. So will Greg House be a new Greg House, or will the producers take the easy road and allow him to backslide into the Same Old Same Old? If they don't, will the ratings tank because audiences want the old House? I wait with 'bated breath to find out...
[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: An exceprt appeared in the New Yorker a few months ago. I was shocked in reading it. Why? Not because it seemed a satire but because it was so straight and very, very un-Crumb-like. Like most people in the world, you don't know Robert Crumb at all. He's the straightest arrow on Earth...doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do drugs. And the shyest person you've ever met. Of course, this is entirely irrelevant to Shemp's comment, which was referring to Crumb's *work*, not Crumb as a person. But Barry was much more interested in reminding us all that unlike most people in the world, HE KNOWS ROBERT CRUMB, because that makes him IMPORTANT AND SPECIAL, at least in his own mind. My immediate impression was that Crumb had become a born-again because the strip so adhered to orthodoxy Christianity. Didn't you even read the review? The book is the text of Genesis -- all of it -- with literally every scene illustrated. Never been done before. Non sequitur. Again, Barry doesn't want to discuss the book-- he doesn't have anything insightful to say about it, in fact--he only wants to make the point that HE KNOWS ROBERT CRUMB, because that makes him IMPORTANT AND SPECIAL. Does this have a familiar ring? I seem to recall many iterations from Barry of a rant about how people feel IMPORTANT AND SPECIAL because of their association with a famous guru. What was fascinating to watch is this guy you characterize as only a satirist forming around him a cadre of religious scholars and historians to check his drawings for inaccuracies. And they were there -- he had unconsciously drawn in things that were anachronisms to the time, or clothing that wouldn't have been worn in the times, only much later in history. So he went back and changed things. This book will be considered his master- work, although I don't think it is. That title applies to some of the private-edition erotic works. (Don't bother looking for them unless you have several thousand dollars to spend.) This book will sell for the normal price...he even refused to let them sell a limited-edition private (read expensive) version of it. Nothing whatsoever in this paragraph that actually responds to Shemp's comments. Just more self-important boasting about Barry's inside-baseball knowledge of Crumb. So I am surprised by what is written in the article above because if the New Yorker excerpt is representative of the work as a whole, it is neither a satire nor a Crumb-like comic but more like the Classic Comics version of the Bible without any liberties taken. The difference is that the artists who did Classic Comic books 1) weren't very good artists, 2) didn't know their history or the periods of time they were illustrating (or didn't care) and thus made it all up, and 3) didn't have a real feel for the source material, and a desire to bring it to life. This is not only totally irrelevant--again--to Shemp's comments, but it's total bullshit. The quality of Classic Comics was uneven, but there was some *excellent* work by top artists who *did* care about the material and went to the trouble to get it right. Robert's work has been compared favorably to the best artists in the world; his drawing style was called by one noted art critic Second to none, and I include Breughel and Michaelangelo in that statement. Get over Zap Comix, Shemp...Robert did decades ago. Blahblahblah. Still totally irrelevant to Shemp's observations. But Barry KNOWS ROBERT CRUMB, and that's almost like knowing Breughel and Michaelangelo [sic]! It makes Barry IMPORTANT AND SPECIAL. From an earlier post: I've seen some of these drawings. In all honesty, I think that someday art historians will be dis- cussing them in the same sentences they use to describe Breughel's drawings of the Bible. In all honesty, it appears Barry didn't come up with the Breughel comparison himself; he got it from the noted art critic but tried to palm it off as his own in the earlier post.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhism Wins Best Religion in the World Award
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: However, there was one snag. Basically we can't find anyone to give it to, said Groehlichen in a followup call late Tuesday. All the Buddhists we call keep saying they don't want the award. I nominate Nabby to accept the award on behalf of Buddhism. My bet is that if we promise him front row seats when Maitreya shows up and announces that he's really a Buddhist, he'll do it. But we may have to throw in a ride with the Space Brothers to clinch the deal.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?
