[FairfieldLife] Removal of Many Many Squatters from Temple Land in Tiruvannamalai
Last week, the Tiruvannamalai government told people living in 22,000 houses that they will have to vacate their homes and move away. This involves more than 80,000, about 40% of the total population in Tiruvannamalai. See this post for more: http://richardarunachala.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/removal-of-squatters-from-temple-land-in-tiruvannamalai/ Richard
[FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: snip Of course Judy will usually make an argument personal as she did with this thread. She flung the insults first so gave her a dose of her own medicine. Well, no, this isn't true, Bhairitu, and you know it. You're in a huge hole you've dug for yourself already; don't make it any deeper by lying about it. I don't care who started it. You're both going to your rooms. L
[FairfieldLife] Re: New gymnastics video on bar
I was thinking maybe cheeto as opposed to pretzel? L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Neat!! Man, she is really coming along. (Why Cheeto?) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: I finally figured out how to use the animation feature on Windows Movie Maker to finesse transitions between clips. In this latest project I made a fantasy competition between my granddaughter, nickname Cheeto and the University of Iowa Gymhawks on bar. http://youtu.be/lR3629ObPjQ Beats me. She likes Cheetos same as any kid I suppose, but I don't know exactly who tagged her with it. In team sports athletes often have silly, playful, endearing nicknames, sometimes describing qualities of physical skill or personality. Sarah Barracuda (Palin) comes to mind. Barracudas are voracious, opportunistic predators relying on surprise and short bursts of speed to overtake their prey. Wikipedia. Besides being an obvious rhyme Sarah was probably as aggressive as a Barracuda on the basketball court as she turned out to be in politics. When I was a teen, I played 3rd base, fast pitch softball in a church league. My best friend's dad, loyal fan, Bill Knight, came to all our games. One day I got lucky and made an unassisted triple play. Thereafter, Bill tagged me with Fireball. It's a great feeling to hear someone root for Fireball when you're up to bat. Nicknames inspire comradery, a sense of belonging. It's recognition for being a special team member. The first I heard the mention of Cheeto was when we went to meet and greet the Gymhawks at their season kick off. The Gymhawks introduced themselves and told everyone their nicknames. Then Juliette's team took a turn telling their nicknames. I caught it on video, so cute: http://youtu.be/OowECvmYri4 Until that moment, I had no idea she even had a nickname.
[FairfieldLife] Re: New gymnastics video on bar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: I was thinking maybe cheeto as opposed to pretzel? L. Cheeto is a pretty cool name. She likes it. Pretzel lacks a certain zing. Other names on her team are Chicken, Giggles, and Pancake, an unfortunate moniker for a gangly little girl who isn't very coordinated. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Neat!! Man, she is really coming along. (Why Cheeto?) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: I finally figured out how to use the animation feature on Windows Movie Maker to finesse transitions between clips. In this latest project I made a fantasy competition between my granddaughter, nickname Cheeto and the University of Iowa Gymhawks on bar. http://youtu.be/lR3629ObPjQ Beats me. She likes Cheetos same as any kid I suppose, but I don't know exactly who tagged her with it. In team sports athletes often have silly, playful, endearing nicknames, sometimes describing qualities of physical skill or personality. Sarah Barracuda (Palin) comes to mind. Barracudas are voracious, opportunistic predators relying on surprise and short bursts of speed to overtake their prey. Wikipedia. Besides being an obvious rhyme Sarah was probably as aggressive as a Barracuda on the basketball court as she turned out to be in politics. When I was a teen, I played 3rd base, fast pitch softball in a church league. My best friend's dad, loyal fan, Bill Knight, came to all our games. One day I got lucky and made an unassisted triple play. Thereafter, Bill tagged me with Fireball. It's a great feeling to hear someone root for Fireball when you're up to bat. Nicknames inspire comradery, a sense of belonging. It's recognition for being a special team member. The first I heard the mention of Cheeto was when we went to meet and greet the Gymhawks at their season kick off. The Gymhawks introduced themselves and told everyone their nicknames. Then Juliette's team took a turn telling their nicknames. I caught it on video, so cute: http://youtu.be/OowECvmYri4 Until that moment, I had no idea she even had a nickname.
[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote:
the moderators of the meditation forum on reddit don't like me (snif). So
I've been responding to questions about TM privately. Any comments/criticisms?
Hi, I'm banned from /r/meditation for mentioning Transcendental Meditation
too much, but all the answers you have been getting are very limited.
'
Alpha EEG is associated with restful alertness. The idling state of the brain
when it is awake.
Gamma EEG is associated with concentration and paying attention/thinking. The
working state of the brain while it is awake.
.
There are two main effects of meditation: training attention, which involves
increasing gamma/decreasing alpha EEG, and resting, which involves decreasing
gamma/increasing alpha.
While any time you close your eyes, you tend to increase alpha EEG at least
temporarily, both mindfulness (vippasana)
..
NBD, but that seems to be 'vipassana', pAli(?) from Sanskrit
vipashyana (vi-pashyana; H-K: vipazyana):
vipazyana n. (or %{A} f.) right knowledge Buddh.
[FairfieldLife] Re: New gymnastics video on bar
--- sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: I was thinking maybe cheeto as opposed to pretzel? L. --- raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: Cheeto is a pretty cool name. She likes it. Pretzel lacks a certain zing. Other names on her team are Chicken, Giggles, and Pancake, an unfortunate moniker for a gangly little girl who isn't very coordinated. Heh heh, Shemp used to call him 'Spare egg'. Good natured Lawson never got upset. I wonder where is Shemp? Is he alive or dead? --- authfriend jstein@ wrote: Neat!! Man, she is really coming along. (Why Cheeto?) --- raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: I finally figured out how to use the animation feature on Windows Movie Maker to finesse transitions between clips. In this latest project I made a fantasy competition between my granddaughter, nickname Cheeto and the University of Iowa Gymhawks on bar. http://youtu.be/lR3629ObPjQ Beats me. She likes Cheetos same as any kid I suppose, but I don't know exactly who tagged her with it. In team sports athletes often have silly, playful, endearing nicknames, sometimes describing qualities of physical skill or personality. Sarah Barracuda (Palin) comes to mind. Barracudas are voracious, opportunistic predators relying on surprise and short bursts of speed to overtake their prey. Wikipedia. Besides being an obvious rhyme Sarah was probably as aggressive as a Barracuda on the basketball court as she turned out to be in politics. When I was a teen, I played 3rd base, fast pitch softball in a church league. My best friend's dad, loyal fan, Bill Knight, came to all our games. One day I got lucky and made an unassisted triple play. Thereafter, Bill tagged me with Fireball. It's a great feeling to hear someone root for Fireball when you're up to bat. Nicknames inspire comradery, a sense of belonging. It's recognition for being a special team member. The first I heard the mention of Cheeto was when we went to meet and greet the Gymhawks at their season kick off. The Gymhawks introduced themselves and told everyone their nicknames. Then Juliette's team took a turn telling their nicknames. I caught it on video, so cute: http://youtu.be/OowECvmYri4 Until that moment, I had no idea she even had a nickname.
