[FairfieldLife] One for Nabby
Despite the fact that he lives in Norway, I suspect that at heart he's still 100% German, and thus might appreciate this handy guide to how others can evolve to be German themselves. :-) Unordered List Adventures: How to Be German in 25 Easy Steps Unordered List Adventures: How to Be German in 25 Ea... View on unorderedlistadven... Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] May Fool Joke?!
Is Nokia The World's Most Innovative Smartphone Maker? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/nokia-lumina-920-smartphone_n_1859239.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/nokia-lumina-920-smartphone_n_1859239.html Is Nokia The World's Most Innovative Smartphone Make... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/nokia-lumina-920-smartphone_n_1859239.html Let us list the great innovators of our most recent century: In fiction, James Joyce; in popular music, John Lennon; in film, Stanley Kubrick; in pornography, Ron J... View on www.huffingtonpost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/nokia-lumina-920-smartphone_n_1859239.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!
True. Some fellows met Maharishi on his plane in Bangkok before they went out to teach. Maharishi told them: Give Buddha back to Thailand. Seems this is what is happening since more and more groups of Buddhist monks and schools are starting real meditation, gone are the days of endless straining. Much to the consternation of the hobby Buddhist's in this group of course. Take the Turq; much of his fruitless attacks on TM here is probably fuelled by the success of TM in South-East Asia. The other guy is generally challenged and has probably not even noticed :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Buddhism will become effective again, as all the worlds religions will. Jai Jai Jai Maharishi! Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Something special is happening in Thailand. Over 400 girls are blossoming like beautiful lotuses at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School -- the first Buddhist... View on www.asokamission.com http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited after spending a red-eye flight stuck next to a guy with foul breath who passed ou... View on pando.com Preview by Yahoo
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists
Actually that phrasing is ambiguous when it comes to something that's only speculative. It can mean either that you don't believe it exists, or that if it did exist, you'd be opposed to it. In the case of the death penalty, we know it exists, so I don't believe in it can only mean I'm opposed to it. In the case of Maharishi's remark, I don't believe in reincarnation could mean one or the other, but because we know he does believe in reincarnation, it can only mean he's opposed to it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, LEnglish5@... wrote : There's no distinction. I don't believe in it in this context is just the same as saying I don't believe in the death penalty even as people are sentenced to death. And it's just the same as the Buddhist monks protesting reincarnation in the cartoon. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, rick@... wrote : From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of LEnglish5@... Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2014 1:12 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists Reincarnation? I don't believe in it -Maharishi Mahesh Yogi He didn’t say that. He said he was “opposed” to it. Get the distinction? Means he believes in it, but wants people to get liberated so they won’t reincarnate.
[FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!
My personal view of turq, is that if this were a forum discussing tiddly-winks, he'd be in the thick of it. The subject doesn't matter - it is his opposition to it, and his ability to criticize those supportive of it, that is important to him. Some people get off on the weirdest stuff, and he is no exception. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : True. Some fellows met Maharishi on his plane in Bangkok before they went out to teach. Maharishi told them: Give Buddha back to Thailand. Seems this is what is happening since more and more groups of Buddhist monks and schools are starting real meditation, gone are the days of endless straining. Much to the consternation of the hobby Buddhist's in this group of course. Take the Turq; much of his fruitless attacks on TM here is probably fuelled by the success of TM in South-East Asia. The other guy is generally challenged and has probably not even noticed :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Buddhism will become effective again, as all the worlds religions will. Jai Jai Jai Maharishi! Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Something special is happening in Thailand. Over 400 girls are blossoming like beautiful lotuses at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School -- the first Buddhist... View on www.asokamission.com http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!
After doing exactly what I predicted -- dropping out for a while and then coming back as the new Jim Flanegin under yet another pseudonym -- it takes him only slightly more than 17 hours to reboot his grudge and start attacking a person who didn't even comment on his return. Yes, as he says, people get off on the weirdest stuff. :-) From: fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 2:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started! My personal view of turq, is that if this were a forum discussing tiddly-winks, he'd be in the thick of it. The subject doesn't matter - it is his opposition to it, and his ability to criticize those supportive of it, that is important to him. Some people get off on the weirdest stuff, and he is no exception. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : True. Some fellows met Maharishi on his plane in Bangkok before they went out to teach. Maharishi told them: Give Buddha back to Thailand. Seems this is what is happening since more and more groups of Buddhist monks and schools are starting real meditation, gone are the days of endless straining. Much to the consternation of the hobby Buddhist's in this group of course. Take the Turq; much of his fruitless attacks on TM here is probably fuelled by the success of TM in South-East Asia. The other guy is generally challenged and has probably not even noticed :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Buddhism will become effective again, as all the worlds religions will. Jai Jai Jai Maharishi! Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand Something special is happening in Thailand. Over 400 girls are blossoming like beautiful lotuses at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School -- the first Buddhist... View on www.asokamission.comPreview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Fanaticism is always ugly - yours, included. God, Fleetwood, it's good to have you back. Imagine Bawee believing, even for one eentsy beentsy moment, that sanity can be returned to a place that has just annihilated itself through mass shooting. Or that he would hope such a thing would happen in the first place. On top of that Bawee, being an American and living off the fat of the land in one way or other despite his residency in a different country, considers himself so above such violent lunacy. But, once again, you have caught him in his own hypocrisy. Kraft Dinner all around - on me! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited after spending a red-eye flight stuck next to a guy with foul breath who passed ou... View on pando.com http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : After doing exactly what I predicted -- dropping out for a while and then coming back as the new Jim Flanegin under yet another pseudonym -- it takes him only slightly more than 17 hours to reboot his grudge and start attacking a person who didn't even comment on his return. Yes, as he says, people get off on the weirdest stuff. :-) I always love how you start off so many of your diatribes with this statement, oh wise sage. But it doesn't take a seer to figure out Mac and Cheese is going to swat the mosquito when he senses it in the room. It's as simple as predicting I'm going to call you on all your shit until, well, until I tire of it or it stops smelling the place up. From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 2:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started! My personal view of turq, is that if this were a forum discussing tiddly-winks, he'd be in the thick of it. The subject doesn't matter - it is his opposition to it, and his ability to criticize those supportive of it, that is important to him. Some people get off on the weirdest stuff, and he is no exception. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : True. Some fellows met Maharishi on his plane in Bangkok before they went out to teach. Maharishi told them: Give Buddha back to Thailand. Seems this is what is happening since more and more groups of Buddhist monks and schools are starting real meditation, gone are the days of endless straining. Much to the consternation of the hobby Buddhist's in this group of course. Take the Turq; much of his fruitless attacks on TM here is probably fuelled by the success of TM in South-East Asia. The other guy is generally challenged and has probably not even noticed :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Buddhism will become effective again, as all the worlds religions will. Jai Jai Jai Maharishi! Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand Something special is happening in Thailand. Over 400 girls are blossoming like beautiful lotuses at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School -- the first Buddhist... View on www.asokamission.com http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!
It isn't a grudge, Barry, and it's hardly weird. There are quite a few of us here who feel exactly as he does about your behavior (as you may perhaps have noticed). It's not as if you'd turned over a new leaf since he left, is it, now? Nor is it as though you never attacked anybody except in response to some negative comment they'd made about you. Your tendency to project your own tendencies onto those you want to criticize is one of your most prounced narcissistic traits. Also, any of us could have predicted what you did, that Jim would return with a new handle after taking his new mobile home for a spin. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : After doing exactly what I predicted -- dropping out for a while and then coming back as the new Jim Flanegin under yet another pseudonym -- it takes him only slightly more than 17 hours to reboot his grudge and start attacking a person who didn't even comment on his return. Yes, as he says, people get off on the weirdest stuff. :-) From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 2:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started! My personal view of turq, is that if this were a forum discussing tiddly-winks, he'd be in the thick of it. The subject doesn't matter - it is his opposition to it, and his ability to criticize those supportive of it, that is important to him. Some people get off on the weirdest stuff, and he is no exception. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : True. Some fellows met Maharishi on his plane in Bangkok before they went out to teach. Maharishi told them: Give Buddha back to Thailand. Seems this is what is happening since more and more groups of Buddhist monks and schools are starting real meditation, gone are the days of endless straining. Much to the consternation of the hobby Buddhist's in this group of course. Take the Turq; much of his fruitless attacks on TM here is probably fuelled by the success of TM in South-East Asia. The other guy is generally challenged and has probably not even noticed :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Buddhism will become effective again, as all the worlds religions will. Jai Jai Jai Maharishi! Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand Something special is happening in Thailand. Over 400 girls are blossoming like beautiful lotuses at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School -- the first Buddhist... View on www.asokamission.com http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Preview by Yahoo
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Re: [FairfieldLife] calm the situation in Ukraine-you can help!
On 5/8/2014 9:52 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: and you are ignoring the violence inthe Ukraine, the fact that Jews now have to register and all that??? Apparently that was a hoax. And nobody on FFL seems to want to talk about the neo-Nazi skinheads fomenting the violence. According to what I've read, the majority of the people want to remain united as Ukraine. It looks like there was a political coup in Ukraine, so we don't really know who are the legitimate leaders over there. And, you're not helping much spreading false rumors about everyone. Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] calm the situation in Ukraine-you can help!
