[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. Does my brazenly outrageous weird game given you any hint about the weird game you play?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
Good point - there are only 2 main religions - Hinduism and Judaism, other eastern and the Judeo-christian religions are their respective offshoots. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: I'm not sure what the implications of being a child of something are. Our universe could be the offspring of anther. What became (eventually) Christianity can be said to be born of Judaism - although I can't find any mention of the early so-called Christians thinking of themselves other than Jews. It appears that everything is a child of something else; and yet a parent too. ... Stained glass window, Sulkowski Castle, Poland: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49277.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you.
[FairfieldLife] Calling ducks!
Calling ducks with your Nokia phone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNx-VQzSJ_E LoL!
[FairfieldLife] The liberation of dropping the concept of liberation
One of the things that I think has helped me most in my recapitulation of my life on the spiritual path, and in my ongoing reassessment of the value of that life, is dropping the notion of liberation. NOT in the sense of liberation from the binding effects of one's thought and actions. I still believe that can and possibly should be achieved; the less attached we are to the play of the inner and outer worlds on our self, the better able we probably are to appreciate the wonder of both worlds. The sense in which I have abandoned liberation is the way that many spiritual trips (including Maharishi's) see things -- that once one realizes enlightened one is liberated from the need to ever again self-assess or self-monitor. In enlightenment, such dogma teaches, one is completely in tune with God's will or the Laws Of Nature, and thus every thought and action is right and wrong thought and wrong action are no longer possible. Off the hook. Home free. No need to ever even be concerned with the rightness of our thoughts and actions ever again. I no longer believe this. My own fleeting experiences with enlightened states of consciousness has convinced me that they are 1) completely subjective, and 2) without any appreciable impact on the comings and goings of the relative world. I found it *just* as possible to fuck up when in the throes of some passing state of mind that matched word-for-word MMY's description of one of the higher states of consciousness as I did in any lesser or lower state of consciousness. My feeling is that this is a clue I should pay attention to. :-) Many spiritual seekers seem to view the realization of enlightenment as synonymous with no longer having to work at life. The Big E will be for them -- at least in their expectations -- a big Get Out Of Jail Free card. They will incur no further negative karma because it will be impossible for them to do so. Every thought and action they have will be essentially perfect, because now that they're all enlightened and all, that's just the nature of life. And they know this because someone told them it was true, and since they assume that the person who told them this is enlightened, it must be true. They're enlightened, after all; *everything* they say is true. :-) In my imagining of How It All Works, the realization of enlightened states of mind doesn't really change ANYTHING outside of the mind that has realized it. It's an additive process, not one based on fundamental changes to How It All Works. It continues to work exactly the same way it always did, with the component of 24/7 subjective awareness of our eternal nature added in to the mix. Thoughts still arise, emotions still arise, and karma in the form of outside actions we must react to -- or resist reacting to -- in the relative world still arise. Nothing changes. Before enlightenment, sport wood and carry condoms; after enlightenment, ditto. In my model of How It All Works, the realization of enlightenment would not impact my need to self-assess and self-monitor in any way. I would still have to monitor my thoughts, and assess my fleeting emotions via mindfulness, with the constant realization in mind that I can *always* fuck up. My hope is that if this enlightenment thang ever happens permanently for me, this model will help to keep me from becoming as much of an asshole behind it as some others have been. Holiness doth not prohibit assholiness IMO. And I base this belief on examples we have seen of people who declared their enlightenment. Many of these folks assumed that they now had a cosmic Get Out Of Jail Free card in their wallets, and as a result *stopped* self-monitoring and just assumed that everything they thought and did was perfect. My assessment of their actions was simpler; they were fucking up. The Supposedly Enlightened have done some WAY stupid shit along the Way, stuff that their followers make excuses for and say that they cannot evaluate the same way they would evaluate similar stupid shit in themselves or in normal people because...well...they're enlightened. I don't buy this -- for others, or for myself. Liberation to me implies an even greater need to self-assess and self-monitor, not a relaxation or cessation of those efforts. If the truly enlightened are truly special in any way, my hope is that they would perform their mindfulness even more diligently than ever.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. Does my brazenly outrageous weird game given you any hint about the weird game you play? So you thought going cryptic would get you off the hook for misstating my beliefs? You are welcome to make a case that I am playing a weird game. You aren't making it by making false statements and then doubling down when called on them. I am playing no game here. I am trying to express my beliefs and invite others to express theirs. I prefer when they employ accuracy and respect for the most basic facts. Your incoherence just means you are not on board with having an upfront discussion. Your choice.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The liberation of dropping the concept of liberation
One of the things that I think has helped me most in my recapitulation of my life on the spiritual path, and in my ongoing reassessment of the value of that life, is dropping the notion of 'liberation.' Yep, if you see the Buddha on the road, kill him. Same thing. Liberation is no more a notion or belief than the Milky Way is just a group of stars. Any notion of liberation is a trap, some fanciful dream that the ego has cooked up in order to contain the concept of liberation. Liberation doesn't have to be thought about, or seemingly resolved. It just IS.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: One of the things that I think has helped me most in my recapitulation of my life on the spiritual path, and in my ongoing reassessment of the value of that life, is dropping the notion of liberation. NOT in the sense of liberation from the binding effects of one's thought and actions. I still believe that can and possibly should be achieved; the less attached we are to the play of the inner and outer worlds on our self, the better able we probably are to appreciate the wonder of both worlds. The sense in which I have abandoned liberation is the way that many spiritual trips (including Maharishi's) see things -- that once one realizes enlightened one is liberated from the need to ever again self-assess or self-monitor. In enlightenment, such dogma teaches, one is completely in tune with God's will or the Laws Of Nature, and thus every thought and action is right and wrong thought and wrong action are no longer possible. Off the hook. Home free. No need to ever even be concerned with the rightness of our thoughts and actions ever again. I no longer believe this. My own fleeting experiences with enlightened states of consciousness has convinced me that they are 1) completely subjective, and 2) without any appreciable impact on the comings and goings of the relative world. I found it *just* as possible to fuck up when in the throes of some passing state of mind that matched word-for-word MMY's description of one of the higher states of consciousness as I did in any lesser or lower state of consciousness. My feeling is that this is a clue I should pay attention to. :-) Many spiritual seekers seem to view the realization of enlightenment as synonymous with no longer having to work at life. The Big E will be for them -- at least in their expectations -- a big Get Out Of Jail Free card. They will incur no further negative karma because it will be impossible for them to do so. Every thought and action they have will be essentially perfect, because now that they're all enlightened and all, that's just the nature of life. And they know this because someone told them it was true, and since they assume that the person who told them this is enlightened, it must be true. They're enlightened, after all; *everything* they say is true. :-) In my imagining of How It All Works, the realization of enlightened states of mind doesn't really change ANYTHING outside of the mind that has realized it. It's an additive process, not one based on fundamental changes to How It All Works. It continues to work exactly the same way it always did, with the component of 24/7 subjective awareness of our eternal nature added in to the mix. Thoughts still arise, emotions still arise, and karma in the form of outside actions we must react to -- or resist reacting to -- in the relative world still arise. Nothing changes. Before enlightenment, sport wood and carry condoms; after enlightenment, ditto. In my model of How It All Works, the realization of enlightenment would not impact my need to self-assess and self-monitor in any way. I would still have to monitor my thoughts, and assess my fleeting emotions via mindfulness, with the constant realization in mind that I can *always* fuck up. My hope is that if this enlightenment thang ever happens permanently for me, this model will help to keep me from becoming as much of an asshole behind it as some others have been. Holiness doth not prohibit assholiness IMO. And I base this belief on examples we have seen of people who declared their enlightenment. Many of these folks assumed that they now had a cosmic Get Out Of Jail Free card in their wallets, and as a result *stopped* self-monitoring and just assumed that everything they thought and did was perfect. My assessment of their actions was simpler; they were fucking up. The Supposedly Enlightened have done some WAY stupid shit along the Way, stuff that their followers make excuses for and say that they cannot evaluate the same way they would evaluate similar stupid shit in themselves or in normal people because...well...they're enlightened. I don't buy this -- for others, or for myself. Liberation to me implies an even greater need to self-assess and self-monitor, not a relaxation or cessation of those efforts. If the truly enlightened
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
