[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi predicts the effect of a group of 7000 meditation experts
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ John, they've been doing this collective coherence trip for years. The Invincible America course was supposed to transform the fortunes of the US, and look what happened. They had to fall back on excuses like 'phase transition'. If they'd predicted a phase transition fine but they didn't, it was In the vicinity of Yog positive trends dominate or whatever the quote is. That just goes to show, there's a lot of work to do in developing the human consciousness around the world. The major religions have been around for thousands of years and have not completely transformed humans today. If at all. I see this as another excuse as to why TM technology hasn't created world peace. Think about it, MMY says we need to get groups of hoppers into war zones to calm things down, the phase transition clause seems to indicate that instead of reducing negative trends it will upset them more so that any latent stresses will come out. I've had TM teachers tell me this, stress has to be released from collective consciousness as well as individual and it sometimes isn't nice. So what MMY means when he says 'create world peace' is 'possibly make conflicts worse by forcing buried hatreds to the surface, unless it works in a nice way and things get better' It seems untestable with a get out clause like that. Instead what do we see today? Wars and violence due to religious differences. Boys will be boys. The pundits are supposed to be 10X as powerful as sidhas and there are thousands of them in India. If the ME worked it would surely be working by now. It's a lovely idea but you have to judge things by their results. I was sceptical of the whole thing by the time IA course started but was pleased that the TMO was going ahead with it because if you don't try things you never know We should give the pundits a chance. They could bring about the peaceful environment that we need today. From the vedic literatures, the pundits performed yagyas at the behest of the kings to bring prosperity to their kingdoms. So, it appeared that MMY was using this ancient vedic technology to transform the world now. We are giving them a chance. But when can we agree that it's been a failed experiment and let the poor guys go home and get a more rewarding life with a proper job, wife and kids etc. Instead of being locked in the TM compound at FF performing prayers for the already ludicrously wealthy and priviledged?
[FairfieldLife] Nokia vs. Apple?
Do you think Nokia's got any chances of winning its lawsuit against Apple?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Open questions in physics
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: http://www.thebigview.com/spacetime/questions.html Physics does not concern itself with issues outside its own domain. For example, the subjects of biology, life, and chemistry, as well as the phenomena of mind and consciousness cannot be explained in physical terms Biology, chemistry and therefore life can, indeed are, explained in physical terms. Is that so? I'm not sure that's the case is it? How DOES the inanimate become life? I know one idea is that the planet was seeded by interplanetary (or interstellar) organic debris. But that just puts the question back of course. I'm not saying it won't ever be explained, just that we have no explanation at present (as far as I know). Of course we have a very nice idea of how simple life forms can evolve into complex life forms. But that's not the issue. Mind and consciousness, not yet but consider that 80 years ago a major argument against evolution came from chemists who declared that they KNEW there wasn't enough going on in cells to account for the necessary transmission of data to create living things. Then DNA was discovered We don't know what we don't yet know.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Early American Yogic Flying
Also like with the shakers, getting to a point in their own long dwindling where they had to hire in outsiders to do the work of the community to have enough vitality remaining for the few old Shakers remaining to carry on inside. Not unlike the TMorg and MUM now hiring contract workers to run the kitchens, plant the gardens, cut the grass, do the laundry and even come to the domes to make the meetings larger. Again, as it was before in the 19th Century, so it seems has come again with the TM iteration: In the early days, transcendental meditators held themselves strictly in the line of spiritual influx. They were the fountain of spiritual supply, the power centre of spiritual force. For many years, increasingly, as numbers have diminished, have places of temporal care and responsibility fallen back upon the hands of these Spiritual Leaders, and these places are being filled by meditators. A vessel can be no more than full. When temporal burdens of this nature must be borne, the spiritual gift, of necessity, depreciates. Describing this loss of spiritual energy, Mainstream's Critique works real well here too: The loss of spiritual energy... When an institution formerly based on Subjective Inner Experience has long-since abandoned its uniqueness through diversifying its product line by creating excessively high-profit-margin products marketed to every field of the Objective Outer world, And they are a good example in their decline for how it may go for TM after MMY with the TMmovement. By 1920 there were only 12 Shakers left in the United States. Is this really how you see the TMO? :-) Shakers as example. Well, not dissimilar. A TM-like movement in their day that was alive for decades. Parallel, the Transcendental Meditation movement with a million meditators, 30k teacher exponents of reality, also a rending down to some few. May be 12 hundreds left in the TM movement by the time they tried a jump-start again with the recent Invincibility course from that recent summer of the Lebanon civil war breaking out. The whole Transcendental Meditation movement numbers had dwindled down to a very few hundreds by then. Is proly a ratio not even unlike with the Shaker decline in time by example. Even evident in transcendental meditation `dome numbers' today. Also like with the shakers, getting to a point in their own long dwindling where they had to hire in outsiders to do the work of the community to have enough vitality remaining for the few old Shakers remaining to carry on inside. Not unlike the TMorg and MUM now hiring contract workers to run the kitchens, plant the gardens, cut the grass, do the laundry and even come to the domes to make the meetings larger. 19th Century Yogic Levitation Nothing is new under the sun. Group Flying (19th Century America) Sometimes the hands are raised, palms outwards, and the position shifted with such quickness and velocity as to indicate the lively, sweet and beautiful motions of the heavenly spirits, in all the charms of heavenly beauty, untainted with the flesh. Sometimes the subjects of these operations are taken from the floor, as if their feet were snatched from under them, and they are again caught and supported from falling, as being handled by the most active and powerful agents. Some are whirled off to a distance and others carried to and fro, or in a circle, with indescribable force Jemima Blanchard, of Harvard, having a gift of turning, would sometimes go from the Square House to the South House, whirling rapidly and passing over fences or whatever came in her way, without touching them or making the least effort to clear them. At times she would be entirely supported by the power without touching any material thing. om
[FairfieldLife] Cashing in the War Dividend: The Joys of Perpetual War
WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2009 Cashing in the War Dividend: The Joys of Perpetual War Tuesday 20 October 2009 by: Jo Comerford | TomDispatch.com In the next decade the basic Pentagon budget will grow by at least $133.1 billion, or 25%. So you thought the Pentagon was already big enough? Well, what do you know, especially with the price of the American military slated to grow by at least 25% over the next decade? Forget about the butter. It's bad for you anyway. And sheer military power, as well as the money behind it, assures the country of a thick waistline without the cholesterol. So, let's sing the praises of perpetual war. We better, since right now every forecast in sight tells us that it's our future. The tired peace dividend tug boat left the harbor two decades ago, dragging with it laughable hopes for universal health care and decent public education. Now, the mighty USS War Dividend is preparing to set sail. The economic weather reports may be lousy and the seas choppy, but one thing is guaranteed: that won't stop it. The United States, of course, long ago captured first prize in the global arms race. It now spends as much as the next 14 countries combined, even as the spending of our rogue enemies and former enemies -- Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria -- much in the headlines for their prospective armaments, makes up a mere 1% of the world military budget. Still, when you're a military superpower focused on big-picture thinking, there's no time to dawdle on the details. And be reasonable, who could expect the U.S. to fight two wars and maintain more than 700 bases around the world for less than the $704 billion we'll shell out to the Pentagon in 2010? But here's what few Americans grasp and you aren't going to read about in your local paper either: according to Department of Defense projections, the baseline military budget -- just the bare bones, not those billions in war-fighting extras -- is projected to increase by 2.5% each year for the next 10 years. In other words, in the next decade the basic Pentagon budget will grow by at least $133.1 billion, or 25%. When it comes to the health of the war dividend in economically bad times, if that's not good news, what is? As anyone at the Pentagon will be quick to tell you, it's a real bargain, a steal, at least compared to the two-term presidency of George W. Bush. Then, that same baseline defense budget grew by an astonishing 38%. If the message isn't already clear enough, let me summarize: it's time for the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, and Veterans Affairs to suck it up. After all, Americans, however unemployed, foreclosed, or unmedicated, will only be truly secure if the Pentagon is exceedingly well fed. According to the Office of Management and Budget, what that actually means is this: 55% of next year's discretionary spending -- that is, the spending negotiated by the President and Congress -- will go to the military just to keep it chugging along. The 14 million American children in poverty, the millions of citizens who will remain without health insurance (even if some version of the Baucus plan is passed), the 7.6 million people who have lost jobs since 2007, all of them will have to take a number. The same is true of the kinds of projects needed to improve the country's disintegrating infrastructure, including the 25% of U.S. drinking water that was given a barely passing D by the American Society of Civil Engineers in a 2009 study. And don't imagine that this is a terrible thing either! There's no shame in paying $400 for every gallon of gas used in Afghanistan, especially when the Marines alone are reported to consume 800,000 gallons of it each day. After all, the evidence is in: a few whiners aside, Americans want our tax dollars used this way. Otherwise we'd complain, and no one makes much of a fuss about war or the ever- rising numbers of dollars going to it anymore. $915.1 billion in total Iraq and Afghanistan war spending to date has been a no-brainer, even if it could, theoretically, have been traded in for the annual salaries of 15 million teachers or 20 million police officers or for 171 million Pell Grants of approximately $5,350 each for use by American college and university students. Next March, we will collectively reach a landmark in this new version of the American way of life. We will hit the $1 trillion mark in total Iraq and Afghanistan war spending with untold years of war- making to go. No problem. It's only the proposed nearly $900 billion for a decade of health care that we fear will do us in. Nor is it the Pentagon's fault that U.S. states have laws prohibiting them from deficit spending. The 48 governors and state
Re: [FairfieldLife] Exciting new growth sector in feminism: bashing women
On Oct 23, 2009, at 1:34 AM, raunchydog wrote: The title of Sarah Palin's book is Going Rogue: An American Life. The spoofy thing — actually a collection of essays about Palin — will be called Going Rouge: An American Nightmare. Rouge — get it? Makeup. Lady stuff! Stuff that bitches wear! Heh. Take that, rougey bitch with lady parts! Oh, this is wonderful. Just wonderful. A start-up publishing house called O/R is planning a kind of semi- spoof of Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir. I wouldn't worry, it'll probably be a while till Palin's memoir is translated into English.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Exciting new growth sector in feminism: bashing women
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Oct 23, 2009, at 1:34 AM, raunchydog wrote: The title of Sarah Palin's book is Going Rogue: An American Life. The spoofy thing actually a collection of essays about Palin will be called Going Rouge: An American Nightmare. Rouge get it? Makeup. Lady stuff! Stuff that bitches wear! Heh. Take that, rougey bitch with lady parts! Oh, this is wonderful. Just wonderful. A start-up publishing house called O/R is planning a kind of semi- spoof of Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir. I wouldn't worry, it'll probably be a while till Palin's memoir is translated into English. I'm glad it's being translated. I didn't want to spring for a Trailer Trash-to-English Dictionary.
