[FairfieldLife] Re: *It's a Man's World* - by James Brown Pavarotti
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude what a find! Like a wouldn't it be crazy if... discussion at closing time. This comes off as a more natural pairing than some of his pop duets. I think Luciano was down with every word of this song. I read that he tried to kiss every woman in the room, wherever he was. This lead me down the rabbit hole of duets on youtube, and although I didn't like his match up with Barry White as much, I did surface with this little gem with Lisa Stansfield and Barry that drips with charm and sex appeal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_kO6gbIMofeature=related It must be great music day here at FFL. That was nice. Thanks. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: WOW! If you haven't seen this yet, tie yourself to your seat or you'll get blown out of it. The late James Brown and the late Luciano Pavarotti singing It's A Man's World. I'm told this was a benefit concert in Italy in 2004. ~~ Hoffmania http://tinyurl.com/aw758 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIyzNISw1Q
[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic architecture - the power of life-giving principles
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a big pile of ridiculous shit! What about all the vedic houses that burned? What about all the failed businesses in vedic houses. Just a huge stinking pile of cult crap. Interesting story, but pure shit nonethe less. There's one born every minute...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Nineeleven: Most sad, See-Eye-Ey??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ex-Italian President: Intel Agencies Know 9/11 An Inside Job Man who blew the whistle on Gladio tells Italy's largest newspaper attacks were run by CIA, Mossad Former Italian President and the man who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio Francesco Cossiga has gone public on 9/11, telling Italy's most respected newspaper that the attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad and that this was common knowledge amongst global intelligence agencies. Cossiga was elected President of Italian Senate in July 1983 before being winning a landslide 1985 election to become President of the country in 1985. Cossiga gained respect from opposition parties as one of a rare breed - an honest politician - and led the country for seven years until April 1992. Cossiga's tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio - a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Gladio's specialty was to carry out what they coined false flag operations, terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition. Cossiga's revelations contributed to an Italian parliamentary investigation of Gladio in 2000, during which evidence was unearthed that the attacks were being overseen by the U.S. intelligence apparatus. In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony, You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security. Cossiga's new revelations appeared last week in Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper, Corriere della Sera. Below appears a rough translation. [Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the Qaeda September [attack] to the two towers in New York [claiming to be] the author of the attack of the 11, while all the [intelligence services] of America and Europe ... now know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the CIA American and the Mossad with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part ... in Iraq [and] Afghanistan. Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9/11 in 2001, and is quoted in Webster Tarpley's book as stating that The mastermind of the attack must have been a sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly specialized personnel. I add one thing: it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel. Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga's assertion that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge amongst global intelligence agencies is highly unlikely to be mentioned by any establishment media outlets, because like the hundreds of other sober ex-government, military, air force professionals, allied to hundreds more professors and intellectuals he can't be sidelined as a crackpot conspiracy theorist. Seems very plausible to me. I've seen no other satisfactory explanation.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic architecture - the power of life-giving principles
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: What a big pile of ridiculous shit! What about all the vedic houses that burned? What about all the failed businesses in vedic houses. Just a huge stinking pile of cult crap. Interesting story, but pure shit nonethe less. There's one born every minute... What? A vedic house saved from an inferno? ;-) No, a sucker who buys the bullshit.
[FairfieldLife] The Earth And Its People - lecture by Charlie Lutes
The Earth And Its People - 8/14/81 When on Earth, as in the present age, the number of demonic or destructive people is rapidly increasing, as a result natural disturbances are also increasing - such as cyclones, hurricanes, too much heat, heavy snowfalls, volcanoes, tidal waves, earthquakes, etc. The numbers of people murdered, robbed and injured also are increasing. Countries where there is terrible unrest, riots, revolutions,etc. indicate that these places are heavily inhabited by such destructive people who are causing turmoil wherever they are. It is said that Mars and Saturn are impious planets and when they shine brightly in the skies it is not a good sign. It is understood that when there are constant disturbances on Earth it is a sign that the destructive evil population is increasing, and as a result, fear is generated among the good people and they do not know where to turn for protection. The only place anyone can turn for refuge is to God. If the unwanted destructive population continues to increase, the Earth will become like hell. These destructive people are not concerned with developing a trade or honorable profession in life; rather they prefer to live on welfare or steal from others, and then some deal in drugs, etc. to make a living from the misery of others. In essence, this is transferring Hell to this Earth. Destruction also runs to higher levels of life such as those who would exploit the resources of the world, pollute the rivers, lakes and oceans, and destroy the forests, etc. for their own gain, regardless of who they may injure. They would also wage war without any good reason except for personal gain. Although there is a great price to pay for unnecessarily disturbing the peace of the world, they plunge on in their destructive ways creating their own particular hell and the hell to follow this life. For one creating hell on Earth also creates his own hell in afterlife. Some on this Earth believe the power of God to be only material, and in ignorance they pit themselves against this power. They also kill and conquer people and nations in the guise of freeing the people only to plunge them into slavery. This is why Christ said, Ye are of your father the devil and his works shall ye do. Those who are on the spiritual path are seeking the light of God; God will save them. All that is needed is devotion and perseverance. Even demons, when they are active in their destructive ways, believe that their power is awesome and that God is hiding from them. Such is the nature of their delusiveness. Again, they are very much disturbed when there is a religious fervor or a spiritual wave among the people for they fear this even though they do not know why or believe this. Those of a demonic or destructive nature always believe that if they have great wealth and power this will save them from the wrath of God. They believe all on Earth to be their property. When it isn't, and in countries where they try to drive God out and suppress religion, they are never, ever successful. For a time they may appear to be successful on the surface, but below the surface they are not really successful at all. There is, however, a constant war going on between the negative forces and the positive forces for control of the Earth. The Earth, like everything else, constantly fluctuates between the three modes, or is a combination of the three modes of ignorance, passion and Goodness. However, in the present time, the emphasis is on ignorance and passion, with Goodness running a poor third. The highest mode on Earth is Goodness, while the Almighty Creator and the Absolute is pure Goodness, whereas on Earth there is no state of pure Goodness. In pure Goodness there cannot possibly be any contamination of ignorance or passion. Hence, it is pure. The vibration would not permit the expression of either lessor mode. The main thrust of humanity in life is to gain oneness with God, or the pure light, and not become lost in the lesser expressions of light. For what seems like the light to us is really, in the absolute sense, still a lesser degree of darkness for we have not reached the end of the tunnel. When there comes a time of necessity on Earth an avatar comes and straightens everything out. The word, avatar, means One who descends, or God coming onto Earth. It is said that the Godly person is full of knowledge while the destructive person is full of ignorance. Also, the main difference between material enjoyment and spiritual enjoyment is that material enjoyment has limitations and spiritual enjoyment has no end and it keeps on increasing. The one great force that has the most binding influence on humanity is the sex force. In its lower projection of lust it becomes demonic, and there are those so caught up that they are possessed with a desire to kill in their pursuit of lust. This is why we must always keep our mind on God, or on the pure, because this protects us from becoming
[FairfieldLife] The Coming of the New World - lecture by Charlie Lutes (c1981)
It can be said that our world is really many worlds containing people at various levels of consciousness and behavior patterns, living within different geographical environments. So what may be truth for one level of consciousness and for one environment is probably not true for another. Some parts of the world reflect more negativity than other parts. Some parts are so negative that they are unable to embody constructive energy of expression. Also, some parts of the world will experience disastrous impacts either from human causes such as wars, etc., or from natural causes, such as earthquakes, tidal waves, fires, etc. The Earth at the present time is undergoing a cleansing of excess negativity. So, disasters of one nature or another will occur unless there are forces of creativity emerging in a strong fashion to neutralize the destructive forces. If we are in tune with God then a protective shield will surround us and keep us safe. In this world we experience just what we attract to ourselves, and this is determined by our attitude and by our devotion to God. Those who are in the process of expressing a more enlightened and positive awareness in life are attracting to themselves only creative and positive experiences. Their world holds no suffering or disaster for them - such is the nature of the world and the nature of nature itself. At the present time we live in a dual world; one open to experiencing negativity and destruction, the other open to manifesting positive creativity and peace in the world. The coming of the new age heralds many changes; some radical and some not so severe. These changes, though resisted by many, will come. They will be destructive to many, yet uplifting to others. It will be the end of the world for many, yet the beginning of a new world for many more. If we live the law, the law will support us. If we do not support the law, we will be abandoned by the self-same law. The first law of creation is the law of love. In the future there will be many souls who will not be able to incarnate on this planet, for to do so would be to expose themselves to vibrations beyond their ability to withstand. On the other hand, there are numerous higher beings who would like to incarnate upon this Earth, only the vibrations at present are too low and too gross for them, because the Earth of today does have very intense material vibrations of a low nature. The Earth of tomorrow will, however, be a vastly different heavenly Earth. That is why it will be called, Heaven on Earth. Many people feel that destruction is a fast way into the new age, but it is not. It only creates new burdens and in many cases retards our progress. The object is not to destroy the old, but rather to superimpose the new over the old. The Earth did not create the low vibrations. The humans did this. The Earth is now in the process of raising its own vibrations so that truly there will be a new heaven and a new Earth, and there will come a flood of love that will cover the Earth from pole to pole. Those coming into this Earth will be high souls, and the path to liberation will be made much easier. Because then, we will have mastered our own human nature and we will be on our way to become masters of nature and ultimately masters of all of the universe. The prophesies of the scriptures will be fulfilled and there will be a new heaven and a new Earth and a new Jerusalem (meaning spirituality) will descend upon the Earth. A new Earth of heavenly vibrations will create a new heaven and a new Jerusalem - this means spirituality will descend upon the Earth and the devil (meaning negativity and destructive forces) will be chained and cast into the bottomless pit; meaning that where love and spirituality reign negativity and hate cannot co-exist. It is the human who expresses one or the other. In the new age now upon us only our God nature will be expressed, and heaven will be on Earth for all to love and enjoy. We will now from day to day see the breakups of old patterns and the coming forth of new age patterns that will endure for two-thousand years. It will be very interesting for some and a disaster for others. ~~ Lectures by Charlie Lutes http://www.maharishiphotos.com/lecture2.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Earth And Its People - lecture by Charlie Lutes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: I am That and That I am, and I will always be so. ~~ Lectures by Charlie Lutes http://www.maharishiphotos.com/lecture1.html Thanks for posting this. Any plans for publishing this material ? Not that I know of. There are 108 of these lectures online at the link: http://www.maharishiphotos.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes encounters MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links to additional chapters at the end! From The Himalayas to Hollywood A Personal Account of Maharishi's Early Days By Charles F. Lutes As Told to Martin Zucker © 2006 Martin Zucker This Link: http://www.institutespiritualsciences.org/blog_lutes_book/chap_1.php Introduction: http://www.institutespiritualsciences.org/blog_lutes_book/intro.php Chapter 2: http://www.institutespiritualsciences.org/blog_lutes_book/chap_2.php Chapter 3: http://www.institutespiritualsciences.org/blog_lutes_book/chap_3.php Chapter 4: http://www.institutespiritualsciences.org/blog_lutes_book/chap_4.php Thanks for posting this, Mr. Mays!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Coming of the New World - lecture by Charlie Lutes (c1981)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Charlie saying that the poor and the desperate are born, not nurtured by economic policies? Seems a pretty important question to me. I don't see anywhere in that lecture that Charlie said or even remotely suggested anything like what you just asked about, Angela. [snip]