Yes, we appear to be creatures who habitually create patterns from the inward and outward perception of our six senses, with storage facilities for those perceptions, allowing for imagination and reflection, in order to grow the patterns in complexity, which we can then mirror in our physical environment. I can only conclude we do this for fun, with the granularity of our creation offering endless possibilities for perception, reflection, imagination, and expression, vs. dwelling simply in universal pure potential. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: * * Yeah, especially when it comes to the siddhis. But in all honesty, I probably just made this story up, because my mind does love creating patterns out of chaos. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: ...subtlety is always a virtue :-0) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: * * Feel it? Hell, doubtless I caused it when I asked my wife Rena to -- well, let's just say it was not unlike Curtis's rock me! earthquake siddhi-experience, but delicacy forbids me to go into the details :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Perhaps you are feeling the influence of Hurricane Irene (Irene = peace), Rory!:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: Cripple Creek, CO; 1890, Departure of Stagecoach: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47453.jpg One of my very favorite places on Earth. Great saloon, great ice cream parlor. Regrettably, the place is contaminated with all sorts of sulfates and nasty metals like arsenic. Great times in the Summer. Now Rory, RC and Ravi should be one the stage. The one leaving for Cheyenne in an hour. * * I knew you'd take a Cheyenne to us once you got to know us, Tom. And you're quite right, when we're Home, be it ever so humble, there is no where but now here, ever only the one stage. ISness is our business. But you know Why Homing requires eight stages, wheels a-spinning, steeds a-grinning from Here to Here, right? (Idaho, but Kali Fornia does; Alaska.) We are... climbing... Jacob's ... ladder; ... ev'ry ... round goes ... higher, ... higher! Yama to Niyama, Shakti to Shiva, Doing to Nondoing. Feet and ... Base and ... Sex and ... Navel, ... Heart and ... Throat and ... Brow and ... Crow-hown! And mounting laboriously from Yama to Asana to Pranayam to Pratyahara, to Dharana to Dhyana to Samdhi to Niyama, we come Home where we have always and all ways been, here and now, in the radiantly Cheyenning secret Sacred Heart amidst the nine. The one stage IS Now, ever has been, and always shall be, whirled without end, Amen.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
my mind does love creating patterns out of chaos. whynotnow7: Yes, we appear to be creatures who habitually create patterns from the inward and outward perception of our six senses... It's obvious that different people may not see the same object 'as it is', but may perceive different objects when confronted by the same stimulus source. Ofte we fail to take into account the 'constructed character of knowing'. The term constructed character of knowing may be used to name the synthesizing process that goes on in the brain before experiences are produced. According to A.J. Bahm, objects appear in consciousness as wholes, or 'gestalts'. They enter experience already made. Some unconscious or subconscious process determines our conscious experiences for us, even though we can never become aware of it.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
On Aug 26, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Snip But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism. Little Hindu triumphalism huh Ravi? Ethno-centric bias is so predictable. So you were born in that part of the world and amazingly enough conclude that the stories they tell are the rightest ones. How convenient! Hmm, no, not right stories, the wrong ones too, the good , bad and the ugly, stories of love and hatred, war and peace, life in its all fullness. Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Pretty naive statement. What you have to realize Ravi is that Shakyamuni Buddha is just the primary Buddha of this era - there were Buddhas before him and there were Buddhas after him. In fact, some believe that Shiva is a corruption of a great Bonpo Buddha associated with the kingdom of Xhang Xhung (the area around current Mt. Kailash). Some of the Vedic rishis would be Buddhas as well...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
On Aug 26, 2011, at 11:42 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. Weird guy, weird guy. I think his whore gave him a spiritual STD. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Revolutionary Transcendental Meditation
This is us? This is us? Millennial religious and communal movements typically anticipate the imminent and literal end of what they view as a profoundly wicked, corrupt existing world order and its replacement by a glorious new heaven and new earth, in which the first shall be last and the last first, Describing millennial groups this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary in their underlying goals and their impact upon the larger social order that they criticize so harshly Describing millennial movements in this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary... ...This article will argue, instead, that the complex trajectories of millennial movements may lead them to two quite different directions -either toward increasing accommodation with the larger society, on the one hand, or toward escalating conflict and confrontation that typically results in the group's dispersal or violent suppression by political power holders, on the other. -When do Millennial Religious Movements Become Revolutionary?: - Lawrence Foster (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Choose your millenarian end-of-days and descent of Heaven on Earth. However, surveying the 60 years of Maharishi and TM in the West or even just the 4 decades of TM in Iowa the TM movement as a millenarian movement has tried everything and has both accommodated the larger culture, been suppressed some, and even dispersed. And it has changed the larger culture some too. Evidently was revolutionary in its time too. Yep. Well of course there is a whole spectrum. Some of us are and some are not. Recently I saw Bevan and his people who are around him at a meeting and also I've directly watched and heard him speak within the year a couple of times, and yes they evidently are millenarian. Millennial-ist. To the extent that he and they have been the right hand of the TM movement all these years and decades, then yes it is. Essentially the TM movement and TM has been and is theirs now. Certainly TM as a movement is communal at their level and millennial from the inside at that level. If it walks like a duck and quacks like one, then... in modern times, TM's a millenarian movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes Dedicated millenarians -inspired by their intense emotional commitment to goals they view as cosmically important and by their true believer millenarian rhetoric- often seek to assist the divine process of transformation in which they believe they are participating by taking matters into their own hands rather than passively waiting for God to inaugurate His kingdom on earth. Initially, such movements may engage in relatively quiet and largely non-confrontational efforts to withdraw from what they view as the wicked world around them, in order to try to create purer, more communally cohesive groups in preparation for the anticipated millennial kingdom. - Lawrence Foster, Journal of the Communal Studies Association vol31:1,2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes are we millennialists? This is us? Millennial religious and communal movements typically anticipate the imminent and literal end of what they view as a profoundly wicked, corrupt existing world order and its replacement by a glorious new heaven and new earth, in which the first shall be last and the last first, Describing millennial groups this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary in their underlying goals and their impact upon the larger social order that they criticize so harshly Describing millennial movements in this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary... ...This article will argue, instead, that the complex trajectories of millennial movements may lead them to two quite different directions -either toward increasing accommodation with the larger society, on the one hand, or toward escalating conflict and confrontation that typically results in the group's dispersal or violent suppression by political power holders, on the other. Lawrence Foster , Journal of the Communal Studies Association v31-1, 2011 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Joe geezerfreak@ wrote: Oh, oh..you just confirmed to Buck (and no doubt Tex) that you're in on it too Rick. Rick, in meditator typology? Naw, i know Rick, he's one of them progressive maoist meditators. Like Hagelin. As in: ...those who envision a gradually improving world (progressive millennialists--Shakers, some Marxists, many
[FairfieldLife] Something Kinda Funny
http://oddnews.yahoo.com/video-odd-news-26411321
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
Ravi Yogi: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child... There was no 'Hinduism' at the time of the Buddha, Shakya the Muni. Hinduism came much later, after the rise of the devotional sects, during the Gupta Age of Indian history. In South Asian history, first came the Mound Builders, then the Dravidians who built Harrapa on the Indus; then came the Aryan speakers, who composed the Rig Veda. The Hindu sects - Shivaism, Bhakti, and the Vedanta, all came after the historical Buddha (563 BC).
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliams willytex@... wrote: my mind does love creating patterns out of chaos. whynotnow7: Yes, we appear to be creatures who habitually create patterns from the inward and outward perception of our six senses... It's obvious that different people may not see the same object 'as it is', but may perceive different objects when confronted by the same stimulus source. Ofte we fail to take into account the 'constructed character of knowing'. The term constructed character of knowing may be used to name the synthesizing process that goes on in the brain before experiences are produced. According to A.J. Bahm, objects appear in consciousness as wholes, or 'gestalts'. They enter experience already made. Some unconscious or subconscious process determines our conscious experiences for us, even though we can never become aware of it. * * Never is a very long time!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliams willytex@... wrote: my mind does love creating patterns out of chaos. whynotnow7: Yes, we appear to be creatures who habitually create patterns from the inward and outward perception of our six senses... It's obvious that different people may not see the same object 'as it is', but may perceive different objects when confronted by the same stimulus source. Ofte we fail to take into account the 'constructed character of knowing'. The term constructed character of knowing may be used to name the synthesizing process that goes on in the brain before experiences are produced. According to A.J. Bahm, objects appear in consciousness as wholes, or 'gestalts'. They enter experience already made. Some unconscious or subconscious process determines our conscious experiences for us, even though we can never become aware of it. * * What, never? No, never! What, never? Hardly ever! (HM. Spin a four; tour hyah and if you wanna good story, abhaya one for free!)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Escape from the Jersey Shore
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1943) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
[FairfieldLife] Church of the Giant Radiantly Luminous Jellyfish
* * I just watched Star Trek TNG, episode I, for the first time (the whole series is available on Netflix WI). ** SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen it and wish to watch it fresh, please stop reading now! * * Called Encounter at Far Point, the episode surprised me as it features our old friends the Giant Radiantly Luminous Jellyfish! Able to materialize objects from energy, one of this species was captured by a lesser species and imprisoned onplanet and harnessed to create a Star Base to enable the lesser species to join the Federation. Our heroes, Capt. Picard et al., inspect the Star Base and persevere through obstacles thrown up by the mischievous Q to eventually discover the prisoner's plight and free it to meet its mate, who is still in space, resembling a giant flying saucer. A lot of truth in this episode! They look much like our crown chakras, which do indeed materialize substance from energy, and in many of us are imprisoned within a strictly-materialistic worldview. (Also, FWIW the luminous discs or UFOs which supervised our frequency-acceleration, levitation and dematerialization in 1986 felt like our own Higher Selves or semi-detached crown chakras...)