[FairfieldLife] 5 Great Ways To Lower Blood Pressure Using 1 Great Fruit !
Have you had your lycopene today? If you ate a green salad with fresh chopped tomatoes, then you not only got a healthy dose of this powerful antioxidant, but you have also taken significant action toward lowering your blood pressure. A recent double-blind study conducted in Israel has confirmed what hearth-healthy Italians have enjoyed for centuries tomatoes (and tomato sauce) lower blood pressure and the risk of heart disease. Dr. Esther Paran, head of the hypertension division of Soroka Medical Center, led up the Israeli study. It involved patients who were already being treated for hypertension, but were not responding well to the medications. Dr. Paran had patients take a supplement of tomato extract. The results were a significant drop in blood pressure after just four weeks. Tomatoes are so effective at lowering blood pressure because they contain lycopene. This potent antioxidant is even the focus of some hybrid tomatoes grown by the Israeli company, Lycomato, in order to have higher concentrations of lycopene in each piece of fruit. Other antioxidants found in tomatoes make this one super-food in the prevention of heart disease. It can even help keep LDL cholesterol from oxidizing which makes it stick to the arteries and narrow the passage way causing blood pressure to increase. Even during the peak growing season it can be difficult to consume four whole tomatoes each day, which is the recommended amount for having a positive impact on blood pressure. Here are some ways to get the benefits of tomatoes without having to eat them straight off the vine. 1. Make Chili. Using tomato puree, which is a concentrated form of tomatoes, as the base for your chili utilizes the antioxidants without the bulk of a whole tomato. Add some ultra-lean and high protein ground bison and kidney beans with minced garlic and onions, and cayenne pepper and you have a heart-healthy main course and a full day's allowance of tomato. 2. Since using olive oil with the tomatoes enhances the curative quality, make your pasta sauce red with tomatoes, tomato paste and olive oil to sauté the garlic and onion. Tomato paste used in making sauce contains more than 10 times the nutrients of a single tomato. 3. Have a fresh salad as a side dish to either of these entrees and cut one whole tomato on top. You'll get one-quarter of you tomato intake right there. 4. Drink tomato juice. It is better to make your own fresh juice so that you can control the sodium. Store bought juices can be high in sugar and sodium-based preservatives. If you have a juicer, you can make some incredible veggie juices to suit your own tastes by adding carrots, celery and some low-sodium seasonings. 5. Take a tomato supplement. If you just can't stomach tomatoes, then a 200 mg supplement provides the equivalent of more than the recommended four tomatoes. Adding tomatoes to your diet can reduce systolic blood pressure by 10 points and diastolic pressure by 4 points as was evident in the Israel study. Whatever way you slice it, tomatoes will keep strengthen your immune system and lower blood pressure. http://a.lazaza.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: 5 Great Ways To Lower Blood Pressure Using 1 Great Fruit !
Tomatoes: God's gift to humanity or Great Satan? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/231365 Inquiring minds want to know! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nonalaza nonal...@... wrote: Have you had your lycopene today? If you ate a green salad with fresh chopped tomatoes, then you not only got a healthy dose of this powerful antioxidant, but you have also taken significant action toward lowering your blood pressure. A recent double-blind study conducted in Israel has confirmed what hearth-healthy Italians have enjoyed for centuries tomatoes (and tomato sauce) lower blood pressure and the risk of heart disease. Dr. Esther Paran, head of the hypertension division of Soroka Medical Center, led up the Israeli study. It involved patients who were already being treated for hypertension, but were not responding well to the medications. Dr. Paran had patients take a supplement of tomato extract. The results were a significant drop in blood pressure after just four weeks. Tomatoes are so effective at lowering blood pressure because they contain lycopene. This potent antioxidant is even the focus of some hybrid tomatoes grown by the Israeli company, Lycomato, in order to have higher concentrations of lycopene in each piece of fruit. Other antioxidants found in tomatoes make this one super-food in the prevention of heart disease. It can even help keep LDL cholesterol from oxidizing which makes it stick to the arteries and narrow the passage way causing blood pressure to increase. Even during the peak growing season it can be difficult to consume four whole tomatoes each day, which is the recommended amount for having a positive impact on blood pressure. Here are some ways to get the benefits of tomatoes without having to eat them straight off the vine. 1. Make Chili. Using tomato puree, which is a concentrated form of tomatoes, as the base for your chili utilizes the antioxidants without the bulk of a whole tomato. Add some ultra-lean and high protein ground bison and kidney beans with minced garlic and onions, and cayenne pepper and you have a heart-healthy main course and a full day's allowance of tomato. 2. Since using olive oil with the tomatoes enhances the curative quality, make your pasta sauce red with tomatoes, tomato paste and olive oil to sauté the garlic and onion. Tomato paste used in making sauce contains more than 10 times the nutrients of a single tomato. 3. Have a fresh salad as a side dish to either of these entrees and cut one whole tomato on top. You'll get one-quarter of you tomato intake right there. 4. Drink tomato juice. It is better to make your own fresh juice so that you can control the sodium. Store bought juices can be high in sugar and sodium-based preservatives. If you have a juicer, you can make some incredible veggie juices to suit your own tastes by adding carrots, celery and some low-sodium seasonings. 5. Take a tomato supplement. If you just can't stomach tomatoes, then a 200 mg supplement provides the equivalent of more than the recommended four tomatoes. Adding tomatoes to your diet can reduce systolic blood pressure by 10 points and diastolic pressure by 4 points as was evident in the Israel study. Whatever way you slice it, tomatoes will keep strengthen your immune system and lower blood pressure. http://a.lazaza.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Exciting new growth sector in feminism: bashing women
Sarah Palin reminds rational Americans in a dramatic way that bizarre, unbalanced, inept and dangerously unqualified people can indeed gain public support and reach nearness to the levers of national and international power. Criticism of what she brings to the table has nothing to do with her gender. GW Bush was another grim example of that same perverse blinkered ineptitude that actually did get into power and almost succeeded in economically fucking over the whole planet. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: The title of Sarah Palin's book is Going Rogue: An American Life. The spoofy thing actually a collection of essays about Palin will be called Going Rouge: An American Nightmare. Rouge get it? Makeup. Lady stuff! Stuff that bitches wear! Heh. Take that, rougey bitch with lady parts! Oh, this is wonderful. Just wonderful. A start-up publishing house called O/R is planning a kind of semi-spoof of Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/10/21/going-rouge-palin-basher-lookalike/\ . Exciting new growth sector in feminism: bashing women http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2009/10/22/exciting-new-growth-sector-i\ n-feminism-bashing-women/By Violet http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/author/violet/ · Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 [palinbooks] Here's the list of contributors to Going Rouge, as per the publisher http://orbooks.com/ : With contributions by: Max Blumenthal, Joe Conason, Eve Ensler, Michelle Goldberg, Jane Hamsher, Christopher Hayes, Jim Hightower, Linda Hirshman, Naomi Klein, Dahlia Lithwick, Amanda Marcotte, Shannyn Moore, John Nichols, Katha Pollitt, Hanna Rosin, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tomasky, Rebecca Traister, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jessica Valenti, Patricia Williams, JoAnn Wypijewski and Gary Younge. Are there any surprises in that list? No, there are not, Bob. Just about every feminist there is one of The Embarrassing Ones the women who became so infatuated with Obama and so punch-drunk on their own latent misogyny (towards Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, or both) that 2008 will live in infamy as the Year of Feminist Shame. Which is not to say that there isn't a place for criticism of Sarah Palin's politics; there is. She's a conservative Republican, and conservative Republican ideas are batshit and wrong and bad. Tear them apart, by all means. It's also entirely appropriate to assess Palin as a political figure, assuming that this can be done in a non-sexist way, with a feminist awareness of the double standard and the ways in which patriarchy informs and deforms everything it touches. But is that really what this book is going to be? Given the title and the list of contributors? Given that several of The Embarrassing Ones have a history of libeling Palin and attacking her in distressingly sexist terms? Given that these are the same folks whose woman-bashing last year was so nasty we're still trying to get the puke stains out of the carpet? Somehow I'm not hopeful.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Even Hitler is upset at balloon boy hoax
Too bad they couldn't have shown Falcon (love that name) with a swastika carved on his forehead. From: ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@netscape.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, October 22, 2009 10:07:23 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Even Hitler is upset at balloon boy hoax http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=Zdxwoho9v7w __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] Get Lucky
