[FairfieldLife] "I Choose Love"

[anatol_zinc]

it is said that "there is nothing but God and that God is Love"
and that LOVE is what we really are
LOVE is our true nature

if this is not our experience, at least some glimpses here and there,
there must be something blocking that

it is the mind that either can be used as a tool to search for TRUTH
which is
LOVE

or, the mind can be used to block LOVE
when the mind's intellect has decided that it is capable of knowing
TRUTH
without LOVE

this is not possible because only LOVE is TRUTH

without LOVE, the intellect,
no matter how clever, no matter how scientific,
will create FEAR which is the opposite of LOVE

here, we are talking about Real Love( God's Love ) and about Real Truth
which
is "absolute spacious loving awareness"

in order to understand above, it may be necessary to either go within
and
experience deep silence and/or read and contemplate the following books:

Amma's "Awaken Children" Vol 7

Don Miguel Ruiz's "Mastery of Love" and "The Four Agreements"

Jim Dreaver's "End Your Story, Begin Your Life"

These books explain what the nature of mind is, how mind is conditioned,
how
personality is created and identified with falsely, and thus veiling our
true
identity as LOVE

So, listen to this beautiful song "I Choose Love" seemingly
appropriate as a  resolution for 2010 (from  9 to 15 mins into video);
then a great interview with Jim Dreaver about his teaching "you are
not your story"


http://www.youtube.com/bridgingheaven#p/search/0/oDTElzF3n18


or  "I Choose Love"  @
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOMgQCRAqM



May all beings everywhere be truthful, loving, happy and healthy !
Amma Bless All,
amaranth

Re: [FairfieldLife] More CO2: a GOOD thing!

[WLeed3]

Man and nature will evolve to handle the increase in co2. not to  worry
 
 
In a message dated 12/31/2009 12:13:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
r...@searchsummit.com writes:




In  principle it's good for trees, except most of the pine forests in 
Colorado,  where this guy is from, are dying because climate change has caused 
a 
pine  beetle infestation. Also, while CO2 may be good for trees, a sea level 
rise of  several meters won't be too good for NYC, London, Florida, etc. 
But I guess  all those people can move to Colorado. 
 
 
From:  FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] 
On  Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:23  AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject:  [FairfieldLife] More CO2: a GOOD thing!

 
 
 
Can Carbon Dioxide Be A Good  Thing?

Physicist Explains Benefits Of Carbon Dioxide

June 1,  2007 — A physicist from Colorado State University and his 
colleagues from the  North American Carbon Program (NACP) have discerned and 
confirmed the  unforeseen advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels. Through 
the 
processes  of photosynthesis and respiration, scientists have been able to 
elucidate why  plants are growing more rapidly than they are dying. The NACP 
is employing  methods, such as the use of cell phone and aircraft towers to 
monitor and  retrieve carbon data for their continuing study.

Too much carbon  dioxide can be a bad thing, but sometimes it can have a 
positive effect on  plants and trees. The more carbon emissions we dump into 
the air, the faster  forests and plants grow.

This new revelation is the result of research  done by the North American 
carbon program. Scott Denning, Ph.D., a physicist  from Colorado State 
University in Fort Collins, Colorado, explains the North  American Carbon 
Program, 
"We are measuring CO2 in the atmosphere at dozens of  places every hour 
around the United States and Canada."

About 100 cell  phone and aircraft towers dotting the North American 
landscape are providing a  network to measure CO2 in the atmosphere. Physicists 
tracking the data have  found an unexpected benefit of rising carbon dioxide 
levels. Dr. Denning says  it's unusual. "Stuff is growing faster than it's 
dying, which is weird," he  says.

The answer may have more to do with how plants use CO2. During  
photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide from the air to make food, but  
as a 
plant decays, CO2 is released back it into the air. Plans are underway to  use 
cell phone towers worldwide for measuring CO2, expanding the carbon  program 
globally. The bad part is plants can't clean the air as fast as we are  
polluting it.

BACKGROUND: Carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, is a  greenhouse gas 
released into the atmosphere as a direct result of human  activities all the 
time. This in turn raises the temperature of the earth,  leading to global 
climate change. The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has  already increased by 
about 30% since the beginning of the industrial  revolution in the late 
1800s. Most of this increase comes from using fossil  fuel -- coal, oil and 
natural gas -- for energy, but approximately 25 percent  of the carbon came 
from 
changes in land use, such as the clearing of forests  and the cultivation 
of soils for food production. Natural sources of  atmospheric carbon include 
gases emitted by volcanoes, and respiration of  living things. We breathe in 
oxygen, and breathe out carbon  dioxide.

CAPTURING CARBON: It is possible to reduce the amount of CO2  released into 
the atmosphere by modern power plants by as much as 80-90%  through carbon 
capture and storage technologies. The downside is that the fuel  needs of a 
plant would increase by 10-40% in order to capture and store the  carbon 
dioxide, thereby increasing operating costs by 30-60%. There are three  basic 
ways to capture carbon. One is the remove it after burning fossil fuels,  an 
approach that is already being used on a small scale by conventional power  
plants. Or the fossil fuel can be turned into a gas before the burning 
process  and captured from the exhaust stream in a purer form of CO2 and water 
vapor. A  third emerging option is called chemical looping combustion, in 
which metal  particles interact with the fuel and produce solid metal particles 
and a mix  of CO2 and water vapor than can be captured and transported to a 
storage  site.

STORING CARBON: There are many alternatives for storing the  captured CO2. 
The most promising is storing the CO2 deep in rocky formations  in the 
earth, including oil and gas fields, and unminable coal seams, using  various 
trapping mechanisms to ensure the CO2 doesn't escape back to the  surface. In 
fact, injecting CO2 into oil fields can increase oil recovery,  thereby 
offsetting the extra cost of storage. Another option is ocean storage,  in 
which 
CO2 in injected deep into the ocean, where it dissolves, or deposited  onto 
the ocean floor, where it is denser than

[FairfieldLife] jai jai jai guru dev 20 10

[michael]

jai jai jai  guru  dev
 
Global Country of World Peace celebrates new year

 
 
Seychelles, Ethiopia, Nigeria: Offering Consciousness-Based Education to 
culture future leaders, create peace and harmony for nations

 
Northern Ireland: Consciousness-Based Education programmes expanding rapidly

 
Maharishi University of Management faculty bring Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[Vaj]

On Dec 31, 2009, at 6:03 PM, off_world_beings wrote:

> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  wrote:
> >
> > 
> > On Dec 31, 2009, at 4:55 PM, cardemaister wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Jaana = Gyan = Knowledge = Ganapati = Ganesh = Genesis = Janus = The
> > > > begginning of creation (or from where things spring forth in life) =
> > > > genes = genetic information = Gyanna = Consciousness.
> > > > 
> > > > Vi = to arise = to take flight = manifest - the universe = the wholeness
> > > > of existence that is more than the sum of its parts = your own being =
> > > > your self = your consciousness = the play and display of creative
> > > > intelligence on the ground of existence = Vigyan.
> > > > 
> > > > OffWorld
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Oh yeah, and for instance 'sinking' is a 'male sovereign ruler,
> > > who breaks the divine or moral law, and stuff'... ;)
> > 
> > 
> > Actually he missed the key point IMO:
> > 
> > Gyan- / Gna- (jJa), Gno- and Kno- (as in to know") are all connected across 
> > a huge array of culture and peoples.>
> 
> Correct. But any child knows that Vaj. I said in the list that Gyan = 
> Knowledge. can't you read. Your cursory understanding whilst playing the 
> pretense of knowing all things Eastern is not fooling anyone.


Let's face it: you've had your ojas drained by one-to-many space-liliths. A 
space stoner.

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[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[off_world_beings]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 31, 2009, at 4:55 PM, cardemaister wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > Jaana = Gyan = Knowledge = Ganapati = Ganesh = Genesis = Janus =
The
> > > begginning of creation (or from where things spring forth in life)
=
> > > genes = genetic information = Gyanna = Consciousness.
> > >
> > > Vi = to arise = to take flight = manifest - the universe = the
wholeness
> > > of existence that is more than the sum of its parts = your own
being =
> > > your self = your consciousness = the play and display of creative
> > > intelligence on the ground of existence = Vigyan.
> > >
> > > OffWorld
> > >
> >
> > Oh yeah, and for instance 'sinking' is a 'male sovereign ruler,
> > who breaks the divine or moral law, and stuff'... ;)
>
>
> Actually he missed the key point IMO:
>
> Gyan- / Gna- (jJa), Gno- and Kno- (as in to know") are all connected
across a huge array of culture and peoples.>

Correct. But any child knows that Vaj. I said in the list that Gyan =
Knowledge. can't you read. Your cursory understanding whilst playing the
pretense of knowing all things Eastern is not fooling anyone.

OffWorld

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[off_world_beings]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister  wrote:
>
>
>
> > Jaana = Gyan = Knowledge = Ganapati = Ganesh = Genesis = Janus = The
> > begginning of creation (or from where things spring forth in life) =
> > genes = genetic information = Gyanna = Consciousness.
> >
> > Vi = to arise = to take flight = manifest - the universe = the
wholeness
> > of existence that is more than the sum of its parts = your own being
=
> > your self = your consciousness = the play and display of creative
> > intelligence on the ground of existence = Vigyan.
> >
> > OffWorld
> >
>
> Oh yeah, and for instance 'sinking' is a 'male sovereign ruler,
> who breaks the divine or moral law, and stuff'... ;)
>

One day you will explain something in a post. Until then, keep up your
mis-information that feeds Vaj's ignorance,

OffWorld

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[Vaj]

On Dec 31, 2009, at 4:55 PM, cardemaister wrote:

> 
> 
> > Jaana = Gyan = Knowledge = Ganapati = Ganesh = Genesis = Janus = The
> > begginning of creation (or from where things spring forth in life) =
> > genes = genetic information = Gyanna = Consciousness.
> > 
> > Vi = to arise = to take flight = manifest - the universe = the wholeness
> > of existence that is more than the sum of its parts = your own being =
> > your self = your consciousness = the play and display of creative
> > intelligence on the ground of existence = Vigyan.
> > 
> > OffWorld
> >
> 
> Oh yeah, and for instance 'sinking' is a 'male sovereign ruler,
> who breaks the divine or moral law, and stuff'... ;)


Actually he missed the key point IMO:

Gyan- / Gna- (jJa), Gno- and Kno- (as in to know") are all connected across a 
huge array of culture and peoples.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry to keep harping on this...

[ShempMcGurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk"  wrote:
> >
> > ...but this stuff fascinates me!
> > 
> > I am convinced even more than ever that Avatar will break all 
> > records, including overtaking Titanic, and not only gross $3 
> > billion but will get there faster than Titanic got to $2 billion.
> 
> And it never occurs to you (having not seen the
> movie) that it does so by presenting the idea
> that everything you stand for is retarded? :-)
>


My dear cult-addled-brained Barry,

If my criteria for seeing a movie was based upon the requirement that the 
movie's ideas, philosophies, themes or political-bent had to coincide with my 
own, I would end up seeing, oh, about 3 or 4 movies a decade.

I long ago resigned myself and my ability to enjoy movies to the reality that 
Hollywood is seeped in liberalism and fantasy, two qualities that no doubt 
entertain and suck you into whatever agenda a movie's creators are attempting 
to brainwash you with.  This is, of course, a process you are all too familiar 
with, isn't it?  Why, Barry, you are still convinced all these many years after 
the fact that you witnessed your cult-guru levitating on many occasions.

You, Barry, are the ideal target market for all sorts of Hollywood tripe. 