bill hicks wrote: IIRC, about a year ago there were announcements on FFL for the formation of a group of survivalists who intended to weather a storm with the economy collapsed, surviving by hunting, gathering, growing and just making do, bartering because money would be worthless. Just wondering how this group is faring since where I live none of this has become necessary. Maybe you don't live close to Yellowstone, or in a climate where you could freeze to death in the winter, but anything could happen to put you in survival mode. I'm very interested in things like this. I read that the average person would last only a few days without any survival supplies. Beyond that, they'd be forced to do battle with their neighbors over food alone. In the average household, there's maybe enough food to feed a family for a few days, at most. After that, it's into panic mode. No water; no food; no transportation; no heating fuel; no matches or even BIC lighters; no candles. It would be a pretty tough existence, fer sure, until you got a garden started! Got seeds? So, I've got a garage full of canned goods; a lake full of water; and I live in a warm climate. I also have lots of bullets for defense in case the neighbors try to barge in and make off with my stash. Unless I receive some really big firepower, I figure I could last a year or two until the garden really started to pay off. Down here, I've got three planting seasons every year. Most people think it couldn't happen to them, but it's amazing how much damage the weather can do, not to mention a surprise volcano eruption or an asteroid hit, or a really big riot. Of course, if push comes to shove, I could always count on the government. LOL! Be prepared is the Scout's motto.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Guru Dev parampara (lineage)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand premanandp...@... wrote: Have just put up a few pointers about this at:- http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html I wonder how many really catch the monumentally staggering and far reaching evolutionary significance of what you have just shared, Paul: Guru Dev's guru was a swami called Shri 108 Shri Dandi Ji Swami Krishnanand Saraswati. What is less well known is just who his guru was, or indeed the names of Krishanand Saraswati's other disciples. Well, it appears certain that Krishnanand's guru was the famous 32nd acharya of Sri Sharada Peetam, Sringeri - Sri Narasimha Bharati VIII http://www.kataragama.org/sages/kadaiswa.htm , 32nd Shankaracharya of Sringeri (1817-1879). It is recorded that Paramahansa Krishnanand attended a very important meeting of rishis in 1855, some way northwest of his ashram, at Dharali, close to Gangotri (on what is now National Highway, NH-108 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NH_108 ). The meeting of rishis was addressed by Vyasa, who possibly addressing Krishnanand personally, said:- Holy Guardians of Dharma! Illustrious Rishis! A new sub-cycle in this Yuga is ending. A new light of the torch of Eternal Truth is to be ushered into the world. The West has to live according to the Law which the Lord gave her nearly 2,000 years ago. Optimism and activity, ambition and love of power have stifled the growth of the spirit of the West. Now let a new era open. A tributary of the holy Ganga of the Gita is winding its way to Angala Desha (England). Thus it has been decreed. This holy and venerable Sage, this representative of the great Shankara, this saint is undertaking the great task. Give your blessings, holy Sages. - preface, `Shri Dada Sanghita - The Heart of the Eastern Mystical Teaching' by Hari Prasad Shastri, Shanti Sadan, 1948
[FairfieldLife] The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin
The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin Michelle Flynn Teacher Laura H. Carnell Elementary School Dear Mrs. Flynn mailto:mfl...@phila.k12.pa.us , [BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386718438772051762] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Mh1TZAM-AWU/SsF34UgODzI/Cgk/tb1TSMkDu\ go/s1600-h/child.png I fondly remember the ten years I spent in elementary school. We respected our teachers back then. We loved them with all the love we could gather within our little hearts. A kind word from a teacher made our world a happy, joyous place. Our love and respect made us loyal to our teachers. It's why we all took Mrs. Nelson's side when she slugged Mrs. Goldman after she complained about making her son pray. Mrs. Nelson deserved our love. She taught us to sing, Up with People http://www.upwithpeople.org/index.php?id=33 so we wouldn't fall prey to the enticements of hippies. But more than that, she deserved our love because she was our teacher. It's sad you don't get the same respect and love from your students. That's what the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission Decision http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/13134/update-pa-state-investigation\ -finds-valley-club-did-discriminate-against-minority-kids-at-its-pool On The Valley School Swimming Pool Discrimination Case http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-put-little-white-chocolate-\ lester.html seems to say. By now you've read it. It was the investigation into why black kids were banned from your club's swimming pool. When investigators asked the black kids who had said, Why are there black kids here? I am afraid they will do something to my kids , and they might steal some of my stuff, one child responded, It was teacher; it was Mrs. Flynn. I wonder how that child felt when his teacher told him he was too black to join her family in the pool. I hope he was feeling disloyalty. I imagine you were devastated by it. It's hard for me to understand how the innocent love a child has for his teacher could be subverted in such a way. Now, of course, you'll be called a racist. White people can't get a break these days. If you say Obama hates white culture http://www.pensitoreview.com/2009/09/28/beck-cant-or-wont-define-white-\ culture/ , or you throw a fit because black kids are in your pool, everyone will start calling you a racist. You're going to have to be very careful at school. You can't make the black kids sit at the back of the room. You can't ignore them when they need help. You can't make cracks about nappy hair. You'll have to pretend to treat them equally. You might even have to hug one of them. That's the America we live in today. Heterosexually yours in a chaste, biblically appropriate, and bleached pool kind of way, Gen. JC Christian, patriot http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2009/09/sad-sorry-plight-of-white-christi\ an_24.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible
Like most people in the world, you don't know Robert Crumb at all. He's the straightest arrow on Earth...doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do drugs. And the shyest person you've ever met. Judy wrote: Of course, this is entirely irrelevant to Shemp's comment, which was referring to Crumb's *work*, not Crumb as a person... I met Crumb when he lived in San Francisco; he was working on an album cover for Big Brother. Crumb was, and probably still is, a 'redneck', and a self-admitted misogynist. But it's just amazing how many people think murder and rape are funny. Crumb thought the 'Peace Movement' was a liberal conspiracy. He was, by all accounts, a very disagreeable person to be around. He couldn't stand Rock Music like the Dead or the Airplane, and never attended any concerts at the Avalon or Winterland. According to some of the artists who lived in the Haight Ashbury, R. Crumb was one of the least talented, compared to people like Rick Griffin, Gilbert Shelton, and Ralph Bakshi. None of these artists could stand to be around Crumb, since he was so racist and bigoted. Crumb hated hippies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin
John wrote: The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin Don't you just hate those straight, white, American Christians!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: The Sad, Sorry Plight of the White Christian Merakin White Christian Merkins? From Wikipedia: Merkin (first use 1617) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin#cite_note-0 is a pubic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubic_hair wig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wig_%28hair%29 , originally worn by prostitutes after shaving http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaving their genitalia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitalia . The pervert in me cannot help but ask whether the merkins themselves are white (and why someone would want to simuate white pubic hair), or whether the only people these days who buy merkins are white Christians? Either way, it's gotta be an interesting story. What? [ in my best Emily Latella voice ] Merakin? Oh. Never mind. :-)
[FairfieldLife] The Creepy Mentality of Wingnut World
[This Modern World By Tom Tomorrow]
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Guru Dev parampara (lineage)
Still tinkering with the webpage on the Guru Dev parampara, adding little bits of info - http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand premanandpaul@ wrote: Have just put up a few pointers about this at:- http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/parampara.html I wonder how many really catch the monumentally staggering and far reaching evolutionary significance of what you have just shared, Paul: Guru Dev's guru was a swami called Shri 108 Shri Dandi Ji Swami Krishnanand Saraswati. What is less well known is just who his guru was, or indeed the names of Krishanand Saraswati's other disciples. Well, it appears certain that Krishnanand's guru was the famous 32nd acharya of Sri Sharada Peetam, Sringeri - Sri Narasimha Bharati VIII http://www.kataragama.org/sages/kadaiswa.htm , 32nd Shankaracharya of Sringeri (1817-1879). It is recorded that Paramahansa Krishnanand attended a very important meeting of rishis in 1855, some way northwest of his ashram, at Dharali, close to Gangotri (on what is now National Highway, NH-108 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NH_108 ). The meeting of rishis was addressed by Vyasa, who possibly addressing Krishnanand personally, said:- Holy Guardians of Dharma! Illustrious Rishis! A new sub-cycle in this Yuga is ending. A new light of the torch of Eternal Truth is to be ushered into the world. The West has to live according to the Law which the Lord gave her nearly 2,000 years ago. Optimism and activity, ambition and love of power have stifled the growth of the spirit of the West. Now let a new era open. A tributary of the holy Ganga of the Gita is winding its way to Angala Desha (England). Thus it has been decreed. This holy and venerable Sage, this representative of the great Shankara, this saint is undertaking the great task. Give your blessings, holy Sages. - preface, `Shri Dada Sanghita - The Heart of the Eastern Mystical Teaching' by Hari Prasad Shastri, Shanti Sadan, 1948
