[FairfieldLife] Re: Islam and AUM
It might be helpful to define the mantras used in TM and in the Indian yoga meditation practices. A "mantra" is a word or phrase used in the oral tradition and in the literature of the Aryan speakers who migrated from the Caucasus region into the Middle and Near East - Iran and India. The Rig Veda is composed of 'mantras' extolling the supernal deities or the forces of nature. The Vedic mantras are words with semantic meaning. The earliest use of mantras are in the Rig Veda, which was probably composed in the land of five-rivers, modern Pakistan, after the arrival of the Aryan speakers in South Asia. That would be around 1500 B.C. Vedic mantras are not the same as bija mantras. There are no "bija" mantras in the Rig Veda or in the Avesta. The use of bija mantras is a relatively recent practice. A "bija" mantra is an esoteric "seed" sound used in Buddhist and Hindu tantric initiation beginning in the Gupta Age in India. Bija mantras have no semantic meaning - bi Hindu bija mantras are concerned with the devatas, the deified heroes of Indian literature, such as Vasudeva, Krishna, Balarama, and Ramchandra, for supplication or for the gaining of boons. Buddhist bija mantras are concerned with the enlightenment tradition. The first use of bija mantras is probably the Buddhist 'Heart Sutra, (Prajnaparmita Hridaya) which was composed around 200 B.C., probably in the Swat Valley. Hindu bija mantras came after that, along with the Indian alchemists, the so-called '84 Maha-Siddhas' of Siddha Yoga Tantric tradition. Work cited: The Tantric Tradition by Agehananda Bharati Rider, 1965 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thanks for that. Of course, AUM also has a link with AMEN in Christianity - and perhaps with AMON (also spelled Amun, Amen) the chief deity in Ancient Egyptian religion. I've copied below a segment of the piece you linked to as it might intrigue others: "In the very beginning of your Koran, at the top, are three letters, alif (A), lam (L) and mim (M). Can any of you or any learned Mulawi of Islam explain what these three letters mean?' The Moslems replied that this was a secret which Allah had kept to himself. Swami Rama laughed heartily at this remark and said: ‘When God has revealed the entire Koran for the benefit of mankind, as the Muslims claim, it is very strange that he has kept its very heading a secret. No. It is not so. If you, the Muslims who put full faith in the Koran do not know the secret of the letters A, L, M, Rama will tell you what they signify. Alif, Lam and Mim are nothing but alif (A), wao (O) and mim (M), that is, AOM or OM.' The Muslims objected that the letter L is not the same as the letter O, but Swami Rama pointed out to them that in Arabic grammar L is pronounced O when it falls between a vowel and a consonant, as in the names Shamsuddin, which is written Shamsaldin, or Nizamuddin, which is written Nizamaldin. The letter lam (L) becomes silent and gives the sound of the Arabic letter pesh (O or U). Therefore ALM is no secret; it is clearly and unambiguously OM and nothing but OM. It is Kufra, heretical or a sin, to blame God for keeping it a secret." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Islam and OM (AUM) the Creative Sound Of God http://www.ttonline.org/forum/threads/7965-Islam-and-OM-%28AUM%29-the-Creative-Sound-Of-God Islam and OM (AUM) the Creative Sound Of God http://www.ttonline.org/forum/threads/7965-Islam-and-OM-%28AUM%29-the-Creative-Sound-Of-God TTonline - Trinidad & Tobago Online Community View on www.ttonline.org http://www.ttonline.org/forum/threads/7965-Islam-and-OM-%28AUM%29-the-Creative-Sound-Of-God Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] 'International Conference for Re-establishing Vedic India' / HIGHLIGHTS
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ha ha ha ha! Typical Movement bullshit. Label the conference as something not really TM-ish, but then stack the deck with Movement shills and junkies. Won't accomplish shit, but you gotta admire the TMO for trying to to get more and more and more stupid people to give them money. One thing is for sure - you sucked as a dish-washer! YOU WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO STACK DISHES IN THE MUM CAMPUS KITCHEN EVER AGAIN. LoL! From: "email4you mikemail4you@... [FairfieldLife]" To: Email4you Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:42 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] 'International Conference for Re-establishing Vedic India' / HIGHLIGHTS even The Dalai Lama sent his greetings and full support for reaching the conference goals Following are just a few of the highlights from the 'International Conference for Re-establishing Vedic India', which featured many of India's leading scientists, educators, government ministers and spiritual luminaries--and also prominent Vedic Scientists, educators and researchers from all parts of the world. Dr Peter Swan gives a beautiful, detailed overview of this historic conference, with slides, anecdotes, and descriptions of the speakers and their topics on the Maharishi Channel's 'Family Chat'. Maharaja Adhiraj Rajaram (Dr Tony Nader) gave an overview of Vedic Science in light of Maharishi's insights: he explained that Vedic Science is not a philosophy or religion--or just inspiring stories. Vedic Science is the complete understanding of how Nature functions--both on the level of individual life, and all life in the universe. In great detail, he described the many ways that Maharishi revitalized the understanding of Vedic Science and brought out the techniques to experience Enlightenment--the fundamental reality that 'I am the Veda'. His talk highlighted the beauty and simplicity of Maharishi's Vedic Science and technologies: the reality that problems are many in the world but the solution is one--the experience of that divinity which is there within everyone. The revered Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, Vasudevananda Saraswati, gave a beautiful and stirring tribute to the ever growing impact of Maharishi's revival of Vedic Science in the world. And he congratulated Maharaja and all the scientists who are upholding the purity and completeness of this knowledge. He echoed the words of Maharaja: 'Vedic Science is not just for India--it is for the world'. And he pledged his complete support for implementing Maharishi's programmes to bring peace and prosperity to all lands and people. Shankaracharya ji presided over every session of the three day conference. He said: "This knowledge is for everyone--Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Jews, everyone. Maharaja has brought Maharishi's knowledge from modern science and Vedic Science and we will take it! I pray God, I wish, and I demand that we shine the light of Veda--that we shine the light of harmony--throughout India and the world." Yogashri Swami Ram Dev ji, is considered by many to be the greatest living Yogi in India. He spoke with enormous enthusiasm about Maharishi's revival of knowledge, and Maharaja's leadership in the world. He promised to speak with Prime Minister Narendra Modi about implementing Maharishi's programmes for India, and he said that he wanted to sponsor the next such conference on Vedic Science. He requested that all the leading scientists that Maharishi had trained so perfectly, should again and again come to India to help with this great work. He said: "Maharishi has done all the work by breaking down the barriers--by introducing Transcendental Meditation, Yoga, and Vedic Wisdom to the whole world. There are so many teachers in the field of Yoga--but we should all be learning from Maharishi. This is the real Vedic Yoga, that Maharishi ji has given to the world." He added: "Maharaja has given up everything in the service of Maharishi--when we do that, when we give ourselves completely to service, then the whole world works for us! (followed by great laughter)...The world is fascinated by wealth, but it will never bring happiness and peace. Complete knowledge--this is what Maharaja is giving, and all his saintly scientists and educators. I salute Maharishi ji--that great Maha Purusha! Maharishi has brought you all, the vanguard of Vedic Knowledge in the world--the holy, pious priests of Vedic Wisdom--a blessing for the whole world." Swami Amritaswaroopananda Puri is the senior disciple of Amma ji. He spoke about the importance of the Vedic principle of harmony. He said that this conference would surely become the inspiration for a coherent effort to restore Vedic Wisdom to India. The Dalai Lama sent his greetings and full support for reaching the conference goals. He has met with Maharishi's movement leaders, and has enthusiastically heard about all the practical, proven programmes to br
[FairfieldLife] Re: Recently in Vlodrop
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Cheers for the nice photo's. Interesting to see how in yer face they are with the deities these days. We used to hide them when newbies or non-meditators were about. It looks like they are happy to embrace their inner Hindoo. So, you lived in a TM Center for 15 years, until you got kicked out for non-payment of rent. yet you still get down on your hands and knees twice a day to pray to the "Hindoo" gods, but you used to hide them from newbies, and now you inner embrace them. Did I get that right? That's quite a construction plan as well, be interesting to see how much of it they get built. All they need is the money I suspect ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Two weeks ago I visited Holland, for the first time since more than 25 years, when I had left Vlodrop, walking over to the small station on the German site, with my small suitcases. I never had a pull to go back, considering it as something of the past, in which I had more of a peripheral interest. Now, having things to do in Holland, I thought, why not just pass it by, it was sort of on the way. I didn't expect much, just a small stop over, maybe seeing some buildings from the fence. When I arrived, security at the main gate, I pulled out my Android to take a few shots, the building I had once lived in was basically a ruin by now, and was in the process of being finally broken down, it didn't look pretty for sure. I later learned, that they now have an official permission to demolish it. The new building of Maharsihi could be seen to the right site, but not very visible, unless I would enter, but there was the security man. But I was lucky, an old friend appeared, I could recognize him from some of the more recent webpages and from facebook. I called his name, and he too recognized me, gave me a hearty hug and welcome. He looked good. He started guiding me inside and gave me some explanations, and even finally led me into Maharishis house, which I had seen only on websites so far, showed me the ground floor. The building isn't very wide actually, much smaller than many movement buildings I had been too. It was a nice sunny day, though cold. The center part of it has been gilded in the mean time. My friend showed me then around to see all the newly constructed buildings and forrest shrines to different deities, explaining me the vastu of it all. etc. Than it was time to go, I still had to travel about two hours to a place near The Hague, probably not to far from the place Barry is staying. I must say, that I really like Holland, it's a very clean modern and open country, lot's of bicylces everywhere, very interesting constructions, some like the one Barry is driving with Maya. Anyway, the meeting I attended to went very well, and it was a great trip.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Recently in Vlodrop
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Great writeup. Thanks. I doubt that I'd be able to get in to the Vlodrop buildings if I went; it's just been too many years since I left the TMO for it to have any easy way of figuring out who I was and that I actually went to TTC in 1972 and took my Sidhis course in 1977. Besides, I don't have a beige suit, so they probably wouldn't let me in for that reason. :-) Why not just wear the dress you paid $500 for that used to belong to the 6th Dalai Lama of Tibet? Just tell the security guard that you are "Uncle Tantra" and that you've come to write a report for Yahoo FFL or TM-Free. It's not complicated. Sorry I couldn't get away for coffee when you were nearby. Big work deadline that I just barely managed to meet. From: aryavazhi To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 1:31 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Recently in Vlodrop Two weeks ago I visited Holland, for the first time since more than 25 years, when I had left Vlodrop, walking over to the small station on the German site, with my small suitcases. I never had a pull to go back, considering it as something of the past, in which I had more of a peripheral interest. Now, having things to do in Holland, I thought, why not just pass it by, it was sort of on the way. I didn't expect much, just a small stop over, maybe seeing some buildings from the fence. When I arrived, security at the main gate, I pulled out my Android to take a few shots, the building I had once lived in was basically a ruin by now, and was in the process of being finally broken down, it didn't look pretty for sure. I later learned, that they now have an official permission to demolish it. The new building of Maharsihi could be seen to the right site, but not very visible, unless I would enter, but there was the security man. But I was lucky, an old friend appeared, I could recognize him from some of the more recent webpages and from facebook. I called his name, and he too recognized me, gave me a hearty hug and welcome. He looked good. He started guiding me inside and gave me some explanations, and even finally led me into Maharishis house, which I had seen only on websites so far, showed me the ground floor. The building isn't very wide actually, much smaller than many movement buildings I had been too. It was a nice sunny day, though cold. The center part of it has been gilded in the mean time. My friend showed me then around to see all the newly constructed buildings and forrest shrines to different deities, explaining me the vastu of it all. etc. Than it was time to go, I still had to travel about two hours to a place near The Hague, probably not to far from the place Barry is staying. I must say, that I really like Holland, it's a very clean modern and open country, lot's of bicylces everywhere, very interesting constructions, some like the one Barry is driving with Maya. Anyway, the meeting I attended to went very well, and it was a great trip.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I thought I'd made myself clear. You did not make yourself clear. You failed to explain how 200 drug-crazed hippies got into a State Park in the middle of the night, when everyone knows that state parks are closed to tourists at 6:00 PM and there's only parking space for a dozen cars at a time. You also failed to make clear exactly how you got back to Denny's without getting a DUI after staying up all night, drinking and carousing and dancing around an illegal bon fire. You could have at least cleaned up your camp site before you left. Everyone know there are only two public latrines at the park. Gawd! "I've seen someone levitate. Many times. In many settings, from the Los Angeles Convention Center to the Anza-Borrego Desert to a Denny's restaurant in the wee hours of the night." - TurquoiseB In my well-considered opinion, I class anyone who believes in astrology in the same category as someone who believes that the moon is made of green cheese. What *variety* of astrology they believe in is therefore irrelevant. What they think of me is also irrelevant. "Knowing shit about astrology" is the most irrelevant of all. Look, I get it. You believe in this stuff and you've devoted time and energy to study it, and thus you are more than a little attached to believing that you didn't waste your time. I think you did, and I'm not willing to waste mine. We're at an impasse. You will never convince me otherwise, except by producing a study conducted with near-perfect protocols and study design that proves otherwise, so strongly that *any* scientist would believe it. We (non-believers in astrology) have said this on this forum many times, inviting the believers in astrology here to perform a mini-verison of such a study and predict some concrete, non-falsifiable event in the future that can be easily verified as either having happened in the predicted (and short term) timeline, or disproved. Not one of you has ever done so. It is my contention that you have not done so because you can't. So the bottom line is that I think it's just FINE for you to believe in astrology, even though I think it's a crock of shit. You can't ever change my mind about this *EXCEPT* by producing the kind of definitive, scientific study I ask for. There it stands. Put up or shut up. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up? You just made yourself a laughing stock to anyone who knows astrology with that statement. Show you know shit about astrology and proves my point. Another beer? :-D On 02/27/2015 09:06 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Exactly. It's the fact that he believes in astrology that puts him in the same camp as someone who believes that the moon is made of green cheese. What *type* of astrology he believes in is irrelevant. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up? Ahem, the person in question is the British politician who advocates astrology. BTW, I started reading about this several days ago. It sounds like he practices western astrology though not vedic. That's why I kidded Sal to go ask him. :-D On 02/27/2015 08:54 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Asking what kind of astrology a person practices is like asking someone who believes that the moon is made of green cheese what kind of knife astronauts should use to slice themselves off a chunk of moon to serve for dinner. :-) From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com He'sright about one thing: most of the astrology critics know shit about astrology. What kind of astrology does he follow: vedic (sidereal) or western? Why don't you go ask him. On 02/27/2015 12:21 AM, salyavin808 wrote: It seems that Britain's ruling class have a secret penchant for asking the stars for advice and some even believe it's the missing link in healthcare. Those stupid scientists just don't understand it apparently. My favourite quote here is that astrology may not stand up to scrutiny but is based on thousands of years of observations. But majority of those were observing the wrong number of planets Also interesting is the claim that criticism of astrology is racism! Sounds like a desperate gambit to me. This is the march of the idiocracy. We'll be back in the stone age before we know it. I know what would solve crisis in the NHS, say
Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?
So, you took up a bus up to Iowa to join a religious cult; work in the kitchen as a bus-boy for free; lived in a pod for two years; got down on your hands and knees twice a day to pray to the Hindu gods; and went inside a golden dome for hours to try and fly; but we are "a bunch of blind men commenting on an elephant." Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The discussion here is hilarious as we have a bunch of blind men commenting on the elephant called astrology. :-D That's like saying we all have to get ebola to know its a bad thing. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up? Yes, there are many bad astrologers. I read an article a couple years about by an astrologer who asserted that many beginning astrologers are sometimes better at interpretations than experienced astrologers. Why? Because astrologer because tangled up in the "rules.". Beginners tend to use their intuition as they don't know the "rules" yet. But doing astrology mechanically by the "rules" would be as bad as writing a piece of music based entirely on the rules of music theory and composition. Those rules are "tools" and meant to help you out of a bind when writing a tune. Likewise astrology is a form of "divination" like palmistry. We don't know how it works but it does work in the hands of someone with intuition and the ability to "divine" meaning out of abstraction. In our computer age it is now possible to examine recurring patterns that took place over centuries. One recurring pattern that is being studied shows an 80 year recurring cycle that expresses itself through our global politics. Think what was taking place 80 years ago and compare it with now. This cycle has been shown to go back about 900 years. Predictive astrology is a primitive method of mapping these cycles. In general it is a "weather report" that provides the propensity for events happening. I know Chakrapani and he's also looked at my horoscope in one of his group sessions. Blurted out that I should have been a doctor because of the presence of Jupiter in my first house. Interesting because I have no problem understanding medical and biochemical principles but if I had chosen that field I would have gone the research rather than clinical route. But I have a strong third house ruled by Jupiter which drove me into the arts. I even regard computer programming as an artform and not a science. The discussion here is hilarious as we have a bunch of blind men commenting on the elephant called astrology. :-D On 02/28/2015 05:54 AM, feste37 wrote: That's interesting. I have never consulted one of the MMY-approved jyotishees, and from what I have heard they are not that great. I'm sorry that they didn't do a good job for you. I can assure you that the readings I am referring to did not fit your description of "feeble character analysis." They were detailed and accurate and very useful. I recommend Chakrapani in LA as one of them. At one point he said something to me that was dead-on accurate and I said "I didn't think anyone else knew that about me!" He just laughed. I wonder if the MMY jyotishees are kind of mass produced, so to speak, not people for whom the study of astrology is a lifetime's calling. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : In my experience over the past 35 years, and I have said so on this board more than once, astrology is the best tool for self-understanding that there is—at least, the best I have found. I'm sorry for these scientific types whose minds are so closed. I wonder whether any of them have ever had their natal chart done by a competent astrologer. Well I have. From Marshy's favourite jyotishee apparently. It was rubbish. But then you might say he just wasn't a very competent astrologer. The funny thing was everyone on the course I was attending thought he was great until I started pointing out the obvious shortcomings in what he was telling people. Most of them were being told the same thing and it was all so India-centric, with advice to get jobs as ticket-wallas and such like, that it was embarrassing. But not to the devotees until I opened my mouth, they thought it was great. I wonder what you would have said about his skills? I only went along for the reading because my girlfriend wanted a compatibility chart done. He said we were perfect except for occasional disagreements (wow) and should take care communicating. He told her she would take a journey up a great river and write a book about science. She didn't on both counts. He told
Re: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I think you and Barry have too much time on your hands, from what I skimmed below. TIme to write endlessly on the internet, (but not take a few minutes to meet a friend for coffee) I guess those flesh and blood interactions can be a bitch. (-: This is such a stupid and inappropriate comment, as we say here, a punch under the belt, that it really angers me. You have nothing to do with it, why do you interfere? You just take a friendly interaction and abuse it for your own vicious goals. Is that what you learn at the_peak? So, this is what you guys do on Saturday night. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In my experience over the past 35 years, and I have said so on this board more than once, astrology is the best tool for self-understanding that there is—at least, the best I have found. I'm sorry for these scientific types whose minds are so closed. I wonder whether any of them have ever had their natal chart done by a competent astrologer. Well I have. From Marshy's favourite jyotishee apparently. It was rubbish. But then you might say he just wasn't a very competent astrologer. The funny thing was everyone on the course I was attending thought he was great until I started pointing out the obvious shortcomings in what he was telling people. Most of them were being told the same thing and it was all so India-centric, with advice to get jobs as ticket-wallas and such like, that it was embarrassing. But not to the devotees until I opened my mouth, they thought it was great. I wonder what you would have said about his skills? I only went along for the reading because my girlfriend wanted a compatibility chart done. He said we were perfect except for occasional disagreements (wow) and should take care communicating. He told her she would take a journey up a great river and write a book about science. She didn't on both counts. He told me I'd be very wealthy in middle age. Not so far but I don't give much of a toss anyway. I'll let you know if it comes to pass. The rest of it was feeble character analysis such as you would get in any 5 cent gipsy tent at the local fair "You are kind but like to say what you think" etc... See Rorshach for further details. The only time astrology interests me is when they make claims about these periods in life that we supposedly go through. Things people in the TMO say like "I'm in gurmuntha and so can't be expected to be successful just now" this is all checkable and I was disappointed that it didn't match up. It seems more likely that we just cherry pick things from life to say that we agree with the planetary diagnosis and if it doesn't work we can blame our karma. I've heard it all. I would doubt it. Astrology does not get such high marks from me for predicting the future, but that's not what I have used it for. Astrology can tell you a huge amount about who you are. The first reading I ever had was from an American astrologer named Howard Sasportas. He also happened to be a TM teacher. He was absolutely brilliant. I will always be grateful to him for the way he gave me an understanding of myself through astrology. (And as it happens, his predictions for the future were pretty spot on too.) So his predictions of the future were good but you don't think it gets high marks generally? I don't get it, it either is or it isn't good at something. How can it be good for you but not me? I'll tell you, I think it depends rather more on the intuition of the astrologer than it does on any planetary influence - not that there is any - It's just pot luck if something ties up. And it depends what it is, something that's quite likely to happen like getting a new job if you've been looking for one. Out of the blue stuff is impossible to predict but it doesn't stop the TMO claiming that it can. I remember they used to publish a list of predictions for the year but abandoned it after 9/11. I used to keep them and check them at the end of the year, I once asked a "higher-up" how come none of it ever came true and he claimed that our meditation affected world events through the unified field so it was bound to be inaccurate. I further pondered why they didn't just include the revised events as part of the original prediction but that met with a stony look. This is my point, if you accept it you tend not to ask too much of it - certainly not how it might work. If you want to get to the bottom of it you find it all unravels pretty quickly under scrutiny and that's before we get to the actual behaviour of bodies in the solar system and how our knowledge of what they are has changed over the years. I also remember the TMO changed the birthchart requirements for a while so you had to include both your parents and grandparents birth details before they'd attempt a r
Re: [FairfieldLife] Invincible Peru envy of the world
Peru and it's natural resources can't compare to your home state, South Carolina, with its salt marshes, stony sand and rocky foothills, dunes and sediments of silt and clay; its tornadoes, cyclones, earthquakes and hurricanes and mosquito-infested sub-tropical swamps. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : A very simple search shows just how full of crap this "envy of the world" is. "Peru is a country of abundant natural resources and rich culture. Despite this, over half of the population live in poverty. Social discrimination and inequality are widespread. More information on the key challenges for Peru are outlined below." "The biggest problem for travellers in Peru is, without adoubt, thieves, for which the country has one of the worst reputations in SouthAmerica" "In recent years, public protests against large-scale mining projects, as well as other government policies and private sector initiatives, have led to numerous confrontations between police and protesters, and resulted in the shooting deaths of civilians by state security forces" Face it Sri - the TM Movement is a huckster organization that can't save its own ass much less the rest of the world. From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 1:28 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Invincible Peru envy of the world Barack Obama: Avance económico del Perú es "envidia del mundo" http://elcomercio.pe/economia/peru/obama-avance-economico-peru-envidia-mundo-noticia-1793694 http://elcomercio.pe/economia/peru/obama-avance-economico-peru-envidia-mundo-noticia-1793694 Barack Obama: Avance económico del Perú es "env... http://elcomercio.pe/economia/peru/obama-avance-economico-peru-envidia-mundo-noticia-1793694 El presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, se reunió hoy con el nuevo embajador peruano en Washington y ex ministro de Econom... View on elcomercio.pe http://elcomercio.pe/economia/peru/obama-avance-economico-peru-envidia-mundo-noticia-1793694 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Birdman director is TMer
The award winning David Lynch can't hold a candle to all your accomplishments. LoL! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : So is David Lynch and who the hell wants to be anything like that freak? From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 1:26 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Birdman director is TMer yet another brilliant film director is a TMer ALEJANDRO GONZALES IÑARTU, Director de... - Meditación Trascendental Perú | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/INSTITUTO.MAHARISHI.PERU/posts/10152873596466492 https://www.facebook.com/INSTITUTO.MAHARISHI.PERU/posts/10152873596466492 ALEJANDRO GONZALES IÑARTU, Director de... - Me... https://www.facebook.com/INSTITUTO.MAHARISHI.PERU/posts/10152873596466492 ALEJANDRO GONZALES IÑARTU, Director de Cine ganador del Oscar 2015 como mejor director por su película también ganadora como la ... View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/INSTITUTO.MAHARISHI.PERU/posts/10152873596466492 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?