[FairfieldLife] Purusha and Mother Divine turn Irene from DC
You following the radar images? Amazing how powerful the protection of the TM-siddhi program really is. I sense there is an affinity between TM and the DC area. We've been there a lot. It seems to work so really well. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1943) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Purusha and Mother Divine turn Irene from DC
The full force hasn't hit us yet. Later tonight. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: You following the radar images? Amazing how powerful the protection of the TM-siddhi program really is. I sense there is an affinity between TM and the DC area. We've been there a lot. It seems to work so really well. -Buck in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1943) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
[FairfieldLife] Let Them Eat Baklava: Food Prices and the Arab Spring
“From now on, price pressure and shortages of resources will be a permanent feature of our lives,” he contends. “The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.” Article here: http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/08/26/let-them-eat-baklava-food-prices-and-the-arab-spring/ We're all so lucky that we are yogis and can live on air if we need to. ;-) To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Purusha and Mother Divine turn Irene from DC
Because Yogic Flying obviusly is based on the same brahman*-
force that causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate,
I gather levitons, antiparticles of hypothetical gravitons,
the force carriers of the pulling component (Shiva) of Brahma(n),
are to blame.
Perhaps YF causes some kind of concentration, or whatever,
of levitons, that might annihiliate or at least diminish
the force of hurricanes, and stuff... (naah, just kidding!).
* The verbal root of 'brahma(n)' and 'brahmaa' (The Creator),of
course, is bRh:
bRh 2 or %{bRMh} cl. 1. P. (Dha1tup. xvii , 85) %{bRMhati} (also
%{-te} S3Br. and %{bRhati} AV. ; pf. %{babarha} AV. ; A. p. %{babRhANa4} RV.) ,
to be thick , grow great or strong , increase (the finite verb only with a
prep.): Caus. %{bRMhayati} , %{-te} (also written %{vR-}) , to make big or fat
or strong , increase , ***expand*** , further , promote MBh. Katha1s. Pur.
Sus3r. ;
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote:
You following the radar images? Amazing how powerful the protection of the
TM-siddhi program really is. I sense there is an affinity between TM and the
DC area. We've been there a lot. It seems to work so really well.
-Buck in FF
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote:
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1943)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Church of the Giant Radiantly Luminous Jellyfish
I love it, Rory, but I'm just SO not going to go there. :-) First, I haven't seen the episode in question since it first aired. Second, when I read about the Giant Radiantly Luminous Jellyfish, I couldn't help but hope that the followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster know of this episode. Mentally flash- forwarding from that, I experienced an entertaining vision of them partying down next to the other Trekkies at a convention, only wearing big jellyfish costumes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: * * I just watched Star Trek TNG, episode I, for the first time (the whole series is available on Netflix WI). ** SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen it and wish to watch it fresh, please stop reading now! * * Called Encounter at Far Point, the episode surprised me as it features our old friends the Giant Radiantly Luminous Jellyfish! Able to materialize objects from energy, one of this species was captured by a lesser species and imprisoned onplanet and harnessed to create a Star Base to enable the lesser species to join the Federation. Our heroes, Capt. Picard et al., inspect the Star Base and persevere through obstacles thrown up by the mischievous Q to eventually discover the prisoner's plight and free it to meet its mate, who is still in space, resembling a giant flying saucer. A lot of truth in this episode! They look much like our crown chakras, which do indeed materialize substance from energy, and in many of us are imprisoned within a strictly-materialistic worldview. (Also, FWIW the luminous discs or UFOs which supervised our frequency-acceleration, levitation and dematerialization in 1986 felt like our own Higher Selves or semi-detached crown chakras...)
[FairfieldLife] The Fed Audit
The Fed Audit Share This July 21, 2011 The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. An amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week directed the Government Accountability Office http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/GAO%20Fed%20Investigation.pdf to conduct the study. As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world, said Sanders. This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else. Among the investigation's key findings is that the Fed unilaterally provided trillions of dollars in financial assistance to foreign banks and corporations from South Korea to Scotland, according to the GAO report. No agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress and the president, Sanders said. The non-partisan, investigative arm of Congress also determined that the Fed lacks a comprehensive system to deal with conflicts of interest, despite the serious potential for abuse. In fact, according to the report, the Fed provided conflict of interest waivers to employees and private contractors so they could keep investments in the same financial institutions and corporations that were given emergency loans. For example, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase served on the New York Fed's board of directors at the same time that his bank received more than $390 billion in financial assistance from the Fed. Moreover, JP Morgan Chase served as one of the clearing banks for the Fed's emergency lending programs. In another disturbing finding, the GAO said that on Sept. 19, 2008, William Dudley, who is now the New York Fed president, was granted a waiver to let him keep investments in AIG and General Electric at the same time AIG and GE were given bailout funds. One reason the Fed did not make Dudley sell his holdings, according to the audit, was that it might have created the appearance of a conflict of interest. To Sanders, the conclusion is simple. No one who works for a firm receiving direct financial assistance from the Fed should be allowed to sit on the Fed's board of directors or be employed by the Fed, he said. The investigation also revealed that the Fed outsourced most of its emergency lending programs to private contractors, many of which also were recipients of extremely low-interest and then-secret loans. The Fed outsourced virtually all of the operations of their emergency lending programs to private contractors like JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo. The same firms also received trillions of dollars in Fed loans at near-zero interest rates. Altogether some two-thirds of the contracts that the Fed awarded to manage its emergency lending programs were no-bid contracts. Morgan Stanley was given the largest no-bid contract worth $108.4 million to help manage the Fed bailout of AIG. A more detailed GAO investigation into potential conflicts of interest at the Fed is due on Oct. 18, but Sanders said one thing already is abundantly clear. The Federal Reserve must be reformed to serve the needs of working families, not just CEOs on Wall Street. To read the GAO report, click here http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/GAO%20Fed%20Investigation.pdf . http://rajpatel.org/ http://rajpatel.org/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Church of the Giant Radiantly Luminous Jellyfish
* * Right, Barry! As you may recall, I was thinking of the Flying Spaghetti Monster when I founded the Church of the Giant Radiantly Luminous Jellyfish. However, we really need to get some zealous young missionaries over to them to spread the Good News that theirs is a false idol, whereas our God is REAL! :-D --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: I love it, Rory, but I'm just SO not going to go there. :-) First, I haven't seen the episode in question since it first aired. Second, when I read about the Giant Radiantly Luminous Jellyfish, I couldn't help but hope that the followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster know of this episode. Mentally flash- forwarding from that, I experienced an entertaining vision of them partying down next to the other Trekkies at a convention, only wearing big jellyfish costumes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: * * I just watched Star Trek TNG, episode I, for the first time (the whole series is available on Netflix WI). ** SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen it and wish to watch it fresh, please stop reading now! * * Called Encounter at Far Point, the episode surprised me as it features our old friends the Giant Radiantly Luminous Jellyfish! Able to materialize objects from energy, one of this species was captured by a lesser species and imprisoned onplanet and harnessed to create a Star Base to enable the lesser species to join the Federation. Our heroes, Capt. Picard et al., inspect the Star Base and persevere through obstacles thrown up by the mischievous Q to eventually discover the prisoner's plight and free it to meet its mate, who is still in space, resembling a giant flying saucer. A lot of truth in this episode! They look much like our crown chakras, which do indeed materialize substance from energy, and in many of us are imprisoned within a strictly-materialistic worldview. (Also, FWIW the luminous discs or UFOs which supervised our frequency-acceleration, levitation and dematerialization in 1986 felt like our own Higher Selves or semi-detached crown chakras...)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Purusha and Mother Divine turn Irene from DC
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: You following the radar images? Amazing how powerful the protection of the TM-siddhi program really is. I sense there is an affinity between TM and the DC area. We've been there a lot. It seems to work so really well. -Buck in FF Interesting. Where are the maps you see this ? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1943) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 26, 2011, at 11:42 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. Weird guy, weird guy. I think his whore gave him a spiritual STD. :-) A good one Vakri, I'm so happy to see you having a lighter moment, anything that gives you comfort from the constant choking of your parroted shit.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 26, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Ravi Yogi wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Snip But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism. Little Hindu triumphalism huh Ravi? Ethno-centric bias is so predictable. So you were born in that part of the world and amazingly enough conclude that the stories they tell are the rightest ones. How convenient! Hmm, no, not right stories, the wrong ones too, the good , bad and the ugly, stories of love and hatred, war and peace, life in its all fullness. Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Pretty naive statement. What you have to realize Ravi is that Shakyamuni Buddha is just the primary Buddha of this era - there were Buddhas before him and there were Buddhas after him. In fact, some believe that Shiva is a corruption of a great Bonpo Buddha associated with the kingdom of Xhang Xhung (the area around current Mt. Kailash). Some of the Vedic rishis would be Buddhas as well... Whatever rocks your boat Vakri, it's a big burden to be the illegitimate child that too of the whore and trust me, I totally sympathize with you and will not take offense at these tall tales.
