[FairfieldLife] Climate change in Indus valley.

[salyavin808]

Revealed: How climate change ended world’s first great civilisations
 

 


 

 




 

 'Megacities' of the Indus Valley region of Pakistan and north-west India 
declined and never recovered because of a dramatic increase in drought 
conditions, according to new research
 

 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-how-climate-change-ended-worlds-first-great-civilisations-9164248.html
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-how-climate-change-ended-worlds-first-great-civilisations-9164248.html

[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 
 

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

 Exactly right. To call transcending an "experience" confuses the issue when 
you get down to the nitty-gritty. I don't think it's "gobbledygook semantics," 
it's just that we don't have a language of transcendence, so we often have to 
go through semantic contortions.
 

 Exactly, there doesn't seem to be an exact language to really describe it 
because I'm not sure it's describable as we don't actually experience it except 
for afterwards perhaps thinking we had just transcended because we realize we 
were not thinking anything. Just trying to define it makes me confused. As far 
as I'm concerned transcendence seems like blanking. We're told this is a good 
thing. I guess I'll have to take other's word for it.
 

 You make an excellent point when you say "the line between being conscious of 
something and having a thought about that something is very fine if not 
non-existent." It is non-existent! And that's crucial to the mechanics of TM. 
 

 BTW, when Seraphita says, "So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says," she is 
referring--I think!--not to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi but to Ramana Maharshi. I 
could be wrong, but I don't think MMY ever gave any such instruction with 
regard to waking, unless it was some sort of specialized advanced technique.
 

 I don't remember MMY saying anything about this but I'm no authority on him or 
TM for that matter.
 

 -

 
 Maharishi said that everyone passes through transcendence as they go from one 
state of consciousness to another (waking to dreaming to sleeping and back 
again). He probably would not have recommended trying to hold one's awareness 
in that in-between stage, at least not for ordinary meditators. Sounds to me as 
though Ramana Maharshi was turning a description of his spontaneous experience 
into a prescription for practice instead of just letting it develop naturally 
in his students. 

 Ann, one might well not notice an instant of transcendence between waking and 
sleeping--it's easy enough to miss when one is meditating (since there's quite 
literally nothing to it, nothing to be aware of).
 

 Yes, and I make this point in a recent post to Seraphita. You know, this 
transcendence business is a funny one because it seems like you only realize 
you were transcending after the fact and that is kind of like having had 
amnesia and someone tells you that for the last five minutes you were 
bellydancing except you don't remember a thing. 
 

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

 Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in 
my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental 
at all.":  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's "Meditation means "to think 
things over". So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.":
 If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests 
"going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
"meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".

[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Exactly right. To call transcending an "experience" confuses the issue when 
you get down to the nitty-gritty. I don't think it's "gobbledygook semantics," 
it's just that we don't have a language of transcendence, so we often have to 
go through semantic contortions. 

 You make an excellent point when you say "the line between being conscious of 
something and having a thought about that something is very fine if not 
non-existent." It is non-existent! And that's crucial to the mechanics of TM. 
 

 BTW, when Seraphita says, "So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says," she is 
referring--I think!--not to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi but to Ramana Maharshi. I 
could be wrong, but I don't think MMY ever gave any such instruction with 
regard to waking, unless it was some sort of specialized advanced technique.
 

 -

 
 Maharishi said that everyone passes through transcendence as they go from one 
state of consciousness to another (waking to dreaming to sleeping and back 
again). He probably would not have recommended trying to hold one's awareness 
in that in-between stage, at least not for ordinary meditators. Sounds to me as 
though Ramana Maharshi was turning a description of his spontaneous experience 
into a prescription for practice instead of just letting it develop naturally 
in his students. 

 Ann, one might well not notice an instant of transcendence between waking and 
sleeping--it's easy enough to miss when one is meditating (since there's quite 
literally nothing to it, nothing to be aware of).
 

 Yes, and I make this point in a recent post to Seraphita. You know, this 
transcendence business is a funny one because it seems like you only realize 
you were transcending after the fact and that is kind of like having had 
amnesia and someone tells you that for the last five minutes you were 
bellydancing except you don't remember a thing. 
 

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

 Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in 
my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental 
at all.":  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's "Meditation means "to think 
things over". So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.":
 If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests 
"going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
"meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".

[FairfieldLife] Hysterical Songs of The Revolution

[dhamiltony2k5]

Yep like, Veda Leela:  ..
 "One unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion
in waves of creation flowing, an ocean of knowingness, ocean of consciousness.
One unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion, in waves of the veda flowing, 
ocean of knowingness, ocean of consciousness.

One unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion, fully awake within itself, 
consciousness fully knows itself, consciousness, knows itself
When consciousness knows itself it becomes both knower and known
When the knower knows the known the dynamics are called the process of knowing 
Knower knowing and known 
Knower knowing and known

Knower knowing and known
In the language of the Veda these three are known as Rishi, Devata, and 
Chhandas.
Rishi is the knower
Devata the knowing
Chhandas is the known together they are flowing
In one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion
the samhita of the veda is flowing as knower knowing and known
knower knowing and known

The samhita, of rishi, devata and chhandas
put together they are three in one reality
In one unbounded ocean of consciousness
One appears as three while remaining unity
One appears as three while remaining unity"
 

 Doc, I love reading the song titles for those tracks on the album cover.
 I have found from the studying of other historic spiritual groups like ours 
you can often get in the minds and hearts of members then by looking at the 
text of their songs. The song text a lot of times have their ideology embedded 
in them. As part of these revolutionary movements the songs they often would 
sing as groups or for entertainment though corny at times were often fun and 
patriotic to the group for the people who were there at the time.
 

  I was at a conference last year with a whole bunch of academics and we took a 
tour of the historic village of Zoar, Ohio, early settled by German mystics. On 
the tour of the historic village we went in to their big brick meeting house 
the Zoarites built and the tour guide described something to the effect, 'that 
this is where he gave his sermons'. Upon the word 'sermon' you could see this 
collective shudder in the tour group about the thought of listening to sermons. 
But the meeting house had amazing acoustics for singing and the spoken word 
could be easily heard anywhere in the meeting house. It was really cool. I had 
got to Zoar the night before and looked around on my own and noted this 
remarkable feature about the Meeting House. 
  The thing to explain to these modern day folks though from the perspective of 
being inside vital revolutionary spiritual groups the meetings were actually 
fun to be in. The members knew the language of the shared experience and had 
developed their own songs to go along with the cultural dynamic of the 
movement. At the time of these mystical separatist groups like Zoar forming in 
America they were unified and having fun doing it. I was at Oneida in New York 
a couple years ago and interviewed some aged people who were part of Oneida and 
they said the same thing. What they remember about the community was that it 
was fun. The community was really fun to be part of.   Likewise it was with TM 
in its day and for those still in it now.
 -U.S. Buck in the Dome
 

 The Doctor writes:
 I have been going through several lifetimes worth of belongings, and came 
across this record, that I probably bought in the Communist Chinese store, Hong 
Kong, c. 1970. (So *that's* how they won...):
 
https://app.box.com/s/jjxylhxkkwc3bu31m9tz 
https://app.box.com/s/jjxylhxkkwc3bu31m9tz
 

 ..

[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[authfriend]

Exactly right. To call transcending an "experience" confuses the issue when you 
get down to the nitty-gritty. I don't think it's "gobbledygook semantics," it's 
just that we don't have a language of transcendence, so we often have to go 
through semantic contortions. 

 You make an excellent point when you say "the line between being conscious of 
something and having a thought about that something is very fine if not 
non-existent." It is non-existent! And that's crucial to the mechanics of TM. 
 

 BTW, when Seraphita says, "So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says," she is 
referring--I think!--not to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi but to Ramana Maharshi. I 
could be wrong, but I don't think MMY ever gave any such instruction with 
regard to waking, unless it was some sort of specialized advanced technique.
 

 -

 
 Maharishi said that everyone passes through transcendence as they go from one 
state of consciousness to another (waking to dreaming to sleeping and back 
again). He probably would not have recommended trying to hold one's awareness 
in that in-between stage, at least not for ordinary meditators. Sounds to me as 
though Ramana Maharshi was turning a description of his spontaneous experience 
into a prescription for practice instead of just letting it develop naturally 
in his students. 

 Ann, one might well not notice an instant of transcendence between waking and 
sleeping--it's easy enough to miss when one is meditating (since there's quite 
literally nothing to it, nothing to be aware of).
 

 Yes, and I make this point in a recent post to Seraphita. You know, this 
transcendence business is a funny one because it seems like you only realize 
you were transcending after the fact and that is kind of like having had 
amnesia and someone tells you that for the last five minutes you were 
bellydancing except you don't remember a thing. 
 

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

 Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in 
my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental 
at all.":  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's "Meditation means "to think 
things over". So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.":
 If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests 
"going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
"meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 9:02 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is a big jump in weight and although I am pretty fit due to the 
fact that I have always been active

>
The key word here is "active" - you'd be surprised how many older people 
are inactive because they have simply lost almost all of their muscle 
strength. You can be thin, but if you're weak you won't get to do 
anything anyway except lay on the couch and watch TV. There's NOTHING 
like being active.


You know you're weak when you can't get out of bed and make it to the 
bathroom. Rita and I go to the gym every day and go out dancing almost 
every Friday night. One guy that I know doesn't even get up until after 
noon - I had to go help him get some books out of his attic the other 
day. Go figure.



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Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[doctordumbass]

"Meth Breath" Haiku
 Plus, he really needs
To go to the dentist,
Before its too late, dude.

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

 Plus, he really needs to go to the dentist before its too late.
 

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

 Yes, He is said to be the wisest guru of the 21st century, but he talks so 
fast, no one can understand him.
 

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

 Methananda
 
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 4:28 PM, Richard J. Williams  wrote:
 
   On 3/3/2014 2:12 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 > Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit place 
 > bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya know?
 >
 Never pass up a tragedy to prove a religious point about Hindu pundits boys.
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 8:49 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote:
Clicking the three dots sure makes it easy to know which post you're 
responding to.

>
In some cases, you don't even need to know what they are responding to - 
all you need to know is their alias or their name and that pretty much 
says it all. Go figure.



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[FairfieldLife] RE: Consciousness Coherence, A System Meissner-like Effect [ME]

[dhamiltony2k5]

The influence of orderliness generated from the state of infinite correlation 
experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique is so powerful that 
even one per cent of the people in society practicing the Transcendental 
Meditation technique is sufficient to neutralize negative tendencies and give 
an evolutionary direction to community life as a whole.
 

 

 The phenomenon of a powerful influence of harmony spreading through a whole 
community or nation when a small fraction of the population practices the 
Transcendental Meditation technique is known as the Maharishi Effect [ME].
 

 
 Considering the [Maharishi] Meissner-like Effect of Increasing Coherence in 
systems.
 

 “Sudden sharp changes from relatively disordered to much more ordered states 
may be considered 'phase transitions' as described in the physical sciences. 
For instance, water changes from a less orderly arrangement of molecules in the 
liquid state to a highly ordered crystalline structure when the temperature is 
lowered to 0 degree C. Physicists are now beginning to explore the possible 
applications of phase transition models to sudden sweeping changes in 
individual and social systems . . Transitions to more orderly configurations 
are frequently mediated by the influence of a few individuals from within a 
population. Such effects are observed in developing systems of many sorts. For 
instance, in the embryo prior to the formation of any organs, a small cluster 
of cells is known as 'The Primary Organizer'. These few cells determine the 
developmental fates of the multitude of undifferentiated and unordered cells 
comprising the rest of the embryo.”
 

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Trancendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976
 
 

 

 As more and more cities rose to one percent of the population practicing 
Transcendental Meditation, scientific research found that not only did crime 
decrease, but accidents, sickness, and other negative trends also decreased, 
and positivity increased. Research scientists named this phenomenon the 
'Maharishi Effect' in honor of Maharishi.
 

 
 As early as,
 

 “In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation 
program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and 
harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one 
percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), 
and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern 
U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM 
technique.”
 

 Candace Borland, Ph.D., and Garland Landrith III, M.A., 'Improved Quality of 
City Life Through the Trancendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate' 
in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected 
Papers, Vol. I, eds. David W. Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., and John T. Farrow, Ph.D., 
West Germany, MERU Press, 1976
 

 
 

 12 January 1972 Maharishi inaugurated the World Plan to “eliminate the age-old 
problems of mankind in this generation.”  
 

 Right from the beginning of his movement, Maharishi predicted that even a 
small number of the world's population practicing his Transcendental Meditation 
technique could neutralize the stress being built up in the world 
consciousness, thus averting conflicts and wars. 
 

 In 1974 these predictions were validated by scientific studies showing that in 
cities where one percent of the population learned the transcendental 
Meditation technique there was a sudden decrease in crime rates.
 