So, you took a bus up to Iowa to join a religious cult; worked for free on staff in the kitchen setting up tables; lived alone in a pod for 2 years; got down on your hands and knees to pray to the Hindu gods twice a day; went inside a golden dome to try and "fly" on numerous occasions; introduced your co-workers to porn and posted the results on public social media; but you're thinking this guy is doing stupid stuff. Did I get that right? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : God damn! I can't believe this guy would say that publicly! Here in the US it would be political suicide (unless you are Dennis Kucinich). Does this Tory have a penchant for saying and doing stupid stuff? From: salyavin808 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 3:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Maybe this is why things get so screwed up? It seems that Britain's ruling class have a secret penchant for asking the stars for advice and some even believe it's the missing link in healthcare. Those stupid scientists just don't understand it apparently. My favourite quote here is that astrology may not stand up to scrutiny but is based on thousands of years of observations. But majority of those were observing the wrong number of planets Also interesting is the claim that criticism of astrology is racism! Sounds like a desperate gambit to me. This is the march of the idiocracy. We'll be back in the stone age before we know it. I know what would solve crisis in the NHS, says Tory MP: astrology - Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11432344/Astrology-could-solve-crisis-in-the-NHS-says-Tory-MP.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11432344/Astrology-could-solve-crisis-in-the-NHS-says-Tory-MP.html I know what would solve crisis in the NHS, says Tory MP:... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11432344/Astrology-could-solve-crisis-in-the-NHS-says-Tory-MP.html David Tredinnick, the MP for Bosworth in Leicestershire, predicts that if doctors look to the stars they will find ways to treat patients and take huge pressure of... View on www.telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11432344/Astrology-could-solve-crisis-in-the-NHS-says-Tory-MP.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] What conservatives have in common with religious fanatics and cultists
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : In the context I'm talking about (FFL), however, there is a *clear* pattern that we can attribute to the TM TBs who have consistently practiced "Shoot the messenger" on this forum for *decades*. They -- on the whole -- run this "Shoot the messenger" routine *instead* of discussing or debating the ideas that the messenger/critics bring up. "I've been sitting three feet in front of him and seen him go invisible, to the point where you could see stars through the outline of his body, and then no outline. I've seen him do the same trick from the feet up, leaving only a Cheshire Cat smile before it went pop! and disappeared, too." - TurquoiseBee From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]" Didn't waist my time reading the article but it seems to imply that this is not a tactic used by liberals as well. LOL. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" Especially the religious fanatics and cultists on Fairfield Life. Some less brainwashed person says something they don't like because it causes them to realize that their beliefs or their spiritual teacher are kinda silly, and rather than react to the criticisms themselves, they attack the critics personally and try to smear them. Fortunately, all but a couple of these religious fanatics bailed from FFL recently. This is just a reminder to the 2 or 3 who are left that nobody is buying your tactics. The Ugly Conservative Tactic of Brutally Attacking Individuals, Even Kids, Instead of Ideas http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas The Ugly Conservative Tactic of Brutally Attacking Indiv... http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas Conservatives attack and smear individuals to silence them and discredit popular ideas. View on www.alternet.org http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: What conservatives have in common with religious fanatics and cultists
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Especially the religious fanatics and cultists on Fairfield Life. So, you sold nonsense gibberish syllables for money for 14 years; paid $5,000 to learn yogic "flying"; promoted human "levitation" for another 20 years; you bought a used "dress" supposedly worn by the 6th Dalai Lama of Tibet for $500 - and hung it over your double bed; you've been on social media, calling yourself "Uncle Tantra", for 17 years; but I am the brainwashed "religious fanatic" and "cultist"? Go figure. What happened to all the money? Some less brainwashed person says something they don't like because it causes them to realize that their beliefs or their spiritual teacher are kinda silly, and rather than react to the criticisms themselves, they attack the critics personally and try to smear them. Fortunately, all but a couple of these religious fanatics bailed from FFL recently. This is just a reminder to the 2 or 3 who are left that nobody is buying your tactics. The Ugly Conservative Tactic of Brutally Attacking Individuals, Even Kids, Instead of Ideas http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas The Ugly Conservative Tactic of Brutally Attacking Indiv... http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas Conservatives attack and smear individuals to silence them and discredit popular ideas. View on www.alternet.org http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] What conservatives have in common with religious fanatics and cultists
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Didn't waist my time reading the article but it seems to imply that this is not a tactic used by liberals as well. LOL. "I had 14 years in the TMO and 20 more years in other organizations to work out those opinions, and stand by them fullly." - Uncle Tantra From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 4:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] What conservatives have in common with religious fanatics and cultists Especially the religious fanatics and cultists on Fairfield Life. Some less brainwashed person says something they don't like because it causes them to realize that their beliefs or their spiritual teacher are kinda silly, and rather than react to the criticisms themselves, they attack the critics personally and try to smear them. Fortunately, all but a couple of these religious fanatics bailed from FFL recently. This is just a reminder to the 2 or 3 who are left that nobody is buying your tactics. The Ugly Conservative Tactic of Brutally Attacking Individuals, Even Kids, Instead of Ideas http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas The Ugly Conservative Tactic of Brutally Attacking Indiv... http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas Conservatives attack and smear individuals to silence them and discredit popular ideas. View on www.alternet.org http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/ugly-conservative-tactic-brutally-attacking-individuals-even-kids-instead-ideas Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I know a lot of guys who had the same experience the first time they ever saw any porn What up? From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making I initiated a guy that transcended when he heard his mantra for the first time. When he sat down, his body became stiff and started rocking back and forth and breathing deep and rhythmically. Face became paralyzed and could hardly speak. Later he told me that when I spoke his mantra, there was an explosion of light and he found himself at the center of the universe, then electric like energy started pulsating throughout his body and that is what was causing his body to rock and sway uncontrollably and breath heavily. This guy had never had any exposure to yoga, a real hayseed form a small Texas town. I guess the sound of some words can be quite remarkable. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making This doesn't explain why some folks got a buzz hearing the puja when initiated. I suppose there may be some souls who don't experience a buzz. Maybe they're just "young souls." I've also found the stuff over on TM-Free to be rather naive since it's still couched in the very narrow and sheltered focus of TM. And some people get a buzz just off of music including maybe even Bruce Cockburn tunes. :-) On 02/26/2015 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the "high" they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Clearly, it is caused by mood making. People on certain TTTC courses after 1974 were not only told to "keep the meaning of the offerings lively in their minds" as I was on my 1972 TTC course, they were told *exactly what to think and feel* while chanting it. Fascinating. http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html "Puja Feeling," (1974, with 1974 explanatory notes): -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Avahanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent, raw rice grains) upon the altar, feel the following: "I feel the upsurge of purifying waves of knowledge." Explanation: This offering of the invocation to the great Masters of the Holy Tradition brings a lively awareness of eternal wisdom. -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Asanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent) upon the altar, feel the following: "I am realizing the ideal of yogastah kuru karmani." Explanation: This offering symbolizes the immovable seat of life in Being. In offering this seat we feel stablized in the immovability of Being. Offerings on this firm basis are actions to fulfil cosmic purpose. -- Upon saying the line that..."Snanam,"... "I feel the joy of standing in the cosmic waters of pure consciousness." Explanation: This offering of an ablution symbolises the refreshing omnipresence of Pure Consciousness. -- Upon saying the line that..."Vastram,"... "I am secure in the Omnipresence of Being." Explanation: This offering of cloth symbolizes the garment of all-pervading Being. -- Upon saying..."Chandanam,"... "I am refreshed by the tranquility of the Transcendent." Explanation: This offering of sandalpaste spreads some pleasant cooling influence in the atmosphere. -- Upon..."Akshatan"... "I feel the wholeness of individual awareness." Explanation: This offering of full rice symbolizes the fullness of eternal life. -- Upon..."Pushpam"... "I feel the blossoming of inner Being." Explanation: This offering of a flower symbolizes the full bloom of life. -- Upon..."Dupam"... "I feel a pleasant wave of inner and outer purity." Explanation: This offering of incense symbolizes the sweet fragrance of purity. -- Upon..."Dipam"... "I feel the light of life, Pure Consciousness, illuminating everything." Explanation: This offering of light brings the light of wisdom to dispel all ignorance. --Upon..."Achmaniyam,"... (before "Naivedyam") "I feel the support of the waves of bliss." Explanation: This offering of water softens the atmosphere. -- Upon"Naivedyam"... "I feel fulfilled in the plentiful life." Explanation: This offering of fruit symbolizes the state of fulfillment. -- Upon..."Achmaniyam"... (said after "Naivedyam") "I feel the flow of fulfillment in the omnipresence of Being." Explanation: This offering of water brings the flow of life in fulfillment. -- Upon..."Ta
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe this is why things get so screwed up?
Maybe, but it seems that some Brits also have a penchant for praying to the Hindu gods. For what purpose would you be doing that - is it a way to implore the gods for a boon, or to be able to relax and get to sleep, or what? Just be honest - I won't make fun of you. Other questions: How many Hindu gods are there anyway? Do you meditate for 20 minutes twice a day, or just once a day? Do you consider yourself an idiot for mumbling nonsense gibberish syllables to yourself? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : It seems that Britain's ruling class have a secret penchant for asking the stars for advice and some even believe it's the missing link in healthcare. Those stupid scientists just don't understand it apparently. My favourite quote here is that astrology may not stand up to scrutiny but is based on thousands of years of observations. But majority of those were observing the wrong number of planets Also interesting is the claim that criticism of astrology is racism! Sounds like a desperate gambit to me. This is the march of the idiocracy. We'll be back in the stone age before we know it. I know what would solve crisis in the NHS, says Tory MP: astrology - Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11432344/Astrology-could-solve-crisis-in-the-NHS-says-Tory-MP.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11432344/Astrology-could-solve-crisis-in-the-NHS-says-Tory-MP.html I know what would solve crisis in the NHS, says Tory MP:... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11432344/Astrology-could-solve-crisis-in-the-NHS-says-Tory-MP.html David Tredinnick, the MP for Bosworth in Leicestershire, predicts that if doctors look to the stars they will find ways to treat patients and take huge pressure of... View on www.telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11432344/Astrology-could-solve-crisis-in-the-NHS-says-Tory-MP.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making
So, what were you doing in Buck's bathroom when he was looking at the porn? We know you can levitate, become invisible, pass through walls and stuff, but what exactly is your purpose in watching Buck look at porn? Funny. Don't you have better things to do with your time, like get your own porn to look at? LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Funny. :-) I can just see Buck and JR reacting to porn exactly as described below. :-) From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making I know a lot of guys who had the same experience the first time they ever saw any porn From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making I initiated a guy that transcended when he heard his mantra for the first time. When he sat down, his body became stiff and started rocking back and forth and breathing deep and rhythmically. Face became paralyzed and could hardly speak. Later he told me that when I spoke his mantra, there was an explosion of light and he found himself at the center of the universe, then electric like energy started pulsating throughout his body and that is what was causing his body to rock and sway uncontrollably and breath heavily. This guy had never had any exposure to yoga, a real hayseed form a small Texas town. I guess the sound of some words can be quite remarkable. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making This doesn't explain why some folks got a buzz hearing the puja when initiated. I suppose there may be some souls who don't experience a buzz. Maybe they're just "young souls." I've also found the stuff over on TM-Free to be rather naive since it's still couched in the very narrow and sheltered focus of TM. And some people get a buzz just off of music including maybe even Bruce Cockburn tunes. :-) On 02/26/2015 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the "high" they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Clearly, it is caused by mood making. People on certain TTTC courses after 1974 were not only told to "keep the meaning of the offerings lively in their minds" as I was on my 1972 TTC course, they were told *exactly what to think and feel* while chanting it. Fascinating. http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html "Puja Feeling," (1974, with 1974 explanatory notes): -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Avahanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent, raw rice grains) upon the altar, feel the following: "I feel the upsurge of purifying waves of knowledge." Explanation: This offering of the invocation to the great Masters of the Holy Tradition brings a lively awareness of eternal wisdom. -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Asanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent) upon the altar, feel the following: "I am realizing the ideal of yogastah kuru karmani." Explanation: This offering symbolizes the immovable seat of life in Being. In offering this seat we feel stablized in the immovability of Being. Offerings on this firm basis are actions to fulfil cosmic purpose. -- Upon saying the line that..."Snanam,"... "I feel the joy of standing in the cosmic waters of pure consciousness." Explanation: This offering of an ablution symbolises the refreshing omnipresence of Pure Consciousness. -- Upon saying the line that..."Vastram,"... "I am secure in the Omnipresence of Being." Explanation: This offering of cloth symbolizes the garment of all-pervading Being. -- Upon saying..."Chandanam,"... "I am refreshed by the tranquility of the Transcendent." Explanation: This offering of sandalpaste spreads some pleasant cooling influence in the atmosphere. -- Upon..."Akshatan"... "I feel the wholeness of individual awareness." Explanation: This offering of full rice symbolizes the fullness of eternal life. -- Upon..."Pushpam"... "I feel the blossoming of inner Being." Explanation: This offering of a flower symbolizes the full bloom of life. -- Upon..."Dupam"... "I feel a pleasant wave of inner and outer purity." Explanation: This offering of incense symbolizes the sweet fragrance of purity. -- Upon..."Dipam"... "I feel the light of life, P
[FairfieldLife] Re: Great poll numbers about dinosaurs...both ancient and modern
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Seems like a poor reflection on the state of education in America. Looks like the UK is heading that way too with it's growing dependence on privately funded academies which are often fronts for religious groups. So, you don't want to talk about sex education in Rotherham?. Go figure. And then there's the deliberately state funded religious schools. I can't think of anything more stupid myself, basing the fundamental on a child's education on an obviously mythical story that their parents simply "believe" to be true, and then only because their parents believed it too. It's time to break the chain for a generation and see where we end up. There'd be no more primed fodder for the ISIS jihad army for a start, or Boko Haram. That's the world made a much better place in a heartbeat and well worth the extra effort of teaching kids to think for themselves. Maybe even US government representatives might gain the pleasure of understanding their place in the world a bit better? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The best commentary I've seen on this article is the teaser line: "It's all a conspiracy by the powerful natural history museum." :-) 49 percent of Republicans do not believe in evolution http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/25/1366834/-49-percent-of-Republicans-do-not-believe-in-evolution?detail=facebook http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/25/1366834/-49-percent-of-Republicans-do-not-believe-in-evolution?detail=facebook 49 percent of Republicans do not believe in evolution http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/25/1366834/-49-percent-of-Republicans-do-not-believe-in-evolution?detail=facebook It's all a conspiracy by the powerful natural history museum lobby. There's a new Public Policy Polling poll out identifying Scott Walker as the top Republican pick... View on www.dailykos.com http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/25/1366834/-49-percent-of-Republicans-do-not-believe-in-evolution?detail=facebook Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Schroedinger's Cat TV show
So, you enjoy watching others perform sex acts inside a box. It may be me, but it seems like it would be more fun having sex in a bedroom, but without the voyeurs peeping in, instead of watching others do it on TV. Maybe I'm just kind of shy about that. Obviously I'm not the tantric yogi you are, Uncle Tantra. Now, about that dress you hung over your bed...LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Only the question is not so much "Are the occupants of the box alive?" but "Did they have a good time?" :-) “Sex Box”: It’s a TV show where people have sex inside a box! http://www.salon.com/2015/02/27/sex_box_its_a_tv_show_where_people_have_sex_inside_a_box/ http://www.salon.com/2015/02/27/sex_box_its_a_tv_show_where_people_have_sex_inside_a_box/ “Sex Box”: It’s a TV show where people have sex inside a... http://www.salon.com/2015/02/27/sex_box_its_a_tv_show_where_people_have_sex_inside_a_box/ Or do they?! This new reality-dirt show raises so many questions about our contradictory feelings about sex View on www.salon.com http://www.salon.com/2015/02/27/sex_box_its_a_tv_show_where_people_have_sex_inside_a_box/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making
Was that some kind of "tantric" initiation? If so, for what purpose? I wonder what your girlfriend thought about that. No wonder you got fired from your job at MIU - isn't it against the school rules to be passing out porn on campus? Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I know a lot of guys who had the same experience the first time they ever saw any porn From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making I initiated a guy that transcended when he heard his mantra for the first time. When he sat down, his body became stiff and started rocking back and forth and breathing deep and rhythmically. Face became paralyzed and could hardly speak. Later he told me that when I spoke his mantra, there was an explosion of light and he found himself at the center of the universe, then electric like energy started pulsating throughout his body and that is what was causing his body to rock and sway uncontrollably and breath heavily. This guy had never had any exposure to yoga, a real hayseed form a small Texas town. I guess the sound of some words can be quite remarkable. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making This doesn't explain why some folks got a buzz hearing the puja when initiated. I suppose there may be some souls who don't experience a buzz. Maybe they're just "young souls." I've also found the stuff over on TM-Free to be rather naive since it's still couched in the very narrow and sheltered focus of TM. And some people get a buzz just off of music including maybe even Bruce Cockburn tunes. :-) On 02/26/2015 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the "high" they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Clearly, it is caused by mood making. People on certain TTTC courses after 1974 were not only told to "keep the meaning of the offerings lively in their minds" as I was on my 1972 TTC course, they were told *exactly what to think and feel* while chanting it. Fascinating. http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html "Puja Feeling," (1974, with 1974 explanatory notes): -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Avahanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent, raw rice grains) upon the altar, feel the following: "I feel the upsurge of purifying waves of knowledge." Explanation: This offering of the invocation to the great Masters of the Holy Tradition brings a lively awareness of eternal wisdom. -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Asanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent) upon the altar, feel the following: "I am realizing the ideal of yogastah kuru karmani." Explanation: This offering symbolizes the immovable seat of life in Being. In offering this seat we feel stablized in the immovability of Being. Offerings on this firm basis are actions to fulfil cosmic purpose. -- Upon saying the line that..."Snanam,"... "I feel the joy of standing in the cosmic waters of pure consciousness." Explanation: This offering of an ablution symbolises the refreshing omnipresence of Pure Consciousness. -- Upon saying the line that..."Vastram,"... "I am secure in the Omnipresence of Being." Explanation: This offering of cloth symbolizes the garment of all-pervading Being. -- Upon saying..."Chandanam,"... "I am refreshed by the tranquility of the Transcendent." Explanation: This offering of sandalpaste spreads some pleasant cooling influence in the atmosphere. -- Upon..."Akshatan"... "I feel the wholeness of individual awareness." Explanation: This offering of full rice symbolizes the fullness of eternal life. -- Upon..."Pushpam"... "I feel the blossoming of inner Being." Explanation: This offering of a flower symbolizes the full bloom of life. -- Upon..."Dupam"... "I feel a pleasant wave of inner and outer purity." Explanation: This offering of incense symbolizes the sweet fragrance of purity. -- Upon..."Dipam"... "I feel the light of life, Pure Consciousness, illuminating everything." Explanation: This offering of light brings the light of wisdom to dispel all ignorance. --Upon..."Achmaniyam,"... (before "Naivedyam") "I feel the support of the waves of bliss." Explanation: This offering of water softens the atmosphere. -- Upon"Naivedyam"... "I feel fulfilled in the plentiful life." Explanation: This offering of fruit symb
Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making
One of the most famous spoofs, on the entire internet, was Delia's 'DHMO Update', which managed to spoof both Barry Wright and John Manning, to no end. Judy was brilliant in this thread, as usual, and Delia was hilarious. Delia, with Judy's help, really pulled off a good one. A spoof on old Uncle Tantra. But, I must confess that I was mis-informed about the 'punk' use in the Guru Dev Puja; apparently the TMO techers DO use Sandalwood incense, in the form of 'punk', not pure camphor like they do in pujas in Inida. My bad. But still, I'm LOL! A classic from the a.m.t. grooveyard: Author: Delia Subject: DHMO update Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: March 16, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/cphymm http://tinyurl.com/cphymm ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Haven't we all seen some interesting experiences when people first get their mantra and begin repeating it. But the thing is, after you steep yourself in cynicism after so many decades, it warps your memory. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I initiated a guy that transcended when he heard his mantra for the first time. When he sat down, his body became stiff and started rocking back and forth and breathing deep and rhythmically. Face became paralyzed and could hardly speak. Later he told me that when I spoke his mantra, there was an explosion of light and he found himself at the center of the universe, then electric like energy started pulsating throughout his body and that is what was causing his body to rock and sway uncontrollably and breath heavily. This guy had never had any exposure to yoga, a real hayseed form a small Texas town. I guess the sound of some words can be quite remarkable. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making This doesn't explain why some folks got a buzz hearing the puja when initiated. I suppose there may be some souls who don't experience a buzz. Maybe they're just "young souls." I've also found the stuff over on TM-Free to be rather naive since it's still couched in the very narrow and sheltered focus of TM. And some people get a buzz just off of music including maybe even Bruce Cockburn tunes. :-) On 02/26/2015 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the "high" they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Clearly, it is caused by mood making. People on certain TTTC courses after 1974 were not only told to "keep the meaning of the offerings lively in their minds" as I was on my 1972 TTC course, they were told *exactly what to think and feel* while chanting it. Fascinating. http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html "Puja Feeling," (1974, with 1974 explanatory notes): -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Avahanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent, raw rice grains) upon the altar, feel the following: "I feel the upsurge of purifying waves of knowledge." Explanation: This offering of the invocation to the great Masters of the Holy Tradition brings a lively awareness of eternal wisdom. -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Asanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent) upon the altar, feel the following: "I am realizing the ideal of yogastah kuru karmani." Explanation: This offering symbolizes the immovable seat of life in Being. In offering this seat we feel stablized in the immovability of Being. Offerings on this firm basis are actions to fulfil cosmic purpose. -- Upon saying the line that..."Snanam,"... "I feel the joy of standing in the cosmic waters of pure consciousness." Explanation: This offering of an ablution symbolises the refreshing omnipresence of Pure Consciousness. -- Upon saying the line that..."Vastram,"... "I am secure in the Omnipresence of Being." Explanation: This offering of cloth symbolizes the garment of all-pervading Being. -- Upon saying..."Chandanam,"... "I am refreshed by the tranquility of the Transcendent." Explanation: This offering of sandalpaste spreads some pleasant cooling influence in the atmosphere. -- Upon..."Akshatan"... "I feel the wholeness of individual awareness." Explanation: This offering of full rice symbolizes the fullness of eternal life. -- Upon..."Pushpam"... "I feel the blossoming of inner Being." Explanation: This offering of a flower symbolizes the full bloom of life. -- Upon..."Dupam"... "I feel a pleasant wave of inner and outer purity." Explanation: This offering of incense symbolizes the sweet fragrance of purity. -- Upon..."
Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : reckon he ever got the siddhis? "I've seen him project the double, as described in the Castaneda books. One of him was standing a few feet in front of me and another one was up on top of the mountain we were in front of, waving." - TurquoiseB From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making I initiated a guy that transcended when he heard his mantra for the first time. When he sat down, his body became stiff and started rocking back and forth and breathing deep and rhythmically. Face became paralyzed and could hardly speak. Later he told me that when I spoke his mantra, there was an explosion of light and he found himself at the center of the universe, then electric like energy started pulsating throughout his body and that is what was causing his body to rock and sway uncontrollably and breath heavily. This guy had never had any exposure to yoga, a real hayseed form a small Texas town. I guess the sound of some words can be quite remarkable. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making This doesn't explain why some folks got a buzz hearing the puja when initiated. I suppose there may be some souls who don't experience a buzz. Maybe they're just "young souls." I've also found the stuff over on TM-Free to be rather naive since it's still couched in the very narrow and sheltered focus of TM. And some people get a buzz just off of music including maybe even Bruce Cockburn tunes. :-) On 02/26/2015 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the "high" they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Clearly, it is caused by mood making. People on certain TTTC courses after 1974 were not only told to "keep the meaning of the offerings lively in their minds" as I was on my 1972 TTC course, they were told *exactly what to think and feel* while chanting it. Fascinating. http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html "Puja Feeling," (1974, with 1974 explanatory notes): -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Avahanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent, raw rice grains) upon the altar, feel the following: "I feel the upsurge of purifying waves of knowledge." Explanation: This offering of the invocation to the great Masters of the Holy Tradition brings a lively awareness of eternal wisdom. -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Asanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent) upon the altar, feel the following: "I am realizing the ideal of yogastah kuru karmani." Explanation: This offering symbolizes the immovable seat of life in Being. In offering this seat we feel stablized in the immovability of Being. Offerings on this firm basis are actions to fulfil cosmic purpose. -- Upon saying the line that..."Snanam,"... "I feel the joy of standing in the cosmic waters of pure consciousness." Explanation: This offering of an ablution symbolises the refreshing omnipresence of Pure Consciousness. -- Upon saying the line that..."Vastram,"... "I am secure in the Omnipresence of Being." Explanation: This offering of cloth symbolizes the garment of all-pervading Being. -- Upon saying..."Chandanam,"... "I am refreshed by the tranquility of the Transcendent." Explanation: This offering of sandalpaste spreads some pleasant cooling influence in the atmosphere. -- Upon..."Akshatan"... "I feel the wholeness of individual awareness." Explanation: This offering of full rice symbolizes the fullness of eternal life. -- Upon..."Pushpam"... "I feel the blossoming of inner Being." Explanation: This offering of a flower symbolizes the full bloom of life. -- Upon..."Dupam"... "I feel a pleasant wave of inner and outer purity." Explanation: This offering of incense symbolizes the sweet fragrance of purity. -- Upon..."Dipam"... "I feel the light of life, Pure Consciousness, illuminating everything." Explanation: This offering of light brings the light of wisdom to dispel all ignorance. --Upon..."Achmaniyam,"... (before "Naivedyam") "I feel the support of the waves of bliss." Explanation: This offering of water softens the atmosphere. -- Upon"Naivedyam"... "I feel fulfilled in the plentiful life." Explanation: This offering of fruit symbolizes the state of fulfillment. -- Upon..."Achmaniyam"... (said after "Naivedyam") "I f
[FairfieldLife] Re: The End of the Internet As We Know It
"I am surprised that even among civil liberties groups, some claim the federal government increasing regulation of the Internet somehow increases our freedom and liberty." - Ron Paul Internet, RIP? http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2015/february/26/internet-rip/ http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2015/february/26/internet-rip/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On the internet and on FFL, "...there is a cacophony of hateful speech, vice of every kind" and pirates calling in the police and Interpol - trying to keep a lid on the slander and the libel. But, some informants still post here and brag about their exploits, probably thinking they are "street smart" and won't get caught, even though they brag about being on Pirate Bay and BitTorrent. In a few more days there could be a hacker just waiting for every click of the Send button. The question is, do we want the federal government running the internet or private companies? We already know that the government is one of the biggest hackers of private information on the planet. Go figure. "The recent rash of major breaches of corporate networks, including the theft of personal information from the health insurer Anthem and the theft of as much as a billion dollars from over 100 banks are symptoms of a much larger trend of cybercrime and espionage." Cybergeddon: Why the Internet could be the next “failed state” http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/fear-in-the-digital-city-why-the-internet-has-never-been-more-dangerous/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/fear-in-the-digital-city-why-the-internet-has-never-been-more-dangerous/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I guess the reason our resident "eye patch guy" uses TPB is because he has slow broadband. Don't think we've ever heard what speed our folks across the pond have. We know that FF has fast broadband. If you move to Sebastopol you can get gigbit broadband. ATT and Comcast go down my street but are scared of Astound coming down it and hound me all the time to so they can put me on some contract so I can't get Astound's no contract faster broadband. On 02/25/2015 11:45 AM, richard@... mailto:richard@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The key words of this thread are, "The end of the internet as we know it." Obama's regs will make Internet slow as in Europe, warn FCC, FEC commissioners http://tinyurl.com/pset5rm http://tinyurl.com/pset5rm ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:noozguru@... wrote : I think folks here have made it clear that we want the Internet left as is without any "fast lanes" but with some regulation to keep from getting robbed by the robber barons of telecom. But we do indeed want to see these FCC rules before they are passed. If this does not go down right, Anonymous will look like a bunch kids playing in the park compared to what techs will do in retaliation. On 02/25/2015 07:59 AM, richard@... mailto:richard@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: This is interesting: a proposed U.S. federal government takeover of the internet and not a single comment from any FFL pundit. Can anyone say "Obamanet"? Go figure. Hillary Calls for Regulating Internet: 'It's a Foot in the Door' http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-calls-regulating-internet-its-foot-door_866080.html# http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-calls-regulating-internet-its-foot-door_866080.html# ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:richard@... wrote : "Utility regulation was designed to maintain the status quo, and it succeeds. This is why the railroads, Ma Bell and the local water monopoly were never known for innovation. The Internet was different because its technologies, business models and creativity were permissionless. This week Mr. Obama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block Obamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it." From Internet to Obamanet From Internet to Obamanet In The Wall Street Journal, Information Age columnist L. Gordon Crovitz writes that BlackBerry and AT&T are already making moves that could exploit new ‘uti... View on www.wsj.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making
You can imagine the bliss and euphoria that came over a crowd of people out in the dead night in the desert when they witnessed Rama "slowly lift up off of a sofa" and hover in mid-air, skip around about two inches off the sand and then fly up to the side of a mountain and wave at them down below. It must have been mind-blowing, to say the least! According to what I've read, Rama used to place a photo of Chinmoy on a table to meditate on - Rama called it the "transcendental" and they they whole group would become ecstatic. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I initiated a guy that transcended when he heard his mantra for the first time. When he sat down, his body became stiff and started rocking back and forth and breathing deep and rhythmically. Face became paralyzed and could hardly speak. Later he told me that when I spoke his mantra, there was an explosion of light and he found himself at the center of the universe, then electric like energy started pulsating throughout his body and that is what was causing his body to rock and sway uncontrollably and breath heavily. This guy had never had any exposure to yoga, a real hayseed form a small Texas town. I guess the sound of some words can be quite remarkable. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making This doesn't explain why some folks got a buzz hearing the puja when initiated. I suppose there may be some souls who don't experience a buzz. Maybe they're just "young souls." I've also found the stuff over on TM-Free to be rather naive since it's still couched in the very narrow and sheltered focus of TM. And some people get a buzz just off of music including maybe even Bruce Cockburn tunes. :-) On 02/26/2015 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the "high" they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Clearly, it is caused by mood making. People on certain TTTC courses after 1974 were not only told to "keep the meaning of the offerings lively in their minds" as I was on my 1972 TTC course, they were told *exactly what to think and feel* while chanting it. Fascinating. http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html "Puja Feeling," (1974, with 1974 explanatory notes): -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Avahanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent, raw rice grains) upon the altar, feel the following: "I feel the upsurge of purifying waves of knowledge." Explanation: This offering of the invocation to the great Masters of the Holy Tradition brings a lively awareness of eternal wisdom. -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Asanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent) upon the altar, feel the following: "I am realizing the ideal of yogastah kuru karmani." Explanation: This offering symbolizes the immovable seat of life in Being. In offering this seat we feel stablized in the immovability of Being. Offerings on this firm basis are actions to fulfil cosmic purpose. -- Upon saying the line that..."Snanam,"... "I feel the joy of standing in the cosmic waters of pure consciousness." Explanation: This offering of an ablution symbolises the refreshing omnipresence of Pure Consciousness. -- Upon saying the line that..."Vastram,"... "I am secure in the Omnipresence of Being." Explanation: This offering of cloth symbolizes the garment of all-pervading Being. -- Upon saying..."Chandanam,"... "I am refreshed by the tranquility of the Transcendent." Explanation: This offering of sandalpaste spreads some pleasant cooling influence in the atmosphere. -- Upon..."Akshatan"... "I feel the wholeness of individual awareness." Explanation: This offering of full rice symbolizes the fullness of eternal life. -- Upon..."Pushpam"... "I feel the blossoming of inner Being." Explanation: This offering of a flower symbolizes the full bloom of life. -- Upon..."Dupam"... "I feel a pleasant wave of inner and outer purity." Explanation: This offering of incense symbolizes the sweet fragrance of purity. -- Upon..."Dipam"... "I feel the light of life, Pure Consciousness, illuminating everything." Explanation: This offering of light brings the light of wisdom to dispel all ignorance. --Upon..."Achmaniyam,"... (before "Naivedyam") "I feel the support of the waves of bliss." Explanation: This offering of water softens the atmosphere. -- Upon"Naivedyam"... "I feel fulfilled in the plentiful life." Explanation: This offering of fruit symbolizes the state of fulf
[FairfieldLife] Re: The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the "high" they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Speaking of pujas and Woo Woo - you still have not apologized to anyone for slipping DHMO into the Guru Dev puja mix back in 1968, along with the sandalwood particulates and the camphor fumes. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to get people addicted to that stuff - and in a GD puja! Jerry Jarvis caught you red-handed and so he kicked you out of the TMO. Gawd! What happened to all the money?
Re: [FairfieldLife] The secret Woo Woo behind the TM puja -- mood making
This doesn't explain why some folks got a buzz hearing the puja when initiated. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : But "mood-making" does. As does "expectation," and "placebo effect." I've always found it curious that people intelligent enough to recognize that science long ago proved that the "experiences" they cling to could *easily* be explained by either of these things cling to the Woo Woo explanation instead. I guess that for them it comes down to it being easier for them to say "Some mystical, magical Woo that I don't fully understand caused my experience" than it is to say, "I imagined it, as I was conditioned to." :-) :-) :-) So, what it comes down to it was easier for you in 34 years to use the placebo effect to get the Woo Woo into the meditation technique, but you failed to prove the science. Go figure. I suppose there may be some souls who don't experience a buzz. Maybe they're just "young souls." I've also found the stuff over on TM-Free to be rather naive since it's still couched in the very narrow and sheltered focus of TM. And some people get a buzz just off of music including maybe even Bruce Cockburn tunes. :-) On 02/26/2015 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Interesting article over at TM-Free. It'll be interesting to hear from TM teachers who still claim that the "high" they get from the puja is caused by the sound of the words themselves. Clearly, it is caused by mood making. People on certain TTTC courses after 1974 were not only told to "keep the meaning of the offerings lively in their minds" as I was on my 1972 TTC course, they were told *exactly what to think and feel* while chanting it. Fascinating. http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html http://tmfree.blogspot.nl/2015/01/another-deception-by-maharishi-uncovered.html "Puja Feeling," (1974, with 1974 explanatory notes): -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Avahanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent, raw rice grains) upon the altar, feel the following: "I feel the upsurge of purifying waves of knowledge." Explanation: This offering of the invocation to the great Masters of the Holy Tradition brings a lively awareness of eternal wisdom. -- Upon saying the line that starts with "Asanam," and while placing that offering (or its symbolic equivalent) upon the altar, feel the following: "I am realizing the ideal of yogastah kuru karmani." Explanation: This offering symbolizes the immovable seat of life in Being. In offering this seat we feel stablized in the immovability of Being. Offerings on this firm basis are actions to fulfil cosmic purpose. -- Upon saying the line that..."Snanam,"... "I feel the joy of standing in the cosmic waters of pure consciousness." Explanation: This offering of an ablution symbolises the refreshing omnipresence of Pure Consciousness. -- Upon saying the line that..."Vastram,"... "I am secure in the Omnipresence of Being." Explanation: This offering of cloth symbolizes the garment of all-pervading Being. -- Upon saying..."Chandanam,"... "I am refreshed by the tranquility of the Transcendent." Explanation: This offering of sandalpaste spreads some pleasant cooling influence in the atmosphere. -- Upon..."Akshatan"... "I feel the wholeness of individual awareness." Explanation: This offering of full rice symbolizes the fullness of eternal life. -- Upon..."Pushpam"... "I feel the blossoming of inner Being." Explanation: This offering of a flower symbolizes the full bloom of life. -- Upon..."Dupam"... "I feel a pleasant wave of inner and outer purity." Explanation: This offering of incense symbolizes the sweet fragrance of purity. -- Upon..."Dipam"... "I feel the light of life, Pure Consciousness, illuminating everything." Explanation: This offering of light brings the light of wisdom to dispel all ignorance. --Upon..."Achmaniyam,"... (before "Naivedyam") "I feel the support of the waves of bliss." Explanation: This offering of water softens the atmosphere. -- Upon"Naivedyam"... "I feel fulfilled in the plentiful life." Explanation: This offering of fruit symbolizes the state of fulfillment. -- Upon..."Achmaniyam"... (said after "Naivedyam") "I feel the flow of fulfillment in the omnipresence of Being." Explanation: This offering of water brings the flow of life in fulfillment. -- Upon..."Tambulam"... "I feel everywhere the cleansing and purifying influence at the source of speech." Explanation: This offering of a betel leaf brings freshness, purifying the abode of speech. -- Upon..."Shri phalam"... "I feel the fullness of life welling up." Explanation: This offering of the complete fruit (coconut) represents the fullness of life, unmanifested and manifest. The entire field of manifest life (gross, subtle and subtlest) is represented respectively by the husk or outer co
Re: [FairfieldLife] world empress gets celebratory shawl
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : its rare I give credit to the Movement, but I think it speaks well of them that they don't actually refer to Tony's wife as "world empress" although I wouldn't be surprise if they think if her that way. Well, I guess we know now what you did on Wednesday night. LoL! I wonder if these non-TM people at the conference realize the TMO doesn't give a damn what the rest of the world says thinks or does, the Movement wants everyone to bow to Marshy vedic this and that. And if TM and all its "vedic" adjuncts exist to save the world, WTF are they doing in this India deal? Answer: They are a neo-Hindu cult! From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 9:36 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] world empress gets celebratory shawl and hundreds of other pictures Day 3, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.668487723278495.1073741833.656994527761148/669023033224964/?type=1&theater
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhist monk found in 1000 year old statue
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On the wall over my bed hangs a Tibetan high lama's robe, from the 17th-18th century. You hung a dress over your bed? Go figure. I bought it from a Tibetan who had managed to escape with it to a Tibetan sanctuary in the U.S. I bought it from him for a song ($500), not only because he agreed to share half the money with the Tibetan sangha-in-exile that had referred me to him, but because he told me a cool story about the robe. It's style -- Tibetan, after the style of Chinese robes at the time -- defines it in terms of time. It's really a high lama's robe from a certain identifiable period of time in Tibetan history (1690-1705); I had that verified by other experts. The person who sold it to me said that his family said it came from a certain monastery, where it was worn by the high lama during certain ceremonial occasions. He would wear it while dancing for them. The dance was a form of transmission meditation -- it was considered to be of huge karmic value to be present during one of these dances. OK, he had me at "a high lama used to wear this robe while dancing for his disciples to get them high." I bought the robe on the spot. But when I got home I remembered my Tibetan history and looked up the monastery in question and discovered the actual *name* of someone who could have occasionally been the visiting high lama of this particular monastery. None other than my favorite character in human history, the Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, the Turquoise Bee. It is actually possible that the Tibetan ceremonial robe I discovered and have hanging on my wall was actually worn by my favorite character in history as he performed a dance of transmission meditation to get his disciples high. It's also possible that there may be something to all this "relic" stuff and that something of the "vibe" of a person's bones or the clothes they wore is captured in and emanated by the articles themselves. That would certainly account for what it feels like to put on this particular robe and wear it. Let alone dance in it. https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8629/16644849512_524624a3b5_h.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8629/16644849512_524624a3b5_h.jpg View on farm9.staticflickr.com https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8629/16644849512_524624a3b5_h.jpg Preview by Yahoo There seems to be something in my psychology that 'likes' those kinds of connexions. Is this a general human thing to want to link together aspects of our lives? You seem to have similar kinds of connexions in your life, e.g., Robert Crumb being a neighbour. Something in our societal brain that maybe has to do with linking to something larger and beyond ourselves maybe? The alpha dog syndrome? The effect can get out of hand, particularly with religion, when you start to attribute magical powers to historical artefacts or replicas or outright fakes. It seems within reason to have nice feelings about things that link together those experiences in life that make us wonder, if it does not get out of hand. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Although I have never read anything about this practice, I can imagine where it came from -- self-created "holy relics." Religious nuts in Asia were as crazy about relics as their Western counterparts. Think back to the booming business in "pieces of the true cross" and "the bones of Jesus." I personally have seen the supposed skull of Mary Magdalene in a reliquary in a cathedral in the south of France. ( Trust me, she's looked better. :-) Well, Eastern churches a few centuries back were no different than they are today -- they were looking for things to get newbies in the doors so they'd 1) become believers themselves and 2) leave the contents of their wallets there when they left. What better relic than the nearly-perfectly-preserved body of a monk seated in meditation, that they could show off to newbies to convince them their practices were so hot that this guy just went into samadhi one day and never got up. And the thing is, you're dealing with religious fanatics, so there would be no need to *force* the monks into starving themselves to death -- they'd do it willingly just to "spread the faith." This is all just a guess on my part, but if anyone feels motivated to do any research on it, I'd be willing to bet you'll find similar speculations on the part of scholars. In other words, s3raphita, I don't think it's a Buddhist thang at all. It's a "preserve the illusion that our teaching is cooler than it really is" thang. Religious fanatics do this kind of shit all the time. Just think about how many years Tony Nader pretended to be the ultimate purusha celibate because Maharishi wanted him to pretend to be. To do this, he had to lie to almost literally *everyone in his life*, including his best friends an
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The End of the Internet As We Know It
On the internet and on FFL, "...there is a cacophony of hateful speech, vice of every kind" and pirates calling in the police and Interpol - trying to keep a lid on the slander and the libel. But, some informants still post here and brag about their exploits, probably thinking they are "street smart" and won't get caught, even though they brag about being on Pirate Bay and BitTorrent. In a few more days there could be a hacker just waiting for every click of the Send button. The question is, do we want the federal government running the internet or private companies? We already know that the government is one of the biggest hackers of private information on the planet. Go figure. "The recent rash of major breaches of corporate networks, including the theft of personal information from the health insurer Anthem and the theft of as much as a billion dollars from over 100 banks are symptoms of a much larger trend of cybercrime and espionage." Cybergeddon: Why the Internet could be the next “failed state” http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/fear-in-the-digital-city-why-the-internet-has-never-been-more-dangerous/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/fear-in-the-digital-city-why-the-internet-has-never-been-more-dangerous/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I guess the reason our resident "eye patch guy" uses TPB is because he has slow broadband. Don't think we've ever heard what speed our folks across the pond have. We know that FF has fast broadband. If you move to Sebastopol you can get gigbit broadband. ATT and Comcast go down my street but are scared of Astound coming down it and hound me all the time to so they can put me on some contract so I can't get Astound's no contract faster broadband. On 02/25/2015 11:45 AM, richard@... mailto:richard@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The key words of this thread are, "The end of the internet as we know it." Obama's regs will make Internet slow as in Europe, warn FCC, FEC commissioners http://tinyurl.com/pset5rm http://tinyurl.com/pset5rm ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:noozguru@... wrote : I think folks here have made it clear that we want the Internet left as is without any "fast lanes" but with some regulation to keep from getting robbed by the robber barons of telecom. But we do indeed want to see these FCC rules before they are passed. If this does not go down right, Anonymous will look like a bunch kids playing in the park compared to what techs will do in retaliation. On 02/25/2015 07:59 AM, richard@... mailto:richard@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: This is interesting: a proposed U.S. federal government takeover of the internet and not a single comment from any FFL pundit. Can anyone say "Obamanet"? Go figure. Hillary Calls for Regulating Internet: 'It's a Foot in the Door' http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-calls-regulating-internet-its-foot-door_866080.html# http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-calls-regulating-internet-its-foot-door_866080.html# ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:richard@... wrote : "Utility regulation was designed to maintain the status quo, and it succeeds. This is why the railroads, Ma Bell and the local water monopoly were never known for innovation. The Internet was different because its technologies, business models and creativity were permissionless. This week Mr. Obama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block Obamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it." From Internet to Obamanet From Internet to Obamanet In The Wall Street Journal, Information Age columnist L. Gordon Crovitz writes that BlackBerry and AT&T are already making moves that could exploit new ‘uti... View on www.wsj.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The End of the Internet As We Know It
The key words of this thread are, "The end of the internet as we know it." Obama's regs will make Internet slow as in Europe, warn FCC, FEC commissioners http://tinyurl.com/pset5rm http://tinyurl.com/pset5rm ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I think folks here have made it clear that we want the Internet left as is without any "fast lanes" but with some regulation to keep from getting robbed by the robber barons of telecom. But we do indeed want to see these FCC rules before they are passed. If this does not go down right, Anonymous will look like a bunch kids playing in the park compared to what techs will do in retaliation. On 02/25/2015 07:59 AM, richard@... mailto:richard@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: This is interesting: a proposed U.S. federal government takeover of the internet and not a single comment from any FFL pundit. Can anyone say "Obamanet"? Go figure. Hillary Calls for Regulating Internet: 'It's a Foot in the Door' http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-calls-regulating-internet-its-foot-door_866080.html# http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-calls-regulating-internet-its-foot-door_866080.html# ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:richard@... wrote : "Utility regulation was designed to maintain the status quo, and it succeeds. This is why the railroads, Ma Bell and the local water monopoly were never known for innovation. The Internet was different because its technologies, business models and creativity were permissionless. This week Mr. Obama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block Obamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it." From Internet to Obamanet From Internet to Obamanet In The Wall Street Journal, Information Age columnist L. Gordon Crovitz writes that BlackBerry and AT&T are already making moves that could exploit new ‘uti... View on www.wsj.com Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhist monk found in 1000 year old statue
From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" I wonder what companies pander to religious relics, for example could there be the Coprolites of God Mint, which makes gold-plated casts of the turds of saints? This psychology is certainly not confined to religious nuts. People buy relics left over from a motion picture production. I wonder who has the Maltese Falcon statue from that early 40s flick with Bogart. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Excellent point. "Relics" are what we make them. See below. You paid $500 for a fake lama's robe? What a fuckin' gullible religious fanatic! LoL! Nepal in Hollywood's movie: The Golden Child http://youtu.be/J1yT1WcSJpE http://youtu.be/J1yT1WcSJpE Nepal in Hollywood's movie: The Golden Child http://youtu.be/J1yT1WcSJpE This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. View on youtu.be http://youtu.be/J1yT1WcSJpE Preview by Yahoo I am not entirely immune to this effect. I was at the Morgan Library in New York City, and there under glass was the original manuscript of a Mozart symphony I am fond of, something Mozart touched and wrote upon two and a quarter centuries ago. I would have loved to leaf through the pages. On the wall over my bed hangs a Tibetan high lama's robe, from the 17th-18th century. I bought it from a Tibetan who had managed to escape with it to a Tibetan sanctuary in the U.S. I bought it from him for a song ($500), not only because he agreed to share half the money with the Tibetan sangha-in-exile that had referred me to him, but because he told me a cool story about the robe. It's style -- Tibetan, after the style of Chinese robes at the time -- defines it in terms of time. It's really a high lama's robe from a certain identifiable period of time in Tibetan history (1690-1705); I had that verified by other experts. The person who sold it to me said that his family said it came from a certain monastery, where it was worn by the high lama during certain ceremonial occasions. He would wear it while dancing for them. The dance was a form of transmission meditation -- it was considered to be of huge karmic value to be present during one of these dances. OK, he had me at "a high lama used to wear this robe while dancing for his disciples to get them high." I bought the robe on the spot. But when I got home I remembered my Tibetan history and looked up the monastery in question and discovered the actual *name* of someone who could have occasionally been the visiting high lama of this particular monastery. None other than my favorite character in human history, the Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso, the Turquoise Bee. It is actually possible that the Tibetan ceremonial robe I discovered and have hanging on my wall was actually worn by my favorite character in history as he performed a dance of transmission meditation to get his disciples high. It's also possible that there may be something to all this "relic" stuff and that something of the "vibe" of a person's bones or the clothes they wore is captured in and emanated by the articles themselves. That would certainly account for what it feels like to put on this particular robe and wear it. Let alone dance in it. https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8629/16644849512_524624a3b5_h.jpg https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8629/16644849512_524624a3b5_h.jpg View on farm9.staticflickr.com https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8629/16644849512_524624a3b5_h.jpg Preview by Yahoo There seems to be something in my psychology that 'likes' those kinds of connexions. Is this a general human thing to want to link together aspects of our lives? You seem to have similar kinds of connexions in your life, e.g., Robert Crumb being a neighbour. Something in our societal brain that maybe has to do with linking to something larger and beyond ourselves maybe? The alpha dog syndrome? The effect can get out of hand, particularly with religion, when you start to attribute magical powers to historical artefacts or replicas or outright fakes. It seems within reason to have nice feelings about things that link together those experiences in life that make us wonder, if it does not get out of hand. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Although I have never read anything about this practice, I can imagine where it came from -- self-created "holy relics." Religious nuts in Asia were as crazy about relics as their Western counterparts. Think back to the booming business in "pieces of the true cross" and "the bones of Jesus." I personally have seen the supposed skull of Mary Magdalene in a reliquary in a cathedral in the south of France. ( Trust me, she's looked better. :-) Well, Eastern churches a few centuries back were no different than they are today -- they were looking for things to get newbies in the doors so they'd 1) become
Re: [FairfieldLife] How to Get Rich and NOT Pay Taxes
