[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Floating experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Oh, I get it, as a conservative, I'm not supposed to giggle or comment on someones Freudian slip... because I'm conservative and *supposed* to be totally ignorant of gay culture. I'm not saying that at all. It's just that when a conservative does it, there's an additional layer of humor. Alex, are there conservative gays?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ali Stephens on modeling meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: http://dlf.tv/2010/ali-stephens/ If you judge that she needs a checking Nabby, I'd like you to know I'm ready and willing...(I've got those notes round here somewhere!) All you need is Slowly open the thighs. I love how, after 10 years of meditation, she sounds like every other model I have ever heard interviewed.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Delicious Irony
TurquoiseB: I find it funny that Willytex, by far the person on this forum most terrified of terrorism, and most willing to torture Ay-rabs and other furriners to keep it from happening, has a terrorist attack happen in his home town, one committed by a fellow Texan who probably shared all his political views. Whether life is purely random of planned out by a God with a sick sense of humor, sometimes it really *is* funny. Maybe Turq is the person that is most terrified of the IRS! But, Austin isn't my home town - I live in Hays County. Apparently the suicide bomber, Jack Stack, was not from Texas. It's obvious that Turq is prejudiced against people who live in Texas. My name isn't even 'Willytex'!. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Pirate TV experience vs. your real-time US TV experience
TurquoiseB wrote: TV watching as a pirate provides an even more profoundly different experience than the time-wasting legal stuff and previews they sometimes force you to watch on DVDs. I can honestly state for the record that -- outside of cute commercials I have later seen on YouTube -- I have not been forced to sit through a single commercial message in six years. In France, on broadcast TV they wisely put all the com- mercials at the start and the end of the shows. And they are such a movie-loving nation that they don't interrupt 2-hour movies for commercials, either. In Spain I don't even have broadcast TV. Now compare to the U.S. An average episode of 24, which interestingly is supposed to be happening in real time, is really about 40 minutes long (pirates considerately cut out all the commercials before posting the torrents). The other 20 minutes is commercials. So if you an average American and watch four hours of TV a day (source: A.C. Nielsen Co., referenced below), that means that you spend one-third of those hours watching commercials. Nielsen has a very difficult time ferreting out the DVR watchers who use 30 second buttons to skip over commercials. I did a Nielson survey back in the 1990s. I hardly watched any broadcast TV at the time and mostly rental videos (laser discs mostly). They had NOTHING in that survey to account for people watching rentals they were SO FAR behind the times. I wrote about that in the comments section because the survey barely fit me. OnDemand will have commercial breaks but often just limited to 15 or 30 second show promos. Comcast disables the skips for OnDemand but you can fast forward (one speed only ) through them. I usually record the shows instead. As for the poor sponsors I hardly buy anything they're advertising and the movie trailers shown I've usually already seen. Europe (mainly the UK) has had subscription TV for decades. Some of that only went away as people wanted more channels and the governments couldn't do that. Of course the good ol' bastion of capitalism the USA has to celebrate free enterprise and figure out how to put something in between the commercials to get people to even turn on the TV. Younger folks are watching shows online instead of on TVs. Last weekends experience with Hulu was quite fun even though they have unskippable commercials they're usually only 30 seconds worth. When the national language of Spain becomes English then you'll have the movie releases at the same time as the rest of the world. In the meantime it takes a while for studios to make dubbed or subtitled versions. Likewise some foreign titles take a while to reach the US for the same reason. It was that film prints costing $2K apiece slowed this but now more and more theaters are going digital and get the film files via satellite, broadband or even Bluray. The films are stored on a server at the theater with of course mucho DRM.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
They went from bliss to dejection to babbling, singing spirituals and gospels in bars and cafes. Curtis: Important distinction: I play the devil's music Richard, never spirituals and gospels. So, you DO have a religion! Although many blues songs sound like gospels if you substitute the word Jesus for baby, I need to acknowledge my sponsor. So, you DO sing spirituals and gospels! But I gotta say, the love that pours out of both of you is mighty impressive. I'm sure Maharishi would be proud to know that his teaching is being used as way to insult people who don't believe in it. So, you did sell the snake-oil! (Your phrase). Any chance you guys missed the first sidhis block? Like I said, by their own account: two Barrys, Curtis, Edg, Vaj, Sal, Hugo, Geez, and Do. I didn't make anything up. I don't agree with it - I just report, you decide. It's all right here in the archives - the sad story of what it's like going down the rabbit hole.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Delicious Irony
TurquoiseB wrote: I find it funny that Willytex, by far the person on this forum most terrified of terrorism, and most willing to torture Ay-rabs and other furriners to keep it from happening, has a terrorist attack happen in his home town, one committed by a fellow Texan who probably shared all his political views. Whether life is purely random of planned out by a God with a sick sense of humor, sometimes it really *is* funny. This guy was a software developer and apparently the only problem the IRS had with him is that he didn't file in 1994. Or they lost his return which would make anyone angry. I would even wonder if that fell outside of the statute of limitations? Anyway his protest was certainly a bit over the top. I read the guys rant (even CBS News published it). Funny thing is I remember some guy at a developers conference back in 1988 making a lot of noise about the recent tax changes. Since I also was a professional musician I knew those meant only a slight difference on the way independent contractor income was reported. That said California actually double dipped on a client of mine claiming I was his employee when I had paid taxes myself the state was entitled to as a contractor. He was too wimpy to fight them. Alex Jones took advantage of the incident to say that as the government says the burning building should be falling on its footprint any minute now. He also thinks the government will try to blame the patriot web sites for this.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 30% of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed earth together
do: Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time... Over a third of Texans emigrated here from somewhere else. Native Texans believe humans were here long before the squatters came. But it's a fact, John, that where you come from, almost everyone believes that Jesus Christ walked in South America.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Your Pirate TV experience vs. your real-time US TV experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: When the national language of Spain becomes English then you'll have the movie releases at the same time as the rest of the world. In the meantime it takes a while for studios to make dubbed or subtitled versions. Likewise some foreign titles take a while to reach the US for the same reason. Just as counterpoint, the average movie script is 90 to 120 pages long. When I create a documentation release it often totals over 2800 pages. The company I work for has it translated into 7 different languages within a month. As further counterpoint, the first release of a new pirated movie is often not in English. You tend to see the first copies coming from Russia or Spain. But within two days someone has added an English soundtrack for it if the film was originally in English, or added an SRT file with subtitles if it isn't. And these are pirates, in most cases doing all of this for free. And you're saying it takes a movie studio with a spare 300 million to spend on a film six months to translate it? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Your Pirate TV experience vs. your real-time US TV experience
TurquoiseB: TV watching as a pirate... So, you're not only terrified of the IRS, but you're scared as hell that the RIAA knows your personal computer ID after your pirating? You could throw the laptop into the sea, and get the hell out of Dodge, I guess. But I don't know how you're to deal with the IRS, now that you've confessed here to the pirating. Maybe you're thinking about doing something rash. Please don't fly a plane into a building over in in Seville!
[FairfieldLife] Re: For curtis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Sweetheart post of the week award Raunchy. Thanks with a big hug! I love Jimi. Like many guitarists my age I started playing a Stratocaster in his style before I swam upstream to the acoustic style that captured me completely. Now I don't own an electric guitar. I sold my Strat to buy an African gourd banjo which is the godfather to all this music. It was years later that I discovered that Jimi was listening to the same guys I play now! Hey Curtis - I am a hopeless-case Jimi nut. One of my all time favourites is the blues he did at Woodstock (Villanova Junction). I know it's nothing directly like what you're now into - and I guess you know the piece anyway - but to me it sums up the guy's phenomenal musical imagination. It's 12 bar - but taken to a place I only think Jimi could go? Thinking about this I went on You Tube, and WTF someone's got it off to a tee (well almost - he can't quite get the rightness of some of Jimi's throwaway notes and rhythmic touches IMO!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF18JLDF7J0 I play a bit and I think it's so cool to see the moves. The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2m-tR_7tS8
[FairfieldLife] Will facing East or Vastu prevent foreclosure
I'd be interested if the vastu office building, which has perhaps the highest rents in the D.C. are is immune from foreclosure. In D.C., more evidence that commercial real estate headed for foreclosure crisis By V. Dion Hayneshttp://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/v.+dion+haynes/ Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 19, 2010 A mortgage crisis like the one that has devastated homeowners is enveloping the nation's office and retail buildings, and few places are likely to be hit as hard as Washington. This Story - Another wave of real estate distresshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/02/18/ST2010021806024.html - Commercial real estate 'underwater'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021805821.html - Growing distresshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2010/02/19/GR2010021900111.html The foreclosure wave is likely to swamp many smaller community banks across the country, and many well-known properties, including Washington's Mayflower Hotel and the Boulevard at the Capital Centre in Largo, are at risk, industry analysts say. The new round of financial pain, which some had anticipated but hoped to avoid, now seems all but certain. There's been an enormous bubble in commercial real estate, and it has to come down, said Elizabeth Warrenhttp://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Elizabeth_Warren, chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel, the watchdog created by Congress to monitor the financial bailout. There will be significant bankruptcies among developers and significant failures among community banks. Unlike the largest banks, such as Citigroup and Wachovia, that got into so much trouble early on, the community banks in general fared better in the residential mortgage crisis. But their turn is coming: Not only did community banks issue a higher proportion of commercial loans, but they also have held on to them rather than sell them to other investors. Nearly 3,000 community banks -- 40 percent of the banking system -- have a high proportion of commercial real estate loans relative to their capital, said Warren, whose committee issued a report on commercial real estate last week. Every dollar they lose in commercial real estate is a dollar they can't use for small businesses, she said. Individuals -- who saw their home values drop in the residential mortgage crisis -- would not feel that kind of loss, but, Warren said, a large-scale failure would throw sand into the gears of economic recovery. In Washington, the number of troubled properties has multiplied at a phenomenal rate, with the value growing from only $13 million in 2007 to $40 billion now, according to CoStar Group, a Bethesda real estate research company. The region trails only South Florida and metropolitan New York in the per capita value of commercial real estate assets in foreclosure, default or delinquency, according to the research group Real Capital Analytics. The threat is especially acute in the District, the firm said, where the catalogue of troubled commercial real estate properties has grown tenfold since April. Moreover, the region has $7.3 billion in commercial properties that are underwater -- worth less than the mortgages on them -- according to CoStar. Whether the commercial real estate bubble bursts in a catastrophic event or subsides slowly and less dangerously will be determined during the next year. An immediate crisis was postponed when domestic and foreign investors began snatching up troubled properties at bargain prices. And banks more and more are renegotiating loans, extending the terms by a year or two in the hope that conditions will improve rather than calling in mortgages that cannot be paid. In Washington, the office vacancy rate stopped ballooning in the fourth quarter of last year for the first time since the first quarter of 2006, according to CoStar, although largely for an unfortunate reason: The space was being filled mainly by office workers hired to handle the plethora of bankruptcy filings and workouts of borrowers who need to renegotiate bad debt. And last quarter, for the first time since the second quarter of 2008, the Washington area office market saw a strong net gain -- 925,000 square feet of space that had been absorbed or leased by new tenants, according to CoStar. There's light at the end of the tunnel, said Andrew Florance, chief executive of CoStar. But in commercial real estate it's a very, very long tunnel and many people will not come out of it. *'Do the math'* Nationwide, at least $1.4 trillion in commercial real estate debt is expected to roll over during the next three years. Warren said that half of commercial real estate mortgages will be underwater by the beginning of 2011. A fifth of residential mortgages are underwater now, she said. Unlike residential mortgages, which often can be paid over 30 years, commercial real estate mortgages typically must be paid off or
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Floating experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_re...@... wrote: Alex, are there conservative gays? Yep. For example, the Log Cabinettes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your Pirate TV experience vs. your real-time US TV experience
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: When the national language of Spain becomes English then you'll have the movie releases at the same time as the rest of the world. In the meantime it takes a while for studios to make dubbed or subtitled versions. Likewise some foreign titles take a while to reach the US for the same reason. Just as counterpoint, the average movie script is 90 to 120 pages long. When I create a documentation release it often totals over 2800 pages. The company I work for has it translated into 7 different languages within a month. As further counterpoint, the first release of a new pirated movie is often not in English. You tend to see the first copies coming from Russia or Spain. But within two days someone has added an English soundtrack for it if the film was originally in English, or added an SRT file with subtitles if it isn't. And these are pirates, in most cases doing all of this for free. And you're saying it takes a movie studio with a spare 300 million to spend on a film six months to translate it? :-) Yup, they're tightwads. Why else would they get upset over pirated movies? They aren't sensible people or they would have realized the Internet as a new means of distribution long ago. They are the frat boys in The Revenge of the Nerds (that movie might as well be an allegory about the studio heads and production people). And yes there is free subtitle software available. A month is a month and some movies are still in the editing suite a week before release. With digital distribution tight schedules will work. Again the US leads in digital distribution though my local multiplex is one of the few all digital theaters in the Bay Area (and I have no idea how that happened). I have read that some studios are underwriting Europe theaters going digital. Of course I was being factious about English becoming the national language of Spain. ;-) Doom9.org is the website that covers a lot of this stuff. Unfortunately the owner may be getting paranoid as he was really good at updating news (he's in Europe) about anti-piracy legislation but seems to be on the road and unable to keep his news blog up. Members in the forum contribute to news but are not as good at it as he is.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Important Message from Raja John Hagelin
Reprimanded. Trust who would the TMorg with their thots? Spoke today with someone who works for the movement that got reprimanded at work for what they had frankly said in this survey. Jeesus are the TM movement people behind this survey so insensitive to what they are dealing with or what! Solicitation from Hagelin that could seem so hopeful. Right. They got a public relations problem. Yeah, this is extremely bad form. That there could be any breath of a retribution for responding with any input. Betraying the surveying with retribution so quick this way using Hagelin's name, looks like his people just squandered some more of the capital of his name in this. Squandering goodwill, squandered capital when they do shit like this. God help 'em. Sent around last week, this was an interesting one to send to FFL (?) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: Delivered-To: dickmays@ Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:52:57 -0600 Subject: Important Message from Raja John Hagelin From: Raja John Hagelin's Office development@ To: dickmays@ X-MagicMail-UUID: 2bd6c2b0-199a-11df-9411-00065bf16b23 http://invincibleamerica.org/ Dear Yogic Flyer, I am writing to thank you for your contribution to our Invincible America Assembly-and to request your participation in an important survey, designed to help us help you attend group program more frequently (if you're not attending all group programs already!). In an effort to expand our Super Radiance numbers, which now teeter precariously around the minimal threshold of 1,760, to a more safe and desirable level-building towards the 2,500 level that Maharishi truly wanted for the US-I have established an Ideal Community Group to encourage individuals, families and businesses to move to Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City, and to help all the Yogic Flyers who are already here to attend group flying more regularly. As a starting point, this group has created an Online Survey. I strongly urge all Yogic Flyers living in our community to take 5 or 10 minutes to respond to this survey. Please let us know what we can do to help you attend program more frequently. And if you know Yogic Flyers in our community who may not receive this email, please pass this message on to them-or simply ask them to respond at: URL for online survey: http://www.tm.org/icsurvey1www.tm.org/icsurvey1 You can respond anonymously to the survey if you wish, but I would encourage you to provide your name and contact information, especially if you would like us to make specific changes. If we can accommodate your requests, we would like to get in touch. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Please do everything you can to attend group program, both now and throughout the coming months, so that we can maximize our needed influence of positivity and invincibility for our nation. Jai Guru Dev Raja John Hagelin Raja for Invincible America Copyright 2010, Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation. Publication or reproduction of this communication in any form is prohibited without permission.