[FairfieldLife] Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World

[authfriend]

Members of the earth's earliest known 
civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock 
and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the 
Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.

According to recently excavated clay tablets 
inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of 
Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems 
of writing, agriculture, and government—were 
working on their sophisticated irrigation 
systems when the Father of All Creation reached 
down from the ether and blew the divine spirit 
of life into their thriving civilization. 

"I do not understand," reads an ancient line of 
pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, 
and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his 
head. "A booming voice is saying, 'Let there be 
light,' but there is already light. It is 
saying, 'Let the earth bring forth grass,' but 
I am already standing on grass."

"Everything is here already," the pictograph 
continues. "We do not need more stars."...

According to the cuneiform tablets, Sumerians 
found God's most puzzling act to be the 
creation from dust of the first two human 
beings.

"These two people made in his image do not know 
how to communicate, lack skills in both 
mathematics and farming, and have the 
intellectual capacity of an infant," one 
Sumerian philosopher wrote. "They must be the 
creation of a complete idiot." 

--

This piece is part of The Onion's Our Annual Year:
The Top 10 Stories Of The Last 4.5 Billion Years

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/sumerians_look_on_in_confusion_as

http://tinyurl.com/y9u7tdp

h/t TYWKIWDBI

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[cardemaister]

> Jaana = Gyan = Knowledge = Ganapati = Ganesh = Genesis = Janus = The
> begginning of creation (or from where things spring forth in life) =
> genes = genetic information = Gyanna = Consciousness.
> 
> Vi = to arise = to take flight = manifest - the universe = the wholeness
> of existence that is more than the sum of its parts = your own being =
> your self = your consciousness = the play and display of creative
> intelligence on the ground of existence = Vigyan.
> 
> OffWorld
>

Oh yeah, and for instance 'sinking' is a 'male sovereign ruler,
who breaks the divine or moral law, and stuff'... ;)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry to keep harping on this...

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk"  wrote:
>
> ...but this stuff fascinates me!
> 
> I am convinced even more than ever that Avatar will break all 
> records, including overtaking Titanic, and not only gross $3 
> billion but will get there faster than Titanic got to $2 billion.

And it never occurs to you (having not seen the
movie) that it does so by presenting the idea
that everything you stand for is retarded? :-)

[FairfieldLife] Sorry to keep harping on this...

[ShempMcGurk]

...but this stuff fascinates me!

I am convinced even more than ever that Avatar will break all records, 
including overtaking Titanic, and not only gross $3 billion but will get there 
faster than Titanic got to $2 billion.

But the more interesting comparison is to "Dark Knight" which holds most of the 
records of getting to its totals faster than anyone else.  See the following 
and scroll down to the "faster to" entries:

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/

But Avatar after only 14 days has already passed Dark Knight in its foreign 
gross during its entire run.  See:

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm

...and...

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=darkknight.htm

...and even more interesting is that Avatar's per theatre domestic gross is 
holding steady while Dark Knight had a much higher initial per theatre domestic 
gross but then fell off sharply after a week or two.  See:

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=avatar.htm

...and...

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=darkknight.htm

Avatar appears to have staying power -- and this is my own guess -- an appeal 
to a much wider demographic than either Dark Knight (comic book geeks) and 
Titanic (teenagers who love Leo).

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:45 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!
 
[audible Al Gore-like sigh emitted] Rick, Rick, Rick. Soaring temperatures
and droughts have, like the pine beetle, been plaguing Arizona from before
recorded history...and from well before John D. Rockefeller hired goons to
promulgate his Standard Oil monopoly.

You may be 100% right about water becoming too scarce in Arizona but it
won't be because of man-made global warming.
 
Right. We humans have no impact on the environment. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!

[ShempMcGurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:24 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!
>  
>  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  , "Rick Archer"  wrote:
> >
> > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> 
> [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>  ]
> > On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
> > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:17 AM
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> 
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!
> > 
> > This is a scientific fact, is it, Rick? That man-made climate change
> caused
> > a pine beetle infestation?
> > 
> > http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-167079812.html
> >
> 
> Can't you do better than that?
> 
> The link you provide just says "climate change", not man-made climate
> change.
> 
> Pine beetle infestations have been around since man has been around...and
> long before man was spewing carbon into the atmosphere. 
> 
> The sweet little angels have the right to exist too, don't they? If they
> feed on pines, it's all part of Jesus' plan, Rick.
>  
> Yup. And he may also be planning on mass evacuations of cities in the
> American Southwest, as temperatures climb and water becomes too scarce to
> support their populations. Might as well get out now while your house has
> some value.
>


[audible Al Gore-like sigh emitted]  Rick, Rick, Rick.  Soaring temperatures 
and droughts have, like the pine beetle, been plaguing Arizona from before 
recorded history...and from well before John D. Rockefeller hired goons to 
promulgate his Standard Oil monopoly.

You may be 100% right about water becoming too scarce in Arizona but it won't 
be because of man-made global warming.

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Year Resolutions

[WillyTex]

> I resolve to not make any New Year resolutions this year.
>
I resolve to make New Year resolutions next year.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The bottom line of health care reform -- America gets what it deserves

[WillyTex]

> > They are not going to allow that to happen again...
> >
Shemp McGurk wrote:
> ...how do the Spanish people intend on preventing 
> "that to happen again" in Spain?  
>
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the 
security of a free State, the right of the People to 
keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Second Amendment to the United States Constitution:
http://tinyurl.com/an2ny

Re: [FairfieldLife] Jyotish Blue Moon

[Bhairitu]

And I will be on guard for an earthquake any time now.  The eclipse 
occurs shortly and will peak at 1:23 PM here.  The tide is very high.  
Someone reported the sea lions have split from San Francisco (they claim 
they came here after Loma Prieta).  My intuition says there won't be any 
quake here at least of any consequence.  The worst quake I've 
experienced since moving here was a 4.3 which is considered nothing 
unless you live about a mile from the epicenter.  It was like a train 
was going through the living room.  And they didn't know that fault existed.

The eclipse isn't visible here but is in Asia, etc.  That's where the 
quakes may occur and usually following sometimes by a few days as the 
faults settle.

gullible fool wrote:
>
> I've never heard of anything Jyotish about a "Blue Moon." 
>  
> But you have heard something Jyotish about an eclipsed moon: 
>  
> http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2009Dec31P.pdf
>   
> "Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only 
> love." 
>  
> - Amma  
>
> --- On Wed, 12/30/09, Bhairitu  wrote:
>   

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[WillyTex]

off_world_beings wrote:
> Jaana = Gyan = Knowledge = Ganapati = Ganesh = 
> Genesis = Janus = The begginning of creation 
> (or from where things spring forth in life) =
> genes = genetic information = Gyanna = 
> Consciousness.
> 
All the members of the Advaita Vedanta tradition 
in India follow the Sri Vidya - and they all
worship Sri Saraswati, the 'Goddess of Knowledge'. 

The term 'vidya' means 'knowledge' in Sanskrit,
'transcendental' knowledge, and 'Sri' means 
'auspicious' = Auspicious Knowledge = Sri Vidya. 

> Vi = to arise = to take flight = manifest - 
> the universe = the wholeness of existence 
> that is more than the sum of its parts = your 
> own being = your self = your consciousness = 
> the play and display of creative intelligence 
> on the ground of existence = Vigyan.
>

[FairfieldLife] INVINCIBILITY IN GUYANA BY GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION

[michael]

--- Maharishi's Global Family Chat   29.12.2009
 
Guyana
  
 is transitioning to invincibility with a series of Yogic Flying courses 
beginning in the coming days, which will create enough flyers for 
invincibility. 
  
 Raja Luis explained 
 that this is the first time a country has made the transition to invincibility 
based on a project undertaken by a government institution without the Movement 
being established in the country. 
  
Great congratulations to Raja Luis 
  
J A I    G U R U    D E V    
 
 
 
 
 

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[FairfieldLife] New Year Resolutions

[Bhairitu]

I resolve to not make any New Year resolutions this year.

[FairfieldLife] Top 25 Photoshop disasters of 2009

[authfriend]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/2009s-top-25-most-ridiculous-uses-of-photoshop/

http://tinyurl.com/ybet9ao

My favorites are the 2nd, the 17th, and the 25th. In the
last one, no. 25, the model appears to have had her
buttocks welded together.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[off_world_beings]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , cardemaister 
wrote:
>
>
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , Vaj  wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Dec 31, 2009, at 2:07 AM, cardemaister wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , "authfriend"  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yikes. Thanks, card. No, it's not much help, but I
> > > > appreciate your going to the trouble.
> > > >
> > > > "aalaya" meaning "receptable" would make sense in
> > > > connection with the subconscious, in the sense of
> > > > a sort of storehouse, a place where you put stuff
> > > > that you don't want to have out in the open.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That sure makes sense! For that meaning, I would expect
> > > the order 'vijñaanaalaya' (vijñaana + aalaya). But taking
> > > 'aalaya' as a bahuvriihi compound or at least being an adjectival
> > > noun might solve that "problem". So I think you hit the bull's
eye.
> >
> >
> > Alaya can mean, but not necessarily imply the "all ground", like the
> > TIbetan kungzhi.
> >
>
> After I wrote the above, I realized that in *Buddhism* 'vijñaana'
> refers to consciousness, rather than mere knowledge, and stuff. That
> basically obliterates(?) most what I wrote in this thread... :)
>

It regers to consciousness in both cases Cardemaister:

Jaana = Gyan = Knowledge = Ganapati = Ganesh = Genesis = Janus = The
begginning of creation (or from where things spring forth in life) =
genes = genetic information = Gyanna = Consciousness.

Vi = to arise = to take flight = manifest - the universe = the wholeness
of existence that is more than the sum of its parts = your own being =
your self = your consciousness = the play and display of creative
intelligence on the ground of existence = Vigyan.

OffWorld

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[off_world_beings]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , Vaj  wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 31, 2009, at 12:58 PM, off_world_beings wrote:
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , "authfriend"  wrote:
> > >
> > > What does the Sanskrit phrase "Alaya Vigyan" mean? Apparently
> > > Osho used it to refer to the subconscious, but I'm looking for
> > > a more literal translation; can't find anything on the Web.
> > >
> > > And should both terms be capitalized? Is the phrase a proper
> > > noun?
> > >
> > > (This is for an editing gig I'm working on.)
> > >
> > > TIA...
> > >
> >
> > My guess is:
> >
> > "the abode (which abides) of the interweaving (web - "sutras") of
> > knoweldge"
> >
> > Or:
> >
> > "the Sacred Throne from which knowledge takes flight like a bird or
> > a herd of horses (arises)"
> >
> > Capitilization depends how you want to look at it.
> >
> > If "permanent" (abiding) in this case means 'immortal', then
> > capitalization seems appropriate for those who wish it
> > (capitalization in the West is given to those things that are
> > considered immortal or beyond mere mortals.) If "knowledge" is
> > sacred, then it could be capitailzed. I don't think Sanskrit
> > capitalizes, or has a significantly similar concept such as
> > capitalization (maybe only a vaguely similar concept - but not
> > really.)
> >
> > "Gyan" (as in "Vi Gya" above) is just ANY knowledge that is useful,
> > or it can mean "Pure Knowledge" which is cognized (from the
> > "Immortal Abode of Pure Consciousness"), but which also includes
> > and assimilates all useful knowledge (if it is actual knowledge
> > that is, and not fantasy or ignorance - for example, one-lifers who
> > believe in the irrational concept of one life and heaven or hell at
> > death - are the embodiment of ignorance, and that is not called
> > "knowledge"), so capitalizing the words Alaya ViGyan - "The Abiding
> > Abode from whence Pure Knowledge arises", or not doing so, becomes
> > irrelevant, or it is up to you.
> >
> > But that's just my take on it.
> >




> Dewd. Lay off the weed!
>

  Read it again, go step by step. For the first part "Alaya" in an
earlier post, you said the exact same thing as me, only you are too dumb
to see that it is the same thing (just like you can't see that Buddhism,
Vedic culture, and Tantra are all the same thing.)