No, you dirty-minded bunch...this is *not* Turq rapping about his sexual exploits in Sitges. It's just a notice for those who would be interested that there is a new Mark Knopfler album out. And it's a winner. Called Get Lucky, it's a wonderful blend of his many styles -- from blues to Celtic to folky to rock, and featuring his unique guitar and songwriting skills. As to the latter, he's still one of the best *storytellers* in the songwriting business. I've only heard it once now and so don't really have faves yet, but on first listen several songs stood out for me, like Border Reiver, Before Gas And TV, Cleaning My Gun, Get Lucky, So Far From The Clyde, and Piper To The End. For those who are interested in the recording process, you'll probably want to pick up the edition of this album with the bonus DVD. Mark and partner Chuck Ainlay take you on a tour of their new studio. It beat out Abbey Road for the Best Recording Studio Of The Year award. It's an audio nerd's wet dream, and it's all analog. Thus the warm sound of the albums recorded there. Listen to the album, order it:e http://www.markknopfler.com/music/discography/cd/mk_SoloDetails.aspx?cat=SoloalbumId=a105dc42-cab1-4f8e-a687-09c0640fa901 Interview 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZfhFlngVA4 Interview 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqefOE6sFac Get Lucky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZyaMWxuOog Border Reiver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzqNSAbE7Fo Piper To The End: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCAtVJSNdQE
[FairfieldLife] Message from Joe Biden
Message From Joe Biden: We've got a fight on our hands. Powerful insurance companies are pulling out all the stops to defeat the President's plan for health reform. They're spending seven million bucks a week on lobbyists, blanketing the country with deceptive TV ads, and just funded two high-profile reports to distort what reform would mean for you. I know their game. I was in the Senate the last time health reform came around, and I saw the special interests savage our efforts. Frankly, under the old rules of Washington they were nearly impossible to beat. But now, thanks to you, the rules are changing. All the lies, scare tactics and lobbyist shake-downs in the world are no match for the incredible work of Organizing for America supporters like you. That's exactly what frightens them so much -- and it's what Barack and I are counting on. After decades of false starts, we're now just a short time from finally passing real reform. Every member of Congress will soon have to cast their vote. As real change draws near, you can bet the insurance companies will hold nothing back. That means OFA will need the extra resources to beat back whatever attack they can dream up next. Here's the bottom line: it's not time to let up -- it's time to double down. When I talk about you changing the rules in Washington, here's what I mean: This week, crucial negotiations on Capitol Hill are shaping a comprehensive reform proposal. At the same time, the insurance companies' phony reports are grabbing headlines and their lobbyists are twisting arms. But your work is keeping them from setting us back. On Tuesday, OFA supporters around the country organized more than 1,000 local outreach events and generated an astounding 330,000 calls to Congress from constituents telling their representatives that it's time to deliver. From my years in Congress and my conversations with Senate colleagues this week, I can tell you with confidence that your message broke through and you helped keep us on track. If this fight were only about guaranteeing the choice of secure, quality, affordable care for every American, it would be worth everything we could throw at it. But as Barack reminded us this week, this fight for change is now about something even bigger: a test of whether or not we as a nation are capable of tackling our toughest challenges, if we can serve the national interest despite the unrelenting efforts of the special interests; if we can still do big things in America. I believe we can. And Barack believes we can. But what really matters is whether you believe we can. If you do, now is the moment to make it happen.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Open questions in physics
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: http://www.thebigview.com/spacetime/questions.html Physics does not concern itself with issues outside its own domain. For example, the subjects of biology, life, and chemistry, as well as the phenomena of mind and consciousness cannot be explained in physical terms Biology, chemistry and therefore life can, indeed are, explained in physical terms. Is that so? I'm not sure that's the case is it? How DOES the inanimate become life? Good question. Chemistry explains the functioning of DNA, which is the interface between the organic and the inorganic, looked at one way it's life the other it's chemistry and how it works is becoming very well understood. But not perfectly as you point out. Ribosomes, the bits of cells that transcribe the genetic code into other molecules, have recently been found to be self-assembling. Which is pretty amazing, a major piece of the jigsaw. It isn't finished yet but the picture can be discerned. Finding out that the bits that make DNA actually make themselves is good progress. And in Darwins centenary year too! Pretty cool to go from bacteria to animals capable of discussing themselves in only a billion years. Mind you it was something like a massive global deep- freeze three billion years ago that forced the change from bacteria into multi-celled life. Otherwise we might be still floating around in the primordial sea not thinking about anything at all. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2009/January/09010901.asp
[FairfieldLife] What do you see....
http://www.geocities.com/h2800h/illusion/what_do_uc/index.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: What do you see....
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: http://www.geocities.com/h2800h/illusion/what_do_uc/index.htm What I don't understand is why I see it in color.
[FairfieldLife] Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
For those of you who miss Battlestar Galactica, it's back. At least a full-length movie is back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYV7WeaDP_8 Directed by Edward James Olmos, it's set at the beginning of Cylon War, and fills in some of the gaps between Caprica and the TV series. I'm watching a downloaded version of it, so I don't know exactly what the plans for this movie are. It may be headed for theaters, or straight to DVD and Blu-Ray.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Open questions in physics
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: http://www.thebigview.com/spacetime/questions.html Physics does not concern itself with issues outside its own domain. For example, the subjects of biology, life, and chemistry, as well as the phenomena of mind and consciousness cannot be explained in physical terms Biology, chemistry and therefore life can, indeed are, explained in physical terms. Is that so? I'm not sure that's the case is it? How DOES the inanimate become life? Good question. Chemistry explains the functioning of DNA, which is the interface between the organic and the inorganic, looked at one way it's life the other it's chemistry and how it works is becoming very well understood. But not perfectly as you point out. Ribosomes, the bits of cells that transcribe the genetic code into other molecules, have recently been found to be self-assembling. Which is pretty amazing, a major piece of the jigsaw. It isn't finished yet but the picture can be discerned. Finding out that the bits that make DNA actually make themselves is good progress. And in Darwins centenary year too! Darwinian evolution is an explanation of how living things diversify, adapt and develop. It presupposes reproduction and inheritance. But matter prior to life does not have any those properties, no? That surely means that Darwinism is not relevant here. That's why I find Dawkins to be not so much wrong - just a bit tedious. Darwinism seems to shed zero light on the interesting questions of what are the origins of life (and what is consciousness). He slays one religious dragon (a narrow subset of theists who believe that all life forms were created ready-formed), but there are many other religious beasts out there which are not so easily made extinct. I suppose die-hard traditional materialists have their fall-back article of faith: The Universe is so darn BIG, and Time is so immense, that in a molecular soup far, far away, and a long, long time ago, a chance arrangement of molecules magicked a very complex, self-assembling ribosomic structure (or whatever). And instead of that delicate, tiny thing being instantly snuffed out, it got a toe-hold, and... here we all are today. And we're wondering at it (but that's another problem). I DO find that hard to believe. But that's no reason to think it false I suppose. Pretty cool to go from bacteria to animals capable of discussing themselves in only a billion years. Mind you it was something like a massive global deep- freeze three billion years ago that forced the change from bacteria into multi-celled life. Otherwise we might be still floating around in the primordial sea not thinking about anything at all. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2009/January/09010901.asp
[FairfieldLife] Kartikeya Puja Saturday Oct 24 at 14:35
jai guru dev Tomorrow, Saturday, 24 October, live telecast of Kartikeya Puja from Brahmasthan of India. Rastrageet will start at 14.35h Holland time. Jai Guru Dev
Re: [FairfieldLife] Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
TurquoiseB wrote: For those of you who miss Battlestar Galactica, it's back. At least a full-length movie is back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYV7WeaDP_8 Directed by Edward James Olmos, it's set at the beginning of Cylon War, and fills in some of the gaps between Caprica and the TV series. I'm watching a downloaded version of it, so I don't know exactly what the plans for this movie are. It may be headed for theaters, or straight to DVD and Blu-Ray. Straight to DVD and Blu-Ray available Tuesday.