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Coming of the New World - lecture by Charlie Lutes (c1981)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I read a sentence like this, Countries where there is terrible unrest, riots, revolutions, etc. indicate that these places are heavily inhabited by such destructive people who are causing turmoil wherever they are I wonder if this includes countries like the ones in the Southern Cone which were developing nicely until the U.S. destabilized them. I guess this falls under the heading of creating war (and other types of unrest) out of greed. But that is not all Charlie says. When I read sentences like these, If the unwanted destructive population continues to increase, the Earth will become like hell. These destructive people are not concerned with developing a trade or honorable profession in life; rather they prefer to live on welfare or steal from others, and then some deal in drugs, etc. to make a living from the misery of others, I wonder how big a step it takes to conclude from such writing that we ought to wipe these people out, never mind the fact that we created them in the first place through economic and political policies. You appear to have an imagination driven by your own fears, Angela. It shows up in much of what you write. Again, nowhere in the lecture does Charlie say or even remotely suggest anything you are attempting to project. do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander mailander111@ wrote: Is Charlie saying that the poor and the desperate are born, not nurtured by economic policies? Seems a pretty important question to me. I don't see anywhere in that lecture that Charlie said or even remotely suggested anything like what you just asked about, Angela. [snip] Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Coming of the New World - lecture by Charlie Lutes (c1981)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my last post of the week, so here goes: A knowledge of history, or a question as to how certain philosophies might be misused, is not tantamount to fear. I do not have my head in the sand, and I have lived on this planet for 67 years in six different cultures with my eyes open. I also do not understand why every time something is mentioned that is not a Pollyanna view of the world as proscribed by the TMO and other religious organizations, this automatically means that someone is plagued by fear as if fear were somehow a less than honorable part of life. The key in any event would be to master it. I don't know if I would have what it takes to master fear because I have almost never experienced it. I have stood on the deck of a ship and have watched another ship go down in a storm that was threatening us as well. I was exhilarated, not afraid, and had to endure flack from others for being too cold-blooded to be afraid and to grieve for all the people who drowned--only three boys were saved later. If you see fear in my words, your are reading your own. I'm pasting an essay below which says that we have passed the point of no return in the global warming crisis. If this guy is right, and I've seen a couple of other essays that make this claim, all of us have our heads in the sand. But even this would not be enough to make me afraid. I am too old for that and have been meditating for 60 plus years. Moreover, fear is not part of my jyotish chart. In Western astrology, I'm an Aries; in Chinese astrology, I'm a Spring Dragon. We tend to be pretty fearless. I also have fearlessness in my blood. I'm a fourth generation refugee. Of course you're free to call all that a river in Egypt. == I'm not interested in continuing this conversation with you, Angela. I so completely disagree with so many of your premisses, presumptions, totally unjustified insinuations and assumptions [here and in most other threads where you've posted] that I don't' believe it's worth it to continue for either of us.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes encounters MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: Links to additional chapters at the end! From The Himalayas to Hollywood A Personal Account of Maharishi's Early Days By Charles F. Lutes As Told to Martin Zucker © 2006 Martin Zucker In 1954 I became suddenly ill. I was having lunch with a business associate in Farmer's Market. The waitress was bringing a slice of pecan pie I had just ordered. All at once, the restaurant turned upside down and my heart started thumping like a tom-tom. I grabbed onto the table and held on for dear life. I thought I was having a heart attack. Pretty soon the room turned right side up again but I felt terrible. My friend drove me right over to my doctor's office. The doctor examined me. It wasn't a heart attack, he said afterward, but something was definitely wrong. That's how it began. I was totally healthy one minute and in bad shape the next. It was an illness the doctors were never able to explain. In a short period of time, I lost 65 pounds. From a robust 200-pound six-footer, I shrank down to skin and bones. I experienced blackouts with such frequency that my company assigned a driver to me. At one time or another, practically every gland and organ in my body stopped working. This ordeal had been going on for several months when one afternoon I began to feel the usual symptoms that preceded a blackout: palpitations, a cold and clammy feeling, and a dry throat. I headed for the doctor as fast as I could. When I arrived, I was pretty groggy. The doctor took one look at me and cleared a treatment room. I remember him pulling off my coat and shirt and going over me with his stethoscope. Charlie, it looks real bad this time, he said. I'm afraid you are dying. * Charlie had extremely bad karma, which is certainly clearly expressed here in the bad health he experienced. I heard Charlie tell this story many times: MMY had given a lecture in which he said that some people have a mountain of (bad) karma. After the lecture, Charlie asked MMY if Charlie had such a mountain, to which Maharishi said, You have a mountain range of karma. I believe that Nature gave Charlie a chance to work off some of that horrible karma by telling others about TM. Charlie, like nearly every TM bureaucrat, was a fool because of the warping effect that his karmic burden produced on his mind, but he nevertheless did a lot of good by helping to spread TM. I certainly salute him, as I learned at his WLA SRM center (his wife gave me my first checking session) back in 68. Once I realized how full of crap he was (bees are from Venus, etc), I still attended his lectures and residence courses for the MMY tapes and group/extended meditations, but for years I got up and left when he started to talk. A lot of people like you had an aversion for Charlie. I felt the same way about Jarvis whom I considered a shallow, phony and opportunistic human being who placed high value in his position in the TMO pecking order.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who's Dick Mays?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm in the mood for this today, so let me ask anyone here to give me the low-down on feste37. Who is this creep? Do you have psych problems, fella, or are you just a self-righteous asshole?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who's Dick Mays?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Okay, I'm in the mood for this today, so let me ask anyone here to give me the low-down on feste37. Who is this creep? Do you have psych problems, fella, or are you just a self-righteous asshole? He is just a normal fellow with a need for a checking. ;-) Seems he's had this 'need for a checking' for many months now.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who's Dick Mays?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Asking in such a hostile manner for other people to supply you with the low-down on certain members of this group, including me, might well be interpreted as harrassing or even threatening behavior. I would advise you to be careful, because I will not put up with it. I think the guy has serious psych problems. A few months back he threatened to sue me for everything I have because I accused him of lying.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Coming of the New World - lecture by Charlie Lutes (c1981)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] To me this is a form of witnessing and watching events with eyes wide open. With this ability one is able to observe things that don't really add up. So no wonder people like us can see the conspiracies others are blind to. I agree with you that some of us seem to be able to see that kind of bullshit and clearly, others can't. Many of us could clearly see all the lying and deception taking place leading up to the Iraq killing fields, for example. It seemed to me that most of the American people must be missing critical brain parts NOT to see that - it was so obvious. BUT to suggest that Angela really DID see a conspiracy in Charlie Lutes' lecture is just laughable and nuts, Bhairitu. Here's a conspiracy you can really sink your teeth into. If this stuff below is true, it further supports my information about who killed JFK. While the stuff below isn't about the JFK assassination keep in mind as you read this that George Bush Sr was a CIA liaison in Dallas when JFK was shot: Confessions of a Covert Agent Psychological Operations is my specialty. PsyOps. Everything I've done has been highly classified, all black programs and black operations. Some people I know thought I worked for the CIA, but it's much more complicated than that. I've worked with people in the CIA, DIA, NSC, NSA, SAIC, Army Intel and many more lesser known agencies within the intelligence apparatus. Before focusing on PsyOps I started out running covert combat missions, special operations. I was good at what I did and rose through the ranks fast. When the War on Terror started I was paid a lot of money to consult with private military contractors. When private paramilitary units needed to get the jobs done that paid the most money they would come to me with checkbooks filled with US taxpayer dough. I've seen the worst things imaginable, hell on earth. Had friends die in my arms. Seen piles of rotten corpses. Seen men, women and children tortured. I've seen the eyes of terrified and confused children being sold into a vicious life of slavery and an early death. I could get a lot more graphic, but you get the idea. That was my life, and all along I was told that I was fighting for freedom and working for the good guys. What a ridiculous comment that is! In the black world, that is, in the covert world, there aren't any good guys just varying degrees of evil. As Brigadier General Butler famously stated, War is a racket. It doesn't have anything to do with freedom and democracy. It is not good fighting evil. There's just a bunch of old greedy gangsta motherfuckers making obscene amounts of cash and breeding hatred, violence, terrorists and sex slaves. The truth is, there is no oversight! Meaning, you can get away with anything, nothing is illegal because no one knows about it, or the few who do are either in on it or have a vested interest in keeping quiet. Whether you're runnin' guns, weapons, drugs, gold, diamonds, women, children, it just doesn't matter. As long as the old guard gets their resources, it's all good. And in the end, it's all about power. The people who really run this planet know that natural resources (oil, water, coltan, cobalt, etc.) are the key. The War on Terror is just a front for a geo-strategic resource grab on a massive scale. Even the wars in Northern Africa are all about exploitation of resources. Once the good ole CIA boys at Bechtel did their NASA satellite studies of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) mineral resources and discovered that it was the richest patch of earth on the planet, all hell broke loose! They figured out that the DRC has 80% of the world's coltan, among many other vital resources. Without coltan, you can't have any technology that requires a computer chip: computers, cell phones, satellites and weapon systems, of course. So Bechtel, the CitiBank boys, the World Bank, IMF and various covert elements have been supplying brutal regime after brutal regime in the region. Well over four million and counting have died there. Same thing with oil in the Middle East. Do you think they really give a shit about Iraqi freedom? We worked hard to make you believe that, but c'mon, they don't give a shit about the Iraqi people. They've killed about a MILLION of them! And that's NOT an exaggeration! They sure as hell give a shit about Iraqi oil though. They also care about Saudi oil, and have a nice deal with a dictatorship that brutally oppresses their people. If freedom and democracy are the issue, how about freeing the Saudi people? Why do you think 15 of the 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia? We support a regime that oppresses those people. We support them because they cooperate on the oil front. So, why strike back at them? Let's hit Iraq. They don't give us any oil - let's get'em! If you look at the history of covert special operations, it's all about securing a piece of land that
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes encounters MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] A lot of people like you had an aversion for Charlie. I felt the same way about Jarvis whom I considered a shallow, phony and opportunistic human being who placed high value in his position in the TMO pecking order. I did feel an aversion to Jerry Jarvis, whose personality I absolutely could not abide. But Charlie was a genuinely likeable guy, not surprisingly, because he was a salesman, and salesman who are not likeable don't do well, but Lutes was a very successful concrete salesman. I continued to like and smile at Charlie even after I started walking out on his lectures, and I was and am grateful to him for all the wonderful experiences I had on his very relaxed residence courses (the old days of unlimited rounding were great -- I just stayed in my room and did rounds for 10 hours a day). Charlie was just not the fount of esoteric knowledge that he thought he was... That's interesting, Bob. I went to a rounding course at Asilomar Jerry conducted and did the very same thing. I stayed in my room and rounded. The one lecture of Jerry's I attended a was rote, cheap performance of Jerry nauseatingly spewing in his characteristic phony, smiley 'bliss' act stuff I'd heard years back.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes encounters MMY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] That's interesting, Bob. I went to a rounding course at Asilomar Jerry conducted and did the very same thing. I stayed in my room and rounded. The one lecture of Jerry's I attended a was rote, cheap performance of Jerry nauseatingly spewing in his characteristic phony, smiley 'bliss' act stuff I'd heard years back. ** Yeah, I had the same reaction to the one lecture of Jerry that I attended at UCLA back in the 70s -- never made that mistake again. The days of unlimited rounding could not last because too many people were freaking out, but they certainly were nice while they lasted. I am now at about 5-6 hrs/day, and after 4 decades of TM, I feel free to do as I please in terms of hrs in meditation/Siddhis every day. I never had any desire for the Siddhi thing. But good for you.