The rest of the term you are lost. Your understanding of the term Vigyan
is non-existant.

OffWorld

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:24 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 ]
> On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:17 AM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 

> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!
> 
> This is a scientific fact, is it, Rick? That man-made climate change
caused
> a pine beetle infestation?
> 
> http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-167079812.html
>

Can't you do better than that?

The link you provide just says "climate change", not man-made climate
change.

Pine beetle infestations have been around since man has been around...and
long before man was spewing carbon into the atmosphere. 

The sweet little angels have the right to exist too, don't they? If they
feed on pines, it's all part of Jesus' plan, Rick.
 
Yup. And he may also be planning on mass evacuations of cities in the
American Southwest, as temperatures climb and water becomes too scarce to
support their populations. Might as well get out now while your house has
some value.

[FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!

[ShempMcGurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:17 AM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!
>  
>  This is a scientific fact, is it, Rick? That man-made climate change caused
> a pine beetle infestation?
>  
> http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-167079812.html
>


Can't you do better than that?

The link you provide just says "climate change", not man-made climate change.

Pine beetle infestations have been around since man has been around...and long 
before man was spewing carbon into the atmosphere.  

The sweet little angels have the right to exist too, don't they?  If they feed 
on pines, it's all part of Jesus' plan, Rick.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[Vaj]

On Dec 31, 2009, at 12:58 PM, off_world_beings wrote:


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> What does the Sanskrit phrase "Alaya Vigyan" mean? Apparently
> Osho used it to refer to the subconscious, but I'm looking for
> a more literal translation; can't find anything on the Web.
>
> And should both terms be capitalized? Is the phrase a proper
> noun?
>
> (This is for an editing gig I'm working on.)
>
> TIA...
>

My guess is:

"the abode (which abides) of the interweaving (web - "sutras") of  
knoweldge"


Or:

"the Sacred Throne from which knowledge takes flight like a bird or  
a herd of horses (arises)"


Capitilization depends how you want to look at it.

If "permanent" (abiding) in this case means 'immortal', then  
capitalization seems appropriate for those who wish it  
(capitalization in the West is given to those things that are  
considered immortal or beyond mere mortals.) If "knowledge" is  
sacred, then it could be capitailzed. I don't think Sanskrit  
capitalizes, or has a significantly similar concept such as  
capitalization (maybe only a vaguely similar concept - but not  
really.)


"Gyan" (as in "Vi Gya" above) is just ANY knowledge that is useful,  
or it can mean "Pure Knowledge" which is cognized (from the  
"Immortal Abode of Pure Consciousness"), but which also includes  
and assimilates all useful knowledge (if it is actual knowledge  
that is, and not fantasy or ignorance - for example, one-lifers who  
believe in the irrational concept of one life and heaven or hell at  
death - are the embodiment of ignorance, and that is not called  
"knowledge"), so capitalizing the words Alaya ViGyan - "The Abiding  
Abode from whence Pure Knowledge arises", or not doing so, becomes  
irrelevant, or it is up to you.


But that's just my take on it.


Dewd. Lay off the weed!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[off_world_beings]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> What does the Sanskrit phrase "Alaya Vigyan" mean? Apparently
> Osho used it to refer to the subconscious, but I'm looking for
> a more literal translation; can't find anything on the Web.
>
> And should both terms be capitalized? Is the phrase a proper
> noun?
>
> (This is for an editing gig I'm working on.)
>
> TIA...
>


My guess is:

"the abode (which abides) of the interweaving (web - "sutras") of
knoweldge"

Or:

"the Sacred Throne from which knowledge takes flight like a bird or a
herd of horses (arises)"

Capitilization depends how you want to look at it.

If "permanent" (abiding) in this case means 'immortal', then
capitalization seems appropriate for those who wish it (capitalization
in the West is given to those things that are considered immortal or
beyond mere mortals.) If "knowledge" is sacred, then it could be
capitailzed. I don't think Sanskrit capitalizes, or has a significantly
similar concept such as capitalization (maybe only a vaguely similar
concept - but not really.)

"Gyan" (as in "Vi Gya" above) is just ANY knowledge that is useful, or
it can mean "Pure Knowledge" which is cognized (from the "Immortal Abode
of Pure Consciousness"), but which also includes and assimilates all
useful knowledge (if it is actual knowledge that is, and not fantasy or
ignorance - for example, one-lifers who believe in the irrational
concept of one life and heaven or hell at death - are the embodiment of
ignorance, and that is not called "knowledge"), so capitalizing the
words Alaya ViGyan - "The Abiding Abode from whence Pure Knowledge
arises", or not doing so, becomes irrelevant, or it is up to you.

But that's just my take on it.

OffWorld

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!

[Rick Archer]

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:17 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!
 
 This is a scientific fact, is it, Rick? That man-made climate change caused
a pine beetle infestation?
 
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-167079812.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jyotish Blue Moon

[authfriend]

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

> > I should think that the notion of an extra moon, blue or
> > otherwise, would have been around for as long a time as
> > people were dividing the year into months other than by a
> > lunar calendar, but the S&T folks did a lot of research
> > and weren't able to track it down earlier than the Maine
> > Farmer's Almanac.
> 
> I didn't get a chance to read your links yet, but in ancient
> Pagan systems, there was a thirteenth month called Ophichius.
> That is why in almost all traditions there is a reference to
> 12 +1. For example, the 12 disciples, plus Jesus = 13. All
> these myths are bound up with a very ancient astrological
> system, which has been around since pre-history and was never
> fully lost at any time.

Interesting. I guess once we adopted the Gregorian 12-month
calendar, the 13th moon of the year became seen as a weird
aberration rather than an integral part of the system.

But I'm still puzzled as to why even in the Gregorian
context there doesn't seem to be any folklore about it prior
to the 19th century.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The bottom line of health care reform -- America gets what it deserves

[authfriend]

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

> I guess what I'm trying to convey is that
> in my opinion France is closer to its 
> democratic roots than America is. They
> still believe that the government exists
> to serve the people, not vice-versa. And
> when it *stops* serving the people, they
> still believe they have the power to stop
> *it*. And so they do, on a regular basis.

Actually, we have the opportunity to do so every
four years, and when the gummint has been
particularly egregious, we do it, peacefully.

> In America, "social activism" has degenerated
> in the minds of its people to the point where
> people believe that sitting in their bedrooms
> typing posts to a forum that 200 people read,
> or even to a blog that thousands read, is 
> being "social activism."

Um, no, it hasn't. Barry's fantasizing again.

> In France, grandmothers come out of their 
> houses during a General Strike and balance 
> themselves on their walkers so they can throw 
> a paving stone at government offices.

Lots of elderly people participate in
demonstrations here. That's not somehow
peculiar to France.

Notice that Barry is completely ignoring Sal's
point. That's because it's, you know, irrefutable.
But Barry can never say, "Gee, I guess you're
right about that," even to Sal.

It's just plain obtuse to measure activism in
the U.S. by the standards of activism in France.
Only somebody desperate to justify having fled
the U.S. would even think of trying to do that.

Now, if he'd left the U.S. *in order to be an
activist in France*, that would be something else
again. Instead, he takes credit for what the 
French have done while sitting comfortably on his
ass in a tourist-trap town in Spain while bad-
mouthing the country he was too cowardly to be an
activist in himself.

But that Barry is a hypocrite isn't exactly news
around here.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-bye Thomas Edison...

[Bhairitu]

authfriend wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> 
>   
>> That's a good tip...thanks. So far I've only tried
>> the fluorescent bulbs (all American-made) commonly 
>> available in the stores.
>> 
>
> We send all the crappy ones we make to Spain and keep
> the good ones. ;-)

Make sure you get ones without mercury in them.

[FairfieldLife] Re: More ARSENIC: a GOOD thing for Shemp !

[ShempMcGurk]

...and you, OffWorld, would look good in Old Lace.


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings  wrote:
>
> 
> Arsenic is good for stimulating the production of red blood cells. It
> was once taken as a nutritional supplement in Alpine countries, it
> supposedly gave people ruddy complexions and increased their ability to
> work.
> 
> OffWorld
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" 
> wrote:
> >
> > Can Carbon Dioxide Be A Good Thing?
> >
> > Physicist Explains Benefits Of Carbon Dioxide
> >
> > June 1, 2007 — A physicist from Colorado State University and his
> colleagues from the North American Carbon Program (NACP) have discerned
> and confirmed the unforeseen advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels.
> Through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration, scientists have
> been able to elucidate why plants are growing more rapidly than they are
> dying. The NACP is employing methods, such as the use of cell phone and
> aircraft towers to monitor and retrieve carbon data for their continuing
> study.
> >
> > Too much carbon dioxide can be a bad thing, but sometimes it can have
> a positive effect on plants and trees. The more carbon emissions we dump
> into the air, the faster forests and plants grow.
> >
> > This new revelation is the result of research done by the North
> American carbon program. Scott Denning, Ph.D., a physicist from Colorado
> State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, explains the North American
> Carbon Program, "We are measuring CO2 in the atmosphere at dozens of
> places every hour around the United States and Canada."
> >
> > About 100 cell phone and aircraft towers dotting the North American
> landscape are providing a network to measure CO2 in the atmosphere.
> Physicists tracking the data have found an unexpected benefit of rising
> carbon dioxide levels. Dr. Denning says it's unusual. "Stuff is growing
> faster than it's dying, which is weird," he says.
> >
> > The answer may have more to do with how plants use CO2. During
> photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide from the air to make food,
> but as a plant decays, CO2 is released back it into the air. Plans are
> underway to use cell phone towers worldwide for measuring CO2, expanding
> the carbon program globally. The bad part is plants can't clean the air
> as fast as we are polluting it.
> >
> > BACKGROUND: Carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, is a greenhouse gas
> released into the atmosphere as a direct result of human activities all
> the time. This in turn raises the temperature of the earth, leading to
> global climate change. The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has already
> increased by about 30% since the beginning of the industrial revolution
> in the late 1800s. Most of this increase comes from using fossil fuel --
> coal, oil and natural gas -- for energy, but approximately 25 percent of
> the carbon came from changes in land use, such as the clearing of
> forests and the cultivation of soils for food production. Natural
> sources of atmospheric carbon include gases emitted by volcanoes, and
> respiration of living things. We breathe in oxygen, and breathe out
> carbon dioxide.
> >
> > CAPTURING CARBON: It is possible to reduce the amount of CO2 released
> into the atmosphere by modern power plants by as much as 80-90% through
> carbon capture and storage technologies. The downside is that the fuel
> needs of a plant would increase by 10-40% in order to capture and store
> the carbon dioxide, thereby increasing operating costs by 30-60%. There
> are three basic ways to capture carbon. One is the remove it after
> burning fossil fuels, an approach that is already being used on a small
> scale by conventional power plants. Or the fossil fuel can be turned
> into a gas before the burning process and captured from the exhaust
> stream in a purer form of CO2 and water vapor. A third emerging option
> is called chemical looping combustion, in which metal particles interact
> with the fuel and produce solid metal particles and a mix of CO2 and
> water vapor than can be captured and transported to a storage site.
> >
> > STORING CARBON: There are many alternatives for storing the captured
> CO2. The most promising is storing the CO2 deep in rocky formations in
> the earth, including oil and gas fields, and unminable coal seams, using
> various trapping mechanisms to ensure the CO2 doesn't escape back to the
> surface. In fact, injecting CO2 into oil fields can increase oil
> recovery, thereby offsetting the extra cost of storage. Another option
> is ocean storage, in which CO2 in injected deep into the ocean, where it
> dissolves, or deposited onto the ocean floor, where it is denser than
> water and therefore forms a "lake" of CO2. The downside is that an
> excess of CO2 in ocean waters increases acidification and can kill
> marine organisms. A third option is trapping the carbon in stable
> minerals permanently by reacting the CO2 with metal oxides. But the
> reaction

[FairfieldLife] Re: The bottom line of health care reform -- America gets what it deserves

[ShempMcGurk]

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



[snip]



> 
> Here in Spain I don't think there is that kind
> of *fervor* for social change. But there is a
> kind of "anti social backsliding" mentality 
> that I really like. The moment any real hint
> of Fascism or the Fascist mentality rears its
> ugly head, so does the memory of a man who 
> called himself a Generalisimo and who fucked
> Spain and the Spanish people in the ass for
> forty years. There is hardly a family in Spain
> who had relatives in Spain during the Franco
> era who cannot remember one of their own being
> murdered by that regime, and by that kind of 
> thinking. They are not going to allow that to
> happen again.
>



...and that's why many Americans support, above all other of the amendments, 
the second amendment which is the right to bear arms which was specifically put 
in the constitution to prevent that sort of scenario happening here.