[FairfieldLife] fLashforWORD
And interesting trend is showing up in some broadcast TV shows this season. I suspect last nights episode of FlashForward will raise some eyebrows among the homophobes and prudish. Not much of a spoiler because we already knew the female FBI agent was gay but they now she has a girlfriend she is into a relationship with along with some heavy kissing scenes. And this is playing at family hour (8 PM). But FlashForward isn't the only show I've seen exploring this. Our cheerleader from Heroes has a new roommate in college played by Madelene Zima, better known for playing the 16 year old straddling Hank Moody in Californication. In Heroes she has a big crush on the cheerleader played by Hayden Panitiere and in the episode a week ago plants a big kiss on her. This already raised some eyebrows on the home theater forum I read. I don't care myself but I think it is an interesting phenomenon and perhaps payback for the Prop 8 thing. Heads up: enjoy Dollhouse tonight and next week. It'll be off for November and some episodes will play in December. Looks like Season Two will be it for the series though FOX plans to play all 13 episodes. Also USA has a new series White Collar debuting tonight. We'll see if it is as good as Burn Notice. It's about an FBI agent who has a former criminal as a partner.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Nokia vs. Apple?
cardemaister wrote: Do you think Nokia's got any chances of winning its lawsuit against Apple? More corporate warfare: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/174218/nokia_lawsuit_seeks_a_piece_of_the_iphone_pie.html These patent lawsuits get a little ridiculous because many of us who are programmers know that some patents were just the way things work and shouldn't have been granted. IOW, if you put 10 programmers in separate rooms and asked them to solve a certain problem they most likely would come up with the same solution. Things like that should not be patentable.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What do you see....
On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:24 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: http://www.geocities.com/h2800h/illusion/what_do_uc/index.htm What I don't understand is why I see it in color. Jesus!! That is scary! Sal
[FairfieldLife] The remateralization of destroyed Crop Circles
News 2009 Two destroyed circles reborn . Wiltshire, England the summer 2009 A new aspect of the crop circle phenomenon took place in the 2009 seson: Two crop circles, that had been destroyed by the Avebury Manor farmer, rematerialized. This farmer has destroyed many mange crop formations over the years, and this summer he vandalized no less than three formations that appeared on his land. The first formation at Avebury Manor: On the 1st of June, a little crop circle appeared close to The Stone Avenue, aprx. one km east of Avebury. Sadly, the farmer partly cut the formation the same morning before anyone had photographed it from the air. After the farmer's vandalism, it looked like this: Photo: Monique Scholten Already the next day, however, the formation had grown and been partly repaired. The sections still left standing in the centre, had been flattened, and the formation had been given a new periphery and a tale: Photo: Monique Scholten The next day the formation had got further extentions. The central part was encompassed by a new circle and two more tails had been added: Photo: Russell Stannard The farmer's response was the obliteration of the formation by cutting out the entire section of the field. On the 1st of July, a new formation was reported on the land of the same farmer, on the very top of Waden Hill. This hill is situated between Silbury Hill and the Stone Avenue: Photos: Eva-Marie Brekkstø Several researchers observed that the new formation looked similar to what the formation from the 17th of June might have looked like before it was cut. One week later, it turned out that a Norwegian woman, Kristi Halvorsen, had been walking on Waden Hill in the morning of the 17th of June, and that she had photographed the formation at the Stone Avenue before it was destroyed: By stretching her photograph, we can ascertain that the circle at the Stone Avenuehad indeed rematerialized on Waden Hill! The farmer left the Waden Hill circle alone, probably because he simply wasn't aware that it was there. The top of Waden Hill is the only part of his land that can only be seen from the air! Photos: Kristi Halvorsen The second formation at Avebury Manor: On the 20th of June, this crop circle was discovered on the side of Waden Hill that slopes down towards the southern end of the Avebury Stone Circle. This formation was only photographed from the ground. It was cut by the faarmer the same morning that it arrived: Photo: Steve Amor The third formation at Avebury Manor: Early in the morning on the 31st ofJuly, a new formation was reported at Waden Hill, next to the destroyed formation from 20th of July. When the writer flew over Waden Hill at 08.45am, the farmer had already destroyed this third formation on his land: Photo: Eva-Marie Brekkstø To the left: the remains of the formation from 20th of June. To the right: the remains of the formation from 31st of July. Fortunately, it turned out that pepole had visitied it on the ground and photographed the formation before the farmer had the chance to take it out: Foto: Andrew Pyrka By combining several of these photos, it was possible to get an impresion of what the pattern must have looked like before it was destroyed: Reconstruction made by Randell, on the basis of Andrew Pyrka's photos. Appearently, the circle making forces held this formation too important to be lost for ever. But on this occasion they choose another location for the circle to rematerialize. On the 9th of August, the exact same pattern formed at West Overton. In this rematerialized version of the formation, the floor lay was very complex: Foto: John Montgomery
[FairfieldLife] Re: 5 Great Ways To Lower Blood Pressure Using 1 Great Fruit !
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: Tomatoes: God's gift to humanity or Great Satan? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/231365 Inquiring minds want to know! Avoid tomatoes, they make your blood acidic and could raise your pitta to dangerous levels leading to heart-attacks. But not for you obviously; if you don't get a heart-attack from kindeling your animal-nature when killing and eating other animals you're probably safe. I'm sure it's completely safe for you to eat tomatoes day and night and healthy also as you need an agressive pitta to be able to digest an animal. Regardless of Dosha, TriGuna always adviced everyone to stay away from tomatoes altogether. He probably did not include killers.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Very surprising, cautionary news: Potatoes, tomatoes etc.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Dick Mays wrote: ... Eggplant was actually called The Mad Apple. In the Mediterranean area eggplant was thought to cause insanity if eaten daily for a month. A few spoonfuls of eggplant contain the same amount of nicotine as sitting in a closed room with a light smoker for three hours! Now I'm going to tell you a little bit of what happens in the body when we eat nightshade veggies. There seems to be two types of nightshade poisoning, acute and chronic... zzz... Acute poisoning can happen from green or sprouted potatoes and tomatoes because they have so much more solanine. The symptoms can be cramps, diarrhea, dizziness and sleepiness. For many people these short term effects are even more intense, such as chronic migraine headaches, dizziness, intestinal disturbance, and 'food poisoning' like symptoms, which many people don't connect with nightshade plants such as potatoes...yada, yada, yada... This guy needs to seriously get a life. Sal Sal, please get on a potatoe diet with lots of tomato sauce !
[FairfieldLife] 10 top spies
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[FairfieldLife] Fractured and Divided GOP - Does the wingnut fringe set GOP agenda?
-73% of GOP Voters Say Congressional Republicans Have Lost Touch With Their Base- A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 73% think Republicans in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters from throughout the nation. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided. These numbers are basically unchanged from a survey in late April. http://snipurl.com/sotj4 [www_rasmussenreports_com]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Open questions in physics
Darwinian evolution may apply to the numbers, size, and distribution of black holes in the universe (now a popular theory). The distribution and influences of black holes on surrounding bodies are important in determining the ultimate fate of the universe as well as localized outcomes. The survival part is as follows: after a certain elapsed time, only certain types of black holes will be survival winners (analogous to various plants and animals). Those universes (as opposed to all universes - the Metaverse), will bud off somehow (also a popular speculative hypothesis), into new universes; but the new universes will have black holes tending to characteristics of the parent universe. In that way, certain properties of black holes will be favored in offspring and eventually become the predominant out come in the Metaverse as a whole. But the ultimate theory of evolution is that evolution itself (as judged by the rate of evolution) may evolve. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: http://www.thebigview.com/spacetime/questions.html Physics does not concern itself with issues outside its own domain. For example, the subjects of biology, life, and chemistry, as well as the phenomena of mind and consciousness cannot be explained in physical terms Biology, chemistry and therefore life can, indeed are, explained in physical terms. Is that so? I'm not sure that's the case is it? How DOES the inanimate become life? Good question. Chemistry explains the functioning of DNA, which is the interface between the organic and the inorganic, looked at one way it's life the other it's chemistry and how it works is becoming very well understood. But not perfectly as you point out. Ribosomes, the bits of cells that transcribe the genetic code into other molecules, have recently been found to be self-assembling. Which is pretty amazing, a major piece of the jigsaw. It isn't finished yet but the picture can be discerned. Finding out that the bits that make DNA actually make themselves is good progress. And in Darwins centenary year too! Darwinian evolution is an explanation of how living things diversify, adapt and develop. It presupposes reproduction and inheritance. But matter prior to life does not have any those properties, no? That surely means that Darwinism is not relevant here. That's why I find Dawkins to be not so much wrong - just a bit tedious. Darwinism seems to shed zero light on the interesting questions of what are the origins of life (and what is consciousness). He slays one religious dragon (a narrow subset of theists who believe that all life forms were created ready-formed), but there are many other religious beasts out there which are not so easily made extinct. I suppose die-hard traditional materialists have their fall-back article of faith: The Universe is so darn BIG, and Time is so immense, that in a molecular soup far, far away, and a long, long time ago, a chance arrangement of molecules magicked a very complex, self-assembling ribosomic structure (or whatever). And instead of that delicate, tiny thing being instantly snuffed out, it got a toe-hold, and... here we all are today. And we're wondering at it (but that's another problem). I DO find that hard to believe. But that's no reason to think it false I suppose. Pretty cool to go from bacteria to animals capable of discussing themselves in only a billion years. Mind you it was something like a massive global deep- freeze three billion years ago that forced the change from bacteria into multi-celled life. Otherwise we might be still floating around in the primordial sea not thinking about anything at all. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2009/January/09010901.asp
[FairfieldLife] GOP favorable rating lowest in a decade - CNN Poll
WASHINGTON (CNN) The Republican Party's favorable rating among Americans is at lowest level in at least a decade, according to a new national poll. Thirty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party, with 54 percent viewing the GOP negatively. According to the poll, 53 percent have a positive opinion of the Democratic Party, with 41 percent holding an unfavorable view... http://snipurl.com/sp15h [politicalticker_blogs_cnn_com]
Re: [FairfieldLife] GOP favorable rating lowest in a decade - CNN Poll
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Republican Party's favorable rating among Americans is at lowest level in at least a decade, according to a new national poll. Yes, but Obama's rating has dropped faster than any president's approval rating in the last 50 years. -- The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 5 Great Ways To Lower Blood Pressure Using 1 Great Fruit !
nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: Tomatoes: God's gift to humanity or Great Satan? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/231365 Inquiring minds want to know! Avoid tomatoes, they make your blood acidic and could raise your pitta to dangerous levels leading to heart-attacks. But not for you obviously; if you don't get a heart-attack from kindeling your animal-nature when killing and eating other animals you're probably safe. I'm sure it's completely safe for you to eat tomatoes day and night and healthy also as you need an agressive pitta to be able to digest an animal. Regardless of Dosha, TriGuna always adviced everyone to stay away from tomatoes altogether. He probably did not include killers. Tell that to 90 year old Italians. Should get quite a laugh. Pizza .. yummm. Spaghetti. yummm. Effect: line draawn on air.