[FairfieldLife] More guNa-vRtti-virodha's! ;D
The two things I seem to love most in this life are a. beating drums b. trying desperately to learn the basics of Sanskrit. In the case of (a) the biggest guNa-vRtti-virodha_s seem to be: 1. I get tinnitus very easily, perhaps mostly because my blood pressure, inherited from my mother, seems to be like a yo-yo. My systole quite easily shoots up even over 220, without medication! 2. I live in an old house (built 1914, seen the final horrors of Finnish civil war,1918), with wooden(?) floors and thus, almost no soundproofity at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Civil_War In (b), the biggest g-v-v seems to the small hole in the middle of the retina of my otherwise better right eye, caused by watching the sun for a couple of seconds when I was about 14 years of age.
[FairfieldLife] Best for the sun?
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45801/which-smartphone-best-screen-in-sun
[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote:
NBD, but that seems to be 'vipassana', pAli(?) from Sanskrit
vipashyana (vi-pashyana; H-K: vipazyana):
vipazyana n. (or %{A} f.) right knowledge Buddh.
Sorry, can't help feeling the need to remind us, that 'z'
*in Harvard-Kyoto transliteration scheme of Sanskrit*, should
be pronounced as 'sh' in English 'shall'!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcend or Transform?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Hmmm...vasanas...looked it up.  Certainly as good an explanation as any :) From: Buck To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:07 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Transcend or Transform?  Om Em, Yes, vasanas. We all have them or get them in ways. Thought forms that can lodge in the energy system. Clearing them is a sort of a process of transforming to transcend and transcending to transform. You know who is really helpful with this is our own, XX. A guy driven off the list several times by some of the negative people here with short-fused aggressive intellectual vasanas on FFL. I dare not mention XX's name or it shall trigger a palsied agitation and retribution in some here. However, there are some people in Fairfield or around the meditating community that are adept at navigating this problem. It's a spiritual life skill-set. -Buck in the Dome --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Yesterday, I was back at the cranial-sacral guy, who is apparently also visited by loving beings here and there who ask permission to help him.  He is the cleanest, kindest, most non-judgmental gentle person I have ever met, has many years of experience, has studied with many different people, and he is fully dedicated to his healing work which extends beyond just the  cranial-sacral modality. Emily, that is a really interesting description. Fairfield has become home to a lot of people like this. Spiritual and Crafted healers. We have a local Fairfield Weekly Reader where people advertise their services which is always interesting to read through the lists of healers and their various modalities. It is a community with a lot of services this way and people who are not afraid to use them for their health. It's one of those Fairfield features. I was having a hard time quieting my brain down and feeling my body and have in general been in a lot of physical/mental/emotional pain of late, feeling like there is a concrete stone pressing on my heart/chest, feeling increasingly very heavy, dark, angry, uncomfortable, and somewhat desperate and panic-stricken. Instead of addressing the core reasons and/or the subconscious belief system/negative messages/patterns that run below the surface, I have been doing what I can to escape from my body/my self - an odd combination of healthy and unhealthy practices, if I do say so myself - relieving symptoms temporarily, creating more symptoms, and marking time waiting for the other shoe to drop.  So, there I was yesterday, lying on the table, attempting to focus on my breath and connect with the earth's energy and feel myself in my body, and I noticed that the cranial-sacral guy seemed to be working on me with real intensity, working on my head, pressing on my heart area, etc.  The energy in the room was almost palpable.  All of a sudden, I opened my eyes to see him acting like he was pulling something out of my torso area and I felt a whoosh sound, without the sound.  Almost instantaneously, I felt substantially lighter and grounded and the thought came to me that I have to start helping my practitioners help me - I have to start taking responsibility for my recovery (so to speak) - I have to transform the way I exist on the planet.  I have to stop punishing myself and start affirming my right to exist and live.  I want to give something back before I die.  He told me he removed a negative entity that was inhabiting me.  He is not the first practitioner to energetically remove dark energy from me. Whether I manifest this myself or whether I allow some other entity to inhabit my being/body, I don't know, nor do I care.  I was simultaneously giddy and exhausted and energized from the experience, which makes very little sense.  But, for me, I don't need to transcend, I need to transform.  Although using certain definitions, they are one and the same.  I want to inhabit my body and empower my spirit.  The negative beliefs I have about myself are false, a self-destructive illusion, but they still run the show more times than not.  It is my responsibility to claim my right to exist on this planet and align myself in a way that respects myself and others and reflects personal integrity and honesty.  The kids deserve it, but equally as important is the idea that I deserve it as well.
[FairfieldLife] 100 percent certain prediction?
Loreen, of Moroccan ancestry, representing Sweden, shall win this year's (2012) Eurovision song contest with one of the biggest percentages of all the votes, of all time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTcfVBwXco
[FairfieldLife] Job opportunity: David Lynch Foundation
http://www.idealist.org/view/job/4BZJBJnKDXjd/ One interesting thing: no TM-ing requirement. L
[FairfieldLife] Re: Job opportunity: David Lynch Foundation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/4BZJBJnKDXjd/ One interesting thing: no TM-ing requirement. L What? No more busy businessman analogy? Well, there goes the neighborhood.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Job opportunity: David Lynch Foundation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/4BZJBJnKDXjd/ One interesting thing: no TM-ing requirement. L Yeah, but 'youthful energy'. Seems that would rule out a lot of people here on FFL and in the old TM meditating community. Would make a lot of sense to reach out for a transition. General Position Summary: The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (the David Lynch Foundation) has an exciting opportunity for a dedicated, creative and ambitious fundraising professional. The David Lynch Foundation is a national organization formed in 2005 by famed film director David Lynch. It is a closely knit and highly dedicated organization that works with youthful energy to fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reduction techniques for at-risk populations including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, homeless persons, incarcerated persons, and others. Using an evidence-based approach the Foundation has attracted the support of national-caliber foundations as well as many celebrities.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Job opportunity: Transitioning a Movement
That is a particularly interesting advert that shows something going on inside. I interview folks all the time around the movement. An alarming thing I find in young meditators (our kids in their late 20 and now 30's) raised up here is that they want little to do with the old movement and the university organization. Right now any progressives left inside TM ought to be catching people who are resigning their positions at the end of this school year and understand why. The MUM Board of Trustees, if they were on their feet would gather their own interview discussions from former staff and get an ear full. Don't leave it to the current administration. Go back and talk to other recent staff and faculty that were in the organization. I find it alarming that the youth of our movement raised up here who have gone out and gotten degrees from real places have come back, given working for the University a chance, and left because of a poor communal academic standard generally and an entrenched way of the old faculty and staff. It is not that it is just a geriatric place but filled with an old in-bred faculty from another time. There evidently has not been a lot of room for transition to younger academics of consciousness-based education for fear of a progression they may bring. It is pretty stunning that they have not kept a younger people on. Once again it is showing old and rigid preservationists vs. a progressive movement. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/4BZJBJnKDXjd/ One interesting thing: no TM-ing requirement. L Yeah, but 'youthful energy'. Seems that would rule out a lot of people here on FFL and in the old TM meditating community. Would make a lot of sense to reach out for a transition. General Position Summary: The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (the David Lynch Foundation) has an exciting opportunity for a dedicated, creative and ambitious fundraising professional. The David Lynch Foundation is a national organization formed in 2005 by famed film director David Lynch. It is a closely knit and highly dedicated organization that works with youthful energy to fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reduction techniques for at-risk populations including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, homeless persons, incarcerated persons, and others. Using an evidence-based approach the Foundation has attracted the support of national-caliber foundations as well as many celebrities.