 By 1974 more than one million people throughout the world had learned the 
practice of Transcendental Meditation and were experiencing higher states of 
consciousness. With this, world consciousness was already becoming increasingly 
purified. Furthermore, people everywhere were experiencing the practical 
benefits of the development of higher states of consciousness in all aspects of 
their daily life, including greater happiness, peace, and harmony. A growing 
body of scientific research was validating the beneficial effects this practice 
had on all levels of mind, body, and behavior of the individual.
 

 It was at this time that research scientists discovered that in cities where 
one percent of the population was practicing Transcendental Meditation, the 
cities' crime rates decreased. As more and more cities rose to one percent of 
the population practicing Transcendental Meditation, scientific research found 
that not only did crime decrease, but accidents, sickness, and other negative 
trends also decreased, and positivity increased. Research scientists named this 
phenomenon the Maharishi Effect in honor of Maharishi.
 

 
 W

[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[doctordumbass]

 

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

 
 

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

 Maharishi said that everyone passes through transcendence as they go from one 
state of consciousness to another (waking to dreaming to sleeping and back 
again). He probably would not have recommended trying to hold one's awareness 
in that in-between stage, at least not for ordinary meditators. Sounds to me as 
though Ramana Maharshi was turning a description of his spontaneous experience 
into a prescription for practice instead of just letting it develop naturally 
in his students. 

 Ann, one might well not notice an instant of transcendence between waking and 
sleeping--it's easy enough to miss when one is meditating (since there's quite 
literally nothing to it, nothing to be aware of).
 

 Yes, and I make this point in a recent post to Seraphita. You know, this 
transcendence business is a funny one because it seems like you only realize 
you were transcending after the fact and that is kind of like having had 
amnesia and someone tells you that for the last five minutes you were 
bellydancing except you don't remember a thing. 
 
So *THAT* explains the jewel in my navel...yeah, the thing about transcendence 
is, all that experience during meditation, the pure(r) silence, begins to 
remember itself, out of meditation, too. Pretty soon, silence or restful 
alertness or whatever, is tagging along, all the time. And, get this, restful 
alertness thinks its totally the other way 'round. What a hoot.

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

 Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in 
my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental 
at all.":  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's "Meditation means "to think 
things over". So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.":
 If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests 
"going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
"meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 8:39 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
> All depends on your dosha.
 >
It all depends on your strength - do you have enough strength to lead an 
active normal life? A simple barbell costs only a few dollars.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[Bhairitu]

On 03/03/2014 07:02 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:





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

It's true that not all calories are the same, but without a caloric 
deficit, weight loss will not occur. And, regardless of macronutrient 
ratio, if few enough calories are consumed, weight will be lost. There 
were a couple guys who experimented with very high carb intake, one 
eating nothing but potatoes, and the other eating a diet that included 
a lot of Twinkies, and both lost weight.


Personally, I'm not a fundamentalist CICOite (calories in, calories 
out), but I place more importance on caloric intake than some 
macronutrient fanatics who seem to think all manner of magic will 
happen if you just avoid one macronutrient. But, that's just laughably 
divorced from reality, as Jimmy Moore, from Livin La Vida Low Carb 
blog, proved all too well. He managed to regain 100 pounds, gorging 
himself on low carb food; he did eventually lose the weight again, but 
it took a drastic reduction in caloric intake to do so. In my own 
life, if I eat more, I put on weight; if I eat less, I lose weight. 
The reason I so easily lose weight on low carb is that satiety is much 
greater, and with less hunger, eating less food is effortless. If I 
wanted to lose weight on a carby, new-age, hippie diet full of grains, 
beans, and starches, I'd have to count calories and endure gnawing 
hunger.


I think people can get as complicated as they want about this calorie 
in, calorie out thing. I think to do so is an excuse for why they're 
not losing weight. I have been thin my whole life until the last 7 or 
8 years at which time I went from about 128 lbs to 150 lbs. This is a 
big jump in weight and although I am pretty fit due to the fact that I 
have always been active I was getting fat, plain and simple. So, I 
finally did something millions of people have done over the decades - 
I joined Weight Watchers. And guess what? I lost 16 lbs by cutting 
down on what I put in my mouth. They don't make it complicated, they 
make it really, really simple. Eat 26 points a day and you'll lose 
weight. And everyone who sticks to 26 points a day does. You can eat 
whatever you want, there are no meal plans, no food to buy from them. 
You design your own menu whether you're carnivore, vegan or 
vegetarian. So those who want to can keep talking about doshas and 
metabolism and all the rest of it but it boils down to 26 points!


We should all live if Annie's simple world, eh?  We'll check back with 
you 10 years from now to see how you're doing.   And why did you 
suddenly gain that weight?  Did you figure that one out?  I know people 
who also tried Weight Watchers and it didn't work for them.




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

Well, most of us know that but few of us do that. However more
research
came out last week about how bad sugar is for you and here is an
article
by Dr. Robert Lustig about sugar. He also touches on the argument
about
not all calories being the same.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html

We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I
claim
the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories
than you take in. Research has shown that doesn't work. Dr. Lustig
was
on local talk radio over the weekend and discussed this misconception
and why it doesn't work. Part of it has to do with not all calories
being the same.

Radio show (Lustig is on at around 33 minutes):


http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[Pundit Sir]

We don't eat any sugar anymore, or very many carbs except for some whole
grains. We are not into packaged foods of any kind these days. We are
eating mostly organic vegetables, chicken and organic beef from Whole Foods
Market. Rita has tried to limit her caloric intake to 1200 calories per day
and work outs at the gym every day for one hour. It helps if you have a
personal trainer.

You can turn fat into muscle using the body's basic patterns of movement:
simply do squats, dead lifts and chin ups and you have the basics. Each day
you just lift a little more weight each time - barbells or other weights.
What you have to do is keep at it every day - don't stop. It's that simple.

According to what I've read, the best exercises to use are the ones that
involve the most muscle mass and the greatest number of joints, and
exercises that require you to balance yourself while you're doing them. I
promise you this: If you do the squats and dead lifts at proper levels of
weight, your body will build muscle and strength.

You can do this with a barbell- just put a bar on your back and squat below
parallel; or press a bar overhead; or pick a bar up from the ground and set
it back down. These are normal human movement patterns that can be turned
into progressively heavier exercises that make you strong the way your body
moves naturally.

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On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Bhairitu  wrote:

>
>
> Didn't read the article, did you?  It's not even very long.
>
>
> On 03/03/2014 04:54 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/3/2014 3:31 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
> >
> > We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I claim
> > the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories
> > than you take in.
> >
> Just do the math - but that's not the entire solution. Do you realize
> how long you'd have to stay on a treadmill to burn even a small part of
> 1800 calories, the average adult daily intake? It's good to burn
> calories but it's also important to build muscles to replace the fat.
> What you've got to do is carefully select what you eat and consume food
> in smaller proportions, and get some good exercise. The most important
> aspect of healthy living is life style - get the right mind set,
> cultivate beneficial habits and keep at it. It's not easy, but it's not
> complicated.
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[FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

[emilymaenot]

Yes.  I was distracted remembering how much I liked riding my bike without a 
helmet.  The one time I let the kids do this in front of my house, my neighbor 
came out to remind me of the law.  Ha ha.  They don't seem to mind, but they 
have never known the unfettered joy of wind whipping through one's hair going 
full speed down a hill.  Smile.  
 

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

 Clicking the three dots sure makes it easy to know which post you're 
responding to.
 

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

 Yes, I hear you.  Having kids informed my decision as well.  I am not sure 
that I see the "cost to society" that warrants legislating safety like this.  
Same with the law on bike helmets.  

[FairfieldLife] RE: Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 
 

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

 It's true that not all calories are the same, but without a caloric deficit, 
weight loss will not occur. And, regardless of macronutrient ratio, if few 
enough calories are consumed, weight will be lost. There were a couple guys who 
experimented with very high carb intake, one eating nothing but potatoes, and 
the other eating a diet that included a lot of Twinkies, and both lost weight.

Personally, I'm not a fundamentalist CICOite (calories in, calories out), but I 
place more importance on caloric intake than some macronutrient fanatics who 
seem to think all manner of magic will happen if you just avoid one 
macronutrient. But, that's just laughably divorced from reality, as Jimmy 
Moore, from Livin La Vida Low Carb blog, proved all too well. He managed to 
regain 100 pounds, gorging himself on low carb food; he did eventually lose the 
weight again, but it took a drastic reduction in caloric intake to do so. In my 
own life, if I eat more, I put on weight; if I eat less, I lose weight. The 
reason I so easily lose weight on low carb is that satiety is much greater, and 
with less hunger, eating less food is effortless. If I wanted to lose weight on 
a carby, new-age, hippie diet full of grains, beans, and starches, I'd have to 
count calories and endure gnawing hunger. 
 

 I think people can get as complicated as they want about this calorie in, 
calorie out thing. I think to do so is an excuse for why they're not losing 
weight. I have been thin my whole life until the last 7 or 8 years at which 
time I went from about 128 lbs to 150 lbs. This is a big jump in weight and 
although I am pretty fit due to the fact that I have always been active I was 
getting fat, plain and simple. So, I finally did something millions of people 
have done over the decades - I joined Weight Watchers. And guess what? I lost 
16 lbs by cutting down on what I put in my mouth. They don't make it 
complicated, they make it really, really simple. Eat 26 points a day and you'll 
lose weight. And everyone who sticks to 26 points a day does. You can eat 
whatever you want, there are no meal plans, no food to buy from them. You 
design your own menu whether you're carnivore, vegan or vegetarian. So those 
who want to can keep talking about doshas and metabolism and all the rest of it 
but it boils down to 26 points!
 

 This is actually funny on second read through; it looks like I'm spamming you 
all to join WW.
 

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

 Well, most of us know that but few of us do that. However more research 
 came out last week about how bad sugar is for you and here is an article 
 by Dr. Robert Lustig about sugar. He also touches on the argument about 
 not all calories being the same.
 
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html
 
 We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I claim 
 the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories 
 than you take in. Research has shown that doesn't work. Dr. Lustig was 
 on local talk radio over the weekend and discussed this misconception 
 and why it doesn't work. Part of it has to do with not all calories 
 being the same.
 
 Radio show (Lustig is on at around 33 minutes):
 
 
http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0
 
http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0

[FairfieldLife] RE: Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 It's true that not all calories are the same, but without a caloric deficit, 
weight loss will not occur. And, regardless of macronutrient ratio, if few 
enough calories are consumed, weight will be lost. There were a couple guys who 
experimented with very high carb intake, one eating nothing but potatoes, and 
the other eating a diet that included a lot of Twinkies, and both lost weight.

Personally, I'm not a fundamentalist CICOite (calories in, calories out), but I 
place more importance on caloric intake than some macronutrient fanatics who 
seem to think all manner of magic will happen if you just avoid one 
macronutrient. But, that's just laughably divorced from reality, as Jimmy 
Moore, from Livin La Vida Low Carb blog, proved all too well. He managed to 
regain 100 pounds, gorging himself on low carb food; he did eventually lose the 
weight again, but it took a drastic reduction in caloric intake to do so. In my 
own life, if I eat more, I put on weight; if I eat less, I lose weight. The 
reason I so easily lose weight on low carb is that satiety is much greater, and 
with less hunger, eating less food is effortless. If I wanted to lose weight on 
a carby, new-age, hippie diet full of grains, beans, and starches, I'd have to 
count calories and endure gnawing hunger. 
 

 I think people can get as complicated as they want about this calorie in, 
calorie out thing. I think to do so is an excuse for why they're not losing 
weight. I have been thin my whole life until the last 7 or 8 years at which 
time I went from about 128 lbs to 150 lbs. This is a big jump in weight and 
although I am pretty fit due to the fact that I have always been active I was 
getting fat, plain and simple. So, I finally did something millions of people 
have done over the decades - I joined Weight Watchers. And guess what? I lost 
16 lbs by cutting down on what I put in my mouth. They don't make it 
complicated, they make it really, really simple. Eat 26 points a day and you'll 
lose weight. And everyone who sticks to 26 points a day does. You can eat 
whatever you want, there are no meal plans, no food to buy from them. You 
design your own menu whether you're carnivore, vegan or vegetarian. So those 
who want to can keep talking about doshas and metabolism and all the rest of it 
but it boils down to 26 points!
 

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

 Well, most of us know that but few of us do that. However more research 
 came out last week about how bad sugar is for you and here is an article 
 by Dr. Robert Lustig about sugar. He also touches on the argument about 
 not all calories being the same.
 
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html
 
 We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I claim 
 the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories 
 than you take in. Research has shown that doesn't work. Dr. Lustig was 
 on local talk radio over the weekend and discussed this misconception 
 and why it doesn't work. Part of it has to do with not all calories 
 being the same.
 
 Radio show (Lustig is on at around 33 minutes):
 
 
http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0
 
http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0

[FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

Clicking the three dots sure makes it easy to know which post you're responding 
to.
 

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

 Yes, I hear you.  Having kids informed my decision as well.  I am not sure 
that I see the "cost to society" that warrants legislating safety like this.  
Same with the law on bike helmets.  

[FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

 

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

 Yes, I hear you.  Having kids informed my decision as well.  I am not sure 
that I see the "cost to society" that warrants legislating safety like this.  
Same with the law on bike helmets.  