[FairfieldLife] New Coen Brothers Film
Opens in limited release today and fortunately at the Cinearts a few miles away. I will probably check it out next week: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019452/ No information as to when it opens wide yet.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 5 Great Ways To Lower Blood Pressure Using 1 Great Fruit !
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: Tomatoes: God's gift to humanity or Great Satan? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/231365 Inquiring minds want to know! Avoid tomatoes, they make your blood acidic and could raise your pitta to dangerous levels leading to heart-attacks. But not for you obviously; if you don't get a heart-attack from kindeling your animal-nature when killing and eating other animals you're probably safe. Hunting is an ageold tradition, whats wrong with that ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting MUM Developments
300 children. Is there anyone left inside MIU that could explain the spiritual facts of life to these unruly children and those outsiders who agitate them? Om, the University student. Here, are the spiritual facts of life: There is not time to waste. Listen; Young people all, attention give And hear what I shall say; I wish your souls with meditation to live In everlasting day. Remember you are hast'ning on To death's dark gloomy shade; Your joys on earth will soon be gone, Your flesh in dust be laid. Death's iron gate you must pass through Ere long , my dear young friends; With whom do you think to go? With saints, or non-meditating fiends? Will you pursue your dangerous ways? Pray meditate before too late Behold, a light before the gate Most lovingly it doth shine. Young people all I pray then view The fountain open wide, The spring of life, opened for sin, Which flows the transcendent side; There you may drink in endless joy, And reign with the unified field your king In glad notes your souls employ, And hallelujahs sing. A beautiful meditation hymn and strong message to the tune at: http://shapenote.net/37b.htm Recently, about 300 students signed a petition vowing that they were all going to drop out if the university didn't stop forcing them to meditate Our call to be meditators is something more than a casual circumstance. I feel its force and realize its holiness. As a meditator in the sphere of nature, I realize how enslaved we should have been to the fashions and life that gratify the merely animal passions. As a conservative meditator in the spiritual family of Fairfield meditators, I am relieved from earthly servitude, and am a free being; free to live and be as pure as the heavens, with companions who are also pure. I am happy in my call to an entire consecration of soul and body in meditation, to a cause so noble; and though many rebel against the call of meditation, I know that the discipline of a meditating life is of God and that its principles in science can never fail, I have tasted the bread and waters of a regenerated and eternal life in meditation, and to every sincere seeker after truth, I send greeting, and welcome to share in meditation, in Fairfield. Jai Adi Shankara, -Doug in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Recently, about 300 students signed a petition vowing that they were all going to drop out if the university didn't stop forcing them to meditate by taking attendance at mandatory group meditations. MUM caved, and that policy was dropped. A study was then conducted that determined that the student body consists of . 30% entrepreneurs - career-oriented kids who mainly want to learn skills and enter the workforce. TM and SCI aren't high priorities. . 60% dreamers who want to change the world. They appreciate TM but don't see it as the lynchpin of that endeavor. They're into environmentalism and other causes. . 10% devotees The faculty are about 90% devotees, so their attempts to impose their values on the students weren't working. The university is trying to translate this assessment into practical steps to become more relevant and appealing to students. I wonder whether all this is related to Bevan Morris' recent withdrawal from the board of trustees? o
[FairfieldLife] Re: GOP favorable rating lowest in a decade - CNN Poll
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: WASHINGTON (CNN) The Republican Party's favorable rating among Americans is at lowest level in at least a decade, according to a new national poll. Yes, but Obama's rating has dropped faster than any president's approval rating in the last 50 years. Not really: Presidential Approval Ratings -- Barack Obama Barack Obama Presidential Job Approval Barack Obama's Daily Job Approval Trend http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx Barack Obama's Job Approval Average by Subgroup http://www.gallup.com/poll/121199/Obama-Weekly-Job-Approval-Demographic\ -Groups.aspx Barack Obama's Most Recent Weekly Approval Rating Average 52% (Oct 12-18, 2009) Barack Obama's Term Average: 59% Barack Obama's High Point: 69% (Jan 22-24, 2009) Barack Obama's Low Point: 50% (several times; most recent: Oct 3-5, 2009) Average for U.S. Presidents Since Franklin D. Roosevelt: 55% http://www.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval\ .aspx -- The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
[FairfieldLife] More about the soul and its nature
From: Blaine Watson [mailto:blain...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:29 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: more about the soul and its nature Yesterday's quote was from Guru Dev as is this one today. 'Having become a devotee of Paramatman one can never remain unhappy. This is our experience. The ego (Jiva) is going on doing its work from several births; its tendency to work exists from time immemorial. Therefore, if the work is just started with a little co-operation of the mind it shall continue to go on just like the wagon moving a long way off ... if it is just jerked and pushed by the engine. It is necessary to bifurcate the work of the mind as main and secondary. Apply your body mainly and your mind secondarily to you work . When your mind is mainly engaged in Paramatman you shall receive his grace, Paramatman is all-powerful. Even a little of His grace is capable of bestowing on the ego all that is good in its entirety. The declaration of the Lord that is proved by the scriptures is this; Whosoever thinks of Me with one-pointed devotion, I shall conduct his necessary work also. The experience of the bhaktis also goes to prove the declaration of the Lord. Accumulate wealth (artha), but in such a way that is not against transcendental wealth (param-artha). That which hinders transcendental wealth and results in accumulation in sin is not wealth but a burden, a debt (anartha). As is the cloth, so is the price. For carrying on the short-lived activities of the work, employ your short-lived body and wealth. Mind is a permanent thing, which remains with you always. Even in the other world it will continue to stay with you. Therefore connect it with a permanent thing, Paramatman, being the eternal existence in animate and inanimate things, is the only permanent thing of the highest order. Therefore connect your mind with Him. If the mind is satisfied with wealth, wife or children, why does it go elsewhere? Because if cannot stick onto anything. From this it is clear that it is not satisfied with anything of the mundane world. It runs after things, taking them to be good and desirable, but after a short while it leaves them. Nobody wants your mind in this world, and the mind is not satisfied with anything of the world. The mind is not fit for the world, or the world for the mind. When the mind realizes the transcendent, it is permanently established there and does not desire other things. From this we can understand that the transcendental field of life alone is fit for the mind and nothing else. Keep this in mind; that your mind, which is not wanted by anyone else in this world, is useful to take you near Paramatman. Therefore, in this marketplace of the world, carry on work with your body and wealth, and allow your mind to go towards transcendence. Then your work in this world will get on well, and the path to transcendental wealth will also be clear.'
[FairfieldLife] Re: More about the soul and its nature
Of all the TM employers I had, not a single one would be happy with the below advice. They'd pay it lip service, but giving them mostly only body instead of all of one's mindful efforts for the business' sake would getcha fired in short order if you were up-front about it. On the other hand, there is that old adage: I'll only put out enough work to not get fired, and the boss'll only pay enough to keep me from quitting. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: Blaine Watson [mailto:blain...@...] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:29 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: more about the soul and its nature Yesterday's quote was from Guru Dev as is this one today. 'Having become a devotee of Paramatman one can never remain unhappy. This is our experience. The ego (Jiva) is going on doing its work from several births; its tendency to work exists from time immemorial. Therefore, if the work is just started with a little co-operation of the mind it shall continue to go on just like the wagon moving a long way off ... if it is just jerked and pushed by the engine. It is necessary to bifurcate the work of the mind as main and secondary. Apply your body mainly and your mind secondarily to you work . When your mind is mainly engaged in Paramatman you shall receive his grace, Paramatman is all-powerful. Even a little of His grace is capable of bestowing on the ego all that is good in its entirety. The declaration of the Lord that is proved by the scriptures is this; Whosoever thinks of Me with one-pointed devotion, I shall conduct his necessary work also. The experience of the bhaktis also goes to prove the declaration of the Lord. Accumulate wealth (artha), but in such a way that is not against transcendental wealth (param-artha). That which hinders transcendental wealth and results in accumulation in sin is not wealth but a burden, a debt (anartha). As is the cloth, so is the price. For carrying on the short-lived activities of the work, employ your short-lived body and wealth. Mind is a permanent thing, which remains with you always. Even in the other world it will continue to stay with you. Therefore connect it with a permanent thing, Paramatman, being the eternal existence in animate and inanimate things, is the only permanent thing of the highest order. Therefore connect your mind with Him. If the mind is satisfied with wealth, wife or children, why does it go elsewhere? Because if cannot stick onto anything. From this it is clear that it is not satisfied with anything of the mundane world. It runs after things, taking them to be good and desirable, but after a short while it leaves them. Nobody wants your mind in this world, and the mind is not satisfied with anything of the world. The mind is not fit for the world, or the world for the mind. When the mind realizes the transcendent, it is permanently established there and does not desire other things. From this we can understand that the transcendental field of life alone is fit for the mind and nothing else. Keep this in mind; that your mind, which is not wanted by anyone else in this world, is useful to take you near Paramatman. Therefore, in this marketplace of the world, carry on work with your body and wealth, and allow your mind to go towards transcendence. Then your work in this world will get on well, and the path to transcendental wealth will also be clear.'