[FairfieldLife] The Search For God - Charlie Lutes (1981)
The Search for God The basic cause of all troubles, misunderstandings, confusion, suffering and problems in life is either a misunderstanding or ignorance of the truth of our own existence. To understand this, we must realize our own creative powers; because the creative powers in ourselves cannot be other than the creative powers of the universe. If we can have the true and direct experience of the creative Spirit in ourselves, we will then have the experience of the creative force behind all that exists in this universe. There cannot be two creative Spirits, one for us and one for the universe. So, it is useless to run in search of God somewhere far off in the universe. We should seek out God here on Earth in ourselves. God is not, nor has he ever been, missing; only misunderstood, or even so, not understood at all. The role of the human is to ultimately come into harmony and unity with nature, and this starts with our own human nature. To find God, we must find ourself, and in unfolding ourself through Transcendental Meditation, we then discover and learn how to experience God. In doing this, we discover it is all one and the same thing - I am one with God and the universe is one with God. I now see the unity in the multiplicity and the multiplicity in the unity. What we also discover is that God has always had greater plans for us than we have ever had for ourselves. The keynote of life is work. The universe is the work of God, so the work of the human must be in keeping with God's work. That is done by performing our work selflessly. And by doing this, we liberate ourselves. By working in a selfish manner, we create bondage for ourselves. Work is worship and without work we cannot experience the creator. If God did not work, no one could realize the Spirit. So, when work is performed without selfish motivation, then the real worker is experienced. The real and automatic worker in this universe is creative energy and this is personified as the mother of the universe - Mother Divine. By experiencing creative energy, the creative consciousness is experienced as the witnessing Spirit, and when we experience this witnessing Spirit we experience liberation. In the state of bondage, the I is experienced as the agent, while in the state of liberation, it is experienced as the witness. Constructive work is the human's contribution to society, and it is our preparation for liberation. So, the quality of the work is based on the motivation of the work. If the motivation is pure, then the quality of the work is good. Work that we do under pressure does not give any satisfaction to us or anyone else. Work is not meant to gain money alone, or just to make ourselves tired and to fill ourselves with tension. Real work is the basis for physical, mental and spiritual development. The human should always maintain law and order in the inner forces of the energy in himself; first and always. To learn this is the experience we gain in life. The human desires to know everything in a moment. However, you will know everything in its own good time and in your own good growth. If you desire peace and happiness for others, then work to maintain peace and happiness in yourself. Anyone who maintains peace, harmony and love in himself automatically radiates this to all those around him. What humanity has to learn is that in order to eliminate wars and strife in the world, we must first eliminate the war and strife in ourselves. What we have to ask ourselves is, am I working to remove my ignorance in order to obtain liberation? Do I have an intense desire for freedom from bondage? Do I understand the causes of my past and/or present suffering? Do I realize that I am the sole cause and not someone else? Do I realize that I punish myself and that God is not punishing me? If I can answer these questions in the positive, then I am a light in this world on the way to enlightenment. Wars may be different in nature and in time, but there is the continuity of the same cause behind all wars and that is selfishness and the lack of peace, happiness and calmness in the human mind. We have failed to realize the true nature of the mind. The glamor of matter is that it creates temporary happiness in the mind and we begin to believe that this is truth. And then all this is shattered and we are plunged into misery and suffering. Thus the mind is deluded. As long as we remain deluded, this goes on and on, time after time. Only when we awaken to the truth of our own true nature do we awaken from the maya of human life. Only then do we awaken from the waking dream. ~~ Lectures by Charlie Lutes http://www.maharishiphotos.com/lecture3.html
[FairfieldLife] Cartoon of the Week
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[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you don't practice the yamas/ niyamas.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...the gift of the Guru remains as a seed locked away in a steel vault where it cannot sprout and grow to fruition. Kirpal Singh Did not Christ Jesus say, Go, and sin no more? So it is with TM, the sadhana alone is good, but combined with ethical/moral living it really becomes effective. Without the outer harmony of the individual living in harmony with the laws of nature, the inner awareness of God can find no foothold in that persons life, as his integrity is inconsistent with the presence of God. Religion therefore provides the outer guidance to enable and support the inner presence. Now, some might say one cannot live in harmony with the laws of nature *without* the support of God, and this is true but that is why both are necessary, they are co-dependent and essentially a *cycle* of Grace (the awareness of God experienced during TM), and effort, the willingness to use ones freewill to do the will of God. ...if you love me keep my commandments. however, Christ Jesus also said: For by *grace* are ye saved through faith (in following scriptural truth); and that, not of yourselves; not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. 2:8,9. Actually it was Paul who said that, not Jesus. Anyway... here's a revealing exchange between Charlie Lutes and Maharishi [as told by Charlie] Charlie said, Why don't you tell them that if they meditate for God they will evolve faster? Oh Charlie, we not have to tell them everything!, laughed the Maharishi.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you don't practice the yamas/ niyamas.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: Thank you for posting this because it has helped crystallize some insights. Even though we may be ending up at quite opposite, or at least distance, shores from on another. [snip] You've extended the subject considerably, I was commenting primarily in the context of Yoga, though I think the same essential truths are expressed in different languages, etc. thru time as they are universal truths. I think your comment One can't try to be good is very detrimental to your spiritual progress as God has given you *free will*, which ensures that you can indeed try to be good, and be successful at it too, I might add! If you decide the admonitions of Patanjali are too archaic for you to follow and decide to forgo all proscriptions and prescriptions of Religion, that is your choice, but the laws of karma adjust cause and effect just the same! Life is about choices... Guru Dev [SBS] surely spoke extensively of the importance of doing right and not wrong.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you don't practice the yamas/ niyamas.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: ...the gift of the Guru remains as a seed locked away in a steel vault where it cannot sprout and grow to fruition. Kirpal Singh Did not Christ Jesus say, Go, and sin no more? So it is with TM, the sadhana alone is good, but combined with ethical/moral living it really becomes effective. Without the outer harmony of the individual living in harmony with the laws of nature, the inner awareness of God can find no foothold in that persons life, as his integrity is inconsistent with the presence of God. Religion therefore provides the outer guidance to enable and support the inner presence. Now, some might say one cannot live in harmony with the laws of nature *without* the support of God, and this is true but that is why both are necessary, they are co-dependent and essentially a *cycle* of Grace (the awareness of God experienced during TM), and effort, the willingness to use ones freewill to do the will of God. ...if you love me keep my commandments. however, Christ Jesus also said: For by *grace* are ye saved through faith (in following scriptural truth); and that, not of yourselves; not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. 2:8,9. Actually it was Paul who said that, not Jesus. Anyway... here's a revealing exchange between Charlie Lutes and Maharishi [as told by Charlie] Charlie said, Why don't you tell them that if they meditate for God they will evolve faster? Oh Charlie, we not have to tell them everything!, laughed the Maharishi. That's an amazing comment, think about what you just said, it implies that MMY is duplicitous, which has always been my contention. With MMY the ends (Vedic India/Natural Law) justify the means, (bending the truth)and teaching Religion as Science only. Amazing!!! I can only agree with you, and I'm appalled.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What happens when you don't practice the yamas/ niyamas.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: however, Christ Jesus also said: For by *grace* are ye saved through faith (in following scriptural truth); and that, not of yourselves; not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. 2:8,9. Actually it was Paul who said that, not Jesus. Judy would be proud of you.:-) As far as I understand it, Paul never even met Jesus.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Impeachment hearings petition
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Democratic Reps. Robert Wexler (FL) has set up a Web site to collect signatures for a petition asking Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to begin hearings on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's resolution to impeach Vice President Cheney (HRes 333): http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com Kucinich's resolution was referred to the Judiciary Committee six months ago, but no action has yet been taken on it. Last week Rep. Wexler wrote an op-ed with Tammy Baldwin (WI) and Luis Gutierrez (IL) calling for hearings on Cheney's impeachment and sent it to various major papers, none of which have been willing to publish it. It's available at the site above. The site has been up for only two days, and already more than 47,000 people have signed the petition, wildly exceeding Wexler's expectations. More information on the Kucinich resolution here: http://kucinich.house.gov/SpotlightIssues/documents.htm I'd love to see impeachment happen but it looks to me that there just isn't enough consensus and will in Congress to actually pursue it effectively. IIRC 54% of the American people are in favor of impeaching the little worm.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cartoon of the Week
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/15/07 7:50:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: _http://www.bartcop.http://www.http://www.bahtt_ (http://www.bartcop.com/behind-curtain-fear.jpg) Actually, cartoon of the decade! I see a cartoon portraying the President creating an illusion of fear in order to trick innocent weaklings into doing his bidding. When one examines what the cartoonist is saying, you come up with what people have said about the left for years, that they don't take threats to our security seriously You mean how the Bush administration totally ignored a PDB that stated Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US? and are weak on defense. This will be a major hurdle for democrats to get over if they are going to elect the next president. They may point their fingers and complain about Bush all they want, but he ain't running for President in 2008 and that does nothing to change the image that the cartoonist portrays of the left. You live in a pretend world, bwana.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cartoon of the Week
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/15/07 9:08:20 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, cartoon of the decade! I see a cartoon portraying the President creating an illusion of fear in order to trick innocent weaklings into doing his bidding. When one examines what the cartoonist is saying, you come up with what people have said about the left for years, that they don't take threats to our security seriously You mean how the Bush administration totally ignored a PDB that stated Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US? But, I thought you are one that says 9/11 was an inside job. So why not ignore it? First, you're lying [no surprise]. I never said that 9/11 was an inside job. Second, right wing freaks like you characteristically attempt to shift the attention away from the facts that exposes their bullshit by just about any means possible. Facing actual factual reality is out of the question for clowns like you and the fast dwindling numbers of you who remain attached to your pretend world view. You apparently belong to what's commonly referred to as the 20% crowd who'll never come out of their Kool-Aid induced hallucinatory ideology.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cartoon of the Week
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/16/07 6:43:17 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mean how the Bush administration totally ignored a PDB that stated Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the US? But, I thought you are one that says 9/11 was an inside job. So why not ignore it? First, you're lying [no surprise]. I never said that 9/11 was an inside job. Didn't I read in a post just a few days ago that you found some X Italian president's accusation that 911 was an inside to be quite plausible and you had no reason to doubt it? Reading comprehension is all important, bwana. You're apparently skipped over where I said *if* it was true, then... By the way, what exactly was in that PDB that would have tipped the President off that 19 Hijackers were going to Hijack those flights and attack those specific targets on that day and at that time? Lacking those specific details doesn't justify ignoring it. The Bush administration refused to pay any attention to the briefings from Bill Clinton on Bin Laden given to Condi Rice, the intelligence agencies who were compiling the evidence on Bin Laden and terrorism, and neither George Tenet [CIA Director at the time] or Richard Clark [White House counterterrorism official at the time]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cartoon of the Week
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/16/07 8:02:55 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Didn't I read in a post just a few days ago that you found some X Italian president's accusation that 911 was an inside to be quite plausible and you had no reason to doubt it? Reading comprehension is all important, bwana. You're apparently skipped over where I said *if* it was true, then... By the way, what exactly was in that PDB that would have tipped the President off that 19 Hijackers were going to Hijack those flights and attack those specific targets on that day and at that time? Lacking those specific details doesn't justify ignoring it. The Bush administration refused to pay any attention to the briefings from Bill Clinton on Bin Laden given to Condi Rice, the intelligence agencies who were compiling the evidence on Bin Laden and terrorism, and neither George Tenet [CIA Director at the time] or Richard Clark [White House counterterrorism official at the time] Well, am I lying when I said that you said the x Italian president's accusations were very plausible and you had no reason to doubt them? To me, that means you believe his comments and accusations, that 911 was an inside job. But now you say you don't believe it was an inside job since it would be easier to smear Bush by saying he didn't take the PDB more seriously. By the way, what makes you think he ignored the PDB? All information was passed onto the FBI. Your blaming this on the FBI? LOL! It wasn't until Sept 12, 2001 that the executive branch at all levels, including the cabinet, the presidency and the vice presidency acted to prevent any actual terrorist activity. 9/12/01 was the day that they went into action. Richard Clarke and others had been screaming to them about the imminent urgency and little George went on vacation. Condi had virtually ignored Clinton and the urgent, repeated warnings from Clarke, who later described his frustration by stating that he went around warning about the threat as if his hair was on fire. Nobody at the executive level would listen to him. In fact, they had earlier lowered his position of counterterrorism head out of the Cabinet.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Our literate media