Pray tell, Generalissimo Wright, how do the Spanish people intend on preventing 
"that to happen again" in Spain?  Wishful thinking?  Or do they, like the 
Swiss, have the right to bear arms (which the Swiss do in numbers far exceeding 
Americans)?

[FairfieldLife] The World According To Shemp.

[off_world_beings]

The World According To Shemp:

...There is no CO2 rise in the Atmosphere. The current CO2 rise in the
atmosphere is a good thing...

...CO2 is not dangerous, so let it rise. There is no CO2 rise, so we are
safe from danger...

...Less CO2 in the atmosphere is a good thing. More CO2 in the
atmosphere is a bad thing...

[FairfieldLife] Re: ZERO rise in CO2 in atmosphere in past 160 years

[off_world_beings]

I thought you said CO2 rise was a good thing Shemp? You are now saying
that the lack of CO2 rise is a good thing.

Which is it Shemp? Is a rise in CO2 good or bad?

OffWorld


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 , "ShempMcGurk" 
wrote:
>
> No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New
Research Finds
>
> ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted
by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead
absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about
45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
>
> However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and
plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and
that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is
therefore beginning to increase.
>
> Many climate models also assume that the airborne fraction will
increase. Because understanding of the airborne fraction of carbon
dioxide is important for predicting future climate change, it is
essential to have accurate knowledge of whether that fraction is
changing or will change as emissions increase.
>
> To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang
Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol
reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since
1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.
>
> In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne
fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150
years or during the most recent five decades.
>
> The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters.
>

[FairfieldLife] Mayan Calendar

[Rick Archer]

Countdown
  to
Catastrophe

 
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: More ARSENIC: a GOOD thing for Shemp !

[off_world_beings]

Arsenic is good for stimulating the production of red blood cells. It
was once taken as a nutritional supplement in Alpine countries, it
supposedly gave people ruddy complexions and increased their ability to
work.

OffWorld


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" 
wrote:
>
> Can Carbon Dioxide Be A Good Thing?
>
> Physicist Explains Benefits Of Carbon Dioxide
>
> June 1, 2007 — A physicist from Colorado State University and his
colleagues from the North American Carbon Program (NACP) have discerned
and confirmed the unforeseen advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels.
Through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration, scientists have
been able to elucidate why plants are growing more rapidly than they are
dying. The NACP is employing methods, such as the use of cell phone and
aircraft towers to monitor and retrieve carbon data for their continuing
study.
>
> Too much carbon dioxide can be a bad thing, but sometimes it can have
a positive effect on plants and trees. The more carbon emissions we dump
into the air, the faster forests and plants grow.
>
> This new revelation is the result of research done by the North
American carbon program. Scott Denning, Ph.D., a physicist from Colorado
State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, explains the North American
Carbon Program, "We are measuring CO2 in the atmosphere at dozens of
places every hour around the United States and Canada."
>
> About 100 cell phone and aircraft towers dotting the North American
landscape are providing a network to measure CO2 in the atmosphere.
Physicists tracking the data have found an unexpected benefit of rising
carbon dioxide levels. Dr. Denning says it's unusual. "Stuff is growing
faster than it's dying, which is weird," he says.
>
> The answer may have more to do with how plants use CO2. During
photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide from the air to make food,
but as a plant decays, CO2 is released back it into the air. Plans are
underway to use cell phone towers worldwide for measuring CO2, expanding
the carbon program globally. The bad part is plants can't clean the air
as fast as we are polluting it.
>
> BACKGROUND: Carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, is a greenhouse gas
released into the atmosphere as a direct result of human activities all
the time. This in turn raises the temperature of the earth, leading to
global climate change. The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has already
increased by about 30% since the beginning of the industrial revolution
in the late 1800s. Most of this increase comes from using fossil fuel --
coal, oil and natural gas -- for energy, but approximately 25 percent of
the carbon came from changes in land use, such as the clearing of
forests and the cultivation of soils for food production. Natural
sources of atmospheric carbon include gases emitted by volcanoes, and
respiration of living things. We breathe in oxygen, and breathe out
carbon dioxide.
>
> CAPTURING CARBON: It is possible to reduce the amount of CO2 released
into the atmosphere by modern power plants by as much as 80-90% through
carbon capture and storage technologies. The downside is that the fuel
needs of a plant would increase by 10-40% in order to capture and store
the carbon dioxide, thereby increasing operating costs by 30-60%. There
are three basic ways to capture carbon. One is the remove it after
burning fossil fuels, an approach that is already being used on a small
scale by conventional power plants. Or the fossil fuel can be turned
into a gas before the burning process and captured from the exhaust
stream in a purer form of CO2 and water vapor. A third emerging option
is called chemical looping combustion, in which metal particles interact
with the fuel and produce solid metal particles and a mix of CO2 and
water vapor than can be captured and transported to a storage site.
>
> STORING CARBON: There are many alternatives for storing the captured
CO2. The most promising is storing the CO2 deep in rocky formations in
the earth, including oil and gas fields, and unminable coal seams, using
various trapping mechanisms to ensure the CO2 doesn't escape back to the
surface. In fact, injecting CO2 into oil fields can increase oil
recovery, thereby offsetting the extra cost of storage. Another option
is ocean storage, in which CO2 in injected deep into the ocean, where it
dissolves, or deposited onto the ocean floor, where it is denser than
water and therefore forms a "lake" of CO2. The downside is that an
excess of CO2 in ocean waters increases acidification and can kill
marine organisms. A third option is trapping the carbon in stable
minerals permanently by reacting the CO2 with metal oxides. But the
reaction rate is slow. You need expensive pre-treatment to speed up the
process, which would increase energy costs as much as 60-180%.
>
> The American Geophysics Union and the American Meteorological Society
contributed to the information contained in the video portion of this
report.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-bye Thomas Edison...

[authfriend]

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

> That's a good tip...thanks. So far I've only tried
> the fluorescent bulbs (all American-made) commonly 
> available in the stores.

We send all the crappy ones we make to Spain and keep
the good ones. ;-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: The bottom line of health care reform -- America gets what it deserves

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 28, 2009, at 12:42 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > > But NONE of these things compares to being there
> > > on the streets of Paris during a General Strike.
> > > 
> > > The POWER of it astounds. Millions and millions
> > > of people just saying "NO!" And being willing to
> > > put their asses on the line by *living* "NO!"
> > > 
> > > No cabs. No taxis. No buses. No subways. No planes.
> > > No trucks. As a result, no deliveries to markets.
> > > No food. (People shared what they had.) No health
> > > care providers, because they were out on strike,
> > > too. (In reality, they volunteered their services
> > > to take care of emergency patients, and never 
> > > charged for it.) No power and light. (Again, volun-
> > > teers made sure that anyone who needed these things
> > > had them.) The world just stops, because a people 
> > > decides to collectively say, "NO!"
> > 
> > The Day Paris Stood Still
> > 
> > I agree Barry, in theory at least, but in 
> > practicality how do you get 300 million
> > people (or at least the percentage that's
> > actually working) to do anything en masse?
> 
> In America? Educate people that doing something 
> for society as a whole is more important than 
> "doing for oneself." In France they've never
> lost sight of that, and don't have any need
> for remedial education.

I guess what I'm trying to convey is that
in my opinion France is closer to its 
democratic roots than America is. They
still believe that the government exists
to serve the people, not vice-versa. And
when it *stops* serving the people, they
still believe they have the power to stop
*it*. And so they do, on a regular basis.

In America, "social activism" has degenerated
in the minds of its people to the point where
people believe that sitting in their bedrooms
typing posts to a forum that 200 people read,
or even to a blog that thousands read, is 
being "social activism." 

In France, grandmothers come out of their 
houses during a General Strike and balance 
themselves on their walkers so they can throw 
a paving stone at government offices. 

Here in Spain I don't think there is that kind
of *fervor* for social change. But there is a
kind of "anti social backsliding" mentality 
that I really like. The moment any real hint
of Fascism or the Fascist mentality rears its
ugly head, so does the memory of a man who 
called himself a Generalisimo and who fucked
Spain and the Spanish people in the ass for
forty years. There is hardly a family in Spain
who had relatives in Spain during the Franco
era who cannot remember one of their own being
murdered by that regime, and by that kind of 
thinking. They are not going to allow that to
happen again.

[FairfieldLife] Re: More CO2: a GOOD thing!

[ShempMcGurk]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
>
> In principle it's good for trees, except most of the pine forests in
> Colorado, where this guy is from, are dying because climate change has
> caused a pine beetle infestation.



This is a scientific fact, is it, Rick?  That man-made climate change caused a 
pine beetle infestation?

Or was it "suggested" by some researcher who applied for and got a grant solely 
because in his application he stated he wanted to study the effects of climate 
on the dying pine forests of Colorado?

Rick, I'm sure that pine forests have been dying and regrowing and dying and 
regrowing for a myriad of reasons ever since time immemorial.