[FairfieldLife] Re: For curtis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: I play a bit and I think it's so cool to see the moves. The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2m-tR_7tS8 That was great! Thanks for posting it. Lots of feeling. The thing about Jimi and Stevie Ray for me is not that they are technically impossible. Go into any local Guitar Center and I guarantee there is some teenager knocking out one of their songs note for note. But the difference is where the music is coming from. Jimi and Stevie Ray are both communicating their moment to moment feelings and for this music (blues and blues based rock) that is everything. It is what conveys the rightness you mentioned. Most players are coming from a memory space to make sure they get every note that Stevie and Jimi were producing from their hearts. In that way Jimi is an extension of the Delta players who were known for their raw direct emotional expression in their music compared to the slick more self-conscious styles that emerged in a lot of stylized urban blues. I am always drawn to players who are feeling and playing it directly. Sometimes you go to a club and you hear a guy playing even the feedback parts of Jimi's music note for note, but it lacks the emotional intensity of guys who actually play feedback as Jimi did as a sonic extension of his guitar. They will play it differently every time which is closer to what the greats do IMO. As Louis Armstrong said: You blows what you is! Another link they have to the Delta performers was their use of innovations to allow them to express more textures of emotions through their instruments. The Delta guys used slides to eke out every nuance from the strings, more like the human voice. They bent the notes of the harmonica changing the key so the notes were based on their own mouths and throats rather then the metal of the instrument. The use of feedback is directly linked with this tradition of innovation for more subtle expression as is the use of bending the strings. I have posted this before but no discussion of Jimi is complete for me without adding the only acoustic songs I know about that we have videos of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCH9MCOvrHYfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfyBkv7-rFQ Here is an audio of him playing around with an acoustic guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri4pz45l3-4feature=related Thanks for extending the rap! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQBbgb_Lvo --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Sweetheart post of the week award Raunchy. Thanks with a big hug! I love Jimi. Like many guitarists my age I started playing a Stratocaster in his style before I swam upstream to the acoustic style that captured me completely. Now I don't own an electric guitar. I sold my Strat to buy an African gourd banjo which is the godfather to all this music. It was years later that I discovered that Jimi was listening to the same guys I play now! Hey Curtis - I am a hopeless-case Jimi nut. One of my all time favourites is the blues he did at Woodstock (Villanova Junction). I know it's nothing directly like what you're now into - and I guess you know the piece anyway - but to me it sums up the guy's phenomenal musical imagination. It's 12 bar - but taken to a place I only think Jimi could go? Thinking about this I went on You Tube, and WTF someone's got it off to a tee (well almost - he can't quite get the rightness of some of Jimi's throwaway notes and rhythmic touches IMO!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF18JLDF7J0 I play a bit and I think it's so cool to see the moves. The original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2m-tR_7tS8
[FairfieldLife] Re: For curtis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Geez Nabby, I can't believe you posted Jimmy Hendrix in an attempt to insult Curtis. Haven't you heard Hendrix's Stone Free Star Spangled Banner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLgnY-W4pz0 He sounds like Curtis! Curtis and Hendrix make love making music, they're consummate chick magnets, banging out soul-stirring, string-busting, heart-breaking, funky fuck me blues. Curtis sings his heart out. Maybe he should kick it up a notch, a la Hendrix and smash and burn his guitar so you'll have a better appreciation of him. Nice, thanks for posting this. But how you dare compare a genius with a hillbilly is far beyond me. The americans are an interesting race producing some of the most bland garbage on this planet. Then from time to time they produce a genius who dares to do things very differently. Sometimes only slightly, like Michael Jackson whom your musical soul-mate curtis hates, to full fledge disciples for Masterhood like Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, John Scofield, Keith Jarret, Marc Johnson and (to some degree) Ry Cooder. It's interesting that these souls have gravitated towards an incarnation in the USA being still very much influenced by the pioneer spirit. I find this very interesting.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Floating experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote: Alex, are there conservative gays? Yep. For example, the Log Cabinettes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans Thanks for the reply. Ok. I agree completely. restoring snip Alex @wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Oh, I get it, as a conservative, I'm not supposed to giggle or comment on someones Freudian slip... because I'm conservative and *supposed* to be totally ignorant of gay culture. I'm not saying that at all. It's just that when a conservative does it, there's an additional layer of humor. Is that additional layer of humor different qualitatively when a straight conservative expresses it as opposed to a gay conservative? Just curious of your POV.
[FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife Overflow: a new Yahoo! group on the verge of being created
Barry Wright is the inspiration for the following... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willytex@ wrote: Should we show mercy to this poor sinner? :) Sal: Rick has my vote to stay! Rick - Rescind the posting limits. It's the only fair thing to do now. Otherwise, it's just a mockery. It was an outrageous idea in the first place - just a bias against Lawson and Judy. Don't let the neganauts take over the forum! Rescind the posting limits and I for one will leave the forum. I'm going to use what I believe to be my 48th post of the week to respond to Barry. First off, the above line, as you know Barry, will be archived by Judy to show as proof if the posting limits are rescinded because you, me, Judy and everyone else knows that you won't go anywhere. You love to hate too much to leave this forum...unless, of course, Judy goes somewhere else and then you may leave to follow her. Which some people might enjoy :-), but my bet is that about a dozen other posters would leave as well. I would remind people WHY the posting limits were created in the first place. Three posters -- two still present, one now gone -- were essentially Out Of Control and using their ability to post as much as they wanted to drown out others here. This is absurd. I don't know about anyone else but I view FFL on the Yahoo! template of the messages list which shows the titles of 30 posts at a time. It takes, literally, 5 seconds for me to skim the posters's names and the title of their thread in order for me to ascertain who has written what. This is hardly drowning out others as I can very easily skip those posters and concentrate on those I want to read. I don't know how others view this forum but I suspect it is differently ... or perhaps they have all posts emailed to them or something. But it simply isn't a burden to view the posts in this way. It was not uncommon for them to make hundreds of posts per week. When asked to voluntarily cut down their posting volume, all three categorically refused. I think we all know that is exactly what would happen again if the posting limits went away. I think that the posting limits are the best thing that ever happened to FFL, in that they create a more balanced forum, one on which someone who has no life and gets their kicks by sitting in a dingy room in front of a computer spewing hatred can do so as much as they want and thus dominate. Perhaps for you and your style of writing and the way you view the posts...you tend to make fewer long involved pieces...but others like a more shot gun approach; many responses of a few lines or words. It's a matter of personal preference. Can't say which is better or worse. IMO, anyone who can't express all that they have to say in 50 posts a week not only has no self control, they usually don't have that much to say in the first place. ...all in the eye of the beholder. But you seem to be quite invested in the 50 post thing by your very vociferous opposition to changing the status quo. Rick can post as much as he bloody well pleases. He owns the joint. Actually, if the posting limit is NOT lifted then nothing stops ANOTHER owner of ANOTHER joint to create their OWN joint. Perhaps it will be called FairfieldLife Overflow for those that want to post over and above the 50 posts per week limit. Do you suppose that once such a forum is created that members here won't peak in? And if they do, that they won't simply gravitate to putting ALL their posts on that forum merely due to the sheer convenience of staying on one forum? Rick, it's time to open this debate up again.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Floating experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote: Alex, are there conservative gays? Yep. For example, the Log Cabinettes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans Thanks for the reply. Ok. I agree completely. restoring snip Alex @wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Oh, I get it, as a conservative, I'm not supposed to giggle or comment on someones Freudian slip... because I'm conservative and *supposed* to be totally ignorant of gay culture. I'm not saying that at all. It's just that when a conservative does it, there's an additional layer of humor. Is that additional layer of humor different qualitatively when a straight conservative expresses it as opposed to a gay conservative? Just curious of your POV. Gay republicans are a pretty small fringe group, but I would not find it particularly funny if a gay conservative brought up the topic of buttsex, simply because gays generally don't have hang-ups about it (g0ys being freakish exceptions... see http://g0ys.org/ ) My impression from online forums, though, is that it is str8 male conservatives who are typically quick to bring up the topic of buttsex. Sounds to me like there are a *lot* of str8 men whose prostates are just screaming for a nice massage.