Re: [FairfieldLife] my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
On May 25, 2012, at 9:45 PM, sparaig wrote: the moderators of the meditation forum on reddit don't like me (snif). So I've been responding to questions about TM privately. Any comments/criticisms? Like most TM zealots your response seems conditioned by uncritically acquired TM Org samskaras, falsehoods and disinformation. It’s good you have been banned, you’re doing a disservice to sentient beings.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: ROTFL! Anyone reading your posts know you're an asshole and a fool and have been for years. We put up with you and mostly ignore you. I haven't been following whatever it is you're responding to, but I would suggest that the only problem with your comment above is the word mostly. Really? Because not even you manage to ignore me completely (the post I'm responding to being obvious evidence of that fact). Why Barry is so oblivious to his frequent self-contradictions is a mystery. For example, in addition to the one above, he has for *years* been trying to promote the notions that (a) nobody pays any attention to me and (b) nobody *should* pay attention to me because I never say anything of any consequence. If (a) were the case, why would he even need (b)? (And if he were ignoring me as he claims, how would he know?) Of course, (a) is *not* the case, and when he's not attempting to convince folks who know better of its truth, he's attributing to me the power to induce many participants here to join my purportedly anti-TM-critic cause and direct them to engage in character assassination and demonization of innocent, well-meaning TM critics like himself and Vaj and Curtis. Not sure how I could manage that if everyone were ignoring me. Well, Barry's often claimed that it's a sign of spiritual development to be able to hold two contradictory ideas in the mind at once. Perhaps that's the solution to the mystery. My view of this last paragraph is that contradictions disappear in holistic experience, but if you try to express that, the contradictions reappear. Holding two contradictory ideas in the mind at once might be more like cognitive dissonance, but then it is necessary to suppress one of the ideas, become unconscious of the logical discontinuity. Barry shows an interesting mix of maturity and little boyishness (something my family members bring up about me rather frequently and I am in my seventh decade!). We guys never quite grow up. I wonder how the two of you would communicate or non-communicate in a social setting, God forbid that should ever happen. On the Internet, perhaps something more of our true personalities show, that is, the life of our inner mind, than in face-to-face contact. h Barry's writing style I find humorous sometimes, and it is frequently taunting. Yours I find precise and often abrasive, I think perhaps it's the abrasive character that incites some peoples' reactions to you. If find this characterisation inaccurate, I have at my side a box of Habanos aged Cohiba Siglo V cigars, just in case. In the event Barry needs a supply, they can be found at the Habanos shop in: Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam Van Baerlestraat 27 Amsterdam 1071 AN As for that abrasive quality that I sometimes experience reading your post, it is mostly absent from this post. Only the opening word 'Really?', seems to be a reflection of that (in my opinion). I have responded to your post. You have not been ignored. Well done.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Job opportunity: David Lynch Foundation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/4BZJBJnKDXjd/ One interesting thing: no TM-ing requirement. What? No more busy businessman analogy? Well, there goes the neighborhood. Not really. My bet is that they would silently reject anyone who doesn't already practice TM or is willing to learn and practice it. It's just that they can't put that in writing. It's basic Human Resources law. As far as I know, only organizations registered as religious in nature (churches, synagogues, schools affiliated with religions, etc.) can legally discriminate based on one of the practices taught by those religions. Thus Pepperdine University in Malibu was able to require all employees to be practicing Catholics, but the independent bookstore across the street that was entirely run by Catholics could not. Since early on Maharishi went the we're not a religion route, he effectively closed the door on being able to discriminate on that basis. At the same time, although Lynch himself (if he is involved in any way in the hiring decision) might prefer a TMer in the position, my bet (based on things he said in the past to his administrative assistant who was an acquaintance of mine) is that he would *not* consider anyone who felt obliged to do a long program. He regularly dumped on that concept, and laughed at the concept of such people putting in an honest day's work while meditating or butt-bouncing four or more hours a day. I know I wouldn't hire such a person to walk my dog, much less do the types of things this person will be required to do. More interesting IMO is the fact that TM is only mentioned once in the entire job description, and in what I cannot help but perceive as an inten- tionally misleading way. It says, The David Lynch Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization was established in 2005 to raise funds and provide grants for the implementation of scientifically proven stress- reducing modalities, including Transcendental Meditation, for such at-risk populations as... Those who might know, exactly which scientifically- proven stress-reducing modalities OTHER THAN TM has it ever raised funds for or provided grants to?
[FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: In the event Barry needs a supply, they can be found at the Habanos shop in: Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam Van Baerlestraat 27 Amsterdam 1071 AN The Turq needs AA more than cigars: AMSTERDAM MONDAY 12.30 THANK GOD IT'S MONDAY GROUP Topic meeting, meditation, sharing Open Meeting Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 282, Amsterdam
[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
What really happened Lawson.? Did they ban you? On May 25, 2012, at 9:45 PM, sparaig wrote: the moderators of the meditation forum on reddit don't like me (snif). So I've been responding to questions about TM privately. Any comments/criticisms? --- Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: Like most TM zealots your response seems conditioned by uncritically acquired TM Org samskaras, falsehoods and disinformation. It's good you have been banned, you're doing a disservice to sentient beings.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 percent certain prediction?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: Loreen, of Moroccan ancestry, representing Sweden, shall win this year's (2012) Eurovision song contest with one of the biggest percentages of all the votes, of all time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTcfVBwXco I'm not sure of your sexual orientation carde, must have been some comment you made at some time :-) As everyone knows, Eurovision is mostly a gay-party. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qmsmzoRBE
[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 percent certain prediction?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Loreen, of Moroccan ancestry, representing Sweden, shall win this year's (2012) Eurovision song contest with one of the biggest percentages of all the votes, of all time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTcfVBwXco I'm not sure of your sexual orientation carde, must have been some comment you made at some time :-) As everyone knows, Eurovision is mostly a gay-party. Let the best Babushkas win :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qmsmzoRBE
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Job opportunity: Transitioning a Movement
Youth has to rebel. I was lucky that I had the Catholic Church to rebel against (-: From: Buck dhamiltony...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 9:05 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Job opportunity: Transitioning a Movement That is a particularly interesting advert that shows something going on inside. I interview folks all the time around the movement. An alarming thing I find in young meditators (our kids in their late 20 and now 30's) raised up here is that they want little to do with the old movement and the university organization. Right now any progressives left inside TM ought to be catching people who are resigning their positions at the end of this school year and understand why. The MUM Board of Trustees, if they were on their feet would gather their own interview discussions from former staff and get an ear full. Don't leave it to the current administration. Go back and talk to other recent staff and faculty that were in the organization. I find it alarming that the youth of our movement raised up here who have gone out and gotten degrees from real places have come back, given working for the University a chance, and left because of a poor communal academic standard generally and an entrenched way of the old faculty and staff. It is not that it is just a geriatric place but filled with an old in-bred faculty from another time. There evidently has not been a lot of room for transition to younger academics of consciousness-based education for fear of a progression they may bring. It is pretty stunning that they have not kept a younger people on. Once again it is showing old and rigid preservationists vs. a progressive movement. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/4BZJBJnKDXjd/ One interesting thing: no TM-ing requirement. L Yeah, but 'youthful energy'. Seems that would rule out a lot of people here on FFL and in the old TM meditating community. Would make a lot of sense to reach out for a transition. General Position Summary: The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (the David Lynch Foundation) has an exciting opportunity for a dedicated, creative and ambitious fundraising professional. The David Lynch Foundation is a national organization formed in 2005 by famed film director David Lynch. It is a closely knit and highly dedicated organization that works with youthful energy to fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reduction techniques for at-risk populations including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, homeless persons, incarcerated persons, and others. Using an evidence-based approach the Foundation has attracted the support of national-caliber foundations as well as many celebrities.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 percent certain prediction?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Loreen, of Moroccan ancestry, representing Sweden, shall win this year's (2012) Eurovision song contest with one of the biggest percentages of all the votes, of all time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTcfVBwXco I'm not sure of your sexual orientation carde, must have been some comment you made at some time :-) As everyone knows, Eurovision is mostly a gay-party. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qmsmzoRBE While I do not deny that many of the acts appeal to gay male sensibilities (past winners include Abba and Celine Dion, ferchrissakes), it's far from mostly a gay party. The numbers involved are staggering, especially to Americans who have never heard of it. The finals constitute the most-watched television show on the planet, attracting an estimated 600 million viewers in over 140 countries. There are mass viewings in football stadiums and public squares in many of the participating countries, many of them attracting hundreds of thousands of participants. What I think contributes to this fanatical following is the nationalism of the contest. Each country has to choose a representative act (only one), and in the public voting, citizens of that country are not allowed to vote for their own countrymen. This (I was told) is to prevent countries with higher populations from automatically winning every year, just on the basis of, say, the Germans always voting for the German act. All I can say is that it's one of the weirdest spec- tacles I've ever seen. In the two years I've seen any of the finalists, I have yet to see even one act that I liked or that I thought had what it took to make it professionally in the music industry, but that may just be me. I watch it for the weirdness factor.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 percent certain prediction?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: Loreen, of Moroccan ancestry, representing Sweden, shall win this year's (2012) Eurovision song contest with one of the biggest percentages of all the votes, of all time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTcfVBwXco I'm not sure of your sexual orientation carde, must have been some comment you made at some time :-) As everyone knows, Eurovision is mostly a gay-party. Let the best Babushkas win :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qmsmzoRBE Well, that would be cool! They are Udmurts, and thus linguistically related to us Finns! Also, their ancestors might have been in close contact with Vedic Aryans when the latter were migrating towards India from the Northpole, LoL! Heil Babushkas! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udmurt_Republic
[FairfieldLife] Re: Job opportunity: Transitioning a Movement