Just for the record, Barry1 probably paid zero income taxes in the last twenty years. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : His behaviors depict a narcissitic madman. On 02/24/2015 06:25 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... mailto:mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Nor does it make him one either. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] How to Get Rich and NOT Pay Taxes It doesn't make him any less a madman. On 02/24/2015 05:25 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... mailto:mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Who says he didn't pay *any* taxes? I thought the article says the* increase* expired and he didn't renew the previous increase in tax. With the kind of money he makes, he probably pays more in taxes each year than the average person earns in a life time. Shsh! From: "jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife]" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] How to Get Rich and NOT Pay Taxes I sure hope he won the election fair and square. But it looked like he didn't spend a single penny in running for the governor's office. He got millions of dollars for his campaign from his wealthy friends who don't want to pay taxes for their income as well. So, we end up having a bunch of wealthy people not paying any taxes and the average workers paying taxes to run the entire state government. That's highway robbery. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:mdixon.6569@... wrote : What the hell are we to do if we can't give free kidney transplants to all the illegal children brought across the border for that purpose! OMG! the inhumanity of it all! From: "jr_esq@...[FairfieldLife]" mailto:jr_esq@...[FairfieldLife] mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 2:57 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] How to Get Rich and NOT Pay Taxes Becomethe governor of Illinois. GOP Governor Bruce Rauner is getting a $750,000 tax break. He also likes to make draconian budget reduction for the state. With his success, he could possibly be the next GOP presidential candidate or top official for the next GOP presidential administration. IL Governor Rauner Gets $750,000 Tax Break, Proposes Slashing Services to Middle Class and Poor http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/il-governor-rauner-gets-7_b_6742500.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp0592 IL Governor Rauner Gets $750,000 Tax Break, Prop... Bruce Rauner may think that he is auditioning for a spot on the 2016 GOP ticket or a cabinet post in a Bush, Walker or Christie administration. In fact he cou... View on www.huffingtonpost... Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Insulting Mother Teresa
Never pass up an opportunity to use a tragedy if you think it will help you win a religious debate, no matter how low you have to stoop! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Uproar over Mother Teresa slur http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31598834 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31598834 Uproar over Mother Teresa slur http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31598834 There is outrage in India over a Hindu leader's comment that Mother Teresa's charity work had one objective - to convert the poor to Christianity. View on www.bbc.com http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31598834 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhist monk found in 1000 year old statue
Addressing the important issues! Everyone knows that the burial of the dead is as old as Neanderthals, if not earlier. According to what I've read, the earliest undisputed human burial, discovered so far, dates back 100,000 years. Barry, have you ever considered reading an anthropology book? You have added bupkis, nada, zero to this subject, except to demonstrate how ignorant and prejudiced you are in your old age. Not for nothing do people in all ages the world over bury their dead - it is a sacred undertaking. You did bury your dead parents and brother, right? Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Although I have never read anything about this practice, I can imagine where it came from -- self-created "holy relics." Religious nuts in Asia were as crazy about relics as their Western counterparts. Think back to the booming business in "pieces of the true cross" and "the bones of Jesus." I personally have seen the supposed skull of Mary Magdalene in a reliquary in a cathedral in the south of France. ( Trust me, she's looked better. :-) Well, Eastern churches a few centuries back were no different than they are today -- they were looking for things to get newbies in the doors so they'd 1) become believers themselves and 2) leave the contents of their wallets there when they left. What better relic than the nearly-perfectly-preserved body of a monk seated in meditation, that they could show off to newbies to convince them their practices were so hot that this guy just went into samadhi one day and never got up. And the thing is, you're dealing with religious fanatics, so there would be no need to *force* the monks into starving themselves to death -- they'd do it willingly just to "spread the faith." This is all just a guess on my part, but if anyone feels motivated to do any research on it, I'd be willing to bet you'll find similar speculations on the part of scholars. In other words, s3raphita, I don't think it's a Buddhist thang at all. It's a "preserve the illusion that our teaching is cooler than it really is" thang. Religious fanatics do this kind of shit all the time. Just think about how many years Tony Nader pretended to be the ultimate purusha celibate because Maharishi wanted him to pretend to be. To do this, he had to lie to almost literally *everyone in his life*, including his best friends and co-Rajas. People will do *anything* in the name of their beliefs if those beliefs have been implanted in them deeply enough. From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 12:32 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buddhist monk found in 1000 year old statue The Yahoo! report on this story adds the following info: "The Drents Museum says it suspects this mummy could be a case of self-mummification. That was a practice by Buddhist monks in Asia that involved a strict diet, including poison, to the point of near starvation in order to promote preservation of the body. When they were near death, they were buried alive." It's curious that a Buddhist would want his body preserved. Wiki tells me: Impermanence is one of the *essential doctrines* or three marks of existence in Buddhism. The term expresses the Buddhist notion that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is transient, or in a constant state of flux. Drop the body dude! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : U... might induce claustrophobia. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 11:10 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist monk found in 1000 year old statue Perhaps someone needs to whisper to the statue "now slowly open the eyes." ;-) http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/scan-reveals-1000-year-old-monk-seated-inside-of-buddha-statue/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The End of the Internet As We Know It
This is interesting: a proposed U.S. federal government takeover of the internet and not a single comment from any FFL pundit. Can anyone say "Obamanet"? Go figure. Hillary Calls for Regulating Internet: 'It's a Foot in the Door' http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-calls-regulating-internet-its-foot-door_866080.html# http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-calls-regulating-internet-its-foot-door_866080.html# ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "Utility regulation was designed to maintain the status quo, and it succeeds. This is why the railroads, Ma Bell and the local water monopoly were never known for innovation. The Internet was different because its technologies, business models and creativity were permissionless. This week Mr. Obama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block Obamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it." From Internet to Obamanet http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-gordon-crovitz-from-internet-to-obamanet-1424644324 http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-gordon-crovitz-from-internet-to-obamanet-1424644324 From Internet to Obamanet http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-gordon-crovitz-from-internet-to-obamanet-1424644324 In The Wall Street Journal, Information Age columnist L. Gordon Crovitz writes that BlackBerry and AT&T are already making moves that could exploit new ‘uti... View on www.wsj.com http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-gordon-crovitz-from-internet-to-obamanet-1424644324 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: I need some spiritual help
Apparently Rita has other plans for me - she wants to seek out her roots in Greece. Besides, we have a very large Indian population around here in Austin and Houston. We are about a mile from Radiance, the TM Ideal Village which is located next to one of the largest Hindu temples outside Mother India. Maybe next time. http://www.rwilliams.us/view/images/uphere.jpg http://www.rwilliams.us/view/images/uphere.jpg ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Dear Serious Richard, Are you serious?!? Don't give up so easily...you are being tested by those very same gods that you seek to address with all those secret phrases, and you are failing by giving up so easily. Ask Rita to continue wholeheartedly with your plans to travel in India and you will be richly rewarded. Take it from someone who knows... LG ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yeah, actually Rita just nixed this idea anyway. Maybe we will just go to a bar and have a beer or visit the San Fernando Cathedral on Sunday and light a candle. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That sounds like a long trip my friend. It all sounds so ... romantic. Two or three weeks is more than most people will want to spend in India, at least the first time. Get out of the big cities as quickly as you can. They are polluted and crowded beyond belief and filled with crime .When people look at you, they will see dollar signs in your eyes and wonder which arm they pull to win the jack pot.. Be careful of what you put in your mouth, even brushing your teeth. Chances are you're going to get sick. The holy places are places of pilgrimage. People go there in hopes of healing, from God only knows what diseases. Be careful of what you touch. Some times it takes a thorn to remove a thorn. Enjoy. From: "richard@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 8:11 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: I need some spiritual help P.S. My mother recently passed away (RIP) and left me and Rita a small fortune, so we are seriously considering a visit to Mt. Kailash in India to hunt for rare fungi, as part of our yoga sadhana. We want to visit the Connaught Circus, the Big Red Fort, the Braj, Puri, Sarnath, Bodhi Gaya, and as many holy spots, stupas, peeths and dhams, mutts, yogis, swamis, and fakirs as humanly possible, if they speak any English. If we see any short, fat, bald-headed guys in bed sheets, sitting cross-legged inside a tea stall in Kashi or at a funeral on the Ganges, we will get back to you. Do they have broadband up there yet? On the way over we will probably read "Following the Equator" by Mark Twain and the "Lonely Planet Guide to India." by Rama Chandra. Please send any comments or questions you might have to the address below - otherwise you can be leaving a message at Whole Foods in Austin - we'll get back to you. Thanks for all the spiritual help! TO: That Bright Fellow From Texas (Tejas Wallah) General Delivery The Valley of the Saints, Uttar Kashi, Garwhal, UP, Himalayas, India ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, I need some spiritual help - I will admit it - I think maybe I've lost my soul. How do I contact the spirit of my dead mother? I really miss her - for 65 years I was able to call her up on the phone, any time day or night - and talk to her about anything. Being an only child this was very important to me. Now that she is gone I would really like to talk to her again. Will You please help me - I really need some spiritual help. If not, why not? Is it asking too much of you pundits to give me some spiritual help? If you don't know how, just tell me you don't know and I will seek help somewhere else, like on the internet at . I already meditate twice a day and do yoga at least once a week, and I respond to almost every message on spiritual discussion groups, but sometimes I still get mad as hell. I'm trying to figure this out. I get down on my hands and knees and pray every day - when I go to bed at night I pray that I will wake up in the morning; when I do wake up, I give thanks for being able to wake up. But, how can I pass through the gateless gate and travel to the other side, beyond the physical world to see my dear mother? I'm doing the work! So, please help me. Also, I would like some help with learning human levitation and human flying. If I knew that secret technique, I could be a billionaire in a few days and I would give away half of that to the homeless and the needy. I would like to learn how to rise up slowly off of a sofa and fly up to the side of a mountain or lift up at Denny's in downtown L.A. to impress my friends and look like a Zen Master. I would like to learn more about all the siddhis mentioned by Patanjali, such as how to become as light as cotton fiber; to be invisible; to be able to see into the future and the past; make predictions so as to avoid the da
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ben Woolf
RIP. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sorry to see that (according to Alex) former Fairfielder Ben Woolf died after being hit by a car side mirror. He played "Meep" in this past season of "American Horror Story." http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/american-horror-story-actor-ben-woolf-dies-after-being-hit-n311501 http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/american-horror-story-actor-ben-woolf-dies-after-being-hit-n311501
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
Why should they? It's a hassle getting to campus for some students, if they have a job or don't have transportation - or if they are an invalid. Most core courses at college don't even need a live teacher - you just read a textbook and then take an exam anyway. Who needs to listen to a teacher yak? So, why would anyone need to see the teacher's face or listen to them read out loud from the text book you just read the night before? Go figure. Besides, with modern software like Blackboard Learn, Course Compass or Canvas, students can use distance learning and take exams online while they are at home in their PJs. Don't forget the scene in Teachers with Nick Nolte, where one of the professor is sitting at his desk during class reading the newspaper - then the next day he's still sitting there - dead for 24 hours. LoL! Teachers Nick Nolte, Jobeth Williams, Ralph Macchio,, Judd Hirsch, Laura Dern, Morgan Freeman Amazon reviews: http://tinyurl.com/kxqq347 http://tinyurl.com/kxqq347 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : These days a lot of college teaching is done online. It's a wonder the professors ever see the students. On 02/24/2015 06:06 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... mailto:mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: There's always the *blackmail* factor to deal with or *rewards* for special favors as well. Socializing between students and faculty should be discouraged to keep all things fair. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 1:57 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife From: ultrarishi mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:jamesalan735@... wrote : Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Professors And Students http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Pro... Last year, Harvard was among dozens of schools the Department of Education said it's investigating for how they handle sexual abuse allegations. View on www.npr.org Preview by Yahoo Additionally, Harvard bans sneezing, coughing, IBS, urination, defecation, scratching, nervous ticks, Turrets Syndrone, bribary by book publishers, dorm drinking, date rape, and corporate interference with research. Yeah... that's gonna work out. While it may be impossible to enforce this completely, I still think that the basic idea is good because of "power differentials." Same as with spiritual teachers. If the person you're going to bed with has the ability to fail you in class or throw you out of the ashram, it can be argued that consent is never fully mutual, and that some level of coercion always is present. I've seen too many people's lives fucked up for long periods of time as the result of sexual relationships with their teachers to believe that it should ever be allowed. If the teacher knows that he or she will get fired for sleeping with a student, it'll happen less. And I actually think that's a good thing. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : These days a lot of college teaching is done online. It's a wonder the professors ever see the students. On 02/24/2015 06:06 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... mailto:mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: There's always the *blackmail* factor to deal with or *rewards* for special favors as well. Socializing between students and faculty should be discouraged to keep all things fair. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 1:57 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife From: ultrarishi mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:jamesalan735@... wrote : Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Professors And Students http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Pro... Last year, Harvard was among dozens of schools the Department of Education said it's investigating for how they handle sexual abuse allegations. View on www.npr.org Preview by Yahoo Additionally, Harvard bans sneezing, coughing, IBS, urination, defecation, scratching, nervous ticks, Turrets Syndrone, bribary by book publisher
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
Not sure how you know about any student-faculty sexual activity at MUM, since you were never a student or took any classes, even back when it was MIU. I could be wrong about this, but it's probably not very likely that you would be inside a student pod when someone else did it. Or, were you? So, I doubt any of the international female students at MIU would have been much interested in sleeping with one of the campus dinning room bus-boys, inside a pod. That would sort of be like a female student from a nice Indian family sleeping with the janitor in the cleaning supplies closet. Anything is possible I guess. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : It seems to be the standard at MUM instead of an anomaly. From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife There's always the *blackmail* factor to deal with or *rewards* for special favors as well. Socializing between students and faculty should be discouraged to keep all things fair. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 1:57 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife From: ultrarishi ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Professors And Students http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Pro... http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students Last year, Harvard was among dozens of schools the Department of Education said it's investigating for how they handle sexual abuse allegations. View on www.npr.org http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students Preview by Yahoo Additionally, Harvard bans sneezing, coughing, IBS, urination, defecation, scratching, nervous ticks, Turrets Syndrone, bribary by book publishers, dorm drinking, date rape, and corporate interference with research. Yeah... that's gonna work out. While it may be impossible to enforce this completely, I still think that the basic idea is good because of "power differentials." Same as with spiritual teachers. If the person you're going to bed with has the ability to fail you in class or throw you out of the ashram, it can be argued that consent is never fully mutual, and that some level of coercion always is present. I've seen too many people's lives fucked up for long periods of time as the result of sexual relationships with their teachers to believe that it should ever be allowed. If the teacher knows that he or she will get fired for sleeping with a student, it'll happen less. And I actually think that's a good thing.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Professors And Students http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : While it may be impossible to enforce this completely, I still think that the basic idea is good because of "power differentials." It is probably impossible at a public school to enforce a rule that forbids faculty from dating adult students or from having sexual relations with them. While I agree that this rule is a good idea if the student is in the teachers class, it's common knowledge that many adjunct faculty at public colleges fraternize with students all the time. It's so common that they made a popular TV sitcom about it - Community with Chevy Chase. Same as with spiritual teachers. If the person you're going to bed with has the ability to fail you in class or throw you out of the ashram, it can be argued that consent is never fully mutual, and that some level of coercion always is present. While this sounds reasonable in theory, it's sometimes not so easy in practice. When you take a closer look at this, anyone can see that if Barry had followed this advice, as a spiritual teacher he would have had to have been celibate for 34 years - not likely. Everyone knows that he was the top recruiter for Rama for over 20 years. Go figure. I've seen too many people's lives fucked up for long periods of time as the result of sexual relationships with their teachers to believe that it should ever be allowed. If the teacher knows that he or she will get fired for sleeping with a student, it'll happen less. And I actually think that's a good thing. And, I suppose everyone knows that the TMO and the Rama cult was never able to follow this kind of rule. According to Ned Wynn, in his book "Growing Up Crazy in Beverly Hills", sexual activity on TTC was pretty common. In one chapter Ned, a course manager, describes an encounter on the Majorrca TTC when he met a gal that was really into rounding. Once he got her into his room he asked her "Do you know the plow pose?" LoL! "He drifts into alcohol at age 15 and afterward begins drug use. He also has no respect for women, just looking for easy sex and seems to have no real remorse for impregnating a girl and then leaving her. He never speaks of what may have become of the daughter she bore." - Amazon reviewer We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills: Growing Up Crazy in Hollywood by Ned Wynn William Morrow, 1990 http://tinyurl.com/offvq6t http://tinyurl.com/offvq6t
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: I need some spiritual help
Yeah, actually Rita just nixed this idea anyway. Maybe we will just go to a bar and have a beer or visit the San Fernando Cathedral on Sunday and light a candle. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That sounds like a long trip my friend. It all sounds so ... romantic. Two or three weeks is more than most people will want to spend in India, at least the first time. Get out of the big cities as quickly as you can. They are polluted and crowded beyond belief and filled with crime .When people look at you, they will see dollar signs in your eyes and wonder which arm they pull to win the jack pot.. Be careful of what you put in your mouth, even brushing your teeth. Chances are you're going to get sick. The holy places are places of pilgrimage. People go there in hopes of healing, from God only knows what diseases. Be careful of what you touch. Some times it takes a thorn to remove a thorn. Enjoy. From: "richard@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 8:11 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: I need some spiritual help P.S. My mother recently passed away (RIP) and left me and Rita a small fortune, so we are seriously considering a visit to Mt. Kailash in India to hunt for rare fungi, as part of our yoga sadhana. We want to visit the Connaught Circus, the Big Red Fort, the Braj, Puri, Sarnath, Bodhi Gaya, and as many holy spots, stupas, peeths and dhams, mutts, yogis, swamis, and fakirs as humanly possible, if they speak any English. If we see any short, fat, bald-headed guys in bed sheets, sitting cross-legged inside a tea stall in Kashi or at a funeral on the Ganges, we will get back to you. Do they have broadband up there yet? On the way over we will probably read "Following the Equator" by Mark Twain and the "Lonely Planet Guide to India." by Rama Chandra. Please send any comments or questions you might have to the address below - otherwise you can be leaving a message at Whole Foods in Austin - we'll get back to you. Thanks for all the spiritual help! TO: That Bright Fellow From Texas (Tejas Wallah) General Delivery The Valley of the Saints, Uttar Kashi, Garwhal, UP, Himalayas, India ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, I need some spiritual help - I will admit it - I think maybe I've lost my soul. How do I contact the spirit of my dead mother? I really miss her - for 65 years I was able to call her up on the phone, any time day or night - and talk to her about anything. Being an only child this was very important to me. Now that she is gone I would really like to talk to her again. Will You please help me - I really need some spiritual help. If not, why not? Is it asking too much of you pundits to give me some spiritual help? If you don't know how, just tell me you don't know and I will seek help somewhere else, like on the internet at . I already meditate twice a day and do yoga at least once a week, and I respond to almost every message on spiritual discussion groups, but sometimes I still get mad as hell. I'm trying to figure this out. I get down on my hands and knees and pray every day - when I go to bed at night I pray that I will wake up in the morning; when I do wake up, I give thanks for being able to wake up. But, how can I pass through the gateless gate and travel to the other side, beyond the physical world to see my dear mother? I'm doing the work! So, please help me. Also, I would like some help with learning human levitation and human flying. If I knew that secret technique, I could be a billionaire in a few days and I would give away half of that to the homeless and the needy. I would like to learn how to rise up slowly off of a sofa and fly up to the side of a mountain or lift up at Denny's in downtown L.A. to impress my friends and look like a Zen Master. I would like to learn more about all the siddhis mentioned by Patanjali, such as how to become as light as cotton fiber; to be invisible; to be able to see into the future and the past; make predictions so as to avoid the danger that lies ahead; and how to pass through solid objects to save time. And, I would like to learn a few more secret phrases to repeat when I address the gods so that I could command them to do give me boons and to be able to cause change at will. Does anyone on this group know anything about "left-handed" tantra? Or even "right" handed tantra? How do I go about weaving a basket or making a yantra and how to please women? FOR GAWD'S SAKE, WOULD ONE OF YOU GUYS PLEASE HELP ME!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: US Secession is Happening
Europe Throws Ukraine Under the Bus On February 18, Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, ordered his troops to withdraw from the city in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. http://www.newsweek.com/europe-throws-ukraine-under-bus-308853 http://www.newsweek.com/europe-throws-ukraine-under-bus-308853 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yea, we tried something like that here in South Carolina in 1860 - didn't work out too well. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: US Secession is Happening Break it up into the "Nine Nations of North America". I've been an advocate of this ever since the book came out in 1981. It's based on the way the American Indians looked at the country by geographical distinctions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_America But the rich will cry because we'll be taking their toys away from them. On 02/23/2015 05:16 PM, richard@... mailto:richard@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: "Because the Constitution does not enumerate a congressional territorial-acquisition power, Congress therefore disregarded great-powers limitations in annexing Texas and Hawaii through joint resolution." The unconstitutionality of the annexation of Texas and Hawaii http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/22/great-powers-and-the-unconstitutionality-of-the-annexation-of-texas-and-hawaii/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/22/great-powers-and-the-unconstitutionality-of-the-annexation-of-texas-and-hawaii/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:jr_esq@... wrote : At least, Ron Paul thinks so. This could be the quick solution to eliminate the trillions of dollars in national debt. But somebody is going to lose out. My gut feeling is: it would still be us. Ron Paul: U.S. secession is already 'happening' http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ron-paul-us-secession-already-happening Ron Paul: U.S. secession is already 'happening' As recently as a few weeks ago, Rand Paul's mentor insisted publicly that American secession is "gonna happen" and that's "good news." View on www.msnbc.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: US Secession is Happening
You are starting to sound like a rebel, always trying to break things up. There's more power in numbers. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Break it up into the "Nine Nations of North America". I've been an advocate of this ever since the book came out in 1981. It's based on the way the American Indians looked at the country by geographical distinctions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_America But the rich will cry because we'll be taking their toys away from them. On 02/23/2015 05:16 PM, richard@... mailto:richard@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: "Because the Constitution does not enumerate a congressional territorial-acquisition power, Congress therefore disregarded great-powers limitations in annexing Texas and Hawaii through joint resolution." The unconstitutionality of the annexation of Texas and Hawaii http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/22/great-powers-and-the-unconstitutionality-of-the-annexation-of-texas-and-hawaii/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/22/great-powers-and-the-unconstitutionality-of-the-annexation-of-texas-and-hawaii/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:jr_esq@... wrote : At least, Ron Paul thinks so. This could be the quick solution to eliminate the trillions of dollars in national debt. But somebody is going to lose out. My gut feeling is: it would still be us. Ron Paul: U.S. secession is already 'happening' Ron Paul: U.S. secession is already 'happening' As recently as a few weeks ago, Rand Paul's mentor insisted publicly that American secession is "gonna happen" and that's "good news." View on www.msnbc.com Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: I need some spiritual help
P.S. My mother recently passed away (RIP) and left me and Rita a small fortune, so we are seriously considering a visit to Mt. Kailash in India to hunt for rare fungi, as part of our yoga sadhana. We want to visit the Connaught Circus, the Big Red Fort, the Braj, Puri, Sarnath, Bodhi Gaya, and as many holy spots, stupas, peeths and dhams, mutts, yogis, swamis, and fakirs as humanly possible, if they speak any English. If we see any short, fat, bald-headed guys in bed sheets, sitting cross-legged inside a tea stall in Kashi or at a funeral on the Ganges, we will get back to you. Do they have broadband up there yet? On the way over we will probably read "Following the Equator" by Mark Twain and the "Lonely Planet Guide to India." by Rama Chandra. Please send any comments or questions you might have to the address below - otherwise you can be leaving a message at Whole Foods in Austin - we'll get back to you. Thanks for all the spiritual help! TO: That Bright Fellow From Texas (Tejas Wallah) General Delivery The Valley of the Saints, Uttar Kashi, Garwhal, UP, Himalayas, India ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, I need some spiritual help - I will admit it - I think maybe I've lost my soul. How do I contact the spirit of my dead mother? I really miss her - for 65 years I was able to call her up on the phone, any time day or night - and talk to her about anything. Being an only child this was very important to me. Now that she is gone I would really like to talk to her again. Will You please help me - I really need some spiritual help. If not, why not? Is it asking too much of you pundits to give me some spiritual help? If you don't know how, just tell me you don't know and I will seek help somewhere else, like on the internet at . I already meditate twice a day and do yoga at least once a week, and I respond to almost every message on spiritual discussion groups, but sometimes I still get mad as hell. I'm trying to figure this out. I get down on my hands and knees and pray every day - when I go to bed at night I pray that I will wake up in the morning; when I do wake up, I give thanks for being able to wake up. But, how can I pass through the gateless gate and travel to the other side, beyond the physical world to see my dear mother? I'm doing the work! So, please help me. Also, I would like some help with learning human levitation and human flying. If I knew that secret technique, I could be a billionaire in a few days and I would give away half of that to the homeless and the needy. I would like to learn how to rise up slowly off of a sofa and fly up to the side of a mountain or lift up at Denny's in downtown L.A. to impress my friends and look like a Zen Master. I would like to learn more about all the siddhis mentioned by Patanjali, such as how to become as light as cotton fiber; to be invisible; to be able to see into the future and the past; make predictions so as to avoid the danger that lies ahead; and how to pass through solid objects to save time. And, I would like to learn a few more secret phrases to repeat when I address the gods so that I could command them to do give me boons and to be able to cause change at will. Does anyone on this group know anything about "left-handed" tantra? Or even "right" handed tantra? How do I go about weaving a basket or making a yantra and how to please women? FOR GAWD'S SAKE, WOULD ONE OF YOU GUYS PLEASE HELP ME!