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AP headline today: Energy Companies Drill with a Conscious Via Yahoo News: http://tinyurl.com/3b9jr8 It's genuinely sad to hear that: The U.S. Energy Information Administration says 31,587 natural-gas wells were drilled for exploration and production in 2006, up from 16,728 just four years earlier. How long can this go on?! There ARE alternate energy technologies today that are not being fully developed and/or implemented that could indeed cut way back on the need for fossil fuels. It's inevitable that humanity will eventually *have* to implement them. It's my understanding that Big Oil has often blocked that kind of effort when it has appeared to be a threat to their dominance. And, speaking of Big Oil: How Big Oil contributions impacted the Senate energy vote Big Oil buys Tax Loopholes from Congressmen - this week's edition of corporate run government Today the Senate passed an energy bill that helps reduce America's oil dependency and takes an important step toward reducing global warming pollution. Unfortunately, the bill does not close $13 billion worth of tax loopholes and subsidies for the oil industry and reinvest the money in clean and renewable energy technologies. Earlier in the day, 40 Senators blocked the bill, forcing Senate leaders to jettison the tax provisions. Oil companies have given $8 million to Senators over the past four years. Today's action by 40 Senators proved they have gotten their money's worth: $1,600 in tax breaks for every dollar the oil industry has spent in campaign contributions. http://www.nwf.org/news/story.cfm?pageId=D5668608-F1F6-7B10-3BE0FD3C6B3475B4 Cumulative Oil Gas Contributions to Senators Who Blocked a Measure to Rollback Oil Company Giveaways on HR 6 Source: Center for Responsive Politics OIL GAS CONTRIBUTIONS over past 4 years Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) $577,556 John Cornyn (R-TX) $561,380 Bob Corker (R-TN) $215,350 Pat Roberts (R-KS) $205,850 James Inhofe (R-OK) $196,700 Mitch McConnell (R-KY) $150,500 Pete Domenici (R-NM) $145,950 Jon Kyl (R-AZ) $140,700 Mary Landrieu (D-LA) $133,650 Christopher Bond (R-MO) $129,350 Sam Brownback (R-KS) $129,155 Trent Lott (R-MS) $124,300 George Voinovich (R-OH) $122,050 Arlen Specter (R-PA) $119,878 Lamar Alexander (R-TN) $98,300 Jim Bunning (R-KY) $98,269 John Ensign (R-NV) $95,100 David Vitter (R-LA) $81,100 Michael Crapo (R-ID) $63,650 Jeff Sessions (R-AL) $58,800 Robert Bennett (R-UT) $58,700 Thad Cochran (R-MS) $58,500 Richard Shelby (R-AL) $56,800 Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) $53,400 Ted Stevens (R-AK) $44,700 Michael Enzi (R-WY) $42,500 John Sununu (R-NH) $41,900 Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) $41,250 Larry Craig (R-ID) $33,500 Judd Gregg (R-NH) $31,500 Lindsey Graham (R-SC) $29,600 Richard Burr (R-NC) $28,750 John Barrasso (R-WY) $27,500 Johnny Isakson (R-GA) $25,200 Jim DeMint (R-SC) $23,722 Mel Martinez (R-FL) $17,000 Chuck Hagel (R-NE) $16,600 Tom Coburn (R-OK) $9,600 John Warner (R-VA) $9,500 Wayne Allard (R-CO) $0* Total $4,097,810 *Sen. Allard was last re-elected in 2002 and will be retiring in 2008 [pdf file] http://tinyurl.com/3anmf4
[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting thing on the way to the forum
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earlier this morning I replied to MDixon in the cartoon of the week thread with a pretty innocuous joke. At last check it has yet to show up on FFL. So I sent another copy with a post script. It has yet to show up on FFL either yet other messages I sent before and especially after have arrived almost instantaneously. The only thing I can think of is that Dixon's verbage has made him a person of interest and is hung up at the local NSA goons shed at ATT. :-D I wonder how he'd react if BushCo's SS... I mean DHS, showed up at his door and went in and confiscated his computer.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Our literate media
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: AP headline today: Energy Companies Drill with a Conscious Via Yahoo News: http://tinyurl.com/3b9jr8 It's genuinely sad to hear that: The U.S. Energy Information Administration says 31,587 natural-gas wells were drilled for exploration and production in 2006, up from 16,728 just four years earlier. How long can this go on?! Good comments, important topic, but I was actually calling attention to the horrendous typo in the headline... It's really even worse than a typo. The headline writer apparently thinks conscious is the word for that little voice in our heads that tells us when we're doing wrong. Damn. I missed it. But while I'm at it... speaking about being properly educated, I ran across this today: Today's college freshmen may not remember much about politics before President Bush, and the war has been going on for most of their teenage years. Combine that with the administration's fine line in disinformational BS and this is what you get: I have now received three (3) student papers that discuss Iraq's attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. All three papers mention it as an aside to another point. I've had two papers on the virtue of forgiveness that argue that if we had just forgiven Iraq for the 9/11 attacks, we wouldn't be at war right now. I just read a paper on the problem of evil which asked why God allowed the Iraq's to attack us on 9/11. The thing that upsets me most here is that the the students don't just believe that that Iraq was behind 9/11. This is a big fact in their minds, that leaps out at them, whenever they think about the state of the world. http://crookedtimber.org/2007/12/12/how-things-seep-in/ I wouldn't want BushCo karma.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Mexicans are coming! The Mexicans are coming!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 17, 2007, at 9:36 AM, do.rflex wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qKD-Ph7dseurl=http:// dneiwert.blogspot.com/ You could be right. Congress just dropped 3 billion dollars of funding for a Mexico-US border fence--without bothering to tell the American public. It's a comedy, Vaj. You aren't that dumb. Good for Congress.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Mexicans are coming! The Mexicans are coming!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qKD-Ph7dseurl=http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/ Now you've done it. Willytex will have nightmares for weeks. :-) I actually thought about that. chortle
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Little Outside Guitar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More my speed: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1RUFBGDvsy0 That's interesting. I always wondered how anybody could actually enjoy that kind of music. To me, it's almost as bad as elevator music; meaningless, empty of substance... I mean it as no suggestion about you personally, Bhairitu.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A Little Outside Guitar
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an even better example of what I mean: http://youtube.com/watch?v=NtljYur4_T8feature=related His chops never exceed what he is communicating for me about being human for me. Now this illustrates to me the stark difference from the piece Bhairitu shared. In this one there is a sequential beginning middle and ending theme that the other piece doesn't seem to have. The other one it seems could be started at just about any point in its playing and I wouldn't know the difference. Maybe that's my limitation or lack of sophistication. And I'm not a musician. But the bottom line is that I enjoyed this piece, not the other one.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cartoon of the Week
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/16/07 12:46:20 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way, what makes you think he ignored the PDB? All information was passed onto the FBI. Your blaming this on the FBI? LOL! No, that must be your paranoid imagination, again. I, unlike you, am not blaming anybody except the terrorists. I'm saying without specific information there wasn't anything he could do about a threat except hand it over to the FBI. Can you imagine the field day your ilk would have had if Bush had put in place all the screening we have today at airports before 911? The cries of fascism would have been deafening and had they worked and prevented an attack, you would never have believed there was one planned in the first place and it was prevented. You've ignored what I wrote. You've surely ignored the obvious facts that are out there and you can only make excuses for your pal Bush and his incompetent criminal crew. There's no getting through to you. It's like talking to to a mannequin. Maybe you also ignore polls. Fortunately for the USA, willfully blind right wing ideologues like you are really in a fast dwindling small minority.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi-A Bal Brahmacharya.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Oh dear child, pass the nunnery and seek thee the brightness of a good whorehouse. Your thoughts have taken up a dark and poisonous residency of which pleasure is the only antidote. Dude! I wanted to reply to this post but now I don't have to, thanks! Boy, talk about childish, why don't you say something intelligent. You have the good karma to have known MMY (I assume), and the good karma to be on this group, but not the good karma to think intelligently. Why don't you post something *in context* with this group? isn't that what it was intended for by Rick Archer? The above comments merely reveal the bankruptcy of you own moral life, grow up! Here's a lecture on sex and celibacy that Charlie Lutes gave: The Sacred Side of Sex - 4/28/81 As one grows spiritually one slowly moves towards celibacy Everything in nature comes in pairs; a male and a female expression of nature, such as in trees, fruits, flowers, animals, and also humans. In the human it is the feminine or negative side that is passive, but magnetic. It attracts to itself, it absorbs and stores potential energy. The male or positive side is electric or charged. When there is a union between the electric male and the magnetic female, the couple involved provide a conduit for cosmic force, which flows through them into the Earth plane with tremendous power. This power radiated by them, polarizes the surrounding atmosphere. The female at this time is surrounded by a corona of greenish-blue mystic light. There is actually a powerful cosmic force surrounding us at all times that seeks expression through polarization or sexual union. Therefore, because sex invokes a cosmic force it takes on a sacred meaning, as well as providing a vehicle for the incoming soul. Sex cannot be treated as an exercise in eroticism with an orgasmic overtone. Sex, solely due to the abuse of it, has brought to humans disease, suffering and death. Basically, there is nothing wrong with sex. It is the human misinterpretation and misuse that is wrong. That which is of God and carries a sacred connotation cannot be profaned by humanity. Yet, it is true that for millions of people on Earth, sex is the only joy in life that they know. However, because the human is a self-contained universe, sex really brings two universes together to produce - by the holy process of reproduction - a third and, so on ad infinitum. God, in the process of reproducing himself, merges one part of himself into another in order to bring forth a third; the trinity functioning in a triad world. The seeds of immortality are in and a part of the human. Again, the main thrust of sex is to bring into this world higher and higher souls and not to profane sex through lust and bring in lower and lower souls and sow the seeds of destruction in the world, such as we now see - humans wantonly killing one another. In the man it is the feminine force that is passive and in the woman it is the masculine force that is passive, and before either one can be liberated these forces must be awakened. This is done through the near perfect union of soul to soul, mind to mind and body to body, a true affinity. Thereby, a balance in the female magnetic and the male electric forces is affected. As a result of the merging of the magnetic and electric forces the two combined create an electromagnetic field of force that is all-encompassing. The all-absorbing female force field unites in perfect harmony with the dynamic and kinetic power of the male in a near perfect union. The energy generated through this male-female union is far greater than anything they can generate separately - because acting together they are able to draw to themselves a great portion of the cosmic energy that exists around them. This in turn sets every atom into a higher vibration. Also at this time, because of the polarization created around them, an impenetrable barrier to every form of evil that might approach or attack them is established. Because there is a bio-electrical exchange of energy between two partners there is an intensification of sensitivity in the body, mind and soul. The body becomes sensual, the mind becomes more telepathic and the soul intuitional. This is so because the sexual union unlocks normally unused power shared between the partners. The universe itself is one indivisible matrix of cosmic force and this force is always seeking release or expression through a union of its opposite energies. So it seeks release in a couple who become a channel of discharge for this unique force. Sex between two partners can take them to heaven or it can become hell, it can bestow greater health or it can cause disease and disability. Two right people together in love are one thing, but a wrong couple together is most
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cartoon of the Week
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: Your blaming this on the FBI? LOL! No, that must be your paranoid imagination, again. I, unlike you, am not blaming anybody except the terrorists. I'm saying without specific information there wasn't anything he could do about a threat except hand it over to the FBI. Can you imagine the field day your ilk would have had if Bush had put in place all the screening we have today at airports before 911? The cries of fascism would have been deafening and had they worked and prevented an attack, you would never have believed there was one planned in the first place and it was prevented. You've ignored what I wrote. You've surely ignored the obvious facts that are out there and you can only make excuses for your pal Bush and his incompetent criminal crew. There's no getting through to you. It's like talking to to a mannequin. Maybe you also ignore polls. Fortunately for the USA, willfully blind right wing ideologues like you are really in a fast dwindling small minority. Either that or he's doesn't believe in anything he posts as he's just having fun jerking strings around here. Why do I think that? Well, I think that he favored Mitt Romney says a lot and almost suggests that he picks points of view guaranteed to push liberal buttons. What he says above about screenings is really ludicrous and looks patently to be provocative rather than insightful. And what terrorists? Anti-abortion terrorists have been more problematic than any possible Islamic terrorists in this country. You very well may be right, Bhairitu. Actually Dixon reminds me of George macaca Allen (R-VA) who lost his ass against Jim Webb in the last Senate race: See video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r90z0PMnKwI What we have in the US with Muslims is their teenage kid gets religion and decides to wander off much to his folks chagrin to some terrorist camp in the Middle East, decides it's a drag and returns home not wanting to have anything to do with terrorism and maybe even Islam. But the FBI figures they can make an example of him and coerce him (or his folks) into falsely admitting to be terrorists.
[FairfieldLife] Re: sobering video
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, claudiouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.slide.com/r/lhBmAL5h1z-QgA6UpVotXjVbtLu42c61 long way to invincibility... The music added to it. Thanks for this.