Re: [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife Overflow: a new Yahoo! group on the verge of being created
ShempMcGurk wrote: Actually, if the posting limit is NOT lifted then nothing stops ANOTHER owner of ANOTHER joint to create their OWN joint. Perhaps it will be called FairfieldLife Overflow for those that want to post over and above the 50 posts per week limit. Do you suppose that once such a forum is created that members here won't peak in? Or maybe Babble On. Does Sparig have Twitter account nowadays? That would be perfect for him. Don't know who would follow him though. ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote: snip However, I'll agree with you about Marc Johnson being a genius on the acoustic upright bass. I've recorded Marc twice for ECM. Amazing sound, technique and mind. Manfred Eicher only uses the best of the best people on this Planet in studio, fellows with amazing ears only; fools may not apply. If you are one of those few; all credit to you ! If you worked for Mr. Eicher I promize I will read every word you write here from now on :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Floating experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote: Alex, are there conservative gays? Yep. For example, the Log Cabinettes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans Thanks for the reply. Ok. I agree completely. restoring snip Alex @wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Oh, I get it, as a conservative, I'm not supposed to giggle or comment on someones Freudian slip... because I'm conservative and *supposed* to be totally ignorant of gay culture. I'm not saying that at all. It's just that when a conservative does it, there's an additional layer of humor. Is that additional layer of humor different qualitatively when a straight conservative expresses it as opposed to a gay conservative? Just curious of your POV. Gay republicans are a pretty small fringe group, but I would not find it particularly funny if a gay conservative brought up the topic of buttsex, simply because gays generally don't have hang-ups about it (g0ys being freakish exceptions... see http://g0ys.org/ ) My impression from online forums, though, is that it is str8 male conservatives who are typically quick to bring up the topic of buttsex. Sounds to me like there are a *lot* of str8 men whose prostates are just screaming for a nice massage. So you really don't want to address or answer my question. That's ok, it's a free country and all Surprises me though. Thought I get an honest exchange of POV.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
Why thank you Nabby. I worked on projects for ECM recorded in LA (at OceanWay Studios where I am as I write this) where Manfred did not attend. (He reputedly does not like LA.) He was pleased with the results though. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfreak@ wrote: snip However, I'll agree with you about Marc Johnson being a genius on the acoustic upright bass. I've recorded Marc twice for ECM. Amazing sound, technique and mind. Manfred Eicher only uses the best of the best people on this Planet in studio, fellows with amazing ears only; fools may not apply. If you are one of those few; all credit to you ! If you worked for Mr. Eicher I promize I will read every word you write here from now on :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Floating experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey no_reply@ wrote: Alex, are there conservative gays? Yep. For example, the Log Cabinettes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans Thanks for the reply. Ok. I agree completely. restoring snip Alex @wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: Oh, I get it, as a conservative, I'm not supposed to giggle or comment on someones Freudian slip... because I'm conservative and *supposed* to be totally ignorant of gay culture. I'm not saying that at all. It's just that when a conservative does it, there's an additional layer of humor. Is that additional layer of humor different qualitatively when a straight conservative expresses it as opposed to a gay conservative? Just curious of your POV. Gay republicans are a pretty small fringe group, but I would not find it particularly funny if a gay conservative brought up the topic of buttsex, simply because gays generally don't have hang-ups about it (g0ys being freakish exceptions... see http://g0ys.org/ ) My impression from online forums, though, is that it is str8 male conservatives who are typically quick to bring up the topic of buttsex. Sounds to me like there are a *lot* of str8 men whose prostates are just screaming for a nice massage. So you really don't want to address or answer my question. That's ok, it's a free country and all Surprises me though. Thought I get an honest exchange of POV. As I understand it, you asked if that added layer of humor is qualitatively different between str8 and gay conservatives bringing up the topic of buttsex, and I replied that it is basically nonexistent with gay conservatives. I.e., qualitatively, it is existent vs. nonexistent. As far as I'm concerned, I answered your question.
[FairfieldLife] The Tea Parties Are No 'Great Awakening'
The Tea Parties Are No 'Great Awakening' by Thomas Frank - February 17, 2010 Wall Street Journal - How glorious is the tea-party movement? Some talk of its purity of heart, its patriotic spontaneity, and its abundance of republican virtue. To hear others tell it, the movement is but a few steps away from sacred. After attending the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, the prominent blogger Glenn Reynolds wrote last week in the Washington Examiner that the movement amounted to America's Third Great Awakening, a massive popular rising against politicians and parties that have grown corrupt, venal and out-of-touch. How strange, then, that this flowering of populist integrity should have been tended and pruned and succored by a group of Beltway operators known primarily for their venality and insider power. Two weeks ago, the Washington Post sketched out a blueprint of the movement's leadership, naming the players and the organizations who have made the right's resurgence possible. It focused in particular on a shadowy but influential new outfit called the Conservative Action Project, which reportedly works to coordinate the movement's far-flung organizations, bloggers and publishers. What struck me about the Post's story was the familiarity of it all. In particular, I kept being reminded of that ultimate conservative insider, the now-imprisoned superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, and the work he did on behalf of the Northern Marianas Islands, where garment factories churned out Made in the USA clothing under re-education camp conditions. The object of Mr. Abramoff's lobbying, you will recall, was to protect that peculiar economic arrangement from federal meddling, a task his firm accomplished by bringing politicians, staffers and media types on trips to the tropical Marianas and urging them to understand the situation as a matter of liberty versus big government tyranny. Today, as Washington conservatives scramble to stay atop the growing grass-roots right, the cast of characters is remarkably similar. For example, the Team Abramoff lobbyist who ran the Marianas trips program in the 1990s, Patrick Pizzella, is reported by the Post to be the only paid staff member of the Conservative Action Project. According to the Washington Times, Mr. Pizzella has also been involved in the drafting of the Mount Vernon Statement, a conservative manifesto that is meant to rally the tea-partying base. Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) also makes an appearance in the Post story, as ATR sponsored the first round of tea parties a year ago and as Mr. Norquist's famous Wednesday morning meetings for conservative power brokers have provided a fertile medium for the movement's networking. Just a few years ago, however, those meetings were infamous for having served as showcases for Mr. Abramoff's clients. And then there is Dick Armey, the former House majority leader who has returned in triumph to the public stage in recent years as the chairman of the FreedomWorks pressure group and the de facto leader of the tea-party movement. Last month Mr. Armey even attended the annual meeting of the Republican National Committee to speak on the tea partiers' behalf. As you may recall, Mr. Armey was once one of Congress's staunchest defenders of the Marianas way. Several of his aides traveled to the free-market paradise, and in 1997 Mr. Armey even wrote a letter jointly with former Rep. Tom DeLay in which he praised the islands' dedication to the principles of free markets, enterprise, education choice, tax reform and other innovative approaches to governance. Behold your Third Great Awakening, America. Lobbyists, sweatshops, and the junkets designed by lobbyists to make sweatshops seem like liberty are, presumably, the sort of things tea partiers should have trouble with. Will the grass-roots nation call these gentlemen to account for their freedom flimflamming of the past? I wouldn't count on it. It is no secret, for example, that Mr. Armey was until recently something of a superlobbyist himself, ritually denouncing Washington's ways as he worked behind the scenes on behalf of multinational liquor conglomerates and international commercial real-estate concerns. His lobbying has been well-publicized since before the tea-party movement began. And yet criticism of Mr. Armey from the grass-roots right for that particular transgression remains difficult to find. The reason we haven't heard more in this respect, I suspect, is because deep down it doesn't offend. The history of conservative idealism is, in some ways, a history of lobbying, of ever-more inventive schemes to make politics answer to money. Each of the movement's succeeding bursts of idealism have led, ineluctably, to the doors of K Street. This one, I suspect, will be no different. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB2000142405274870480420457506978039314727\ 8.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: Manfred Eicher only uses the best of the best people on this Planet in studio, fellows with amazing ears only; fools may not apply. If you are one of those few; all credit to you ! If you worked for Mr. Eicher I promize I will read every word you write here from now on :-) Nabby, just curious, do you like Richard Wagner?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Uh, oh...:) Sal A couple were administrative posts, but if even one person feels I should take a week's hiatus, I'll do so. Ha. I do, and leave me the FFL keys an I'll house clean while you're gone. Or else close this den of anti-meditation iniquity entirely as you might leave for a week off. Either way, get thee to a forest academy. Would be a good penance for everyone here in all the world. Jai Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in FF
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
Without Rick, all selflessness and fine character is gone here. Is too much to do without Rick. I'm leaving too, gone to the woods. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Uh, oh...:) Sal A couple were administrative posts, but if even one person feels I should take a week's hiatus, I'll do so. Ha. I do, and leave me the FFL keys an I'll house clean while you're gone. Or else close this den of anti-meditation iniquity entirely as you might leave for a week off. Either way, get thee to a forest academy. Would be a good penance for everyone here in all the world. Jai Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in FF
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Feb 13 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Feb 20 00:00:00 2010 755 messages as of (UTC) Fri Feb 19 23:13:59 2010 52 Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com 50 authfriend jst...@panix.com 49 WillyTex willy...@yahoo.com 49 TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com 48 ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@netscape.net 46 do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com 40 curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com 38 Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net 33 nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 28 Vaj vajradh...@earthlink.net 28 It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com 27 nadarrombus royboyun...@yahoo.com 23 off_world_beings no_re...@yahoogroups.com 23 Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 21 Premanand premanandp...@yahoo.co.uk 20 cardemaister no_re...@yahoogroups.com 17 Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@lisco.com 16 PaliGap compost...@yahoo.co.uk 16 Hugo fintlewoodle...@mail.com 16 Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com 15 Joe geezerfr...@yahoo.com 15 BillyG wg...@yahoo.com 12 wle...@aol.com 11 John jr_...@yahoo.com 10 Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com 8 shukra69 shukr...@yahoo.ca 6 raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com 6 lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@sbcglobal.net 5 m 13 meowthirt...@yahoo.com 3 martyboi marty...@yahoo.com 3 azgrey no_re...@yahoogroups.com 3 Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com 2 merlin vedamer...@yahoo.de 2 guyfawkes91 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 wayback71 waybac...@yahoo.com 1 sgrayatlarge no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 pranamoocher bh...@hotmail.com 1 none smith tso...@hotmail.com 1 jessie jmer...@vastu2vaastu.com 1 hermandan0 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com 1 film_man_pdx no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 fillosofree fillosof...@yahoo.com 1 eustace10679 no_re...@yahoogroups.com 1 emptybill emptyb...@yahoo.com 1 dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@yahoo.com 1 Dick Mays dickm...@lisco.com 1 AnkhAton ankha...@yahoo.com Posters: 48 Saturday Morning 00:00 UTC Rollover Times = Daylight Saving Time (Summer): US Friday evening: PDT 5 PM - MDT 6 PM - CDT 7 PM - EDT 8 PM Europe Saturday: BST 1 AM CEST 2 AM EEST 3 AM Standard Time (Winter): US Friday evening: PST 4 PM - MST 5 PM - CST 6 PM - EST 7 PM Europe Saturday: GMT 12 AM CET 1 AM EET 2 AM For more information on Time Zones: www.worldtimezone.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
And, he means it. Just received in my Inbox: This is an automated email message to let you know that dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@yahoo.com unsubscribed from your FairfieldLife group. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: Without Rick, all selflessness and fine character is gone here. Is too much to do without Rick. I'm leaving too, gone to the woods. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Uh, oh...:) Sal A couple were administrative posts, but if even one person feels I should take a week's hiatus, I'll do so. Ha. I do, and leave me the FFL keys an I'll house clean while you're gone. Or else close this den of anti-meditation iniquity entirely as you might leave for a week off. Either way, get thee to a forest academy. Would be a good penance for everyone here in all the world. Jai Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in FF
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
Oh... so he took his football and went home? Wait, it's Rick's football. Alex Stanley wrote: And, he means it. Just received in my Inbox: This is an automated email message to let you know that dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@yahoo.com unsubscribed from your FairfieldLife group. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: Without Rick, all selflessness and fine character is gone here. Is too much to do without Rick. I'm leaving too, gone to the woods. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Uh, oh...:) Sal A couple were administrative posts, but if even one person feels I should take a week's hiatus, I'll do so. Ha. I do, and leave me the FFL keys an I'll house clean while you're gone. Or else close this den of anti-meditation iniquity entirely as you might leave for a week off. Either way, get thee to a forest academy. Would be a good penance for everyone here in all the world. Jai Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in FF
[FairfieldLife] So was Soma speed?
I finally got around to watching episode 1 of my recording of the PBS series on India last night. This was the series that was on a while ago and I caught episodes 5 6 then. In episode 1 they investigate what Soma is and some archaeologists believe it was a mix of poppies, cannabis and . ephedra. IOW, though people were really messed up on uppers and downers. BTW the series is now available on Blu-ray.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bhairitu Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 6:31 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count Oh... so he took his football and went home? Wait, it's Rick's football. He'll be back. I was only gone one day. Am I that addictive?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Rory's response to the Carlson exorcism claim
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: A different lurker asking, off-list: Who's this Rory Goff customer? Answer:Om,Rory has his experience and is legit himself that way. Like a lot of folks in FF now. But, by Blurting out what his spiritual experience actually is he drives the TM-quitters and the non-meditator writers on FFL especially crazy. Is an old history on FFL that way. Doug, are you capable of writing a fucking coherant sentence? Rory is very much a part of the Fairfield meditator community. And looks in on FFL occasionally. JGD, -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: Damn, you're good! I think there's gonna be a Curtisian Mystery School in our future! Thanks Alex but if I'm gunna work the Carny Circuit I want to be a Weight Guesser. They get paid to ogle and I think I am already pretty good at that! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Me with spooky deep eyes: The transversing planets within the universe of our own Self (reflected in the microcosmic self as personality rays) display the dynamics of tension arising from the opposing forces of the creative process within the cosmic core or the I am creator whose nature is know to those who have awakened their inner light as the SUN source of light, energy, and bliss for the totality of consciousness becoming aware of its own amness the unchanging absolute basis for all that changes and blossoms forth into what we know as the many levels of creation throughout all time and transcending time into the timelessness of our own infinite awakened SELF. Now give me a fiver or get out of the tent. NEXT! Damn, you're good! I think there's gonna be a Curtisian Mystery School in our future!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: And, he means it. Just received in my Inbox: This is an automated email message to let you know that dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... unsubscribed from your FairfieldLife group. I never get the unsubscribing drama. We can all come and go, post or not post. I would understand better if someone admitted that they have trouble staying off and needed to cut themselves off. But pinning it on Rick's time out? I guess it is a chance to flip everyone the bird. Without Rick, all selflessness and fine character is gone here. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Without Rick, all selflessness and fine character is gone here. Is too much to do without Rick. I'm leaving too, gone to the woods. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Uh, oh...:) Sal A couple were administrative posts, but if even one person feels I should take a week's hiatus, I'll do so. Ha. I do, and leave me the FFL keys an I'll house clean while you're gone. Or else close this den of anti-meditation iniquity entirely as you might leave for a week off. Either way, get thee to a forest academy. Would be a good penance for everyone here in all the world. Jai Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in FF
[FairfieldLife] Re: So was Soma speed?