[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: An exceprt appeared in the New Yorker a few months ago. I was shocked in reading it. Why? Not because it seemed a satire but because it was so straight and very, very un-Crumb-like. Like most people in the world, you don't know Robert Crumb at all. He's the straightest arrow on Earth...doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do drugs. And the shyest person you've ever met. The straight that I was referring to was absense of reference to sex, body parts (such as exhaggerated women's behinds and boobs), and racial stereotypes and racial epithets. And of course I don't know Robert, Barry. He lives in France and I live in America with the other peons. My immediate impression was that Crumb had become a born- again because the strip so adhered to orthodoxy Christianity. Didn't you even read the review? The book is the text of Genesis -- all of it -- with literally every scene illustrated. Never been done before. What was fascinating to watch is this guy you characterize as only a satirist ...well, in addition to pornography of course...and comedy. forming around him a cadre of religious scholars and historians to check his drawings for inaccuracies. And they were there -- he had unconsciously drawn in things that were anachronisms to the time, or clothing that wouldn't have been worn in the times, only much later in history. So he went back and changed things. This book will be considered his master- work, although I don't think it is. That title applies to some of the private-edition erotic works. (Don't bother looking for them unless you have several thousand dollars to spend.) This book will sell for the normal price...he even refused to let them sell a limited-edition private (read expensive) version of it. Uh, I think you're making my point for me: that this work is quite unusual for Crumb. So I am surprised by what is written in the article above because if the New Yorker excerpt is representative of the work as a whole, it is neither a satire nor a Crumb-like comic but more like the Classic Comics version of the Bible without any liberties taken. The difference is that the artists who did Classic Comic books 1) weren't very good artists, 2) didn't know their history or the periods of time they were illustrating (or didn't care) and thus made it all up, and 3) didn't have a real feel for the source material, and a desire to bring it to life. Robert's work has been compared favorably to the best artists in the world; his drawing style was called by one noted art critic Second to none, and I include Breughel and Michaelangelo in that statement. Get over Zap Comix, Shemp...Robert did decades ago. I find everything Robert did outside of his porno/Zap/satire/etc. stuff quite boring. I am referring to his countryside and village etchings (around France), his old Blues etchings, and now his Bible stuff. I only like his -- as you put it -- Zap stuff. I suppose I am an uneducated Rube, not as urbane and as sophisticated as you Barry, and don't know real art. But I know what I like.
[FairfieldLife] Re: R Crumb Zaps the Bible
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Like most people in the world, you don't know Robert Crumb at all. He's the straightest arrow on Earth...doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't do drugs. And the shyest person you've ever met. Judy wrote: Of course, this is entirely irrelevant to Shemp's comment, which was referring to Crumb's *work*, not Crumb as a person... I met Crumb when he lived in San Francisco; he was working on an album cover for Big Brother. Crumb was, and probably still is, a 'redneck', and a self-admitted misogynist. But it's just amazing how many people think murder and rape are funny. Crumb thought the 'Peace Movement' was a liberal conspiracy. He was, by all accounts, a very disagreeable person to be around. He couldn't stand Rock Music like the Dead or the Airplane, and never attended any concerts at the Avalon or Winterland. According to some of the artists who lived in the Haight Ashbury, R. Crumb was one of the least talented, compared to people like Rick Griffin, Gilbert Shelton, and Ralph Bakshi. None of these artists could stand to be around Crumb, since he was so racist and bigoted. Crumb hated hippies. He appears to have a lot of hate around him according to your account, WillyTex. Now I understand why him and Barry are such good friends. Hey, Barry, do you and Robert have ex-pat Thanksgiving together every year?