[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Maharishi said that everyone passes through transcendence as they go from one 
state of consciousness to another (waking to dreaming to sleeping and back 
again). He probably would not have recommended trying to hold one's awareness 
in that in-between stage, at least not for ordinary meditators. Sounds to me as 
though Ramana Maharshi was turning a description of his spontaneous experience 
into a prescription for practice instead of just letting it develop naturally 
in his students. 

 Ann, one might well not notice an instant of transcendence between waking and 
sleeping--it's easy enough to miss when one is meditating (since there's quite 
literally nothing to it, nothing to be aware of).
 

 Yes, and I make this point in a recent post to Seraphita. You know, this 
transcendence business is a funny one because it seems like you only realize 
you were transcending after the fact and that is kind of like having had 
amnesia and someone tells you that for the last five minutes you were 
bellydancing except you don't remember a thing. 
 

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

 Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in 
my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental 
at all.":  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's "Meditation means "to think 
things over". So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.":
 If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests 
"going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
"meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".

[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in 
my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental 
at all.":  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. 
 

 I have always found this funny. And I find it funny because the line between 
being conscious of something and having a thought about that something is very 
fine if not non-existent. You say MMY wants us to hold our awareness at the 
point you wake up before thoughts arise. Let me just say that realizing you are 
just waking and that thoughts have not yet arisen is a thought. Realizations 
are thoughts. Thoughts are not words, are not sentences, they are something one 
is conscious of having because they contain content of some form, they are 
subtle and they come out of nowhere. So, one can be floating around in some 
thoughtless ether that you only become aware that you were in once you are out 
of it. But being able to have this intention (which is a thought) to hold 
oneself at some "point" involves thought. I think it's all gobbeldy gook 
semantics myself. But then I was never someone who found meditation any better 
than good old sleep or a walk in the warm rain.
 

 Presumably it worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; 
his suggestion is that it could work for others also. I mention him as his 
ideas rather nicely dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during 
meditation. And I mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their 
take on TM as an intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful 
than the Official TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's "Meditation 
means "to think things over". So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone 
who can think is probably already practising a basic meditation.":
 If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests 
"going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
"meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puns Can Be Fun

[steve.sundur]

Ha! Just what I needed.  Too bad my kids have outgrown traditional Halloween.

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

 "How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it."

 

 On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Pundit Sir mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 "I know a guy who is addicted to brake fluid - he say he can stop anytime."

 

 On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Pundit Sir mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 "A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned 
veteran."

 

 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Pundit Sir mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 "Jokes about German sausage are the wurst."

 

 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Pundit Sir mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 "When chemists die, they barium."

 

 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Pundit Sir mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 "I tried to catch some fog. I mist."

 

 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 A skeptical anthropologist was cataloging South American folk remedies
 with the assistance of a tribal Brujo who indicated that the leaves of a
 particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation.  
 

 When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the Brujo looked him in 
 the eye and said, 
 

 "Let me tell you, with fronds like these, you don't need enemas."  

 

 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 There were three Indian squaws.  
 

 One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third slept 
 on a hippopotamus skin.  All three became  pregnant.  The first two 
 each had a baby boy.  The one who slept on the  hippopotamus skin 
 had twin boys.  
 

 This just goes to prove that...the squaw  of the hippopotamus is equal
 to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.

 

 On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his name
  missing from the town register.  His wife insisted on complaining to the
  local civic official who apologized profusely saying, "I must have taken  
Leif 
 off my census."

 

 On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Share Long mailto:sharelong60@...> wrote:
   
 Richard, imho these are very good for preventing dementia and or Alzheimers 
(-: 
 

 
 
 On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 12:25 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 
   An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the medicine man.
 

 After a brief examination, the medicine man took out a long, thin strip of
 elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off, chew,and
 swallow one inch of the leather every day.  
 

 After a month, the medicine man  returned to see how the chief was feeling.  
 

 The chief shrugged and said, "The thong is ended, but the malady lingers on."

 

 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the toilets
 and urinals, leaving no clues.  A spokesperson was quoted as
 saying, "We have absolutely nothing to go on."

 

 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
  Back in the 1800's the Tate's Watch Company of Massachusetts wanted to
  produce other products, and since they already made the cases for watches,
  they used them to produce compasses.  
 

 The new compasses were so bad that  people often ended up in Canada or
 Mexico rather than California . 
 

 This, of  course, is the origin of the expression,"He who has a Tate's is 
lost!"

 

 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered dolphins
 that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of  seagulls.  
 

 One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to go out and trap 
 some more. On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road.
 

 Afraid to wake them, he gingerly stepped over them. Immediately, he was
 arrested and charged with transporting gulls across sedate lions for
 immortal porpoises.

 

 On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Richard J. Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war
  with the Hittites.  His last great possession was the Star of the Euphrates,
  the most valuable diamond in the ancient world.  Desperate, he went to
  Croesus, the pawnbroker, to ask for a loan.
 
  Croesus said, "I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it".
 
  "But I paid a million dinars for it," the King protested. "Don't you know
  who I am?  I am the king!"
 
 Croesus replied, "When you wish to pawn a  Star, makes no difference
 who you are." 
 
 On 12/1/2013 3:46 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
 Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid
 bowlers.  Unfortunately, all the Swiss league records were destroyed in a
 fire.  And, so we'll never know for whom the Tells bowled.
 






















 


 












 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puns Can Be Fun

[steve.sundur]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

I know he sings, but what about that swing? (-:
 

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

 On 3/3/2014 4:35 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote:

 Translation: Nope, the Feeb doesn't have any examples. >
 The whole FFL newsgroup is in tatters after reading a post about a singing 
guy. Go figure.
 

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 7:53 PM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote:
It's true that not all calories are the same, but without a caloric 
deficit, weight loss will not occur.

>
The average American diet is supposed to be around 1800 calories per 
day. If you do simple math you could have a caloric deficit if you 
consumed only 1700 calories. But it would take years to lose weight at 
that rate. So, if you bring your caloric intake down to 1200 you'd lose 
more weight over time. And, you could lose even more by burning calories 
on a tread mill. It takes about thirty-minutes on a treadmill to burn 
300 calories.


So, you'd think that in just a few months anyone could get their BMI to 
a target goal. Go figure. But, there re some real problems with the 
simple math: not only are all calories not alike but not all people burn 
calories at the same rate and everyone has a different stamina they can 
maintai. In addition to the above, what you've got to do is also build 
muscles to replace the fat. I'm recommending weight training and doing 
squats - lift a little more weight today than you did last time, and 
keep doing so for as long as possible. It's not complicated.


'Squats, Presses, and Deadlifts: Why Gyms Don’t Teach the Only Exercises 
You Need'
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/squats-presses-and-deadlifts/ 




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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[Bhairitu]

All depends on your dosha.

On 03/03/2014 05:53 PM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote:


It's true that not all calories are the same, but without a caloric 
deficit, weight loss will not occur. And, regardless of macronutrient 
ratio, if few enough calories are consumed, weight will be lost. There 
were a couple guys who experimented with very high carb intake, one 
eating nothing but potatoes, and the other eating a diet that included 
a lot of Twinkies, and both lost weight.


Personally, I'm not a fundamentalist CICOite (calories in, calories 
out), but I place more importance on caloric intake than some 
macronutrient fanatics who seem to think all manner of magic will 
happen if you just avoid one macronutrient. But, that's just laughably 
divorced from reality, as Jimmy Moore, from Livin La Vida Low Carb 
blog, proved all too well. He managed to regain 100 pounds, gorging 
himself on low carb food; he did eventually lose the weight again, but 
it took a drastic reduction in caloric intake to do so. In my own 
life, if I eat more, I put on weight; if I eat less, I lose weight. 
The reason I so easily lose weight on low carb is that satiety is much 
greater, and with less hunger, eating less food is effortless. If I 
wanted to lose weight on a carby, new-age, hippie diet full of grains, 
beans, and starches, I'd have to count calories and endure gnawing 
hunger.




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

Well, most of us know that but few of us do that. However more research
came out last week about how bad sugar is for you and here is an article
by Dr. Robert Lustig about sugar. He also touches on the argument about
not all calories being the same.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html

We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I claim
the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories
than you take in. Research has shown that doesn't work. Dr. Lustig was
on local talk radio over the weekend and discussed this misconception
and why it doesn't work. Part of it has to do with not all calories
being the same.

Radio show (Lustig is on at around 33 minutes):

http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[steve.sundur]

Plus, he really needs to go to the dentist before its too late.
 

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

 Yes, He is said to be the wisest guru of the 21st century, but he talks so 
fast, no one can understand him.
 

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

 Methananda
 
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 4:28 PM, Richard J. Williams  wrote:
 
   On 3/3/2014 2:12 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 > Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit place 
 > bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya know?
 >
 Never pass up a tragedy to prove a religious point about Hindu pundits boys.
 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[Bhairitu]

Didn't read the article, did you?  It's not even very long.

On 03/03/2014 04:54 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:


On 3/3/2014 3:31 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
>
> We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I claim
> the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories
> than you take in.
>
Just do the math - but that's not the entire solution. Do you realize
how long you'd have to stay on a treadmill to burn even a small part of
1800 calories, the average adult daily intake? It's good to burn
calories but it's also important to build muscles to replace the fat.
What you've got to do is carefully select what you eat and consume food
in smaller proportions, and get some good exercise. The most important
aspect of healthy living is life style - get the right mind set,
cultivate beneficial habits and keep at it. It's not easy, but it's not
complicated.

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[FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

[emilymaenot]

Yes, I hear you.  Having kids informed my decision as well.  I am not sure that 
I see the "cost to society" that warrants legislating safety like this.  Same 
with the law on bike helmets.  

[FairfieldLife] RE: Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[j_alexander_stanley]

It's true that not all calories are the same, but without a caloric deficit, 
weight loss will not occur. And, regardless of macronutrient ratio, if few 
enough calories are consumed, weight will be lost. There were a couple guys who 
experimented with very high carb intake, one eating nothing but potatoes, and 
the other eating a diet that included a lot of Twinkies, and both lost weight.

Personally, I'm not a fundamentalist CICOite (calories in, calories out), but I 
place more importance on caloric intake than some macronutrient fanatics who 
seem to think all manner of magic will happen if you just avoid one 
macronutrient. But, that's just laughably divorced from reality, as Jimmy 
Moore, from Livin La Vida Low Carb blog, proved all too well. He managed to 
regain 100 pounds, gorging himself on low carb food; he did eventually lose the 
weight again, but it took a drastic reduction in caloric intake to do so. In my 
own life, if I eat more, I put on weight; if I eat less, I lose weight. The 
reason I so easily lose weight on low carb is that satiety is much greater, and 
with less hunger, eating less food is effortless. If I wanted to lose weight on 
a carby, new-age, hippie diet full of grains, beans, and starches, I'd have to 
count calories and endure gnawing hunger. 
 

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

 Well, most of us know that but few of us do that. However more research 
 came out last week about how bad sugar is for you and here is an article 
 by Dr. Robert Lustig about sugar. He also touches on the argument about 
 not all calories being the same.
 
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html
 
 We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I claim 
 the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories 
 than you take in. Research has shown that doesn't work. Dr. Lustig was 
 on local talk radio over the weekend and discussed this misconception 
 and why it doesn't work. Part of it has to do with not all calories 
 being the same.
 
 Radio show (Lustig is on at around 33 minutes):
 
 
http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0
 
http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0

[FairfieldLife] Helping Kids

[Michael Jackson]

Helping kids in schools WITHOUT TM:


http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/low-income-schools-see-big-benefits-in-teaching-mindfulness/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puns Can Be Fun

[Pundit Sir]

"How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it."


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Pundit Sir  wrote:

> "I know a guy who is addicted to brake fluid - he say he can stop anytime."
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Pundit Sir  wrote:
>
>> "A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned
>> veteran."
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Pundit Sir  wrote:
>>
>>> "Jokes about German sausage are the wurst."
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Pundit Sir wrote:
>>>
 "When chemists die, they barium."


 On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Pundit Sir wrote:

> "I tried to catch some fog. I mist."
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Richard Williams  > wrote:
>
>> A skeptical anthropologist was cataloging South American folk remedies
>> with the assistance of a tribal Brujo who indicated that the leaves
>> of a
>> particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation.
>>
>> When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the Brujo looked him in
>> the eye and said,
>>
>> "Let me tell you, with fronds like these, you don't need enemas."
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Richard Williams <
>> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There were three Indian squaws.
>>>
>>> One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third
>>> slept
>>> on a hippopotamus skin.  All three became  pregnant.  The first two
>>> each had a baby boy.  The one who slept on the  hippopotamus skin
>>> had twin boys.
>>>
>>> This just goes to prove that...the squaw  of the hippopotamus is
>>> equal
>>> to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard Williams <
>>> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his
 name
  missing from the town register.  His wife insisted on complaining
 to the
  local civic official who apologized profusely saying, "I must have
 taken  Leif
 off my census."