[FairfieldLife] A Gift for Maharishi and 55 million people on the East Coast of USA
Forwarded from: Diane Rosenberg drosenb...@lisco.com Dear Friends, My Mom and brother are on Long Island, smack where Hurricane Irene is scheduled to land next, so I have a vested interest in our community's ability to stave off devastation from this hurricane. I'm passing along this heartfelt letter and hope you take a moment to read it. Thanks very much, Diane Dear friends, Please join me in giving a gift to Maharishi and the 55 million peolpe who are in harms way of Hurricane Irene. As I write to you this morning, family and friends up and down the entire East Coast from the Carolinas to New York to Maine are being evacuated from coastal, low lying areas. For the first time in New York City's history, over 300,000 people were given mandatory evacuation notices. Trains, subways and buses of mass transit will close at noon today in preparation for this hurricane. All airlines will be closed at noon. What can we do to help these people? Is it too little, too late? Perhaps not. Maybe, just maybe we have a technique to change this forecast. Maharishi told us 5 years ago, With 2000, you will begin to see the desired changes in society When he started the Invincible America Assembly here in Fairfield at that time, he gave us a gift, his blessing, not only for us but all of America. Do you remember listening to America the Beautiful when we entered and left the Golden Domes each day? It always brought tears to my eyes when I heard it. Well, today and tomorrow and EVERYDAY, we have an opportunity to give a gift back to Maharishi. What's the gift? Give Maharishi the gift of 2000 joined together in Blissful meditation each and every day in our golden domes. This is all he asked of us. Maharishi's desire is still waiting to be fulfilled. Let's just DO IT ... DO IT TODAY ... make him proud of us, show him our gratitude for everything he has given us over the last 30-40 years. We are so very blessed not only to have his knowledge of eternal life and bliss in our lives, but to live in such a precious community as Fairfield. Let's join together, ask your friends to join us and maybe, just maybe, we can fulfill Maharishi's statement that We are changing the destiny of mankind for all those people in the way of this hurricane and all future hurricanes. Thanks you from the bottom of my very grateful heart for listening. See you in the Golden Domes!!! Jai Guru Dev Sharon Starr P.S. Please forgive me if I send this to you twice. I sent it out to a few of my mailing lists. Why not do the same?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
You already know it Curtis, I always have a single pointed agenda, all the word play is just a mask. I'm not here to indulge in foreplays for yours or anyone else's intellectual hard-ons. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. Does my brazenly outrageous weird game given you any hint about the weird game you play? So you thought going cryptic would get you off the hook for misstating my beliefs? You are welcome to make a case that I am playing a weird game. You aren't making it by making false statements and then doubling down when called on them. I am playing no game here. I am trying to express my beliefs and invite others to express theirs. I prefer when they employ accuracy and respect for the most basic facts. Your incoherence just means you are not on board with having an upfront discussion. Your choice.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution
He also hates little children and steps on ants.. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: 5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution -- 'Cuddly' Libertarian Has Some Very Dark Politics He's anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that's just the start. August 26, 2011 | Description: http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/blogteaser_ronpaulrevolution.jpg_3 10x220 There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. The anti-war Republican, people say, as if that's good enough. But Ron Paul is much, much more than that. He's the anti-Civil-Rights-Act Republican. He's an anti-reproductive-rights Republican. He's a gay-demonizing Republican. He's an anti-public education Republican and an anti-Social Security Republican. He's the John Birch Society's favorite congressman. And he's a booster of the Constitution Party, which has a Christian Reconstructionist platform. So, if you're a member of the anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality, anti-education, pro-communist-witch-hunt wing of the progressive movement, I can see how he'd be your guy. Paul first drew the attention of progressives with his vocal opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Coupled with the Texan's famous call to end the Federal Reserve, that somehow rendered him, in the eyes of the single-minded, the GOP's very own Dennis Kucinich. Throw in Paul's opposition to the drug war and his belief that marriage rights should be determined by the states, and Paul seemed suitable enough to an emotionally immature segment of the progressive movement, a wing populated by people with privilege adequate enough to insulate them from the nasty bits of the Paul agenda. (Tough on you blacks! And you, women! And you, queers! And you, old people without money.) Ron Paul's anti-war stance, you see, comes not from a cry for peace, but from the deeply held isolationism of the far right. Some may say that, when it comes to ending the slaughter of innocents, the ends justify the means. But, in the case of Ron Paul, the ends involve trading the rights and security of a great many Americans for the promise of non-intervention. Here's a list -- by no means comprehensive -- of Ron Paul positions and associates that should explain, once and for all, why no self-respecting progressive could possibly sidle up to Paul. 1) Ron Paul on Race Based on his religious adherence to his purportedly libertarian principles, Ron Paul opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Unlike his son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Ron Paul has not even tried to walk back from this position. In fact, he wears it proudly. Here's an excerpt http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html from Ron Paul's 2004 floor speech about the Civil Rights Act, in which he explains why he voted against a House resolution honoring the 40th anniversary of the law: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife. He also said this http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/533817/ron_pauls_libertarian_newsl etters_revealed_pg4.html?cat=9 : [T]he forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty. Ron Paul also occasionally appears at events sponsored by the John Birch Society, the segregationist right-wing organization that is closely aligned with the Christian Reconstructionist wing of the religious right. In 2008, James Kirchick brought to light in the pages of the New Republic a number of newsletters with Paul's name in the title -- Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report, and The Ron Paul Investment Letter -- that contained baldly racist material, which Paul denied writing. At NewsOne, Casey Gane-McCalla reported http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/opinion-ron-paul-is-a-white-su premacist/ a number of these vitriolic diatribes, including this, on the L.A. riots after the Rodney
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Gift for Maharishi and 55 million people on the East Coast of USA
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@... wrote: Forwarded from: Diane Rosenberg drosenberg@... P.S. Please forgive me if I send this to you twice. I sent it out to a few of my mailing lists. Why not do the same? At least she didn't threaten me with getting run over by a bus in the next 24 hours if I didn't send it to 15 more people.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution
He has zero charisma, and zero chance of winning, so not to worry... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: 5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution -- 'Cuddly' Libertarian Has Some Very Dark Politics He's anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that's just the start. August 26, 2011 | Description: http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/blogteaser_ronpaulrevolution.jpg_3 10x220 There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. The anti-war Republican, people say, as if that's good enough. But Ron Paul is much, much more than that. He's the anti-Civil-Rights-Act Republican. He's an anti-reproductive-rights Republican. He's a gay-demonizing Republican. He's an anti-public education Republican and an anti-Social Security Republican. He's the John Birch Society's favorite congressman. And he's a booster of the Constitution Party, which has a Christian Reconstructionist platform. So, if you're a member of the anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality, anti-education, pro-communist-witch-hunt wing of the progressive movement, I can see how he'd be your guy. Paul first drew the attention of progressives with his vocal opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Coupled with the Texan's famous call to end the Federal Reserve, that somehow rendered him, in the eyes of the single-minded, the GOP's very own Dennis Kucinich. Throw in Paul's opposition to the drug war and his belief that marriage rights should be determined by the states, and Paul seemed suitable enough to an emotionally immature segment of the progressive movement, a wing populated by people with privilege adequate enough to insulate them from the nasty bits of the Paul agenda. (Tough on you blacks! And you, women! And you, queers! And you, old people without money.) Ron Paul's anti-war stance, you see, comes not from a cry for peace, but from the deeply held isolationism of the far right. Some may say that, when it comes to ending the slaughter of innocents, the ends justify the means. But, in the case of Ron Paul, the ends involve trading the rights and security of a great many Americans for the promise of non-intervention. Here's a list -- by no means comprehensive -- of Ron Paul positions and associates that should explain, once and for all, why no self-respecting progressive could possibly sidle up to Paul. 1) Ron Paul on Race Based on his religious adherence to his purportedly libertarian principles, Ron Paul opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Unlike his son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Ron Paul has not even tried to walk back from this position. In fact, he wears it proudly. Here's an excerpt http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html from Ron Paul's 2004 floor speech about the Civil Rights Act, in which he explains why he voted against a House resolution honoring the 40th anniversary of the law: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife. He also said this http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/533817/ron_pauls_libertarian_newsl etters_revealed_pg4.html?cat=9 : [T]he forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty. Ron Paul also occasionally appears at events sponsored by the John Birch Society, the segregationist right-wing organization that is closely aligned with the Christian Reconstructionist wing of the religious right. In 2008, James Kirchick brought to light in the pages of the New Republic a number of newsletters with Paul's name in the title -- Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report, and The Ron Paul Investment Letter -- that contained baldly racist material, which Paul denied writing. At NewsOne, Casey Gane-McCalla reported http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/opinion-ron-paul-is-a-white-su premacist/ a number of these vitriolic diatribes, including this, on the L.A. riots