[FairfieldLife] David Lynch shames the TM Movement
The stupid schmuck has signed a petition in support of child rapist Roman Polanski: http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html
[FairfieldLife] Bill Clinton on Right Wing Conspiracy
Obama is the target. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45_09YojZYkfeature=related
Re: [FairfieldLife] David Lynch shames the TM Movement
ShempMcGurk wrote: The stupid schmuck has signed a petition in support of child rapist Roman Polanski: http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html As a rock musician in the 60's I can tell you that under age girls were always a problem. They would make themselves look older. One had to gingerly tell them they couldn't come home with us without hurting their feelings. It was a real pain in the ass. The cops were always trying to bust us for under age chicks. Little did they know I had friends in high places who alerted us about that surveillance. I had one major rock star of the period leave us with two runaways when he visited our house. :-( I was often very happy that a parent would accompany their child when they took music lessons from me in the 1980s. It was well known that if a kid didn't like the lessons they might say the teacher hit on them when they didn't. And sometimes the mom would decide they wanted to sign up for lessons too. ;-) These days if I was teaching I would probably video record the lesson and let the student take home a copy too. It would serve two purposes obviously. And BTW what is the legal age in India?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma
FYI, Firefly was a series that came later than Buffy and Angel. Barry's saying he liked Firefly enough to check out Whedon's earlier series. I only became aware of Firefly after a friend who owned a local video rental recommended the DVDs of the series. I was aware of Buffy but it was too teen for me and never saw an episode of Angel which was probably too teen too. Firefly was a fun space western. Whedon was having a good run. In fact probably to Barry's chagrin I was trying to find Whedon's birth info to see if he is running a bad planetary period. Unfortunately he's not in the AstroDataBank and the best I can get is the day and location of birth. I also thought the family dharma element might be interesting to some other FFL'ers. Whedon probably grew up visiting sets for the series his dad worked on. There's a very interesting commentary by Randy Newman on the Pleasantville DVD about how he grew up hanging out with his uncles and listening to people like John Goldsmith rip Beethoven symphonies and other classical composers works. Growing up in the business can be a real advantage as you know the mindfields before you even start. authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip I'm actually not that big a Joss Whedon fanboy. I discovered him only with Firefly and have never (gulp...forgive me, Saint Joss) seen an episode of either Buffy or Angel. :-) Barry, 3/21/09 (#212517): ...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. Barry, 2/21/09 (#209588): I missed a lot of 'Buffy' and 'Angel'... Barry to Lawson, 6/17/05 (#62778): Never watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer?!!! You've missed out. It's actually tremendously clever. And Buffy is a babe-and-a-half. This is a demonstration of how in the moment Barry is: In moments in February and March of this year, and in June of '05, Barry had seen at least some episodes of Buffy and Angel. In the moment today, he's never seen any of them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: FYI, Firefly was a series that came later than Buffy and Angel. Barry's saying he liked Firefly enough to check out Whedon's earlier series. Well, actually, no, he's saying he has *never seen* an episode of either Buffy or Angel: snip I discovered him only with Firefly and have never (gulp...forgive me, Saint Joss) seen an episode of either Buffy or Angel. :-) Not clear why he's lying now--or lied the three times previously when he said he *had* seen some episodes. Seems an awfully trivial thing to lie about, one way or the other. Maybe it's just that the idea of your assuming he's a fanboy gives him the collywobbles, because he thinks it sounds, you know, so unevolved and unelite, so *attached*. Urban Dictionary's third definition of fanboy does seem quite apt, though: An arrogant person who goes into an outburst every time something he likes is questioned. Barry, 3/21/09 (#212517): ...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. Barry, 2/21/09 (#209588): I missed a lot of 'Buffy' and 'Angel'... Barry to Lawson, 6/17/05 (#62778): Never watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer?!!! You've missed out. It's actually tremendously clever. And Buffy is a babe-and-a-half. This is a demonstration of how in the moment Barry is: In moments in February and March of this year, and in June of '05, Barry had seen at least some episodes of Buffy and Angel. In the moment today, he's never seen any of them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: David Lynch shames the TM Movement
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: ShempMcGurk wrote: The stupid schmuck has signed a petition in support of child rapist Roman Polanski: http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html As a rock musician in the 60's I can tell you that under age girls were always a problem. They would make themselves look older. One had to gingerly tell them they couldn't come home with us without hurting their feelings. It was a real pain in the ass. The cops were always trying to bust us for under age chicks. Little did they know I had friends in high places who alerted us about that surveillance. I had one major rock star of the period leave us with two runaways when he visited our house. :-( I was often very happy that a parent would accompany their child when they took music lessons from me in the 1980s. It was well known that if a kid didn't like the lessons they might say the teacher hit on them when they didn't. And sometimes the mom would decide they wanted to sign up for lessons too. ;-) These days if I was teaching I would probably video record the lesson and let the student take home a copy too. It would serve two purposes obviously. And BTW what is the legal age in India? Your policy was not too far off from Billy Graham who had a life-long policy of never being alone in a room with a female 'cuase he was so afraid of being compromised and of compromising his ministry.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?