Vedic speedball... kewl! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: I finally got around to watching episode 1 of my recording of the PBS series on India last night. This was the series that was on a while ago and I caught episodes 5 6 then. In episode 1 they investigate what Soma is and some archaeologists believe it was a mix of poppies, cannabis and . ephedra. IOW, though people were really messed up on uppers and downers. BTW the series is now available on Blu-ray.
Re: [FairfieldLife] So was Soma speed?
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I finally got around to watching episode 1 of my recording of the PBS series on India last night. This was the series that was on a while ago and I caught episodes 5 6 then. In episode 1 they investigate what Soma is and some archaeologists believe it was a mix of poppies, cannabis and . ephedra. IOW, though people were really messed up on uppers and downers. BTW the series is now available on Blu-ray.-- Explains why someone would drone on and on about green tinted Soma and milchkine. If you but soak up the sunlight you are given, drink each drop of water I send, and strive only to be yourself, life shall quicken in your roots, spirit shall raise you into the light, and your bloom will inspire the world.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Oh... so he took his football and went home? Wait, it's Rick's football. Alex Stanley wrote: And, he means it. Just received in my Inbox: Well, boo-hoo. Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rory's response to the Carlson exorcism claim
On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:40 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony...@... wrote: A different lurker asking, off-list: Who's this Rory Goff customer? Answer:Om,Rory has his experience and is legit himself that way. Like a lot of folks in FF now. But, by Blurting out what his spiritual experience actually is he drives the TM-quitters and the non-meditator writers on FFL especially crazy. Is an old history on FFL that way. Doug, are you capable of writing a fucking coherant sentence? No. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
Probably for the best. As the line in Little Shop of Horrors goes. You're talking peculiar Seymour (Doug) Seems to me he's been having trouble putting together a sentence lately. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: And, he means it. Just received in my Inbox: This is an automated email message to let you know that dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ unsubscribed from your FairfieldLife group. I never get the unsubscribing drama. We can all come and go, post or not post. I would understand better if someone admitted that they have trouble staying off and needed to cut themselves off. But pinning it on Rick's time out? I guess it is a chance to flip everyone the bird. Without Rick, all selflessness and fine character is gone here. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Without Rick, all selflessness and fine character is gone here. Is too much to do without Rick. I'm leaving too, gone to the woods. -Buck --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Uh, oh...:) Sal A couple were administrative posts, but if even one person feels I should take a week's hiatus, I'll do so. Ha. I do, and leave me the FFL keys an I'll house clean while you're gone. Or else close this den of anti-meditation iniquity entirely as you might leave for a week off. Either way, get thee to a forest academy. Would be a good penance for everyone here in all the world. Jai Jai Guru Dev, -Buck in FF
[FairfieldLife] Re: Rory's response to the Carlson exorcism claim
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: snip He's following this thread with bemusement. He is so fucking high. What doesn't he watch with bemusement? If only those who are not his devotees could understand what the f he's saying most of the time. I wouldn't call myself a devotee, but I am very fond of Rory (in a purely platonic, non-buttsecks kind of way, of course), and I usually have no idea what he's talking about when he's discussing esoteric spiritual stuff. Doesn't matter. I still like hanging with him at Revs.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Oh... so he took his football and went home? Wait, it's Rick's football. Alex Stanley wrote: And, he means it. Just received in my Inbox: Nah, he's just at stage one of the grieving process-denial. This will soon be followed by anger, remorse, and acceptance.well maybe not those last two. But perhaps he can use this time to develop some new grading systems - Ardent meditator, living in Fairfeld. Ardent meditator, but not living in Fairfield. Ardent meditator who one lived in Fairfield. Ardent meditator who once lived in Fairfield, left and came back. There could be hundreds of subsets. Could have a checklist before one can come on board. Well, boo-hoo. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Rory's response to the Carlson exorcism claim
Well, that's nice to hear. Not that my view counts for anything. I bet he is a nice fellow. Really, it almost sounds like a compulsion. Once he starts, he can't stop. Like if no one is around, maybe he would be talking his thing to the dog, or a bird outside. And why not. In his point of view, they likely would understand every word. And even talk back. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: snip He's following this thread with bemusement. He is so fucking high. What doesn't he watch with bemusement? If only those who are not his devotees could understand what the f he's saying most of the time. I wouldn't call myself a devotee, but I am very fond of Rory (in a purely platonic, non-buttsecks kind of way, of course), and I usually have no idea what he's talking about when he's discussing esoteric spiritual stuff. Doesn't matter. I still like hanging with him at Revs.
Re: [FairfieldLife] So was Soma speed?
On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Bhairitu wrote: I finally got around to watching episode 1 of my recording of the PBS series on India last night. This was the series that was on a while ago and I caught episodes 5 6 then. In episode 1 they investigate what Soma is and some archaeologists believe it was a mix of poppies, cannabis and . ephedra. IOW, though people were really messed up on uppers and downers. BTW the series is now available on Blu-ray. Have you never read Maharaj: A Biography of Shriman Tapasviji Maharaj, A Mahatma who lived for 185 years? Not to be missed for rasayana and amrita/immortality fans. Marshy was apparently quite familiar with the account, but was never quite able to discover the infamous hut retreat and Tapasviji sadhanas where one sheds the old body in favor of a new one--but he dragged along many naive students promising he would one day reveal it. Alas his long gone ashes tell the real tale.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:39 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Oh... so he took his football and went home? Wait, it's Rick's football. Alex Stanley wrote: And, he means it. Just received in my Inbox: Nah, he's just at stage one of the grieving process-denial. This will soon be followed by anger, remorse, and acceptance.well maybe not those last two. But perhaps he can use this time to develop some new grading systems - Ardent meditator, living in Fairfeld. Ardent meditator, but not living in Fairfield. Ardent meditator who one lived in Fairfield. Ardent meditator who once lived in Fairfield, left and came back. There could be hundreds of subsets. Could have a checklist before one can come on board. Om. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Rory's response to the Carlson exorcism claim
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: Well, that's nice to hear. Not that my view counts for anything. I bet he is a nice fellow. Really, it almost sounds like a compulsion. Once he starts, he can't stop. Like if no one is around, maybe he would be talking his thing to the dog, or a bird outside. In his case, the neighborhood cat that often makes use of their home. And why not. In his point of view, they likely would understand every word. And even talk back. IIRC (and I might not be recalling correctly), Rory told me that rocks are no less sentient than animals. I think he perceives the relative world at vastly subtler levels than I do. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: snip He's following this thread with bemusement. He is so fucking high. What doesn't he watch with bemusement? If only those who are not his devotees could understand what the f he's saying most of the time. I wouldn't call myself a devotee, but I am very fond of Rory (in a purely platonic, non-buttsecks kind of way, of course), and I usually have no idea what he's talking about when he's discussing esoteric spiritual stuff. Doesn't matter. I still like hanging with him at Revs.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Your Pirate movie experience vs. your DVD movie experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: Nonsense, you can skip - in one click - right past 90% of that stuff you say is not skippable, and not only that, you are not stealing like you are with a pirated DVD. Off, I shall refrain from going all CORRECTOR on your ass and calling you a liar, and will merely suggest that it's been some time since you actually played a DVD. I have over 500 DVDs, and can assure you that on over half of them the Skip key and the Disk Menu key are *disabled* until you have watched every- thing the manufacturer wants you to watch. In many cases that includes the previews, which, just as the author of this graphic suggests, you cannot skip, merely fast-forward through. I forgot, you are one of those guys that still watches DVD's on a TV. Either that, or you can't figure out how to simply click right past all that stuff, Its easy dude. No really. I do it all the time. But just like your stagnation in spiritual evolution, you may have stagnated in material evolution as well. Perhaps the two go hand in hand? Then again, you're still happy with the TMO, so possibly you don't mind being told what you can do and what you can't do in your own home. :-) I keep telling you Turq. I have never believed in the TMO. That is your history, not mine. You are WAY more Ru than I have ever been, and ever will be. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: So was Soma speed?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: I finally got around to watching episode 1 of my recording of the PBS series on India last night. This was the series that was on a while ago and I caught episodes 5 6 then. In episode 1 they investigate what Soma is and some archaeologists believe it was a mix of poppies, cannabis and . ephedra. IOW, though people were really messed up on uppers and downers. BTW the series is now available on Blu-ray.-- Explains why someone would drone on and on about green tinted Soma and milchkine. If you but soak up the sunlight you are given, drink each drop of water I send, and strive only to be yourself, life shall quicken in your roots, spirit shall raise you into the light, and your bloom will inspire the world. Despite what these documentaries say, I believe that MMY is right in saying that soma is the bliss that one attains during meditation. Also, a few years ago, David Frawley wrote an essay on this same subject which essentially agrees with MMY's ideas. Even if the documentary is right in its conjecture, the hallucigenic properties of the drug could give an experience of bliss if taken under the context of uniting with the Self. The sadhus in India take bong/hashhish for this purpose. And, the American Indians use peyote for religious purposes as well. In my opinion, these naturally grown hallucegenic plants must be excreting substances that are representative of the bliss available in the human body as well. In the USA, it would not be advisable to use these plants and their derivative drugs as they are against the law.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: So was Soma speed?
John wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: I finally got around to watching episode 1 of my recording of the PBS series on India last night. This was the series that was on a while ago and I caught episodes 5 6 then. In episode 1 they investigate what Soma is and some archaeologists believe it was a mix of poppies, cannabis and . ephedra. IOW, though people were really messed up on uppers and downers. BTW the series is now available on Blu-ray.-- Explains why someone would drone on and on about green tinted Soma and milchkine. If you but soak up the sunlight you are given, drink each drop of water I send, and strive only to be yourself, life shall quicken in your roots, spirit shall raise you into the light, and your bloom will inspire the world. Despite what these documentaries say, I believe that MMY is right in saying that soma is the bliss that one attains during meditation. Also, a few years ago, David Frawley wrote an essay on this same subject which essentially agrees with MMY's ideas. Even if the documentary is right in its conjecture, the hallucigenic properties of the drug could give an experience of bliss if taken under the context of uniting with the Self. The sadhus in India take bong/hashhish for this purpose. And, the American Indians use peyote for religious purposes as well. In my opinion, these naturally grown hallucegenic plants must be excreting substances that are representative of the bliss available in the human body as well. In the USA, it would not be advisable to use these plants and their derivative drugs as they are against the law. Ephedra grows wild throughout the US and is also known by different names like Desert Tea and Mormon Tea. You may even have some growing in your back yard. It's molecular makeup is of course the basis for the drug ephedrine commonly used in cold cures until the FDA got a thorn up its butt that meth labs were buying a lot of it and now you have to register your purchase. Ah the nanny state. Of course, meth freaks cannot make meth from the ephedra plant. And it should be used with care.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your Pirate movie experience vs. your DVD movie experience
off_world_beings wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: Nonsense, you can skip - in one click - right past 90% of that stuff you say is not skippable, and not only that, you are not stealing like you are with a pirated DVD. Off, I shall refrain from going all CORRECTOR on your ass and calling you a liar, and will merely suggest that it's been some time since you actually played a DVD. I have over 500 DVDs, and can assure you that on over half of them the Skip key and the Disk Menu key are *disabled* until you have watched every- thing the manufacturer wants you to watch. In many cases that includes the previews, which, just as the author of this graphic suggests, you cannot skip, merely fast-forward through. I forgot, you are one of those guys that still watches DVD's on a TV. Either that, or you can't figure out how to simply click right past all that stuff, Its easy dude. No really. I do it all the time. But just like your stagnation in spiritual evolution, you may have stagnated in material evolution as well. Perhaps the two go hand in hand? Depends on how they are authored, Off. Anchor Bay and Miramax (now defunct) put up a slide before the previews saying you could exit to the main menu by pressing the Menu button. Anchor Bay however on their Law Biding Citizen Bluray doesn't offer this. Sometimes it has to do with the studio and sometimes the film. Warner Brothers when they started making DVDs decided they wouldn't put the legal crap up front but over the years their sharks have told them to put it at the front. Now some of their movies have an antipiracy slide in 20 or more languages at the end and the only way you can get out of those is fast forward. Very rude. And then we have the Rental Editions. Ever see a movie and wonder what the director's cut would look like? So you waited for the DVD or BD and rented it and watched the director's cut or unrated version. But now FOX and a few others are making these dastardly rental versions which are only the theatrical version with NO extras. They want you to buy the discs. This tells you how out of touch studio executives are. There's a recession going on guys, people can't afford to buy discs like they used to. Get over it! Studios not doing this: Sony, Lionsgate and Anchor Bay. BTW, those last three have discs on release date often at the $1 a night RedBox kiosks.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Rory's response to the Carlson exorcism claim
No one said it any better than you just did, Curtis. Rory's unintelligible gibberish is a crock pot of mumbling, sputtering, as if Buckminster Fuller's dry but highly technical descriptions of a geodesic dome merged with a Urantia book writer's imagination. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: You can see him sooner than that even-- He started his own Facebook group, the Rorian Mystery School. :) http://bit.ly/aNzsLg Thanks for posting this. I just can't figure this out. It's as though Rory could go on hour after hour with this stuff. What I wonder is, would he give the same talk tomorrow as he gave today, if he were extrapolating on the same subject. He is running a language form. The content doesn't matter. You can riff in this form endlessly whether you are discussing enlightenment or someone's dead relative speaking from beyond the grave. It is related to carnivals style cold reading language. Like Maharishi, there is not end to number of hours that can be filled with this form. Like those programs Web designers use to fill text boxes that look like text but are actually randomly generated word like gibberish. It is easier when you are discussing abstract topics than when giving someone a psychic reading but the formula is similar. Me with spooky deep eyes: The transversing planets within the universe of our own Self (reflected in the microcosmic self as personality rays) display the dynamics of tension arising from the opposing forces of the creative process within the cosmic core or the I am creator whose nature is know to those who have awakened their inner light as the SUN source of light, energy, and bliss for the totality of consciousness becoming aware of its own amness the unchanging absolute basis for all that changes and blossoms forth into what we know as the many levels of creation throughout all time and transcending time into the timelessness of our own infinite awakened SELF. Now give me a fiver or get out of the tent. NEXT!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Manfred Eicher only uses the best of the best people on this Planet in studio, fellows with amazing ears only; fools may not apply. If you are one of those few; all credit to you ! If you worked for Mr. Eicher I promize I will read every word you write here from now on :-) Nabby, just curious, do you like Richard Wagner? Why, ofcourse. All real music sings the glory of the Divine, your Master and eternal love within; it resonates; that's why you want to listen more; it's self-referal. Perhaps Chopin or Henrix wrote a song, but they wrote it for the Divinity in you, from the unbounded love of Self; how else would you recognise it ? It was done from you to you. However some composers are closer to this heart than others. Mozart, Jarret, Arvo Prth and Chopin particularily. That's why, in hindsight, I see that it was wrong to utter derogatory words about the blues of curtis; if it sings in your mind and heart that is certainly all that matters. Keith Jarret and Jan Garbarek: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA7fqYrQGpsfeature=related Other stuff for carde: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw4oc5fKzO4feature=related http://tinyurl.com/6cq9p9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdbBgjLv1s8feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn5r6KscagM
[FairfieldLife] Heavenly Music
Try this composition by Ennio Morricone, Cinema Paraiso. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FzVWlOKeLsfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: So was Soma speed?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: Vedic speedball... kewl! It probably had some absinthe in it as well, to give that Vedic green, flowing quality. :-) Seriously, though, if organized religions had never flourished on this planet, would anyone think that the visions of the prophets were anything BUT drug-induced? It's only their claims that established the precedent of them being something else. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: I finally got around to watching episode 1 of my recording of the PBS series on India last night. This was the series that was on a while ago and I caught episodes 5 6 then. In episode 1 they investigate what Soma is and some archaeologists believe it was a mix of poppies, cannabis and . ephedra. IOW, though people were really messed up on uppers and downers. BTW the series is now available on Blu-ray.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: He also made another song with this guitar style that I play called Hand Me Down My Walk'n Cane. Someone just posted a video of me playing that song last Summer in my outdoor show so you can see the guitar part. I'm playing in open Ab tuning Does that mean that e.g. the standard tuning E-strings are two whole steps higher than normal? No, that would wreck your guitar. I thought so. That's why I asked. Here is the standard A open tuning: E-A-E-A-C#-E So my Ab open tuning is Eb-Ab-Eb-Ab-C-Eb Oh, I see. It's named according to the major chord the free(?) strings form? Here is Open E: E-B-E-G#-B-E I do the same thing in this tuning, go a half step down. A full step and you are in D tuning.
[FairfieldLife] Re: For curtis
Geez Nabby, I can't believe you posted Jimmy Hendrix in an attempt to insult Curtis. Haven't you heard Hendrix's Stone Free Star Spangled Banner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLgnY-W4pz0 He sounds like Curtis! Curtis and Hendrix make love making music, they're consummate chick magnets, banging out soul-stirring, string-busting, heart-breaking, funky fuck me blues. Curtis sings his heart out. Maybe he should kick it up a notch, a la Hendrix and smash and burn his guitar so you'll have a better appreciation of him. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: learn to play the guitar ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Ebcx-mTnsfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: For curtis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: learn to play the guitar ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Ebcx-mTnsfeature=related It's not fair to compare a live performance with a recorded one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3K8t6wKjdg
[FairfieldLife] Your Pirate movie experience vs. your DVD movie experience
You are actually penalized for being a legitimate customer. Add to this the fact that you have to wait weeks after the theater release for the DVD if you live in the US and months if you live elsewhere in the world, and only a couple of days after theater release for the pirate copy. Of course, I live in a country that has wisely refused to ever prosecute media piracy for home consumption; your experience in the land of the free and home of the brave may vary. I still buy copies of the movies I really like, but *only* the ones I really like. Arrh, me hearties. [http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfr...@... wrote: Nabby, to put down the blues, and in this case the absolute essence of the blues as played by Curtis, says far more about you than anything you've ever posted. And that ain't good dude. However, I'll agree with you about Marc Johnson being a genius on the acoustic upright bass. I've recorded Marc twice for ECM. Amazing sound, technique and mind. Did you work for ECM ?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Rick Archer wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 6:16 PM, FFL PostCount wrote: Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Feb 13 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Feb 20 00:00:00 2010 664 messages as of (UTC) Fri Feb 19 00:08:59 2010 51 Rick Archer r...@... Uh, oh...:) Sal A couple were administrative posts, but if even one person feels I should take a week's hiatus, I'll do so. I don't know, folks...what do you say? Should we show mercy to this poor sinner? :) Sal Rick has my vote to stay!
[FairfieldLife] Delicious Irony
I find it funny that Willytex, by far the person on this forum most terrified of terrorism, and most willing to torture Ay-rabs and other furriners to keep it from happening, has a terrorist attack happen in his home town, one committed by a fellow Texan who probably shared all his political views. Whether life is purely random of planned out by a God with a sick sense of humor, sometimes it really *is* funny.
[FairfieldLife] Home grown right wing terrorists
For a bunch of fearsome lawnorder terrorist scourges, these Republicans http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/18/scott-brown-terrorism-yawn/ sure have a hard time condemning Americans who attack government workers: CAVUTO: We have a guy who is just ranting at the system, ranting at the IRS, ranting at big government, the need for health care, not the need for unions I mean really crazy stuff. I would just be curious of your reaction to all that. SCOTT BROWN: Well It' s certainly tragic and I feel for the families obviously that are being effected by it. And I don't know if its related but I can just sense not only in my election but since being here in Washington people are frustrated. They want transparency. They want their elected officials to be accountable and open and talk about the things effecting their daily lives. So I am not sure if there is a connection, I certainly hope not, but we need to do things better. I guess he's saying that the people who voted for him are likely to be domestic terrorists? It sounds like it. (He also added that nobody like paying taxes ...) But Brown isn't the only one to express similar sentiments. Recall this one http://www.slate.com/id/2116256/pagenum/all/ from Senator John Cornyn, in response to a spate of murders? I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. ... And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence...No one, including those judges, including the judges on the U.S. Supreme Court, should be surprised if one of us stands up and objects. Nobody should be surprised that the right wing doesn't see anything wrong with nice white, anti-government lunatics try to kill people, that's for sure. Their leaders certainly aren't. by digby: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/terrasymps-by-digby-for-bunch-of.\ html I don't like paying my taxes either, but http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-dont-like-paying-my-taxes-eit\ her-but.html [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VSjdKAQpeMw/S34HLMqQ33I/HE8/koT4yXD3J\ 7g/s400/0218-AAUSTIN-Texas-Plane-Crash-600_full_380.jpg] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VSjdKAQpeMw/S34HLMqQ33I/HE8/koT4yXD3J\ 7g/s1600-h/0218-AAUSTIN-Texas-Plane-Crash-600_full_380.jpg This has been quite a news day. Tiger announced that he is breaking his silence tomorrow. And down in Texas, (there is a surprise) some wingnut with a grudge against the IRS http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/18/national/main6219986.shtml?ta\ g=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea , decided to channel his inner 911 terrorist and fly a small plane into their building. Now that's rich. Nothing like a little Cessna to the heart of those evil government people to send a message. The people are fed up with big government and won't take it anymore. Over at Radio Rwanda http://blog.seattlepi.com/hottopics/archives/195075.asp , the newly elected GOP candidate from Massachusetts was blaming the actions of this nut case on people's disenchantment with their government. Really? Violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer, the long note on Stack's Web site reads, citing past problems with the tax-collecting agency. I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well, the note, dated Thursday, reads. Full article here: http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-dont-like-paying-my-taxes-eith\ er-but.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:16 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: He also made another song with this guitar style that I play called Hand Me Down My Walk'n Cane. Someone just posted a video of me playing that song last Summer in my outdoor show so you can see the guitar part. I'm playing in open Ab tuning Does that mean that e.g. the standard tuning E-strings are two whole steps higher than normal? No, that would wreck your guitar. I'm looking to beta test for a new guitar synth, that unlike most guitar synths, don't use pitch-to-MIDI conversion. It has string actuators with zero time-lag as in pitch-to-MIDI synths. An advantage is since it's not pitch based, you can store dozens of alternate guitar tunings, none of which ever need tuning. You just call them up. It has all the classics, the Michael Hedges tunings, and I believe they are just adding all of Joni Mitchell's tunings. Should be interesting, I'm just waiting for mine to arrive. The ability to play any alternate tuning at the touch of a button is great for both recording and playing live, esp. since you can emulate any instrument, including various drum kits.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Floating experience
I've only lifted off a few times ,but the first time was years before I ever learned the sidhis. It was about the time the first sidhi course was being taught. I was home and at the end of program, while laying down I had an intense Kundalini rush and started feeling light in my solar plexes. The lightness began spreading out to my limbs and I felt my body rise up off my bed, slowly, about a foot. Then it gave out and I felt my body fall and bounce on the bed. It wasn't a hop, but rather more like what I would think real levitation is, rising slowly in the air. Since then, if I do lift- off, I'm more inclined to rise up or hop*out* of my body. From: gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 8:16:10 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Floating experience But the most interesting thing I've seen was a chinese guy who took off, way in the air (and I didn't see any muscle movement before his taking off). I had an experience like that. It was on my sidhis course and I had not hopped yet. There was enough pressure to do it, so finally I thought quietly I want to hop and I went straight up. I was in the lotus or close enough to the lotus that there was no way any muscles could make any difference. The resident hop-watcher verified it. My first hop was indeed a sidhi. Never happened again.--- On Tue, 2/16/10, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all. a.r...@gmail. com wrote: From: It's just a ride bill.hicks.all. a.r...@gmail. com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yogic Floating experience To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 10:21 AM On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:05 AM, martyboi marty...@yahoo. com wrote: A quote from a hostile jock during a friend's flying block: Why are all those efin* f*ggots the first ones to hop? I noticed the same thing on my course. When I discussed it with a fruity dancer he said it was because straight men are unable to truly let go in bed and that spills over into the rest of their life. I think there is some truth to that. All the guys and those in the middle gender in my flying block at Cobb Mountain noticed the same thing. The first guy to take off was in my Capital of the Age of Enlightenment sutra course. Let out the most girlish giggle and shriek you can imagine. His lover was second to take off. Of course this being Northern California, you'd expect a lot of those f*ggots on the course. But the most interesting thing I've seen was a chinese guy who took off, way in the air (and I didn't see any muscle movement before his taking off). He fell on his back and bounced around the room on his back. It was as though he was demon possessed. Even Doug the sidhi administrator was shocked. -- If you but soak up the sunlight you are given, drink each drop of water I send, and strive only to be yourself, life shall quicken in your roots, spirit shall raise you into the light, and your bloom will inspire the world.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:16 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: He also made another song with this guitar style that I play called Hand Me Down My Walk'n Cane. Someone just posted a video of me playing that song last Summer in my outdoor show so you can see the guitar part. I'm playing in open Ab tuning Does that mean that e.g. the standard tuning E-strings are two whole steps higher than normal? No, that would wreck your guitar. I'm looking to beta test for a new guitar synth, that unlike most guitar synths, don't use pitch-to-MIDI conversion. It has string actuators with zero time-lag as in pitch-to-MIDI synths. An advantage is since it's not pitch based, you can store dozens of alternate guitar tunings, none of which ever need tuning. You just call them up. It has all the classics, the Michael Hedges tunings, and I believe they are just adding all of Joni Mitchell's tunings. Should be interesting, I'm just waiting for mine to arrive. The ability to play any alternate tuning at the touch of a button is great for both recording and playing live, esp. since you can emulate any instrument, including various drum kits. One fascinating advantage of such a setup for the avant-garde-minded would be that outrageous tunings impossible on a real guitar (because, as Curtis says they would either break the neck or the strings) are possible. Phil Lesh always used to dream of such a setup for his six-string bass. Have you ever heard of the Eigenharp? That's what I want: http://eigenlabs.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Your Pirate movie experience vs. your DVD movie experience
Nonsense, you can skip - in one click - right past 90% of that stuff you say is not skippable, and not only that, you are not stealing like you are with a pirated DVD. OffWorld --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: You are actually penalized for being a legitimate customer. Add to this the fact that you have to wait weeks after the theater release for the DVD if you live in the US and months if you live elsewhere in the world, and only a couple of days after theater release for the pirate copy. Of course, I live in a country that has wisely refused to ever prosecute media piracy for home consumption; your experience in the land of the free and home of the brave may vary. I still buy copies of the movies I really like, but *only* the ones I really like. Arrh, me hearties. [http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Your Pirate movie experience vs. your DVD movie experience
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_re...@... wrote: Nonsense, you can skip - in one click - right past 90% of that stuff you say is not skippable, and not only that, you are not stealing like you are with a pirated DVD. Off, I shall refrain from going all CORRECTOR on your ass and calling you a liar, and will merely suggest that it's been some time since you actually played a DVD. I have over 500 DVDs, and can assure you that on over half of them the Skip key and the Disk Menu key are *disabled* until you have watched every- thing the manufacturer wants you to watch. In many cases that includes the previews, which, just as the author of this graphic suggests, you cannot skip, merely fast-forward through. Then again, you're still happy with the TMO, so possibly you don't mind being told what you can do and what you can't do in your own home. :-) As for stealing, I would suggest that when the movie companies figure out how to get me a copy of a new film in Spain within six months of its release, I'll be happy to buy from them. Until then, they can reap the results of being stuck in the mindset of outmoded Outer Limits We have taken control of your television set...we control the vertical, and we control the horizontal thinking. When they move into the digital age, I shall pay them. Until then they can go suck eggs, as can you. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: You are actually penalized for being a legitimate customer. Add to this the fact that you have to wait weeks after the theater release for the DVD if you live in the US and months if you live elsewhere in the world, and only a couple of days after theater release for the pirate copy. Of course, I live in a country that has wisely refused to ever prosecute media piracy for home consumption; your experience in the land of the free and home of the brave may vary. I still buy copies of the movies I really like, but *only* the ones I really like. Arrh, me hearties. [http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
Should we show mercy to this poor sinner? :) Sal: Rick has my vote to stay! Rick - Rescind the posting limits. It's the only fair thing to do now. Otherwise, it's just a mockery. It was an outrageous idea in the first place - just a bias against Lawson and Judy. Don't let the neganauts take over the forum!