On 5/8/2014 10:08 PM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote: Jews do NOT have to register in the Ukraine. I already told you that. Why are you repeating it? Maybe because MJ is a FFL agitator? Or, maybe because he doesn't even read the messages here. If he would include the quote he is referring to, we could know what his point is. But, it probably is all about Nabby. Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] One for Nabby
On 5/9/2014 1:26 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote: Despite the fact that he lives in Norway, I suspect that at heart he's still 100% German, and thus might appreciate this handy guide to how others can evolve to be German themselves. :-) So, it's all about Nabby in Norway, but you don't want to talk about the neo-Nazi skinhead cult in Holland. Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] North Korea Insults Obama
Freaking gooks! Thay can't call our president filthy racist names! Only *we* can call him flithy racist names! On Thursday, May 8, 2014 5:12 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: This is worse than Sterling's version. And, we thought the dictator was a friend of Rodman's. What happened? http://theweek.com/article/index/261229/speedreads-north-korea-launches-vicious-racist-attack-on-obama
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Prez is in the area
He just wants to *identify* with the *little* people and show everybody that he's just one of us. On Thursday, May 8, 2014 7:18 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: And guess where he's going tomorrow! Walmart! (The one in Mountain View). weird Must be shopping for Mother's Day.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
Barry, I doubt America will ever be 100% armed and dangerous. However,the violent criminally mind percentage will be and there will be enough of the rest of us, to at least, keep them guessing as to who is and who isn't armed. Do you feel lucky today...well do you, punk? On Friday, May 9, 2014 6:25 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Fanaticism is always ugly - yours, included. God, Fleetwood, it's good to have you back. Imagine Bawee believing, even for one eentsy beentsy moment, that sanity can be returned to a place that has just annihilated itself through mass shooting. Or that he would hope such a thing would happen in the first place. On top of that Bawee, being an American and living off the fat of the land in one way or other despite his residency in a different country, considers himself so above such violent lunacy. But, once again, you have caught him in his own hypocrisy. Kraft Dinner all around - on me! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited after spending a red-eye flight stuck next to a guy with foul breath who passed ou... View on pando.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!
Ahhh...Barry sees trends..., except his own, of course. I laughed pretty hard when he latched onto that spiel, which went on and on for quite a while, as I remember. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : After doing exactly what I predicted -- dropping out for a while and then coming back as the new Jim Flanegin under yet another pseudonym -- it takes him only slightly more than 17 hours to reboot his grudge and start attacking a person who didn't even comment on his return. Yes, as he says, people get off on the weirdest stuff. :-) I always love how you start off so many of your diatribes with this statement, oh wise sage. But it doesn't take a seer to figure out Mac and Cheese is going to swat the mosquito when he senses it in the room. It's as simple as predicting I'm going to call you on all your shit until, well, until I tire of it or it stops smelling the place up. From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 2:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started! My personal view of turq, is that if this were a forum discussing tiddly-winks, he'd be in the thick of it. The subject doesn't matter - it is his opposition to it, and his ability to criticize those supportive of it, that is important to him. Some people get off on the weirdest stuff, and he is no exception. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : True. Some fellows met Maharishi on his plane in Bangkok before they went out to teach. Maharishi told them: Give Buddha back to Thailand. Seems this is what is happening since more and more groups of Buddhist monks and schools are starting real meditation, gone are the days of endless straining. Much to the consternation of the hobby Buddhist's in this group of course. Take the Turq; much of his fruitless attacks on TM here is probably fuelled by the success of TM in South-East Asia. The other guy is generally challenged and has probably not even noticed :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Buddhism will become effective again, as all the worlds religions will. Jai Jai Jai Maharishi! Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand Something special is happening in Thailand. Over 400 girls are blossoming like beautiful lotuses at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School -- the first Buddhist... View on www.asokamission.com http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!
All that time with Fred made him psychic.:-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emilymaenot@... wrote : Ahhh...Barry sees trends..., except his own, of course. I laughed pretty hard when he latched onto that spiel, which went on and on for quite a while, as I remember. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : After doing exactly what I predicted -- dropping out for a while and then coming back as the new Jim Flanegin under yet another pseudonym -- it takes him only slightly more than 17 hours to reboot his grudge and start attacking a person who didn't even comment on his return. Yes, as he says, people get off on the weirdest stuff. :-) I always love how you start off so many of your diatribes with this statement, oh wise sage. But it doesn't take a seer to figure out Mac and Cheese is going to swat the mosquito when he senses it in the room. It's as simple as predicting I'm going to call you on all your shit until, well, until I tire of it or it stops smelling the place up. From: fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 2:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started! My personal view of turq, is that if this were a forum discussing tiddly-winks, he'd be in the thick of it. The subject doesn't matter - it is his opposition to it, and his ability to criticize those supportive of it, that is important to him. Some people get off on the weirdest stuff, and he is no exception. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : True. Some fellows met Maharishi on his plane in Bangkok before they went out to teach. Maharishi told them: Give Buddha back to Thailand. Seems this is what is happening since more and more groups of Buddhist monks and schools are starting real meditation, gone are the days of endless straining. Much to the consternation of the hobby Buddhist's in this group of course. Take the Turq; much of his fruitless attacks on TM here is probably fuelled by the success of TM in South-East Asia. The other guy is generally challenged and has probably not even noticed :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Buddhism will become effective again, as all the worlds religions will. Jai Jai Jai Maharishi! Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand Something special is happening in Thailand. Over 400 girls are blossoming like beautiful lotuses at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School -- the first Buddhist... View on www.asokamission.com http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
or how about, Flitting?? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, emilymaenot@... wrote : Fleetwood! Can I call you Fleeting...? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Fanaticism is always ugly - yours, included. God, Fleetwood, it's good to have you back. Imagine Bawee believing, even for one eentsy beentsy moment, that sanity can be returned to a place that has just annihilated itself through mass shooting. Or that he would hope such a thing would happen in the first place. On top of that Bawee, being an American and living off the fat of the land in one way or other despite his residency in a different country, considers himself so above such violent lunacy. But, once again, you have caught him in his own hypocrisy. Kraft Dinner all around - on me! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited after spending a red-eye flight stuck next to a guy with foul breath who passed ou... View on pando.com http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Josh Thomas's Roustabout Lesson Plan - for Curtis
Hi Curtis: Have you seen this? I love this, in that, for one, it is a wonderful lesson plan that throws out great ideas. Check out the lyrics of this version of the song (scroll down). Smile. Folk music lyrics reflect the essence of folk music do they not? Always changing. There is a new CD out as of August 13 - Classic Banjo. Smithsonian Folkways - Lesson Plan - Josh Thomas’ Roustabout http://www.folkways.si.edu/tools_for_teaching/josh-thomas-roustabout.aspx http://www.folkways.si.edu/tools_for_teaching/josh-thomas-roustabout.aspx Smithsonian Folkways - Lesson Plan - Josh Thomas... http://www.folkways.si.edu/tools_for_teaching/josh-thomas-roustabout.aspx Exploring Composition Using Limited Tones. Students will use Mike Seeger’s performance of “Josh Thomas’s Roustabout” as a gateway to exploring... View on www.folkways.si.edu http://www.folkways.si.edu/tools_for_teaching/josh-thomas-roustabout.aspx Preview by Yahoo Smithsonian Folkways - Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Folkways - Various Artists https://www.folkways.si.edu/classic-banjo-from-folkways/american-folk-bluegrass-country-old-time/album/smithsonian https://www.folkways.si.edu/classic-banjo-from-folkways/american-folk-bluegrass-country-old-time/album/smithsonian Smithsonian Folkways - Classic Banjo from Smiths... https://www.folkways.si.edu/classic-banjo-from-folkways/american-folk-bluegrass-country-old-time/album/smithsonian The banjo is a “bigger than life” instrument, a symbol of deep southern American heritage. View on www.folkways.si.edu https://www.folkways.si.edu/classic-banjo-from-folkways/american-folk-bluegrass-country-old-time/album/smithsonian Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited after spending a red-eye flight stuck next to a guy with foul breath who passed ou... View on pando.com http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit Reverberation and EEG, and MUM
Observation, hypothesis, test. The primary Spirit of Maharishi as scientist using modern and cutting edge science over spirituality is very alive, able and well at Maharishi University of Management, studying and testing spirituality. It was extremely interesting and relevant to see the data pairs being tested and the results that are so evident even to the naked eye. The haters here would be alternately depressed and illumined if they actually considered the data and implications. -Buck The slide pictures from India and the pundits chanting there were good verification too. It is certainly a big research project in science and spirituality going on there. Fred with his EEG equipment stayed there and went in setting up test trials of various data pairs at one of the campus there with 1500 resident pundits chanting. It is really interesting science that even sophists, atheists, and agnostics here with open minds could be excited by. -Buck Dateline Fairfield, Iowa, Meditating Community: Fabulous lecture tonite. Yes there is quite a significant difference between non-meditators, meditators, and advanced Patanjali meditators in brain EEG global coherence; and then listening to Sanskrit chanted slowly as Maharishi prescribed, the recitation reverberations in the subtle system evidently improving each class of coherence seemingly better than even listening to just anything else [even listening to Baroque music]. Remarkable science of hypothesis paired testing to figure this all out. Fascinating really. Om, how our poor TM and Maharishi haters here shall eat crow**. -Buck at the Consciousness-based University **Eating crow is an American colloquial idiom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom,[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow#cite_note-oed3a-1 meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proved wrong after taking a strong position.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow#cite_note-www-2 Crow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow is presumably foul-tasting in the same way that being proved wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow. -Wikip == Really important meeting tonite. EEG PATTERNS WHEN LISTENING TO VEDIC RECITATION DALBY HALL MAY 8th, 2014 Tonite 8pm Join Dr. Fred Travis in exploring what happens to the brain when listening to Vedic recitation compared to the practice of transcending meditation, and find out about the ongoing research program that is being developed to explore these effects. Reverberation in Spiritual Practice: ..within each individual through the practice of Transcendental Meditation and the Vedic sound reverberations, the Vedic texts recited. You can enliven the whole body, the whole physiology. ..In modern science, in order to materialize a theory, a scientist is needed. Listen to this carefully. In modern science, for a theory to be materialized, a scientist needs to put the theory to practice. In the Vedic world, in Vedic knowledge, in Vedic science, the scientist himself is the embodiment of the theory, is the embodiment of the principles, because it is self-referral in its own quality. From within itself it is Total Knowledge, it is total power, it is total activity. This is Vedic speech, Vedic reverberations, Vedic sound. Vedic sounds themselves operate. And this has given a completely new approach to perfect health. Perfect health means perfection in every field for everyone on earth. -Maharishi, inaugural address on January 12, 2000. The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.”