> Also, while CO2 may be good for trees, a
> sea level rise of several meters won't be too good for NYC, London, Florida,
> etc. But I guess all those people can move to Colorado.
>  
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:23 AM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] More CO2: a GOOD thing!
>  
>   
> Can Carbon Dioxide Be A Good Thing?
> 
> Physicist Explains Benefits Of Carbon Dioxide
> 
> June 1, 2007 - A physicist from Colorado State University and his colleagues
> from the North American Carbon Program (NACP) have discerned and confirmed
> the unforeseen advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels. Through the
> processes of photosynthesis and respiration, scientists have been able to
> elucidate why plants are growing more rapidly than they are dying. The NACP
> is employing methods, such as the use of cell phone and aircraft towers to
> monitor and retrieve carbon data for their continuing study.
> 
> Too much carbon dioxide can be a bad thing, but sometimes it can have a
> positive effect on plants and trees. The more carbon emissions we dump into
> the air, the faster forests and plants grow.
> 
> This new revelation is the result of research done by the North American
> carbon program. Scott Denning, Ph.D., a physicist from Colorado State
> University in Fort Collins, Colorado, explains the North American Carbon
> Program, "We are measuring CO2 in the atmosphere at dozens of places every
> hour around the United States and Canada."
> 
> About 100 cell phone and aircraft towers dotting the North American
> landscape are providing a network to measure CO2 in the atmosphere.
> Physicists tracking the data have found an unexpected benefit of rising
> carbon dioxide levels. Dr. Denning says it's unusual. "Stuff is growing
> faster than it's dying, which is weird," he says.
> 
> The answer may have more to do with how plants use CO2. During
> photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide from the air to make food, but
> as a plant decays, CO2 is released back it into the air. Plans are underway
> to use cell phone towers worldwide for measuring CO2, expanding the carbon
> program globally. The bad part is plants can't clean the air as fast as we
> are polluting it.
> 
> BACKGROUND: Carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, is a greenhouse gas
> released into the atmosphere as a direct result of human activities all the
> time. This in turn raises the temperature of the earth, leading to global
> climate change. The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has already increased
> by about 30% since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the late
> 1800s. Most of this increase comes from using fossil fuel -- coal, oil and
> natural gas -- for energy, but approximately 25 percent of the carbon came
> from changes in land use, such as the clearing of forests and the
> cultivation of soils for food production. Natural sources of atmospheric
> carbon include gases emitted by volcanoes, and respiration of living things.
> We breathe in oxygen, and breathe out carbon dioxide.
> 
> CAPTURING CARBON: It is possible to reduce the amount of CO2 released into
> the atmosphere by modern power plants by as much as 80-90% through carbon
> capture and storage technologies. The downside is that the fuel needs of a
> plant would increase by 10-40% in order to capture and store the carbon
> dioxide, thereby increasing operating costs by 30-60%. There are three basic
> ways to capture carbon. One is the remove it after burning fossil fuels, an
> approach that is already being used on a small scale by conventional power
> plants. Or the fossil fuel can be turned into a gas before the burning
> process and captured from the exhaust stream in a purer form of CO2 and
> water vapor. A third emerging option is called chemical looping combustion,
> in which metal particles interact with the fuel and produce solid metal
> particles and a mix of CO2 and water vapor than can be captured and
> transported to a storage site.
> 
> STORING CARBON: There are many alternatives for storing the captured CO2.
> The most promising is storing the CO2 deep in rocky formations in the earth,
> including oil and gas fields, and unminable co

RE: [FairfieldLife] More CO2: a GOOD thing!

[Rick Archer]

In principle it's good for trees, except most of the pine forests in
Colorado, where this guy is from, are dying because climate change has
caused a pine beetle infestation. Also, while CO2 may be good for trees, a
sea level rise of several meters won't be too good for NYC, London, Florida,
etc. But I guess all those people can move to Colorado.
 
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:23 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] More CO2: a GOOD thing!
 
  
Can Carbon Dioxide Be A Good Thing?

Physicist Explains Benefits Of Carbon Dioxide

June 1, 2007 - A physicist from Colorado State University and his colleagues
from the North American Carbon Program (NACP) have discerned and confirmed
the unforeseen advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels. Through the
processes of photosynthesis and respiration, scientists have been able to
elucidate why plants are growing more rapidly than they are dying. The NACP
is employing methods, such as the use of cell phone and aircraft towers to
monitor and retrieve carbon data for their continuing study.

Too much carbon dioxide can be a bad thing, but sometimes it can have a
positive effect on plants and trees. The more carbon emissions we dump into
the air, the faster forests and plants grow.

This new revelation is the result of research done by the North American
carbon program. Scott Denning, Ph.D., a physicist from Colorado State
University in Fort Collins, Colorado, explains the North American Carbon
Program, "We are measuring CO2 in the atmosphere at dozens of places every
hour around the United States and Canada."

About 100 cell phone and aircraft towers dotting the North American
landscape are providing a network to measure CO2 in the atmosphere.
Physicists tracking the data have found an unexpected benefit of rising
carbon dioxide levels. Dr. Denning says it's unusual. "Stuff is growing
faster than it's dying, which is weird," he says.

The answer may have more to do with how plants use CO2. During
photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide from the air to make food, but
as a plant decays, CO2 is released back it into the air. Plans are underway
to use cell phone towers worldwide for measuring CO2, expanding the carbon
program globally. The bad part is plants can't clean the air as fast as we
are polluting it.

BACKGROUND: Carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, is a greenhouse gas
released into the atmosphere as a direct result of human activities all the
time. This in turn raises the temperature of the earth, leading to global
climate change. The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has already increased
by about 30% since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the late
1800s. Most of this increase comes from using fossil fuel -- coal, oil and
natural gas -- for energy, but approximately 25 percent of the carbon came
from changes in land use, such as the clearing of forests and the
cultivation of soils for food production. Natural sources of atmospheric
carbon include gases emitted by volcanoes, and respiration of living things.
We breathe in oxygen, and breathe out carbon dioxide.

CAPTURING CARBON: It is possible to reduce the amount of CO2 released into
the atmosphere by modern power plants by as much as 80-90% through carbon
capture and storage technologies. The downside is that the fuel needs of a
plant would increase by 10-40% in order to capture and store the carbon
dioxide, thereby increasing operating costs by 30-60%. There are three basic
ways to capture carbon. One is the remove it after burning fossil fuels, an
approach that is already being used on a small scale by conventional power
plants. Or the fossil fuel can be turned into a gas before the burning
process and captured from the exhaust stream in a purer form of CO2 and
water vapor. A third emerging option is called chemical looping combustion,
in which metal particles interact with the fuel and produce solid metal
particles and a mix of CO2 and water vapor than can be captured and
transported to a storage site.

STORING CARBON: There are many alternatives for storing the captured CO2.
The most promising is storing the CO2 deep in rocky formations in the earth,
including oil and gas fields, and unminable coal seams, using various
trapping mechanisms to ensure the CO2 doesn't escape back to the surface. In
fact, injecting CO2 into oil fields can increase oil recovery, thereby
offsetting the extra cost of storage. Another option is ocean storage, in
which CO2 in injected deep into the ocean, where it dissolves, or deposited
onto the ocean floor, where it is denser than water and therefore forms a
"lake" of CO2. The downside is that an excess of CO2 in ocean waters
increases acidification and can kill marine organisms. A third option is
trapping the carbon in stable minerals permanently by reacting the CO2 with
metal oxides. But the reaction rate is slow. You need expensiv

[FairfieldLife] Re: The bottom line of health care reform -- America gets what it deserves

[WillyTex]

Judy wrote:
> And of course it isn't just the numbers; it's also the
> different interests of different parts of the country.
>
Almost everyone in the U.S. supports the notion of 'no 
taxation without representation', but there a lot of people 
in the U.S. who do not support raising payroll taxes in order 
to provide social services to others. 

So, show me whare in the U.S. Constitution does it say that 
I should have my earned wages deducted by the federal 
government and distributed to other people?

So, I protest! I may call for a FFL General Strike, if you 
'wussies' don't stand up and fight for your rights. You
could at least join in a 'tea party' protest. Go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jyotish Blue Moon

[off_world_beings]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@
wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> >  > >
> > > Can any of the Jyotishi's here tell me if there is any
> > > significance to the occurrence of a Blue Moon? We had a
> > > full moon Dec 3rd and I believe it will be full here
> > > again shortly before midnight on New Years Eve.
> > > aaahhoo!>>
> >
> > I think the months are different. For example last month for
> > them ended on the winter solstice, and this month will end
> > around January 21st. They even have an extra month every 3
> > years or so.
>
> The months are different, but are they the months
> Jyotish goes by? Isn't that calendar more recent
> than Jyotish?

Yes it is the Jyotish calander, called a 'sidereal' calander, and one of
the most ancient in the world.

>
> A lunar calendar, obviously, wouldn't have blue moons...
>
> In any case, the "blue moon" notion as we think of it
> is not only not ancient, it's 19th century, courtesy
> of the Maine Farmer's Almanac. But even so, we've got
> it wrong. The Almanac called the third moon in a
> four-moon season the Blue Moon so that the names of
> the moons (each one had a name--e.g., Harvest Moon)
> wouldn't be thrown off.
>
> Two interesting articles in Sky and Telescope hash it
> all out:
>
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/moon/3305141.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/y8sgzzh
>
>
>
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/moon/3304131.html?page=\
1&c=y
>
> http://tinyurl.com/y8j76an
>
>
> I should think that the notion of an extra moon, blue or
> otherwise, would have been around for as long a time as
> people were dividing the year into months other than by a
> lunar calendar, but the S&T folks did a lot of research
> and weren't able to track it down earlier than the Maine
> Farmer's Almanac.
>


I didn't get a chance to read your links yet, but in ancient Pagan
systems, there was a thirteenth month called Ophichius. That is why in
almost all traditions there is a reference to 12 +1. For example, the 12
disciples, plus Jesus = 13. All these myths are bound up with a very
ancient astrological system, which has been around since pre-history and
was never fully lost at any time.

OffWorld

[FairfieldLife] Re: The bottom line of health care reform -- America gets what it deserves

[WillyTex]

> > ...how do you get 300 million people (or at 
> > least the percentage that's actually working) 
> > to do anything en masse?
> >
TurquoiseB wrote:
> In America? Educate people that doing something 
> for society as a whole is more important than 
> "doing for oneself." In France they've never
> lost sight of that, and don't have any need
> for remedial education.
>
Apparently in France there are General Strikes
to protest taxation. In the U.S. we have 'tea party 
protests', but apparently, on this forum, almost 
everyone is opposed to bringing down payroll taxes 
- instead, Sal and John make fun of 'protests' and 
seem to want to raise taxes. Maybe they are living
on the government dole, so it would make sense to
NOT protest, but go figure.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The bottom line of health care reform -- America gets what it deserves

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  wrote:
>
> On Dec 28, 2009, at 12:42 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > But NONE of these things compares to being there
> > on the streets of Paris during a General Strike.
> > 
> > The POWER of it astounds. Millions and millions
> > of people just saying "NO!" And being willing to
> > put their asses on the line by *living* "NO!"
> > 
> > No cabs. No taxis. No buses. No subways. No planes.
> > No trucks. As a result, no deliveries to markets.
> > No food. (People shared what they had.) No health
> > care providers, because they were out on strike,
> > too. (In reality, they volunteered their services
> > to take care of emergency patients, and never 
> > charged for it.) No power and light. (Again, volun-
> > teers made sure that anyone who needed these things
> > had them.) The world just stops, because a people 
> > decides to collectively say, "NO!"
> 
> The Day Paris Stood Still
> 
> I agree Barry, in theory at least, but in 
> practicality how do you get 300 million
> people (or at least the percentage that's
> actually working) to do anything en masse?

An intelligent point from Sal for a change, one I had
made in a previous post. (Although compared to the
level of intelligence required to fail to realize how
vastly much more difficult it would be, it ain't saying
much.)

And of course it isn't just the numbers; it's also the
different interests of different parts of the country.

[FairfieldLife] Re: The bottom line of health care reform -- America gets what it deserves

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine  wrote:
>
> On Dec 28, 2009, at 12:42 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> > But NONE of these things compares to being there
> > on the streets of Paris during a General Strike.
> > 
> > The POWER of it astounds. Millions and millions
> > of people just saying "NO!" And being willing to
> > put their asses on the line by *living* "NO!"
> > 
> > No cabs. No taxis. No buses. No subways. No planes.
> > No trucks. As a result, no deliveries to markets.
> > No food. (People shared what they had.) No health
> > care providers, because they were out on strike,
> > too. (In reality, they volunteered their services
> > to take care of emergency patients, and never 
> > charged for it.) No power and light. (Again, volun-
> > teers made sure that anyone who needed these things
> > had them.) The world just stops, because a people 
> > decides to collectively say, "NO!"
> 
> The Day Paris Stood Still
> 
> I agree Barry, in theory at least, but in 
> practicality how do you get 300 million
> people (or at least the percentage that's
> actually working) to do anything en masse?