[FairfieldLife] Charlie Lutes lecture - Responsibility In Life
Responsibility In Life [c1981] Responsibilities are something we are born with and they will follow us all of our lives. To start with we are all charged with two responsibilities we can never ignore; one is to improve ourselves and the other is to strive for balance in life. Also, we are responsible for what we take on in life; for the responsibilities we accept as we go along. Whatever we set in motion we are responsible for the scope and nature of the activity that ensues; cause and effect - cause and effect being one of the laws of creation that no human can evade. The thing we learn as children is how to handle the responsibilities that we will incur as we go along in life. We are taught to be responsible to the degree that we understand the meaning of the word. Then again, there are times when we choose, of our own free will, to take on certain responsibilities and then later on we are sorry we did so. And we then begin to shirk our responsibility and that is not good. Then again, we may shoulder a responsibility that later on we can drop without any serious consequence, if we so desire. However, it is the fixed responsibilities that we can not get away from that we must learn to live with. Oftentimes we are saddled with responsibilities that we did not ask for and in most cases this is our karma coming into play. Because there was no desire on our part to take on the responsibilities in the first place we often rebel not knowing that this is our karma. First and always this is a lesson world and lessons and responsibilities become one and the same thing. Many times when we are on the other side, and we are planning our next life here, we do take on a greater load than we should, and oftentimes we can not carry the load, so we leave this life at an early age unless we are very strong. Sometimes we take on the responsibility of caring for an elderly parent which at the time seems like a heavy burden, yet later on after the parent is gone we are very happy we did what we could do to help them and make them happy in their last days. Quite often a child will say to a parent, I did not ask to be born, which is a very incorrect statement because they very much asked to be born. It was their greatest desire to be born or they wouldn't be here. To help make a parent happy and comfortable in their old age is indeed good karma. They cared for us when we were helpless and oftentimes sick and now it is our time to help them. When a couple decides to have children they accept an eighteen year responsibility that they should never renege on. They have taken on the responsibility of giving that child the best care and guidance possible while they are growing up. Responsibilities come in many forms and in many degrees such as sole responsibilities, joint responsibilities and group responsibilities, and one person can be involved in all three at the same time. Some people, however, take to and accept responsibility while others run when the word is mentioned. This in turn depends on whether or not they have a strong nervous system. If they have a weak nervous system they cannot face hard responsibilities no matter how hard they may try. So, their responsibility in life is to gain a stronger nervous system and not to weaken it still more in this life. Transcendental Meditation, however, will greatly strengthen the nervous system as one continues the practice. The mistake in life is in asking one with a weak nervous system to shoulder too heavy a responsibility because they simply are not equipped to do so. Even if they are willing to do so, they cannot handle the load, and when you most need them they are nowhere to be found. Sometimes we expect too much out of people and when we do we are often in for a big disappointment. Generally speaking, a strong person believes others are, or should be, just as strong as he is and in reality this is simply not the case. Strength does gravitate to strength and weakness to weakness. It is, however, the strong that should help the weak to become stronger and not make them weaker by forcing them beyond their capacity. The Bible says the meek shall inherit the Earth, but the weak will never inherit the Earth or much else. The projection should be to become stronger and the way to do this is to take on certain responsibilities, but not too much at any one time, as they will grow stronger with time, consideration and effort. A weak person being around strong persons tends to become stronger by association and admiration. Another thing, strong people who do take on given responsibilities have a way of being successful in what they do, while the weak deal mostly in failure. It has been said that there are no great men. They are simply men thrust into a given situation at a time of great need who lived up to the responsibility placed on them and they carried through to success. Those in the mode of ignorance neither feel or have a sense of
[FairfieldLife] The Scourge of Nationalism
How is this dream to be broken, how shall we wake up from this dream that we are little men and women, and all such things? ~~ Swami Vivekananda The Scourge of Nationalism By Howard Zinn The Progressive, 05/16/05 http://www.progressive.org/june05/zinn0605.php I cannot get out of my mind the recent news photos of ordinary Americans sitting on chairs, guns on laps, standing unofficial guard on the Arizona border, to make sure no Mexicans cross over into the United States. There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call civilization, we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call nations and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary. Is not nationalism--that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder--one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking--cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on--have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power. National spirit can be benign in a country that is small and lacking both in military power and a hunger for expansion (Switzerland, Norway, Costa Rica, and many more). But in a nation like ours--huge, possessing thousands of weapons of mass destruction--what might have been harmless pride becomes an arrogant nationalism dangerous to others and to ourselves. Our citizenry has been brought up to see our nation as different from others, an exception in the world, uniquely moral, expanding into other lands in order to bring civilization, liberty, democracy. That self-deception started early. When the first English settlers moved into Indian land in Massachusetts Bay and were resisted, the violence escalated into war with the Pequot Indians. The killing of Indians was seen as approved by God, the taking of land as commanded by the Bible. The Puritans cited one of the Psalms, which says: Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession. When the English set fire to a Pequot village and massacred men, women, and children, the Puritan theologian Cotton Mather said: It was supposed that no less than 600 Pequot souls were brought down to hell that day. It was our Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence, an American journalist declared on the eve of the Mexican War. After the invasion of Mexico began, the New York Herald announced: We believe it is a part of our destiny to civilize that beautiful country. It was always supposedly for benign purposes that our country went to war. We invaded Cuba in 1898 to liberate the Cubans, and went to war in the Philippines shortly after, as President McKinley put it, to civilize and Christianize the Filipino people. As our armies were committing massacres in the Philippines (at least 600,000 Filipinos died in a few years of conflict), Elihu Root, our Secretary of War, was saying: The American soldier is different from all other soldiers of all other countries since the war began. He is the advance guard of liberty and justice, of law and order, and of peace and happiness. Nationalism is given a special virulence when it is blessed by Providence. Today we have a President, invading two countries in four years, who believes he gets messages from God. Our culture is permeated by a Christian fundamentalism as poisonous as that of Cotton Mather. It permits the mass murder of the other with the same confidence as it accepts the death penalty for individuals convicted of crimes. A Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia, told an audience at the University of Chicago Divinity School, speaking of capital punishment: For the believing Christian, death is no big deal. How many times have we heard Bush and Rumsfeld talk to the troops in Iraq, victims themselves, but also perpetrators of the deaths of thousands of Iraqis, telling them that if they die, if they return without arms or legs, or blinded, it is for liberty, for democracy? Nationalist super-patriotism is not confined to Republicans. When Richard Hofstadter analyzed American presidents in his book The American Political Tradition, he found that Democratic leaders as well as Republicans, liberals as well as conservatives, invaded other countries, sought to expand U.S. power across the globe. Liberal imperialists have been among the most fervent of expansionists, more effective in their claim to moral rectitude precisely because they are liberal on issues other than foreign policy. Theodore Roosevelt, a lover of war, and an enthusiastic supporter of the war in Spain and the conquest of the Philippines, is still seen as a Progressive because he supported certain domestic reforms and was concerned with the national environment. Indeed, he ran as President on the Progressive ticket in 1912. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, was the epitome of the
[FairfieldLife] Re: Movement news?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shanti18411 shanti18411@ wrote: A friend called me tonight and told me he had gone to the Siddhi checking course.He said that they played a tape in which it was announced that MMY was going into silence and that Haglen(sp?)was going to be made the Raja for north america.Also that MMY was soon going to be bringing out new knowledge(no doubt for $ of course).Sorry if this has already been discussed but does anyone know anything about this? Kevin The following is speculation - no inside scoop - on 11/24/2007, I posted (from FFL#155783, Maharishi announces new role for himself) : Get ready Rajas, for MMY's latest concoction, Gyan Shakti. He's behind the bar mixing a new elixir, Gyan Shakti, designed for your consumption. The Berlin Raja fiasco will limit new Rajas from joining the club and infusing fresh funds, so MMY is setting the stage for offering new knowledge, Gyan Shakti, for only the most discriminating - existing Rajas with remaining discretionary funds. When do you think it will be offered ? As soon as Jan. 12th ? At what price ? from FFL #155788: What a great guy M is, eh Rajas ! He always works tirelessly, even on Holidays, to serve you. Like a good servant, M knows what you need even before you do, and works tirelessly in service to you. M, as a young idealist, had visions of serving everyone on the planet with his concoctions, which he knew could decrease suffering for every individual. But in middle-age, M was persuaded to serve a few, with promises that the few would see that the many would benefit. Please leave a generous tip for the old guy, he still harbors hope that he will help the whole world by meeting your individual needs. -Mainstream Trickle-down purification? ...from guys like Raja Emanuel? Oh my!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Scourge of Nationalism
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, aztjbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't you get ready to live in Aztlan, I am sure you will just love it. http://www.rense.com/general24/az.htm Are you xenophobic?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Scourge of Nationalism
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, aztjbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you care for your own physical life? do you care for the physical life of your loved ones? do you have any understanding at all of the physical violence that is happening in L.A.? Good Lord! ...another xenophobic crackpot. It's a fact that immigrants commit less crime than the American born. Researchers and observers, aware that widespread concern over crime committed by immigrants can boil over into hate crimes committed against them, rarely hesitate to note that the majority of immigrants are law-abiding. Often, they go further, adding that immigrants commit fewer crimes than the native-born. A 1997 paper jointly sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Urban Institute typifies this view:5 Few stereotypes of immigrants are as enduring, or have been proven so categorically false over literally decades of research, as the notion that immigrants are disproportionately likely to engage in criminal activity (If anything) immigrants are disproportionately unlikely to be criminal. http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/crime/toc.html#fear --- Data from the 5 percent Public Use Microsample (PUMS) of the 2000 census were used to measure the institutionalization rates of immigrants and natives, focusing on males 18 to 39, most of whom are in correctional facilities. Of the 45.2 million males age 18 to 39, three percent were in federal or state prisons or local jails at the time of the 2000 census a total of over 1.3 million, in line with official prison statistics at that time. ...In fact, the incarceration rate of the US born (3.51 percent) was four times the rate of the foreign born (0.86 percent). The foreign-born rate was half the 1.71 percent rate for non-Hispanic white natives, and 13 times less than the 11.6 percent incarceration rate for native black men. ...Tellingly, among the foreign born, the highest incarceration rate by far (4.5 percent) was observed among island-born Puerto Ricans, who are not immigrants as such since they are US citizens by birth and can travel to the mainland as natives. If the island-born Puerto Ricans were excluded from the foreign-born totals, the national incarceration rate for the foreign born would drop to 0.68 percent. Of particular interest is the finding that the lowest incarceration rates among Latin American immigrants are seen for the least educated groups: Salvadorans and Guatemalans (0.52 percent), and Mexicans (0.70 percent). These are precisely the groups most stigmatized as illegals in the public perception and outcry about immigration. http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=403 --- Apparently you ARE xenophobic, eh?
[FairfieldLife] Re: blame it on Star Trek
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea that Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament is something that only fundamentalists believe. I asked a fundamentalist once how Moses managed to write about his own death (last chapter of Deuteronomy). Needless to say, I didn't get a satisfactory answer. Here's one of the more fun stories about that sweet guy Moses: - Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow! ~~ Bible: Numbers 31:1-54
[FairfieldLife] Re: Global warming hoax
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: _.: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Minority Page :._ (http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.BlogsContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb) Excellent summary of Republican Senator James Inhofe's work on the committee cherry picking of mostly discredited global warming denial reports. Wonder why he does it? Well... Since 1999, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Inhofe has received almost $300,000 in campaign donations from oil and gas interests and nearly $180,000 from electric utilities. In the 2002 election cycle, he received more oil and gas contributions than any senator except Texas' John Cornyn. http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=7603 And on the experts Inhofe cherry-picked: Some key skeptics show up again and again in the echo chamber funded by ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil has pumped more than $8 million into more than 40 think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe. Herewith, a representative overview. The following article debunks the crap Dixon thinks he can fool people with. http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/exxon_chart.html --After reading the chart it's even more fun to read further about the desperate bullshit tactics the Big Energy paid clowns on the fringe right attempt to foster on the public. Go to: As The World Burns: A Mother Jones Special Report on Global Warming http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/world_burns.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Goodbye to the anti-science crowd her on FFL
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Goodbye to the anti-science crowd her on FFL. I have no intention of conversing with anti-science fundamentalists on the topic of science. People like Curt, Lurk, Turq., Peter, Boo, Sal, Doug, Vaj, and others, are anti-science, just like Jerry Falwell, Ted Haggard, George Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Billy Graham, and they want to take us back to the dark ages. I consider them a low-life because I believe in research published in respected peer-reviwed scientific journals for the 21st century, and I will not converse with anti-science freaks on the topic of science. Bu.. but, but, what about your pal Ron Paul? He doesn't even believe in evolution. See video clip [the question is at about 2:40]: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=V4af9Q0Fa4Q
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 20,000 Pandits in India
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fwd: This news is just too good to sit on For example, I got this email message from Steve Taylor not too long ago... He was attending a Residence Course and just heard this news about the pundit project in India! The finances have been secured now so that 20,000 pundits can be supported indefinitely to do the TM Sidhi group program and to perform the World Peace yagyas! As you know, this more than takes care of the super radiance number for the world! There are estimates that 5000 pundits may already be there. The rest are expected to arrive when the building is complete, hopefully by Jan. 12, 2008, but perhaps it will happen some time after that. We now have 25 European countries with the required super-radiance numbers as well as the United States, Columbia, Peru and several other nations. Do us all a very big favor, and get back to announcing this when 20,000 *ACTUALLY DO* show up. I'd be willing to bet that it *DOES NOT HAPPEN* Dr. Patti Steurer Director Global Country of World Peace and Maharishi Invincibility Center for Portland, Oregon 1631 NE Broadway Street, PMB 509 Portland, Oregon 97232 503-819-0174 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[FairfieldLife] Re: blame it on Star Trek
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: The idea that Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament is something that only fundamentalists believe. I asked a fundamentalist once how Moses managed to write about his own death (last chapter of Deuteronomy). Needless to say, I didn't get a satisfactory answer. Here's one of the more fun stories about that sweet guy Moses: - Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow! ~~ Bible: Numbers 31:1-54 It is likely that this story was a true account of the Hebrews' acts in Canaan. From our perspective, the act was barbaric. But from the teaching perspective, the act showed that the Hebrews fought the enemy and vanquished them. We can understand the significance of this story more by using some principles in jyotish. Specifically, fighting with the enemy is signified by the 6th house, the field of battle. The 6th house is considered one of the artha, or wealth houses, along with the 10th house of career and the 2nd house of money. Thus, these are called the trikona (triune relationship) houses for wealth. In effect, the story is saying that one has to struggle in order to earn a living and make money. What a load of horse shit. From our perspective, we can say that the Hebrews could have suceeded in accomplishing the same thing without killing innocent people. But then again who am I to revise Hebrew history?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 20,000 Pandits in India
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickmays@ wrote: Fwd: This news is just too good to sit on For example, I got this email message from Steve Taylor not too long ago... He was attending a Residence Course and just heard this news about the pundit project in India! The finances have been secured now so that 20,000 pundits can be supported indefinitely to do the TM Sidhi group program and to perform the World Peace yagyas! As you know, this more than takes care of the super radiance number for the world! There are estimates that 5000 pundits may already be there. The rest are expected to arrive when the building is complete, hopefully by Jan. 12, 2008, but perhaps it will happen some time after that. We now have 25 European countries with the required super-radiance numbers as well as the United States, Columbia, Peru and several other nations. Dr. Patti Steurer Director Global Country of World Peace and Maharishi Invincibility Center for Portland, Oregon 1631 NE Broadway Street, PMB 509 Portland, Oregon 97232 503-819-0174 portland@ Ofcourse it will happen. The fools here on FFL that seriously think Maharishi just wasted the money or gave it to some relatives will be in for a surprise. They sure will! I recall Maharishi getting $100 million from the Enlightenment course[s] about 4 or 5 years ago to fund huge numbers of pandits. IT NEVER HAPPENED. Can you tell everyone what happened to that $150 million, Mr. N.?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 20,000 Pandits in India