[FairfieldLife] when tech works like it is supposed to
I am overlooking canyons and a ranch, miles from any habitation, and still have connectivity - using a mobile hot spot. To use a laptop over cell networks (tethering) used to be really expensive, and kludgy, but the issues have been worked out. The hotspot is the size of a deck of cards, and allows me to wirelessly connect my PC anywhere I can catch a cell signal. Also uses automatic WPS syncing, so that adding devices to the network is really easy, and secure. Very cool, and ironically, about 5x faster than my DSL land line in Silicon Valley.
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
I agree with the gun saturation making this a big problem, regardless if all gun sales were stopped today. My dad had quite a collection - hundreds - and one thing I can say, is that guns last. Not like a modern appliance, where circuits or electronics can stop working, or a plastic part eventually breaks. Guns are built with a few working parts, all metal, and will continue to accurately function for a hundred years, or more. I still have a .32 colt semi-automatic, and a couple of .38 revolvers, colt and sw - not so much for protection, as for target shooting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited after spending a red-eye flight stuck next to a guy with foul breath who passed ou... View on pando.com http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
While I agree with you that the problem is probably unresolvable at this point because 1) there are too many guns already to ever be controlled, 2) there would be a huge black market of them if they ever *were* truly controlled, and 3) Americans really *do* have a people problem that is larger than its gun problem, I was nonetheless horrified that the gun manufacturers and the NRA could be so crazy as to try to use the smart gun thing to make guns MORE available. And to argue that owning a smart gun should allow the person who owns it to get on a plane with it. That speaks to me of a country beyond repair, and possibly beyond the hope of rehabilitation. I completely agree with you that if a child (or anyone) dies as the result of a gun kept in the home, at the hands of one of their children, both parents should be tried for murder and spend the rest of their lives in prison. And I do feel fortunate to live in a country that avoided the gun insanity that America fell prey to. From: curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 5:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... I flew in to
[FairfieldLife] Our sun has a sister
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sun-sister-215510093.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sun-sister-215510093.html Not sure what this article was doing in Yahoo Finance, but I thought it was interesting. Apparently our sun was part of a huge cloud of gas and dust, and scientists have been tracking down stars with the same chemical composition, as our sun. fascinating.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
And I do feel fortunate to live in a country that avoided the gun insanity that America fell prey to. Yes, we, in America, feel fortunate about your decision, too. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : While I agree with you that the problem is probably unresolvable at this point because 1) there are too many guns already to ever be controlled, 2) there would be a huge black market of them if they ever *were* truly controlled, and 3) Americans really *do* have a people problem that is larger than its gun problem, I was nonetheless horrified that the gun manufacturers and the NRA could be so crazy as to try to use the smart gun thing to make guns MORE available. And to argue that owning a smart gun should allow the person who owns it to get on a plane with it. That speaks to me of a country beyond repair, and possibly beyond the hope of rehabilitation. I completely agree with you that if a child (or anyone) dies as the result of a gun kept in the home, at the hands of one of their children, both parents should be tried for murder and spend the rest of their lives in prison. And I do feel fortunate to live in a country that avoided the gun insanity that America fell prey to. From: curtisdeltablues@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 5:00 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
Heaven forfend that Barry should read the article at the link I posted, which reports on a recent Gallup survey showing that large majorities of Americans are in favor of various approaches to gun control. What Americans have is a political problem in which minorities and special interest groups like the NRA are able to block the majority's strong preference for gun control. That's ultimately also a people problem in that we let things get to this infuriating state of affairs. But it's not a people problem in terms of everyone wanting guns to be uncontrolled, as Barry seems to believe. Americans really *do* have a people problem that is larger than its gun problem
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Prez is in the area
“What numbskull in the White House arranged this?” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who served in the Bill Clinton administration, said in a posting on Facebook on Thursday. Obama, at Wal-Mart, touts efficiency; angers labor: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/obama-popular-in-tech-world-policies-less-so/2014/05/08/555d9830-d713-11e3-8f7d-7786660fff7c_story.html On 05/08/2014 08:07 PM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com wrote: Trickle down economics: During this visit, rich folks in Palo Alto and Woodside eat dinner with the Prez, sharing their concerns, aka influence, and give Obama (a rich guy), hundreds of millions, and he turns around, and spends maybe three hundred of that, at Walmart, and takes a few polaroids. That's pretty cavalier of the Prez. He should do his shopping on University Ave. and Stanford Shopping Center, where they have the stuff he really wants, as a rich guy. I am pretty sure the dude doesn't buy his *ties*, or shoes, at Walmart. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : And guess where he's going tomorrow! Walmart! (The one in Mountain View). weird Must be shopping for Mother's Day.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
I don't own a gun but for the reasons you state I am very much for keeping the right of people to own them. However I can't see much sense in people owning automatic weapons. And I think parading around open carry sort of sets things up for gun confiscation. Not big on seeing the open carry nuts at Starbucks. I also think this country long ago would have been turned into a fascist state by the rich if they knew their asses were going to get shot because people have guns. They are a good deterrent against that crowd too. On 05/09/2014 08:00 AM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ image http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited after spending a red-eye flight stuck next to a guy with foul breath who passed ou... View on pando.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
--In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I don't own a gun but for the reasons you state I am very much for keeping the right of people to own them. However I can't see much sense in people owning automatic weapons. And I think parading around open carry sort of sets things up for gun confiscation. Not big on seeing the open carry nuts at Starbucks. C: I know what you mean. Personally I don't really care about which guns people own. I'm not sure what you mean by automatic. Full auto IS illegal, semi auto is legal. You can squeeze that trigger pretty fast so the difference is minor especially since most people are shitty aims with full auto weapons. I think the assault rifle debate is a bogus distinction. They look scarier but all guns do the same job. Distinguishing between guns is in the make us feel better while doing nothing bin for me. B: I also think this country long ago would have been turned into a fascist state by the rich if they knew their asses were going to get shot because people have guns. They are a good deterrent against that crowd too. C: I hear this argument a lot but it never rings true for me. Have you seen the guns the government has? The rich owns them too! But if you want to rail against the rigged system the rich have created in our government I am all in. On 05/09/2014 08:00 AM, curtisdeltablues@... mailto:curtisdeltablues@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd
Re: [FairfieldLife] Note to Rick Conderning his interview with Sam Harris
Rick, I just finished the Harry Aalto batgap.com interview. That was good criticism based on experience too. He has an amazing base voice but his perspective by experience was piercing. Janet Sussman who lived in Fairfield for years held weekly living living room satsangs too with folks where her teaching was very much like the way Harri Aalto languages it by virtue of evolving and long experience. Fun to hear it so clearly talked about and advocated for in the same way so directly by two different people in two very different packages. Same thing. In the Unified Field Your friend always, -Buck fleetwood_macncheese Writes: Yeah, I agree with the bit about spiritual experiences being something that a person gets used to, no matter how flashy they may be, initially. Humans are great at assimilating any kind of experience. I find too, that whenever I tried to hold on to any spiritual experience, it went away. Once unbounded awareness is established (while it continues to expand), there is no obstacle to any kind of flashy experience; hang out with angels? why not? visit the inside of the body? OK. and after awhile, its like if a person works at Disneyland and can ride the rides, all they want, any time they want. There are two sides to life, anyway - the spiritual momentum, and character development, aka 'doing the work'. Much more concerned, and interested, in the latter, these days. So, it doesn't matter to me what a person's beliefs are, as much as what kind of a person they are. Beliefs don't count for much. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Thanks for your comments. One of the things that amuses me in this discussion is that two of the participants so far who are on record as having no need to believe in a God are also on record as having had enlightenment experiences. Whereas possibly some of those who think of themselves as believers in God have not. Such an assumption that really serves no useful purpose other than, well, you know.. Clearly belief in God has nothing to do with awakening or being able to have clear, according-to-Maharishi's-definitions periods of enlightenment. It might be helpful to know who you are arguing with on this point. My larger point is that I think that having a belief in God has nothing to do with *anything* other than having Just Another Belief. Such a belief is not necessary to follow a spiritual path, and not having such a belief is no hindrance to one. You do realize that you make this point on a nearly daily basis as though there is someone on the other side of this argument. I mean, I get the impression that people who have so called spiritual experiences may just make a note of them, and then move on. Now, I suppose there are many who benchmark these experiences, but really, it's not anything I much see here. So, maybe your comments are directed to a different audience. Even Jim, who is not bashful about declaring his enlightenment uses his own descriptions. I mean maybe they do end up corresponding somewhat to the experiences you read about in texts, and that MMY has outlined, but growth of spiritual experiences, if they are genuine, come off as being quite fresh, and usually quite confusing, at least at first.
[FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sanskrit Reverberation and EEG, and MUM
Om in science process; Observation, hypothesis, test. The primary Spirit of Maharishi as scientist using modern and cutting edge science over spirituality is very alive, able and well at Maharishi University of Management, studying and testing spirituality. It was extremely interesting and relevant to see the data pairs being tested and the results that are so evident even to the naked eye. The haters here would be alternately depressed and illumined if they actually considered the data and implications. -Buck The slide pictures from India and the pundits chanting there were good verification too. It is certainly a big research project in science and spirituality going on there. Fred with his EEG equipment stayed there and went in setting up test trials of various data pairs at one of the campus there with 1500 resident pundits chanting. It is really interesting science that even sophists, atheists, and agnostics here with open minds could be excited by. -Buck Dateline Fairfield, Iowa, Meditating Community: Fabulous lecture tonite. Yes there is quite a significant difference between non-meditators, meditators, and advanced Patanjali meditators in brain EEG global coherence; and then listening to Sanskrit chanted slowly as Maharishi prescribed, the recitation reverberations in the subtle system evidently improving each class of coherence seemingly better than even listening to just anything else [even listening to Baroque music]. Remarkable science of hypothesis paired testing to figure this all out. Fascinating really. Om, how our poor TM and Maharishi haters here shall eat crow**. -Buck at the Consciousness-based University **Eating crow is an American colloquial idiom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom,[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow#cite_note-oed3a-1 meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proved wrong after taking a strong position.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow#cite_note-www-2 Crow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow is presumably foul-tasting in the same way that being proved wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow. -Wikip == Really important meeting tonite. EEG PATTERNS WHEN LISTENING TO VEDIC RECITATION DALBY HALL MAY 8th, 2014 Tonite 8pm Join Dr. Fred Travis in exploring what happens to the brain when listening to Vedic recitation compared to the practice of transcending meditation, and find out about the ongoing research program that is being developed to explore these effects. Reverberation in Spiritual Practice: ..within each individual through the practice of Transcendental Meditation and the Vedic sound reverberations, the Vedic texts recited. You can enliven the whole body, the whole physiology. ..In modern science, in order to materialize a theory, a scientist is needed. Listen to this carefully. In modern science, for a theory to be materialized, a scientist needs to put the theory to practice. In the Vedic world, in Vedic knowledge, in Vedic science, the scientist himself is the embodiment of the theory, is the embodiment of the principles, because it is self-referral in its own quality. From within itself it is Total Knowledge, it is total power, it is total activity. This is Vedic speech, Vedic reverberations, Vedic sound. Vedic sounds themselves operate. And this has given a completely new approach to perfect health. Perfect health means perfection in every field for everyone on earth. -Maharishi, inaugural address on January 12, 2000. The Fairfield Meditating Community: “We are a group of people who have come together and created a community for a transcendentally important common purpose, which of course is to practice the Transcendental Meditation program and the TM-Sidhi program together as a group, for the sake of bringing coherence to national and world consciousness based on balancing labor and leisure to meditate while working together for the benefit of the community. Our Super-Radiance meditating community includes families of all the TM-Meditators and TM-Sidhas in the Fairfield, Vedic City and Jefferson County area.” .
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
When did a gun kill anyone ? The problem is stress, not the amount of guns. Only huge purification of collective consciousness will take care of it. It's a huge task but it will happen, gradually. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : I agree with the gun saturation making this a big problem, regardless if all gun sales were stopped today. My dad had quite a collection - hundreds - and one thing I can say, is that guns last. Not like a modern appliance, where circuits or electronics can stop working, or a plastic part eventually breaks. Guns are built with a few working parts, all metal, and will continue to accurately function for a hundred years, or more. I still have a .32 colt semi-automatic, and a couple of .38 revolvers, colt and sw - not so much for protection, as for target shooting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited
[FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!
He is full of frustration, not understanding it is his own he project it on others randomly wherever he can. So much for the transformative power of Buddhist meditation. BTW, the Maharishi quote obviously was: Give Thailand back to Buddha. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : My personal view of turq, is that if this were a forum discussing tiddly-winks, he'd be in the thick of it. The subject doesn't matter - it is his opposition to it, and his ability to criticize those supportive of it, that is important to him. Some people get off on the weirdest stuff, and he is no exception. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : True. Some fellows met Maharishi on his plane in Bangkok before they went out to teach. Maharishi told them: Give Buddha back to Thailand. Seems this is what is happening since more and more groups of Buddhist monks and schools are starting real meditation, gone are the days of endless straining. Much to the consternation of the hobby Buddhist's in this group of course. Take the Turq; much of his fruitless attacks on TM here is probably fuelled by the success of TM in South-East Asia. The other guy is generally challenged and has probably not even noticed :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Buddhism will become effective again, as all the worlds religions will. Jai Jai Jai Maharishi! Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Something special is happening in Thailand. Over 400 girls are blossoming like beautiful lotuses at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School -- the first Buddhist... View on www.asokamission.com http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Prez is in the area
After the single-payer sleight-of-hand he pulled with healthcare, Zerobama has pretty much become a republican in sheep's clothing. The *finest* sheep's clothing, at that. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : “What numbskull in the White House arranged this?” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who served in the Bill Clinton administration, said in a posting on Facebook on Thursday. Obama, at Wal-Mart, touts efficiency; angers labor: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/obama-popular-in-tech-world-policies-less-so/2014/05/08/555d9830-d713-11e3-8f7d-7786660fff7c_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/obama-popular-in-tech-world-policies-less-so/2014/05/08/555d9830-d713-11e3-8f7d-7786660fff7c_story.html On 05/08/2014 08:07 PM, fleetwood_macncheese@... mailto:fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote: Trickle down economics: During this visit, rich folks in Palo Alto and Woodside eat dinner with the Prez, sharing their concerns, aka influence, and give Obama (a rich guy), hundreds of millions, and he turns around, and spends maybe three hundred of that, at Walmart, and takes a few polaroids. That's pretty cavalier of the Prez. He should do his shopping on University Ave. and Stanford Shopping Center, where they have the stuff he really wants, as a rich guy. I am pretty sure the dude doesn't buy his *ties*, or shoes, at Walmart. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... wrote : And guess where he's going tomorrow! Walmart! (The one in Mountain View). weird Must be shopping for Mother's Day.
[FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!