WillyTex wrote: bill hicks wrote: IIRC, about a year ago there were announcements on FFL for the formation of a group of survivalists who intended to weather a storm with the economy collapsed, surviving by hunting, gathering, growing and just making do, bartering because money would be worthless. Just wondering how this group is faring since where I live none of this has become necessary. Maybe you don't live close to Yellowstone, or in a climate where you could freeze to death in the winter, but anything could happen to put you in survival mode. I'm very interested in things like this. I read that the average person would last only a few days without any survival supplies. Beyond that, they'd be forced to do battle with their neighbors over food alone. In the average household, there's maybe enough food to feed a family for a few days, at most. After that, it's into panic mode. No water; no food; no transportation; no heating fuel; no matches or even BIC lighters; no candles. It would be a pretty tough existence, fer sure, until you got a garden started! Got seeds? So, I've got a garage full of canned goods; a lake full of water; and I live in a warm climate. I also have lots of bullets for defense in case the neighbors try to barge in and make off with my stash. Unless I receive some really big firepower, I figure I could last a year or two until the garden really started to pay off. Down here, I've got three planting seasons every year. Most people think it couldn't happen to them, but it's amazing how much damage the weather can do, not to mention a surprise volcano eruption or an asteroid hit, or a really big riot. Of course, if push comes to shove, I could always count on the government. LOL! Be prepared is the Scout's motto. Sound like you've been listening to Alex Jone's sponsors. :-D Here's one person's account of what life was like in Argentina after the economy collapse. Not pretty: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9628597/Lessons-from-Argentinas-economic-collapse
[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfiend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: FYI, Firefly was a series that came later than Buffy and Angel. Barry's saying he liked Firefly enough to check out Whedon's earlier series. Well, actually, no, he's saying he has *never seen* an episode of either Buffy or Angel: snip I discovered him only with Firefly and have never (gulp...forgive me, Saint Joss) seen an episode of either Buffy or Angel. :-) Not clear why he's lying now--or lied the three times previously when he said he *had* seen some episodes. Seems an awfully trivial thing to lie about, one way or the other. Maybe it's just that the idea of your assuming he's a fanboy gives him the collywobbles, because he thinks it sounds, you know, so unevolved and unelite, so *attached*. Urban Dictionary's third definition of fanboy does seem quite apt, though: An arrogant person who goes into an outburst every time something he likes is questioned. Also from the Urban Dictionary: Stalker- a person obsessed with another to the point of insanity. Someone who harrasses, annoys, provokes because of self contempt and jealousy. Is known for doing anything to get a reaction. punk'd-to get embarassed in front of your crew You lose, again.
[FairfieldLife] Duetto buffo di due gatti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjtVDG0drG0
[FairfieldLife] Rotten Tomatoes Worst of the Worst 2000-2009
100 worst movies of the period. How many have you seen? I've seen only a few. Some like Babylon AD might be better if we ever get to see the movie the director wanted to make. Some are so bad they are campy fun to watch. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/worst_of_the_worst/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Rotten Tomatoes Worst of the Worst 2000-2009
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: 100 worst movies of the period. How many have you seen? I never even heard of any on the 91-100 page, so I skipped ahead to the 1-10 page. Never heard of any of them, either.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rotten Tomatoes Worst of the Worst 2000-2009
Alex Stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: 100 worst movies of the period. How many have you seen? I never even heard of any on the 91-100 page, so I skipped ahead to the 1-10 page. Never heard of any of them, either. Turq recently wrote about number 100: Whiteout. I would bet you've seen some between 11-90.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] David Lynch shames the TM Movement
On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Bhairitu wrote: ShempMcGurk wrote: The stupid schmuck has signed a petition in support of child rapist Roman Polanski: http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html As a rock musician in the 60's I can tell you that under age girls were always a problem. They would make themselves look older. Yeah such a rough life Bhair. The problem with your example is that the girl told RP, apparently several times, what her age was. And told him no several times as well. It's pretty much as much of a clear-cut case of rape as you can get--even Polanski admits that. One had to gingerly tell them they couldn't come home with us without hurting their feelings. Tenderness and sensitivity being real hallmarks of 60s-era rockers, of course. It was a real pain in the ass. The cops were always trying to bust us for under age chicks. Little did they know I had friends in high places who alerted us about that surveillance. And of course you guys were the only ones who knew this inside info. I had one major rock star of the period leave us with two runaways when he visited our house. :-( I was often very happy that a parent would accompany their child when they took music lessons from me in the 1980s. It was well known that if a kid didn't like the lessons they might say the teacher hit on them when they didn't. And sometimes the mom would decide they wanted to sign up for lessons too. ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?