[FairfieldLife] Former Pfizer representative charged with health care fraud
http://www.theday.com/article/20100115/NWS01/100119833/1047 By *Lee Howard http://www.theday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/personalia?ID=l.howard* Publication: TheDay.com Published 01/15/2010 12:00 AM Updated 01/15/2010 10:56 AM Dr. Scott S. Reuben, a former member of Pfizer Inc.’s speakers’ bureau accused last year of perpetrating one of the biggest research frauds in medical history, was charged today in a federal court in Boston with falsifying medical research studies. Reuben, formerly chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz accused Reuben of accepting a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to research the effectiveness of pain medication Celebrex for a 2005 study in which no patients were actually enrolled. Prosecutors allege that Reuben made up the data, which he subsequently published in the medical journal Anesthesia Analgesia. The data supported the conclusion that Celebrex was effective in helping post-operative patients who had received a particular type of knee surgery on the anterior cruciate ligament. Anesthesia Analgesia later had to retract 10 papers written by Reuben, and medical experts at the time said at least 21 journal articles by the anesthesiologist appeared to be fabricated. Reuben’s studies had been considered pioneering at the time they were published. His data had supported the use of two of Pfizer’s major products — Celebrex and Lyrica — in combination to treat certain types of post-operative pain. Pfizer said it had supported five of Reuben’s research initiatives. Pfizer, which declined at the time to reveal how much it paid Reuben over the years to be part of its speakers’ bureau, said the company played no part in the fraud. Last March, Reuben was dismissed from his position at Baystate Medical Center after an audit revealed he had been inventing data for as many as 13 years. -- If you but soak up the sunlight you are given, drink each drop of water I send, and strive only to be yourself, life shall quicken in your roots, spirit shall raise you into the light, and your bloom will inspire the world.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Should we show mercy to this poor sinner? :) Sal: Rick has my vote to stay! Rick - Rescind the posting limits. It's the only fair thing to do now. Otherwise, it's just a mockery. It was an outrageous idea in the first place - just a bias against Lawson and Judy. Don't let the neganauts take over the forum! Rescind the posting limits and I for one will leave the forum. Which some people might enjoy :-), but my bet is that about a dozen other posters would leave as well. I would remind people WHY the posting limits were created in the first place. Three posters -- two still present, one now gone -- were essentially Out Of Control and using their ability to post as much as they wanted to drown out others here. It was not uncommon for them to make hundreds of posts per week. When asked to voluntarily cut down their posting volume, all three categorically refused. I think we all know that is exactly what would happen again if the posting limits went away. I think that the posting limits are the best thing that ever happened to FFL, in that they create a more balanced forum, one on which someone who has no life and gets their kicks by sitting in a dingy room in front of a computer spewing hatred can do so as much as they want and thus dominate. IMO, anyone who can't express all that they have to say in 50 posts a week not only has no self control, they usually don't have that much to say in the first place. Rick can post as much as he bloody well pleases. He owns the joint.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: Oh, I see. It's named according to the major chord the free(?) strings form? Right, it is the chord you get when you strum all the open strings. It allows you to play slide across all the strings without a false note in your chord. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: He also made another song with this guitar style that I play called Hand Me Down My Walk'n Cane. Someone just posted a video of me playing that song last Summer in my outdoor show so you can see the guitar part. I'm playing in open Ab tuning Does that mean that e.g. the standard tuning E-strings are two whole steps higher than normal? No, that would wreck your guitar. I thought so. That's why I asked. Here is the standard A open tuning: E-A-E-A-C#-E So my Ab open tuning is Eb-Ab-Eb-Ab-C-Eb Oh, I see. It's named according to the major chord the free(?) strings form? Here is Open E: E-B-E-G#-B-E I do the same thing in this tuning, go a half step down. A full step and you are in D tuning.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
Nab: Criticising the only Master you ever fainthly knew... All we know Nab, is something happened, in his head. He drank the kool-aid and went down the rabbit hole for a decade. At some point he came out of the cave, and he saw the reality: you're only to get as much enlightenment as you are going to get. They were no different when they came out as when they went in. Accordng to their own account posted here, they sold the snake-oil for years and years; they conned countless numbers of people, including in some cases, their own parents and relatives. Now the rascals want to cast aspersions on the normal meditators like you, who went to work to earn a living and to raise a decent family. While they were trying to pretend to be spiritual teachers. It's sad, really sad, to read what they have to say now - the anger. They went from bliss to dejection to babbling, singing spirituals and gospels in bars and cafes. Go figure.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:33 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: One fascinating advantage of such a setup for the avant-garde-minded would be that outrageous tunings impossible on a real guitar (because, as Curtis says they would either break the neck or the strings) are possible. Phil Lesh always used to dream of such a setup for his six-string bass. I recently requested some slack tunings and standard tunings dropped down to Bb for the Low E string. It already can go up to the 7th fret as if a capo was placed on it. It will also go down a full octave, essentially making it a six string bass. There's been at least one alternate bass tuning added as well. Since firmware and the open source SDK will allow live updating, you may eventually be able to add whatever you want. But right now it already has about 60 preset alternate tunings. Have you ever heard of the Eigenharp? That's what I want: http://eigenlabs.com/ I'd heard of it, but that the first time I saw one.
[FairfieldLife] US prosecutors probe spiritual fraud!
U.S. prosecutors probing Israeli rabbi over fraud The Brooklyn District Attorney's office is investigating accusations that a popular kabbalist in Be'er Sheva has defrauded American Jews by reportedly taking hundreds of thousands of dollars for promises that he would use kabbala to help people who wanted blessings, amulets or promises to cure the terminally ill. The complaints relate to visits by Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira to Borough Park, New York, and Englewood, New Jersey. Abuhatzeira is the grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, known as the Baba Sali, whom his followers consider a sage who was able to work miracles through his prayers. This man is hurting people, Borough Park businessman Menachem Ellowich, 53, told the New York Post. Ellowich said he sent Elazar Abuhatzeira a check for $100,000 in exchange for a guarantee that his barren daughter would be able to conceive a child. She never did. He ruined my life, Ellowich told the paper. He ruined my finances by making these promises. The DA's office confirmed to Haaretz that the investigation is underway, but would not provide details and refused to say how many victims were involved. The Post said there were dozens of complaints from ultra-Orthodox Americans. The Abuhatzeira family refused to comment on the allegations. This isn't the first time Abuhatzeira's integrity has been questioned. A 1997 Haaretz investigation linked several incidents of corruption to the rabbi. Elazar Abuhatzeira is a charlatan, con man and impostor who takes advantage of people's innocence, exploits them and brings to the verge of poverty, said Yossi Bar-Moha, who investigated the rabbi at the time and now heads the Tel Aviv Journalists Association. Abuhatzeira's followers in Be'er Sheva defended the rabbi, whom they consider one of the greatest kabbalists in Israel. Our rabbi is humble and modest, one of his students said. He would never do such a thing. It just can't be - every word he speaks is the truth. But another Be'er Sheva resident had a different take, saying, These rabbis make millions, live in huge houses like palaces, and then ask for donations. The 1997 investigation found that Abuhatzeira had sold Be'er Sheva land designated for a religious girls school instead of building the school, and was not paying property tax in the Negev city. In addition, Haaretz reported that his yeshiva of 16 students received NIS 480,000 a year from national and local government funds - enough to run the yeshiva and still have tens of thousands of shekels a year left over, Bar-Moha said. Of those 16 students, half were involved in running Abuhatzeira's affairs. As a ploy to get donations, Abuhatzeira would overdraw his checking account by millions of shekels, then show people his account statement and ask for money, saying he was about to lose his home, Bar-Moha found. The former Haaretz reporter also said Abuhatzeira would take money to pray on others' behalf, and is now worth millions of shekels. Thousands of people visit Abuhatzeira every week. They ask for blessings, advice and help in mending their ways. The men who visit the rabbi and the women who write him notes - he does not receive women, and has built a tunnel leading from his house to the study next door so he can go between them without confronting sexual temptation - usually leave him hundreds of shekels each for every visit or letter. But Abuhatzeira has not been indicted for his alleged offenses. To my great regret, the [law] enforcement bodies [in Israel], as compared to the U.S., acted in an incompetent fashion, said Bar-Moha, adding that he believes political pressure has helped Abuhatzeira. The income tax authorities took only NIS 20 million from him after my investigation, and the state prosecutor closed the case despite the police recommendation to put him on trial. The state comptroller needs to conduct a complex examination as to how the authorities reached such surprising and strange conclusions, said Bar-Moha. From: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150658.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150658.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your Pirate movie experience vs. your DVD movie experience
To skip previews on some DVDs you need to use the next button that advances to the next chapter. It depends on the distributor as some still let you exit via the MENU button. I trust you don't have a Bluray player yet because those discs are worse about skipping previews and make you sit through loading seguences that load their precious copy protection code. And on most discs if you stop unlike a DVD you can't just start it up again and be where you left off. You get to sit through the whole procedure again. HD-DVD was more like a DVD with none of that nonsense. This is all due to the irrational paranoid attitude of the studio frat boys. They think everyone is a thief. OTOH, did you see the article I linked to about the director of Downfall who loves the Hitler parodies being made with his film? Such an attitude is rare these days. - Reply message - From: TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 6:08 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Your Pirate movie experience vs. your DVD movie experience To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_re...@... wrote: Nonsense, you can skip - in one click - right past 90% of that stuff you say is not skippable, and not only that, you are not stealing like you are with a pirated DVD. Off, I shall refrain from going all CORRECTOR on your ass and calling you a liar, and will merely suggest that it's been some time since you actually played a DVD. I have over 500 DVDs, and can assure you that on over half of them the Skip key and the Disk Menu key are *disabled* until you have watched every- thing the manufacturer wants you to watch. In many cases that includes the previews, which, just as the author of this graphic suggests, you cannot skip, merely fast-forward through. Then again, you're still happy with the TMO, so possibly you don't mind being told what you can do and what you can't do in your own home. :-) As for stealing, I would suggest that when the movie companies figure out how to get me a copy of a new film in Spain within six months of its release, I'll be happy to buy from them. Until then, they can reap the results of being stuck in the mindset of outmoded Outer Limits We have taken control of your television set...we control the vertical, and we control the horizontal thinking. When they move into the digital age, I shall pay them. Until then they can go suck eggs, as can you. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: You are actually penalized for being a legitimate customer. Add to this the fact that you have to wait weeks after the theater release for the DVD if you live in the US and months if you live elsewhere in the world, and only a couple of days after theater release for the pirate copy. Of course, I live in a country that has wisely refused to ever prosecute media piracy for home consumption; your experience in the land of the free and home of the brave may vary. I still buy copies of the movies I really like, but *only* the ones I really like. Arrh, me hearties. [http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Re: A million dollars a job
do: ...my views have changed right along. Changed? You're still posting political propaganda against Repugs, and still pretending to be a TM pundit. Where is the change? You're what, now 65 years old. do: For a bunch of fearsome lawnorder terrorist scourges, these Republicans sure have a hard time condemning Americans who attack government workers... FairfieldLife/message/241818 From: John Manning Subject: TM is a cult Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: 2001-09-25 20:17:48 PST I refuse to hear 'justification' for his bullshit. Bullshit is bullshit. This is 'guru' bullshit. To me, it is bullshit of the highest order...