[FairfieldLife] Anti-Insurance Industry Musical Parodies
Here's some amusing video from the group Billionaires for Wealthcare as they crashed the AHIP (America's Health Insurance Plans) conference today. Pollster Bill McInturf initially took their mocking thank you for all the good work you do as a compliment, and then the group broke into song, a parody of Tomorrow from the musical Annie, with lyrics like the option, the option, the public wants options, without it it's a giveaway! Sam Stein had a piece on this earlier. In other creative anti-insurance company activism, Americans United For Change has released a video highlighting this peculiar tendency from insurers of late to deny babies health coverage because of their weight, whether they be too skinny or too fat. The video features Patriot Baby, a talking prodigy, hitting the industry for their tactics. Today In Anti-Insurance Industry Musical Parodies And Talking Babies By: David Dayen Friday October 23, 2009 12:35 pm http://news.firedoglake.com/2009/10/23/today-in-anti-insurance-industry-musical-parodies-and-talking-babies/ http://snipurl.com/sp51d
[FairfieldLife] DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Advanced lecture
Advanced Lecture Sunday Dear Meditators, Sidhas and Governors, You are cordially invited to attend the New Advanced Lecture series at the Maharishi Peace Palaces every Sunday at 7:30 PM. The next talk, Sunday Oct. 25th, will be Growth of Perception from Multiplicity to Duality to Unity: Proceeding from Ignorance to Enlightenment, the State of Supreme Knowledge, Part 1, by Maharishi. All meetings will begin with a group checking of the Transcendental Meditation Technique. We will be offering Advanced Lectures every Sunday Evening @ 7:30 PM. We will be playing the entire series of Volume One of the New Advanced Lecture Series. (15 talks total) The Lecture Series will be offered in the Men's Peace Palace only. Everyone is Welcome in the Men's Peace Palace. (Men, Ladies Couples) *** DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS is a moderated list that distributes announcements to the Maharishi University of Management community. Send your announcements to owner-dom...@mum.edu. Encourage your friends to sign up for DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS. Send an e-mail message to dome-l-requ...@mum.edu, and put the word subscribe (without the quotation marks) in the body of the message. To stop receiving DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS, send an e-mail message to: dome-l-requ...@mum.edu, and type the word unsubscribe (without the quotation marks) in the body of the message.
[FairfieldLife] Jim Keersemaker
-- Original Message -- Received: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:59:19 PM CDT From: Purusha Communications purushac...@purusha.org To: Purusha Communications purushac...@purusha.org Subject: Jim Keersemaker Our dear Purusha brother Jim Keersemaker passed away yesterday from a fall he took while hiking at the Gajoli Ashram. We have no details to offer. His family in St. Louis was informed this morning, and they wish that his remains be cremated and the ashes spread in India. They sent the following message to Purusha: We deeply appreciate the life Jim had, and the unity of his group. And the light that he gave to all. And we know he was very happy. That he was in the place he loved the most, doing what he wanted to do. Once we receive an address in St. Louis, flowers will be sent on behalf of Purusha to Jim's family. Individual condolences can be sent to Jim's mother and brothers via Jim's brother Mark at: mkee...@hotmail.com. Jai Guru Dev Purusha Administration
[FairfieldLife] DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Inauguration of Bill Matkin trail bridge Sunday
Big Sunday for Jefferson County Trails The Fairfield Loop Trail Bridge over Highway 1 will be opening this weekend. The inauguration of the Charles William (Bill) Matkin trail bridge, located north of Fairfield (just north of the M.U.M. campus), will take place this Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. Volunteers have recently completed the wooden approaches on both sides of the structure. Local structural engineer Bill Matkin, who also was responsible for designing most of the Loop Trail bridges, designed the all-weathering Cor-ten steel bridge. Weather conditions may not allow for the completion of the new trail connections before the inauguration, so those planning on attending the inauguration are being asked to come to the new bridge via the west side of Highway 1. The new Matkin Plaza will also be shown to the public as part of Sunday's ceremonies. Sunday is also the day of the Cedar Valley Trail drive, which will be held from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. regardless or the weather conditions for the weekend. The 1.5-mile trail drive will allow those interested to drive their vehicles along the trail, including over the new trail bridge over Highway 34, to get an idea of all the scenic highlights of the trails system. *** DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS is a moderated list that distributes announcements to the Maharishi University of Management community. Send your announcements to owner-dom...@mum.edu. Encourage your friends to sign up for DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS. Send an e-mail message to dome-l-requ...@mum.edu, and put the word subscribe (without the quotation marks) in the body of the message. To stop receiving DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS, send an e-mail message to: dome-l-requ...@mum.edu, and type the word unsubscribe (without the quotation marks) in the body of the message.
[FairfieldLife] Re: More about the soul and its nature
thx, He says not to seek wealth at the expense of the Transcendental. Great; but an unanswered question would be: 1. Does awareness of the Transcendental provide a benefit toward increasing one's material wealth? If so, the people with awareness of the Paramatman should be right up there on top with the wealth dudes, right? I don't see that. Awareness of the Paramatman (to any degree) should provide some type of material benfit; but the results are inclusive. Say I'm at Ralphs just before Midnight. All the freaks are lined up to buy their booze since the cash registers supposed shut off for alcohol sales exactly at Midnight. I don't drink booze but buy stuff like carrots. If there's a long line and if I yelled out I've experienced Transcendental Consciousness, please let me move to the front of the line! Would that work?...I'll try it tonight after seeing the Coen brothers movie and SAW VI, then going to Ralphs about midnight to get my carrots. No tomatoes thank you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: Blaine Watson [mailto:blain...@...] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:29 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: more about the soul and its nature Yesterday's quote was from Guru Dev as is this one today. 'Having become a devotee of Paramatman one can never remain unhappy. This is our experience. The ego (Jiva) is going on doing its work from several births; its tendency to work exists from time immemorial. Therefore, if the work is just started with a little co-operation of the mind it shall continue to go on just like the wagon moving a long way off ... if it is just jerked and pushed by the engine. It is necessary to bifurcate the work of the mind as main and secondary. Apply your body mainly and your mind secondarily to you work . When your mind is mainly engaged in Paramatman you shall receive his grace, Paramatman is all-powerful. Even a little of His grace is capable of bestowing on the ego all that is good in its entirety. The declaration of the Lord that is proved by the scriptures is this; Whosoever thinks of Me with one-pointed devotion, I shall conduct his necessary work also. The experience of the bhaktis also goes to prove the declaration of the Lord. Accumulate wealth (artha), but in such a way that is not against transcendental wealth (param-artha). That which hinders transcendental wealth and results in accumulation in sin is not wealth but a burden, a debt (anartha). As is the cloth, so is the price. For carrying on the short-lived activities of the work, employ your short-lived body and wealth. Mind is a permanent thing, which remains with you always. Even in the other world it will continue to stay with you. Therefore connect it with a permanent thing, Paramatman, being the eternal existence in animate and inanimate things, is the only permanent thing of the highest order. Therefore connect your mind with Him. If the mind is satisfied with wealth, wife or children, why does it go elsewhere? Because if cannot stick onto anything. From this it is clear that it is not satisfied with anything of the mundane world. It runs after things, taking them to be good and desirable, but after a short while it leaves them. Nobody wants your mind in this world, and the mind is not satisfied with anything of the world. The mind is not fit for the world, or the world for the mind. When the mind realizes the transcendent, it is permanently established there and does not desire other things. From this we can understand that the transcendental field of life alone is fit for the mind and nothing else. Keep this in mind; that your mind, which is not wanted by anyone else in this world, is useful to take you near Paramatman. Therefore, in this marketplace of the world, carry on work with your body and wealth, and allow your mind to go towards transcendence. Then your work in this world will get on well, and the path to transcendental wealth will also be clear.'