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
Thoughts: If it's true that we are all one, then everyone is a King and Tony is your King too. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : U. Celibate? Maharishi made it clear that King Tony's position was hereditary. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those years while you were focusing on me rather than enjoying your own lives." Or something like that. :-) From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Estab... https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Re-Establishing Vedic India posted this photo on 2015-02-20. 17 likes. 2 comments. 21 shares. View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: US Secession is Happening
"Because the Constitution does not enumerate a congressional territorial-acquisition power, Congress therefore disregarded great-powers limitations in annexing Texas and Hawaii through joint resolution." The unconstitutionality of the annexation of Texas and Hawaii http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/22/great-powers-and-the-unconstitutionality-of-the-annexation-of-texas-and-hawaii/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/22/great-powers-and-the-unconstitutionality-of-the-annexation-of-texas-and-hawaii/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : At least, Ron Paul thinks so. This could be the quick solution to eliminate the trillions of dollars in national debt. But somebody is going to lose out. My gut feeling is: it would still be us. Ron Paul: U.S. secession is already 'happening' http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ron-paul-us-secession-already-happening http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ron-paul-us-secession-already-happening Ron Paul: U.S. secession is already 'happening' http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ron-paul-us-secession-already-happening As recently as a few weeks ago, Rand Paul's mentor insisted publicly that American secession is "gonna happen" and that's "good news." View on www.msnbc.com http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ron-paul-us-secession-already-happening Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
Private schools can make any rules they want to, but public schools, under the U.S. Constitution, cannot abrogate any adult teacher or students basic rights to due process. It is unconstitutional for any public institution to repress or deny the basic right of an adult individual without a due process of law. "Law professors at the University of Pennsylvania are not happy about the university’s new sexual assault policies, which they say undermine due process." Read more: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/?s=due+process http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/?s=due+process ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Professors And Students http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students Harvard Bans Sexual Relationships Between Pro... http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students Last year, Harvard was among dozens of schools the Department of Education said it's investigating for how they handle sexual abuse allegations. View on www.npr.org http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/05/384080539/harvard-bans-sexual-relationships-between-professors-and-students Preview by Yahoo Additionally, Harvard bans sneezing, coughing, IBS, urination, defecation, scratching, nervous ticks, Turrets Syndrone, bribary by book publishers, dorm drinking, date rape, and corporate interference with research. Yeah... that's gonna work out.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Question for TM teachers from the 1960's
The basic TM intro in 1955 and the instructions for the practice was the same in 1956 as it is today. According to what I've read, the instructions from MMY are almost the exact same instructions as what I learned from Jerry Jarvis in 1968 at the first SIMMS course in L.A., up to and including the basic intro lecture and instruction by TM Teachers at the TM Ideal Village, home of the the Maharishi Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge at Radiance, Texas in 2015. "According to T. Rama Rao, perhaps the very first initiate, the technique of meditation and its instruction was exactly the same as it is taught today by TM teachers throughout the world." Work cited: The Origins of the S.R.M. A scholarly report by J. Randolph Coplin, Ph.D. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I heard *mother* Olsen/Olson, whatever , give an intro around '67 and don't remember it being anything like what became standard about the time you're referring to. It was very abstract and way over my head. Of course, I was a sixteen year old kid at the time .A lot of talk about Being and Bliss...WTF was that? I just knew the Beatles did it and that made it cool. From: "Michael Jackson mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 2:51 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Question for TM teachers from the 1960's When I learned TM in 1974 the standard intro lecture was TM is a simple, natural, effortless mental technique practiced 20 minutes twice a day. But that seems to have been the TM spin AFTER the science jag Marshy lit upon in about 1970. What was the intro lecture in the 1960's? Anyone here who became a teacher in the 1960's remember what the intro was like?
[FairfieldLife] The End of the Internet As We Know It
"Utility regulation was designed to maintain the status quo, and it succeeds. This is why the railroads, Ma Bell and the local water monopoly were never known for innovation. The Internet was different because its technologies, business models and creativity were permissionless. This week Mr. Obama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block Obamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it." From Internet to Obamanet http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-gordon-crovitz-from-internet-to-obamanet-1424644324 http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-gordon-crovitz-from-internet-to-obamanet-1424644324 From Internet to Obamanet http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-gordon-crovitz-from-internet-to-obamanet-1424644324 In The Wall Street Journal, Information Age columnist L. Gordon Crovitz writes that BlackBerry and AT&T are already making moves that could exploit new ‘uti... View on www.wsj.com http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-gordon-crovitz-from-internet-to-obamanet-1424644324 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tech 101
Thanks for the information, Mr. Rishi. So, I enrolled in some courses at the community college this semester. Cyber Security (for certification) and Python coding. For $350 any Texas resident can take two courses for $350. Sweet! "...more than a dozen software applications other than Superfish use Komodia code." SSL-busting code that threatened Lenovo users found in a dozen more apps http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/ssl-busting-code-that-threatened-lenovo-users-found-in-a-dozen-more-apps/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/ssl-busting-code-that-threatened-lenovo-users-found-in-a-dozen-more-apps/ Microsoft is doing what it can to root out the software. Its Windows Defender anti-virus software began removing Superfish this morning by resetting the certificates that Superfish messed with... http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/images/certificates/jpg http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/images/certificates/jpg How To Clear Your Computer of Superfish Adware http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a14194/how-do-i-delete-superfish-lenovo/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a14194/how-do-i-delete-superfish-lenovo/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I have a friend who works for big blue on their LInux projects. IBM deploys those employees computers with their own Linux image with the tools, software packages, corporate spyware, and networking constraints. Also, read this months 2600 about a former IBM net tech who writes about working for big blue over a decade ago and the spyware packages the company had in place for its employees. In the corporate world I suppose I am okay (mostly) with company spyware and constraints if the item used is company property. I do feel, though, that there should be total disclosure by said company to the employee about what is being done with the asset. I think all computers companies should stop this practice of crapware immediately and just put out a stock OEM image on the pc. Include a CD ROM in the box with all the trial where and enhanced services should the consumer desire this garbage. Or, plan B, have an icon on the desktop that allow the buyer to double click that installs a generic OEM version from a hidden partition without the crapware. Every 4-5 years I have to buy my mom, who is 85, a new PC. The first thing I do after running Windows updates is to remove all the crapware and legit programs that will only distract her.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tech 101
You are not even making any sense. Company computers purchased for employees don't even come with software installed on them, or if they do, it's wiped clean by in-house IT professionals and their own OS and software programs are installed remotely running Norton Campus Edition. We have over 5,000 Dell workstations on the community college campus and we do this all the time. Only consumers buy computers at stores or online and use the software installed by OEMS. P.S. Thanks for the info on the Ubuntu Linux. Any nerd worth his salt will always be building his or her own machine with off-the shelf parts and booting from a disc for the OS install on an SSD. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I would expect such on a company computer. That's why I always bought my own PCs for my private use. I am running Ubuntu Studio 12.04 on this machine because their attempt to be more user friendly with the regular version was way too developer unfriendly. I would have installed Mint Linux but that would have been a complete re-installation whereas going from Ubuntu 10 to 12 was smooth. A decade or so ago I upgraded my Windows XP Pro machine with a new CPU and motherboard. You have to jump through some hoops to do that such as a procedure to kill the Windows license for the old machine. I need to update the CPU on this machine so that Android emulators can use it. The current AMD processor lacks some instructions for that to work though the BIOS supports it. With Linux you can just pop in a new CPU and are good to go, no hassles. There was an article this week about how many folks are working on the Linux kernel and how user friendly it IS beginning to be. There are people I've recommended Linux to because they are constantly having to reformat their drive and re-install because they are careless about opening strange emails or visiting some sites. On 02/22/2015 12:12 PM, ultrarishi wrote: I have a friend who works for big blue on their LInux projects. IBM deploys those employees computers with their own Linux image with the tools, software packages, corporate spyware, and networking constraints. Also, read this months 2600 about a former IBM net tech who writes about working for big blue over a decade ago and the spyware packages the company had in place for its employees. In the corporate world I suppose I am okay (mostly) with company spyware and constraints if the item used is company property. I do feel, though, that there should be total disclosure by said company to the employee about what is being done with the asset. I think all computers companies should stop this practice of crapware immediately and just put out a stock OEM image on the pc. Include a CD ROM in the box with all the trial where and enhanced services should the consumer desire this garbage. Or, plan B, have an icon on the desktop that allow the buyer to double click that installs a generic OEM version from a hidden partition without the crapware. Every 4-5 years I have to buy my mom, who is 85, a new PC. The first thing I do after running Windows updates is to remove all the crapware and legit programs that will only distract her.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tech 101
You dumb nerd, the Superfish adware was installed on a limited number of consumer laptops, not on commercial laptops used by IBM employees. Company laptops and servers don't have bloatware installed on them. I already told you that, can't you read? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What's funniest in a way is that IBM used to be the makers of Lenovo computers until they spun of the PC business to some Chinese company. As a result, all IBMers use Lenovo laptops. So it appears that for the last few months (as long as this adware has been present) a company that one can justly characterize as *terrified* that people are going to steal its secrets has been making it easier to steal them. From: ultrarishi To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 7:50 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tech 101 My outrage about this is beyond measure. I've been following this on several podcast as well as arstechnica. Business and the corporate world just doesn't get it. Don't turn your customers into the product! A pox on your houses, Lenovo and Superfish.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Stamp Scrip can save Greece?
Walker’s anti-union law has labor reeling in Wisconsin "The anti-union law passed here four years ago, which made Gov. Scott Walker a national Republican star and a possible presidential candidate, has turned out to be even more transformative than many had predicted." Walker’s anti-union law has labor reeling in Wisconsin http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-wisconsin-walkers-anti-union-law-has-crippled-labor-movement/2015/02/22/1eb3ef82-b6f1-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-wisconsin-walkers-anti-union-law-has-crippled-labor-movement/2015/02/22/1eb3ef82-b6f1-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html Walker’s anti-union law has labor reeling in Wisconsin http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-wisconsin-walkers-anti-union-law-has-crippled-labor-movement/2015/02/22/1eb3ef82-b6f1-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html Four years after mass protests, the state’s governor lauded depleted unions as he eyes a presidential run. View on www.washingtonpo... http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-wisconsin-walkers-anti-union-law-has-crippled-labor-movement/2015/02/22/1eb3ef82-b6f1-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : As I suspected it is not a new idea (which the article mentions). Something similar was tried in Spain in the 1930s. It was favored by the anarchist faction which could have won over the country but the rich hated the idea and got behind their totalitarian scheme that led to Franco's fascism. A lot people don't understand what an anarchy is really is and the rich in the US like to hire thugs and get the police to call them "anarchists" so the idea doesn't catch on or the rich will find their fascist party over. On 02/23/2015 05:09 AM, jason_green2@... mailto:jason_green2@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Hey Bhairitu, this article says 'stamp scrip' would have sorted out the great depression of the 30's in three weeks time. Monbiot says two ideas are proposed for Greece. One is restrict the credit giving capacity of banks. The other is 'stamp scrip' which did wonders in Austria. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/17/ currency-scheme-1930s-save-greek-economy-eurozone-crisis
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TV series first impression review: "Bosch"
These days, if I was an internet pirate, I would be really worried. If I was an American expat living off the Dutch dime, I would be really worried, especially with the Wi-Fi in street cafes. If I was a pirate bragging about my exploits on a newsgroup, I would have my bags packed and my passport ready. It's pretty common knowledge that now everything is being tracked on the internet - that's built into the design. They know who you are and where you live and everything you look at and/or purchase on the internet. If I was that dumb, I'd just go ahead and turn myself in to the Dutch police - since they already know who he is after he met them at the station to complain about somebody online posting libel about him. What up? I always thought he was dumb, but is this one of the dumbest pirates on the planet of all time or what? Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : They are even tracking TAILS users these days. Morally, if you can pay for a show you should. My beef is that they've gotten into this thing of getting people to "own" a TV series thus paying far more than they should. A lot of people might rent at $1 an HD episode. They would get a rental window of 2 days to watch ONCE they began watching. This is the way renting movies works online. But they charge you 3 times as much to "own" an episode and how many people are REALLY going to watch at TV episode more than once? It's a scam. BTW, Netherlands was one of the first countries to sign the copyright accords so they don't exactly ignore copyright infringements. But they probably prefer to make an example of a Dutch citizen. But they also might not like the opportunism of Hollywood studios. On 02/23/2015 10:40 AM, j_alexander_stanley@... mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: In the US, either use an anonymous proxy on BitTorrent or grab stuff off Usenet newsgroups. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:noozguru@... wrote : On 02/23/2015 08:47 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com I watched the pilot episode last night and thought it was okay. I got a kick out of Amy Aquino (who resembles Edie Franco) as she played a witch in the final two seasons of Syfy's version of "Being Human". But I followed up with the Netflix recommended "Felony", an excellent Australian cop film with Tom Wilkinson. A bit of a TM connection too as it's Benaroya Pictures which is Michael Benaroya's company. His grandfather, Jack, was Seattle area businessman who practiced TM and lent a suite in one of his business parks for a center. I taught at that center and Jack would occasionally drop by. I don't know when I'll see the remaining episodes of Bosch (lots of other good stuff to watch anyway) as it's mainly a carrot to get you locked into Prime and I don't order enough stuff from Amazon to make it worthwhile. It's funny. You're always all about what these series *cost* you to watch them, and I (being a Pirate) am all about whether they're worth watching for artistic reasons. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. But in the US folks would be well advised to stay away from the pirating. Our guvmint is becoming quite authoritarian and fascist. People how have been used to grabbing a show or two off Pirate Bay are getting notices from their ISP that they've been observed doing so. I would probably watch "Bosch" and will eventually as probably most of the "Amazon Prime" shows will eventually be available to regular members. Only the pilot or first episode are now and for free. So while you watch some video that someone probably screen grabbed off a computer since it is practically impossible to grab a DASH encoding I got to see the episode in fairly good 720p or maybe OK 1080p. I can't get a figure from Amazon BD app though I can get that info on the Netflix BD app. However having edited quite a bit of video I can see telltale signs of the two resolutions. As for the show's artistic merits I didn't find it any better than many other cable network serials but definitely above most broadcast standards. Artistically "Felony" was much better. Funny thing about streaming quality is that I could tell when the Oscars were over because all of a sudden my viewing of the Felony at 1080p suddenly dropped down for about a minute as folks hit Netflix after the Oscars. On 02/22/2015 12:15 PM, ultrarishi wrote: My wife and I just started watching this as well and love it. We're only 2 episodes in, but are really enjoying it. Love the dialog. She's a big fan of the Michael Connelly's books. It's funny to see Titus Welliver in a a likable role after playing so many a-holes. ---I
[FairfieldLife] Re: Moore's Law May Soon End
"The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity. Only after this point began to expand in a "Big Bang" did the universe officially begin. Although the Big Bang singularity arises directly and unavoidably from the mathematics of general relativity, some scientists see it as problematic because the math can explain only what happened immediately after—not at or before—the singularity." No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe h... http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html (Phys.org) —The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein's theory of genera... View on phys.org http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Moore's Law may soon end. Someone will have to discover a way to build quantum computers. This is probably the next step that will lead to the singularity. Intel: Moore's Law will continue through 7nm chips http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887275/intel-moores-law-will-continue-through-7nm-chips.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887275/intel-moores-law-will-continue-through-7nm-chips.html Intel: Moore's Law will continue through 7nm chips http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887275/intel-moores-law-will-continue-through-7nm-chips.html Eventually, the conventional ways of manufacturing silicon chips will run out of steam. According to Intel researchers speaking at the ISSCC conference this...
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
If anyone has any doubts that the Tres Hombres are JELLOS of Tony Nader, just read the thread below. It's a classic! Although Barry lived down the street from MMY in Vlodrop and across town from Tony in Paris, Barry knows next to nothing about their comings-and-goings for over four decades. Barry got kicked out of the TMO way back in 1975, because he sucked as a meditation teacher. All you have to do is check the FFL archives. Key in barry tony JELLOS. LoL! http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg197708.html http://www.mail-archive.com/fairfieldlife%40yahoogroups.com/msg197708.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Barry, I have no idea if what you say is correct, or not. I think it caught everyone by surprise that Tony Nader was married, but what is rather shocking is how closely you appear to follow the goings on with regard to MMY and the TMO. I mean to you have discounted MMY's spiritual status to nearly zero. You have indicated that TM,is at best, a mild relaxation technique, and yet, here you appear to be the "go to" person for dates and inside info on the TMO. Have you cultivated a mole somewhere within? (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Don't start this denial crap, Lawson. Maharishi presented Tony Nader as the ultimate celibate purusha for *years*, all while hiding the fact that he was married from everyone. Even Nader's closest friends didn't know he was married. This was a lie that lasted well over a decade, and was told to everyone *within* the TM movement, not just people outside of it (like the "We're not a religion" lies). From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife U. Celibate? Maharishi made it clear that King Tony's position was hereditary. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those years while you were focusing on me rather than enjoying your own lives." Or something like that. :-) From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Estab... https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Re-Establishing Vedic India posted this photo on 2015-02-20. 17 likes. 2 comments. 21 shares. View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
Barry probably hasn't spoken to a single person still connected to the TMO in four decades. If he knew anything about Tony, he would have posted it a long time ago. Check the archives: bupkis, nada, nothing. Everything he knows about the TMO he read on social media: a.m.t. http://tinyurl.com/q2f43kg http://tinyurl.com/q2f43kg ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Barry, I have no idea if what you say is correct, or not. I think it caught everyone by surprise that Tony Nader was married, but what is rather shocking is how closely you appear to follow the goings on with regard to MMY and the TMO. I mean to you have discounted MMY's spiritual status to nearly zero. You have indicated that TM,is at best, a mild relaxation technique, and yet, here you appear to be the "go to" person for dates and inside info on the TMO. Have you cultivated a mole somewhere within? (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Don't start this denial crap, Lawson. Maharishi presented Tony Nader as the ultimate celibate purusha for *years*, all while hiding the fact that he was married from everyone. Even Nader's closest friends didn't know he was married. This was a lie that lasted well over a decade, and was told to everyone *within* the TM movement, not just people outside of it (like the "We're not a religion" lies). From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife U. Celibate? Maharishi made it clear that King Tony's position was hereditary. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those years while you were focusing on me rather than enjoying your own lives." Or something like that. :-) From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Estab... https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Re-Establishing Vedic India posted this photo on 2015-02-20. 17 likes. 2 comments. 21 shares. View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Barry, I have no idea if what you say is correct, or not. I think it caught everyone by surprise that Tony Nader was married, but what is rather shocking is how closely you appear to follow the goings on with regard to MMY and the TMO. I mean to you have discounted MMY's spiritual status to nearly zero. You have indicated that TM,is at best, a mild relaxation technique, and yet, here you appear to be the "go to" person for dates and inside info on the TMO. Have you cultivated a mole somewhere within? (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Don't start this denial crap, Lawson. Maharishi presented Tony Nader as the ultimate celibate purusha for *years*, all while hiding the fact that he was married from everyone. Even Nader's closest friends didn't know he was married. This was a lie that lasted well over a decade, and was told to everyone *within* the TM movement, not just people outside of it (like the "We're not a religion" lies). From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife U. Celibate? Maharishi made it clear that King Tony's position was hereditary. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those ye
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
Maharishi never presented Tony Nader as a celibate monk - where did you even get that idea? You've been out of the loop for at least four decades - the only way you could find out anything about Tony's private life in on social media. You don't even know any of Tony's closest friends. The nearest you've been to Tony Nader is the day you got refused entry to the Vlodrop campus: "Barry who?" ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Don't start this denial crap, Lawson. Maharishi presented Tony Nader as the ultimate celibate purusha for *years*, all while hiding the fact that he was married from everyone. Even Nader's closest friends didn't know he was married. This was a lie that lasted well over a decade, and was told to everyone *within* the TM movement, not just people outside of it (like the "We're not a religion" lies). From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife U. Celibate? Maharishi made it clear that King Tony's position was hereditary. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those years while you were focusing on me rather than enjoying your own lives." Or something like that. :-) From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Estab... https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Re-Establishing Vedic India posted this photo on 2015-02-20. 17 likes. 2 comments. 21 shares. View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tech 101
You nerd, there's was no "spyware" installed on IBM employee laptops - Lenovo installed "malware" on consumer laptops. You are supposed to read the article BEFORE you post your dumb comments. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What I wonder is if whether IBM, the original progenitor of of Lenovo (before they spun it off as a separate business) has realized that the Lenovo computer they distributed to all IBM employees for the last few years were full of spyware. From: ultrarishi To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 7:50 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tech 101 My outrage about this is beyond measure. I've been following this on several podcast as well as arstechnica. Business and the corporate world just doesn't get it. Don't turn your customers into the product! A pox on your houses, Lenovo and Superfish.