Transitioning an old spiritual movement. This year's MUM graduation ceremony is today. Probably be the best show in town today. It will be real interesting to see how this is played. 1:00pm in the Dome. Old movement preservationists vs. progressives. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: That is a particularly interesting advert that shows something going on inside. I interview folks all the time around the movement. An alarming thing I find in young meditators (our kids in their late 20 and now 30's) raised up here is that they want little to do with the old movement and the university organization. Right now any progressives left inside TM ought to be catching people who are resigning their positions at the end of this school year and understand why. The MUM Board of Trustees, if they were on their feet would gather their own interview discussions from former staff and get an ear full. Don't leave it to the current administration. Go back and talk to other recent staff and faculty that were in the organization. I find it alarming that the youth of our movement raised up here who have gone out and gotten degrees from real places have come back, given working for the University a chance, and left because of a poor communal academic standard generally and an entrenched way of the old faculty and staff. It is not that it is just a geriatric place but filled with an old in-bred faculty from another time. There evidently has not been a lot of room for transition to younger academics of consciousness-based education for fear of a progression they may bring. It is pretty stunning that they have not kept a younger people on. Once again it is showing old and rigid preservationists vs. a progressive movement. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/4BZJBJnKDXjd/ One interesting thing: no TM-ing requirement. L Yeah, but 'youthful energy'. Seems that would rule out a lot of people here on FFL and in the old TM meditating community. Would make a lot of sense to reach out for a transition. General Position Summary: The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (the David Lynch Foundation) has an exciting opportunity for a dedicated, creative and ambitious fundraising professional. The David Lynch Foundation is a national organization formed in 2005 by famed film director David Lynch. It is a closely knit and highly dedicated organization that works with youthful energy to fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reduction techniques for at-risk populations including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, homeless persons, incarcerated persons, and others. Using an evidence-based approach the Foundation has attracted the support of national-caliber foundations as well as many celebrities.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
Yes, actually, I've noticed the friend method and also the tendency to toss around the word mentally ill at those he doesn't like. I was simply responding on the face value of what he was writing because again, it was simply ridiculous. While the story was quite likely directed at you, it is also a completely diss on the homeless population. The characterization is simply not true and furthers callous dismissal and judgment of this segment of our society. Hence the suggestion to bone up on a few principles related to developing a more compassionate approach :). From: authfriend jst...@panix.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 3:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Geeezzz.  What a funny exchange this has been.  Bhairitu, I disagree, just for the record. Barry, your response negates your response.  I guess you haven't had time to read the 12 steps to a compassionate life yet.  Me neither, so don't feel bad. It's on the list though.  I am amazed at how seemingly afraid you are of those you perceive to be mentally ill.  Hope this fear doesn't come back to haunt you! It's OK, Emily. He made up the quote from a friend for the occasion. He does that a lot. You can tell by how amazingly perfectly what the friend told him matches whatever rant he's writing, and also by how well it matches previous rants that don't quote the friend. He's been using the bag lady trope to characterize me for years in many different contexts, but always to (falsely) brag about how completely he's ignoring me. IOW, there's no friend involved, just Barry. He doesn't perceive me to be mentally ill, but he *is* afraid of me. http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2011/0107/Twelve-Steps-to-a-Compassionate-Life From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 1:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: ROTFL! Anyone reading your posts know you're an asshole and a fool and have been for years. We put up with you and mostly ignore you. I haven't been following whatever it is you're responding to, but I would suggest that the only problem with your comment above is the word mostly. I'm reminded of advice I was given when I first moved to New York on how to deal with bag ladies and shopping cart crazies on the street. A long-time native told me, Sure, they'll scream at you as you pass and try to get you to respond to them, but for your sake and theirs, don't. The best approach is to treat them as if they don't exist, because that's what they fear most. They're afraid that they're invisible and that nothing they say or do matters or affects the people around them. Remind them that this is true and eventually they'll quiet down leave you alone. The guy had a point. As he explained, the problem with mostly is that random partial reinforcement serves only to *encourage* bad behavior in humans, the same way it does in dogs or other animals. Consistency is the key.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Job opportunity: Transitioning a Movement
The university is actually giving serious thought to problems of succession. The difficulty is in recruiting younger faculty. It's not that the university doesn't want to do it. There have been some younger recruits, although not that many. Most of the faculty are in their 60s, so this is a real issue and will become more critical over the next 10-15 years. I think the hope is that younger academics can be attracted and then trained in the knowledge of Consciousness-based Education when they get here. Of course, the newer people will never have the same relationship to MMY and the knowledge he brought that the older people do. So things will definitely change in that respect, but I expect the university to survive, because it has shown great ingenuity in doing so over the years. So has the Maharishi School, which now recruits students from China. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck dhamiltony2k5@... wrote: Transitioning an old spiritual movement. This year's MUM graduation ceremony is today. Probably be the best show in town today. It will be real interesting to see how this is played. 1:00pm in the Dome. Old movement preservationists vs. progressives. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: That is a particularly interesting advert that shows something going on inside. I interview folks all the time around the movement. An alarming thing I find in young meditators (our kids in their late 20 and now 30's) raised up here is that they want little to do with the old movement and the university organization. Right now any progressives left inside TM ought to be catching people who are resigning their positions at the end of this school year and understand why. The MUM Board of Trustees, if they were on their feet would gather their own interview discussions from former staff and get an ear full. Don't leave it to the current administration. Go back and talk to other recent staff and faculty that were in the organization. I find it alarming that the youth of our movement raised up here who have gone out and gotten degrees from real places have come back, given working for the University a chance, and left because of a poor communal academic standard generally and an entrenched way of the old faculty and staff. It is not that it is just a geriatric place but filled with an old in-bred faculty from another time. There evidently has not been a lot of room for transition to younger academics of consciousness-based education for fear of a progression they may bring. It is pretty stunning that they have not kept a younger people on. Once again it is showing old and rigid preservationists vs. a progressive movement. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Buck wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/4BZJBJnKDXjd/ One interesting thing: no TM-ing requirement. L Yeah, but 'youthful energy'. Seems that would rule out a lot of people here on FFL and in the old TM meditating community. Would make a lot of sense to reach out for a transition. General Position Summary: The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (the David Lynch Foundation) has an exciting opportunity for a dedicated, creative and ambitious fundraising professional. The David Lynch Foundation is a national organization formed in 2005 by famed film director David Lynch. It is a closely knit and highly dedicated organization that works with youthful energy to fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reduction techniques for at-risk populations including veterans with PTSD, inner city students, homeless persons, incarcerated persons, and others. Using an evidence-based approach the Foundation has attracted the support of national-caliber foundations as well as many celebrities.