I saw a funny greeting card today, showing two people on the cover, one saying to the other, See those two? That's what we'll look like in twenty years! Scary. The other one replies, Are you kidding me? We are looking in a mirror! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : He is full of frustration, not understanding it is his own he project it on others randomly wherever he can. So much for the transformative power of Buddhist meditation. BTW, the Maharishi quote obviously was: Give Thailand back to Buddha. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : My personal view of turq, is that if this were a forum discussing tiddly-winks, he'd be in the thick of it. The subject doesn't matter - it is his opposition to it, and his ability to criticize those supportive of it, that is important to him. Some people get off on the weirdest stuff, and he is no exception. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : True. Some fellows met Maharishi on his plane in Bangkok before they went out to teach. Maharishi told them: Give Buddha back to Thailand. Seems this is what is happening since more and more groups of Buddhist monks and schools are starting real meditation, gone are the days of endless straining. Much to the consternation of the hobby Buddhist's in this group of course. Take the Turq; much of his fruitless attacks on TM here is probably fuelled by the success of TM in South-East Asia. The other guy is generally challenged and has probably not even noticed :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Buddhism will become effective again, as all the worlds religions will. Jai Jai Jai Maharishi! Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Asoka Mission - Buddhist School For Girls In Thailand http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Something special is happening in Thailand. Over 400 girls are blossoming like beautiful lotuses at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School -- the first Buddhist... View on www.asokamission.com http://www.asokamission.com/app/index.php?r=front/default/pagealias=buddhist-school-for-girls-in-thailand# Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
Agreed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : When did a gun kill anyone ? The problem is stress, not the amount of guns. Only huge purification of collective consciousness will take care of it. It's a huge task but it will happen, gradually. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : I agree with the gun saturation making this a big problem, regardless if all gun sales were stopped today. My dad had quite a collection - hundreds - and one thing I can say, is that guns last. Not like a modern appliance, where circuits or electronics can stop working, or a plastic part eventually breaks. Guns are built with a few working parts, all metal, and will continue to accurately function for a hundred years, or more. I still have a .32 colt semi-automatic, and a couple of .38 revolvers, colt and sw - not so much for protection, as for target shooting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first http://pando.com/2014/05/07/the-zuckerberg-of-guns-could-save-lives-and-make-millions-for-the-industry-but-hell-have-to-fight-the-nra-first/ Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could...
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[FairfieldLife] David Lynch Foundation's first Play Reading Benefit
Come join us at the David Lynch Foundation's first Play Reading Benefit. The reading series is a collaboration with Working Artists Theatre Project. Jessica Dermody (Artistic Director of WAT Project) and Damon Arrington (The Public and Labyrinth Theatre) will direct a cast from the Broadway, film and television industries in James McLure's 1959 PINK THUNDERBIRD. The classic companion comedies highlight the resilience of the human spirit and explore themes of love, war and the harsh realities of life in small town America. This event will raise money to help teach War Veterans Transcendental Meditation through the Operation Warrior Wellness Project. http://dlfreadforwarriors.brownpapertickets.com/ http://dlfreadforwarriors.brownpapertickets.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
The guy has a point. And he also has a point that God -- if The Bible can be seen as an accurate record of His works -- has killed off far more of His creations (human beings) than the human beings ever did. Based on the cast of The Bible, that is. God just *rocks* at genocide, even according to His holy Word. :-) From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 6:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Is The Bible Pro-Life? Is The Bible Pro-Life? Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks reads directly from The Bible in order to answer the question of whether or not G... View on www.tytnetwork.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
Just choking on my laughter here. Cenk Uygur is who? Definitely not a biblical scholar. Can't even quote a biblical passage accurately, much less know what it's saying. So, if you want to learn about the will of God, learn it from a leftist political activist. Kind of like saying, if you want to learn about yoga, learn it from a Baptist minister, LOL!. On Friday, May 9, 2014 9:21 AM, Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
Doesn't take much technology to build a completely new one, from scratch, either! On Friday, May 9, 2014 8:09 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: I agree with the gun saturation making this a big problem, regardless if all gun sales were stopped today. My dad had quite a collection - hundreds - and one thing I can say, is that guns last. Not like a modern appliance, where circuits or electronics can stop working, or a plastic part eventually breaks. Guns are built with a few working parts, all metal, and will continue to accurately function for a hundred years, or more. I still have a .32 colt semi-automatic, and a couple of .38 revolvers, colt and sw - not so much for protection, as for target shooting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited after spending a red-eye flight stuck next to a guy with foul breath who passed ou... View on pando.com Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Golod's pyramid!
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
From: curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com snip excellent stuff to I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. I've been thinking about your reply, Curtis, and it's helped me to see how much of my current world view is colored by where I live. I have lived in places where I *should* have been totin' a gun. In parts of Morocco, for example, or when I made an ill-advised Road Trip to Algeria without realizing it was a war zone. And in Santa Fe I admit to having actually owned a sawed-off shotgun for home protection because I wandered into a Gun Show there one day and looked around the National Guard Armory at the people around me who *did* own guns, and figured that I should get one to, to protect myself from *them*. :-) I never wound up firing the shotgun, even at a test range, and gave it to the Police Department when I left Santa Fe for good. (I thought that would be wiser than giving it to a friend or just tossing it in a dumpster.) And since then I've been living in Europe, which is so NOT a gun culture. Yes, people go hunting, and use shotguns, airguns, and the occasional rifle to do so, but in all three of the countries I've lived in, the concept of owning a handgun -- or needing one -- simply wouldn't occur to 95% of the population. In some of the countries, like France, it would be hard to even buy one. Guns just really aren't the dick substitutes here that they are in America. Europe is just SO not a gun-totin' culture. At least at this point, and in the 'hoods I choose to frequent. That said, if I were writing this from, say, Uganda or the Ukraine, I might have a Glock in an EZ-Out holster mounted under my desk. It's just that I don't have to think about that shit living where I live right now. I might have to if I were back in the US, even in relatively peaceful Santa Fe. I'm just happy that I don't have to live with that ever-present threat of crime (or FEAR of the ever-present threat of crime) that drives America to be such a gun culture. The most damage the average Dutch person is going to be able to do to me is by ramming me with his bicycle while trying to text while riding. And I'm not really convinced that either of us carrying a BFG (Big Fucking Gun) would make even that encounter more productive. :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could... I flew in to Indianapolis on Friday morning, sleep deprived and dispirited after spending a red-eye flight stuck next to a guy with foul breath who passed ou... View on pando.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
If you want to diss your imaginary God, it is helpful to keep in mind that She, is, in fact, female, and always will be. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The guy has a point. And he also has a point that God -- if The Bible can be seen as an accurate record of His works -- has killed off far more of His creations (human beings) than the human beings ever did. Based on the cast of The Bible, that is. God just *rocks* at genocide, even according to His holy Word. :-) From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 6:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks reads directly from The Bible in order to answer the question of whether or not G... View on www.tytnetwork.com https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
On 5/9/2014 4:01 PM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The guy has a point. And he also has a point that God -- if The Bible can be seen as an accurate record of His works -- has killed off far more of His creations (human beings) than the human beings ever did. Based on the cast of The Bible, that is. God just *rocks* at genocide, even according to His holy Word. :-) Never pass up an opportunity to win a religious debate, even if you have to sink low enough to use a tragedy as your proof. Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
On 5/9/2014 11:20 AM, Duveyoung wrote: For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Almost everyone posting to FFL seems to be anti-abortion- but they might also exercise their right to choose. So, what's your point? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
First you experience Shiva for some time, then Vishnu and when you start to experience the Devi it has no end. - Maharishi, from private notes ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : If you want to diss your imaginary God, it is helpful to keep in mind that She, is, in fact, female, and always will be. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The guy has a point. And he also has a point that God -- if The Bible can be seen as an accurate record of His works -- has killed off far more of His creations (human beings) than the human beings ever did. Based on the cast of The Bible, that is. God just *rocks* at genocide, even according to His holy Word. :-) From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 6:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks reads directly from The Bible in order to answer the question of whether or not G... View on www.tytnetwork.com https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
On 5/9/2014 6:29 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought More insane than where you're living - next door to the neo-Nazi skinhead bikers in Holland? Go figure. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. You are so eager to deny Americans their civil rights, next you'll be wanting to take away the right to same sex marriage, gay and lesbian rights, and the right to vote regardless of skin color. Maybe you should just stay over there with the skinheads. Have a nice day. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
They are ? I don't see why unless they are certain a soul has entered the fetus. Otherwise It's like burning down an abandoned house - Maharishi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/9/2014 11:20 AM, Duveyoung wrote: For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Almost everyone posting to FFL seems to be anti-abortion- but they might also exercise their right to choose. So, what's your point? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
Shows ya don't know Cenk. (And you should note that I would readily admit that he's an over the top ignorant asshole about a couple topics -- religion being one of them -- yet his political views are progressive enough to garner my approbation.) And yeah, I'm willing to take instruction from anyone who USES LOGIC WITH CONSISTENTLY DEFINED TERMS even though he's an over the top asshole with terrible and negative knee-jerk conceits about religion. He plainly demonstrates that alternate interpretations about biblical passages are easily imagined and robustly defended, and his sermon alone is a proof of sorts that the Bible is an open-to-interpretation document which will have necessarily differing value -- according to the wherewithal of the reader. This said, reading the Bible seems to me to have the same heft as reading any other scriptures if one is determined to read with mindful integrity -- such that the reading BUILDS NEURONS that model the reading experience's core concepts. Any scripture'll do, but the Bible has all the buzzwords of spirituality handled multiple times with delicate nuance and usage -- such that definitions and values emerge which then can serve the human with a skill-set and tool-box with which to have a deeper clarity about life's daily puzzles of morality and existence. Ask your average person What is being? and we all know the spiritual-amateurism with which the attempts to answer would be wielded. But have your average person read the Bible even once, and hoo boy, that person is going to have come to many conclusions and be able to answer a HOST OF INQUIRY. Not that that would save a soul a seat in Heaven, but I could consider being a dilettante in almost any endeavor as a life plus -- a profit. As for when a human being is OFFICIALLY a soul -- whew, I couldn't say, but I could speculate for HOURS. My best guess is when the first breath is taken -- but my definition of soul would bother most folks. But, abort a few grams of biological material that could become a viable infant? I got no problem with that. Once a fetus has a face, heartbeat and a nervous system that processes pain, then I'm saying no abortion allowed for most cases. But this is just me -- can't defend it as dogma. Edg
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
If there is any truth to the accusations that M was dipping his *wick* in places a monk shouldn't be, that might be a useful explanation. On Friday, May 9, 2014 2:44 PM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: They are ? I don't see why unless they are certain a soul has entered the fetus. Otherwise It's like burning down an abandoned house - Maharishi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/9/2014 11:20 AM, Duveyoung wrote: For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Almost everyone posting to FFL seems to be anti-abortion- but they might also exercise their right to choose. So, what's your point? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
On 5/9/2014 2:52 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I've been thinking about your reply, Curtis, and it's helped me to see how much of my current world view is colored by where I live. I have lived in places where I *should* have been totin' a gun. In parts of Morocco, for example, or when I made an ill-advised Road Trip to Algeria without realizing it was a war zone. And in Santa Fe I admit to having actually owned a sawed-off shotgun for home protection because I wandered into a Gun Show there one day and looked around the National Guard Armory at the people around me who *did* own guns, and figured that I should get one to, to protect myself from *them*. :-) Almost everything you posted here is illegal - it's against the law to carry a hidden firearm on your person in Morroco, Algeria or Sante Fe, NM. And it's also illegal to purchase a sawed off shot gun at a gun show anywhere. What are you insane? It's also illegal for an insane person to even own a gun in the U.S. You're not even making any sense. Go figure.. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
On 5/9/2014 11:10 AM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote : I don't own a gun but for the reasons you state I am very much for keeping the right of people to own them. However I can't see much sense in people owning automatic weapons. It is illegal in the U.S. to own a fully automatic weapon, so most people own semi-automatics. Around here you can carry a rifle in plain sight if you are going to or returning from a hunting session. You can also carry a hidden firearm on your person to certain places, if you have a concealed gun permit. In an altercation with someone you should never reveal your weapon unless you plan to use it in order to defend your life or family. Never go to a gun fight without a gun. That's what I think. And I think parading around open carry sort of sets things up for gun confiscation. You aren't supposed to get your gun confiscated it it's legal to carry your firearm openly. Not big on seeing the open carry nuts at Starbucks. If you saw someone openly carrying a gun at Starbucks and it was legal for them to do so, it might give you pause before you started acting like a nut and shooting up the place. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
On 5/9/2014 4:44 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: They are ? I don't see why unless they are certain a soul has entered the fetus. Otherwise It's like burning down an abandoned house - Maharishi So, I don't think anybody on FFL would /voluntarily/ get pregnant /*just so they could have an abortion*/. Most people are against abortion on /general health principles/. And, a woman's right to choose trumps laws against abortion, but that doesn't mean you should have unprotected sex just to prove a point. People should practice family planning in order to avoid the responsibility that lies ahead. Since, you're not female, it's really none of your business anyway. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/9/2014 11:20 AM, Duveyoung wrote: For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Almost everyone posting to FFL seems to be anti-abortion- but they might also exercise their right to choose. So, what's your point? --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
You are obviously easy to fool. Everyone knows that never happened and is a rumor put out by Rick Archer to gain publicity and hits for batgap. The fellow is obviously more than a little naïve. The only thing he accomplished is seeing his old friends cross over to the other side of the street when they see him. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote : If there is any truth to the accusations that M was dipping his *wick* in places a monk shouldn't be, that might be a useful explanation. On Friday, May 9, 2014 2:44 PM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: They are ? I don't see why unless they are certain a soul has entered the fetus. Otherwise It's like burning down an abandoned house - Maharishi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/9/2014 11:20 AM, Duveyoung wrote: For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Almost everyone posting to FFL seems to be anti-abortion- but they might also exercise their right to choose. So, what's your point? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
On 5/9/2014 4:48 PM, Duveyoung wrote: But, abort a few grams of biological material that could become a viable infant? It's probably a lot more complicated than that for most women. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
On 5/9/2014 4:54 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: If there is any truth to the accusations that M was dipping his *wick* in places a monk shouldn't be, that might be a useful explanation. Maybe. Most men have a very different attitude toward conception and abortion SINCE THEY NEVER HAVE TO HAVE ONE. Go figure. On Friday, May 9, 2014 2:44 PM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: They are ? I don't see why unless they are certain a soul has entered the fetus. Otherwise It's like burning down an abandoned house - Maharishi --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
You are obviously easy to fool. Everyone knows that never happened and is a rumor put out by Rick Archer to gain publicity and hits for batgap. The only thing he accomplished is seeing his old friends cross over to the other side of the street when they see him. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mdixon.6569@... wrote : If there is any truth to the accusations that M was dipping his *wick* in places a monk shouldn't be, that might be a useful explanation. On Friday, May 9, 2014 2:44 PM, nablusoss1008 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: They are ? I don't see why unless they are certain a soul has entered the fetus. Otherwise It's like burning down an abandoned house - Maharishi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote : On 5/9/2014 11:20 AM, Duveyoung wrote: For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Almost everyone posting to FFL seems to be anti-abortion- but they might also exercise their right to choose. So, what's your point? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
Thanks for that! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : First you experience Shiva for some time, then Vishnu and when you start to experience the Devi it has no end. - Maharishi, from private notes ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : If you want to diss your imaginary God, it is helpful to keep in mind that She, is, in fact, female, and always will be. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The guy has a point. And he also has a point that God -- if The Bible can be seen as an accurate record of His works -- has killed off far more of His creations (human beings) than the human beings ever did. Based on the cast of The Bible, that is. God just *rocks* at genocide, even according to His holy Word. :-) From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 6:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks reads directly from The Bible in order to answer the question of whether or not G... View on www.tytnetwork.com https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Prez is in the area
He wants to identify with leprechauns? On 05/09/2014 07:00 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: He just wants to *identify* with the *little* people and show everybody that he's just one of us. On Thursday, May 8, 2014 7:18 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: And guess where he's going tomorrow! Walmart! (The one in Mountain View). weird Must be shopping for Mother's Day.