[FairfieldLife] Re: US prosecutors probe spiritual fraud!
Jew baiting from Hugo. Hugo: U.S. prosecutors probing Israeli rabbi over fraud snip
[FairfieldLife] Morning in America; Good Morning, Vietnam; Operation New Dawn
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021805888.html?hpid=topnews War in Iraq will be called 'Operation New Dawn' to reflect reduced U.S. role By Greg Jaffe Friday, February 19, 2010 The Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraqhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/iraq.html?nav=ela new name -- Operation New Dawn -- to reflect the reduced role U.S. troops will play in securing the country this year as troop levels fall, according to a memo from Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. Since U.S. forces charged across the Kuwaiti border toward Baghdad in 2003, the war has been known as Operation Iraqi Freedom. The new name is scheduled to take effect in September, when U.S. troop levels are supposed to drop to about 50,000. The change is intended to send a message that the U.S. military's combat role in Iraq is rapidly drawing to a close. In the Feb. 17 memo, Gates wrote to Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top commander for the region, that the name change seeks to recognize our evolving relationship with the Government of Iraq. Such name changes are not unusual. The name of the 1991 Persian Gulf War changed as the mission changed, from Operation Desert Shield to Operation Desert Storm and then finally to Operation Southern Watch and Operation Northern Watch. The name change for the current conflict was first reported by ABC News, which posted the memo http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/08144-09.pdfon its Web site. A Pentagon spokesman confirmed the decision. -- If you but soak up the sunlight you are given, drink each drop of water I send, and strive only to be yourself, life shall quicken in your roots, spirit shall raise you into the light, and your bloom will inspire the world.
[FairfieldLife] Re: For curtis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: Sweetheart post of the week award Raunchy. Thanks with a big hug! I love Jimi. Like many guitarists my age I started playing a Stratocaster in his style before I swam upstream to the acoustic style that captured me completely. Now I don't own an electric guitar. I sold my Strat to buy an African gourd banjo which is the godfather to all this music. It was years later that I discovered that Jimi was listening to the same guys I play now! When I listen to electric guitars now it is often Albert King who gets me where I need to go. Here is a great duet with Stevie Ray whose electric style also moves me. Albert was a huge influence on his music and I feel it. They are playing an Elmore Jame song, The Sky is Crying, which is some of the best figurative writing in the blues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SKGJVBWerUfeature=related Geez Nabby, I can't believe you posted Jimmy Hendrix in an attempt to insult Curtis. Haven't you heard Hendrix's Stone Free Star Spangled Banner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLgnY-W4pz0 He sounds like Curtis! Curtis and Hendrix make love making music, they're consummate chick magnets, banging out soul-stirring, string-busting, heart-breaking, funky fuck me blues. Curtis sings his heart out. Maybe he should kick it up a notch, a la Hendrix and smash and burn his guitar so you'll have a better appreciation of him. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: learn to play the guitar ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Ebcx-mTnsfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dust my Blues!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: They went from bliss to dejection to babbling, singing spirituals and gospels in bars and cafes. Important distinction: I play the devil's music Richard, never spirituals and gospels. Although many blues songs sound like gospels if you substitute the word Jesus for baby, I need to acknowledge my sponsor. But I gotta say, the love that pours out of both of you is mighty impressive. I'm sure Maharishi would be proud to know that his teaching is being used as way to insult people who don't believe in it. Any chance you guys missed the first sidhis block? Nab: Criticising the only Master you ever fainthly knew... All we know Nab, is something happened, in his head. He drank the kool-aid and went down the rabbit hole for a decade. At some point he came out of the cave, and he saw the reality: you're only to get as much enlightenment as you are going to get. They were no different when they came out as when they went in. Accordng to their own account posted here, they sold the snake-oil for years and years; they conned countless numbers of people, including in some cases, their own parents and relatives. Now the rascals want to cast aspersions on the normal meditators like you, who went to work to earn a living and to raise a decent family. While they were trying to pretend to be spiritual teachers. It's sad, really sad, to read what they have to say now - the anger. They went from bliss to dejection to babbling, singing spirituals and gospels in bars and cafes. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count -- do the math
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I would remind people WHY the posting limits were created in the first place. Three posters -- two still present, one now gone -- were essentially Out Of Control and using their ability to post as much as they wanted to drown out others here. It was not uncommon for them to make hundreds of posts per week. When asked to voluntarily cut down their posting volume, all three categorically refused. I think we all know that is exactly what would happen again if the posting limits went away. Just in case anyone is incapable of doing the math and realizing what the result would be of getting rid of the posting limits, I'll do the math for you. This week one of the people *for whom the post- ing limits were originally created* got her panties in a bunch over Curtis and managed to make 50 posts in slightly less than 75 hours. That's basically 1.5 posts per hour, average. If she were free to do what she used to do, that means she would be making an estimated 252 posts per week. That is one-third of the running total number of posts made to FFL by all posters this past week. And this math exercise does not even take into account Shemp (one of the other original overposters) and Willytex (who has all the self control of a chimpanzee masturbating for passersby in a zoo). The Posting Limits Rule! They are fair and balanced because no one is special and gets to drown out others just because they have no life. Anyone who has a history of overposting and lobbies for rescinding the posting limits is declaring their right to be special and their intention to over- post again. Don't fall for it.
[FairfieldLife] 30% of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed earth together
Meet the FlintstonesPrindle says the results recall a line from comedian Lewis Black. He did a standup routine a few years back in which he said that a significant proportion of the American people think that the 'The Flintstones' is a documentary. Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. See graph: http://static.texastribune.org/media/images/humansanddinos_tr2_png_800x1\ 000_q100.png The differences in beliefs about evolution and the length of time that living things have existed on earth are reflected in the political and religious preference of our respondents, who were asked four questions about biological history and God: 38 percent said human beings developed over millions of years with God guiding the process and another 12 percent said that development happened without God having any part of the process. Another 38 percent agreed with the statement God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago. Asked about the origin and development of life on earth without injecting humans into the discussion, and 53 percent said it evolved over time, with a guiding hand from God. They were joined by 15 percent who agreed on the evolution part, but with no guidance from God. About a fifth 22 percent said life has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. Most of the Texans in the survey 51 percent disagree with the statement, human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals. Thirty-five percent agreed with that statement, and 15 percent said they don't know. Did humans live at the same time as the dinosaurs? Three in ten Texas voters agree with that statement; 41 percent disagree, and 30 percent don't know. The questions were devised by David Prindle, a University of Texas government professor who authored a book called Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution, about the late evolutionary biologist. The end in mind is to establish the relationships, not just to get raw public opinion, he says. We can do some fancy statistical stuff. Is it religion driving politics or is politics driving religion? My hypothesis is that religious views drive politics. The most common religious denominations in the survey were Catholic and Baptist, with 20 percent each, followed by nondenominational Christians, at 10 percent, and Methodists, at 6 percent. Eight percent chose spiritual but not religious, and 7 percent chose other. Only 6 percent identified themselves as atheist or agnostic. An overwhelming majority said their religious beliefs were extremely important (52 percent) or somewhat important (30 percent). Only 35 percent go to church once a week or more; 52 percent said they go once or twice a year (29 percent) or never (23 percent). Church attendance isn't much different among Republicans and Democrats in the poll, though Republicans who do go to church say they go more often. More than half of the Democrats 51 percent go to church never or once or twice a year. That's true of 45 percent of the Republicans in the poll. Forty-two percent of Republicans say they attend church at least once a week, compared to 35 percent of Democrats. Democrats (28 percent) are less likely than Republicans (47 percent) to think that humans have always existed in their present form and more likely (21 percent to 7 percent) to think humans have developed over millions of years without God's guidance. About the same percentages of Democrats and Republicans (40 and 36 percent, respectively) believe that evolution took place over time with God's guidance. Democrat Bill White http://www.texastribune.org/directory/bill-white/ 's voters were the most likely to believe in evolution without a divine hand (33 percent); on the Republican side, by comparison, only 6 percent of Rick Perry http://www.texastribune.org/directory/rick-perry/ 's supporters were in that category. Has life on earth always existed in its present form? Republicans are more likely to agree (29 percent) than Democrats (16 percent). They're less likely to believe that life evolved over time with no guidance from God (8 percent to 24 percent). Democrats are slightly less inclined to believe in evolution with a guiding hand from God (50 percent to 55 percent). Republicans are less likely to believe that humans developed from earlier species of animals; 26 percent agree, while 60 percent disagree. Among Democrats in the survey, 46 percent agree that humans evolved from earlier species; 42 percent disagree. Perry's voters were most hostile to this premise 67 percent disagree. About the same numbers of Democrats and Republicans 43 percent disagree with the idea that dinosaurs and humans lived on the planet at the same time. Republicans
[FairfieldLife] Re: US prosecutors probe spiritual fraud!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex willy...@... wrote: Jew baiting from Hugo. Hmmm, interestingly paranoid response. I was actually thinking of the TMO and it's large income from such things, and thought it might be funny if the law started closing in all peddlars of expensive and unproven mysticism. Let's not forget: vitta sakhyam na kaaryetdo not perform yagyas below one's financial capacity.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 30% of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed earth together
Everyone who's been a TB of the TMO believes that humans existed millions of years before the fossil recordRama anyone? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Meet the FlintstonesPrindle says the results recall a line from comedian Lewis Black. He did a standup routine a few years back in which he said that a significant proportion of the American people think that the 'The Flintstones' is a documentary. Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. See graph: http://static.texastribune.org/media/images/humansanddinos_tr2_png_800x1\ 000_q100.png The differences in beliefs about evolution and the length of time that living things have existed on earth are reflected in the political and religious preference of our respondents, who were asked four questions about biological history and God: 38 percent said human beings developed over millions of years with God guiding the process and another 12 percent said that development happened without God having any part of the process. Another 38 percent agreed with the statement God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago. Asked about the origin and development of life on earth without injecting humans into the discussion, and 53 percent said it evolved over time, with a guiding hand from God. They were joined by 15 percent who agreed on the evolution part, but with no guidance from God. About a fifth 22 percent said life has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. Most of the Texans in the survey 51 percent disagree with the statement, human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals. Thirty-five percent agreed with that statement, and 15 percent said they don't know. Did humans live at the same time as the dinosaurs? Three in ten Texas voters agree with that statement; 41 percent disagree, and 30 percent don't know. The questions were devised by David Prindle, a University of Texas government professor who authored a book called Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution, about the late evolutionary biologist. The end in mind is to establish the relationships, not just to get raw public opinion, he says. We can do some fancy statistical stuff. Is it religion driving politics or is politics driving religion? My hypothesis is that religious views drive politics. The most common religious denominations in the survey were Catholic and Baptist, with 20 percent each, followed by nondenominational Christians, at 10 percent, and Methodists, at 6 percent. Eight percent chose spiritual but not religious, and 7 percent chose other. Only 6 percent identified themselves as atheist or agnostic. An overwhelming majority said their religious beliefs were extremely important (52 percent) or somewhat important (30 percent). Only 35 percent go to church once a week or more; 52 percent said they go once or twice a year (29 percent) or never (23 percent). Church attendance isn't much different among Republicans and Democrats in the poll, though Republicans who do go to church say they go more often. More than half of the Democrats 51 percent go to church never or once or twice a year. That's true of 45 percent of the Republicans in the poll. Forty-two percent of Republicans say they attend church at least once a week, compared to 35 percent of Democrats. Democrats (28 percent) are less likely than Republicans (47 percent) to think that humans have always existed in their present form and more likely (21 percent to 7 percent) to think humans have developed over millions of years without God's guidance. About the same percentages of Democrats and Republicans (40 and 36 percent, respectively) believe that evolution took place over time with God's guidance. Democrat Bill White http://www.texastribune.org/directory/bill-white/ 's voters were the most likely to believe in evolution without a divine hand (33 percent); on the Republican side, by comparison, only 6 percent of Rick Perry http://www.texastribune.org/directory/rick-perry/ 's supporters were in that category. Has life on earth always existed in its present form? Republicans are more likely to agree (29 percent) than Democrats (16 percent). They're less likely to believe that life evolved over time with no guidance from God (8 percent to 24 percent). Democrats are slightly less inclined to believe in evolution with a guiding hand from God (50 percent to 55 percent). Republicans are less likely to believe that humans developed from earlier species of animals; 26 percent agree, while 60 percent disagree. Among Democrats in the survey, 46 percent
[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count -- do the math
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Just in case anyone is incapable of doing the math and realizing what the result would be of getting rid of the posting limits, I'll do the math for you. Ooopsie. :-) Even though it would be fun to see THE CORRECTOR waste five posts correcting my math, I'll do it myself. This week one of the people *for whom the post- ing limits were originally created* got her panties in a bunch over Curtis and managed to make 50 posts in slightly less than 75 hours. That's basically 1.5 posts per hour, average. Really . posts per hour. Assuming that she slept at least 24 of those 75 hours, that's an average of 1 post per waking hour. If she were free to do what she used to do, that means she would be making an estimated 252 posts per week. More like 112 posts per week. Mea culpa. Which, interestingly, is pretty much on the money given actual past history. During the month of October 2006 (the pre-posting limits Bad Old Days), FFL's top 3 posters (accounting for almost a third of all posts) were: 1. shempmcgurk -- 541 (11.6%) 2. sparaig -- 533 (11.4%) 3. authfriend -- 482 (10.3%)
[FairfieldLife] Student claims school spied on him via computer webcam
* http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20100219_Student_claims_school_spied_on_him_via_computer_webcam.html * Posted on Fri, Feb. 19, 2010 Student claims school spied on him via computer webcam By Dan Hardy and Bonnie L. Cook Inquirer Staff Writers A Lower Merion family has set off a furor among students, parents, and civil liberties groups by alleging that Harriton High School officials used a webcam on a school-issued laptop to spy on their 15-year-old son at home. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court, the family said the school's assistant principal had confronted their son, told him he had engaged in improper behavior in [his] home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in [his] personal laptop issued by the school district. The suit contends the Lower Merion School District, one of the most prosperous and highest-achieving in the state, had the ability to turn on students' webcams and illegally invade their privacy. While declining to comment on the specifics of the suit, spokesman Douglas Young said the district was investigating. We're taking it very seriously, he said last night. The district's Apple MacBook laptops have a built-in webcam with a security feature that can snap a picture of the operator and the screen if the computer is reported lost or stolen, Young said. But he said the district would never utilize that security feature for any other reason. The district said that the security system was deactivated yesterday, and that it would review when the system had been used. Widener University law professor Stephen Henderson said using a laptop camera for home surveillance would violate wiretap laws, even if done to catch a thief. A statement on the district Web site said the lawsuit's allegations are counter to everything that we stand for as a school and a community. The suit says that in November, assistant principal Lynn Matsko called in sophomore Blake Robbins and told him that he had engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam in his school-issued laptop. Matsko later told Robbins' father, Michael, that the district could remotely activate the webcam contained in a student's personal laptop . . . at any time it chose and to view and capture whatever images were in front of the webcam without the knowledge or approval of the laptop's users, the suit says. It does not say what improper activity Robbins was accused of or what, if any, discipline resulted. Reached at home yesterday, his mother, Holly, said she could not comment on advice of the family's lawyers. Blake Robbins, answering the door at his home, said he, too, could not comment. With a mop of brown hair and clad in a black T-shirt and jeans, he smiled when told the suit had earned him a Wikipedia page and other Internet notoriety. Mark Haltzman, a lawyer with the Trevose firm of Lamm Rubenstone, which represents the Robbins family, did not return calls seeking comment. Matsko's husband said the assistant principal could not comment. Fueled with state grants, the Lower Merion district issued laptops to all 2,300 high school students, starting last school year at Harriton and later at Lower Merion High, to promote more engaged and active learning and enhanced student achievement, Superintendent Christopher W. McGinley said in a statement. McGinley and Lower Merion School Board President David Ebby did not respond to requests for comment. Families in the 6,900-student district reacted with shock. Parent Candace Chacona said she was flabbergasted by the allegations. My first thought was that my daughter has her computer open almost around the clock in her bedroom. Has she been spied on? Victoria Zuzelo, a senior at Harriton, said she and other students had been told about the security feature, and knew the district had the right to search computer hard drives at school. Some students had taken to covering webcams in school with paper because they thought they might be watched, she said. But . . . they would never think the school would be watching them at home. I'm not sure who to believe, but I'm hoping it is not true because if it was, it would really be outrageous. Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy watchdog group in Washington, said she had not heard of any other case in which school officials were accused of monitoring student behavior at home via a computer. If the allegations are true, she said, this is an outrageous invasion of individual privacy. Witold J. Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, told the Associated Press: School officials cannot, any more than police, enter into the home either electronically or physically without an invitation or a warrant. Virginia DiMedio, who as the Lower Merion district's technology director until she retired last summer helped launch the laptop initiative, said yesterday: If there
[FairfieldLife] Your Pirate TV experience vs. your real-time US TV experience
TV watching as a pirate provides an even more profoundly different experience than the time-wasting legal stuff and previews they sometimes force you to watch on DVDs. I can honestly state for the record that -- outside of cute commercials I have later seen on YouTube -- I have not been forced to sit through a single commercial message in six years. In France, on broadcast TV they wisely put all the com- mercials at the start and the end of the shows. And they are such a movie-loving nation that they don't interrupt 2-hour movies for commercials, either. In Spain I don't even have broadcast TV. Now compare to the U.S. An average episode of 24, which interestingly is supposed to be happening in real time, is really about 40 minutes long (pirates considerately cut out all the commercials before posting the torrents). The other 20 minutes is commercials. So if you an average American and watch four hours of TV a day (source: A.C. Nielsen Co., referenced below), that means that you spend one-third of those hours watching commercials. Think about that while reading the stats below, from TV-Free America. And the wasted time statistics don't even touch on the *content* of what you are watching, which the article does. Entries in red or brackets are mine. Television Statistics According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches morethan 4 hours of TV each day [1.33 hours watching commercials] (or 28 hours/week [9.33 hours watching commercials], or 2 months of nonstopTV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent9 years [3 years watching commercials] glued to the tube. I. FAMILY LIFEPercentage of households that possess at least one television:99 Number of TV sets in the average U.S. household: 2.24 Percentage of U.S. homes with three or more TV sets: 66 Number of hours per day that TV is on in an average U.S. home:6 hours, 47 minutes [2 hours 15 minutes watching commercials] Percentage of Americans that regularly watch television whileeating dinner: 66 Number of hours of TV watched annually by Americans: 250 billion Value of that time assuming an average wage of S5/hour: S1.25trillion Percentage of Americans who pay for cable TV: 56 Number of videos rented daily in the U.S.: 6 million Number of public library items checked out daily: 3 million Percentage of Americans who say they watch too much TV: 49 II CHILDRENApproximate number of studies examining TV's effects on children:4,000 Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 3.5 Number of minutes per week that the average child watches television:1,680 Percentage of day care centers that use TV during a typical day:70 Percentage of parents who would like to limit their children's TV watching: 73 Percentage of 4-6 year-olds who, when asked to choose betweenwatching TVand spending time with their fathers, preferred television: 54 Hours per year the average American youth spends in school: 900hours Hours per year the average American youth watches television: 1500 III VIOLENCENumber of murders seen on TV by the time an average child finishes elementary school: 8,000 Number of violent acts seen on TV by age 18: 200,000 Percentage of Americans who believe TV violence helps precipitatereal life mayhem: 79 IV. COMMERCIALISMNumber of 30-second TV commercials seen in a year by an averagechild: 20,000 Number of TV commercials seen by the average person by age 65:2 million Percentage of survey participants (1993) who said that TV commercials aimed at children make them too materialistic: 92 Rank of food products/fast-food restaurants among TV advertisements to kids: 1 Total spending by 100 leading TV advertisers in 1993: $15 billion V. GENERAL Percentage of local TV news broadcast time devoted to advertising: 30 Percentage devoted to stories about crime, disaster and war: 53.8 Percentage devoted to public service announcements: 0.7 Percentage of Americans who can name The Three Stooges: 59 Percentage who can name at least three justices of the U.S. SupremeCourt: 17
[FairfieldLife] UN report: Cost of pollution could wipe out 1/3 of corporate profits
World's top firms cause US$2.2 trillion of environmental damage, report estimates Report for the UN into the activities of the world's 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment The cost of pollution http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world's biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/unitednations has found. The report comes amid growing concern that no one is made to pay for most of the use, loss and damage of the environment, which is reaching crisis proportions in the form of pollution and the rapid loss of freshwater, fisheries and fertile soils. Later this year, another huge UN study http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/economics/ - dubbed the Stern for nature after the influential report on the economics of climate change by Sir Nicholas Stern http://www.occ.gov.uk/activities/stern.htm - will attempt to put a price on such global environmental damage, and suggest ways to prevent it. The report, led by economist Pavan Sukhdev http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/feb/10/pavan-suk\ hdev-natures-economic-model , is likely to argue for abolition of billions of dollars of subsidies to harmful industries like agriculture, energy http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/energy and transport, tougher regulations and more taxes on companies that cause the damage. Ahead of changes which would have a profound effect - not just on companies' profits but also their customers and pension funds and other investors - the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment http://www.unpri.org/ initiative and the United Nations Environment Programme jointly ordered a report into the activities of the 3,000 biggest public companies in the world, which includes household names from the UK's FTSE 100 and other major stockmarkets. The study, conducted by London-based consultancy Trucost http://www.trucost.com/newsweek/ and due to be published this summer, found the estimated combined damage was worth US$2.2 trillion (£1.4tn) in 2008 - a figure bigger than the national economies of all but seven countries in the world that year. The figure equates to 6-7% of the companies' combined turnover, or an average of one-third of their profits, though some businesses would be much harder hit than others. What we're talking about is a completely new paradigm, said Richard Mattison, Trucost's chief operating officer and leader of the report team. Externalities of this scale and nature pose a major risk to the global economy and markets are not fully aware of these risks, nor do they know how to deal with them. The biggest single impact on the $2.2tn estimate, accounting for more than half of the total, was emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-change . Other major costs were local air pollution such as particulates, and the damage caused by the over-use and pollution of freshwater. The true figure is likely to be even higher because the $2.2tn does not include damage caused by household and government consumption of goods and services, such as energy used to power appliances or waste; the social impacts such as the migration of people driven out of affected areas http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/04/bangladesh-climate-re\ fugees , or the long-term effects of any damage other than that from climate change. The final report will also include a higher total estimate which includes those long-term effects of problems such as toxic waste. Trucost did not want to comment before the final report on which sectors incurred the highest costs of environmental damage, but they are likely to include power companies and heavy energy users like aluminium producers because of the greenhouse gases that result from burning fossil fuels. Heavy water http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/water users like food, drink and clothing companies are also likely to feature high up on the list. Sukhdev said the heads of the major companies at this year's annual economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, were increasingly concerned about the impact on their business if they were stopped or forced to pay for the damage. It can make the difference between profit and loss, Sukhdev told the annual Earthwatch Oxford lecture last week http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/newsroom/news_events/news-5-sukhdev.ht\ ml . That sense of foreboding is there with many, many [chief executives], and that potential is a good thing because it leads to solutions. The aim of the study is to encourage and help investors lobby companies to reduce their environmental impact before concerned governments act to restrict them through
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ali Stephens on modeling meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: http://dlf.tv/2010/ali-stephens/ If you judge that she needs a checking Nabby, I'd like you to know I'm ready and willing...(I've got those notes round here somewhere!)