In America? Educate people that doing something 
for society as a whole is more important than 
"doing for oneself." In France they've never
lost sight of that, and don't have any need
for remedial education.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another indication that Sarah Palin can become the next president

[WillyTex]

> > ...or perhaps relocate to Fairfield and be 
> > insulated by the folk there. 
> >
TurquoiseB wrote:
> Have you *read* Fairfield Life lately? :-) 
> Fairfielders do not sound all that "insulated" 
> to me... 
>
You guys take the cake! Both your comments are
stupid and hateful. You two suck as spiritual
teachers! I don't know who you guys think you 
are, but you're name is mud all over Fairfield.

Your name doesn't even appear on the TMO list of
TM teachers in good standing at the Fairfield TM
Center. Apparently you are impostors. Let's see
your credentials.

You two need to get some smarts: Sarah Palin is 
very popular in Iowa - lot's of people up there 
love Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee.

But, I wonder how many FFL respondents live in 
FairField? Three or four? 

"An Iowa Poll taken Nov. 8-11 by the Des Moines 
Register newspaper showed 68 percent of Iowa 
Republicans view Palin favorably. That is almost 
as high as the 70 percent favorability recorded 
for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who 
won the state's 2008 Republican presidential 
caucuses. The poll has a margin of error of 4.2 
percentage points..."

Read more:

'Palin Iowa Stop Lifts Speculation on Presidential Run'
By John McCormick
Bloomberg, December 7, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/yeljax9

[FairfieldLife] More CO2: a GOOD thing!

[ShempMcGurk]

Can Carbon Dioxide Be A Good Thing?

Physicist Explains Benefits Of Carbon Dioxide

June 1, 2007 — A physicist from Colorado State University and his colleagues 
from the North American Carbon Program (NACP) have discerned and confirmed the 
unforeseen advantages of rising carbon dioxide levels. Through the processes of 
photosynthesis and respiration, scientists have been able to elucidate why 
plants are growing more rapidly than they are dying. The NACP is employing 
methods, such as the use of cell phone and aircraft towers to monitor and 
retrieve carbon data for their continuing study.

Too much carbon dioxide can be a bad thing, but sometimes it can have a 
positive effect on plants and trees. The more carbon emissions we dump into the 
air, the faster forests and plants grow.

This new revelation is the result of research done by the North American carbon 
program. Scott Denning, Ph.D., a physicist from Colorado State University in 
Fort Collins, Colorado, explains the North American Carbon Program, "We are 
measuring CO2 in the atmosphere at dozens of places every hour around the 
United States and Canada."

About 100 cell phone and aircraft towers dotting the North American landscape 
are providing a network to measure CO2 in the atmosphere. Physicists tracking 
the data have found an unexpected benefit of rising carbon dioxide levels. Dr. 
Denning says it's unusual. "Stuff is growing faster than it's dying, which is 
weird," he says.

The answer may have more to do with how plants use CO2. During photosynthesis, 
plants take in carbon dioxide from the air to make food, but as a plant decays, 
CO2 is released back it into the air. Plans are underway to use cell phone 
towers worldwide for measuring CO2, expanding the carbon program globally. The 
bad part is plants can't clean the air as fast as we are polluting it.

BACKGROUND: Carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, is a greenhouse gas released 
into the atmosphere as a direct result of human activities all the time. This 
in turn raises the temperature of the earth, leading to global climate change. 
The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has already increased by about 30% since 
the beginning of the industrial revolution in the late 1800s. Most of this 
increase comes from using fossil fuel -- coal, oil and natural gas -- for 
energy, but approximately 25 percent of the carbon came from changes in land 
use, such as the clearing of forests and the cultivation of soils for food 
production. Natural sources of atmospheric carbon include gases emitted by 
volcanoes, and respiration of living things. We breathe in oxygen, and breathe 
out carbon dioxide.

CAPTURING CARBON: It is possible to reduce the amount of CO2 released into the 
atmosphere by modern power plants by as much as 80-90% through carbon capture 
and storage technologies. The downside is that the fuel needs of a plant would 
increase by 10-40% in order to capture and store the carbon dioxide, thereby 
increasing operating costs by 30-60%. There are three basic ways to capture 
carbon. One is the remove it after burning fossil fuels, an approach that is 
already being used on a small scale by conventional power plants. Or the fossil 
fuel can be turned into a gas before the burning process and captured from the 
exhaust stream in a purer form of CO2 and water vapor. A third emerging option 
is called chemical looping combustion, in which metal particles interact with 
the fuel and produce solid metal particles and a mix of CO2 and water vapor 
than can be captured and transported to a storage site.

STORING CARBON: There are many alternatives for storing the captured CO2. The 
most promising is storing the CO2 deep in rocky formations in the earth, 
including oil and gas fields, and unminable coal seams, using various trapping 
mechanisms to ensure the CO2 doesn't escape back to the surface. In fact, 
injecting CO2 into oil fields can increase oil recovery, thereby offsetting the 
extra cost of storage. Another option is ocean storage, in which CO2 in 
injected deep into the ocean, where it dissolves, or deposited onto the ocean 
floor, where it is denser than water and therefore forms a "lake" of CO2. The 
downside is that an excess of CO2 in ocean waters increases acidification and 
can kill marine organisms. A third option is trapping the carbon in stable 
minerals permanently by reacting the CO2 with metal oxides. But the reaction 
rate is slow. You need expensive pre-treatment to speed up the process, which 
would increase energy costs as much as 60-180%.

The American Geophysics Union and the American Meteorological Society 
contributed to the information contained in the video portion of this report.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another indication that Sarah Palin can become the next president

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71"  wrote:

> Oy, if Sarah Palin ever wins anything important, nationally,
> I just will need to leave the USA because that will mean
> there are too many stupid and hateful people around here -
> or perhaps relocate to Fairfield and be insulated by the
> folk there. Or perhaps divide the country in 2, and Palin 
> supporters can live in one half, and they rest of us in
> the other.  I just cannot imagine how anyone could think
> she should be in charge of anything.

Most of us don't, actually. "Most admired" doesn't equate 
to "should be in charge." I'd guess that's even more the
case for "most admired woman" than for "most admired man."

On the other hand, you should be reassured by the fact
that George W. Bush was "most admired" by only 4 percent 
of respondents, compared to 30 percent for Obama.

> It is as if our populace looks at governing and voting
> as a reality game show of some sort.  . Where are the
> sane and decent Republicans?

They've all become Democrats. ;-)

[FairfieldLife] ZERO rise in CO2 in atmosphere in past 160 years

[ShempMcGurk]

No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research 
Finds

ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human 
activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the 
oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted 
carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.

However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to 
absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne 
fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to 
increase.

Many climate models also assume that the airborne fraction will increase. 
Because understanding of the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide is important 
for predicting future climate change, it is essential to have accurate 
knowledge of whether that fraction is changing or will change as emissions 
increase.

To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of 
the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed 
available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and 
considers the uncertainties in the data.

In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of 
carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the 
most recent five decades.

The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The bottom line of health care reform -- America gets what it deserves

[Sal Sunshine]

On Dec 28, 2009, at 12:42 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> But NONE of these things compares to being there
> on the streets of Paris during a General Strike.
> 
> The POWER of it astounds. Millions and millions
> of people just saying "NO!" And being willing to
> put their asses on the line by *living* "NO!"
> 
> No cabs. No taxis. No buses. No subways. No planes.
> No trucks. As a result, no deliveries to markets.
> No food. (People shared what they had.) No health
> care providers, because they were out on strike,
> too. (In reality, they volunteered their services
> to take care of emergency patients, and never 
> charged for it.) No power and light. (Again, volun-
> teers made sure that anyone who needed these things
> had them.) The world just stops, because a people 
> decides to collectively say, "NO!"

The Day Paris Stood Still

I agree Barry, in theory at least, but in 
practicality how do you get 300 million
people (or at least the percentage that's
actually working) to do anything en masse?

Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another indication that Sarah Palin can become the next president

[authfriend]

Barry defines "correcting Barry's ignorance and
misstatements" as "heads exploding."

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> Tried to send this once and it went nowhere.
> Trying again because I love watching the
> America defenders' heads explode.
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71"  wrote:
> >
> > Oy, if Sarah Palin ever wins anything important, nationally, 
> > I just will need to leave the USA because that will mean 
> > there are too many stupid and hateful people around here...
> 
> Been there, done that. :-)
> 
> There's a big, wide world out there, in which
> at least a dozen countries have a better standard
> of living than the US...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_index

First note that Barry misstates what this index measures:
it's quality of life, not standard of living. Quality of
life is much more subjective than standard of living:

"The idea of a 'standard' may be contrasted with the
quality of life, which takes into account not only the
material standard of living, but also other more
intangible aspects that make up human life, such as
leisure, safety, cultural resources, social life,
physical health, environmental quality issues etc.
More complex means of measuring well-being must be
employed to make such judgments, and these are very
often political, thus controversial. Even between two
nations or societies that have similar material
standards of living, quality of life factors may in
fact make one of these places more attractive to a
given individual or group."

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

Wikipedia doesn't have a standard-of-living index,
but the U.S. would be much closer to the top of such
an index.

Next, for a little perspective, check out the map on
the Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quality-of-life_2005.svg

Note that the U.S. is *by far* the largest country
in terms of population with a high quality-of-life
index.

And then look at the index itself. The U.S. is 13th
on a list of 111 countries; 58 more countries weren't
included in the index because of insufficient data.

There's less than 3/4 of a point (out of 10)
difference between the U.S. (7.6) and the top-ranked
country, Ireland (8.3). The lowest-ranked country is
3.7 points lower than the U.S., at 3.9. (Spain is
about 0.1 point higher than the U.S. Wow.)

In other words, in that "big, wide world out there,"
the U.S. does quite well, especially for so large a
country, even by subjective measurement. (Ireland???)

> The main difference is *quality of life* for the
> individual. Yes, to some extent I walked away from
> a society in which I was tired of being constantly
> bombarded by FEAR on its media, but to a greater
> extent I walked *to* a place where that wasn't
> happening.

This from the person who always claims he has no need
to defend himself or his actions...and that those who 
do so are really only trying to convince *themselves*
of their own Rightness.


> People in America look at *reality* as if it were a
> reality game show of some sort. They have been told
> by statisticians like Nate Silver that the chances of
> them being harmed by a terrorist on an airplane are
> astronomically low.

Well, no, "they" haven't "been told" this. Nate Silver
said it on his blog, which is not exactly something
read by large numbers of people. Most of them, in fact,
*don't* know this.

 They could board 20 flights a year
> and be statistically less at risk than they are of
> being struck by lightning. But what's on the Evening
> News? More fear propaganda about the "need" to beef
> up airport security

Including from Barry's idol, Big Daddy Obama. (Barry
doesn't *watch* "the Evening News," so he does not,
in fact, know what's on it. Obviously he isn't aware
that Obama has been making a huge deal about improving
security since the panty-bomber's little stunt.)

As far as I know, there hasn't been a scientific poll
yet on this issue, but I'd wager a good bit of money
that a significant majority would prefer to fly
*without* all the airport/airline security theater,
even if they haven't seen Silver's statistics.

It should be noted as well that Silver bases his stats
on terrorist incidents in the past decade, for most of
which post-9/11 security measures have been in place. If
we were to ratchet down those measures, the odds might
well become considerably worse.

 and stupid-ass politicians like
> Joe Lieberman demanding that the US bomb Yemen.