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
Someone sent me this, also from private notes but at a different occasion: In the beginning days of transcendence you will start to experience Shiva. When you have experienced all the aspects of Shiva you will begin to experience Vishnu. When you have experienced all the aspects of Vishnu you will begin to experience the Divine Mother, and that has no end. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Thanks for that! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : First you experience Shiva for some time, then Vishnu and when you start to experience the Devi it has no end. - Maharishi, from private notes ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : If you want to diss your imaginary God, it is helpful to keep in mind that She, is, in fact, female, and always will be. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The guy has a point. And he also has a point that God -- if The Bible can be seen as an accurate record of His works -- has killed off far more of His creations (human beings) than the human beings ever did. Based on the cast of The Bible, that is. God just *rocks* at genocide, even according to His holy Word. :-) From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 6:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks reads directly from The Bible in order to answer the question of whether or not G... View on www.tytnetwork.com https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
Please, Cenk isn't hard to figure out. Another dude that wants a way out of being a responsible adult. He not only claimed to have found abortion acceptable within the Bible but also infanticide! I took the time to read the passages he claimed to be reading and found something entirely different and nothing in line with what he was saying. I'd be curious to know which translation he used. I read the New Living Translation and in no way is there some *potion* that causes an abortion. On Friday, May 9, 2014 2:48 PM, Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Shows ya don't know Cenk. (And you should note that I would readily admit that he's an over the top ignorant asshole about a couple topics -- religion being one of them -- yet his political views are progressive enough to garner my approbation.) And yeah, I'm willing to take instruction from anyone who USES LOGIC WITH CONSISTENTLY DEFINED TERMS even though he's an over the top asshole with terrible and negative knee-jerk conceits about religion. He plainly demonstrates that alternate interpretations about biblical passages are easily imagined and robustly defended, and his sermon alone is a proof of sorts that the Bible is an open-to-interpretation document which will have necessarily differing value -- according to the wherewithal of the reader. This said, reading the Bible seems to me to have the same heft as reading any other scriptures if one is determined to read with mindful integrity -- such that the reading BUILDS NEURONS that model the reading experience's core concepts. Any scripture'll do, but the Bible has all the buzzwords of spirituality handled multiple times with delicate nuance and usage -- such that definitions and values emerge which then can serve the human with a skill-set and tool-box with which to have a deeper clarity about life's daily puzzles of morality and existence. Ask your average person What is being? and we all know the spiritual-amateurism with which the attempts to answer would be wielded. But have your average person read the Bible even once, and hoo boy, that person is going to have come to many conclusions and be able to answer a HOST OF INQUIRY. Not that that would save a soul a seat in Heaven, but I could consider being a dilettante in almost any endeavor as a life plus -- a profit. As for when a human being is OFFICIALLY a soul -- whew, I couldn't say, but I could speculate for HOURS. My best guess is when the first breath is taken -- but my definition of soul would bother most folks. But, abort a few grams of biological material that could become a viable infant? I got no problem with that. Once a fetus has a face, heartbeat and a nervous system that processes pain, then I'm saying no abortion allowed for most cases. But this is just me -- can't defend it as dogma. Edg
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[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
I live in a bit of crime area and work in a resurgent area. But I do plan to get my cc permit in a couple weeks. I went to the shooting range last week to get familiar with the two hand guns passed down to me from my grandfather and dad to me. One is a 32 cal. Smith Wesson snub nose revolver, and the other is a 32 cal. Colt semi automatic. There was no thrill for me in firing the weapons, and it was incredibly loud. But I figure I'd rather have the permit, than not. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : I agree with the gun saturation making this a big problem, regardless if all gun sales were stopped today. My dad had quite a collection - hundreds - and one thing I can say, is that guns last. Not like a modern appliance, where circuits or electronics can stop working, or a plastic part eventually breaks. Guns are built with a few working parts, all metal, and will continue to accurately function for a hundred years, or more. I still have a .32 colt semi-automatic, and a couple of .38 revolvers, colt and sw - not so much for protection, as for target shooting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
--In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : snip The most damage the average Dutch person is going to be able to do to me is by ramming me with his bicycle while trying to text while riding. And I'm not really convinced that either of us carrying a BFG (Big Fucking Gun) would make even that encounter more productive. :-) C: Around there the statistically more significant threat is on the super highways. I don't feel fear where I live but I do when I drive sometimes. Some people get there aggression out when driving and the tolerance for error is very small on our over congested roads. Sometimes I realize that some driver would really rather DIE than let my car over so I can get to my ramp! The game of chicken is pretty constant and so unnecessary. I am what they call a yielder driver. I get a buzz from letting someone into a lane in front of me and seeing the friendly hand wave. There was a funny Seinfeld where Jerry got very wound up when someone didn't give him his wave. I can actually relate. So my obit is very likely to include something about being in traffic and very unlikely to be that I died in a hail of bullets. I try to keep my fear in line with the stats as best I can. From: curtisdeltablues@... [FairfieldLife] FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com snip excellent stuff to I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. I've been thinking about your reply, Curtis, and it's helped me to see how much of my current world view is colored by where I live. I have lived in places where I *should* have been totin' a gun. In parts of Morocco, for example, or when I made an ill-advised Road Trip to Algeria without realizing it was a war zone. And in Santa Fe I admit to having actually owned a sawed-off shotgun for home protection because I wandered into a Gun Show there one day and looked around the National Guard Armory at the people around me who *did* own guns, and figured that I should get one to, to protect myself from *them*. :-) I never wound up firing the shotgun, even at a test range, and gave it to the Police Department when I left Santa Fe for good. (I thought that would be wiser than giving it to a friend or just tossing it in a dumpster.) And since then I've been living in Europe, which is so NOT a gun culture. Yes, people go hunting, and use shotguns, airguns, and the occasional rifle to do so, but in all three of the countries I've lived in, the concept of owning a handgun -- or needing one -- simply wouldn't occur to 95% of the population. In some of the countries, like France, it would be hard to even buy one. Guns just really aren't the dick substitutes here that they are in America. Europe is just SO not a gun-totin' culture. At least at this point, and in the 'hoods I choose to frequent. That said, if I were writing this from, say, Uganda or the Ukraine, I might have a Glock in an EZ-Out holster mounted under my desk. It's just that I don't have to think about that shit living where I live right now. I might have to if I were back in the US, even in relatively peaceful Santa Fe. I'm just happy that I don't have to live with that ever-present threat of crime (or FEAR of the ever-present threat of crime) that drives America to be such a gun culture. The most damage the average Dutch person is going to be able to do to me is by ramming me with his bicycle while trying to text while riding. And I'm not really convinced that either of us carrying a BFG (Big Fucking Gun) would make even that encounter more productive. :-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : I live in a bit of crime area and work in a resurgent area. But I do plan to get my cc permit in a couple weeks. I went to the shooting range last week to get familiar with the two hand guns passed down to me from my grandfather and dad to me. One is a 32 cal. Smith Wesson snub nose revolver, and the other is a 32 cal. Colt semi automatic. There was no thrill for me in firing the weapons, and it was incredibly loud. But I figure I'd rather have the permit, than not. Whoa, so strange for me to read about actual people who own actual guns. I live in an area where I wouldn't have to lock anything. Not my car, not my house, not my tack room which contains approximately $35K worth of saddles. I am very fortunate. I am surrounded by law-abiding neighbors and owls, salt water bays and Douglas fir. I don't want to have to live in fear nor do I ever want to feel I should own let alone carry a gun. I am vehemently anti-gun. It makes no sense to me that any flawed human being should actually be carrying around or have access to a weapon that responds so quickly to a whim or an emotion that you can't take back once the bloody thing fires. No thanks. I'll just stay someplace where deadly weapons are not considered as essential as a toothbrush. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : I agree with the gun saturation making this a big problem, regardless if all gun sales were stopped today. My dad had quite a collection - hundreds - and one thing I can say, is that guns last. Not like a modern appliance, where circuits or electronics can stop working, or a plastic part eventually breaks. Guns are built with a few working parts, all metal, and will continue to accurately function for a hundred years, or more. I still have a .32 colt semi-automatic, and a couple of .38 revolvers, colt and sw - not so much for protection, as for target shooting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the
Re: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this.
Quite remarkable, me seeing this description from you (here in my trailer park – lol) -- My first thought was, “How could they know? I haven’t told anyone…”. Seriously, I noticed an alignment with Shiva, starting about 21 years ago – green, grey, discrimination, boldness, Guru Dev as Shiva during a walk in a canyon in 1996, etc. It seems the function of this alignment is to get clear, almost in a militant sort of way, the Kshatriya energy. Then, about five(?) years ago, I began losing my affinity for that Shiva energy, and everything began to turn yellow, like the sun, like Vishnu, all accepting, the rays of the sun, which penetrate into everything, every crevice, every perspective, every aspect of the mind and heart, bathed in light, unceasingly. Quite a lot to behold, and absorb. Then the Divine Mother comes into view, and as the notes you summarized, mention, “and that has no end”. I infinitely prefer spiritual experience, to what I may read in a book, or hear in a spiritually oriented gathering, so it is always amazing, and satisfying, to eventually see a verification of something I have been keeping private, for many years. I had no idea that this sequence of personal experience, as I described above, was known to anyone else. Thanks again.:-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Someone sent me this, also from private notes but at a different occasion: In the beginning days of transcendence you will start to experience Shiva. When you have experienced all the aspects of Shiva you will begin to experience Vishnu. When you have experienced all the aspects of Vishnu you will begin to experience the Divine Mother, and that has no end. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : Thanks for that! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : First you experience Shiva for some time, then Vishnu and when you start to experience the Devi it has no end. - Maharishi, from private notes ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : If you want to diss your imaginary God, it is helpful to keep in mind that She, is, in fact, female, and always will be. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : The guy has a point. And he also has a point that God -- if The Bible can be seen as an accurate record of His works -- has killed off far more of His creations (human beings) than the human beings ever did. Based on the cast of The Bible, that is. God just *rocks* at genocide, even according to His holy Word. :-) From: Duveyoung no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 6:20 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] For the anti-abortionists here -- choke on this. Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Is The Bible Pro-Life? https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks reads directly from The Bible in order to answer the question of whether or not G... View on www.tytnetwork.com https://www.tytnetwork.com/2014/05/09/bible-pro-life/ Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