[FairfieldLife] Two cool Nobel Prize stories
Tonight I had dinner (sushi) with some long- term friends and a new friend, a professor of mathematics from the Netherlands. As the around-the-dinner-table conversation pro- gressed, he had occasion to tell two stories he knows related to Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize. I pass both along, for whatever they are worth. The first has to do with why there is such a thing as the Nobel Prize in the first place. Alfred Nobel made his money by inventing and selling dynamite and the weapons of war. Well, at some point in his life, a rumor began to circulate around Europe that he had died. It wasn't true, but that didn't keep people from commenting on his death as if he had, in fact, really died. As a result, Alfred Nobel got to read his own obituaries. They were not complimentary. He got to read column after column condemning him for contrib- uting greatly to the suffering of mankind. He took this to heart, and placed the lion's share of his considerable fortune in a trust to support the Nobel Prizes, in an attempt to mitigate his rep on this planet, and how the planet would remember him. The second story is more charming, and in a way more human. Have you ever wondered why there is not a Nobel Prize for Mathematics? The answer, as it turns out, is remarkably human. In his youth, Alfred Nobel was enamored of a woman. She preserved her chastity with him, but he came to find out that all the time she was leaving him at the door with a chaste good-night kiss, she was then going straight into the arms (and the bed) of a fellow university professor of mathematics. The math prof was boinking the bejezuss out of the women that Alfred Nobel chastely loved. The result? There is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics, and never will be one. Isn't it cool when you find out that some of the world's greatest honors are in fact the stuff of soap opera?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Two cool Nobel Prize stories
Indeed, how true! (from Geocities: 1994 Ignoble Prize winner Hagelin): PEACE John Hagelin of Maharishi International University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, promulgator of peaceful thoughts, for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C. [Details were published in Interim Report: Results fo the National Demonstration Project To Reduce Violent Crime and Improve Governmental Effectiveness In Washington, D.C., June 7 to July 30, 1993, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, Fairfield, Iowa.] --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Tonight I had dinner (sushi) with some long- term friends and a new friend, a professor of mathematics from the Netherlands. As the around-the-dinner-table conversation pro- gressed, he had occasion to tell two stories he knows related to Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize. I pass both along, for whatever they are worth. The first has to do with why there is such a thing as the Nobel Prize in the first place. Alfred Nobel made his money by inventing and selling dynamite and the weapons of war. Well, at some point in his life, a rumor began to circulate around Europe that he had died. It wasn't true, but that didn't keep people from commenting on his death as if he had, in fact, really died. As a result, Alfred Nobel got to read his own obituaries. They were not complimentary. He got to read column after column condemning him for contrib- uting greatly to the suffering of mankind. He took this to heart, and placed the lion's share of his considerable fortune in a trust to support the Nobel Prizes, in an attempt to mitigate his rep on this planet, and how the planet would remember him. The second story is more charming, and in a way more human. Have you ever wondered why there is not a Nobel Prize for Mathematics? The answer, as it turns out, is remarkably human. In his youth, Alfred Nobel was enamored of a woman. She preserved her chastity with him, but he came to find out that all the time she was leaving him at the door with a chaste good-night kiss, she was then going straight into the arms (and the bed) of a fellow university professor of mathematics. The math prof was boinking the bejezuss out of the women that Alfred Nobel chastely loved. The result? There is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics, and never will be one. Isn't it cool when you find out that some of the world's greatest honors are in fact the stuff of soap opera?
[FairfieldLife] Best movie series of all time
30's series Flash Gordon starring Johnny Weismueller. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3176044544/tt0027623
[FairfieldLife] Re: Best movie series of all time
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: 30's series Flash Gordon starring Johnny Weismueller. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3176044544/tt0027623 I agree ! Best series ever! Here are some of my favorite movie posters from the series: [Flesh Gordon 3 - Aircel - Mature Readers - Wounded Eye - Pink Monster - High Heels - Tom Smith]
[FairfieldLife] Re: More about the soul and its nature
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: thx, He says not to seek wealth at the expense of the Transcendental. Great; but an unanswered question would be: 1. Does awareness of the Transcendental provide a benefit toward increasing one's material wealth? Guru Dev - God is the Whole thing, the Real thing - God's devotee can never stay dejected. While staying in the forests, we were always under the all-powerful nature of Paramatman [God]. There in the dense forests, where no facilities for living are easily available, all the needs of the devotee were met by Paramatman. How can a prince experience any need in his own Kingdom? The devotee of the all-powerful Lord, wherever in any of the three worlds he might be, he is the prince and so he will live in bliss. How can the all-powerful Lord tolerate the suffering of his devotee? Through one's faith, devotion and trust in Paramatman alone and none else, it is certain to get the Lord's attention. From then onwards Paramatman himself will look after the well being of the devotee. There will be no need to pray for one's welfare. When the son gets sick, does he request the father have him treated and then the father acts? Is it so? The father will not be able to see his son suffer. Even without asking he will do his best to get his son cured. Thus, whosoever becomes Paramatman's, whosoever wrests Paramatman's love for himself, Paramatman, without even a request, will do what is needed. It is an experienced fact that Paramatman's devotee can never be unhappy. ~~ Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath http://www.paulmason.info http://srigurudev.net/gurudev/discourses.html If so, the people with awareness of the Paramatman should be right up there on top with the wealth dudes, right? I don't see that. Awareness of the Paramatman (to any degree) should provide some type of material benfit; but the results are inclusive. Say I'm at Ralphs just before Midnight. All the freaks are lined up to buy their booze since the cash registers supposed shut off for alcohol sales exactly at Midnight. I don't drink booze but buy stuff like carrots. If there's a long line and if I yelled out I've experienced Transcendental Consciousness, please let me move to the front of the line! Would that work?...I'll try it tonight after seeing the Coen brothers movie and SAW VI, then going to Ralphs about midnight to get my carrots. No tomatoes thank you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From: Blaine Watson [mailto:blain...@] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:29 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: more about the soul and its nature Yesterday's quote was from Guru Dev as is this one today. 'Having become a devotee of Paramatman one can never remain unhappy. This is our experience. The ego (Jiva) is going on doing its work from several births; its tendency to work exists from time immemorial. Therefore, if the work is just started with a little co-operation of the mind it shall continue to go on just like the wagon moving a long way off ... if it is just jerked and pushed by the engine. It is necessary to bifurcate the work of the mind as main and secondary. Apply your body mainly and your mind secondarily to you work . When your mind is mainly engaged in Paramatman you shall receive his grace, Paramatman is all-powerful. Even a little of His grace is capable of bestowing on the ego all that is good in its entirety. The declaration of the Lord that is proved by the scriptures is this; Whosoever thinks of Me with one-pointed devotion, I shall conduct his necessary work also. The experience of the bhaktis also goes to prove the declaration of the Lord. Accumulate wealth (artha), but in such a way that is not against transcendental wealth (param-artha). That which hinders transcendental wealth and results in accumulation in sin is not wealth but a burden, a debt (anartha). As is the cloth, so is the price. For carrying on the short-lived activities of the work, employ your short-lived body and wealth. Mind is a permanent thing, which remains with you always. Even in the other world it will continue to stay with you. Therefore connect it with a permanent thing, Paramatman, being the eternal existence in animate and inanimate things, is the only permanent thing of the highest order. Therefore connect your mind with Him. If the mind is satisfied with wealth, wife or children, why does it go elsewhere? Because if cannot stick onto anything. From this it is clear that it is not satisfied with anything of the mundane world. It runs after things, taking them to be good and desirable, but after a short while it leaves them. Nobody wants your mind in this world, and the mind is not satisfied with anything of the world. The mind is not fit for the world, or the world
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jim Keersemaker
Wow, this is quite a shock. I knew Jim from way back. We taught together, and were friends for a while. I knew he was in India, having spoken with a friend of his a short time ago. Very sorry to hear of his passing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: -- Original Message -- Received: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:59:19 PM CDT From: Purusha Communications purushac...@... To: Purusha Communications purushac...@... Subject: Jim Keersemaker Our dear Purusha brother Jim Keersemaker passed away yesterday from a fall he took while hiking at the Gajoli Ashram. We have no details to offer. His family in St. Louis was informed this morning, and they wish that his remains be cremated and the ashes spread in India. They sent the following message to Purusha: We deeply appreciate the life Jim had, and the unity of his group. And the light that he gave to all. And we know he was very happy. That he was in the place he loved the most, doing what he wanted to do. Once we receive an address in St. Louis, flowers will be sent on behalf of Purusha to Jim's family. Individual condolences can be sent to Jim's mother and brothers via Jim's brother Mark at: mkee...@... Jai Guru Dev Purusha Administration
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
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[FairfieldLife] Be Without the Gunas
To All: Upon reading many of the posts here, it appears that some posters are flauting their involvement with the gunas. We should be reminded of the aforementioned quotation from the Gita. The old American adage further states, He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun.