Lieberman is scum for all sorts of reasons, but he
has not demanded that the U.S. bomb Yemen. That's
Barry's fantasy. What he said was that we must "act
preemptively" in Yemen.

And Big Daddy Obama is way ahead of him. The U.S. has
been acting preemptively in Yemen, working with the
government (such as it is) and on our own for more
than a year now to neutralize terrorist activity.

The U.S. has its problems, no question about it. But
as with practically every other point Barry tries to
make, he's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another indication that Sarah Palin can become the next president

[WillyTex]

wayback71 wrote:
> Oy, if Sarah Palin ever wins anything 
> important, nationally, I just will need 
> to leave the USA...
>
Don't you just hate that Sarah Palin!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-bye Thomas Edison...

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"  
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > My only problem with the article below is that at my age I need a
> > lot of light to read. Most of the fluorescent bulbs now available
> > don't put out enough light. They may be rated at 100 watts, but
> > the actual output is more like 60.
> 
> They do make even brighter ones. I light my office with one 
> of those oversized compact fluorescent bulbs. It actually 
> uses 65 watts of power, and its incandescent equivalence is 
> somewhere around 200-300 watts. They're not commonly available, 
> though; I can only get them at the big box home improvement stores. 

That's a good tip...thanks. So far I've only tried
the fluorescent bulbs (all American-made) commonly 
available in the stores. The brightest of them is
not bright enough for me. But I'll check the elec-
trical specialty stores.

[FairfieldLife] It's 2010 in Australia already

[TurquoiseB]

Fireworks and all:

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2009/12/31/vo.sydney.australia.new.year.img.html

Hope you all have a happy New Year's Eve and an even
happier new year. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-bye Thomas Edison...

[Alex Stanley]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> My only problem with the article below is that at my age I need a
> lot of light to read. Most of the fluorescent bulbs now available
> don't put out enough light. They may be rated at 100 watts, but
> the actual output is more like 60.

They do make even brighter ones. I light my office with one of those oversized 
compact fluorescent bulbs. It actually uses 65 watts of power, and its 
incandescent equivalence is somewhere around 200-300 watts. They're not 
commonly available, though; I can only get them at the big box home improvement 
stores. 

There are also desk lamps that use those very bright white LEDs. One of those 
is probably your best choice for a reading lamp.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bye-bye Thomas Edison...

[authfriend]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> ...inventor of the incandescent light bulb. In Spain, already you can no
> longer
> buy incandescent bulbs. They have been replaced by the far more energy-
> efficient flourescent bulbs that screw into the same sockets.
> 
> My only problem with the article below is that at my age
> I need a lot of light to read. Most of the fluorescent
> bulbs now available don't put out enough light. They may
> be rated at 100 watts, but the actual output is more
> like 60.

Well, that would be "now available" in Spain. Here, the
CFLs rated equivalent to 100 Watts are indeed equivalent.
(The CFL wattage is usually stated as 23.) I'm three years
older than Barry, and like him I need a lot of light to
read, not to mention to work when I have to work on
hardcopy. CFLs have improved a lot in the U.S. in the past
few years; Spain needs to catch up.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Movement 12-31-2009

[dhamiltony2k5]

>
> 
> TMorg Summary, late 2009
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Maharishi dies after milking his followers for millions
> > if not billions, and spends his last few days pitting
> > his richest followers against each other to milk even
> > more from them before he goes. The money is sent to
> > Maharishi's relatives in India, never to be seen 
> > again. The TM movement is reduced to selling off its 
> > real estate holdings to pay the bills.
> >
>

Anybody seen recent financial statements for Maharishi University of Management?

If one makes a charitable donation to the MUM annual fund, does the Prime 
Minister/university President still send half the money over off shore? to 
'International'?  Has anything changed that way?

Just Wondering.

[FairfieldLife] Who controls the money and assets in the TMO?

[It's just a ride]

My guess is that the TMO consists of non-profits owning non-profits
with money being laundered and flowing into the hands of Maharishi's
family and perhaps Bevin and Dr. John.

Could someone please explain to me who controls, in theory, these
various non-profits?  Maharishi didn't own anything, he was just the
spiritual leader no one would say "no" to.  Of course if you didn't
tell Maharishi where the money went/was going, he didn't know.  It's
not like he was omniscient or anything like that.

Raam Raj is the spiritual leader of the TMO.   He's got none of
Maharishi's charisma and he's quite young.  When the movement was
accumulating its wealth, Maharishi was always older than the average
hippie who went to TTC and became rank and file of the movement.  So I
suppose Raam Raj doesn't control where the money is spent, where
resources are allocated.  That leaves the Rajas.  If I understand
correctly, the Rajas are supposed to generate their own money, or that
was the plan Maharishi once sent up.  Basically you paid to train as a
Raja and got to run your own franchise of the TMO in your area.
Friends in Europe tell me that they propose the land to buy, the
buildings to place on the land, and the source of funding for all of
what's supposed to become a self-supporting enterprise within the TMO,
be it a health spa, a retreat area, a siddha village.

So who does control where the money goes in the TMO, both
theoretically and practically?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[WillyTex]

> > "aalaya" meaning "receptable" would make sense in
> > connection with the subconscious, in the sense of
> > a sort of storehouse, a place where you put stuff
> > that you don't want to have out in the open.
> > 
Erik wrote:
> That sure makes sense! 
>
Not a 'receptable' - a receptacle, a 'store-house' of
consciousness, from the Sanskrit 'alaya' and 'vijnana',
consciousness.  

"The Lankavatara Sutra describes the tier of consciousness 
in the individual, culminating in a 'store house' 
consciousness (alaya-vijnana), which is the base of the 
individual's deepest awareness and his tie to the cosmic..."

Lankavatara Sutra:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lankavatara_Sutra

[FairfieldLife] Bye-bye Thomas Edison...

[TurquoiseB]

...inventor of the incandescent light bulb. In Spain, already you can no
longer
buy incandescent bulbs. They have been replaced by the far more energy-
efficient flourescent bulbs that screw into the same sockets.

My only problem with the article below is that at my age I need a lot of
light
to read. Most of the fluorescent bulbs now available don't put out
enough
light. They may be rated at 100 watts, but the actual output is more
like 60.
I would suspect that the "glow-walls" discussed in this Times Online
article
would be the same. I love the idea, but more I love to read. I'd have to
have
glow-walls plus an incandescent reading lamp, and there goes the energy
savings.

Glowing walls could kill off the light bulb
Ben Webster, Environment Editor

Light-emitting wallpaper may begin to replace light bulbs from 2012,
according  to a government body that supports low-carbon technology.
A chemical coating on the walls will illuminate all parts of the room
with an  even glow, which mimics sunlight and avoids the shadows and
glare of  conventional bulbs.

Although an electrical current will be used to stimulate the chemicals
to  produce light, the voltage will be very low and the walls will be
safe to  touch. Dimmer switches will control brightness, as with
traditional lighting.

The Carbon Trust has awarded a £454,000 grant to Lomox, a Welsh
company that  is developing the organic light-emitting diode technology.
The trust said it  would be two and a half times more efficient than
energysaving bulbs and  could make a big contribution to meeting
Britain's target of cutting carbon  emissions by 34 per cent by
2020. Indoor lighting accounts for a sixth of  total electricity use.
The chemical coating, which can be applied in the form of specially
treated  wallpaper or simply painted straight on to walls, can also be
used for  flat-screen televisions, computers and mobile phone displays.
As the system uses only between three and five volts, it can be powered
by  solar panels or batteries. Lomox, which will use the grant to prove
the  durability of the technology, believes it could be used in the
first  instance to illuminate road signs or barriers where there is no
mains  electricity.

Ken Lacey, the chief executive of Lomox, said that the first products
would go  on sale in 2012. "The light is a very natural,
sunlight-type of lighting  with the full colour range. It gives you all
kinds of potential for how you  do lighting," he said.

Although organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been available for
several  years, Mr Lacey said that concerns over cost and durability had
prevented  further development. He said that Lomox had developed a much
cheaper process  and discovered a combination of chemicals that were not
vulnerable to the  oxidation that shortened the operating life span of
other types of organic  LEDs.

Mr Lacey said the technology could be used to make flexible screens that
could  be rolled up after use, or carried into a presentation, for
example.

Mark Williamson, director of innovations at the Carbon Trust, said:
"Lighting  is a major producer of carbon emissions. This technology
has the potential  to produce ultra-efficient lighting for a wide range
of applications,  tapping into a huge global market.

"It's a great example of the innovation that makes the UK a
hotbed of clean  technology development."

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[WillyTex]

Judy wrote:
> What does the Sanskrit phrase "Alaya Vigyan" mean? 
>
The 'Alaya Vijnana' means the 'store-house consciousness',
proposed by the 'consciousness-only' school of Vajrayana
Buddhism, founded by Asanga and Vasubandhu. 

This school had a profound effect on the thinking of 
Gaudapadacharya, the founder of the Advaita Vedanta school. 
Maharishi has based his TM technique on the principle that 
'Pure Consciousness' is the Absolute Being, the Ultimate 
Reality.

This doctrine is closely associated with the 'Trika' 
system of Kashmere - it is a fact that the Maharishi was
very close to the late Swami Laksmanjoo, the last guru of
the Kashmere tantrism. 

"The Alaya-vijnana is a receptacle and container of the 
so-called 'seeds' (bija), or elementary units of past 
experiences."

Read more:

/FairfieldLife/message/213975

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[Vaj]

You can always double-check with the THL, which includes Tibetan,  
Sanskrit and Sanskrit yogic terms:


http://www.thlib.org/reference/translation-tool/


On Dec 31, 2009, at 9:18 AM, cardemaister wrote:


After I wrote the above, I realized that in *Buddhism* 'vijñaana'
refers to consciousness, rather than mere knowledge, and stuff. That
basically obliterates(?) most what I wrote in this thread... :)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[cardemaister]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj  wrote:
>
> 
> On Dec 31, 2009, at 2:07 AM, cardemaister wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Yikes. Thanks, card. No, it's not much help, but I
> > > appreciate your going to the trouble.
> > >
> > > "aalaya" meaning "receptable" would make sense in
> > > connection with the subconscious, in the sense of
> > > a sort of storehouse, a place where you put stuff
> > > that you don't want to have out in the open.
> > >
> >
> > That sure makes sense! For that meaning, I would expect
> > the order 'vijñaanaalaya' (vijñaana + aalaya). But taking
> > 'aalaya' as a bahuvriihi compound or at least being an adjectival
> > noun might solve that "problem". So I think you hit the bull's eye.
> 
> 
> Alaya can mean, but not necessarily imply the "all ground", like the  
> TIbetan kungzhi.
> 

After I wrote the above, I realized that in *Buddhism* 'vijñaana'
refers to consciousness, rather than mere knowledge, and stuff. That
basically obliterates(?) most what I wrote in this thread... :)

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Movement 12-31-2009

[dhamiltony2k5]

TMorg Summary, late 2009
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>
> 
> Maharishi dies after milking his followers for millions
> if not billions, and spends his last few days pitting
> his richest followers against each other to milk even
> more from them before he goes. The money is sent to
> Maharishi's relatives in India, never to be seen 
> again. The TM movement is reduced to selling off its 
> real estate holdings to pay the bills.
>

[FairfieldLife] Videoclip of David Lynch's helicopterflight to Jyotir Math

[nablusoss1008]

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December 29th   Dr Adam
Pressman introduced two video clips of David Lynch's trip to India
(helicopter flight up through the majestic Himalayas to Jyotir Math, and
arrival in Jabalpur), and Bobby Roth summarized briefly some of the
major promotion angles being undertaken in the US. He told a story of
when Maharishi was asked why he was developing so many big projects in
education, agriculture, health, Vastu, etc., Maharishi answered that
we're digging the canals in the desert preparing for when the floods
come.
Dr Pressman mentioned that Raja Hagelin is writing a definitive book on
Modern Science and Vedic Science. Also that many video programmes are be
prepared with the David Lynch Foundation, e.g. a documentary on the
project for homeless men in New York. Also that DLFTV is offering its
services as a video producer to the Rajas and ministers, and that the
videos can be very useful for fundraising.
Raja Luis said that Guyana is transitioning to invincibility with a
series of Yogic Flying courses beginning in the coming days, which will
create enough flyers for invincibility. He explained that this is the
first time a country has made the transition to invincibility based on a
project undertaken by a government institution without the Movement
being established in the country. Great congratulations to Raja Luis!
Raja Luis also said 3 countries have now requested very large Vastu
housing developments using the inexpensive construction system he has
adopted.

http://www.maharishichannel.in/archives/gfc-archive.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit help, please

[Vaj]

On Dec 31, 2009, at 2:07 AM, cardemaister wrote:




--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"  wrote:
>
> Yikes. Thanks, card. No, it's not much help, but I
> appreciate your going to the trouble.
>
> "aalaya" meaning "receptable" would make sense in
> connection with the subconscious, in the sense of
> a sort of storehouse, a place where you put stuff
> that you don't want to have out in the open.
>

That sure makes sense! For that meaning, I would expect
the order 'vijñaanaalaya' (vijñaana + aalaya). But taking
'aalaya' as a bahuvriihi compound or at least being an adjectival
noun might solve that "problem". So I think you hit the bull's eye.