[FairfieldLife] Der DHS ist vlooking vor deez vords here
UK Daily Mail article on the words that will trigger interest by the DHS if you use them online. :-D http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html We should all spice up our posts with a few of them though it would be hard to avoid many of them. I know Willy likes bring up the Tamil Tigers. ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: Yes, actually, I've noticed the friend method and also the tendency to toss around the word mentally ill at those he doesn't like. I was simply responding on the face value of what he was writing because again, it was simply ridiculous.  While the story was quite likely directed at you, it is also a completely diss on the homeless population.  The characterization is simply not true and furthers callous dismissal and judgment of this segment of our society.  Hence the suggestion to bone up on a few principles related to developing a more compassionate approach :).  Nope, that would take courage to admit the shadows he lashes out at are imaginary. http://youtu.be/H33VY8m_FpE From: authfriend jstein@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 3:58 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@ wrote: Geeezzz. àWhat a funny exchange this has been. àBhairitu, I disagree, just for the record.àBarry, your response negates your response. àI guess you haven't had time to read the 12 steps to a compassionate life yet. àMe neither, so don't feel bad. It's on the list though. àI am amazed at how seemingly afraid you are of those you perceive to be mentally ill. àHope this fear doesn't come back to haunt you! It's OK, Emily. He made up the quote from a friend for the occasion. He does that a lot. You can tell by how amazingly perfectly what the friend told him matches whatever rant he's writing, and also by how well it matches previous rants that don't quote the friend. He's been using the bag lady trope to characterize me for years in many different contexts, but always to (falsely) brag about how completely he's ignoring me. IOW, there's no friend involved, just Barry. He doesn't perceive me to be mentally ill, but he *is* afraid of me. http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2011/0107/Twelve-Steps-to-a-Compassionate-LifeàFrom: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 1:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it! à--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: ROTFL! Anyone reading your posts know you're an asshole and a fool and have been for years. We put up with you and mostly ignore you. I haven't been following whatever it is you're responding to, but I would suggest that the only problem with your comment above is the word mostly. I'm reminded of advice I was given when I first moved to New York on how to deal with bag ladies and shopping cart crazies on the street. A long-time native told me, Sure, they'll scream at you as you pass and try to get you to respond to them, but for your sake and theirs, don't. The best approach is to treat them as if they don't exist, because that's what they fear most. They're afraid that they're invisible and that nothing they say or do matters or affects the people around them. Remind them that this is true and eventually they'll quiet down leave you alone. The guy had a point. As he explained, the problem with mostly is that random partial reinforcement serves only to *encourage* bad behavior in humans, the same way it does in dogs or other animals. Consistency is the key.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 percent certain prediction?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: All I can say is that it's one of the weirdest spec- tacles I've ever seen. In the two years I've seen any of the finalists, I have yet to see even one act that I liked or that I thought had what it took to make it professionally in the music industry, but that may just be me. I watch it for the weirdness factor. Like this one from your new countrymen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqlJaubki0o Exactly. Great find, Nabby. :-) This is precisely why I'm going to go out later and take advantage of our near-summer weather to watch it at a local pub that has erected a giant projection screen on which to view the weirdness. You'll be pleased to know that I will be imbibing only the purest soma during this experience, a fine Tripel beer brewed by Trappist monks from Belgium. :-) The address you referenced earlier is, by some bizarre coincidence, a block away from the apart- ment we taught out of in Amsterdam. I lived there for a while while we taught several thousands of people how to meditate, for free. I still run into them on the streets when I go to Amsterdam. They all say they still meditate, and still enjoy it. But they're probably just saying that because I look so gnarly and low- vibe, and they're afraid of pissing me off. :-) Seriously, Nabs, if you're watching tonight, I'll think of you. And Card. It's just the weird- est thing I've ever encountered on the airwaves, and it raises all of you in my estimation that you can get off on its weirdness, too.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Der DHS ist vlooking vor deez vords here
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: UK Daily Mail article on the words that will trigger interest by the DHS if you use them online. :-D http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html We should all spice up our posts with a few of them though it would be hard to avoid many of them. I know Willy likes bring up the Tamil Tigers. ;-) What I think would be fun is to write a story using *only* these words (and the occasional word like 'the' and 'and' and so on), and put it out on the Net. The DHS computers would go fuckin' NUTS over it. :-) Fortunately I seem to be safe, because skidmark on the underwear of spirituality does not seem to be on the list. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Der DHS ist vlooking vor deez vords here
On 05/26/2012 11:09 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@... wrote: UK Daily Mail article on the words that will trigger interest by the DHS if you use them online. :-D http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html We should all spice up our posts with a few of them though it would be hard to avoid many of them. I know Willy likes bring up the Tamil Tigers. ;-) What I think would be fun is to write a story using *only* these words (and the occasional word like 'the' and 'and' and so on), and put it out on the Net. The DHS computers would go fuckin' NUTS over it. :-) Fortunately I seem to be safe, because skidmark on the underwear of spirituality does not seem to be on the list. :-) And type in a few lines of just random characters and their computers will spend untold hours trying to decode that garbage. :-D
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
On 05/25/2012 09:03 AM, Emily Reyn wrote: Geeezzz. What a funny exchange this has been. Bhairitu, I disagree, just for the record. Disagree with what? My characterization of Judy or my position on inflation? Judy is taking a neoliberal position not liberal BTW. Many progressives and liberal disagree with Krugman and that inflation ought to be allowed to rise. It will hurt much of the population and there are better solutions.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
On 05/26/2012 07:21 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriendjstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoisebno_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitunoozguru@ wrote: ROTFL! Anyone reading your posts know you're an asshole and a fool and have been for years. We put up with you and mostly ignore you. I haven't been following whatever it is you're responding to, but I would suggest that the only problem with your comment above is the word mostly. Really? Because not even you manage to ignore me completely (the post I'm responding to being obvious evidence of that fact). Why Barry is so oblivious to his frequent self-contradictions is a mystery. For example, in addition to the one above, he has for *years* been trying to promote the notions that (a) nobody pays any attention to me and (b) nobody *should* pay attention to me because I never say anything of any consequence. If (a) were the case, why would he even need (b)? (And if he were ignoring me as he claims, how would he know?) Of course, (a) is *not* the case, and when he's not attempting to convince folks who know better of its truth, he's attributing to me the power to induce many participants here to join my purportedly anti-TM-critic cause and direct them to engage in character assassination and demonization of innocent, well-meaning TM critics like himself and Vaj and Curtis. Not sure how I could manage that if everyone were ignoring me. Well, Barry's often claimed that it's a sign of spiritual development to be able to hold two contradictory ideas in the mind at once. Perhaps that's the solution to the mystery. My view of this last paragraph is that contradictions disappear in holistic experience, but if you try to express that, the contradictions reappear. Holding two contradictory ideas in the mind at once might be more like cognitive dissonance, but then it is necessary to suppress one of the ideas, become unconscious of the logical discontinuity. Barry shows an interesting mix of maturity and little boyishness (something my family members bring up about me rather frequently and I am in my seventh decade!). We guys never quite grow up. I wonder how the two of you would communicate or non-communicate in a social setting, God forbid that should ever happen. On the Internet, perhaps something more of our true personalities show, that is, the life of our inner mind, than in face-to-face contact. h Barry's writing style I find humorous sometimes, and it is frequently taunting. Yours I find precise and often abrasive, I think perhaps it's the abrasive character that incites some peoples' reactions to you. If find this characterisation inaccurate, I have at my side a box of Habanos aged Cohiba Siglo V cigars, just in case. In the event Barry needs a supply, they can be found at the Habanos shop in: Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam Van Baerlestraat 27 Amsterdam 1071 AN As for that abrasive quality that I sometimes experience reading your post, it is mostly absent from this post. Only the opening word 'Really?', seems to be a reflection of that (in my opinion). I have responded to your post. You have not been ignored. Well done. Well other than you and I and Jason the other day no one else tries the chat room. I even posted a joke their yesterday about that. ;-) I might suggest if one wants to check back to post a time their going to check back and maybe we can get chats going. Discussing this thread on a progressive chat room yesterday folks said the Krugman position is neoliberal which I had an intuitive sense it was and indeed given that Judy and Raunchy support Hillary they're probably more neoliberal than liberal or believe that running the country like a corporation is the way to go. If anything I am very anticorporate. Been sick over the years of dealing with those types and watching a fun company that I worked in become a nightmare because they felt they needed to grow it because that's what corporations are supposed to do. Now we can sit back and watch the barrage of refutation to what I just said. :-D
[FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: snip Discussing this thread on a progressive chat room yesterday folks said the Krugman position is neoliberal which I had an intuitive sense it was and indeed given that Judy and Raunchy support Hillary they're probably more neoliberal than liberal or believe that running the country like a corporation is the way to go. Wrong again. Gee, maybe you should read our posts sometime. No, never mind. It wouldn't help.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 percent certain prediction?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: All I can say is that it's one of the weirdest spec- tacles I've ever seen. In the two years I've seen any of the finalists, I have yet to see even one act that I liked or that I thought had what it took to make it professionally in the music industry, but that may just be me. I watch it for the weirdness factor. Like this one from your new countrymen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqlJaubki0o Exactly. Great find, Nabby. :-) This is precisely why I'm going to go out later and take advantage of our near-summer weather to watch it at a local pub that has erected a giant projection screen on which to view the weirdness. You'll be pleased to know that I will be imbibing only the purest soma during this experience, a fine Tripel beer brewed by Trappist monks from Belgium. :-) Shucks! I've just got a bottle of cheap red vermouth... http://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/7275083126/in/photostream/lightbox/
[FairfieldLife] #5# Think about It... Have we been practicing Love?