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: You already know it Curtis, I always have a single pointed agenda, all the word play is just a mask. I'm not here to indulge in foreplays for yours or anyone else's intellectual hard-ons. You have made it clear repeatedly that you are above it all. Unfortunately I don't share that view of your posts so I'm gunna hold you accountable for any bullshit that includes my name. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. Does my brazenly outrageous weird game given you any hint about the weird game you play? So you thought going cryptic would get you off the hook for misstating my beliefs? You are welcome to make a case that I am playing a weird game. You aren't making it by making false statements and then doubling down when called on them. I am playing no game here. I am trying to express my beliefs and invite others to express theirs. I prefer when they employ accuracy and respect for the most basic facts. Your incoherence just means you are not on board with having an upfront discussion. Your choice.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Purusha and Mother Divine turn Irene from DC
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: You following the radar images? Amazing how powerful the protection of the TM-siddhi program really is. I sense there is an affinity between TM and the DC area. We've been there a lot. It seems to work so really well. -Buck in FF Interesting. Where are the maps you see this ? Just close your eyes Nabby. There you go. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1943) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Yes, we appear to be creatures who habitually create patterns from the inward and outward perception of our six senses, with storage facilities for those perceptions, allowing for imagination and reflection, in order to grow the patterns in complexity, which we can then mirror in our physical environment. I can only conclude we do this for fun, with the granularity of our creation offering endless possibilities for perception, reflection, imagination, and expression, vs. dwelling simply in universal pure potential. I'm pretty sure we have this skill because any ancestor who lacked it got eaten by something bigger. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: * * Yeah, especially when it comes to the siddhis. But in all honesty, I probably just made this story up, because my mind does love creating patterns out of chaos. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: ...subtlety is always a virtue :-0) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: * * Feel it? Hell, doubtless I caused it when I asked my wife Rena to -- well, let's just say it was not unlike Curtis's rock me! earthquake siddhi-experience, but delicacy forbids me to go into the details :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Perhaps you are feeling the influence of Hurricane Irene (Irene = peace), Rory!:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: Cripple Creek, CO; 1890, Departure of Stagecoach: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47453.jpg One of my very favorite places on Earth. Great saloon, great ice cream parlor. Regrettably, the place is contaminated with all sorts of sulfates and nasty metals like arsenic. Great times in the Summer. Now Rory, RC and Ravi should be one the stage. The one leaving for Cheyenne in an hour. * * I knew you'd take a Cheyenne to us once you got to know us, Tom. And you're quite right, when we're Home, be it ever so humble, there is no where but now here, ever only the one stage. ISness is our business. But you know Why Homing requires eight stages, wheels a-spinning, steeds a-grinning from Here to Here, right? (Idaho, but Kali Fornia does; Alaska.) We are... climbing... Jacob's ... ladder; ... ev'ry ... round goes ... higher, ... higher! Yama to Niyama, Shakti to Shiva, Doing to Nondoing. Feet and ... Base and ... Sex and ... Navel, ... Heart and ... Throat and ... Brow and ... Crow-hown! And mounting laboriously from Yama to Asana to Pranayam to Pratyahara, to Dharana to Dhyana to Samdhi to Niyama, we come Home where we have always and all ways been, here and now, in the radiantly Cheyenning secret Sacred Heart amidst the nine. The one stage IS Now, ever has been, and always shall be, whirled without end, Amen.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Revolutionary Transcendental Meditation
Evidently it's true, that (Maharishi) [Noyes] with (Transcendental Meditation) evidently ably utilized the wide range of social and financial connections at his disposal to create a millennial group that skillfully pursued its objectives with in American society for more than three (five) decades. ... might appear as extreme at first sight, the group is actually a remarkable example of how a millennial group can successfully develop its own distinctive identity, while avoiding destructive confrontation with larger society. -When do Millennial Religious Movements Become Revolutionary?: - Lawrence Foster (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: This is us? This is us? Millennial religious and communal movements typically anticipate the imminent and literal end of what they view as a profoundly wicked, corrupt existing world order and its replacement by a glorious new heaven and new earth, in which the first shall be last and the last first, Describing millennial groups this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary in their underlying goals and their impact upon the larger social order that they criticize so harshly Describing millennial movements in this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary... ...This article will argue, instead, that the complex trajectories of millennial movements may lead them to two quite different directions -either toward increasing accommodation with the larger society, on the one hand, or toward escalating conflict and confrontation that typically results in the group's dispersal or violent suppression by political power holders, on the other. -When do Millennial Religious Movements Become Revolutionary?: - Lawrence Foster (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Choose your millenarian end-of-days and descent of Heaven on Earth. However, surveying the 60 years of Maharishi and TM in the West or even just the 4 decades of TM in Iowa the TM movement as a millenarian movement has tried everything and has both accommodated the larger culture, been suppressed some, and even dispersed. And it has changed the larger culture some too. Evidently was revolutionary in its time too. Yep. Well of course there is a whole spectrum. Some of us are and some are not. Recently I saw Bevan and his people who are around him at a meeting and also I've directly watched and heard him speak within the year a couple of times, and yes they evidently are millenarian. Millennial-ist. To the extent that he and they have been the right hand of the TM movement all these years and decades, then yes it is. Essentially the TM movement and TM has been and is theirs now. Certainly TM as a movement is communal at their level and millennial from the inside at that level. If it walks like a duck and quacks like one, then... in modern times, TM's a millenarian movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes Dedicated millenarians -inspired by their intense emotional commitment to goals they view as cosmically important and by their true believer millenarian rhetoric- often seek to assist the divine process of transformation in which they believe they are participating by taking matters into their own hands rather than passively waiting for God to inaugurate His kingdom on earth. Initially, such movements may engage in relatively quiet and largely non-confrontational efforts to withdraw from what they view as the wicked world around them, in order to try to create purer, more communally cohesive groups in preparation for the anticipated millennial kingdom. - Lawrence Foster, Journal of the Communal Studies Association vol31:1,2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes are we millennialists? This is us? Millennial religious and communal movements typically anticipate the imminent and literal end of what they view as a profoundly wicked, corrupt existing world order and its replacement by a glorious new heaven and new earth, in which the first shall be last and the last first, Describing millennial groups this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary in their underlying goals and their impact upon the larger social order that they criticize so harshly Describing millennial movements in this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary... ...This article will argue, instead, that the complex trajectories of millennial movements may lead them to two quite different