YES, they are LOUD - quite a shock wave. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : I live in a bit of crime area and work in a resurgent area. But I do plan to get my cc permit in a couple weeks. I went to the shooting range last week to get familiar with the two hand guns passed down to me from my grandfather and dad to me. One is a 32 cal. Smith Wesson snub nose revolver, and the other is a 32 cal. Colt semi automatic. There was no thrill for me in firing the weapons, and it was incredibly loud. But I figure I'd rather have the permit, than not. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : I agree with the gun saturation making this a big problem, regardless if all gun sales were stopped today. My dad had quite a collection - hundreds - and one thing I can say, is that guns last. Not like a modern appliance, where circuits or electronics can stop working, or a plastic part eventually breaks. Guns are built with a few working parts, all metal, and will continue to accurately function for a hundred years, or more. I still have a .32 colt semi-automatic, and a couple of .38 revolvers, colt and sw - not so much for protection, as for target shooting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to make ourselves feel better that we are doing SOMETHING is the answer. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Recently I've seen more and more news articles about smart guns, which can be personalized such that they can only be fired by their owners or someone pre-authorized by them. Ah, I said to myself, this may help in the attempts to wake America up to the need for some kind of effective gun control. Imagine my shock at my own naivete when I read this excellent article, and learned how the gun industry and the NRA are already in cahoots -- long before an effective smart gun ever appears on the market -- to co-opt the technology to eliminate current gun laws and turn America into the carry your gun anytime, and anywhere nation they fantasize about in their wet dreams. If this is how America reacts to a rare sane idea in the gun control battle, I almost hope the members of the NRA succeed in their quest, and turn the country into the Everyone-Armed-At-All-Times-Free-For-All Disneyland they hope for. Then possibly they'd all shoot each other and the world would finally be a saner place. Pando at the NRA: The Zuckerberg of guns could save lives and make millions, but he'll have to fight the NRA first
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
The fellow I was with, at first gave me just ear plugs. That didn't work. I then rented the big ear protectors. Like Jim said, the Colt, as old as it was, was extremely reliable. The SW snub nose, takes a special bullet that is quite expensive, so I didn't practice much with that. From what I've been told, it's a perfect defensive weapon. No safety. You just keep pulling the trigger until you don't need to anymore. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : I live in a bit of crime area and work in a resurgent area. But I do plan to get my cc permit in a couple weeks. I went to the shooting range last week to get familiar with the two hand guns passed down to me from my grandfather and dad to me. One is a 32 cal. Smith Wesson snub nose revolver, and the other is a 32 cal. Colt semi automatic. There was no thrill for me in firing the weapons, and it was incredibly loud. But I figure I'd rather have the permit, than not. C: Are you using the big ear protector headphone looking things at the range? Very important. I haven't shot at a range in over a decade I really should go again. I remember that the vibe was very serious, it felt tense but real. I enjoyed shooting at the range. Something zen about learning how to relax and squeeze. A 32 should be a pleasure to shoot. You might consider getting some of the special rounds for self defense that up the stopping power for a smaller gun like that. Your gun store guy will know. Nothing like a wheel gun for reliability. I have a Walthur PPK .380 (think James Bond) which is semi auto. If I had it to do over again I would get a revolver. If you don't hold them right for the kick to eject the shell case right they can jam. Better to have it and not need it if you are in squirrelly areas. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : I agree with the gun saturation making this a big problem, regardless if all gun sales were stopped today. My dad had quite a collection - hundreds - and one thing I can say, is that guns last. Not like a modern appliance, where circuits or electronics can stop working, or a plastic part eventually breaks. Guns are built with a few working parts, all metal, and will continue to accurately function for a hundred years, or more. I still have a .32 colt semi-automatic, and a couple of .38 revolvers, colt and sw - not so much for protection, as for target shooting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever twitchy tech bullshit is keeping me from saying please shop elsewhere at 140 decibels. America does seem to have a shooting each other problem.It may not have any simple solution. But I don't believe that pursuing make believe solutions to
[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought
I know. Kinda strange Ann. These guns sat in a safe for probably 40 years untouched. They've never been needed, and aren't really needed now. But, as you mention, we do live in different areas. And, I like where I live. It is a diverse area, that is attracting new residents as urban sprawl reverses and people move back to the city. But, there is also a great element of unpredictability, and so, I am going to take a precautionary step should it ever be needed. Owls. Owls. That must be so cool. There used to be an owl that would come around every fall, but I think the people across the street got rid of the where that owl would sit. It always caused such a ruckus among the other birds when he showed up. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : I live in a bit of crime area and work in a resurgent area. But I do plan to get my cc permit in a couple weeks. I went to the shooting range last week to get familiar with the two hand guns passed down to me from my grandfather and dad to me. One is a 32 cal. Smith Wesson snub nose revolver, and the other is a 32 cal. Colt semi automatic. There was no thrill for me in firing the weapons, and it was incredibly loud. But I figure I'd rather have the permit, than not. Whoa, so strange for me to read about actual people who own actual guns. I live in an area where I wouldn't have to lock anything. Not my car, not my house, not my tack room which contains approximately $35K worth of saddles. I am very fortunate. I am surrounded by law-abiding neighbors and owls, salt water bays and Douglas fir. I don't want to have to live in fear nor do I ever want to feel I should own let alone carry a gun. I am vehemently anti-gun. It makes no sense to me that any flawed human being should actually be carrying around or have access to a weapon that responds so quickly to a whim or an emotion that you can't take back once the bloody thing fires. No thanks. I'll just stay someplace where deadly weapons are not considered as essential as a toothbrush. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, fleetwood_macncheese@... wrote : I agree with the gun saturation making this a big problem, regardless if all gun sales were stopped today. My dad had quite a collection - hundreds - and one thing I can say, is that guns last. Not like a modern appliance, where circuits or electronics can stop working, or a plastic part eventually breaks. Guns are built with a few working parts, all metal, and will continue to accurately function for a hundred years, or more. I still have a .32 colt semi-automatic, and a couple of .38 revolvers, colt and sw - not so much for protection, as for target shooting. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues@... wrote : Couple of caveats. I think the NRA has done a lot of harm to the county and I am appalled at the power they wield in US politics beyond all reason. I am not a member and not a fan of the NRA for lots of reasons. But I also grew up within hunting culture which means gun culture. I knew how to check if a gun was loaded to sure no one got hurt by elementary school. ( I believe all kids should learn this life saving skill.) But the smart gun is no solution to anything except maybe the company who gets to cash in on the hype. The thing about guns in America is that the ship already sailed. We have guns out the wazoo and there will be no retrofitting all of them with anything. If we never made or imported another gun we would still have a gun problem. I put that in quotes because since I saw Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore and found out how many guns the relatively pacifist Canadians have. I now see the issue as a people problem. So smart gun tech will not solve our problem with people shooting each other, and if you have kids and own a gun, and the gun is not in a safe, (a real one that costs enough to actually work) and your kids shoots someone, you need to go to jail dad or mom. I live in a high crime area. I do not have a carry permit but I own a gun. I like the idea that if someone breaks in I have a chance to defend my life. I also know that this is the most long shot (funny choice of words) threat to my life as I careen around the beltway of DC where people die every day. But even so the fact is that where I live this does happen and as a guy who walks in and out of his door every day with thousands of dollars of musical gear many times a week, I do actually have a bit of a target on my door. And if I should ever have to use deadly force to defend myself against people desperate enough to come into my crib with evil intent, I am not trusting the same guys who make it impossible for me to put anyone on hold on my phone, or who turn my computer into a brick every time I play a freak'n Youtube video to make sure my gun works without a quick reboot to reset whatever
[FairfieldLife] Note to Rick, Conderning his interview with Sam Harris
Dear Rick, What does Sam Harris feel about the Vedic reverberations of Sanskrit? And the ontology of the Unified Field transcendent experience in the physiology? Does he have any experience with this that could allow him to speak with any authority around spiritual experience? Rick, I just finished the Harry Aalto batgap.com interview. That was good criticism based on experience too. He has an amazing base voice but his perspective by experience was piercing. Janet Sussman who lived in Fairfield for years held weekly living living- room satsangs too with folks where her consult was very much like the way Harri Aalto languages it by virtue of evolving and long experience. Fun to hear it so clearly talked about and advocated for in the same way so directly by two different people in two very different packages. Same thing. In the Unified Field Your friend always, -Buck fleetwood_macncheese Writes: Yeah, I agree with the bit about spiritual experiences being something that a person gets used to, no matter how flashy they may be, initially. Humans are great at assimilating any kind of experience. I find too, that whenever I tried to hold on to any spiritual experience, it went away. Once unbounded awareness is established (while it continues to expand), there is no obstacle to any kind of flashy experience; hang out with angels? why not? visit the inside of the body? OK. and after awhile, its like if a person works at Disneyland and can ride the rides, all they want, any time they want. There are two sides to life, anyway - the spiritual momentum, and character development, aka 'doing the work'. Much more concerned, and interested, in the latter, these days. So, it doesn't matter to me what a person's beliefs are, as much as what kind of a person they are. Beliefs don't count for much. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, steve.sundur@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : Thanks for your comments. One of the things that amuses me in this discussion is that two of the participants so far who are on record as having no need to believe in a God are also on record as having had enlightenment experiences. Whereas possibly some of those who think of themselves as believers in God have not. Such an assumption that really serves no useful purpose other than, well, you know.. Clearly belief in God has nothing to do with awakening or being able to have clear, according-to-Maharishi's-definitions periods of enlightenment. It might be helpful to know who you are arguing with on this point. My larger point is that I think that having a belief in God has nothing to do with *anything* other than having Just Another Belief. Such a belief is not necessary to follow a spiritual path, and not having such a belief is no hindrance to one. You do realize that you make this point on a nearly daily basis as though there is someone on the other side of this argument. I mean, I get the impression that people who have so called spiritual experiences may just make a note of them, and then move on. Now, I suppose there are many who benchmark these experiences, but really, it's not anything I much see here. So, maybe your comments are directed to a different audience. Even Jim, who is not bashful about declaring his enlightenment uses his own descriptions. I mean maybe they do end up corresponding somewhat to the experiences you read about in texts, and that MMY has outlined, but growth of spiritual experiences, if they are genuine, come off as being quite fresh, and usually quite confusing, at least at first. .