Alaya can mean, but not necessarily imply the "all ground", like the  
TIbetan kungzhi.


http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/All-ground

All-ground

All-ground (kun gzhi)


alaya - all-ground. Literally, the 'foundation of all things.' The  
basis of mind and both pure and impure phenomena. This word has  
different meanings in different contexts and should be understood  
accordingly. Sometimes it is synonymous with buddha nature or  
dharmakaya, the recognition of which is the basis for all pure  
phenomena; other times, as in the case of the 'ignorant all-ground,'  
it refers to a neutral state of dualistic mind that has not been  
embraced by innate wakefulness and thus is the basis for samsaric  
experience [RY]




As the "All-ground consciousness" (vijanana)



It is only the "ignorant all-ground", co-emergent ignorance (Tib. kun  
gzhi ma rig pa'i cha) that would be covered under the clumsy western  
term "the subconsious", not necessarily the alaya-vijnana.  
Unfortunately Theosophy reeked havoc with a lot of yogic technical  
terms and this is one of them.




http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/all-ground_consciousness



All-ground consciousness
(Redirected from all-ground consciousness)
alayavijnana, all-ground consciousness [IW]
See also: All-ground
all-ground consciousness. Def. thun mong spyi'i mtshan nyid ni / ma  
bsgribs la lung du ma bstan pa'i gtso bo'i rnam shes gang zhig bag  
chags kyi bgo bzhir gyur pa rnam smin dang sa bon thams cad ji ltar  
rigs pa bsten zhing don gyi ngo bo rig pa; alaya-vijnana. (RY)
Vajra body endowed with the six elements. The six outer elements are  
the five elements and the element of mental objects (chos khams). The  
six inner elements are flesh, blood, warmth, breath, vacuities and  
the all-ground consciousness. The six secret elements are the nadis  
as the stable earth element, the syllable HANG at the crown of the  
head as the liquid water element, the A-stroke at the navel center as  
the warm fire element, the life-prana (srog gi rlung) as the moving  
wind element, the avadhuti as the void space element, and the all- 
ground wisdom as the cognizant wisdom element. This last category is  
the uncommon explanation. (RY)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another indication that Sarah Palin can become the next president

[TurquoiseB]

Tried to send this once and it went nowhere.
Trying again because I love watching the
America defenders' heads explode.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71"  wrote:
>
> Oy, if Sarah Palin ever wins anything important, nationally, 
> I just will need to leave the USA because that will mean 
> there are too many stupid and hateful people around here...

Been there, done that. :-)

There's a big, wide world out there, in which
at least a dozen countries have a better standard
of living than the US...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_index
...and all of them have affordable health care. May 
I remind people that in France I paid 235 Euros 
*per year* for better health care than I got in the 
US for $600 *per month*. And I was *not* eligible 
for any "socialist" health care in France; this 
was private insurance, paid for by me.

> ...or perhaps relocate to Fairfield and be insulated by the 
> folk there. 

Have you *read* Fairfield Life lately? :-) Fairfielders
do not sound all that "insulated" to me. There is just
as much hatred and stupidity expressed here as in the
press. And they worry about the same things that the
rest of Americans worry about. 

This is *not* to say that these other countries are 
all that much "better" in terms of either intelligence
or lack of hatred. It's just not as *predominant* in
other countries as it is in the US. And it doesn't get
as much spotlight in the media because on the whole 
people try to hide their stupidity and hatred like the 
shame it is rather than be *proud* of it like they are 
in the US.

France has Sarkozy, who rose to power to some extent 
on a platform of intolerance and hatred, disguised by 
money and preaching to self-interest. The difference 
is that the French people know they can bring him to 
his knees any time they want by staging a General 
Strike. He knows it, too, so he is kept "in rein" to
some extent.

The main difference is *quality of life* for the 
individual. Yes, to some extent I walked away from
a society in which I was tired of being constantly
bombarded by FEAR on its media, but to a greater
extent I walked *to* a place where that wasn't 
happening. And still isn't. It's *not* that there
are not people -- and politicians -- as stupid as
Sarah Palin here. It's just that they rarely achieve
a position in which they can *do* anything with that
stupidity. The system still respects intelligence,
and more, it respects a general lifestyle that does
*not* revolve around fear and paranoia.

> Or perhaps divide the country in 2, and Palin supporters can 
> live in one half, and they rest of us in the other.  I just 
> cannot imagine how anyone could think she should be in charge 
> of anything.  

Stupid people like to think that people like them are
capable of running things. 

> It is as if our populace looks at governing and voting as a 
> reality game show of some sort.  

People in America look at *reality* as if it were a
reality game show of some sort. They have been told
by statisticians like Nate Silver that the chances of
them being harmed by a terrorist on an airplane are
astronomically low. They could board 20 flights a year
and be statistically less at risk than they are of
being struck by lightning. But what's on the Evening
News? More fear propaganda about the "need" to beef
up airport security and stupid-ass politicians like
Joe Lieberman demanding that the US bomb Yemen.
http://themoderatevoice.com/57331/nate-silver-does-the-math-on-airline-terror/

American media pander to FEAR because Americans *feed*
on FEAR. The latter seems to drive the former. If the
people wanted more intelligent, less paranoid media,
they'd get it, because the media only get paid by 
delivering what the viewers *want*.

The oppressive thing about America is the *vibe*, not
the individual problems. The very atmosphere is full
of fear-thoughts and paranoia-thoughts and me-first-
thoughts and stupidity-is-good thoughts and doing-a-
mediocre-job-is-good-enough thoughts; it pervades 
everything. Anyone with a tad of psychic abilities 
*has* to feel this, and be affected by it. I haven't 
felt that vibe in six years. Nor have the people I 
live with. 

> Where are the sane and decent Republicans?  There were a 
> few around when I was growing up, even if I would not vote 
> for them. At this rate, the aliens won't think we are ready 
> for knowledge for several more generations!

More like eons.

If the aliens land, they'll land in France. Aliens 
like good food and wine and cheeses that don't taste 
like styrofoam and the occasional intelligent 
conversation. Simple as that. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another indication that Sarah Palin can become the next president

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71"  wrote:
>
> Oy, if Sarah Palin ever wins anything important, nationally, 
> I just will need to leave the USA because that will mean 
> there are too many stupid and hateful people around here...

Been there, done that. :-)

There's a big, wide world out there, in which
at least a dozen countries have a better standard
of living than the US, and all of them have afford-
able health care. May I remind people that in France
I paid 235 Euros *per year* for better health care 
than I got in the US for $600 *per month*. And I was 
*not* eligible for any "socialist" health care in 
France; this was private insurance, paid for by me.

> ...or perhaps relocate to Fairfield and be insulated by the 
> folk there. 

Have you *read* Fairfield Life lately? :-) Fairfielders
do not sound all that "insulated" to me. There is just
as much hatred and stupidity expressed here as in the
press. And they worry about the same things that the
rest of Americans worry about. 

This is *not* to say that these other countries are 
all that much "better" in terms of either intelligence
or lack of hatred. It's just not as *predominant* in
other countries as it is in the US. And it doesn't get
as much spotlight in the media because on the whole 
people try to hide their stupidity and hatred like the 
shame it is rather than be *proud* of it like they are 
in the US.

France has Sarkozy, who rose to power to some extent 
on a platform of intolerance and hatred, disguised by 
money and preaching to self-interest. The difference 
is that the French people know they can bring him to 
his knees any time they want by staging a General 
Strike. He knows it, too, so he is kept "in rein" to
some extent.

The main difference is *quality of life* for the 
individual. Yes, to some extent I walked away from
a society in which I was tired of being constantly
bombarded by FEAR on its media, but to a greater
extent I walked *to* a place where that wasn't 
happening. And still isn't. It's *not* that there
are not people -- and politicians -- as stupid as
Sarah Palin here. It's just that they rarely achieve
a position in which they can *do* anything with that
stupidity. The system still respects intelligence,
and more, it respects a general lifestyle that does
*not* revolve around fear and paranoia.

> Or perhaps divide the country in 2, and Palin supporters can 
> live in one half, and they rest of us in the other.  I just 
> cannot imagine how anyone could think she should be in charge 
> of anything.  

Stupid people like to think that people like them are
capable of running things. 

> It is as if our populace looks at governing and voting as a 
> reality game show of some sort.  

People in America look at *reality* as if it were a
reality game show of some sort. They have been told
by statisticians like Nate Silver that the chances of
them being harmed by a terrorist on an airplane are
astronomically low. They could board 20 flights a year
and be statistically less at risk than they are of
being struck by lightning. But what's on the Evening
News? More fear propaganda about the "need" to beef
up airport security and stupid-ass politicians like
Joe Lieberman demanding that the US bomb Yemen.

American media pander to FEAR because Americans *feed*
on FEAR. The latter seems to drive the former. If the
people wanted more intelligent, less paranoid media,
they'd get it, because the media only get paid by 
delivering what the viewers *want*.

The oppressive thing about America is the *vibe*, not
the individual problems. The very atmosphere is full
of fear-thoughts and paranoia-thoughts and me-first-
thoughts and stupidity-is-good thoughts; it pervades 
everything. Anyone with a tad of psychic abilities 
*has* to feel this, and be affected by it. I haven't 
felt that vibe in six years. Nor have the people I 
live with. 

> Where are the sane and decent Republicans?  There were a 
> few around when I was growing up, even if I would not vote 
> for them. At this rate, the aliens won't think we are ready 
> for knowledge for several more generations!

More like eons.

If they land, they'll land in France. Aliens like
good food and wine and cheeses that don't taste like
styrofoam and the occasional intelligent conversation. 
Simple as that. :-)

[FairfieldLife] Cal Tjader Plays Guachi Guara

[John]

Listen to the 3:2 pattern of the clave.  Enjoy it (disfrutalo)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQMvidVo5Y&feature=rec-fresh+div-r-1-HM 

[FairfieldLife] The Secret to Playing Latin Music

[John]

It's all in the clave!  Take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dafWseVsJCY&feature=related