[FairfieldLife] Re: Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: 5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution -- 'Cuddly' Libertarian Has Some Very Dark Politics He's anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that's just the start. August 26, 2011 | Description: http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/blogteaser_ronpaulrevolution.jpg_3 10x220 Like said...Ron Paul is Ayn Rand in drag. The Tea Party, The Greedy Rich and Ayn Rand--Parasites, Lice and Moochers http://tinyurl.com/3o6rl5d
[FairfieldLife] Re: Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution
Like said...Ron Paul is Ayn Rand in drag. The Tea Party, The Greedy Rich and Ayn Rand--Parasites, Lice and Moochers http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Tea-Party-The-Greedy-by-JON-LARSEN-110423-710.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: 5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution -- 'Cuddly' Libertarian Has Some Very Dark Politics He's anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that's just the start. August 26, 2011 | Description: http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/blogteaser_ronpaulrevolution.jpg_3 10x220 There are few things as maddening in a maddening political season as the warm and fuzzy feelings some progressives evince for Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, the Republican presidential candidate. The anti-war Republican, people say, as if that's good enough. But Ron Paul is much, much more than that. He's the anti-Civil-Rights-Act Republican. He's an anti-reproductive-rights Republican. He's a gay-demonizing Republican. He's an anti-public education Republican and an anti-Social Security Republican. He's the John Birch Society's favorite congressman. And he's a booster of the Constitution Party, which has a Christian Reconstructionist platform. So, if you're a member of the anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality, anti-education, pro-communist-witch-hunt wing of the progressive movement, I can see how he'd be your guy. Paul first drew the attention of progressives with his vocal opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Coupled with the Texan's famous call to end the Federal Reserve, that somehow rendered him, in the eyes of the single-minded, the GOP's very own Dennis Kucinich. Throw in Paul's opposition to the drug war and his belief that marriage rights should be determined by the states, and Paul seemed suitable enough to an emotionally immature segment of the progressive movement, a wing populated by people with privilege adequate enough to insulate them from the nasty bits of the Paul agenda. (Tough on you blacks! And you, women! And you, queers! And you, old people without money.) Ron Paul's anti-war stance, you see, comes not from a cry for peace, but from the deeply held isolationism of the far right. Some may say that, when it comes to ending the slaughter of innocents, the ends justify the means. But, in the case of Ron Paul, the ends involve trading the rights and security of a great many Americans for the promise of non-intervention. Here's a list -- by no means comprehensive -- of Ron Paul positions and associates that should explain, once and for all, why no self-respecting progressive could possibly sidle up to Paul. 1) Ron Paul on Race Based on his religious adherence to his purportedly libertarian principles, Ron Paul opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Unlike his son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Ron Paul has not even tried to walk back from this position. In fact, he wears it proudly. Here's an excerpt http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html from Ron Paul's 2004 floor speech about the Civil Rights Act, in which he explains why he voted against a House resolution honoring the 40th anniversary of the law: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife. He also said this http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/533817/ron_pauls_libertarian_newsl etters_revealed_pg4.html?cat=9 : [T]he forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty. Ron Paul also occasionally appears at events sponsored by the John Birch Society, the segregationist right-wing organization that is closely aligned with the Christian Reconstructionist wing of the religious right. In 2008, James Kirchick brought to light in the pages of the New Republic a number of newsletters with Paul's name in the title -- Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report, and The Ron Paul Investment Letter -- that contained baldly racist material, which Paul denied writing. At NewsOne, Casey Gane-McCalla reported
[FairfieldLife] Re: Revolutionary Transcendental Meditation
Before considering these important questions, a working definition of polictical revolution first is necessary. The definition of political revolution used in this article is drawn primarily from Crane Brinton's classic comparative study, Anatomy of Revolutions... Brinton argues that for such an overthrow or attempted overthrow to be considered revolutionary the leaders of the movement must also seek to initiate major changes in the structure of government (as opposed to simply who is running it), as well as in economic life, social relationships, and ideological or religious beliefs. When do Millennial Religious Movements become Politically Revolutionary? - Lawrence Foster --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Evidently it's true, that (Maharishi) [Noyes] with (Transcendental Meditation) evidently ably utilized the wide range of social and financial connections at his disposal to create a millennial group that skillfully pursued its objectives with in American society for more than three (five) decades. ... might appear as extreme at first sight, the group is actually a remarkable example of how a millennial group can successfully develop its own distinctive identity, while avoiding destructive confrontation with larger society. -When do Millennial Religious Movements Become Revolutionary?: - Lawrence Foster (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: This is us? This is us? Millennial religious and communal movements typically anticipate the imminent and literal end of what they view as a profoundly wicked, corrupt existing world order and its replacement by a glorious new heaven and new earth, in which the first shall be last and the last first, Describing millennial groups this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary in their underlying goals and their impact upon the larger social order that they criticize so harshly Describing millennial movements in this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary... ...This article will argue, instead, that the complex trajectories of millennial movements may lead them to two quite different directions -either toward increasing accommodation with the larger society, on the one hand, or toward escalating conflict and confrontation that typically results in the group's dispersal or violent suppression by political power holders, on the other. -When do Millennial Religious Movements Become Revolutionary?: - Lawrence Foster (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Choose your millenarian end-of-days and descent of Heaven on Earth. However, surveying the 60 years of Maharishi and TM in the West or even just the 4 decades of TM in Iowa the TM movement as a millenarian movement has tried everything and has both accommodated the larger culture, been suppressed some, and even dispersed. And it has changed the larger culture some too. Evidently was revolutionary in its time too. Yep. Well of course there is a whole spectrum. Some of us are and some are not. Recently I saw Bevan and his people who are around him at a meeting and also I've directly watched and heard him speak within the year a couple of times, and yes they evidently are millenarian. Millennial-ist. To the extent that he and they have been the right hand of the TM movement all these years and decades, then yes it is. Essentially the TM movement and TM has been and is theirs now. Certainly TM as a movement is communal at their level and millennial from the inside at that level. If it walks like a duck and quacks like one, then... in modern times, TM's a millenarian movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes Dedicated millenarians -inspired by their intense emotional commitment to goals they view as cosmically important and by their true believer millenarian rhetoric- often seek to assist the divine process of transformation in which they believe they are participating by taking matters into their own hands rather than passively waiting for God to inaugurate His kingdom on earth. Initially, such movements may engage in relatively quiet and largely non-confrontational efforts to withdraw from what they view as the wicked world around them, in order to try to create purer, more communally cohesive groups in preparation for the anticipated millennial kingdom. - Lawrence Foster, Journal of the Communal Studies Association vol31:1,2011
[FairfieldLife] Re: Purusha and Mother Divine turn Irene from DC
Card, not a kidding aside here I feel that you are on to something with this.
It's all very brahmaanaic. Thanks for the insight,
-Buck in FF
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote:
Because Yogic Flying obviusly is based on the same brahman*-
force that causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate,
I gather levitons, antiparticles of hypothetical gravitons,
the force carriers of the pulling component (Shiva) of Brahma(n),
are to blame.
Perhaps YF causes some kind of concentration, or whatever,
of levitons, that might annihiliate or at least diminish
the force of hurricanes, and stuff... .
* The verbal root of 'brahma(n)' and 'brahmaa' (The Creator),of
course, is bRh:
bRh 2 or %{bRMh} cl. 1. P. (Dha1tup. xvii , 85) %{bRMhati} (also
%{-te} S3Br. and %{bRhati} AV. ; pf. %{babarha} AV. ; A. p. %{babRhANa4} RV.)
, to be thick , grow great or strong , increase (the finite verb only with a
prep.): Caus. %{bRMhayati} , %{-te} (also written %{vR-}) , to make big or
fat or strong , increase , ***expand*** , further , promote MBh. Katha1s.
Pur. Sus3r. ;
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote:
You following the radar images? Amazing how powerful the protection of the
TM-siddhi program really is. I sense there is an affinity between TM and
the DC area. We've been there a lot. It seems to work so really well.