Think about It... Have we been practicing Love? Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints (Colossians 1:4). When our faith is based in the Lord, we do His will. And the Lord's will is that we love one another. Think about it... Paulo Barbosa Jesus Christ is our Lord
[FairfieldLife] Alternate methods of measuring inflation
I was arguing here the other day that 2.3% inflation seems a little off to me. I do step out of the house daily and see prices in stores rather than living in a meditation cave. I also argued that the government cooks the numbers to 1) either avoid a panic or 2) to look good. Because I got sidetracked by someone who wanted the make the argument personal as usual, I neglected to post articles to support my claim. Here are a couple articles on the subject: Inflation Actually Near 10% Using Older Measure http://www.cnbc.com/id/42551209/Inflation_Actually_Near_10_Using_Older_Measure Okay those numbers are from a year ago but how about more recently: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts That's about in line with what I see in stores. For all I know the government isn't even looking at the the price per pound or ounce. A bag of corn chips may be $2 but that bag was 1 pound a couple years ago and now ONLY 13 ounces. Okay so you don't buy corn chips, you buy tofu instead. Let's look at tofu prices. http://www.twincities.com/lotterman/ci_20535119/why-soaring-soybean-prices-are-stoking-fears-global Put that in your soy latte and drink it. OTOH, the price of coffee has gone down so why isn't my Americano at Starbucks less: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/05/25/your-starbucks-coffee-just-got-more-expensive-relatively-speaki/ So why, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz complained last year about high coffee prices aren't the prices coming down. I'll have to annoy the local Starbucks manager about that tomorrow (they're usually clueless though). :-D
[FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 05/25/2012 09:03 AM, Emily Reyn wrote: Geeezzz. What a funny exchange this has been. Bhairitu, I disagree, just for the record. Disagree with what? My characterization of Judy or my position on inflation? Judy is taking a neoliberal position No, she isn't. Either you don't know what neoliberal means, or you haven't been reading my posts.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Job opportunity: David Lynch Foundation
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: [...] Those who might know, exactly which scientifically- proven stress-reducing modalities OTHER THAN TM has it ever raised funds for or provided grants to? TM-Sidhis, I believe. L.
[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: What really happened Lawson.? Did they ban you? YIep. Ironically, one of the http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation moderators, sfacets, has himself been banned from wikipedia for apparently using 70 *different identities* to make posts about his own form of meditation. sock puppets they are called: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Sfacets L On May 25, 2012, at 9:45 PM, sparaig wrote: the moderators of the meditation forum on reddit don't like me (snif). So I've been responding to questions about TM privately. Any comments/criticisms? --- Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: Like most TM zealots your response seems conditioned by uncritically acquired TM Org samskaras, falsehoods and disinformation. It's good you have been banned, you're doing a disservice to sentient beings.
[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On May 25, 2012, at 9:45 PM, sparaig wrote: the moderators of the meditation forum on reddit don't like me (snif). So I've been responding to questions about TM privately. Any comments/criticisms? Like most TM zealots your response seems conditioned by uncritically acquired TM Org samskaras, falsehoods and disinformation. It�s good you have been banned, you�re doing a disservice to sentient beings. Thanks for the feedback, Vaj. BTW, the term sentient is over used, IMHO: sentient literally means aware or responsive to the rest of the world. Any living creature could be called sentient. People appear to confuse the term with sapient. L
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternate methods of measuring inflation
Attempting to pour oil on troubled waters, I'd like to point out that while Judy is correct that core inflation has been rather low lately, the essential cost of living has risen drastically due, at least partly, to the price of oil. About 30% of the cost of food is tied directly to oil pricing (transportation costs etc), and there are also issues having to do with the relative weakness of the American dollar compared to the European dollar, which has emerged as the standard for many things (some people believe that Hussein's desire to start accepting Euros rather than dollars was one very important reason why Gulf War II happened). My own belief is that monetary supply has very little to do with the rise in the cost of living, simply because the Fractional Banking system already ensures that the supply of money is dozens of times larger than the capital that backs it. Printing 50x as much money suddenly might cause hyper-inflation, but printing 10% more or even 2x more, is merely a tiny blip compared to what the banks already do, money-supply-wise. L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: I was arguing here the other day that 2.3% inflation seems a little off to me. I do step out of the house daily and see prices in stores rather than living in a meditation cave. Who here do you think lives in a meditation cave, Bhairitu? Names, please. I also argued that the government cooks the numbers to 1) either avoid a panic or 2) to look good. Because I got sidetracked by someone who wanted the make the argument personal as usual No, this is not what happened, Bhairiu. You are not telling the truth. *You* made it personal with your very first post to the thread: - [Me to BillyG:] Hmm, I've always thought printing money results in *inflation*, not deflation. Fortunately, the runaway inflation the GOP has been screaming is going to happen hasn't. [Bhairitu:] Do you compare food prices to what they were two, three years ago? *Some of us still have a memory system* and can even remember what prices were 10 years ago for food, gas, etc. [emphasis added] - 'Nuff said.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternate methods of measuring inflation
BTW, the cost of gasoline in the USA is heavily subsidized. The cost of gas in Europe is 2-3x what it is in the USA. OTOH, the cost of gasoline in Venezuela is about 1/10-1/20 what it is in the USA. Just a factoid that may or may not have anything to do with anything. L
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Alternate methods of measuring inflation
higher taxes in europe, however the enjoy the same depleation allowances as do we here in canada but taxed nore in canada indian res here sells cdn gas 3 3.55 off res its 3.89 ont 4;54 usd In a message dated 05/26/12 19:27:06 Eastern Daylight Time, lengli...@cox.net writes: BTW, the cost of gasoline in the USA is heavily subsidized. The cost of gas in Europe is 2-3x what it is in the USA. OTOH, the cost of gasoline in Venezuela is about 1/10-1/20 what it is in the USA. Just a factoid that may or may not have anything to do with anything. L 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 http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Alternate methods of measuring inflation