[FairfieldLife] What the Bleep (a blogger's opinion)
http://nerddotcom.com/my-journey/what-the-bleep-down-rabbit-hole.php
Re: [FairfieldLife] Be Without the Gunas
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:19 PM, John jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: To All: Upon reading many of the posts here, it appears that some posters are flauting their involvement with the gunas. We should be reminded of the aforementioned quotation from the Gita. The old American adage further states, He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun. You have it wrong about the quotation. Krishna is teaching Arjuna how to meditate. He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun? You've got to be kidding. The Gita takes place on a battlefield of cosmic proportions. Brother is slaughtering brother. Arjuna is wondering if he should fight. Krishna tells Arjuna that he should fight, because he who doesn't follow his own dharma and tries to follow another dharma instead might as well be dead. Arjuna goes back to fighting, perhaps awakened enough that he witnesses the three gunas flowing through him and actually performing the actions he previously identified with. I will flaunt my involvement with the three gunas all I want until the gunas carry my ashes about in the wind. Now I do witness the three gunas flowing through me. But it's not one of those dissociative state experiences we had on courses. It's a very natural, intimate thing. Often I just act, aware that the action is flowing through me, but enjoying the action. -- The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What the Bleep (a blogger's opinion)
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1157924864/tt1014759 Johnny Depp - a rather average actor, did a lousey job in the Chocolate Factory and those Caribbean pirate movies. I'm not a Jim Carrey fan either; but surprisingly, when he gets rid of the childish behavior and does some serious stuff, he comes out ok! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: http://nerddotcom.com/my-journey/what-the-bleep-down-rabbit-hole.php
[FairfieldLife] See Barry not interact with me
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Hugo, I'll speak to you next week, after you've had a chance to look at the articles Vaj uploaded; I've only got this and one more post this week. I've enjoyed the conversation. And thanks for the reading recommendations. Sez Barry, not interacting with me: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I love the smell of obsessional posting burnout in the morning. He's jealous because I had interesting discussions last week that didn't involve him. He only *wishes* people would interact with him as they do with me. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Nicely done, Shemp. Terrific insight. Quite beyond the literalists among us, though, I fear, who prefer to understand the story to be portraying God as an egotistical sadist. Sez Barry, not interacting with me: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: One of the reasons I love language is that it can be used to detect religious intolerance. snip If the first person tries to deny the second the right to describe the practice the way he sees it Did you hallucinate that someone was trying to deny you your right to describe practices (or Bible stories) the way you see them? or calls them names for doing it, THAT is intolerance. You mean, names like literalist? LOL!
[FairfieldLife] Re: R.Crumb on Genesis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip Look, I *understand* that anyone can paint a pretty picture over ancient scriptures, and by considering them mere metaphor, ignore the literal level of what the stories are about. I'm trying to make the point that I think it's a good idea *TO* look at the literal level from time to time, to see what is subconsciously being taught as proper or dharmic behavior. Barry. We all see the literal level. We're not blind. But we choose to put our attention on the more uplifting level. Why do you choose to put yours on violence and cruelty and authoritarianism? How's that workin' for ya? Because it seems to be making you very angry and unhappy. Sort of like fundamentalist Christians, who also put their attention on the literal level and don't seem to be able to see past it to anything more elevating.
[FairfieldLife] Weirdest actor
Peter Lorre. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm480090112/nm048?slideshow=1
[FairfieldLife] Re: Crumb turns sweet, tender, beautiful story of incest into something tawdry
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip Perhaps BillyG and jr_esq can see it as a diatribe against the wicked, sinful ways of spit women. After all, being stuck out in the boonies of Zoar after Got smote Sodom and Gommorrah big-time, and without any men around to hook up with, they got their dad Lot drunk on wine and...uh...depleted his ojas. Technically, Lot is off the hook in this case because, as the Bible says (twice) when he was shagging his daughters He knew not when she lay down or when she arose. Who knew that being drunk could get you off the hook for incest? If Roman Polanski had only read his Bible he might've been able to beat the rap for statutory rape. LOL! I don't know what John Esq would say, but FOR SURE we've got to hear from the McShremp with his keen sense of righteous outrage and sense of justice to clear this question up! Barry and his dittohead acolyte here are hilariously oblivious to the extraordinary irony of insisting on literal interpretations of the Bible in a thread that began with professions of great admiration for the blogger known as Jesus' General, whose stock in trade is *ridiculing* the position they've both taken. Not to mention that they've howled against biblical literalists in many other contexts. They've become what they professed to despise.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Some like it Hot
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Oct 22, 2009, at 3:44 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Jack Chick has to *change* the stories in the Bible in order to sell them and get people to believe in them. I liked Chick's description of Jesus-as-creator. Apparently, through the use of Quantum Wormhole Technology, post-ascension Jesus was able to travel back through time, to just before the Big Bang and utter Yehi Aour!, Let there be light!, and then resume Savioric duties in the ever- present now. There are some people who are just meant to be covered in comic books. Um, sorry, not to defend Jack Chick, but that's a bad rap. Jesus-as-creator is actually *in* the Bible, in the first verses of the Gospel of John: In the beginning was the Word [logos], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was madeAnd the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:1-3, 14, KJV). Some of the best-known verses in the Christian Scriptures. I'm surprised Vaj isn't aware of them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Be Without the Gunas
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: To All: Upon reading many of the posts here, it appears that some posters are flauting their involvement with the gunas. We should be reminded of the aforementioned quotation from the Gita. Well, hell, seems like most of FF is fixated on being with sattva guna, as if spirituality and enlightenment are defined by it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Some like it Hot
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip The similarity between Chick's work and Robert's new book is that they both take the Bible and illustrate it. The differences are profound. Jack Chick (as you can tell even in the strip at the URL above) feels free to change the storyline of the Bible and/or the words of Jesus and all the prophets to suit himself. He's an evangelist, one who doesn't really CARE if he's making shit up about the Bible as long as he converts one or two more sinners. Actually, I couldn't see any such changes in that tract. What changes did you see? snip All he did is what I have done the last few days by pointing out the *literal* plotline of the Gita and some of the other Vedic literature. A *lot* of people have invested heavily in reading into that literature and projecting their own metaphors onto it, to the point where they can no longer see the actual literal plotline of the stories they are attempting to glorify. Again, Barry, we do see them. It isn't at all clear why you think we don't. If we didn't know what the literal stories were, we'd be unable to project any metaphors onto them. Metaphors don't exist in a vacuum; there has to be a referent. Shemp's interpretation of the Abram and Isaac story referred explicitly to the literal story: The story of Abraham and Isaac involves the instruction by God to Abraham to sacrifice his son, the greatest attachment and possession a father can have. What so infuriates you is that we don't *dwell* on it the way you think we should, don't waste a lot of time *denouncing* it over and over, but instead find a higher meaning in it that you're incapable of seeing. Or that you don't *want* to have to see, because you're so heavily invested in and attached to the notion that all religion is deluded and evil and barbaric. snip All I did -- and all that Robert did in his book -- was to restore that original plotline. It didn't need restoring, Barry. The story of Abraham and Issac is a story about a father willing to kill his own son because he believes that he talks to God. The story of Lot and his two daughters is a story of incest. Many of the other stories in Genesis are tales of genocide, with entire populations wiped out just for believing the wrong thing or not burning the right animals and offering them as sacrifices to the right gods. Jack Chick has to *change* the stories in the Bible in order to sell them and get people to believe in them. It would be nice to have a few examples of Chick's changes, but I predict we won't get any from Barry, because he's even less familiar with the Bible than Vaj is. Robert Crumb illustrated them Just As They Are, and left them that way. They are *still* open to metaphor projection, in that those who revere the stories can still find ways to revere them, even when illustrated as they are, but for the first time they are *presented* as they are. Well, not for the first time at all. Not sure where you got that idea either. The literal versions of Bible stories have been illustrated for centuries. For example, here's a painting from 1616 of the story of Lot and his daughters, by Hendrick Goldtius: http://www.flickr.com/photos/36189...@n02/4038076309/ http://www.wga.hu/art/g/goltzius/lotdaugh.jpg http://www.wga.hu/art/g/goltzius/lotdaugh.jpg (I was going to paste it in, but it's so libidinous I was afraid I'd run afoul of FFL rules. Check it out at the link.) It doesn't show him actually screwing them, but it could hardly be more evident that they're in the process of successfully seducing him. This particular story isn't one of the more frequently illustrated ones, for obvious reasons. There are thousands of illustrations of Abram and Isaac, however. Here's just one example, by Rembrandt, no less: [rembrandt_abraham_and_isaac] http://www.flickr.com/photos/36189...@n02/4038817698/ http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artists/rembrandt_van_rijn/rembrandt_abra\ ham_and_isaac.jpg http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artists/rembrandt_van_rijn/rembrandt_abr\ aham_and_isaac.jpg http://tinyurl.com/ykdnlax http://tinyurl.com/ykdnlax That's even more brutal than Crumb's version. Same with the genocidal stories. Again, it's all a matter of what you want to put your attention on. If your attention is on hating religion and religious people, you're going to dwell on the literal barbarism of the Bible (particularly the Hebrew Scriptures) and revel in the violence and ugliness. Your choice. You don't get to impose it on anybody else, however.
[FairfieldLife] Dream within a dream
Basically the same as Douglas Hofstadter's idea of life as an endless loop. Heard they gave Poe a proper burial last week. From Americanpoetry.: Edgar Allan Poe - A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand-- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep--while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
[FairfieldLife] Matt Slick on Hell: Fiery or not?
...I'd rather be in Philadelphia... http://www.carm.org/christianity/christian-doctrine/hell#
[FairfieldLife] Bosch's version of Hell
http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bosch/bosch34.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Bosch's version of Hell
Virtual tour of Hell. Press skip button and go into the virtual tour. http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bosch/bosch34.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bosch's version of Hell
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:09 PM, yifuxero yifux...@yahoo.com wrote: Virtual tour of Hell. Press skip button and go into the virtual tour. http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bosch/bosch34.html Fucking amazing. You need the Flash plug-in or a later version of Netscape to view this site. In my Firefox 3.5 browser. -- The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