-Buck in FF
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote:
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1943)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: You already know it Curtis, I always have a single pointed agenda, all the word play is just a mask. I'm not here to indulge in foreplays for yours or anyone else's intellectual hard-ons. You have made it clear repeatedly that you are above it all. Unfortunately I don't share that view of your posts so I'm gunna hold you accountable for any bullshit that includes my name. Well I have been forthright about my bullshit, I indulge in brazenly outrageous BS to deal with your and others BS. Mine's obvious, others's not so much. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. Does my brazenly outrageous weird game given you any hint about the weird game you play? So you thought going cryptic would get you off the hook for misstating my beliefs? You are welcome to make a case that I am playing a weird game. You aren't making it by making false statements and then doubling down when called on them. I am playing no game here. I am trying to express my beliefs and invite others to express theirs. I prefer when they employ accuracy and respect for the most basic facts. Your incoherence just means you are not on board with having an upfront discussion. Your choice.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Purusha and Mother Divine turn Irene from DC
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Interesting. Where are the maps you see this ? Just close your eyes Nabby. There you go. And when we close our eyes, naturally we feel some quiet, some silence, yes?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Revolutionary Transcendental Meditation
Similarly, the potentially disruptive activities of millennial religious or communal movements (which in Hagopian's framework are classed as revolts) also may develop in revolutionary or non-revolutionary directions, depending upon their goals and on the context within which their protest develops. When do Millennial Religious Movements become Politically Revolutionary? - (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) Lawrence Foster --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Before considering these important questions, a working definition of polictical revolution first is necessary. The definition of political revolution used in this article is drawn primarily from Crane Brinton's classic comparative study, Anatomy of Revolutions... Brinton argues that for such an overthrow or attempted overthrow to be considered revolutionary the leaders of the movement must also seek to initiate major changes in the structure of government (as opposed to simply who is running it), as well as in economic life, social relationships, and ideological or religious beliefs. When do Millennial Religious Movements become Politically Revolutionary? - Lawrence Foster --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Evidently it's true, that (Maharishi) [Noyes] with (Transcendental Meditation) evidently ably utilized the wide range of social and financial connections at his disposal to create a millennial group that skillfully pursued its objectives with in American society for more than three (five) decades. ... might appear as extreme at first sight, the group is actually a remarkable example of how a millennial group can successfully develop its own distinctive identity, while avoiding destructive confrontation with larger society. -When do Millennial Religious Movements Become Revolutionary?: - Lawrence Foster (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: This is us? This is us? Millennial religious and communal movements typically anticipate the imminent and literal end of what they view as a profoundly wicked, corrupt existing world order and its replacement by a glorious new heaven and new earth, in which the first shall be last and the last first, Describing millennial groups this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary in their underlying goals and their impact upon the larger social order that they criticize so harshly Describing millennial movements in this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary... ...This article will argue, instead, that the complex trajectories of millennial movements may lead them to two quite different directions -either toward increasing accommodation with the larger society, on the one hand, or toward escalating conflict and confrontation that typically results in the group's dispersal or violent suppression by political power holders, on the other. -When do Millennial Religious Movements Become Revolutionary?: - Lawrence Foster (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Choose your millenarian end-of-days and descent of Heaven on Earth. However, surveying the 60 years of Maharishi and TM in the West or even just the 4 decades of TM in Iowa the TM movement as a millenarian movement has tried everything and has both accommodated the larger culture, been suppressed some, and even dispersed. And it has changed the larger culture some too. Evidently was revolutionary in its time too. Yep. Well of course there is a whole spectrum. Some of us are and some are not. Recently I saw Bevan and his people who are around him at a meeting and also I've directly watched and heard him speak within the year a couple of times, and yes they evidently are millenarian. Millennial-ist. To the extent that he and they have been the right hand of the TM movement all these years and decades, then yes it is. Essentially the TM movement and TM has been and is theirs now. Certainly TM as a movement is communal at their level and millennial from the inside at that level. If it walks like a duck and quacks like one, then... in modern times, TM's a millenarian movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Domes Dedicated millenarians -inspired by their intense emotional commitment to goals they view as cosmically important and by their true believer millenarian rhetoric- often seek to assist the divine process of transformation in which they believe they are
[FairfieldLife] Re: Purusha and Mother Divine turn Irene from DC
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: Interesting. Where are the maps you see this ? Just close your eyes Nabby. There you go. And when we close our eyes, naturally we feel some quiet, some silence, yes? And then when you feel all floaty, just make some shit up! Feels good, yes?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: You already know it Curtis, I always have a single pointed agenda, all the word play is just a mask. I'm not here to indulge in foreplays for yours or anyone else's intellectual hard-ons. You have made it clear repeatedly that you are above it all. Unfortunately I don't share that view of your posts so I'm gunna hold you accountable for any bullshit that includes my name. Well I have been forthright about my bullshit, I indulge in brazenly outrageous BS to deal with your and others BS. Mine's obvious, others's not so much. Yeah, that strategy is working really well for Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman too. Burble nonsense. Get called on nonsense. Double down on nonsense. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. Does my brazenly outrageous weird game given you any hint about the weird game you play? So you thought going cryptic would get you off the hook for misstating my beliefs? You are welcome to make a case that I am playing a weird game. You aren't making it by making false statements and then doubling down when called on them. I am playing no game here. I am trying to express my beliefs and invite others to express theirs. I prefer when they employ accuracy and respect for the most basic facts. Your incoherence just means you are not on board with having an upfront discussion. Your choice.
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[FairfieldLife] #5# Think About This: Are you happy?
Think About This... Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. I was created by God and belong to Him. I am very happy... and you? Paulo Barbosa
[FairfieldLife] Re: Revolutionary Transcendental Meditation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Similarly, the potentially disruptive activities of millennial religious or communal movements (which in Hagopian's framework are classed as revolts) also may develop in revolutionary or non-revolutionary directions, depending upon their goals and on the context within which their protest develops. When do Millennial Religious Movements become Politically Revolutionary? - (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) Lawrence Foster --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Before considering these important questions, a working definition of polictical revolution first is necessary. The definition of political revolution used in this article is drawn primarily from Crane Brinton's classic comparative study, Anatomy of Revolutions... Brinton argues that for such an overthrow or attempted overthrow to be considered revolutionary the leaders of the movement must also seek to initiate major changes in the structure of government (as opposed to simply who is running it), as well as in economic life, social relationships, and ideological or religious beliefs. When do Millennial Religious Movements become Politically Revolutionary? - Lawrence Foster Well, and that said, then it's Revolutionary Maharishi Transcendental Meditation. Seems that Maharishi was one of the revolutionaries of the late 20th Century and of the early 21st Century. Certainly not the only one but one of them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Evidently it's true, that (Maharishi) [Noyes] with (Transcendental Meditation) evidently ably utilized the wide range of social and financial connections at his disposal to create a millennial group that skillfully pursued its objectives with in American society for more than three (five) decades. ... might appear as extreme at first sight, the group is actually a remarkable example of how a millennial group can successfully develop its own distinctive identity, while avoiding destructive confrontation with larger society. -When do Millennial Religious Movements Become Revolutionary?: - Lawrence Foster (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: This is us? This is us? Millennial religious and communal movements typically anticipate the imminent and literal end of what they view as a profoundly wicked, corrupt existing world order and its replacement by a glorious new heaven and new earth, in which the first shall be last and the last first, Describing millennial groups this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary in their underlying goals and their impact upon the larger social order that they criticize so harshly Describing millennial movements in this way implies that they must be inherently revolutionary... ...This article will argue, instead, that the complex trajectories of millennial movements may lead them to two quite different directions -either toward increasing accommodation with the larger society, on the one hand, or toward escalating conflict and confrontation that typically results in the group's dispersal or violent suppression by political power holders, on the other. -When do Millennial Religious Movements Become Revolutionary?: - Lawrence Foster (Communal Studies Association vol 31,1 2011) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Choose your millenarian end-of-days and descent of Heaven on Earth. However, surveying the 60 years of Maharishi and TM in the West or even just the 4 decades of TM in Iowa the TM movement as a millenarian movement has tried everything and has both accommodated the larger culture, been suppressed some, and even dispersed. And it has changed the larger culture some too. Evidently was revolutionary in its time too. Yep. Well of course there is a whole spectrum. Some of us are and some are not. Recently I saw Bevan and his people who are around him at a meeting and also I've directly watched and heard him speak within the year a couple of times, and yes they evidently are millenarian. Millennial-ist. To the extent that he and they have been the right hand of the TM movement all these years and decades, then yes it is. Essentially the TM movement and TM has been and is theirs now. Certainly TM as a movement is communal at their level and millennial from the inside at that level. If it walks like a duck and quacks like one, then... in modern
[FairfieldLife] Re: #5# Think About This: Are you happy?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paulo Barbosa tprobert@... wrote: Think About This... Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. I was created by God and belong to Him. I am very happy... and you? * * Are you happy, too? Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell! They'd b-nish us, you know.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
That got me thinking about that first time something decided to eat something else, that also moved: The grass IS greener on the other side of the fence, its called *Steak*! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Yes, we appear to be creatures who habitually create patterns from the inward and outward perception of our six senses, with storage facilities for those perceptions, allowing for imagination and reflection, in order to grow the patterns in complexity, which we can then mirror in our physical environment. I can only conclude we do this for fun, with the granularity of our creation offering endless possibilities for perception, reflection, imagination, and expression, vs. dwelling simply in universal pure potential. I'm pretty sure we have this skill because any ancestor who lacked it got eaten by something bigger. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: * * Yeah, especially when it comes to the siddhis. But in all honesty, I probably just made this story up, because my mind does love creating patterns out of chaos. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: ...subtlety is always a virtue :-0) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: * * Feel it? Hell, doubtless I caused it when I asked my wife Rena to -- well, let's just say it was not unlike Curtis's rock me! earthquake siddhi-experience, but delicacy forbids me to go into the details :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Perhaps you are feeling the influence of Hurricane Irene (Irene = peace), Rory!:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: Cripple Creek, CO; 1890, Departure of Stagecoach: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47453.jpg One of my very favorite places on Earth. Great saloon, great ice cream parlor. Regrettably, the place is contaminated with all sorts of sulfates and nasty metals like arsenic. Great times in the Summer. Now Rory, RC and Ravi should be one the stage. The one leaving for Cheyenne in an hour. * * I knew you'd take a Cheyenne to us once you got to know us, Tom. And you're quite right, when we're Home, be it ever so humble, there is no where but now here, ever only the one stage. ISness is our business. But you know Why Homing requires eight stages, wheels a-spinning, steeds a-grinning from Here to Here, right? (Idaho, but Kali Fornia does; Alaska.) We are... climbing... Jacob's ... ladder; ... ev'ry ... round goes ... higher, ... higher! Yama to Niyama, Shakti to Shiva, Doing to Nondoing. Feet and ... Base and ... Sex and ... Navel, ... Heart and ... Throat and ... Brow and ... Crow-hown! And mounting laboriously from Yama to Asana to Pranayam to Pratyahara, to Dharana to Dhyana to Samdhi to Niyama, we come Home where we have always and all ways been, here and now, in the radiantly Cheyenning secret Sacred Heart amidst the nine. The one stage IS Now, ever has been, and always shall be, whirled without end, Amen.