- Eat red clover flowers and sun gaze for nutrition One really doesn't need much food to thrive, actually. -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: WillyTex wrote: bill hicks wrote: IIRC, about a year ago there were announcements on FFL for the formation of a group of survivalists who intended to weather a storm with the economy collapsed, surviving by hunting, gathering, growing and just making do, bartering because money would be worthless. Just wondering how this group is faring since where I live none of this has become necessary. Maybe you don't live close to Yellowstone, or in a climate where you could freeze to death in the winter, but anything could happen to put you in survival mode. I'm very interested in things like this. I read that the average person would last only a few days without any survival supplies. Beyond that, they'd be forced to do battle with their neighbors over food alone. In the average household, there's maybe enough food to feed a family for a few days, at most. After that, it's into panic mode. No water; no food; no transportation; no heating fuel; no matches or even BIC lighters; no candles. It would be a pretty tough existence, fer sure, until you got a garden started! Got seeds? So, I've got a garage full of canned goods; a lake full of water; and I live in a warm climate. I also have lots of bullets for defense in case the neighbors try to barge in and make off with my stash. Unless I receive some really big firepower, I figure I could last a year or two until the garden really started to pay off. Down here, I've got three planting seasons every year. Most people think it couldn't happen to them, but it's amazing how much damage the weather can do, not to mention a surprise volcano eruption or an asteroid hit, or a really big riot. Of course, if push comes to shove, I could always count on the government. LOL! Be prepared is the Scout's motto. Sound like you've been listening to Alex Jone's sponsors. :-D Here's one person's account of what life was like in Argentina after the economy collapse. Not pretty: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9628597/Lessons-from-Argentinas-economic-collapse
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?
Thanks, Bambi. :-D meowthirteen wrote: - Eat red clover flowers and sun gaze for nutrition One really doesn't need much food to thrive, actually.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How goes survival in FF?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Thanks, Bambi. :-D Mmmm... Bambi... meowthirteen wrote: - Eat red clover flowers and sun gaze for nutrition One really doesn't need much food to thrive, actually.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Joss Whedon's TV Dharma
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfiend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: FYI, Firefly was a series that came later than Buffy and Angel. Barry's saying he liked Firefly enough to check out Whedon's earlier series. Well, actually, no, he's saying he has *never seen* an episode of either Buffy or Angel: snip I discovered him only with Firefly and have never (gulp...forgive me, Saint Joss) seen an episode of either Buffy or Angel. :-) Not clear why he's lying now--or lied the three times previously when he said he *had* seen some episodes. Seems an awfully trivial thing to lie about, one way or the other. Maybe it's just that the idea of your assuming he's a fanboy gives him the collywobbles, because he thinks it sounds, you know, so unevolved and unelite, so *attached*. Urban Dictionary's third definition of fanboy does seem quite apt, though: An arrogant person who goes into an outburst every time something he likes is questioned. Also from the Urban Dictionary: From the first definition of Stalker: The term...has come to be used as a defense mechanism for anyone seeking justification for not being attracted socially or physically to someone elseNote: Far too many idiots think they're more important than they really are90 percent of the people who use the term couldn't get a real stalker to save their lives. Tip from Ethics 101: The reprehensible person is the one who tries to con others and pretends to be someone he isn't (as well as those who attempt to cover for him)--not the whistleblower who exposes the con. Stalker- a person obsessed with another to the point of insanity. Someone who harrasses, annoys, provokes because of self contempt and jealousy. Is known for doing anything to get a reaction. punk'd-to get embarassed in front of your crew I guess you must be pretty embarassed [sic], huh? You lose, again. Barry, 3/21/09 (#212517): ...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. Barry, 2/21/09 (#209588): I missed a lot of 'Buffy' and 'Angel'... Barry to Lawson, 6/17/05 (#62778): Never watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer?!!! You've missed out. It's actually tremendously clever. And Buffy is a babe-and-a-half. This is a demonstration of how in the moment Barry is: In moments in February and March of this year, and in June of '05, Barry had seen at least some episodes of Buffy and Angel. In the moment today, he's never seen any of them.