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Do us all a very big favor, and get back to announcing this when 20,000 *ACTUALLY DO* show up. I'd be willing to bet that it *DOES NOT HAPPEN* Tirelessy attending the competion to become the most boring person in the universe, are we ? You do have strong competitors here amongst the glitterati of visionless negativists at FFL ofcourse, but still you may very well win ! So please keep going until you, like Lenin said about capitalism (which is about to manifest by the way): Eaten itself up from within. Factual reality counts, Mr. N. You ought to try to face it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 20,000 Pandits in India
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Do us all a very big favor, and get back to announcing this when 20,000 *ACTUALLY DO* show up. I'd be willing to bet that it *DOES NOT HAPPEN* Tirelessy attending the competion to become the most boring person in the universe, are we ? You do have strong competitors here amongst the glitterati of visionless negativists at FFL ofcourse, but still you may very well win ! So please keep going until you, like Lenin said about capitalism (which is about to manifest by the way): Eaten itself up from within. Factual reality counts, Mr. N. You ought to try to face it. I do, every day, all the time. But when faced with your type of utterly boring reality I simply do something else. Hook, line and sinker...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jesus washed feet of his Prostitute........was/MMY-A Bal Brahmacharya.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: His name Jesus derived from Tejas. In Sanskrit, Tejas means Radiance. A holy halo over his head. Spiritual birlliance.!! Please pronounce it as Thay-jus. Consult Cardemeister. Yeshua is the original Aramaic proper name for Jesus the Nazarene, who lived from about 6 B.C.E. to 27 C.E. (A.D.) The word Jesus is actually a mis-transliteration of a Greek mis-transliteration. The Emperor Constatine even mistook Jesus for Apollo, the son of the Greek god Zeus. In Hebrew Yeshua means Salvation while the name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever. Yeshua Ben Yosef It is most proper to call Him Yeshua. It was indeed his proper name, given to him by his parents, and only in Hebrew does this name have any meaning. In Hebrew Yeshua means both Salvation, and the concatenated form of Yahoshua, is Lord who is Salvation. The name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever. http://www.thenazareneway.com/yeshua_jesus_real_name.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jesus washed feet of his Prostitute........was/MMY-A Bal Brahmacharya.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand corrected. Thanks for the info. Is Aramaic a dead language.?? Although for the most part Aramaic is consider a dead language it is still being taught and used by students and scholars alike. http://tinyurl.com/2reyd4 Interestingly, Mel Gibson's film, Passion of the Christ, was done in Aramaic. do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:37:23 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Jesus washed feet of his Prostitutewas/MMY-A Bal Brahmacharya. Yeshua is the original Aramaic proper name for Jesus the Nazarene, who lived from about 6 B.C.E. to 27 C.E. (A.D.) The word Jesus is actually a mis-transliteration of a Greek mis-transliteration . The Emperor Constatine even mistook Jesus for Apollo, the son of the Greek god Zeus. In Hebrew Yeshua means Salvation while the name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever. Yeshua Ben Yosef It is most proper to call Him Yeshua. It was indeed his proper name, given to him by his parents, and only in Hebrew does this name have any meaning. In Hebrew Yeshua means both Salvation, and the concatenated form of Yahoshua, is Lord who is Salvation. The name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever. http://www.thenazar eneway.com/ yeshua_jesus_ real_name. htm His name Jesus derived from Tejas. In Sanskrit, Tejas means Radiance. A holy halo over his head. Spiritual birlliance.! ! Please pronounce it as Thay-jus. Consult Cardemeister. - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
[FairfieldLife] Re: ice Lingam (was: Movement news?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dhamiltony2k5 wrote: Auspicious happenings in Maharishi Vedic City; A deity in the form of an ice sculpture has emerged just recently in M. Vedic City from a drain pipe. Maharishi was contacted in Vlodrop Holland and asked about it he confirmed it. wayback71 wrote: Actually, from very reliable sources I heard last summer that a lingam had formed as the winter ice melted. Photos were taken and emailed to Holland where MMY verified it all. From then on, pujas and Vedic cermonies have been going on in the now enclosed area of the lingam. I never saw it myself, or where it is located. the photos were of an ice lingam that formed on maharishi's house in Vlodrop due to the arrival of Purusha, 2 years ago; i've just now added the pictures to the photo section here on FF Life (taken from another yahoo group: TMFriends ) see new album: ice Lingam at Maharishi's house, Vlodrop That reminds me of the time I saw Jesus in my scrambled eggs. also: see this letter from a purusha guy (posted by Rick in January 2006) where he tells us all about it! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/86486
[FairfieldLife] Illegal immigrants in Europe: Americans
E.U.'s expanding borderless zone spells trouble for U.S. expats As nine Eastern and Central European countries join Schengen today, they are under pressure to toughen long-abused visa policies. By Jeffrey White Christain Science Monitor, December 21, 2007 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1221/p04s01-woeu.html Seven years ago, Robert Hanawalt ditched a sales career in Washington to move to Prague, where he quickly realized that he could live indefinitely without official paperwork. He taught English illegally for four years on 90-day tourist visas. The trick? Quick trips over the border, which reset the clock with a fresh passport stamp. I did that, Mr. Hanawalt says. But after the first few times I thought, 'Why even bother? Nobody is checking these things.' But as nine countries, including the Czech Republic, join the European Union's borderless Schengen zone Friday, Brussels is now ordering member states to get tough on visa policy. That could spell trouble for an unlikely class of illegal immigrants: American expats. Attracted by English teaching jobs, the low cost of living, and societies just waking up to the possibilities of Western tourism, thousands are estimated to be living and working illegally in central and eastern Europe. Prague quickly became an expatriate magnet. Today, 5,000 Americans are registered with the US Embassy here, though there's no official tally of the total number of Americans living in the Czech Republic. Local media estimate it to be nearly 20,000. Brussels is taking aim at such visa riders. Now, Americans and Canadians can initially travel visa-free to Schengen countries for up to 90 days. But if at the end of that time they want to stay, they must go somewhere outside the zone Ukraine or Montenegro, for example to apply for a long-term visa. Many expats are wondering what to do now, having set down roots here. There is definitely some panic about Schengen, says Evan Rail, a travel writer who has lived in Prague for eight years, but has been riding a tourist visa for the last two. Hanawalt has gotten a valid residency permit and runs a business helping other Americans in Prague negotiate the country's immigration bureaucracy and get legal themselves. Mark Wright, who has been teaching English illegally in Prague for two years, found another teaching job at a language school that says it will help him obtain a visa. Other Americans are applying for Czech business licenses, another avenue to obtaining a residency visa. But some are taking their chances. Unfortunately one can't go up to a government official and ask exactly how much harder it will be to live here illegally in the new year, says Mr. Wright. It's possible enforcement might not change at all, and I know some expats who are banking on it. The Czech interior ministry is promising increased enforcement. Spokesman Vladimir Repka wrote in an e-mail this week that in 2007 more than 4,000 people were deported for visa violations, though he did not know how many were Americans. Schengen's expansion is affecting others as well. Ukrainians, long accustomed to unfettered travel to Poland, now need a visa even for day trips. Slovenia is closing down unmanned footbridges along its border with Croatia. Not every American in Prague is greeting Schengen coldly. As someone living here legally, I think it's only fair that some of the permanent tourists here be made to do the same thing, says Mark Anderson, who moved here six years ago and started his own cleaning business. What is the Schengen zone? Named after a 1985 treaty in Schengen, Luxembourg, the zone of 15 Western European countries allows passport-free travel. On Friday, it expands eastward to include nine new countries.
[FairfieldLife] Charlie Lutes lecture - A New Heaven and a New Earth
A New Heaven and a New Earth (3/12/81) Man is a God to the animal kingdom and when man started to kill animals he also started killing each other. In the coming of a new age on this Earth man must abandon his old way of life and adopt an entirely new way of love and peace on earth. Killing always calls for more killing because that is the inevitable working of karma. Also, as you think, so you are and so you do. Wars serve no purpose of a constructive nature. They only set a pattern for more destruction. There is what is called the universal chain and the Earth is a very weak link in that chain, and the link must be strengthened. The strength or weakness lies with the humans on this Earth. It is the humans that have free will and by their will they can be what they desire to be. Anyone who has no real love for animals has no real love for God, or for his fellow humans. It is not what you declare yourself to be, it is what you really are that counts. Actions always speak louder than words. What humans must now develop is a new way of life, a new quality of the soul. This is very necessary due to the changes in the world that are upon us and still to come. If we are to be a part of the new age, then we also must be made new. We must lay aside our old ways and develop a quality of love that will keep us in stride with the new age of peace and harmony. So much knowledge will be released onto the world that unless there is harmony it will be a pure disaster. It is the human who, created in the image of God, must now start to portray that image. We must have a greater understanding of cause and effect, so we will become fully responsible for what we cause. The law of reincarnation is such that every thought and deed returns to its original source. One must harvest one's mistakes by the experiences we create for ourselves. One must raise one's self spiritually so that a full understanding of right and wrong, and living the laws of life, is fully in one's daily consciousness. It is by our own free will that we allow ourselves to be directed and guided to higher spirituality. There will come in the near future a time when nature will not allow anyone to inhabit the Earth who does not measure up to the quality necessary to live in the new age. None of this is impossible, and when we desire to travel the high road we can instantly start to do so. God is far more merciful than we can ever imagine. If one truly believes in God, then he also believes in himself. If he wishes to live the law of God, which is the law of nature, then God or nature will surely support him. If we choose not to do this, then we must be willing to accept the effects of the karma we have created. In the near future an enormous amount of higher knowledge will be released to mankind, and if we are not fully indoctrinated into peace and harmony we could unleash terrible things upon each other, the world and the universe, for what we release here has a far reaching effect, even way beyond this Earth. So, nature or the hierarchy, in self-protection, will not allow this to happen. We are now coming into a time of quickening where in the next one-thousand years humanity will make more progress than occurred in the last fifty-thousand years. The thing that will happen is that humanity will come up to a higher vibration, a stage of life where life will be truly spiritual. When we reach this, we will be living a life of beauty and an ever increasing spiritual development. The day of selfish interests of humans, where to obtain what someone else has striven to acquire by destroying them, is fast drawing to a conclusion. The law of the universe is that the strong shall help the weak, not exploit them, overrun them, and then destroy them. Those who do this will shortly be removed from causation on this Earth. The evil will be separated from the good and that which is good will even so become better. ~~ Lectures by Charlie Lutes http://www.maharishiphotos.com/lecture5.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes lecture - A New Heaven and a New Earth
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blah, blah, blah Give me experiences, not endless pep talks of spiritual pornography by a man we all loved but now know as a spinner of tall tales. Sounds like you're describing Maharishi. --- do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A New Heaven and a New Earth (3/12/81) Man is a God to the animal kingdom and when man started to kill animals he also started killing each other. In the coming of a new age on this Earth man must abandon his old way of life and adopt an entirely new way of love and peace on earth. Killing always calls for more killing because that is the inevitable working of karma. Also, as you think, so you are and so you do. Wars serve no purpose of a constructive nature. They only set a pattern for more destruction. There is what is called the universal chain and the Earth is a very weak link in that chain, and the link must be strengthened. The strength or weakness lies with the humans on this Earth. It is the humans that have free will and by their will they can be what they desire to be. Anyone who has no real love for animals has no real love for God, or for his fellow humans. It is not what you declare yourself to be, it is what you really are that counts. Actions always speak louder than words. What humans must now develop is a new way of life, a new quality of the soul. This is very necessary due to the changes in the world that are upon us and still to come. If we are to be a part of the new age, then we also must be made new. We must lay aside our old ways and develop a quality of love that will keep us in stride with the new age of peace and harmony. So much knowledge will be released onto the world that unless there is harmony it will be a pure disaster. It is the human who, created in the image of God, must now start to portray that image. We must have a greater understanding of cause and effect, so we will become fully responsible for what we cause. The law of reincarnation is such that every thought and deed returns to its original source. One must harvest one's mistakes by the experiences we create for ourselves. One must raise one's self spiritually so that a full understanding of right and wrong, and living the laws of life, is fully in one's daily consciousness. It is by our own free will that we allow ourselves to be directed and guided to higher spirituality. There will come in the near future a time when nature will not allow anyone to inhabit the Earth who does not measure up to the quality necessary to live in the new age. None of this is impossible, and when we desire to travel the high road we can instantly start to do so. God is far more merciful than we can ever imagine. If one truly believes in God, then he also believes in himself. If he wishes to live the law of God, which is the law of nature, then God or nature will surely support him. If we choose not to do this, then we must be willing to accept the effects of the karma we have created. In the near future an enormous amount of higher knowledge will be released to mankind, and if we are not fully indoctrinated into peace and harmony we could unleash terrible things upon each other, the world and the universe, for what we release here has a far reaching effect, even way beyond this Earth. So, nature or the hierarchy, in self-protection, will not allow this to happen. We are now coming into a time of quickening where in the next one-thousand years humanity will make more progress than occurred in the last fifty-thousand years. The thing that will happen is that humanity will come up to a higher vibration, a stage of life where life will be truly spiritual. When we reach this, we will be living a life of beauty and an ever increasing spiritual development. The day of selfish interests of humans, where to obtain what someone else has striven to acquire by destroying them, is fast drawing to a conclusion. The law of the universe is that the strong shall help the weak, not exploit them, overrun them, and then destroy them. Those who do this will shortly be removed from causation on this Earth. The evil will be separated from the good and that which is good will even so become better. ~~ Lectures by Charlie Lutes http://www.maharishiphotos.com/lecture5.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes lecture - A New Heaven and a New Earth
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Blah, blah, blah Give me experiences, not endless pep talks of spiritual pornography by a man we all loved but now know as a spinner of tall tales. Sounds like you're describing Maharishi. Maybe for some! But I have always found that MMY's techniques to be very effective. So did Charlie Lutes. The main thrust of his continuous unpaid effort, from his early days taking Maharishi around the world 9 times until 40 years later when he got sick, was to promote and encourage the practice of Transcendental Meditation. And unlike what Maharishi is doing lately with all this phony kingdoms and kings and countries and bells and whistles clap-trap, he [Charlie] *did* speak from experience and gave *practical* examples applicable in daily life. MMY does talk alot though, doesn't he? In my early TM days I found it to be very valuable, but it isn't so now. Maybe that's because what you said about Charlie actually does apply to Maharishi: Give me experiences, not endless pep talks of spiritual pornography by a man we all loved but now know as a spinner of tall tales. [snip]
[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS Special: In God's Name tonight Sunday 12/23 Including Amma
To Rick and others. If you are aware this becomes available on the internet, please post. Thanks. jrm in Brazil- --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The two hour showing is tonight, December 23rd (9:00pm - 11:00pm, ET/PT). Here are highlights from the CBS press release: IN GOD'S NAME, a CBS primetime special produced in association with the acclaimed French filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudet, will explore thecomplex questions of our time through the intimate thoughts and beliefs of twelve of the world's most influential spiritual leaders. These diverse and powerful voices offer provocative, compelling and enlightening perspective on myriad issues in our post-9/11 world, including the rise of terrorism,fanaticism, intolerance and war. The two hour special will be broadcast Sunday, Dec. 23rd (9:00-11:00 PM,ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The 12 leaders featured in this special, in alphabetical order, are: ~ Alexei II, Patriarch of Moscow and head of the Russian Orthodox Church. ~ Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi), a Hindu spiritual leader. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Roman Catholic Church. ~ The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists. ~ Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, a prominent Shi'ite Muslim leader. ~ Bishop Mark Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and President of the Lutheran World Federation. ~ Michihisa Kitashirakawa, Jingu Daiguji (High Priest) of the Shinto Grand Shrine of Ise. ~ Yona Metzger, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. ~ Dr. Frank Page, President of the Southern Baptist Convention. ~ Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, Sheikh of Al-Azhar and a prominent Sunni Muslim leader. ~ Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the Sikhs' highest authority. ~ Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Church of England.