[FairfieldLife] Re: #5# Think About This: Are you happy?
I thought the rhyme went, Here is the church, and here is the steeple, with a T, not an H.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paulo Barbosa tprobert@ wrote: Think About This... Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. I was created by God and belong to Him. I am very happy... and you? * * Are you happy, too? Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell! They'd b-nish us, you know.
[FairfieldLife] Re: #5# Think About This: Are you happy?
If you mean the God Poseidon, we are not on very good terms today due to the storm he is flinging on us. The wind God Vayu is being a bit of a dick as well today. This isn't the greatest PR day for God ideas. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paulo Barbosa tprobert@... wrote: Think About This... Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. I was created by God and belong to Him. I am very happy... and you? Paulo Barbosa
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: You already know it Curtis, I always have a single pointed agenda, all the word play is just a mask. I'm not here to indulge in foreplays for yours or anyone else's intellectual hard-ons. You have made it clear repeatedly that you are above it all. Unfortunately I don't share that view of your posts so I'm gunna hold you accountable for any bullshit that includes my name. Well I have been forthright about my bullshit, I indulge in brazenly outrageous BS to deal with your and others BS. Mine's obvious, others's not so much. Yeah, that strategy is working really well for Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman too. Burble nonsense. Get called on nonsense. Double down on nonsense. I'm sorry you are having so much trouble with the concept of Epshittamology. It would be useful to review the definition of Epshittamology from Dr. Ravi Yogi, Psy. D, UC Berekeley's ground breaking research. So as to not startle others around you, repeat softly and gently after me - epshittamology is the indulgence and open admission of brazenly outrageous bullshit to counter others bullshit. Now Sarah and Michelle would never admit they are full of nonsense or bullshit would they Curtis? They really believe it, really believe it LIKE YOU !!! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. Does my brazenly outrageous weird game given you any hint about the weird game you play? So you thought going cryptic would get you off the hook for misstating my beliefs? You are welcome to make a case that I am playing a weird game. You aren't making it by making false statements and then doubling down when called on them. I am playing no game here. I am trying to express my beliefs and invite others to express theirs. I prefer when they employ accuracy and respect for the most basic facts. Your incoherence just means you are not on board with having an upfront discussion. Your choice.
[FairfieldLife] Re: #5# Think About This: Are you happy?
* * I herd otherwise :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: I thought the rhyme went, Here is the church, and here is the steeple, with a T, not an H.:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Paulo Barbosa tprobert@ wrote: Think About This... Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. I was created by God and belong to Him. I am very happy... and you? * * Are you happy, too? Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell! They'd b-nish us, you know.
[FairfieldLife] Dawkins Destroys Perry on Evolution
Dawkins Destroys Perry on Evolution We all know Rick Perry is full of it with his anti-science beliefs. But a smackdown from Richard Dawkins on the subject of said beliefs has a particularly satisfying highbrow but low-blow quality to it. He delivered such a Smackdown to Perry in the course of a Q and A in the Washington Post's On Faith column. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/attention-governor-perry- evolution-is-a-fact/2011/08/23/gIQAuIFUYJ_blog.html Dawkins said that while a candidate's views on evolution are not paramount, they're indicative of his or her ability to understand science and general levels of educational literacy. He also had harsh words for the valuation of ignorance among the Republican electorate. Here are some choice excerpts: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/attention-governor-perry- evolution-is-a-fact/2011/08/23/gIQAuIFUYJ_blog.html There is nothing unusual about Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be found in every country and every period of history, and they are not unknown in high office. What is unusual about today's Republican party (I disavow the ridiculous 'GOP' nickname, because the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt has lately forfeited all claim to be considered 'grand') is this: In any other party and in any other country, an individual may occasionally rise to the top in spite of being an uneducated ignoramus. In today's Republican Party 'in spite of' is not the phrase we need. Ignorance and lack of education are positive qualifications, bordering on obligatory. Intellect, knowledge and linguistic mastery are mistrusted by Republican voters, who, when choosing a president, would apparently prefer someone like themselves over someone actually qualified for the job. *** A politician's attitude to evolution is perhaps not directly important in itself. It can have unfortunate consequences on education and science policy but, compared to Perry's and the Tea Party's pronouncements on other topics such as economics, taxation, history and sexual politics, their ignorance of evolutionary science might be overlooked. Except that a politician's attitude to evolution, however peripheral it might seem, is a surprisingly apposite litmus test of more general inadequacy. This is because unlike, say, string theory where scientific opinion is genuinely divided, there is about the fact of evolution no doubt at all. Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well. Evolution is not some recondite backwater of science, ignorance of which would be pardonable. It is the stunningly simple but elegant explanation of our very existence and the existence of every living creature on the planet. Thanks to Darwin, we now understand why we are here and why we are the way we are. You cannot be ignorant of evolution and be a cultivated and adequate citizen of today. I'd love to see Dawkins debate Perry on live TV, wouldn't you?
[FairfieldLife] 'Dr. King Weeps From His Grave'
THE Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was to be dedicated on the National Mall on Sunday — exactly 56 years after the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi and 48 years after the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (Because of Hurricane Irene, the ceremony has been postponed.) These events constitute major milestones in the turbulent history of race and democracy in America, and the undeniable success of the civil rights movement — culminating in the election of Barack Obama in 2008 — warrants our attention and elation. Yet the prophetic words of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel still haunt us: “The whole future of America depends on the impact and influence of Dr. King.” Rabbi Heschel spoke those words during the last years of King’s life, when 72 percent of whites and 55 percent of blacks disapproved of King’s opposition to the Vietnam War and his efforts to eradicate poverty in America. King’s dream of a more democratic America had become, in his words, “a nightmare,” owing to the persistence of “racism, poverty, militarism and materialism.” He called America a “sick society.” On the Sunday after his assassination, in 1968, he was to have preached a sermon titled “Why America May Go to Hell.” King did not think that America ought to go to hell, but rather that it might go to hell owing to its economic injustice, cultural decay and political paralysis. He was not an American Gibbon, chronicling the decline and fall of the American empire, but a courageous and visionary Christian blues man, fighting with style and love in the face of the four catastrophes he identified. Militarism is an imperial catastrophe that has produced a military-industrial complex and national security state and warped the country’s priorities and stature (as with the immoral drones, dropping bombs on innocent civilians). Materialism is a spiritual catastrophe, promoted by a corporate media multiplex and a culture industry that have hardened the hearts of hard-core consumers and coarsened the consciences of would-be citizens. Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. Arbitrary uses of the law — in the name of the “war” on drugs — have produced, in the legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s apt phrase, a new Jim Crow of mass incarceration. And poverty is an economic catastrophe, inseparable from the power of greedy oligarchs and avaricious plutocrats indifferent to the misery of poor children, elderly citizens and working people. The age of Obama has fallen tragically short of fulfilling King’s prophetic legacy. Instead of articulating a radical democratic vision and fighting for homeowners, workers and poor people in the form of mortgage relief, jobs and investment in education, infrastructure and housing, the administration gave us bailouts for banks, record profits for Wall Street and giant budget cuts on the backs of the vulnerable. As the talk show host Tavis Smiley and I have said in our national tour against poverty, the recent budget deal is only the latest phase of a 30-year, top-down, one-sided war against the poor and working people in the name of a morally bankrupt policy of deregulating markets, lowering taxes and cutting spending for those already socially neglected and economically abandoned. Our two main political parties, each beholden to big money, offer merely alternative versions of oligarchic rule. The absence of a King-worthy narrative to reinvigorate poor and working people has enabled right-wing populists to seize the moment with credible claims about government corruption and ridiculous claims about tax cuts’ stimulating growth. This right-wing threat is a catastrophic response to King’s four catastrophes; its agenda would lead to hellish conditions for most Americans. King weeps from his grave. He never confused substance with symbolism. He never conflated a flesh and blood sacrifice with a stone and mortar edifice. We rightly celebrate his substance and sacrifice because he loved us all so deeply. Let us not remain satisfied with symbolism because we too often fear the challenge he embraced. Our greatest writer, Herman Melville, who spent his life in love with America even as he was our most fierce critic of the myth of American exceptionalism, noted, “Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges; hence the conclusion of such a narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial.” King’s response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a re-evaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs