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The reason for that Feste, is that the Movement has a long history of seamy behavior and underhanded doings. Non sequitur. You're just JELLOS because you never even took a single course at MIU in the two years you worked there. There's no "seamy" behavior at MUM - if there was, we could read about it on the MUM Student Facebook page. You just told a big fib. The only seamy behavior at MUM was your own, when you let every one down and failed to do your job and then threw your co-workers under the bus and started spreading all those false rumors around campus about everyone. Face it, you sucked as a bus-boy. These kind of comments are what the Movement gets for claiming to be in existence for the benefit of the world when in fact it is out to serve the greedy self centered needs of its leadership. If you thought TM was really as spiffy as it is claimed by Movement shills like Tony Nader, you would still be practicing it, teaching it and still a professor at MUM. Speaking of MUM, there are apparently still allegations that some of the male professors at MUM have inappropriate relationships with female students and that it has been going on for decades. How much of that were you aware of during your tenure there? From: feste37 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Yeah, someone posts a nice picture of a happy couple and look at the response it gets. This forum really has sunk into the abyss. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You sound JELLOS. Tony Nader never claimed he was celibate after he got married.You just told a big fib. I just checked the a.m.t. archives and this meme was totally discredited - Judy called you a liar. In fact, the wedding was kept secret from you and you weren't invited to the reception, even though you lived just down the street at a crash pad in Paris. Or something like that. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those years while you were focusing on me rather than enjoying your own lives." Or something like that. :-) From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Estab... https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Re-Establishing Vedic India posted this photo on 2015-02-20. 17 likes. 2 comments. 21 shares. View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
The hell you say! There's no law or school rule forbidding teachers to fraternize with adult students. Students have the right to date anyone they want to, if they are both 18 years or older. Apparently you have never been a student. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : this is the kind of crappy thinking that TM often gives rise to. Such relationships are obviously unethical on the part of the professor, there are obvious reasons for this and many institutions of higher learning have made them illegal according to school rules. and this: "BTW, there's the mistake many people make about trying to identify enlightened people because enlightened people won't always be saints. And saints might not always be enlightened." is the kind of shit thinking that has allowed gazillions of hucksters like Marshy, Sri Ravi, Amma, Sai Baba and many others to make a damn good living lying, cheating and stealing. If you think that meditation, particularly TM doesn't change behavior then you don't believe Marshy's words. And according to his own definition of enlightenment laid out in the Science of Being and his commentary on the Gita, enlightenment DOES totally transform behavior and the personality. This idea that the personality doesn't change with enlightenment is bullshit. It is a new age phenomenon that has erupted as people realize their fabulous experiences may feel good and they may think they are seeing angels and devas but it doesn't change their lesser impulses, and they see their own gurus are guilty of all kinds of crap. So instead of admitting their "path" is not working as advertised they make excuses and tip toe through the tulips. To hell with TM and to hell with making excuses for lying sobs who claim enlightenment. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife MJ, relationships with younger students is quite common in academia. Seems to come with the territory so why would anyone be surprised that it would happen at MUM? Or is sainthood also supposed to be a benefit of TM? BTW, there's the mistake many people make about trying to identify enlightened people because enlightened people won't always be saints. And saints might not always be enlightened. :-D On 02/22/2015 09:17 AM, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The reason for that Feste, is that the Movement has a long history of seamy behavior and underhanded doings. These kind of comments are what the Movement gets for claiming to be in existence for the benefit of the world when in fact it is out to serve the greedy self centered needs of its leadership. If you thought TM was really as spiffy as it is claimed by Movement shills like Tony Nader, you would still be practicing it, teaching it and still a professor at MUM. Speaking of MUM, there are apparently still allegations that some of the male professors at MUM have inappropriate relationships with female students and that it has been going on for decades. How much of that were you aware of during your tenure there? From: feste37 mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Yeah, someone posts a nice picture of a happy couple and look at the response it gets. This forum really has sunk into the abyss. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:richard@... wrote : You sound JELLOS. Tony Nader never claimed he was celibate after he got married.You just told a big fib. I just checked the a.m.t. archives and this meme was totally discredited - Judy called you a liar. In fact, the wedding was kept secret from you and you weren't invited to the reception, even though you lived just down the street at a crash pad in Paris. Or something like that. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote : No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those years while you were focusing on me rather than enjoying your own lives." Or something like that. :-) From: "srijau@..." mailto:srijau@... mailto:srijau@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: [Fairfield
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
On 02/22/2015 11:20 AM, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: this is the kind of crappy thinking that TM often gives rise to. Such relationships are obviously unethical on the part of the professor, there are obvious reasons for this and many institutions of higher learning have made them illegal according to school rules. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What if the professor is single? We get it. You have a daughter or two and are afraid of them bringing home a professor twice their age as a "boyfriend". I guess that is every "dad's fear." Your daughter could do worse and bring home a waiter, dishwasher or a bus-boy for a boyfriend who just got fired from his job because he couldn't even be depended on to set a table in the dinning room for an important reception. and this: "BTW, there's the mistake many people make about trying to identify enlightened people because enlightened people won't always be saints. And saints might not always be enlightened." is the kind of shit thinking that has allowed gazillions of hucksters like Marshy, Sri Ravi, Amma, Sai Baba and many others to make a damn good living lying, cheating and stealing. No, it's reality. Something you're not very good at. There are a lot of saints known for their charitable acts not their wisdom. If you think that meditation, particularly TM doesn't change behavior then you don't believe Marshy's words. And according to his own definition of enlightenment laid out in the Science of Being and his commentary on the Gita, enlightenment DOES totally transform behavior and the personality. I've not seen that to be true and my tantra guru said that samskaras don't necessarily all go away due to enlightenment. Hell, the patterns laid out in destiny will still play but they will be experienced differently to the enlightened. You've hung around Bible thumpers a bit too much. This idea that the personality doesn't change with enlightenment is bullshit. It is a new age phenomenon that has erupted as people realize their fabulous experiences may feel good and they may think they are seeing angels and devas but it doesn't change their lesser impulses, and they see their own gurus are guilty of all kinds of crap. So instead of admitting their "path" is not working as advertised they make excuses and tip toe through the tulips. To hell with TM and to hell with making excuses for lying sobs who claim enlightenment. Oh gee, really? Not that we haven't noticed this from you. :-D From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife MJ, relationships with younger students is quite common in academia. Seems to come with the territory so why would anyone be surprised that it would happen at MUM? Or is sainthood also supposed to be a benefit of TM? BTW, there's the mistake many people make about trying to identify enlightened people because enlightened people won't always be saints. And saints might not always be enlightened. :-D On 02/22/2015 09:17 AM, Michael Jackson mjackson74@... mailto:mjackson74@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Thereason for that Feste, is that the Movement has a long history of seamy behavior and underhanded doings. Thesekind of comments are what the Movement gets for claiming to be in existence for the benefit of the world when in fact it is out to serve the greedy self centered needs of its leadership. If you thought TM was really as spiffy as it is claimed by Movement shills like Tony Nader, you would still be practicing it, teaching it and still a professor at MUM. Speakingof MUM, there are apparently still allegations that some of the male professors at MUM have inappropriate relationships with female students and that it has been going on for decades. How much of that were you aware of during your tenure there? From: feste37 mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Yeah,someone posts a nice picture of a happy couple and look at the response it gets. This forum really has sunk into the abyss. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:richard@... wrote : You sound JELLOS. Tony Nader never claimed he was celibate after he got married.You just told a big fib. I just checked the a.m.t. archives and this meme was totally discredited - Judy called you a liar. In fact, the wedding was kept secret from you and you weren't invited to th
[FairfieldLife] Go Figure
"...who the hell ever promised you fairness when it comes to competing in a changing business marketplace?" Cabs Strike In Chicago Against Uber; Uber Drivers Presumably Report Uptick In Business https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150217/11260130057/cabs-strike-chicago-against-uber-uber-drivers-presumably-report-uptick-business.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150217/11260130057/cabs-strike-chicago-against-uber-uber-drivers-presumably-report-uptick-business.shtml "...all those regulations they wanted to protect them, and the union demands over the years, might have made them uncompetitive?" - David
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
They sound really JELLOS. Maybe because the informants own lives haven't turned out so well and now they are old and like, losers. Maybe they at one time wanted to be spiritual teachers but somehow they went over to the dark side. They sound like maybe they are just hanging on with a bare thread. I hope they saved up some money for their retirement. It's kind of sad to see people deteriorate like this - after 14 years of reading their messages it looks like to me they started out in a low spot to begin with and then just dug in deeper over the years. Some can't even seem to manage a simple conversation anymore. They sound scared and confused. I would have expected that they would have gained some insight and wisdom with age. Go figure. There are exceptions of course. Not everyone left here, after the schism, is in the same sad situation - but there are a few still trolling who just don't seem to be making much progress in their spiritual quest. They are not very inspiring, that's fer sure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yeah, someone posts a nice picture of a happy couple and look at the response it gets. This forum really has sunk into the abyss. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You sound JELLOS. Tony Nader never claimed he was celibate after he got married.You just told a big fib. I just checked the a.m.t. archives and this meme was totally discredited - Judy called you a liar. In fact, the wedding was kept secret from you and you weren't invited to the reception, even though you lived just down the street at a crash pad in Paris. Or something like that. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those years while you were focusing on me rather than enjoying your own lives." Or something like that. :-) From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Estab... https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Re-Establishing Vedic India posted this photo on 2015-02-20. 17 likes. 2 comments. 21 shares. View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Wired
Top 20 most wired cities for transportation https://autos.yahoo.com/news/top-20-most-wired-cities-for-transportation-003057552.html https://autos.yahoo.com/news/top-20-most-wired-cities-for-transportation-003057552.html Top 20 most wired cities for transportation https://autos.yahoo.com/news/top-20-most-wired-cities-for-transportation-003057552.html The ranking looks at 70 key U.S. cities. It includes the primary cities in the 50 biggest U.S. metro areas, as well as the largest city in each state that doesn'... View on autos.yahoo.com https://autos.yahoo.com/news/top-20-most-wired-cities-for-transportation-003057552.html Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Punk Syndrome
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : http://kovasikajuttu.fi/en/ http://kovasikajuttu.fi/en/ kova = hard sika (~sicker) = swine juttu (yut-too) = thing; stuff; story God Save the Queen Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen (Studio) http://youtu.be/8z2M_hpoPwk http://youtu.be/8z2M_hpoPwk Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen (Studio) http://youtu.be/8z2M_hpoPwk High Quality version of the Sex Pistols "God Save the Queen" (studio version) View on youtu.be http://youtu.be/8z2M_hpoPwk Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Tech 101
"Earlier today, the US CERT joined the growing chorus of critics with an advisory headlined "Lenovo Computers Vulnerable to HTTPS Spoofing." Superfish doubles down, says HTTPS-busting adware poses no security risk Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/superfish-doubles-down-says-https-busting-adware-poses-no-security-risk/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/superfish-doubles-down-says-https-busting-adware-poses-no-security-risk/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "You had one job, Lenovo: Give me a computer that doesn’t compromise my basic security." Lenovo’s Superfish Scandal Is One of the Worst Consumer Computing Screw-Ups Ever http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/02/lenovo_superfish_scandal_why_it_s_one_of_the_worst_consumer_computing_screw.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/02/lenovo_superfish_scandal_why_it_s_one_of_the_worst_consumer_computing_screw.html Lenovo’s Superfish Scandal Is One of the Worst Consumer ... http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/02/lenovo_superfish_scandal_why_it_s_one_of_the_worst_consumer_computing_screw.html Also in Slate: How to Tell if You Have Superfish, and How to Kill It Techies Are in an Uproar Over Ultra-Sketchy Adware Pre-Installed on Lenovo Laptops When... View on www.slate.com http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/02/lenovo_superfish_scandal_why_it_s_one_of_the_worst_consumer_computing_screw.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., neuro-scientist (MIT) and Harvard Medical School, can't hold a candle to all your accomplishments. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : she looks like she's 20 or 30 years his junior - wonder how old she was when they first got together? From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 7:56 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those years while you were focusing on me rather than enjoying your own lives." Or something like that. :-) From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Estab... https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Re-Establishing Vedic India posted this photo on 2015-02-20. 17 likes. 2 comments. 21 shares. View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife
You sound JELLOS. Tony Nader never claimed he was celibate after he got married.You just told a big fib. I just checked the a.m.t. archives and this meme was totally discredited - Judy called you a liar. In fact, the wedding was kept secret from you and you weren't invited to the reception, even though you lived just down the street at a crash pad in Paris. Or something like that. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No shit, srijau, I just had to reply to this to say thanks for posting this photo. I never knew what Mrs. da King looked like, but now that I do I completely understand da King's look in this photo. It's sorta like, "And you think I should feel BAD about hiding this beauty from you and claiming I was celibate for all those years? Fuck that. I got to be with *her* all those years while you were focusing on me rather than enjoying your own lives." Or something like that. :-) From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 1:48 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] nice photo of Adhiraja Maharaja Rajaram's wife Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Establishing Vedic India | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Day 1, International Conference to... - Re-Estab... https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Re-Establishing Vedic India posted this photo on 2015-02-20. 17 likes. 2 comments. 21 shares. View on www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/656994527761148/photos/a.666138946846706.1073741830.656994527761148/666145430179391/?type=1&theater Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Tech 101
"You had one job, Lenovo: Give me a computer that doesn’t compromise my basic security." Lenovo’s Superfish Scandal Is One of the Worst Consumer Computing Screw-Ups Ever http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/02/lenovo_superfish_scandal_why_it_s_one_of_the_worst_consumer_computing_screw.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/02/lenovo_superfish_scandal_why_it_s_one_of_the_worst_consumer_computing_screw.html Lenovo’s Superfish Scandal Is One of the Worst Consumer ... http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/02/lenovo_superfish_scandal_why_it_s_one_of_the_worst_consumer_computing_screw.html Also in Slate: How to Tell if You Have Superfish, and How to Kill It Techies Are in an Uproar Over Ultra-Sketchy Adware Pre-Installed on Lenovo Laptops When... View on www.slate.com http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/02/lenovo_superfish_scandal_why_it_s_one_of_the_worst_consumer_computing_screw.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links
Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless, purposeless, or lacks any intrinsic value. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : If I were to recommend a path for Barry, to save him from his Nihilism, it would be Stoicism. Here's a book recommendation for you! Stoicism Today: The Book | Stoicism Today http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/the-book/ http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/the-book/ Stoicism Today: The Book | Stoicism Today http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/the-book/ A book of first person perspectives on living the ancient philosophy as a way of life today View on blogs.exeter.ac.uk http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/the-book/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Well, sometimes people get attached to a certain image of themselves that involves being some sort of renegade. And it works as long as they don't question things too deeply. But were they willing to engage in earnest self examination, they may discover that there is an underlying belief system that they adhere to, and which guides their actions. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Exactly. I honestly don't understand how someone would be upset at hearing from some supposed scientific authority that life has no meaning, when the only reason they believe that it *does* have meaning is that they've been told that it has by supposed religious authorities. Hearsay and empty theory, either way. "Meaning" is a human invention, and one that as far as I can tell has no relationship to reality on any level or in any universe. Nihilism is the rejection of all spiritual and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless, purposeless, or lacks any intrinsic value. From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links 'I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.' —Richard P. Feynman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 2:10 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links Re "How lame would a person have to be to even *think* like that, much less commit suicide over it. If this scenario is reasonable to you, could you explain it to me?": Re Niven's story: If all choices are without any ultimate meaning then the conclusion follows. If *you* decide to commit suicide, in another parallel world *you* don't commit suicide. So whether you commit suicide or not makes not the slightest difference in the sum total of reality. Ditto whether you become a murderer or a humanitarian, etc, etc. Bit dispiriting, no? Not at all. Thanks for the explanation, but I still don't get why Niven (or anyone else) would think that "life having no meaning" would be "dispiriting" or cause anyone distress. As far as I can tell, life has no meaning right here and now, even given one universe. :-) My point was that I don't think that very many people in the real world make decisions very often based on whether some abstract theory has been proven true or not. Meaning, no meaning...life is still life. Anyone pragmatic just gets on with the living of it. One would have to be pretty stuck inside one's head to get all distraught over a little thing like "life having no meaning." Thanks also for the explanation of the quantum suicide thing, although I got that theory the first time around. With it, however, my objection is the same. I don't think there would be more than 1 person in a million who would give enough of a shit about such theoretical stuff to be concerned with it. The "Quantum Suicide" scenario is different. Here, the idea is that whether a gun fires or not (with 50/50 probability) is linked to a quantum event. As the quantum event (say the spin clockwise or anticlockwise of a particle) exists in two alternative worlds then your being dead AND alive (the gun fired/did not fire) must exist in the same two alternative worlds. In one world you're dead so it's lights out. In the other world
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links
--In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I don't understand your point. NOTHING is "invalidated" by the Many Worlds Theory because these "other worlds" are pure theory. The only world that ever exists *even if that theory were true* is the world you live in right here, right now -- one's sense of self. Translation: A "soul-monad" that reincarnates after spending nine days in the Tibetan Bardo.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 8,000 Strong!
Oh yeah, a crank! "I've seen someone levitate. Many times. In many settings, from the Los Angeles Convention Center to the Anza-Borrego Desert to a Denny's restaurant in the wee hours of the night." - TurquoiseB "Crank n. a crazy person, especially someone who purports to be a scientist or inventor who has discovered the answer to some important problem facing mankind, like curing all diseases, unlimited energy, levitation, aliens, etc." http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crank http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crank ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What's fascinating is that srijau is so out of it that he doesn't realize that given the description below, HE is the crank. The number of people who believe in the blissninny Maharishi nonsense he does is remarkably small and getting smaller every day, while the number of his contemporaries who believe that his beliefs are false is huge. From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:31 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 8,000 Strong! Crank (person) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 Crank (person) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 "Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.[1] A crank belief is so wildly at variance with those commonly held as to be ludicrous. Cranks characteristically dis... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meaning
"We continually influence, and are influenced by, the world around us and the world within us. It may seem paradoxical to hold people responsible for what happens in their corner of the universe, but once we break the spell of free will, we can do this precisely to the degree that it is useful." - Sam Harris ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : One man meets another on a battlefield. They recognize each others' uniforms and realize that they are enemies. One soldier's God (or people claiming to be His representatives) told him to kill the other soldier, who was in turn told exactly the same thing by his God (or His representatives). They fight, as they have been told to do by their respective Gods (or Their representatives). One man kills the other man. The survivor walks away. So what's the *meaning* of all of this? I suggest that it has none. The living soldier's God didn't "win" when the other soldier died. The dying soldier's God didn't "lose." As far as I can tell, neither of these soldiers' deaths "meant" anything at all. Their lives could have. If both soldiers had overcome the dogma they'd been programmed with all their lives and just said "Fuck it" and walked away, *that* moment might have had meaning. I guess what I'm suggesting is that Arjuna should have dropped his bow, told Krishna to fuck off, and just walked away.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meaning
Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless, purposeless, or lacks any intrinsic value. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Arjuna DID drop his bow, Gandiva. It was the first and only time he'd ever done so -- a MEANINGFUL proof of his having fully surrendered to Krishna's teaching -- by putting down the bow, he showed he was ready to receive wisdom. But, hey, as for meaning-in-life, good luck; it just can't be the case that meaning is anything but as slippery as an eel in a bucket of snot. Even Brahma was perturbed upon His birth -- manifestation just never "sits right." Unfathomable and all that. At best, meaning is but temporary. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ozymandias. I MET a Traveler from an antique land, Who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings." Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair! No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : One man meets another on a battlefield. They recognize each others' uniforms and realize that they are enemies. One soldier's God (or people claiming to be His representatives) told him to kill the other soldier, who was in turn told exactly the same thing by his God (or His representatives). They fight, as they have been told to do by their respective Gods (or Their representatives). One man kills the other man. The survivor walks away. So what's the *meaning* of all of this? I suggest that it has none. The living soldier's God didn't "win" when the other soldier died. The dying soldier's God didn't "lose." As far as I can tell, neither of these soldiers' deaths "meant" anything at all. Their lives could have. If both soldiers had overcome the dogma they'd been programmed with all their lives and just said "Fuck it" and walked away, *that* moment might have had meaning. I guess what I'm suggesting is that Arjuna should have dropped his bow, told Krishna to fuck off, and just walked away.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 8,000 Strong!
Never pass up an opportunity to sink so low as using a human tragedy if you think it will help you win a religious debate! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The proof is in the pudding buddy - all the Movement's blabber about rising Age of Enlightenment is so much hot air. The reality on the ground is: none of Marshy's so-called technologies is anything more than a scam. The state of the world is proof that he was a liar and his programs have accomplished exactly nothing in terms of improving the world in all the ways he claimed TM and its baloney vedic adjuncts would improve it. Just this morning for example: Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma has been indicted for plotting violence against Venezuela's government - a move condemned by the country's opposition. The attorney general's office said Mr Ledezma, 59, would remain in a military prison pending his trial. And Argentina storms hit 1,500 homes in Cordoba, killing seven Plus the major drought in Brazil: "Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, measured by area or population, and it's home to one-eighth of the fresh water on the planet, including the Amazon, the mightiest river in the world. But Brazil's most populous region is facing the worst drought it has encountered in a century and as the New York Times reports http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/world/americas/drought-pushes-sao-paulo-brazil-toward-water-crisis.html, São Paulo, the largest and richest city in the country, is running out of water. Some residents say their water is already cut off for more than half of every day, and the drastic situation is getting worse, igniting protests in the city and surrounding region." Yah baby! Unleash the mighty 8,000 From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 8,000 Strong! Crank (person) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 Crank (person) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 "Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.[1] A crank belief is so wildly at variance with those commonly held as to be ludicrous. Cranks characteristically dis... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Your f*ing heroine unmasked.