[FairfieldLife] Good and Bad Karma -- as Learning Opportunities (Re: Homicide and bad karma?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: snip Karma is sometime characterized as ONLY something that comes from bad actions. The model of karma (independent of its rality, or belief in it) is symmetrical. (Per the model) good and bad are reflected upon one. We often only look at bad karma or bad events and ask why me?! Less often do we look at good events and ask why me?!? Still less often does it occur to us that what *appear* to be bad events may actually be the result of good karma. Things might have been much worse, for example. Or the good karma we've accumulated may have given us the privilege of choosing a life full of terrible pain and suffering that will put us way ahead of the game in our next life, getting a whole batch of bad karma out of the way in one lifetime rather than meandering through twenty lifetimes of much slower progress. And the same might apply in reverse to good events. They might have been a lot better if we had better karma; or a life of ease and comfort might keep us from learning what we need to know to advance. Or, events might seem good or bad at the time they occur but prove later to be just the reverse: I won the lottery, but then I buy a private jet with the money and proceed to crash on takeoff, crippling myself for life. Lots of possible scenarios, limited only by one's imagination! Indeed, Judy. ['Unfathomable is the course of action' - MMY's Bhagavad Gita Commentary, Chapter IV verse 17] Here's something Guru Dev said about karma: #2309;#2357;#2358;#2381;#2351;#2350;#2375;#2357; #2349;#2379;#2325;#2381;#2340;#2357;#2381;#2351;#2306; #2325;#2371;#2340;#2306; #2325;#2352;#2381;#2350;#2306; #2358;#2369;#2349;#2366;#2358;#2369;#2349;#2350;#2381; avashyameva bhoktavyaM kR^itaM karmaM shubhaashubham 'One has to endure the consequences of one's karma, both virtuous and sinful' By offering our kriyamaaNa (current) karma to Bhagavan (God) there is no reason for it to be binding. In this way, by the method of burning the saJNchita (accumulated) karma in the fire of knowledge, experiencing praarabdha karma (work already begun) and dedicating kriyamaaNa karma (current actions) to Bhagavan - one will be liberated from being bound and really find mokSha (final liberation, beatitude, redemption, absolution, salvation, freedom). If the reason that acquisition of knowledge is because one's saadhana (spiritual practice) is neglected, then little-by-little offer your kriyamaaNa karma to Bhagavan. Acting in the manner, there will be no reason for the karma of this life to be binding. Along with this thought be strong for the praarabdha karma which you will endure, even the learned cannot escape. Therefore you should come with willingness to the suffering, with endurance and heroism. It is also necessary not to give up courage. Make no mistake, by this method is happiness gained. By doing this there will be an accumulation of puNya (meritous) karma, and both this world and the next world will be prepared. [Shri Shankaracharya UpadeshAmrita kaNa 6 of 108] http://www.paulmason.info/gurudev/UA_Hindi.htm#kaNa_6
[FairfieldLife] Maybe some justification for the phenomenon of Rory/Jim-speak
[2 NOTES: Thanks to new.morning for coining the phrase 'Rory/Jim-speak.' I would have expected that Rory and/or Jim would have integrated their 'awakening' sufficiently enough to communicate cohesively with us ignorant slobs. -do.rflex] From Vivekananda: ~When we wake from this dream of the world and compare it with the Reality, it will be found all incongruous nonsense, a mass of incongruity passing before us, we do not know whence or whither, but we know it will end; and this is called Maya, and is like masses of fleeting fleecy clouds. They represent all this changing existence, and the sun itself, the unchanging, is you. When you look at that unchanging Existence from the outside, you call it God; and when you look at it from the inside, you call it yourself. It is but one. There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real you. All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. God created man after His own image. That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it! This is a good point to understand that the sum and substance of this lecture is that there is but One Existence, and that One-Existence seen through different constitutions appears either as the earth, or heaven, or hell, or gods, or ghosts, or men, or demons, or world, or all these things. But among these many, He who sees that One in this ocean of death, he who sees that One Life in this floating universe, who realises that One who never changes, unto him belongs eternal peace; unto none else, unto none else. This One existence has to be realised. ~~ Swami Vivekananda Excerpt from his lecture - ONE EXISTENCE APPEARING AS MANY, Delivered in New York, 1896 http://tinyurl.com/29p74e
[FairfieldLife] Happy Holidays - Merry Christmas FFLers
Christmas clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DCoYJ_PJI
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes lecture - A New Heaven and a New Earth
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: [snip] Maybe that's because what you said about Charlie actually does apply to Maharishi: Give me experiences, not endless pep talks of spiritual pornography by a man we all loved but now know as a spinner of tall tales. Don't get me wrong, I loved Charlie and attended many of his lectures when he came through my neck of the woods. But Charlie most often spoken a lot of Theosophy clap trap and his own fantasies about the coming new age. Very entertaining for spiritual people in their early 20's. But looking back it was really quite silly to wait with baited breath on Charlie's every word. When as a child I acted as a child. I'm no longer a child. Charlie had his limitations and I can agree with you to an extent that I also can now see some of his stuff as such [limited]. But I still find what I consider gems in it here and there that are very meaningful and valuable on a practical level - at least to me - and I'm sure to other TMers.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is NewMornings real name please?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is NewMornings real name please? Please tell me. I will find out through court order if necessay. Tom Barlow, Vermont. You may as well sue me too. I think you're a crackpot who has serious mental problems. And I'd love to see the expression on your face when any lawyer you present this nonsense to recommends that you have a nice rest in a comfy, locked rubber room. Maybe Edg can join you. ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Little Brown Jesus - a traditional Christmas Story
Long-time readers have heard the story about the birth of my step-son, Jesus H. Christian, but it's been a long time since I last told it, and I thought it would be nice to turn its telling into a Jesus' General Christmas Season tradition. It was a little over nine and a half years ago when my wife, OfJoshua, first told me she was pregnant. It came as a big surprise to me. After all, I hadn't been able to perform my husbandly duties for over a year, ever since I first heard that Klinton liked to put his little soldier into ladies' mouths. The very thought that someone would perform such a perverted, un-Republican act, killed the whole concept of sex for me, causing my little soldier to refuse my command to stand at attention except during inopportune times like during wresting matches and gladiator movies. I think that's why the story was leaked in the first place. He wanted god-fearing men to stop procreating naturally. There could be only one explanation for OfJoshua's pregnancy: immaculate conception. It was a miracle. OfJoshua was chosen by God to be the vessel for our Lord Jesus' second coming. We were ecstatic. I immediately reached for my CB radio so that I could begin witnessing Our Savior's imminent return. But before I uttered my second breaker into the microphone, the Holy Ghost intervened, filling my thoughts with visions of Klinton dressed in the robes and crown of Herrod. The Spirit was telling me that I had to guard the secret of the Second Coming to prevent Klinton from murdering our baby like he murdered Vince Foster and the entire population of Mena, Arkansas. I asked OfJoshua if she had confided in anyone else. She said she'd only told Mr. Garcia, our sad neighbor man. That made sense. He's been distraught since his divorce, so she visits him after dinner every night to cheer him up with scripture readings and old Lou Rawls albums. The news of her pregnancy probably filled him with joy. So we kept it all very quiet until she gave birth in the early morning hours of December 25, 1997. Unfortunately, it was the year we added Spartan-style wrestling and Sheila the Militia Morale Sheep to our annual Militia Christmas Eve Party and the festivities went a little long, so I missed it. Cletis and Private Jethro gave me a ride home that night. I had my pickup, but I asked them for a ride because I wanted to make sure they understood that what happens at the annual Militia Christmas Eve Party stays at the annual Militia Christmas Eve Party. Obviously, my lecture didn't take. Cletis is still running his mouth off about it. Don't believe a word he tells you. He's a damned liar, and besides, I was drunk. On our way home, we noticed a bunch of bright lights over at the feed lot and decided to investigate. It turned out to be the headlights of Mr. Garcia's Buick and an old pickup loaded with Basque sheepherders. Both vehicles were parked in a way that illuminated one of the lot's feed troughs. We approached cautiously, our nerves on edge due to the possibility that Mr. Garcia might be involved in some kind of mutton rustling scheme. Fortunately, that wasn't the case. It wasn't rustlers; it was only Mr. Garcia, my wife, and a new born baby, my baby. Apparently, OfJoshua went into labor on her way home from the movies (movies always cheer up Mr. Garcia). There was something wrong though. I couldn't quite figure out what it was until Cletis screamed, Oh my God, General, your baby is a Mexican. It was true, the baby was as brown as chocolate. That's a disguise, OfJoshua giggled, so Klinton won't find him. Of course, I thought, God, made him brown to protect him. It's a boy, Mr. Garcia said proudly, we will name him Jesus, after me. That's perfect, I replied. It gives us plausible deniability. We can call him by his real name and tell everyone it's just a tribute to you. That made OfJoshua and Mr. Garcia so happy they fell down into the manure, laughing. A week from today, little Jesus will be 9 years old. He's still brown--a bad sign for those of us who worry that Hitlery will be successful in '08--but he's a darn good kid. We haven't seen any miracles yet. I made him try to turn the Kool-Aid into Coors at the Johnson wedding, but nothing happened. We're getting him the Left Behind video game for his birthday, hoping it'll remind him how to destroy whole nations of unbelievers. I'll let you know when he figures it out. ~~ posted by Gen. JC Christian, Patriot at the Official Online Organ of the Glorious Conservative Christian Cultural Revolution http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2006/12/nativity-in-olive-drab.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Ultimate Challenge to the Fundies on FFL
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 24, 2007, at 8:36 AM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: A YET EVEN MORE ACCOMPLISHED DEBATER, AND WORLD TRAVERLER. SHAGGER OF WOMEN, QUAFFER OF LIBATIONS. RON BARLOW FROM VERMONT. LET THIS NAME RING THROUHOUT THE LAND! Lurk, you and Shemp are really on a roll today--great posts. :) Sal But I don't want to go among mad people, Alice remarked. Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat. We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. How do you know I'm mad? said Alice. You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here. ~~ Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stumbleupon vs TM
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hyperbolicgeometry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---Interesting anti-TM diatribe. Who wrote that, Manning? -ro-flex? OK, what's his (Manning, if you're reading this...) solution to life's problems. Do nothing? The author's name is at the very bottom of the page. You'll notice that it is not Manning -ro-flex
[FairfieldLife] Christ Climbed Down
Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and breakable stars Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no gilded Christmas trees and no tinsel Christmas trees and no tinfoil Christmas trees and no pink plastic Christmas trees and no gold Christmas trees and no black Christmas trees and no powderblue Christmas trees hung with electric candles and encircled by tin electric trains and clever cornball relatives Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where no intrepid Bible salesmen covered the territory in two-tone cadillacs and where no Sears Roebuck creches complete with plastic babe in manger arrived by parcel post the babe by special delivery and where no televised Wise Men praised the Lord Calvert Whiskey Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where no fat handshaking stranger in a red flannel suit and a fake white beard went around passing himself off as some sort of North Pole saint crossing the desert to Bethlehem Pennsylvania in a Volkswagen sled drawn by rollicking Adirondack reindeer and German names and bearing sacks of Humble Gifts from Saks Fifth Avenue for everybody's imagined Christ child Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where no Bing Crosby carollers groaned of a tight Christmas and where no Radio City angels iceskated wingless thru a winter wonderland into a jinglebell heaven daily at 8:30 with Midnight Mass matinees Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and softly stole away into some anonymous Mary's womb again where in the darkest night of everybody's anonymous soul He awaits again an unimaginable and impossibly Immaculate Reconception the very craziest of Second Comings ~~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, famous for running the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, wrote this poem in the 1950s http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/paul/ccd.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christ Climbed Down