 On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Share Long 
 wrote:

>
>
> Richard, imho these are very good for preventing dementia and or
> Alzheimers (-:
>
>
>
>
>   On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 12:25 PM, Richard Williams <
> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the
> medicine man.
>
> After a brief examination, the medicine man took out a long, thin
> strip of
> elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off,
> chew,and
> swallow one inch of the leather every day.
>
> After a month, the medicine man  returned to see how the chief was
> feeling.
>
> The chief shrugged and said, "The thong is ended, but the malady
> lingers on."
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Richard Williams <
> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the
> toilets
> and urinals, leaving no clues.  A spokesperson was quoted as
> saying, "We have absolutely nothing to go on."
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Richard Williams <
> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Back in the 1800's the Tate's Watch Company of Massachusetts
> wanted to
>  produce other products, and since they already made the cases for
> watches,
>  they used them to produce compasses.
>
> The new compasses were so bad that  people often ended up in
> Canada or
> Mexico rather than California .
>
> This, of  course, is the origin of the expression,"He who has a
> Tate's is lost!"
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Richard Williams <
> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered
> dolphins
> that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of
>  seagulls.
>
> One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to go out and
> trap
> some more. On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road.
>
> Afraid to wake them, he gingerly stepped over them. Immediately,
> he was
> arrested and charged with transporting gulls across sedate lions
> for
> immortal porpoises.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Richard J. Williams <
> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of
> war
>>

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 6:32 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
> Really? Most all mantras cause physiological change.  Your statement 
> happens to also throw out a lot of TM research.
 >
There are no double-blind scientific studies that prove the mind can 
alter a physical object at will. If that were possible, it would be like 
a Copernican revolution in science - to be able to alter physiology with 
a thought or by willing it to be so.

There is a theory that the mind can influence some physiological 
functions, but it has not been proven. We have only one single witness, 
so far, to having witnessed levitation, so that has not been proved 
beyond a doubt since it apparently wasn't reported to the scientific 
community to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Go figure.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 4:35 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:

*Translation: Nope, the Feeb doesn't have any examples.*

>
The whole FFL newsgroup is in tatters after reading a post about a 
singing guy. Go figure.



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Re: [FairfieldLife] Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 3:31 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
>
> We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I claim
> the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories
> than you take in.
 >
Just do the math - but that's not the entire solution. Do you realize 
how long you'd have to stay on a treadmill to burn even a small part of 
1800 calories, the average adult daily intake? It's good to burn 
calories but it's also important to build muscles to replace the fat. 
What you've got to do is carefully select what you eat and consume food 
in smaller proportions, and get some good exercise. The most important 
aspect of healthy living is life style - get the right mind set, 
cultivate beneficial habits and keep at it. It's not easy, but it's not 
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Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 3:20 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> And speaking of heartless bastards, how bout Marshy himself who may 
> have filled certain individuals with a great deal of energy when he 
> wanted something from them and completely ignored the people who 
> became mentally and emotionally dysfunctional, or the people who gave 
> him every penny they had only to have him turn them away since they 
> could no longer give him money?
 >
Most money donations to the TMO are probably given anonymously - so how 
much money did you donate?

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Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[doctordumbass]

Yes, He is said to be the wisest guru of the 21st century, but he talks so 
fast, no one can understand him.
 

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 Methananda
 
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 4:28 PM, Richard J. Williams  wrote:
 
   On 3/3/2014 2:12 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
 > Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit place 
 > bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya know?
 >
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[doctordumbass]

...you weren't supposed to take your i-phone with you...
 

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

 Well, of course you do! Anything to avoid dealing with the topic at issue 
(which you brought up, by the way) when you begin to have a little difficulty 
dealing with it. 

 I second Steve's earlier comment about a walk and a cup of tea for you.  I 
don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II."
 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 



 

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 3:12 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> I am very, very happy to announce, NO MORE TM IN MY SON'S HIGH SCHOOL! 
 >
Maybe you should get some cult recovery counseling from John Knapp over 
on TM-Free. Go figure.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 2:32 PM, feste37 wrote:
> I would like to suggest that my Heartless Bastard award should be 
> shared by the two of them. 
 >
Never pass up a tragedy in order to win a religious debate - it's all 
about winning an argument, not about being compassionate or even 
considerate.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Mike Dixon]

Methananda




On Monday, March 3, 2014 4:28 PM, Richard J. Williams  
wrote:
  
  
On 3/3/2014 2:12 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit place 
> bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya know?
>
Never pass up a tragedy to prove a religious point about Hindu pundits boys.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Bhairitu]

Really?  Most all mantras cause physiological change.  Your statement 
happens to also throw out a lot of TM research.


On 03/03/2014 04:24 PM, Richard J. Williams wrote:


On 3/3/2014 1:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
> Love to see that tried with other mantra meditation techniques.
>
There are no mantras or mental meditation techniques that can cause
physiological change.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 2:12 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit place 
> bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya know?
 >
Never pass up a tragedy to prove a religious point about Hindu pundits boys.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 1:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
> Love to see that tried with other mantra meditation techniques.
 >
There are no mantras or mental meditation techniques that can cause 
physiological change.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Pundit Sir]

> If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests
> "going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western
> contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for
> "meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".
>
According to Charles Lutes, the term "Transcendental" means to go beyond;
"meditation" means thinking. Hence, 'Transcendental Meditation' means to go
beyond thinking. So, how could could anyone cause physiological change by
just thinking?

http://www.maharishiphotos.com/tmintro.html


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:31 PM,  wrote:

>
>
> Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence
> in my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel
> transcendental at all.":
> So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your awareness
> at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it worked for
> Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is that
> it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely
> dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I
> mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an
> intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the
> Official TM approach using bubble diagrams.
> Re Richard's "Meditation means "to think things over". So, TM meditation
> is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is probably already practising
> a basic meditation.":
> If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests
> "going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western
> contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for
> "meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".
>
>  
>

[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[authfriend]

Maharishi said that everyone passes through transcendence as they go from one 
state of consciousness to another (waking to dreaming to sleeping and back 
again). He probably would not have recommended trying to hold one's awareness 
in that in-between stage, at least not for ordinary meditators. Sounds to me as 
though Ramana Maharshi was turning a description of his spontaneous experience 
into a prescription for practice instead of just letting it develop naturally 
in his students. 

 Ann, one might well not notice an instant of transcendence between waking and 
sleeping--it's easy enough to miss when one is meditating (since there's quite 
literally nothing to it, nothing to be aware of).
 

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

 Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in 
my book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental 
at all.":  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's "Meditation means "to think 
things over". So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.":
 If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests 
"going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
"meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 1:13 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it.
 >
He said he quit TM because his mother fed him garlic when he was growing 
up. I've heard lots of reason for quitting TM but this one just takes 
the cake. LoL!

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

piece of.work, you are, Dame Judith!
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Well, of course you do! Anything to avoid dealing with the topic at issue 
(which you brought up, by the way) when you begin to have a little difficulty 
dealing with it. 

 I second Steve's earlier comment about a walk and a cup of tea for you.  I 
don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II."
 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 



 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[authfriend]

Yes, it's interesting, that video seemed to make those two fellows quite 
uncomfortable. I wonder why? Some unresolved issues, I guess. 
 

 Translation: Nope, the Feeb doesn't have any examples.
 
 It looks like this thread is in tatters - it started out pretty good, about a 
singer guy, then just went to shit in a few hours. What would it take to keep 
you guys on topic? Go figure. 
 (Still curious what your false claim has to do with the post you were 
commenting on. After all, according to DoctorDumbass, you're a "kind and 
reasonable person." I got quite a giggle out of that.) 
 Running out of time here Judy.  Yes, I figured you'd ask for examples if you 
replied.  I gave you one a couple weeks ago.  You can look it up if you want, 
or not. No matter to me.
 
 
 "In tatters"? Really? Do you have some examples?


 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

or a hug.  Hey,I wonder if.
 

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

 On 3/3/2014 1:38 PM, steve.sundur@... mailto:steve.sundur@... wrote:

  Just boil some tea or take a walk or talk to a neighbor. >
 Some people actually feel better when they have someone to talk to. Go figure.
 

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

Okay, I guess my work is done here then.  Thank you.
 

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

 That's OK, Feebie, you made my point for me once, you don't need to do it 
again. 

 "Me thinks the lady doth protest too much"
 

 "...thinks his insults are just supremely clever, when they're actually 
painfully feeble." Thanks for making my point for me, Feebs. 

 It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization).
 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II." 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[authfriend]

Well, of course you do! Anything to avoid dealing with the topic at issue 
(which you brought up, by the way) when you begin to have a little difficulty 
dealing with it. 

 I second Steve's earlier comment about a walk and a cup of tea for you.  I 
don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II."
 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 



 

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 1:32 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
> incense fell out of holder
 >
Or, maybe an electric heater fell over? Do they have central heating in 
those shacks out in Vedic City? Go figure.

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[FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[s3raphita]

Re Ann's "The transition between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my 
book. It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel transcendental at 
all.":  So you are *not* doing what Maharshi says. You have to hold your 
awareness at the point you wake up *before* thoughts arise. Presumably it 
worked for Ramana because he was in a state of Unity already; his suggestion is 
that it could work for others also. I mention him as his ideas rather nicely 
dovetail with Lynch's description of transcending during meditation. And I 
mention Lynch and the commentator on the article as their take on TM as an 
intermediate state between sleep and waking is more helpful than the Official 
TM approach using bubble diagrams. Re Richard's "Meditation means "to think 
things over". So, TM meditation is based on thinking. Anyone who can think is 
probably already practising a basic meditation.":
 If "meditation" means thinking then "Transcendental Meditation" suggests 
"going beyond thinking". But "meditation" only means thinking in western 
contexts. Easterners use whatever word they use in their language for 
"meditation" in a sense closer to western ideas of "contemplation".

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 1:38 PM, steve.sun...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Just boil some tea or take a walk or talk to a neighbor.

>
Some people actually feel better when they have someone to talk to. Go 
figure.



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Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 1:38 PM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it came out that the cause 
of the fire was a pundit meth lab going up in flames. Real "Breaking 
Bad" stuff. :-)

>
Never pass up a tragedy in order to win an argument about your religion. 
Go figure.



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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[authfriend]

That's OK, Feebie, you made my point for me once, you don't need to do it 
again. 

 "Me thinks the lady doth protest too much"
 

 "...thinks his insults are just supremely clever, when they're actually 
painfully feeble." Thanks for making my point for me, Feebs. 

 It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization).
 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II." 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 11:09 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


*Translation: Nope, the Feeb doesn't have any examples.*

It looks like this thread is in tatters - it started out pretty good, 
about a singer guy, then just went to shit in a few hours. What would it 
take to keep you guys on topic? Go figure.



*
*
*(Still curious what your false claim has to do with the post you were 
commenting on. After all, according to DoctorDumbass, you're a "kind 
and reasonable person." I got quite a giggle out of that.)

*

Running out of time here Judy.  Yes, I figured you'd ask for examples 
if you replied.  I gave you one a couple weeks ago.  You can look it 
up if you want, or not. No matter to me.

*
*
*"In tatters"? Really? Do you have some examples?*




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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much" 

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

 "...thinks his insults are just supremely clever, when they're actually 
painfully feeble." Thanks for making my point for me, Feebs. 

 It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization).
 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II." 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[doctordumbass]

I second Steve's earlier comment about a walk and a cup of tea for you. 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II."
 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 11:07 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:
> You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used 
> as a term of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any 
> further.
 >
It took a whole day for this thread to go off track and then turn into a 
crap shoot. Very impressive! Go figure.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[Pundit Sir]

And, now you've got 100 more euros in your pocket!

However, it might have come in handy as a way to transport your dogs to the
countryside for a run or to play ball. Do you have any "countryside" over
there where a dog could run free for a few minutes? My dog likes to get off
the leash a few times a week and run. So, I pack them in my Chevy van and
take them to a dog park or out in the country for some exercise so they can
run free. Go figure.

If Dogs Run Free - Bob Dylan
http://youtu.be/ZC-XgC1ZLo0



On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:03 AM, TurquoiseBee  wrote:

>
>
> It's really a cool way to travel. Recently, I realized that I was paying
> for a parking sticker for a car I hadn't used in a year, so I sold it.
> Don't have one now, don't miss having one.
>
>   --
>  *From:* "steve.sun...@yahoo.com" 
> *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Monday, March 3, 2014 5:31 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!
>
>
>  Thanks Barry, I had not been aware of that.
> I know that here biking is not so much a part of how people get around
> than in EU countries.  Maybe that has something to do with it.  Bike
> helmets are very much encouraged in the US at least, and especially among
> children.  Actually, I do not wear one myself, except when I know I'm going
> to be going fast and on city streets.
>
> One of my company's best customers is one of the main bike advocates here.
>  She is always in the paper debating, sometimes quite contentiously with
> other bike advocates on the best way to promote bike safety when riding in
> metropolitan areas.
>
> Her philosophy is to educate drivers to "share the road", more than
> creating special bike lanes.
>
> I haven't followed all the debate, but I think she recently prevailed in a
> recent ordinance that was passed along these lines.
>
> Another funny twist on that, was that they got their motivation for biking
> when my wife and I along with our 6 or 7 year old son rode our bikes to
> their house one afternoon.  That seemed to spark something in them.
>
> Now they bike all over, using their bikes and public transportation.  Even
> though they are millionaires!
>
>
>
>
> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
> Steve, with all due respect, I think that "looking at the statistics"
> you're referring to might not be as convincing as you think. That, as it
> turns out, is exactly what the Dutch government did when coming up with its
> rules and regs.
>
> The result of a statistical study across all of the EU revealed that
> countries that required helmets for bicycles and under-250cc scooters and
> motorbikes actually had significantly *higher* rates of injury and death
> than those that did not. As a result, you don't need a helmet for either
> type of device here. Haven't had to for over a decade, and the Dutch
> "stats" are still significantly lower than any of the countries surveyed.
>
> In all of the countries riders of real motorcycles need helmets. And bike
> riders here are required to have both front and back lights and warning
> bells.
>
> Some of this can be legitimately attributed to better infrastructure on
> the part of the Dutch, because in most cases bike and scooter riders never
> share roads with cars (they have their own lanes). But still, it's not as
> clear-cut a case for helmet wearing as some might think.
>
> --
>  *From:* "steve.sundur@..." 
> *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Monday, March 3, 2014 4:14 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!
>
>
> Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either
> intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.
>
> Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about
> having a near sighted view on safety!
>
> You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without
> helmets.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>   
>

[FairfieldLife] RE: Listen to this guy sing!

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 By the time I was in my early 30's, I had gotten 4 tickets for not wearing a 
seat belt (it was a secondary offense at that time). I found them constricting 
and was exercising my "freedom" not to wear them.  I paid the fines; the fines 
had no effect on my behavior at all.  Finally, I was sent to seat belt school 
where I learned and experienced, visually, mentally, and emotionally what the 
reality might be and what the stats were in terms of death and disability with 
and without their use, in the case of a major accident.  That had a huge effect 
and forever changed my behavior.  I would wear my seat belt whether it was the 
law or not.  

That is based on an informed decision. All I want is the continued right to 
make my own decisions on things like this. Seat belts definitely save thousands 
of lives. There is no question about that.
 

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

 Ann, I see what you mean. But what if wearing your seat belt also protects 
passengers in your car. IOW, you're still behind the steering wheel and maybe 
steering. 
 

 There's a very visceral scene in the Meryl Streep movie Adaptation. A car is 
going pretty slowly and suddenly collides and a body goes flying out through 
the windshield. Very motivating with regards to using seat belts, to say the 
least!

 
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:47 PM, "awoelflebater@..."  
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 Ann, now I'm curious. Are you opposed to seat belts?

Nope, I think they are a really, really good idea. I just don't like people 
forcing me to use them by threatening to make me pay a penalty in the form of 
money after giving me a ticket. I feel our society is riddled with this idea of 
'staying safe' and with it the enforcement of laws that start to infringe on my 
basic freedom of choice. I am also fully aware that many would argue that the 
freedom to make bad choices (not wearing a seat belt or bike helmet) is not a 
freedom worth having if you are dead or severely disabled.
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:34 AM, "awoelflebater@..."  
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
"stance" on bike helmets is "near sighted" you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I thin

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 10:43 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> TM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE APPEARING TO BE 
> RELAXING in the short term.
 >
Maybe it's time to review what we know about basic TM:

Meditation means "to think things over". So, TM meditation is based on 
thinking. Anyone who can think is probably already practicing a basic 
meditation. And, there's probably not a person on the entire planet that 
doesn't pause one or twice a day and take stock of their own mental 
contents. And, we're all transcending, even without a technique. TM is 
just like diving within - you just close your eyes and dive into your 
own mind and start thinking. TM is just a technique to take the right 
angle in the diving.

So, you tell me how THINKING is going to be extremely dangerous in the 
long term? Go figure.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Michael Jackson]

also called not willing to look at reality

On Mon, 3/3/14, wleed3  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 9:26 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   
 
 I most always delete 
 their posts & wish them well , less karma on my side
 & far less negative energy in reading or never replying
 so as not to cause them to negatively reply, let
 sleeping dogs lie
  
 
  
  
  
 In a message dated 03/03/14 16:20:14 Eastern Standard
 Time, mjackso...@yahoo.com writes:
 
 
 
 After re-reading my post Feste I invite you to search your
 own heart. You think Hagelin et al WON"T ask for
 donations to cover the cost of the damages? Wait and see.
 And speaking of heartless bastards, how bout Marshy himself
 who may have filled certain individuals with a great deal of
 energy when he wanted something from them and completely
 ignored the people who became mentally and emotionally
 dysfunctional, or the people who gave him every penny they
 had only to have him turn them away since they could no
 longer give him money? 
 
 I have been talking with someone raised in the Movement
 whose sidha wife attempted suicide twice and through him I
 found out about the at least dozen people he knew who DID
 commit suicide (all sidhas or governors) - Marshy and his
 sycophants deserve the award, not me and Turq. 
  
 On Mon, 3/3/14, feste37 
 wrote: 
 
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundi
  t campus last night 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 8:32 PM 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       When I posted this I was wondering how
 long it 
 would take for the first Heartless Bastard to respond, and 
 what the order would be. I guessed it would be a three-horse
 
 race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin. 
 Mike Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a 
 neutral one, but then Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick 
 succession, with Turq getting in just 31 minutes before MJ.
 
 So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my
 
 Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them.
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 
 wrote: 
 
 I reckon they 
 just ran out of clar
  ified butter and didn't have enough 
 to offer Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave 
 'em a hot foot to worn 'em about holding out. 
 
 
 
 Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to 
 donate MORE money to the pundit program to cover the cost of
 
 repairing the building and of course to cover the cost of a
 
 fire prevention yagya. 
 
 
 
 Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit
 
 place bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya 
 know? 
 
  
  On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee  
 wrote: 
 
 
 
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last 
 night 
 
 To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" 
  
 
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it 
 
 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab 
 
 going up in flames. Real "Breaking Bad" stuff. 
 
 :-) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 From: Mike 
 
 Dixon  
 
 To: 
 
 "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" 
 
  
 
 
 Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 
 
 8:32 PM 
 
 Subject: Re: 
 
 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 incense fell out of 
 
 holder 
 
 
 
 On Monday, March 3, 
 
 2014 11:01 AM, feste37  
 
 wrote: 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a 
  BR>
 blaze 
 
 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just 
 
 before 5pm 
 
 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon 
 
 arrival, the 
 
 residential building was completely engulfed in flames. 
 
 Crews were on 
 
 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making 
 
 sure the fire 
 
 did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing 
 
 unit has 
 
 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin
 
 
 and cause of 
 
 the fire haven’t been released. 
 
 
     
       
 
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
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[FairfieldLife] Wanna feel better? Stop eating sugar!

[Bhairitu]

Well, most of us know that but few of us do that.  However more research 
came out last week about how bad sugar is for you and here is an article 
by Dr. Robert Lustig about sugar.  He also touches on the argument about 
not all calories being the same.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lustig-md/sugar-toxic_b_2759564.html

We've had some heated discussions here about weight loss because I claim 
the rather naive theory that you lose weight by burning more calories 
than you take in.  Research has shown that doesn't work. Dr. Lustig was 
on local talk radio over the weekend and discussed this misconception 
and why it doesn't work.   Part of it has to do with not all calories 
being the same.

Radio show (Lustig is on at around 33 minutes):

http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[wleed3]

I most always delete  their posts & wish them well , less karma on my side & 
far less negative energy in reading or never replying so as not to cause them 
to negatively reply, let sleeping dogs lie




In a message dated 03/03/14 16:20:14 Eastern Standard Time, 
mjackso...@yahoo.com writes:
After re-reading my post Feste I invite you to search your own heart. You think 
Hagelin et al WON"T ask for donations to cover the cost of the damages? Wait 
and see. And speaking of heartless bastards, how bout Marshy himself who may 
have filled certain individuals with a great deal of energy when he wanted 
something from them and completely ignored the people who became mentally and 
emotionally dysfunctional, or the people who gave him every penny they had only 
to have him turn them away since they could no longer give him money? 

I have been talking with someone raised in the Movement whose sidha wife 
attempted suicide twice and through him I found out about the at least dozen 
people he knew who DID commit suicide (all sidhas or governors) - Marshy and 
his sycophants deserve the award, not me and Turq. 
 
On Mon, 3/3/14, feste37  wrote: 

Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 8:32 PM 














  

  



  



  
  
  When I posted this I was wondering how long it 
would take for the first Heartless Bastard to respond, and 
what the order would be. I guessed it would be a three-horse 
race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin. 
Mike Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a 
neutral one, but then Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick 
succession, with Turq getting in just 31 minutes before MJ. 
So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my 
Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them. 



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

I reckon they 
just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough 
to offer Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave 
'em a hot foot to worn 'em about holding out. 



Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to 
donate MORE money to the pundit program to cover the cost of 
repairing the building and of course to cover the cost of a 
fire prevention yagya. 



Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit 
place bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya 
know? 

 
 On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee  
wrote: 



Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last 
night 

To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" 
 

Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM 

































  



















Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it 

came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab 

going up in flames. Real "Breaking Bad" stuff. 

:-) 







From: Mike 

Dixon  

To: 

"FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" 

 


Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 

8:32 PM 

Subject: Re: 

[FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night 





  



















incense fell out of 

holder 



On Monday, March 3, 

2014 11:01 AM, feste37  

wrote: 



  



















Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a 

blaze 

last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just 

before 5pm 

crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon 

arrival, the 

residential building was completely engulfed in flames. 

Crews were on 

the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making 

sure the fire 

did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing 

unit has 

nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin 

and cause of 

the fire haven’t been released. 



  









  











 

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[emilymaenot]

By the time I was in my early 30's, I had gotten 4 tickets for not wearing a 
seat belt (it was a secondary offense at that time). I found them constricting 
and was exercising my "freedom" not to wear them.  I paid the fines; the fines 
had no effect on my behavior at all.  Finally, I was sent to seat belt school 
where I learned and experienced, visually, mentally, and emotionally what the 
reality might be and what the stats were in terms of death and disability with 
and without their use, in the case of a major accident.  That had a huge effect 
and forever changed my behavior.  I would wear my seat belt whether it was the 
law or not.   
 

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

 Ann, I see what you mean. But what if wearing your seat belt also protects 
passengers in your car. IOW, you're still behind the steering wheel and maybe 
steering. 
 

 There's a very visceral scene in the Meryl Streep movie Adaptation. A car is 
going pretty slowly and suddenly collides and a body goes flying out through 
the windshield. Very motivating with regards to using seat belts, to say the 
least!

 
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:47 PM, "awoelflebater@..."  
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 Ann, now I'm curious. Are you opposed to seat belts?

Nope, I think they are a really, really good idea. I just don't like people 
forcing me to use them by threatening to make me pay a penalty in the form of 
money after giving me a ticket. I feel our society is riddled with this idea of 
'staying safe' and with it the enforcement of laws that start to infringe on my 
basic freedom of choice. I am also fully aware that many would argue that the 
freedom to make bad choices (not wearing a seat belt or bike helmet) is not a 
freedom worth having if you are dead or severely disabled.
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:34 AM, "awoelflebater@..."  
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
"stance" on bike helmets is "near sighted" you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this wi

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Michael Jackson]

After re-reading my post Feste I invite you to search your own heart. You think 
Hagelin et al WON"T ask for donations to cover the cost of the damages? Wait 
and see. And speaking of heartless bastards, how bout Marshy himself who may 
have filled certain individuals with a great deal of energy when he wanted 
something from them and completely ignored the people who became mentally and 
emotionally dysfunctional, or the people who gave him every penny they had only 
to have him turn them away since they could no longer give him money?

I have been talking with someone raised in the Movement whose sidha wife 
attempted suicide twice and through him I found out about the at least dozen 
people he knew who DID commit suicide (all sidhas or governors) - Marshy and 
his sycophants deserve the award, not me and Turq.

On Mon, 3/3/14, feste37  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 8:32 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   When I posted this I was wondering how long it
 would take for the first Heartless Bastard to respond, and
 what the order would be. I guessed it would be a three-horse
 race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin.
 Mike Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a
 neutral one, but then Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick
 succession, with Turq getting in just 31 minutes before MJ.
 So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my
 Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them.
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 wrote:
 
 I reckon they
 just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough
 to offer Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave
 'em a hot foot to worn 'em about holding out.
 
 
 
 Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to
 donate MORE money to the pundit program to cover the cost of
 repairing the building and of course to cover the cost of a
 fire prevention yagya.
 
 
 
 Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit
 place bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya
 know?
 
 
  On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee 
 wrote:
 
 
 
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last
 night
 
 To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
 
 
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it
 
 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab
 
 going up in flames. Real "Breaking Bad" stuff.
 
 :-)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 From: Mike
 
 Dixon 
 
 To:
 
 "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
 
 
 
 
 Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014
 
 8:32 PM
 
 Subject: Re:
 
 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 incense fell out of
 
 holder 
 
 
 
 On Monday, March 3,
 
 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 
 
 wrote:
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a
 
 blaze 
 
 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just
 
 before 5pm 
 
 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon
 
 arrival, the 
 
 residential building was completely engulfed in flames.
 
 Crews were on 
 
 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making
 
 sure the fire
 
 did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing
 
 unit has 
 
 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin
 
 and cause of
 
 the fire haven’t been released.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Michael Jackson]

C'mon Feste! Get real - it is a legitimate comment to ask how such a thing 
could happen right near the Dome where such things are supposed NOT to happen 
if the ME is real (which it isn't) If the TMO is gonna take credit for Obama 
getting elected and other such events including weather, economy etc you should 
expect someone to say such things. 

OK - I admit the lack of butter oblations was sort of a cheap shot.

But in the vein of averting the danger AS it is arising, I offer this snippet 
of Global Good News, or at least San Francisco Good News:

Congratulations to activist parents! David Lynch Foundation's "Quiet Time" 
cover for TM was voted out of one San Francisco High School.

I am very, very happy to announce, NO MORE TM IN MY SON'S HIGH SCHOOL! 

I just received an email from the principal; the teachers voted to discontinue 
TM and will be considering a secular alternative for next year! Thank you, 
everyone, for all your support, information and insightful comments. TM has no 
place in a public school. Next, the district superintendent and the board of 
the unified school district! The first battle is won! On to the next! Many, 
many thanks, dear friends!

On Mon, 3/3/14, feste37  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 8:32 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   When I posted this I was wondering how long it
 would take for the first Heartless Bastard to respond, and
 what the order would be. I guessed it would be a three-horse
 race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin.
 Mike Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a
 neutral one, but then Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick
 succession, with Turq getting in just 31 minutes before MJ.
 So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my
 Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them.
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 wrote:
 
 I reckon they
 just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough
 to offer Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave
 'em a hot foot to worn 'em about holding out.
 
 
 
 Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to
 donate MORE money to the pundit program to cover the cost of
 repairing the building and of course to cover the cost of a
 fire prevention yagya.
 
 
 
 Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit
 place bein' so close to the avert the danger Dome, ya
 know?
 
 
  On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee 
 wrote:
 
 
 
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last
 night
 
 To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
 
 
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it
 
 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab
 
 going up in flames. Real "Breaking Bad" stuff.
 
 :-)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 From: Mike
 
 Dixon 
 
 To:
 
 "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
 
 
 
 
 Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014
 
 8:32 PM
 
 Subject: Re:
 
 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 incense fell out of
 
 holder 
 
 
 
 On Monday, March 3,
 
 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 
 
 wrote:
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a
 
 blaze 
 
 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just
 
 before 5pm 
 
 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon
 
 arrival, the 
 
 residential building was completely engulfed in flames.
 
 Crews were on 
 
 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making
 
 sure the fire
 
 did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing
 
 unit has 
 
 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin
 
 and cause of
 
 the fire haven’t been released.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[feste37]

When I posted this I was wondering how long it would take for the first 
Heartless Bastard to respond, and what the order would be. I guessed it would 
be a three-horse race between Turquoise B, Michael Jackson, and salyavin. Mike 
Dixon actually got in first but his comment was a neutral one, but then 
Turquoise B and MJ followed in quick succession, with Turq getting in just 31 
minutes before MJ. So it was almost a tie, and I would like to suggest that my 
Heartless Bastard award should be shared by the two of them. 
 

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

 I reckon they just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough to offer 
Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave 'em a hot foot to worn 'em 
about holding out.
 
 Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to donate MORE money to 
the pundit program to cover the cost of repairing the building and of course to 
cover the cost of a fire prevention yagya.
 
 Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit place bein' so 
close to the avert the danger Dome, ya know?
 
 On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee mailto:turquoiseb@...> wrote:
 
 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"; 
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it
 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab
 going up in flames. Real "Breaking Bad" stuff.
 :-)
 
 
 
 From: Mike
 Dixon mailto:mdixon.6569@...>
 To:
 "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com";
 mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014
 8:32 PM
 Subject: Re:
 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 incense fell out of
 holder 
 
 On Monday, March 3,
 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
 wrote:
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a
 blaze 
 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just
 before 5pm 
 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon
 arrival, the 
 residential building was completely engulfed in flames.
 Crews were on 
 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making
 sure the fire
 did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing
 unit has 
 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin
 and cause of
 the fire haven’t been released. 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

[Share Long]

noozguru, isn't garlic also good for the heart?





On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:45 PM, Bhairitu  wrote:
 
  
All things in context.  It is good for vata imbalances because it is heating.  
I also just heard this morning that mainstream medicine issued a report saying 
that garlic is effective in treating some viruses that have developed an 
immunity to antibiotics.

We used to have a great restaurant over here in the Easy Bay
  called "Magic Garlic" and we would frequently order a roasted
  large garlic clove to spreed on the bread as a treat.

On 03/03/2014 11:13 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:

  
>Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it.
>
>
>
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[Share Long]

Ann, I see what you mean. But what if wearing your seat belt also protects 
passengers in your car. IOW, you're still behind the steering wheel and maybe 
steering. 


There's a very visceral scene in the Meryl Streep movie Adaptation. A car is 
going pretty slowly and suddenly collides and a body goes flying out through 
the windshield. Very motivating with regards to using seat belts, to say the 
least!




On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:47 PM, "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:
 
  




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


Ann, now I'm curious. Are you opposed to seat belts?

Nope, I think they are a really, really good idea. I just don't like people 
forcing me to use them by threatening to make me pay a penalty in the form of 
money after giving me a ticket. I feel our society is riddled with this idea of 
'staying safe' and with it the enforcement of laws that start to infringe on my 
basic freedom of choice. I am also fully aware that many would argue that the 
freedom to make bad choices (not wearing a seat belt or bike helmet) is not a 
freedom worth having if you are dead or severely disabled.



On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:34 AM, "awoelflebater@..."  
wrote:

 




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


Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there. 

Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!

You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  

You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my "stance" 
on bike helmets is "near sighted" you should hear my stance on seat belts!




---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>---In
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
>>>couples.  That's certainly a relief.
>>>
>>>
>>>I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with 
>>>bull riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some 
>>>extent.   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top 
>>>of an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
>>>albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety 
>>>vest hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is 
>>>that redundant?).
>>>
>>>
>>>I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
>>>
>>>
>>>No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
>>>here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not 
>>>wearing a bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a 
>>>safety vest to walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for 
>>>unnecessarily endangering yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it 
>>>comes to my own safety.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:







---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
>
>Definitely moving in that direction. (-:  
>
>
>Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce 
>those hard collisions at home plate.
>
>
>But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  
>Helmets for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played 
>without them.  
>
>
>How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? 
>Frankly, I think bull
riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big deal now and 
virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they should. Damaging 
your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. One thing I do 
have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I think of all 
the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never once fell on 
my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
>
>
>And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples 
>may be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
>
>
>I think you are guessing dead wrong.
>
>
>  I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for 
>many years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they 
>would want to get married. 
>
>
>Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
>
>
> But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who 
>might have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might 
>arise, "well why don't you now get married"
>
>
>No, no. Silly notion.
>
>
>And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting 
>married does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objec

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Michael Jackson]

I reckon they just ran out of clarified butter and didn't have enough to offer 
Agni the proper amount of oblations, so he gave 'em a hot foot to worn 'em 
about holding out.

Wonder how long it'll be till Hagelin asks everyone to donate MORE money to the 
pundit program to cover the cost of repairing the building and of course to 
cover the cost of a fire prevention yagya.

Wonder how that happened in the first place with the pundit place bein' so 
close to the avert the danger Dome, ya know?

On Mon, 3/3/14, TurquoiseBee  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" 
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:38 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it
 came out that the cause of the fire was a pundit meth lab
 going up in flames. Real "Breaking Bad" stuff.
 :-)
 
 

 From: Mike
 Dixon 
  To:
 "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"
  
  Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014
 8:32 PM
  Subject: Re:
 [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   incense fell out of
 holder 
  
  On Monday, March 3,
 2014 11:01 AM, feste37 
 wrote:
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a
 blaze 
 last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just
 before 5pm 
 crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon
 arrival, the 
 residential building was completely engulfed in flames.
 Crews were on 
 the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making
 sure the fire
  did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing
 unit has 
 nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin
 and cause of
  the fire haven’t been released.
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[anartaxius]

Bhairitu
 

 I think it is great you had a chance to work with Alfred Deller. Among 
countertenors he had a unique quality of sound.
 

 The following is for seventhray27:
 

 High male voice singing has been a part of European culture for centuries. 
Undoubtedly this began because women were not allowed to sing in church, just 
men and boys. Men (that is older) generally have greater control and greater 
musical maturity than boys. The countertenor tradition has been fairly strong 
in England. Today many 'classical' performances tend to use countertenors in 
part originally sung by boy altos. In the past (when food was a bit scarcer) 
boy's broke around age 16, today it is more likely around the age of 12, so 
today it is less likely to find musically mature boy altos or trebles, so 
countertenors are used for the altos, and women sopranos with more 'boyish' 
sounding voices for the boys' treble voice. It does not sound the same, but 
times change. I once asked a countertenor here on the East Coast what his 
normal signing voice would be like if he did not sing in the countertenor range 
and he replied he was a baritone. 
 

 High falsetto singing by males is frequently heard in popular music, in rock 
etc., so this kind of singing (minus operatic training) is not restricted to 
classical venues. So it is not the case as seventhray said these are men trying 
to sound like women, they are singing parts originally written for men, 
castrati, or boys. The whole effect is instrumental colour, the voice is an 
instrument and it has a distinct timbre just like any other instrument, and 
that is how it is used. It should be noted than in older European drama, like 
opera, unlike in the late 19th century, roles of villains tended to be given to 
high male voices, such as a castrato soprano, while the hero was often a deep 
bass voice. Today a castrato soprano part has to be performed by a woman. The 
last known castrato, a singer for the Vatican died in 1922.
 

 Alfred Deller, Countertenor
 singing 'Music for a While' by Henry Purcell, a strange, mesmerising and 
plaintive song by one of England's greatest composers. This was recorded 
shortly before Deller's death in 1979
 http://youtu.be/trOXaDeFeD4 http://youtu.be/trOXaDeFeD4
 

 Another countertenor with a beautiful singing voice is Paul Esswood. The New 
York composer Philip Glass cast him in the role of Akhnaten in his opera here 
in the 1980s. Esswood's voice seems a bit more fleshed out than most other 
countertenors, and is able to sing with more vibrato, a very expressive voice. 
He lives in England and also conducts.
 

 Paul Esswood, countertenor, singing a part from Monteverdi's opera 'The 
Coronation of Poppea' written about 1643.
 http://youtu.be/zAuxsIhixKI http://youtu.be/zAuxsIhixKI
 

 He has a website:
 http://www.esswood.co.uk http://www.esswood.co.uk

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[authfriend]

"...thinks his insults are just supremely clever, when they're actually 
painfully feeble." Thanks for making my point for me, Feebs. 

 It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization).
 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II." 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

Sure Ann, thanks. 

 This winter weather has been good for our business, so the last two months 
have seen a nice jump in sales.
 

 I just read an article, or heard a story that a lot of movie production has 
moved to BC.
 

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

 
 

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

 Hey Ann, 

 Thanks for making me smile this morning.  I confess, I am not a seat belt 
wearer either except when on the interstate, or when I am rushing.

Well, I'm glad you're smiling because none of my posts to you in the last day 
were meant to be anything but light, if not slightly humorous - especially the 
bull riding ones. I hope your sense of humour sticks around for a while.

 

 It was around this time several years ago, when I was making a ride into the 
country at night, when I hit an ice match, and rolled my Ford Explorer about 
five times before coming to a stop down in a ditch. 
 

 Yes, I was glad I was wearing it then.  
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
"stance" on bike helmets is "near sighted" you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
"well why don't you now get married"
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

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

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, "steve.sundur@..."  wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Bhairitu]

Love to see that tried with other mantra meditation techniques.  The 
effect should be the same.  But here's a thought.  What if epilepsy is 
merely the body's attempt to throw off stress gone out of control?  I 
think many of us who have had strong meditations have observed movements 
that might be attributed to epilepsy but some of us also note it is just 
a release of something from a muscle group and it  often goes away 
immediately.  Yoga asanas were developed to do some of this too.


Just says how primitive western medicine is but I would encourage the 
medical researchers to dig deeper and they may indeed come up with an 
non drug way of curing folks of epilepsy.


On 03/03/2014 08:43 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:


I like this comment better:

formersufferer

I did TM for eleven years 30 years back and finished up with a severe 
type of epilepsy whereby I would have fits lasting up to five hours, 
and I became very unstable and unbalanced. I gave it up and was 
involved in a TV programme exposing it, called Credo. Prof Peter 
Fenwick of the Maudesley Psychiatric Hospital did some research which 
he reported on the programme. He explained that the EEG waves of a 
person practising TM and those of someone having an epileptic fit are 
identical. There has been quite a lot of research showing how damaging 
TM is but the TM people have a lot of money which enables them to 
override the truth. TM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE 
APPEARING TO BE RELAXING in the short term. Some shots of whisky might 
have a similar effect



On Mon, 3/3/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com  wrote:

Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper 
about TM

To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:37 PM





























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

One comment I appreciate is this one from
Denis Postle:"I've been
doing TM off and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate
about it is that it is a reliable way of taking us to the
hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between sleep and awake
and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results .
. . "
David Lynch says something
similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those
who wonder what "transcending" is like, Lynch says
that everyone has already experienced it. When you're
lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you
occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your awareness
dips towards unconsciousness. It feels rather disconcerting
and actually jolts you awake. Lynch claims that TM is
essentially training you to bounce around at that level as a
regular routine.
Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers
to try a similar practice: when waking up in the morning
keep your consciousness at the point where you've just
emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before* any
thinking kicks in. Maharshi claimed that learning to balance
yourself at this razor's edge would enable you to see
the true nature of the Self.
Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch
and Maharshi are talking nonsense?
Funny you
should ask that because while reading their assertion it
simply did not resonate with my experience. The transition
between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my book.
It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel
transcendental at all. But I have zero other evidence than
my subjectivity and gut feeling to back this
up.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Ann, now I'm curious. Are you opposed to seat belts?

Nope, I think they are a really, really good idea. I just don't like people 
forcing me to use them by threatening to make me pay a penalty in the form of 
money after giving me a ticket. I feel our society is riddled with this idea of 
'staying safe' and with it the enforcement of laws that start to infringe on my 
basic freedom of choice. I am also fully aware that many would argue that the 
freedom to make bad choices (not wearing a seat belt or bike helmet) is not a 
freedom worth having if you are dead or severely disabled.
 
 On Monday, March 3, 2014 10:34 AM, "awoelflebater@..."  
wrote:
 
   

 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
"stance" on bike helmets is "near sighted" you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
"well why don't you now get married"
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

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

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, "steve.sundur@..."  wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm n

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Bhairitu]

Placebos themselves, including medical ones, seem to work on the 
principle of "samyama" which of course medical researchers are unaware 
of.  Shows that consciousness is very powerful and there is a strong 
mind over matter effect.


On 03/03/2014 11:28 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:


On 3/3/2014 10:53 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> I'd like to see a truly scientific comparison of TM versus breathing
> excersises with placebo.
>
What exactly, would a "TM placebo" look like? Maybe you don't need to
meditate or practice TM - everyone is already transcending even without
a "technique." Maybe you've gone about as far down the spiritual path
as you are able to this time around. You are only going to get as much
enlightenment as you are going to get. Maybe you should just give up
your spiritual striving and get to work on something else and just
enjoy. Go figure.

---
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protection is active.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

[Bhairitu]

All things in context.  It is good for vata imbalances because it is 
heating.  I also just heard this morning that mainstream medicine issued 
a report saying that garlic is effective in treating some viruses that 
have developed an immunity to antibiotics.


We used to have a great restaurant over here in the Easy Bay called 
"Magic Garlic" and we would frequently order a roasted large garlic 
clove to spreed on the bread as a treat.


On 03/03/2014 11:13 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com wrote:


Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it.

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[TurquoiseBee]

Wouldn't it be so much cooler, however, if it came out that the cause of the 
fire was a pundit meth lab going up in flames. Real "Breaking Bad" stuff. :-)





 From: Mike Dixon 
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com"  
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night
 


  
incense fell out of holder



On Monday, March 3, 2014 11:01 AM, feste37  wrote:
 
  
Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a blaze 
last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just before 5pm 
crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon arrival, the 
residential building was completely engulfed in flames. Crews were on 
the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making sure the fire did 
not spread to other buildings. The one story housing unit has 
nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin and cause of the 
fire haven’t been released.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

[Mike Dixon]

and you lose your image in the mirror.




On Monday, March 3, 2014 11:15 AM, "jr_...@yahoo.com"  wrote:
  
  
Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it.

  
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[awoelflebater]

 

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

 Hey Ann, 

 Thanks for making me smile this morning.  I confess, I am not a seat belt 
wearer either except when on the interstate, or when I am rushing.

Well, I'm glad you're smiling because none of my posts to you in the last day 
were meant to be anything but light, if not slightly humorous - especially the 
bull riding ones. I hope your sense of humour sticks around for a while.

 

 It was around this time several years ago, when I was making a ride into the 
country at night, when I hit an ice match, and rolled my Ford Explorer about 
five times before coming to a stop down in a ditch. 
 

 Yes, I was glad I was wearing it then.  
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, I figured you would misinterpret my statement on bull riding, either 
intentionally, or unintentionally, so you didn't let me down there.  

 Ann, you crack me up with your stance on bike helmets.  I mean talk about 
having a near sighted view on safety!
 

 You might want to look at some stats on bike accidents with, and without 
helmets.  
 

 You seem to be a rather serious mood this morning. And if you think my 
"stance" on bike helmets is "near sighted" you should hear my stance on seat 
belts!
 

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

 
 

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

 Ann, glad that you can speak so expertly on behalf of (seemingly) all gay 
couples.  That's certainly a relief.
 
 I didn't mean to imply that I don't understand the need for helmets with bull 
riding, just that it takes away from the macho image of it to some extent.   

 

 Oh, I still think seeing some idiot who decides to strap themselves on top of 
an animal weighing close to a ton and not happy about it is pretty macho, 
albeit it ill-informed. A tiny little thing like a crash helmet and safety vest 
hardly spoil the image for me - they're still macho and idiotic (or is that 
redundant?).
 

 I assume you are being factitious about bike helmets.
 

 No. I have a really rebellious streak about having to wear them, which we do 
here up in British Columbia. You get fined and ticketed if you're not wearing a 
bike helmet. I think it's stupid. Soon, you'll have to wear a safety vest to 
walk down the sidewalk or get thrown in jail for unnecessarily endangering 
yourself. I don't like to be dictated to when it comes to my own safety.
 

 

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

 
 

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

 Definitely moving in that direction. (-:   

 Although, and not related, I do support MLB's decision to try to reduce those 
hard collisions at home plate. 

 But, I will say, I can't quite get used to helmets for bull riding.  Helmets 
for hockey?  Okay, although I well remember they game being played without 
them.  
 

 How about those safety vests for bull riding that they all now wear? Frankly, 
I think bull riders should be donning Michelin Man suits. Concussions are a big 
deal now and virtually everyone wears a helmet for most sports and so they 
should. Damaging your brain in the service of entertainment is hardly worth it. 
One thing I do have a problem with, however, is having to wear a bike helmet. I 
think of all the miles and hours I was atop a bike as a youngster and I never 
once fell on my head, as hard as that might be to believe.
 

 And okay, thrown out for discussion.  I would guess that many gay couples may 
be uncomfortable with the fact that they can now marry in many places.
 

 I think you are guessing dead wrong.
 

   I am particularly thinking of my sister who has lived with her S.O. for many 
years.  I have never discussed it with her, but I am not sure they would want 
to get married. 
 

 Phew, you have never discussed this with your sister?
 

  But I wonder if it becomes a awkward decision for some gay couples, who might 
have wanted to stay just beneath the radar, and now a question might arise, 
"well why don't you now get married"
 

 No, no. Silly notion.
 

 And yes, I admit, the whole notion of people of the same sex getting married 
does strike me as a little odd. But I have no objections.
 

 Well, that's a relief.
 

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

 Probably would do a smash-up Super Bowl half time show.
 
 
 On Sunday, March 2, 2014 4:30 PM, "steve.sundur@..."  wrote:
 
   Keep going Judy.  This is your strong suit.  Mine it Judy.  Mine it. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to conceal your ignorance, 
Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

It'll get better Judy, it'll get better.  Just boil some tea or take a walk or 
talk to a neighbor.  You can get through this.  The world is not as bad at 
looks. 

 Try to keep your sunnyside up.  May take a little practice, but you can do it. 
 I know you can.
 

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

 I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II."
 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 

Re: [FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[Mike Dixon]

incense fell out of holder




On Monday, March 3, 2014 11:01 AM, feste37  wrote:
  
  
Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a blaze 
last night on the pundit campus outside of the city. Just before 5pm 
crews responded to reports of smoke in a building. Upon arrival, the 
residential building was completely engulfed in flames. Crews were on 
the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and making sure the fire did 
not spread to other buildings. The one story housing unit has 
nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin and cause of the 
fire haven’t been released.  
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[steve.sundur]

glad you got a giggle out of something Judy.  you've always have had a peculiar 
sense of humor. 

 at any rate, I don't think you'd survive the breaking of this illusion of your 
so called "honesty".  It's not a struggle for the fainthearted.
 

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

 Translation: Nope, the Feeb doesn't have any examples. 

 (Still curious what your false claim has to do with the post you were 
commenting on. After all, according to DoctorDumbass, you're a "kind and 
reasonable person." I got quite a giggle out of that.)
 
 Running out of time here Judy.  Yes, I figured you'd ask for examples if you 
replied.  I gave you one a couple weeks ago.  You can look it up if you want, 
or not. No matter to me.
 

 "In tatters"? Really? Do you have some examples?
 

 And what does this perception of yours have to do with the post you're 
commenting on?
 

 Dear Jude, 

 I wish you would wake up one day and decide to be more of straight shooter, 
instead of being such an obstructer. 
 

 Your constant proclamation of being a staunch upholder of truth is in such 
tatters, that you really should consider a different platform.  
 

 Sincerely,
 

 Steve or Feebs or whatever name you care to use.
 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 10:53 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> I'd like to see a truly scientific comparison of TM versus breathing 
> excersises with placebo.
 >
What exactly, would a "TM placebo" look like? Maybe you don't need to 
meditate or practice TM - everyone is already transcending even without 
a "technique." Maybe you've gone about  as far down the spiritual path 
as you are able to this time around. You are only going to get as much 
enlightenment as you are going to get. Maybe you should just give up 
your spiritual striving and get to work on something else and just 
enjoy. Go figure.

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[FairfieldLife] RE: The Reason I Quit TM

[jr_esq]

Garlic is bad.  I get the itches when I eat food cooked with it. 

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Reason I Quit TM

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 10:39 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> Maybe momma's cooking at when I was a kid led to my quitting
 >
You are not even making any sense today - you're still eating your 
momma's cooking? Go figure.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Puns Can Be Fun

[Pundit Sir]

"I know a guy who is addicted to brake fluid - he say he can stop anytime."


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Pundit Sir  wrote:

> "A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned
> veteran."
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Pundit Sir  wrote:
>
>> "Jokes about German sausage are the wurst."
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Pundit Sir  wrote:
>>
>>> "When chemists die, they barium."
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Pundit Sir  wrote:
>>>
 "I tried to catch some fog. I mist."


 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Richard Williams 
 wrote:

> A skeptical anthropologist was cataloging South American folk remedies
> with the assistance of a tribal Brujo who indicated that the leaves of
> a
> particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation.
>
> When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the Brujo looked him in
> the eye and said,
>
> "Let me tell you, with fronds like these, you don't need enemas."
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Richard Williams  > wrote:
>
>> There were three Indian squaws.
>>
>> One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third
>> slept
>> on a hippopotamus skin.  All three became  pregnant.  The first two
>> each had a baby boy.  The one who slept on the  hippopotamus skin
>> had twin boys.
>>
>> This just goes to prove that...the squaw  of the hippopotamus is equal
>> to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard Williams <
>> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his
>>> name
>>>  missing from the town register.  His wife insisted on complaining
>>> to the
>>>  local civic official who apologized profusely saying, "I must have
>>> taken  Leif
>>> off my census."
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Share Long 
>>> wrote:
>>>


 Richard, imho these are very good for preventing dementia and or
 Alzheimers (-:




   On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 12:25 PM, Richard Williams <
 pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:

  An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the
 medicine man.

 After a brief examination, the medicine man took out a long, thin
 strip of
 elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off,
 chew,and
 swallow one inch of the leather every day.

 After a month, the medicine man  returned to see how the chief was
 feeling.

 The chief shrugged and said, "The thong is ended, but the malady
 lingers on."


 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Richard Williams <
 pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:

 A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the
 toilets
 and urinals, leaving no clues.  A spokesperson was quoted as
 saying, "We have absolutely nothing to go on."


 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Richard Williams <
 pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:

  Back in the 1800's the Tate's Watch Company of Massachusetts
 wanted to
  produce other products, and since they already made the cases for
 watches,
  they used them to produce compasses.

 The new compasses were so bad that  people often ended up in Canada
 or
 Mexico rather than California .

 This, of  course, is the origin of the expression,"He who has a
 Tate's is lost!"


 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Richard Williams <
 pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:

 A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered
 dolphins
 that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of
  seagulls.

 One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to go out and
 trap
 some more. On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road.

 Afraid to wake them, he gingerly stepped over them. Immediately, he
 was
 arrested and charged with transporting gulls across sedate lions for
 immortal porpoises.


 On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Richard J. Williams <
 pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:

 King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of
 war
  with the Hittites.  His last great possession was the Star of the
 Euphrates,
  the most valuable diamond in the ancient world.  Desperate, he
 went to
  Croesus, the pawnbroker, to ask for a loan.

  Croesus said, "I'll give 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Michael Jackson]

well it was his experience, didn't Marshy say never doubt your experiences?

On Mon, 3/3/14, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com  
wrote:

 Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper 
about TM
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:18 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
   
   seriously?
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 wrote:
 
 I like this
 comment better:
 
 
 
 formersufferer
 
 
 
 I did TM for eleven years 30 years back and finished up with
 a severe type of epilepsy whereby I would have fits lasting
 up to five hours, and I became very unstable and unbalanced.
 I gave it up and was involved in a TV programme exposing it,
 called Credo. Prof Peter Fenwick of the Maudesley
 Psychiatric Hospital did some research which he reported on
 the programme. He explained that the EEG waves of a person
 practising TM and those of someone having an epileptic fit
 are identical. There has been quite a lot of research
 showing how damaging TM is but the TM people have a lot of
 money which enables them to override the truth. TM IS
 EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IN THE LONG TERM DESPITE APPEARING TO BE
 RELAXING in the short term. Some shots of whisky might have
 a similar effect
 
 
 
 
  On Mon, 3/3/14, awoelflebater@...
 
 wrote:
 
 
 
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Funny article from the Guardian
 Newspaper about TM
 
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 
 Date: Monday, March 3, 2014, 4:37 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
 
 
 wrote:
 
 
 
 One comment I appreciate is this one from
 
 Denis Postle:"I've been
 
 doing TM off and on for decades. A key thing to appreciate
 
 about it is that it is a reliable way of taking us to the
 
 hypnogogic and hypnopompic junctions between sleep and
 awake
 
 and keeping us hovering there. With very tangible results .
 
 . . " 
 
 David Lynch says something
 
 similar in his book Catching the Big Fish. To those
 
 who wonder what "transcending" is like, Lynch
 says
 
 that everyone has already experienced it. When you're
 
 lying in bed at night waiting for sleep to come you
 
 occasionally have a sudden sinking feeling as your
 awareness
 
 dips towards unconsciousness. It feels rather disconcerting
 
 and actually jolts you awake. Lynch claims that TM is
 
 essentially training you to bounce around at that level as
 a
 
 regular routine.
 
 Ramana Maharshi recommended his followers
 
 to try a similar practice: when waking up in the morning
 
 keep your consciousness at the point where you've just
 
 emerged from sleep into conscious awareness but *before*
 any
 
 thinking kicks in. Maharshi claimed that learning to
 balance
 
 yourself at this razor's edge would enable you to see
 
 the true nature of the Self.
 
 Anyone want to claim Denis, Lynch
 
 and Maharshi are talking nonsense?
 
 Funny you
 
 should ask that because while reading their assertion it
 
 simply did not resonate with my experience. The transition
 
 between waking and sleeping is not transcendence in my
 book.
 
 It is full of thoughts and awareness that do not feel
 
 transcendental at all. But I have zero other evidence than
 
 my subjectivity and gut feeling to back this
 
 up. 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Funny article from the Guardian Newspaper about TM

[Richard J. Williams]

On 3/3/2014 6:33 AM, Michael Jackson wrote:
> The best thing about this piece are the comments
 >
So, what does the TMO have to do with your meditating or not?

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[FairfieldLife] fire at pundit campus last night

[feste37]

Eighteen Fairfield Firefighters fought a blaze last night on the pundit campus 
outside of the city. Just before 5pm crews responded to reports of smoke in a 
building. Upon arrival, the residential building was completely engulfed in 
flames. Crews were on the scene until 10:00pm extinguishing the blaze and 
making sure the fire did not spread to other buildings. The one story housing 
unit has nearly $50,000 in damages. No injuries reported. The origin and cause 
of the fire haven’t been released.

Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review

[Bhairitu]

I almost got into a binge watch with "Les Revenants" and will watch a 
couple more episodes tonight.


There's no ten minute film school on the "Machete Kills" BD just the 
extras I mentioned.  Usually Universal movies rented at Redbox are 
"rental editions" with just the movie on them.  But that costs extra and 
the studios that even do the rental discs may not be doing them for the 
more cult and art film titles.  "El Mariachi" and "Desperado" were added 
over the weekend on Netflix.


In other news, we had a tragedy occur about a mile from me. A teenage 
girl who was sitting on the railroad tracks with her boyfriend near a 
trestle and they got up to move as a train approached.  Her cellphone 
fell and she ran back to retrieve it and was hit and killed by the 
train.  I only mention it as it will probably arise as national or 
international story.  Very sad and will be used as an object lesson for 
teens and their obsession with phones.


On 03/03/2014 09:29 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
Cool, both that you're getting to see the real version of "Les 
Revenants," and that you got to see the real version of "Machete 
Kills." It's *not* a great movie, but I thought it was fun, and I hope 
you did, too. Did the BD have another one of Rodriguez's patented "Ten 
Minute Film School" episodes on it?


I finished the French series, BTW, and I'm glad I watched it. Very, 
very different take on the "returning from the dead" concept, and 
refreshing in that it didn't fall into any real genre ruts. But to be 
honest, one of the things I loved the most about watching this series 
is the opportunity it provided me to see the scenery in an area of 
France I am not familiar with, the Haute-Savoie. It's just stunningly 
lovely...like Switzerland without all of those awful Swiss.  :-)



*From:* Bhairitu 
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Monday, March 3, 2014 6:19 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener 
review


It's the original French series "Les Revenants" and not an American 
remake. At the moment I haven't even checked to see if there is a US 
remake in the works.


"Hannibal" was not available for mobile or TV on Hulu+.  Probably 
because it is primarily a Canadian production.  But it was available 
on desktop so I just ran it on the Chrome browser and Chromecast it to 
my TV.  It's a little like video conferencing the show to your TV in 
that the frame rate is about 10 frames a second.


I was not all that impressed with "Machete Kills".  It was kind of a 
mess and in this case shooting in pristine HD seems to get in the way 
of a homage to grindhouse films.  Many of those old exploitation films 
were also shoot in "scope".   He had a fun cast though. And the BD 
actually was not a Universal "rental" and had the "making of" and 
extended and deleted scenes.


On 03/02/2014 11:48 PM, turquoi...@yahoo.com 
 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
,  
 wrote:


I won't be reading this because I will be watching "Hannibal" tonight 
on Hulu+.  But I was going to mention yesterday that the second 
season started last night and that I almost rented the BD of "Machete 
Kills" for the evening but decided on watching a couple more episodes 
of "The Returned" on Netflix.


I have to ask...are you watching the original French series "Les 
Revenants," or the American remake called (either, depending on where 
you see it referenced) "The Returned" or "Resurrection." I'm about to 
finish watching the French series, and you know me w.r.t. European 
TV...I wouldn't touch an American remake with a ten foot pole, but I 
was just wondering...

Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review

[TurquoiseBee]

Cool, both that you're getting to see the real version of "Les Revenants," and 
that you got to see the real version of "Machete Kills." It's *not* a great 
movie, but I thought it was fun, and I hope you did, too. Did the BD have 
another one of Rodriguez's patented "Ten Minute Film School" episodes on it?

I finished the French series, BTW, and I'm glad I watched it. Very, very 
different take on the "returning from the dead" concept, and refreshing in that 
it didn't fall into any real genre ruts. But to be honest, one of the things I 
loved the most about watching this series is the opportunity it provided me to 
see the scenery in an area of France I am not familiar with, the Haute-Savoie. 
It's just stunningly lovely...like Switzerland without all of those awful 
Swiss.  :-)




 From: Bhairitu 
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review
 


  
It's the original French series "Les Revenants" and not an American remake.  At 
the moment I haven't even checked to see if there is a US remake in the works.

"Hannibal" was not available for mobile or TV on Hulu+.  Probably
  because it is primarily a Canadian production.  But it was
  available on desktop so I just ran it on the Chrome browser and
  Chromecast it to my TV.  It's a little like video conferencing the
  show to your TV in that the frame rate is about 10 frames a
  second.

I was not all that impressed with "Machete Kills".  It was kind of
  a mess and in this case shooting in pristine HD seems to get in
  the way of a homage to grindhouse films.  Many of those old
  exploitation films were also shoot in "scope".   He had a fun cast
  though.  And the BD actually was not a Universal "rental" and had
  the "making of" and extended and deleted scenes.

On 03/02/2014 11:48 PM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:

  
>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
>
>
>I won't be reading this because I will be watching "Hannibal" tonight on 
>Hulu+.  But I was going to mention yesterday that the second season started 
>last night and that I almost rented the BD of "Machete Kills" for the evening 
>but decided on watching a couple more episodes of "The Returned" on Netflix.
>
>I have to ask...are you watching the original French series "Les Revenants," 
>or the American remake called (either, depending on where you see it 
>referenced) "The Returned" or "Resurrection." I'm about to finish watching the 
>French series, and you know me w.r.t. European TV...I wouldn't touch an 
>American remake with a ten foot pole, but I was just wondering...
>
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Listen to this guy sing!

[authfriend]

I don't believe I tried to split any hairs. (Do you even know what that 
expression means?) My point was, since you seem to have missed it, that you 
read what he writes so selectively that you don't see the appropriateness of 
the term "Feebs" (nor the inappropriateness of your "kind and reasonable" 
characterization). 

 In fact, he enjoys being nasty and obnoxious and thinks his insults are just 
supremely clever, when they're actually painfully feeble. Well, maybe you're 
impressed with them, come to think of it, in which case I may have to start 
calling you "Feebs II."
 

 You are calling him, "Feebs", for fucksake, and it is not being used as a term 
of endearment. I don't think you can split that hair, any further.
 

 I think your reading of his exchanges with me (and often with Ann as well) is 
rather selective.
 

 I don't get why you insult Steve so much, and call him stupid, Judy. You are 
missing the point, that he comes across as a kind and reasonable person. With 
your consistent criticism of him, you do not.
 

 

 Looks to me as though Emily is asking you to spell it out for her, Feebs. 

 Spell it out for me Emily.
 

 Really Steve, do you have any idea what you are saying?  This is your comment? 
 I mean, "Huh?"  "What?" (guffaw) Nobody could ever accuse you of trying to 
conceal your ignorance, Feebs. 

 Okay, okay, you gotta admit, this sounds like a man trying to sound like a 
woman.  A customer of our business is a transvestite, or maybe a man who just 
likes to cross dress.  We saw him last week, and he sounded a lot like the guy 
on this recording.  Also, I just came in from doing an errand, and they had the 
guy Judy was talking about, and he sounded just like a normal man. 

 So, I'm not sure what the big hubub is about.  I guess it is considered high 
art or something that a man can sing like a woman, and we should all oooh, and 
aaah, and shout Bravo! Bravo!.  Evidently I am missing something. (-:
 



















 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Vasen

[Bhairitu]

Seeing any movie in Seattle would have someone seeing it with a "Swedish 
group" or a "Norwegian group." Lot's of both there.  My sister-in-law 
was part Swedish.


On 03/03/2014 12:09 AM, emilymae...@yahoo.com wrote:
I saw this Swedish group this weekend.  It was simply spiritual.  The 
"a" should have an umlaut over it.  I'd never seen a nyckelharpa before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWorsJwzycw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTceV4xNDQ

Re: [FairfieldLife] In Media Res: a TV series season opener review

[Bhairitu]

It's the original French series "Les Revenants" and not an American 
remake.  At the moment I haven't even checked to see if there is a US 
remake in the works.


"Hannibal" was not available for mobile or TV on Hulu+.  Probably 
because it is primarily a Canadian production.  But it was available on 
desktop so I just ran it on the Chrome browser and Chromecast it to my 
TV.  It's a little like video conferencing the show to your TV in that 
the frame rate is about 10 frames a second.


I was not all that impressed with "Machete Kills".  It was kind of a 
mess and in this case shooting in pristine HD seems to get in the way of 
a homage to grindhouse films.  Many of those old exploitation films were 
also shoot in "scope".   He had a fun cast though.  And the BD actually 
was not a Universal "rental" and had the "making of" and extended and 
deleted scenes.


On 03/02/2014 11:48 PM, turquoi...@yahoo.com wrote:


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


I won't be reading this because I will be watching "Hannibal" tonight 
on Hulu+.  But I was going to mention yesterday that the second season 
started last night and that I almost rented the BD of "Machete Kills" 
for the evening but decided on watching a couple more episodes of "The 
Returned" on Netflix.


I have to ask...are you watching the original French series "Les 
Revenants," or the American remake called (either, depending on where 
you see it referenced) "The Returned" or "Resurrection." I'm about to 
finish watching the French series, and you know me w.r.t. European 
TV...I wouldn't touch an American remake with a ten foot pole, but I 
was just wondering...