You need to realize, Bill, that Barry1 was opposed to Hillary Clinton, not based on the issues, but because Judy was in favor of her. That's it in a nutshell. Apparently Barry1 knows next to nothing abut U.S. election issues - he doesn't even vote of pay any U.S. property taxes. If he had any opinions about these issues, he would have posted them years ago in the many dialogs that Judy participated in. Barry2 apparently voted for Obama, whose "unforced error of a complete pullout in 2011, after his own administration was bragging about how well things were going in 2010." Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : While BariTwo2 whines about corporations, we're being raped by the demonrats and their f*ck buddies the republiscammers. Here is the beautiful truth about Billary ... just one of the rapists. Hey - can... can't we jus just git along? The Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and His Royal Highness King Salman of Saudi Arabia Clinton Foundation http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-bill-hillary-chelsea-and-his-royal-highness-king-salman-of-saudi-arabia-clinton-foundation/ http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-bill-hillary-chelsea-and-his-royal-highness-king-salman-of-saudi-arabia-clinton-foundation/ The Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and His Royal Highness King S... http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-bill-hillary-chelsea-and-his-royal-highness-king-salman-of-saudi-arabia-clinton-foundation/ The Wall Street Journal reported this past week that the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has quietly dropped its ban on foreign contributio... View on freebeacon.com http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-bill-hillary-chelsea-and-his-royal-highness-king-salman-of-saudi-arabia-clinton-foundation/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links
There are some things we know just through observation and common sense without even speculating about whether or not space is curved or whether or not there are parallel universes. We can see with our own eyes that things fall down because of gravity. Things fall down because they are determined - falling objects are the result of cause and effect. According to what I've read, "This observation is true even if the brain can avail itself of undetermined quantum swerves at the sub-atomic level, and thus escape the shackles of physical law." "We continually influence, and are influenced by, the world around us and the world within us. It may seem paradoxical to hold people responsible for what happens in their corner of the universe, but once we break the spell of free will, we can do this precisely to the degree that it is useful." - Sam Harris. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : 'I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.' —Richard P. Feynman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 2:10 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links Re "How lame would a person have to be to even *think* like that, much less commit suicide over it. If this scenario is reasonable to you, could you explain it to me?": Re Niven's story: If all choices are without any ultimate meaning then the conclusion follows. If *you* decide to commit suicide, in another parallel world *you* don't commit suicide. So whether you commit suicide or not makes not the slightest difference in the sum total of reality. Ditto whether you become a murderer or a humanitarian, etc, etc. Bit dispiriting, no? Not at all. Thanks for the explanation, but I still don't get why Niven (or anyone else) would think that "life having no meaning" would be "dispiriting" or cause anyone distress. As far as I can tell, life has no meaning right here and now, even given one universe. :-) My point was that I don't think that very many people in the real world make decisions very often based on whether some abstract theory has been proven true or not. Meaning, no meaning...life is still life. Anyone pragmatic just gets on with the living of it. One would have to be pretty stuck inside one's head to get all distraught over a little thing like "life having no meaning." Thanks also for the explanation of the quantum suicide thing, although I got that theory the first time around. With it, however, my objection is the same. I don't think there would be more than 1 person in a million who would give enough of a shit about such theoretical stuff to be concerned with it. The "Quantum Suicide" scenario is different. Here, the idea is that whether a gun fires or not (with 50/50 probability) is linked to a quantum event. As the quantum event (say the spin clockwise or anticlockwise of a particle) exists in two alternative worlds then your being dead AND alive (the gun fired/did not fire) must exist in the same two alternative worlds. In one world you're dead so it's lights out. In the other world your life is spared so your consciousness continues. But it's your (Barry's) "I" that has split so if you play this quantum Russian roulette ten times in a row and you're still alive then the many-worlds theory must be true. (The only other option is that by some fluke you've evaded odds of 1/210.) If you want to try this at home and so confirm that the many-worlds theory is indeed true then bear in mind that this suicide experiment only works if the gun's firing or not is linked to a *quantum* uncertainty. It doesn't work if you just roll dice to decide the issue (that's classical physics). Stay safe. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : While I'm certain all of this is fascinating to those who are fascinated by such things, I find myself reacting similarly to the way I did when you brought up the fellow who wanted to spend his last moments before dying rectifying the mistakes he'd made in the past. That just does not compute for me. First, we should probably state that this argument is way beyond our pay grade, meaning that most people don't even think about these kinds of subjects. Most ordinary
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Exactly. I honestly don't understand how someone would be upset at hearing from some supposed scientific authority that life has no meaning, when the only reason they believe that it *does* have meaning is that they've been told that it has by supposed religious authorities. Hearsay and empty theory, either way. "Meaning" is a human invention, and one that as far as I can tell has no relationship to reality on any level or in any universe. Nihilism is the rejection of all spiritual and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless, purposeless, or lacks any intrinsic value. From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links 'I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.' —Richard P. Feynman ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 2:10 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links Re "How lame would a person have to be to even *think* like that, much less commit suicide over it. If this scenario is reasonable to you, could you explain it to me?": Re Niven's story: If all choices are without any ultimate meaning then the conclusion follows. If *you* decide to commit suicide, in another parallel world *you* don't commit suicide. So whether you commit suicide or not makes not the slightest difference in the sum total of reality. Ditto whether you become a murderer or a humanitarian, etc, etc. Bit dispiriting, no? Not at all. Thanks for the explanation, but I still don't get why Niven (or anyone else) would think that "life having no meaning" would be "dispiriting" or cause anyone distress. As far as I can tell, life has no meaning right here and now, even given one universe. :-) My point was that I don't think that very many people in the real world make decisions very often based on whether some abstract theory has been proven true or not. Meaning, no meaning...life is still life. Anyone pragmatic just gets on with the living of it. One would have to be pretty stuck inside one's head to get all distraught over a little thing like "life having no meaning." Thanks also for the explanation of the quantum suicide thing, although I got that theory the first time around. With it, however, my objection is the same. I don't think there would be more than 1 person in a million who would give enough of a shit about such theoretical stuff to be concerned with it. The "Quantum Suicide" scenario is different. Here, the idea is that whether a gun fires or not (with 50/50 probability) is linked to a quantum event. As the quantum event (say the spin clockwise or anticlockwise of a particle) exists in two alternative worlds then your being dead AND alive (the gun fired/did not fire) must exist in the same two alternative worlds. In one world you're dead so it's lights out. In the other world your life is spared so your consciousness continues. But it's your (Barry's) "I" that has split so if you play this quantum Russian roulette ten times in a row and you're still alive then the many-worlds theory must be true. (The only other option is that by some fluke you've evaded odds of 1/210.) If you want to try this at home and so confirm that the many-worlds theory is indeed true then bear in mind that this suicide experiment only works if the gun's firing or not is linked to a *quantum* uncertainty. It doesn't work if you just roll dice to decide the issue (that's classical physics). Stay safe. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : While I'm certain all of this is fascinating to those who are fascinated by such things, I find myself reacting similarly to the way I did when you brought up the fellow who wanted to spend his last moments before dying rectifying the mistakes he'd made in the past. That just does not compute for me. First, we should probably state that this argument is way beyond our pay grade, meaning that most people don't even think about these kinds of subjects. Most ordinary people on the street are not philosophers and d
[FairfieldLife] Re: FDA
This only proves that the FDA and big government doesn't always work as planned. We should probably abolish or trim back the FDA and make most drugs legal - get the federal government out of the drug business and let the people do what they want to do. If they want to self-medicate, it's their business. Just put one large single label on the bottle - BUYER BEWARE. It's my body and my life. That's what I think. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Covering Up Scientific Fraud: What The FDA Doesn't Want You To Know http://www.vocativ.com/culture/health-culture/fraud-behind-common-prescription-drugs/ http://www.vocativ.com/culture/health-culture/fraud-behind-common-prescription-drugs/ Covering Up Scientific Fraud: What The FDA Doesn't Wan... http://www.vocativ.com/culture/health-culture/fraud-behind-common-prescription-drugs/ It's remarkably easy to find blatant dishonesty in the research that supports some popular treatments View on www.vocativ.com http://www.vocativ.com/culture/health-culture/fraud-behind-common-prescription-drugs/ Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Your f*ing heroine unmasked.
Apparently you don't even vote, so what? At least we are not living under a "King" of the Netherlands. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Hillary was then and is now an upholder of the status quo. Absolutely nothing would change if she became president. Elizabeth Warren I'm not so sure about. I'm not convinced she would be able to change anything either, but unlike Hillary at least she'd try. From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Your f*ing heroine unmasked. Mr. Bill, I seem to recall that Barry1 was not a fan of Hillary back in 2008, much to Ms Stein and Raunchy's chagrin. Neither was I a fan. I could just see a repeat of the Repubs vs the Clintons. The Saudis should go back to herding goats. On 02/20/2015 04:18 PM, emptybill@... mailto:emptybill@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: While BariTwo2 whines about corporations, we're being raped by the demonrats and their f*ck buddies the republiscammers. Here is the beautiful truth about Billary ... just one of the rapists. Hey - can... can't we jus just git along? The Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and His Royal Highness King Salman of Saudi Arabia Clinton Foundation http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-bill-hillary-chelsea-and-his-royal-highness-king-salman-of-saudi-arabia-clinton-foundation/ The Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and His Royal Highness King S... The Wall Street Journal reported this past week that the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has quietly dropped its ban on foreign contributio... View on freebeacon.com Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] 8,000 Strong!
Good point abut "cranks". The number of people world-wide that believe Rama was able to levitate and lift up slowly off of a sofa and float in mid-air at Denny's in L.A. is also quite small - maybe three or four cranks including yourself. But, only one single crank on the entire planet is so dumb as to post that claim on Yahoo Groups. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : What's fascinating is that srijau is so out of it that he doesn't realize that given the description below, HE is the crank. The number of people who believe in the blissninny Maharishi nonsense he does is remarkably small and getting smaller every day, while the number of his contemporaries who believe that his beliefs are false is huge. From: "srijau@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:31 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 8,000 Strong! Crank (person) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 Crank (person) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 "Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.[1] A crank belief is so wildly at variance with those commonly held as to be ludicrous. Cranks characteristically dis... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 Preview by Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Modi again
Addressing the important issues! http://tinyurl.com/o3dzd5a http://tinyurl.com/o3dzd5a ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : If only Nappy Nabby were here to defend him and his $16,000 suits> India's Modi seeks humble, tolerant new image after poll rout 8:50am EST By Rupam Jain Nair and Krista Mahr NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It's out with the flashy suit, in with religious tolerance for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is seeking to soften his image after an electoral pounding in New Delhi and grumblings in his party about his top-down leadership style. Abruptly ending a string of national and regional election victories, Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was thrashed in the capital this month, a defeat many blamed on a perception that Modi was tacitly fanning Hindu extremism. "The Delhi election results ended the party's honeymoon period with a jolt," a senior BJP leader in New Delhi said, asking not be identified as he is not authorized to speak to the media. "If we don't start the damage control and make immediate corrections, defeat in other state elections is imminent." In the space of a week, Modi, a Hindu nationalist who rarely attends events organized by religious minorities, delivered a long-awaited speech about inter-faith tolerance to a Christian congregation. Leaders of the hardline Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad associated with the BJP have cautioned members across India against making comments that "hurt Narendra Modi's image". A saint-like bust of the prime minister was removed from a temple in his home state of Gujarat after he tweeted his disapproval, and a designer suit he wore to meet U.S. President Barack Obama was auctioned for charity in Gujarat. The navy blue outfit, embroidered with gold pinstripes bearing Modi's name, was mocked by his opponents, and even the party faithful said it undermined the voter-friendly narrative of Modi's humble beginnings as the son of a tea seller. "Modi's image as a son of a tea vendor was his trump card," said a senior election campaign adviser to the party. "Voters admired his simplicity, but now he is viewed as a flashy leader." On Friday, the suit was sold for 40.3 million rupees($647,765) in the western city of Surat to a diamond merchant, a government official involved in the three-day auction told Reuters. The proceeds will be used to clean up India's holiest but heavily polluted River Ganges. 'MISTAKE' The day before the suit went on auction, Modi broke months of silence after a series of attacks on Christian institutions in New Delhi and vowed to protect all religious groups. "Voters did not expect him to be silent after churches were attacked," said the BJP leader. "We realize that it was a mistake." Urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu said the Delhi elections were a setback for the BJP and cause for introspection, but denied Modi had lost touch with voters. "There is no change in their regard and admiration for Narendra Modi," Naidu told Headlines Today television this week. "People love him." The day after Naidu spoke, senior BJP official Prodyut Bora quit. In his resignation letter to the party's president, Amit Shah, the rebel complained about the centralization of power in the prime minister's office. Bora, who set up the BJP unit that spread the party's message through social media, said Modi's leadership style was damaging democracy within the party. People might soon forget that Modi's monogrammed pinstripe suit cost as much as a million rupees ($16,100), Bora told Reuters. "But the increasing arrogance of top (party) leaders does not seem to be fading away," he said. ($1 = 62.2139 Indian rupees)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I'm still a meditator (2x daily for 20 minutes since 1975). Used to do the Siddhis, but the time investment got way to large for the return. Does this put me in the TB camp. Fine. I don't really care one way or the other. This topic came up a few years ago over on Google Groups. There should be a note posted to FFL that being a "True Believer" has not been established. But, the subject is often discussed and usually is taken to mean a belief in yogic flying. So, who is a TB? Obviously the TurqoiseB is a "TB", since he believes in human levitation - suspension in mid air with no physical means of support. Go figure. We all have beliefs, but the term in this context really means just one thing: a belief in the perfectibility of man, or enlightenment - the possibility of rising above human suffering through right knowledge. The catch is that if a person believes only in the material existence and rejects the spiritual, he or she then loses everything and relapses into nihilism. For is the material world is but an illusion and not real - you reject the spiritual, you have nothing. Lately, I'm here for the book, film and tv recommendations since this is a pretty damn smart group in spite of the histrioncs. There are some pretty smart informants on FFL but apparently not very many actually read books, at leas so far as I can tell. Rita doesn't like me commandeering the TV remote control and laying on the couch for hours at a time watching TV and movies. When we do watch a show it's usually family time. I guess the other guys go up to their bedroom and watch downloaded movies they get from Pirate Bay, but I'm just not into onanism. LoL! I've been mostly a lurker here over the years and I would hvae to agree that the state of forum has sadly declined. Some issues really get my goat and so I speak up. Free speech is one. The right to know is another. I see a general decline in civility everywhere these days, though, not just here... There is orchestrated trend right now to try to smear by association. It's a very old trick, but folks still use it because it works Here are some great quotes from some of the resident informants: "Try not to be a cunt." "what exactly is a tosser other than being like Willy?" "You are a dishonest malicious troll and I wish you would join the rest of your kind on the other site." "Share, unless you are intentionally trying to appear dumber than a bucket of hammers..."
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I've been enjoying "Empire" which plays on FOX. It's a very good representation of the politics of the music industry of which I was a part for many years. I've also been watching episodes of the original Australian version of "The Slap" on Hulu+. I'll be comparing episode two of the NBC version tonight also via Hulu+. The Australian version is much more HBO like and couldn't be broadcast in prudish backward America. Melissa George plays the same role in both versions and does an exceptional job for such a complex character. According to what I've read, human overpopulation occurs if the number of people in a group exceeds the carrying capacity of a region occupied by that group. The lack of civility comes primarily from overpopulation and inequality. People are feeling "pinched" and yet they won't do anything about it. They should be taking to the streets in mass and forming a New Robin Hood Society to rescue the rich for their excess wealth that makes them insane. :-D Non sequitur. Overpopulation mainly occurs in third world countries with high birth rates. It's a problem in China and India and Sub-Saharan Africa, but not in the Western world, however the population of these countries will slow due to the stability brought on by rising wealth and economic stability. Obviously the solution to overpopulation is birth control and urbanization, not wealth reidtribution. On 02/19/2015 04:17 PM, ultrarishi wrote: I'm still a meditator (2x daily for 20 minutes since 1975). Used to do the Siddhis, but the time investment got way to large for the return. Does this put me in the TB camp. Fine. I don't really care one way or the other. Lately, I'm here for the book, film and tv recommendations since this is a pretty damn smart group in spite of the histrioncs. I've been mostly a lurker here over the years and I would hvae to agree that the state of forum has sadly declined. Some issues really get my goat and so I speak up. Free speech is one. The right to know is another. I see a general decline in civility everywhere these days, though, not just here. Somebody tell Kanye to just STFU, please, or get his own show on Comedy Central. There is orchestrated trend right now to try to smear by association. It's a very old trick, but folks still use it because it works. It's being applied to the anti GMO folks by trying to associate them with the anti vaxers, the global warming denyers and the "we never went to the moon" nonsense. Truth be known, it's just the opposition trying to change the narrative away from them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: "Desert Island Books," Planet Earth edition :-)
A list of books "every single intelligent person on the planet" should read. Picks include the Bible; Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and Machiavelli’s The Prince. What Books Should Every Intelligent Person Read? http://www.openculture.com/2014/04/what-books-should-every-intelligent-person-read.html http://www.openculture.com/2014/04/what-books-should-every-intelligent-person-read.html ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This is a fabulous thought experiment that is a spinoff of the Long Now project -- if you were creating a library of books with which to rebuild the world, which books would you include? Which would you purposefully exclude as being counterproductive to rebuilding a civilization worth living in? The list of contributors so far include such thinkers, futurists, and scifi writers as Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Neal Stephenson, Violet Blue, Kevin Kelly, Megan and Rick Prelinger, Bruce Sterling, David Brin, Daniel Saurez, Maria Popova, and Mark Praline. So far (I haven't scanned all of the lists carefully), the only work of religion seems to come from Stewart Brand -- Lao Tzu’s Te-Tao Ching – A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-wang-tui Texts by Lao Tzu and translated by Robert G. Henricks. Good. I can't help but think that future civilizations would be better off without all those other "religious" books that have brought so much tragedy to past (and present) civilizations. What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?: Lists by Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly & Other Forward-Thinking Minds http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/what-books-could-be-used-to-rebuild-civilization-lists-by-brian-eno-stewart-brand-kevin-kelly-other-forward-thinking-minds.html http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/what-books-could-be-used-to-rebuild-civilization-lists-by-brian-eno-stewart-brand-kevin-kelly-other-forward-thinking-minds.html What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?: Lists... http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/what-books-could-be-used-to-rebuild-civilization-lists-by-brian-eno-stewart-brand-kevin-kelly-other-forward-thinking-minds.html One particularly distressing hallmark of late modernity can be characterized as a cultural loss of the future. View on www.openculture.com http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/what-books-could-be-used-to-rebuild-civilization-lists-by-brian-eno-stewart-brand-kevin-kelly-other-forward-thinking-minds.html Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : While I'm certain all of this is fascinating to those who are fascinated by such things, I find myself reacting similarly to the way I did when you brought up the fellow who wanted to spend his last moments before dying rectifying the mistakes he'd made in the past. That just does not compute for me. First, we should probably state that this argument is way beyond our pay grade, meaning that most people don't even think about these kinds of subjects. Most ordinary people on the street are not philosophers and deep thinkers or scientists with authored studies. Similarly, the concept of someone becoming so distraught that another version of themselves is more successful or having more fun in another universe than they are does not compute for me. How lame would a person have to be to even *think* like that, much less commit suicide over it. If this scenario is reasonable to you, could you explain it to me? The question is, do we have free will, able to cause change at will, or is everything determines, there are causes for everything that happens, karma. Obviously, being caused means not being free, whither its on this earthly plane or in a parallel universe. This brings up other questions such as what is determinism, the scientific thesis that there are causes for everything that happens, and what is free-will, or non-determinism? According to Sam Harris, "We continually influence, and are influenced by, the world around us and the world within us. It may seem paradoxical to hold people responsible for what happens in their corner of the universe, but once we break the spell of free will, we can do this precisely to the degree that it is useful." Free Will by Sam Harris Free Press p.63 From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 3:27 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ramayan in Human Physiology-with video links Re my post from a while back: "Someone (I forget who) wrote a sci-fi book in which the multiworlds quantum theory has been finally proved true and there is a mass outbreak of suicides as people realize that elsewhere there are other "themselves" who made the right career choice, made the right choice of partner, etc, and they can't bear the thought they're stuck in this universe as failures.": I just now came upon the title. It's All the Myriad Ways by Larry Niven. From Wiki: In the eponymous story contained within, Niven attempted to craft a response to stories featuring the many-worlds interpretation as a key plot point, taking the social implications of infinite realities to a depressing conclusion. A police detective, pondering a rash of unexplained suicides and murder-suicides occurring since the discovery of travel to parallel universes, begins to realize that if all possible choices that might be made are actually made in parallel universes, people will see their freedom of choice as meaningless. The choice not to commit suicide, or not to commit a crime, seems meaningless if one knows that in some other universe, the choice went the other way. They therefore kill themselves or commit the crime, because they abandon the sense of choice. I'm reading a book at the moment called Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark (described on the cover as "one of the rock gods of cosmology") which argues that the many-worlds theory is our best explanation for our physical universe. As a bonus he includes an experiment that could prove the many-worlds theory true! It involves playing Russian roulette with a gun that would fire or not depending on a 50/50 quantum uncertainty. Here's an explanation of "Quantum Suicide" from a web page. It's neat! http://io9.com/5891740/quantum-suicide-how-to-prove-the-multiverse-exists-in-the-most-violent-way-possible http://io9.com/5891740/quantum-suicide-how-to-prove-the-multiverse-exists-in-the-most-violent-way-possible
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge
From what I've read, Jehovah's Witnesses are not very big on inoculations, so it's probably a good thing you were home-schooled, but it's unfair to blame your condition on Janet or Jermaine. As far as the "enlightenment", that's not saying much since almost everyone in the U.S. is enlightened compared to you, since most children got their shots at the public school when they were three or four. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I had German measles (damn the Krauts!) red measles, mumps, chicken pox, all that crap, so did my brother and sister (they gave them to me, damn them!) and it was just the way it was. I am sure I had the measles yagya in my chart. (you know, like the jyotish people claim some lucky, fortunate few have the "enlightenment yagya" in their chart.) From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge Apparently this is not the measles vaccine that supposedly eradicated the disease decades ago. They put too much other crap in it and like I said the other day the health care industry has been working very hard at creating distrust. Many of us old farts had measles when we were kids but I don't recall it being any big deal. On 02/19/2015 08:27 AM, j_alexander_stanley@... mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: It will be interesting to see how The Laws of Nature play out in the Home Of All Knowledge's remote Iowa campus: (2/19) Health Officials Release Immunization Rates With the recent measles outbreak that now has affecting children in Minnesota, Nebraska and Illinois, Officials are saying it’s just a matter of time before the disease shows up in Iowa. Many parents are concerned over the immunization rates of children in the school districts and if their child can be exposed to unimmunized students. The Iowa Department of Public Health has released figures on immunization rates throughout Iowa schools to shed light on the number of students up to date on their shots. In the Fairfield School district 86.4% of the students have been vaccinated, including 93% of children at Pence Elementary. Maharishi School has a vaccination rate of 47.19%. The Cardinal school district has a 93.5% vaccination rate, Pekin Schools a 97% rate including 100% in the high school. Van Buren school s a 92.5% rate.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yeah baby! Land of the Veda! Put down the pipe and back slowly away from the keyboard! The payment of a dowry has been prohibited under The 1961 Dowry Prohibition Act in Indian civil law and subsequently by Sections 304B and 498a of the Indian Penal Code. I am sure the groom's jyotish chart showed that particular day was inauspicious for a wedding so its his own fault for going against the stars. One wonders however if the dowry had already been given to the groom or if it comes after the wedding is consummated. Stupid, stupid groom for not having a Marshy yagya to avert all wedding calamities before they arose. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:15 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge Talk about a sitcom drawn from the headlines: Indian Bride Marries Wedding Guest After Groom Has Epileptic Fit http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/19/indian-bride-marries-wedding-guest_n_6711370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/19/indian-bride-marries-wedding-guest_n_6711370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Indian Bride Marries Wedding Guest After Groom Has Epil... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/19/indian-bride-marries-wedding-guest_n_6711370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk It's like something that would happen in a movie, not in real life - an Indian bride has ended up marrying one of her wedding guests after the groom had an epilepti... View on www.huffingtonpost... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/19/indian-bride-marries-wedding-guest_n_6711370.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge
Non sequitur. According to my sources in Vedic City, all the children at Maharishi schools in Iowa have been inoculated against measles and other childhood diseases. Iowa Immunization Requirements http://www.idph.state.ia.us/ImmTB/Immunization.aspx?prog=Imm&pg=Laws http://www.idph.state.ia.us/ImmTB/Immunization.aspx?prog=Imm&pg=Laws As a military-brat raised on military bases, you've probably been immunized for every disease and plague known to man. The only question is why you didn't attend a real school when you turned 18 and got kicked out of your parents house on base. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Whoa, Nellie. If the recent measles resurge goes as some pessimists think it might, who knew that the Maharishi School might be viewed in future eras (if there are any) as kinda the Typhoid Mary of its time? From: "j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 5:27 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge It will be interesting to see how The Laws of Nature play out in the Home Of All Knowledge's remote Iowa campus: (2/19) Health Officials Release Immunization RatesWith the recent measles outbreak that now has affecting children in Minnesota, Nebraska and Illinois, Officials are saying it’s just a matter of time before the disease shows up in Iowa. Many parents are concerned over the immunization rates of children in the school districts and if their child can be exposed to unimmunized students. The Iowa Department of Public Health has released figures on immunization rates throughout Iowa schools to shed light on the number of students up to date on their shots. In the Fairfield School district 86.4% of the students have been vaccinated, including 93% of children at Pence Elementary. Maharishi School has a vaccination rate of 47.19%. The Cardinal school district has a 93.5% vaccination rate, Pekin Schools a 97% rate including 100% in the high school. Van Buren school s a 92.5% rate.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Laws Of Nature at work in the Home Of All Knowledge
So, what's your point - that you have a pock-marked face? Apparently you don't have any offspring, so why would you be concerned anyway? Are you planning on moving to Cuba and might need inoculations? If you're not immunized, my advice would be to just avoid people at Starbucks - maybe just sit alone on the patio, if there is a breeze, or shop Fry's online from home. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Apparently this is not the measles vaccine that supposedly eradicated the disease decades ago. They put too much other crap in it and like I said the other day the health care industry has been working very hard at creating distrust. Many of us old farts had measles when we were kids but I don't recall it being any big deal. On 02/19/2015 08:27 AM, j_alexander_stanley@... mailto:j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: It will be interesting to see how The Laws of Nature play out in the Home Of All Knowledge's remote Iowa campus: (2/19) Health Officials Release Immunization Rates With the recent measles outbreak that now has affecting children in Minnesota, Nebraska and Illinois, Officials are saying it’s just a matter of time before the disease shows up in Iowa. Many parents are concerned over the immunization rates of children in the school districts and if their child can be exposed to unimmunized students. The Iowa Department of Public Health has released figures on immunization rates throughout Iowa schools to shed light on the number of students up to date on their shots. In the Fairfield School district 86.4% of the students have been vaccinated, including 93% of children at Pence Elementary. Maharishi School has a vaccination rate of 47.19%. The Cardinal school district has a 93.5% vaccination rate, Pekin Schools a 97% rate including 100% in the high school. Van Buren school s a 92.5% rate.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US
Thanks, Emily for the link, but I'm too old to be digging and sweating on a farm. I've got so much more to do and so little time to be doing it in. If I can make time, I'll walk to the farmers market this weekend with the family dog to get some exercise and maintain my range of motion, but there's not much I need in the way of dietary intake since I already bought a pound of brown rice and a bottle of shoyu at Whole Foods last week - I'm not a big eater anymore and Rita will pick out all the veggies I might need and serve them to me in a wooden bowl. I'm just no longer preoccupied with eating, having reached my target weight - it's a personal thing. You can do whatever you like of course. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : So, you are saying it is just a personal taste test for you, right? Because it is far more than that for most. Most produce bought in grocery stores, including Whole Paycheck, pales in comparison to what is harvested and eaten directly from a garden. Here's some science for you - :) GMO Science http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/gmo-myths-and-truths/ http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/gmo-myths-and-truths/ GMO Science http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/gmo-myths-and-truths/ Click here to download the second edition of "GMO Myths and Truths" - an evidence-based examination of the claims made for the safety and efficac... View on www.nongmoproject.org http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/gmo-myths-and-truths/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : So, it's a taste preference, but there's no science behind it. I think that's what I said - it's just a cult mind-set that you still have from your days working for the TMO, sort of like an indoctrination. Sometimes it takes years to get over the cognitive dissonance when you've been in a religious cult as long as you were. Just because your guru, the Maharishi said so, doesn't make it true. According to the science, there's no difference, nutrition-wise, between GMO and non-GMO food, organic or not. It's just a personal taste test. You can make a religion out of eating certain foods if you want to, but it just that. That's my point. I thought we had some science-writers on this forum. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : there is a hellofa taste difference between commercially raised veggies and the ones I get from my brother who grows his in his rather large garden - he is about 90% organic I guess and his produce is mighty fine. Big difference in taste also in the farm raised shrimp you get in the grocery store and the wild caught ones we get from the buyers in McClellanville SC who get them from the shrimpers who operate day boats. Big difference in flavor for sure. From: ultrarishi To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US You are right, I have not provided any links to show the safety of organic vs. non organic and I'm not going to. I have researched this enough over the decades that I am quite comfortable with what I have seen, experienced and learn. Have you seen who is behind the geneticliteracyproject.org. It's just one of the many faces of the Hydra that Koch Bros. spawn every 5 minutes. And if you give them a little time we will see something like Americans For Food Security, Alimentary Crossroads, and the Coffee Tea and Me Party. Even if GMO and non organic food was perfectly safe, it has been horrible practice internationally. The vast majority of antibiotics given out are going to animals because of the unsanitary and inhumane ways they are raised. We are practicing monoculture which creates extreme food insecurity when your crops are stricken with blight. We have our economy dominated by big oil, big pharma and big agra which are not innovating the drugs we need, especially antibiotics and rendering what we have into uselessness. We fight wars in hot, dusty countries that hate us (and for good reason) and modern agricultural practices have destroyed the small farm and created margins so small for farmers it's just not worth it to them. The big companies are just like our financial institutions where they have gotten so large they are too big to fail. So, even if their products are perfectly safe I refuse to buy them because they are destroying small business, our health system, our economy, our respect in the world. They are a time bomb. Genetic Literacy Project is directed by Jon Entine, who is a Fellow at the American Enterprise Insttitute. One of his recent clients (drum roll please) was Monsanto! Big surprise! So, I'm not going to take the bait and engage in a discussion about where is all the research. There is plenty of good reason NOT to eat these foods that have little to do with food safety. I am
[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect living arrangements for Buck
The only thing the TMers on FFL are concerned about at present is if we have enough saved up so we can retire and eat well. We're not concerned with surviving the coming apocalypse because we already realize we're all going to die soon of old age - nobody gets out of here alive. If you want to go ahead and believe in pie in the sky Buddhas and a soul that reincarnates, that's your business. We've already done what had to be done, worked all our life and raised families - we've accomplished all our aims and are at peace. Now all we have to do is sit back and enjoy. You, on the other hand, may still need some spiritual work in order to avoid the danger that lies ahead. So, forget about us, just continue to work out your own salvation with diligence and hope you can last a few more years without much pain and suffering. Good luck - you'll probably be needing it considering where you're presently holed up and how much money you've been able to save for your own retirement - don't give up your day job, if your still have one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Those On The Program TMers who want to be prepared for *either* the coming Age of Sat Yuga *or* the Apocalypse (whichever comes first) should consider buying one of these condos. Only 1 hour and ten minutes from the Brahmastan of the US at Lebanon, Kansas. They've already got a "pee in the cup" room and a holding cell for those who are unstressing or Off The Program and need a time out. Sounds *perfect* for diehard TMers who want to "die hard." :-) U.S. survival condos: Luxury apartments designed for doomsday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=himiayarTS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=himiayarTS8 U.S. survival condos: Luxury apartments designed for doo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=himiayarTS8 View on www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=himiayarTS8 Preview by Yahoo
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US
What you have to realize Mr. Rishi, is that after the recent FFL schism, I'm the only True Believer posting to this forum with any consistency - all the other TBs were chased off due to the crude insults of the atheists. There are one of two TMers still trying to get in a word or two edgewise, but most of them went over to the other forum a few weeks ago. At present, no female TMers respondents are allowed to post here at the risk of getting degraded, so they left. What I'm trying to do is post messages that are the middle way from outright rejection of spiritual life and blind acceptance of cult mentality. There are no TMers left on this list but me (SIMS 1967 TMer #214 in the USA according to Bealuah Smith). Correct me if I'm wrong about this. Thanks. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This conversation is fun! So, now I'm being needle for making a large, carbon footprint for traveling all over God's creation in pursuit of my GMO and Organic goodies. Number 1: if you look at the pdf. I posted of the Tri County Area Farmer's Markets, I pretty much can't travel in any direction without bumping into one of tem. Number 2: Trader Joe's, New Season's Market and Whole Paycheck are all closer or the same distance than the majors. I made the point earlier that bright capitalist in our area are going after the under served. Number 3: A subastantially less amount of fossil fuel is expended in the growing and raising of the same food stuffs when organic. Especially when local. How do like them gmo free / organic apples!? Plus the added benefit of not having paid lobbiest who use the FDA Job revolving door. Back to those heirloom tomatoes. That was more of a sexual tantric moment than one of religious ectasy, but sometimes I get the 2 confused :-) My wife and I managed to do all this on an income that is at the poverty level. WE ain't rich. We accept no assistance for Uncle Sugar.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 50 Shades of SpongeBob
But, did you enjoy? We've seen the film, unlike others on this forum who just post dumb reviews written by others, and there is no sadism or masochism in the film. Sorry for the spoiler. LoL! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This drive-in (yup, there are still some around) is about 4-5 miles from me. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/02/18/Parents-50-Shades-visible-from-SpongeBob-at-drive-in/3741424269294/ http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/02/18/Parents-50-Shades-visible-from-SpongeBob-at-drive-in/3741424269294/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I will never forget the first time I tasted heriloom tomatoes. My God! I thought I was going to drop the body! It sounds like you had a religious experience! I wonder how much fuel you burn up searching out for all those organic foods? Do you understand the definition of cognitive dissonance - apparently you've got a clear case. All the companies you just mentioned are capitalistic outfits designed to indoctrinate you and get into your wallet. Sometimes you West Coast liberals don't even make any sense. Go figure. These films come and go from Netflix and Amazon Prime, but I highly recommend them. They are well put together, engaging, and entertaining. Food, Inc. King Corn The Botany of Desire Ingredients Some of the photography is down right erotic in the Botany of Desire. Also, the Folly of Man is quite aptly demonstrated in Ken Burns' remarkable documentary on the Dust Bowl drought. This is a folly that is being sadly repeated.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US
So, it's a taste preference, but there's no science behind it. I think that's what I said - it's just a cult mind-set that you still have from your days working for the TMO, sort of like an indoctrination. Sometimes it takes years to get over the cognitive dissonance when you've been in a religious cult as long as you were. Just because your guru, the Maharishi said so, doesn't make it true. According to the science, there's no difference, nutrition-wise, between GMO and non-GMO food, organic or not. It's just a personal taste test. You can make a religion out of eating certain foods if you want to, but it just that. That's my point. I thought we had some science-writers on this forum. Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : there is a hellofa taste difference between commercially raised veggies and the ones I get from my brother who grows his in his rather large garden - he is about 90% organic I guess and his produce is mighty fine. Big difference in taste also in the farm raised shrimp you get in the grocery store and the wild caught ones we get from the buyers in McClellanville SC who get them from the shrimpers who operate day boats. Big difference in flavor for sure. From: ultrarishi To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US You are right, I have not provided any links to show the safety of organic vs. non organic and I'm not going to. I have researched this enough over the decades that I am quite comfortable with what I have seen, experienced and learn. Have you seen who is behind the geneticliteracyproject.org. It's just one of the many faces of the Hydra that Koch Bros. spawn every 5 minutes. And if you give them a little time we will see something like Americans For Food Security, Alimentary Crossroads, and the Coffee Tea and Me Party. Even if GMO and non organic food was perfectly safe, it has been horrible practice internationally. The vast majority of antibiotics given out are going to animals because of the unsanitary and inhumane ways they are raised. We are practicing monoculture which creates extreme food insecurity when your crops are stricken with blight. We have our economy dominated by big oil, big pharma and big agra which are not innovating the drugs we need, especially antibiotics and rendering what we have into uselessness. We fight wars in hot, dusty countries that hate us (and for good reason) and modern agricultural practices have destroyed the small farm and created margins so small for farmers it's just not worth it to them. The big companies are just like our financial institutions where they have gotten so large they are too big to fail. So, even if their products are perfectly safe I refuse to buy them because they are destroying small business, our health system, our economy, our respect in the world. They are a time bomb. Genetic Literacy Project is directed by Jon Entine, who is a Fellow at the American Enterprise Insttitute. One of his recent clients (drum roll please) was Monsanto! Big surprise! So, I'm not going to take the bait and engage in a discussion about where is all the research. There is plenty of good reason NOT to eat these foods that have little to do with food safety. I am trying to keep as much of the money I earn in circulation in small, local business who live where I live, have sustainable practices and treat their employees (my neighbors) well. I do not want to give money to the robber barons who are destroying this country while suspressing wages, free speech, corporate transparency and accountability, wantonly ignore global warming, screw the good work some NGO's are doing, corrupting politics, and supporting big tobacco. I am sure they have lots of studies that prove not only are these nerve toxins safe on our foods, etc., but, in fact, are great for us. To steal one of my favorite quotes: " I never meta-analysis I didn't like"! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : We eat organic natural foods because we enjoy them and can afford them and we live within walking distance of a Whole Foods Market, a Trader Joe's, and a week-end Farmer's Market. The vast majority of people cannot access these food sources or afford the higher prices. You are considered part of the elite if you shop for food at these establishments. You failed to provide any links or cite any sources that would indicate that organic or non-GMO foods are superior to human health over normal foods purchased at a Safeway food store. Organic food preferences are simply personal preferences, cult fads and the food fetishes of rich people. You also failed to provide any alternative sources for the availability of food to the mass of humanity. There is no scientific proof that organic or natural foods contribute anything to improve
[FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You are right, I have not provided any links to show the safety of organic vs. non organic and I'm not going to. I have researched this enough over the decades that I am quite comfortable with what I have seen, experienced and learn. So, you don't want to talk about the science. While we agree that natural foods are a personal preference, the reasoning behind your decisions sound like a food fetish - just because your guru says something doesn't mean it's the absolute truth. Your message sounds more religious and political than logical. If he reads this, I'm sure your explanation won't be lost on Barry and Mike. Have you seen who is behind the geneticliteracyproject.org. It's just one of the many faces of the Hydra that Koch Bros. spawn every 5 minutes. And if you give them a little time we will see something like Americans For Food Security, Alimentary Crossroads, and the Coffee Tea and Me Party. Even if GMO and non organic food was perfectly safe, it has been horrible practice internationally. The vast majority of antibiotics given out are going to animals because of the unsanitary and inhumane ways they are raised. We are practicing monoculture which creates extreme food insecurity when your crops are stricken with blight. We have our economy dominated by big oil, big pharma and big agra which are not innovating the drugs we need, especially antibiotics and rendering what we have into uselessness. We fight wars in hot, dusty countries that hate us (and for good reason) and modern agricultural practices have destroyed the small farm and created margins so small for farmers it's just not worth it to them. The big companies are just like our financial institutions where they have gotten so large they are too big to fail. So, even if their products are perfectly safe I refuse to buy them because they are destroying small business, our health system, our economy, our respect in the world. They are a time bomb. Genetic Literacy Project is directed by Jon Entine, who is a Fellow at the American Enterprise Insttitute. One of his recent clients (drum roll please) was Monsanto! Big surprise! So, I'm not going to take the bait and engage in a discussion about where is all the research. There is plenty of good reason NOT to eat these foods that have little to do with food safety. I am trying to keep as much of the money I earn in circulation in small, local business who live where I live, have sustainable practices and treat their employees (my neighbors) well. I do not want to give money to the robber barons who are destroying this country while suspressing wages, free speech, corporate transparency and accountability, wantonly ignore global warming, screw the good work some NGO's are doing, corrupting politics, and supporting big tobacco. I am sure they have lots of studies that prove not only are these nerve toxins safe on our foods, etc., but, in fact, are great for us. To steal one of my favorite quotes: " I never meta-analysis I didn't like"! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : We eat organic natural foods because we enjoy them and can afford them and we live within walking distance of a Whole Foods Market, a Trader Joe's, and a week-end Farmer's Market. The vast majority of people cannot access these food sources or afford the higher prices. You are considered part of the elite if you shop for food at these establishments. You failed to provide any links or cite any sources that would indicate that organic or non-GMO foods are superior to human health over normal foods purchased at a Safeway food store. Organic food preferences are simply personal preferences, cult fads and the food fetishes of rich people. You also failed to provide any alternative sources for the availability of food to the mass of humanity. There is no scientific proof that organic or natural foods contribute anything to improved human health over normal food in a Safeway store. According to what I've read, there is broad scientific consensus that food on the market derived from GM crops does not pose any greater risk to human health than conventional food. "In fact, 'factories' located within the plant itself are now known to make new genes. The new genes are composed of pieces of old genes and are put together haphazardly. Hence, we have always been eating foods containing brand new — but totally uncharacterized —genes." http://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/02/17/confession-of-a-liberal-organic-food-consumer-and-scientist-i-support-gmos/ http://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/02/17/confession-of-a-liberal-organic-food-consumer-and-scientist-i-support-gmos/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Farmers markets are year round here. The produce selection this winter has been pretty dismal due to the drought. When I was living in Seattle I shopped the co-op. Some of
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sign of the times
It's probably just a case of cognitive dissonance. The drought is all your fault - you should throw away the keys to your car and donate your car to charity. Everyone knows that you're spewing greenhouse gasses out your tail pipe every time you drive down the highway to get your unsulphured raisins. In the past you posted that the global warming trend is man-made by people like yourself driving around all the time for no apparent purpose other than to satisfy your craving for fetish foods. You could be eating too much mold/yeast on your dried fruits. This could be also be a contributing factor to your confusion. According to what I've read, if you are a "vata" type dried fruits aren't always a good idea. They are better if you soak them first, and then cooking in a compote will destroy any molds that have taken hold in your system. We buy all our raisins from stores that have a fast turnover like Trader Joe's, a good source for dried fruits and nuts - everything they produce gets sold real fast and doesn't sit around for very long. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Do I feel like I'm living in a science fiction movie? Yes! And the rainy season is over.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Oh great! GMO apples approved for growing in the US
Isn't that just like a TMer - say something they don't agree with and they call you a name and try to get everyone else to shun you. Go figure. Note: The term 'Internet Troll' is frequently abused to slander opponents in heated debates and is frequently misapplied by those who are ignorant of Internet etiquette. AMT Troll FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/2977cj http://tinyurl.com/2977cj ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Richard is a troll. He even contradicts a lot of his own posts regarding healthy eating. Most of us just ignore him. On 02/18/2015 03:04 PM, ultrarishi wrote: You are right, I have not provided any links to show the safety of organic vs. non organic and I'm not going to. I have researched this enough over the decades that I am quite comfortable with what I have seen, experienced and learn. Have you seen who is behind the geneticliteracyproject.org. It's just one of the many faces of the Hydra that Koch Bros. spawn every 5 minutes. And if you give them a little time we will see something like Americans For Food Security, Alimentary Crossroads, and the Coffee Tea and Me Party. Even if GMO and non organic food was perfectly safe, it has been horrible practice internationally. The vast majority of antibiotics given out are going to animals because of the unsanitary and inhumane ways they are raised. We are practicing monoculture which creates extreme food insecurity when your crops are stricken with blight. We have our economy dominated by big oil, big pharma and big agra which are not innovating the drugs we need, especially antibiotics and rendering what we have into uselessness. We fight wars in hot, dusty countries that hate us (and for good reason) and modern agricultural practices have destroyed the small farm and created margins so small for farmers it's just not worth it to them. The big companies are just like our financial institutions where they have gotten so large they are too big to fail. So, even if their products are perfectly safe I refuse to buy them because they are destroying small business, our health system, our economy, our respect in the world. They are a time bomb. Genetic Literacy Project is directed by Jon Entine, who is a Fellow at the American Enterprise Insttitute. One of his recent clients (drum roll please) was Monsanto! Big surprise! So, I'm not going to take the bait and engage in a discussion about where is all the research. There is plenty of good reason NOT to eat these foods that have little to do with food safety. I am trying to keep as much of the money I earn in circulation in small, local business who live where I live, have sustainable practices and treat their employees (my neighbors) well. I do not want to give money to the robber barons who are destroying this country while suspressing wages, free speech, corporate transparency and accountability, wantonly ignore global warming, screw the good work some NGO's are doing, corrupting politics, and supporting big tobacco. I am sure they have lots of studies that prove not only are these nerve toxins safe on our foods, etc., but, in fact, are great for us. To steal one of my favorite quotes: " I never meta-analysis I didn't like"! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:richard@... wrote : We eat organic natural foods because we enjoy them and can afford them and we live within walking distance of a Whole Foods Market, a Trader Joe's, and a week-end Farmer's Market. The vast majority of people cannot access these food sources or afford the higher prices. You are considered part of the elite if you shop for food at these establishments. You failed to provide any links or cite any sources that would indicate that organic or non-GMO foods are superior to human health over normal foods purchased at a Safeway food store. Organic food preferences are simply personal preferences, cult fads and the food fetishes of rich people. You also failed to provide any alternative sources for the availability of food to the mass of humanity. There is no scientific proof that organic or natural foods contribute anything to improved human health over normal food in a Safeway store. According to what I've read, there is broad scientific consensus that food on the market derived from GM crops does not pose any greater risk to human health than conventional food. "In fact, 'factories' located within the plant itself are now known to make new genes. The new genes are composed of pieces of old genes and are put together haphazardly. Hence, we have always been eating foods containing brand new — but totally uncharacterized —genes." http://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/02/17/confession-of-a-liberal-organic-food-consumer-and-scientist-i-support-gmos/ http://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/02/17/confession-of-a-liberal-organic-food-consumer-and-sci
[FairfieldLife] Re: Netanyahu Invites Jewish Exodus Out of Europe
“This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years." - Barack Obama http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-is-inching-the-us-military-back-into-the-middle-east-2015-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-is-inching-the-us-military-back-into-the-middle-east-2015-2 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : "We’ve got the Islamic State (ISIS) on the run." - Barack Obama "We will hound ISIS to the gates of hell!" - Joe Biden "We are on the road to defeating ISIS." - John Kerry ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : All this tells us is how useless religion is and why it should be relegated to museums. There might well be peace in the world if you could erase religion and greed from the minds of humans. On 02/16/2015 01:46 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The short answer is that bombs are falling in Syria and Iraq by the hands of an American coalition of countries from Europe and neighboring Arab countries. However, if you connect the dots, most Arabs will see the dots leading to Israel. And IS is hell-bent on continuing the fight to the surrounding countries in the hope of creating a caliphate, which undoubtedly will punish the Jews for being in their land if they're successful in their quest. IMO, the best scenario is that all of the nations of the world would ban the existence of IS, al_Qaeda and other rebels of the same ilk, in their own countries and the rest of the world. But it may take years to subdue them. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:richard@... wrote : The Arabs came over from Sheba and forced the Jews to leave their ancestral home. So, if karma plays a part in the dispute, the Arabs should probably go back to where they came from, Arabia. They don't call the land "Judah" for nothing. If we are going to re-draw the lines in the sand so everyone can have "their" land, why not let the Tibetan's have their land too? After all, it's the Tibetans that live in Tibet and speak Tibetan - they don't call it China Land and speak Mandarin. But in fact, the so-called "Palestinians" are Jordanians in the West Bank and Egyptians in Gaza. So, I wonder why they aren't citizens of Jordan or Egypt? Go figure. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:jr_esq@... wrote : A few years ago, Jimmy Carter tried to get the world's attention about the Palestinian rights to their land. But nobody is doing anything about it. This probably contributes to the Arabs' hatred for the Jews. But both sides already know they can't get along with each other. There is probably a karmic explanation for it. It appears to be ingrained in their DNA too. The ebb and flow of their relationship perhaps show how the Chosen People are favored or punished for their actions by the Unified Field. IMO, we are watching the continuing saga of the people in the Old Testament. They've been doing this drama for all of recorded time. And many Christians are involved in this by believing that Armageddon will soon arrive. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mailto:jr_esq@... wrote : He may be reading the times and afraid of further persecutions similar to what happened during WWII. Yes, they can persecute the Palestinians instead. Apparently another 2000 Palestinian homes are being destroyed on the West Bank this week to make way for Jewish settlers. They'll steal the whole place before they are done and the world will sit back wringing its hands, too scared of being called anti-semitic to dare criticise Israel as it finishes the job of ethnic cleansing it started in 1948. Netanyahu urges Jews to move to Israel after Copenhagen attacks Netanyahu urges Jews to move to Israel after Copen... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged European Jews to move to Israel after a Jewish man was killed in an attack outside Copenh... View on news.yahoo.com Preview by Yahoo