In most of Europe, the cost of gas is above US$9 per gallon. And remember, we have subsidies for oil pricing that partially/fully offset the taxes levied at the pump. Without oil subsidies, many alternate forms of power would be much closer to the point of economic break-even, or might already have passed that point. L. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wleed3 WLeed3@... wrote: higher taxes in europe, however the enjoy the same depleation allowances as do we here in canada but taxed nore in canada indian res here sells cdn gas 3 3.55 off res its 3.89 ont 4;54 usd In a message dated 05/26/12 19:27:06 Eastern Daylight Time, LEnglish5@... writes: BTW, the cost of gasoline in the USA is heavily subsidized. The cost of gas in Europe is 2-3x what it is in the USA. OTOH, the cost of gasoline in Venezuela is about 1/10-1/20 what it is in the USA. Just a factoid that may or may not have anything to do with anything. L 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 http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
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[FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: On 05/25/2012 09:03 AM, Emily Reyn wrote: Geeezzz. What a funny exchange this has been. Bhairitu, I disagree, just for the record. Disagree with what? My characterization of Judy or my position on inflation? Judy is taking a neoliberal position not liberal BTW. Many progressives and liberal disagree with Krugman and that inflation ought to be allowed to rise. It will hurt much of the population and there are better solutions. Citation please, who are the progressives and liberals disagreeing with Krugman? Dollars to donuts, these are folks who have been absorbed into the Borg of Libertarian Propaganda along with Ben Bernanke who knows better but refuses to act. A little inflation isn't bad for the economy, in fact it's one of the few things that could save us from economic ruin. The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate: price stability and maximum employment. It normally tries to meet these goals by moving short-term interest rates, which it can do by adding to or subtracting from bank reserves. If the economy is weak and inflation is low, the Fed cuts rates; this makes borrowing attractive, stimulates private spending and, if all goes well, leads to economic recovery. If the economy is strong and inflation is a threat, the Fed raises rates; this discourages borrowing and spending, and the economy cools off. Right now, the Fed believes that it's facing a weak economy and subdued inflation, a situation in which it would ordinarily cut interest rates. The problem is that rates can't be cut further. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/magazine/chairman-bernanke-should-listen-to-professor-bernanke.html?pagewanted=all
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
I was disagreeing with your characterization of Judy as a fool and an idiot. I don't consider her either of these things. Asshole...well, aren't we all? Ha ha. I'm not qualified to talk economics. I don't get real cable, but last night in the hotel watched the Bill Maher show, who had Krugman on it. So, I can now sayOh, that's who he is. We don't have a lot of things at progressives might have wanted and Obama has conceded/compromised a number of times on what some thought was his agenda. But overall, he is better than McCain would have been and certainly better than Romney as a choice. The man has the same spaced out look in his eye as Bush used to have and has said so many things that demonstrate how out of touch he is with my version of reality that I simply won't go there. In terms of blame, I place most of the blame on Congress and would like to see term limits on our reps. I'm all for smart government creating smart jobs at this point. From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it! On 05/25/2012 09:03 AM, Emily Reyn wrote: Geeezzz. What a funny exchange this has been. Bhairitu, I disagree, just for the record. Disagree with what? My characterization of Judy or my position on inflation? Judy is taking a neoliberal position not liberal BTW. Many progressives and liberal disagree with Krugman and that inflation ought to be allowed to rise. It will hurt much of the population and there are better solutions.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn emilymae.reyn@... wrote: I was disagreeing with your characterization of Judy as a fool and an idiot.  I don't consider her either of these things.  Asshole...well, aren't we all?  Ha ha. I agree. Judy is nobody's fool. She's one smart cookie, always truthful, always fair, and when necessary, an exemplary asshole. I'm not qualified to talk economics.  I don't get real cable, but last night in the hotel watched the Bill Maher show, who had Krugman on it.  So, I can now sayOh, that's who he is.  We don't have a lot of things at progressives might have wanted and Obama has conceded/compromised a number of times on what some thought was his agenda.  But overall, he is better than McCain would have been and certainly better than Romney as a choice.  The man has the same spaced out look in his eye as Bush used to have and has said so many things that demonstrate how out of touch he is with my version of reality that I simply won't go there.  In terms of blame, I place most of the blame on Congress  and would like to see term limits on our reps.  I'm all for smart government creating smart jobs at this point.  I get the news shows on TV. The pundit class shamelessly misinforms or outright lies to the public. Most are total hacks, some less hacky than others. It's what they do for huge salaries. So, you're not missing much. The worst of them resides in the land of Glenn Beckistan, Fox News, where up is down and you get an alien brain transplant if you listen to an entire show for more than three days in a row. It's impossible to have a sane discussion with these devils. Once absorbed by the Libertarian Borg they are incapable of telling the difference between facts and opinion or facts and propaganda. From: Bhairitu noozguru@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Obama spends your money without you knowing it!  On 05/25/2012 09:03 AM, Emily Reyn wrote: Geeezzz. What a funny exchange this has been. Bhairitu, I disagree, just for the record. Disagree with what? My characterization of Judy or my position on inflation? Judy is taking a neoliberal position not liberal BTW. Many progressives and liberal disagree with Krugman and that inflation ought to be allowed to rise. It will hurt much of the population and there are better solutions.
[FairfieldLife] Amongst the baddest Englishes I've ever incountered?
Yogasuutras of Patañjali, by Ballantyne and Shastri, a translation of the Bhoja-vRtti, might be a text amongst the baddest English texts I've ever incountered, on this level: http://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/7277477670/in/photostream/lightbox/
[FairfieldLife] Re: my generic TM response to http://www.reddit.com/r/meditation questions
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On May 25, 2012, at 9:45 PM, sparaig wrote: the moderators of the meditation forum on reddit don't like me (snif). So I've been responding to questions about TM privately. Any comments/criticisms? Like most TM zealots your response seems conditioned by uncritically acquired TM Org samskaras, falsehoods and disinformation. It's good you have been banned, you're doing a disservice to sentient beings. Vaj, puhlze, relax! You seem to be taking this stuff way too seriously! :o