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/25/07 9:55:35 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amen, brother, amen [snip] And some people just can't stand witnessing other peoples joy and happiness. Ignorance is bliss? Santa Claus in lieu of Jesus? Rendering Christ's message unto Caesar, Dixon loves to celebrate the illusion that Jesus' message was to promote a right wing ?Christian? corporatocracy and commercialism as His message to humanity. He's just as likely to love their new Constitution's preamble: ~~We the Corporatocracy of the Homeland, in Order to consolidate Our Conservative Leadership, control the Judiciary to maintain our authority, insure unrestricted corporate profit, provide for global dominance through military superiority, keep the population safe through surveillance and control, and secure the Blessings of unlimited exploitation of global resources, do ordain to establish this Official Homeland Decree~~ - jrm == Just like the carefully crafted commercialized Jesus would do: Republicans don't want to fund FDR's social safety net because they fundamentally do not believe in the concept of We the People collectively protecting all of us in anything other than a military/police way. They don't believe that the rabble should run the country. They want big corporations to run the commons of our nation, and they think that the most appropriate role for citizens is that of infantilized consumers -- of both commercial products and commercially produced political packaging. ~~ Thom Hartman http://www.alternet.org/rights/67944/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christ Climbed Down
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/25/07 10:48:50 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And some people just can't stand witnessing other peoples joy and happiness. Ignorance is bliss? Santa Claus in lieu of Jesus? Rendering Christ's message unto Caesar, Dixon loves to celebrate the illusion that Jesus' message was to promote a right wing ?Christian? corporatocracy and commercialism as His message to humanity. He's just as likely to love their new Constitution'as likely to lo ~~We the Corporatocracy of the Homeland, in Order to consolidate Our Conservative Leadership, control the Judiciary to maintain our authority, insure unrestricted corporate profit, provide for global dominance through military superiority, keep the population safe through surveillance and control, and secure the Blessings of unlimited exploitation of global resources, do ordain to establish this Official Homeland Decree~~ - jrm == As I said , some people just can't stand witnessing other peoples joy and happiness. I had a lovely Christmas Eve with my Brazilian family. The highlight was watching my twin 9 yr old nieces distribute Christmas gifts to the family and the delight in their faces when they opened theirs. It was your ugly comment in response to the poem which exposed the crass, cynical underlying profit motivation of wingnut corporatocracy to turn Christmas into a crass, Madison Avenue driven commercial enterprise to exploit and pervert the true meaning of Christ's birth that warranted the material I posted. Leave it to Bwana.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ammachi in God's Name on Youtube
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the Amma clips from the CBS special edited into one 7-minutet video: HYPERLINK http://youtube.com/watch?v=KMIzCe64Vt0 Beautiful! a wonderful Christmas gift! Thanks Rick.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christ Climbed Down
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/25/07 4:12:52 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was your ugly comment in response to the poem which exposed the crass, cynical underlying profit motivation of wingnut corporatocracy to turn Christmas into a crass, Madison Avenue driven commercial enterprise to exploit and pervert the true meaning of Christ's birth that warranted the material I posted. I'm not the one focusing on those things, you are. That simply isn't true. You are the corporatist defending the perversion of the birth of Christ, not I. You are the one who defends the pollution-for-profit of the fossil fuel industries, not I. You are of the crowd who cheer leads the 1.1 million plus killings in Iraq based on false premisses and lies, not I. And while I personally pursue my spiritual life and encourage others to do the same with TM, I'm not about to let go to the extent that I turn a blind eye to bullshit ignorant arrogant willfully blind ideologues like you who overtly and backhandedly and hypocritically preach racist authoritarian greed in the name of goodness. The words from Jesus in the Bible that describe the whitewash on tombs that hide dead men's bones within take their meaning from your doctrines. One thing you should have learned from TM all these years is to let go and take it as it comes.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Christ Climbed Down
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/26/07 6:00:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not the one focusing on those things, you are. That simply isn't true. You are the corporatist defending the perversion of the birth of Christ, not I. You are the one who defends the pollution-for-the pollution-for-WBRprofit of the fossil fuel ind of the crowd who cheer leads the 1.1 million plus killings in Iraq based on false premisses and lies, not I. And while I personally pursue my spiritual life and encourage others to do the same with TM, I'm not about to let go to the extent that I turn a blind eye to bullshit ignorant arrogant willfully blind ideologues like you who overtly and backhandedly and hypocritically preach racist authoritarian greed in the name of goodness. The words from Jesus in the Bible that describe the whitewash on tombs that hide dead men's bones within take their meaning from your doctrines. One thing you should have learned from TM all these years is to let go and take it as it comes. You really do need to let go of your anger. It only hurts you, not me. I have no problem with people celebrating Christmas they way they see fit and enjoying themselves. Nor do I have any problem with commerce and capitalism hyping the holiday season. If you or anybody else does, that's your hang up, not everybody else's. I stand by what I said, Dixon. Truth is that this 'is' Kali Yuga, and jokers like you can only temporarily get away with preaching lies as truth and accepting death as life. The payment of karma is inevitable for everyone and its character is defined by each of us.
[FairfieldLife] Re: I didn't inhale
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admire Clinton for many reasons, and his lawyerly language maneuvers is one of them. He found a loop hole in the simple yes or no question, did you smoke pot? And it was too clever for his own good. It doesn't matter if he inhaled or not, it was his attempt at a slippery save that is being ridiculed. No one asked him what THC level reached his bloodstream. It was Bill being Bill, and true or not, it spoke volumes about how he operated as well as the limits of his brilliance, which is considerable. I think that is why it is still a popular reference today, because of his slippery use of language, not because he may have been lying. Like his parsing of the use of the word is. It reveals the limits of cleverness. When Arsinio Hall asked him about how he would answer the question if he could do it again he said, I would just say Yes I smoked pot. The original quote: When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale and never tried it again. Bill Clinton Out of the country so not breaking any US laws, (brilliant), experimented a time or two this language makes the not inhaling a bit suspect, I didn't inhale, overplays his hand, slick Willy being too slick, never tried it again, again emphasizing that no US laws were broken. That is excellent. He was breaking new ground being more honest in a hypocritical culture where someone can get penalized for smoking weed in their youth. Bush tried to paint his drug use as youthful indiscretions. He dodged a bullet by not getting specific. Obama is going to push this envelop further, and it may cost him the race. He had better back off the details cuz people are going to ask him stuff like, did you ever buy coke with others or for others or share it... After two terms of the misunderestimated man, I miss old Bill. A bit too smart for his own good sometimes, but a hellava lot smarter than me! Here's a photo of another celebrity politician [before he was a politician] doing what I did along with most of my peers decades ago. http://www.reason.com/UserFiles/schwarzenegger_smoking_joint.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Huckabee's Mein Kampf'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/27/07 6:11:33 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll kill anyone who doesn't vote for me -Mike Huckabee Fruedian Slip? Probably not. Sounds more like a poor attempt at humor, kind of like, support mental health or I'll kill you. By the way did you know that Mein Kampf translated into Arabic is Jihad? 'Mein Kampf' translated into English is 'My Struggle'. -Jihad- , meaning to strive or to struggle, in Arabic, is an Islamic term and a duty for Muslims. It appears frequently in the Qur'an and common usage as the idiomatic expression striving in the way of God (al-jihad fi sabil Allah) Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of World Religions. (1999). Ed. Merriam-Webster. ISBN 087-7790442. , Jihad, p.571 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Effect Quantum-Failure Essay
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: essay Quantum Consciousness, Quantum Miracles, Quantum Failure. It's available here: http://www.geoffgilpin.com/pdfs/Quantum-Failure.pdf ~Some of us look back with regret, some in anger, and some with bemused detachment. We all share a heritage of bitter irony. We gave everything we had to create a reality that was the total opposite of what we wanted~ The above comment from the essay summarizes my view. The essay itself gives a generally penetrating expression to my overall view of the TMO. Since I worked for around 10 years as a TM teacher for SRM [Maharishi's original Spiritual Regeneration Movement], I was [I feel] fortunately not part of nor dependent upon the move toward SCI and the siddhi program. The Vedic stuff as Maharishi is pushing it these days it is absolute horse shit in my eyes. And like Geoff mentioned, when that other shoe dropped and the SRM was overcome by the science crowd I also was seriously bummed as were numbers of other TMers I've known personally - unless they abandoned the whole thing altogether. It took me a very long time to reorient myself to finding external meaning to my experience of TM once again and I've found it in terms of what I've learned to be some of the related spiritual teachings of Sanatana Dharma and the awareness of Guru Dev whom I've come to experience as very subtly influencing me. As a seeker since childhood of answers to what this life is *really* all about, I can only express gratitude for the Transcendental Meditation technique itself [apart from all of the current TMO clap-trap] and what I have come to know from my experience as a result of it, particularly the connection I've come to feel directly, almost continuously, with the Divine.
[FairfieldLife] Ron Paul on blacks
From a 1992 article in the Ron Paul Political Report: Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal. If similar in-depth studies were conducted in other major cities, who doubts that similar results would be produced? We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings, and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers. -Is it any wonder that neo-Nazis are flocking to his campaign? But Paul is against the war in Iraq and he wants FREEDOM! So that must make his racism okay. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/26/85617/090/639/426519
[FairfieldLife] Las Vegas going solar
Narrated slide show: http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/eco_lasvegas/
[FairfieldLife] Re: How Charlie met Maharishi
Really makes me smile, Rick. Thanks. I loved the guy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By Charles F. Lutes As Told to Martin Zucker CHAPTER ONE East Meets West Nicky and I were out, as usual, taking our nightly constitutional along Ventura Boulevard. For me, the walking was good exercise and a relaxing form of therapy, an attempt to flush out the tension built up during a day of business activity. Nicky, of course, loved it. A dog needs his exercise after being cooped up in the backyard all day and our little Cocker Spaniel was no exception. It was a pleasant evening around the beginning of 1959. Nicky was doing his thing, intently exploring the doggy wonders of the sidewalk world, and I was absent-mindedly window gazing and mulling over the day's events. From out of nowhere, so it seemed, a stranger approached. He was distinguished-looking, well-dressed, middle -aged. He greeted me and expressed admiration for the dog. Yes, I said, 'Nicky' is quite an animal. We are even thinking of sending him off to culinary school so he can cook and earn his keep. The man laughed but immediately turned serious and said, Very great indeed is your good fortune because shortly you will meet a master of this earth and our time who is going to have great impact on the world with his teaching. And you will become very close to him. Before I had a chance to respond, the man bid me good night and walked briskly away down the street and turned the corner. The strange encounter seemed to have paralyzed me right in my tracks. By the time I got myself in motion again it must have been a full minute. I hurried to the corner to find the man and ask for an explanation. How did he know all that? I reached the corner and saw no one. He couldn't have gone very far, yet he had seemingly vanished. I had never seen him before and I never saw him again. A few nights later, Nicky and I were making the same rounds and this time we had our pal, Peter the Hermit, with us. Peter was an old-time Hollywood bit player who lived by himself in the Hollywood Hills not far from us. He had a long white beard and flowing white hair and would get called by movie producers anytime they needed somebody to play an old prospector or biblical prophet. Peter was also extremely psychic. As we were walking along he suddenly said to me: You know, Charlie, you are going to meet a great teacher pretty soon and he will have a big part in your life. The message sounded very familiar. And just how did he know? I just know, Charlie. I just know. That's all he could say. * * * Five years earlier, I probably would have laughed off these two incidents as purely coincidental encounters with neighborhood weirdoes. In 1954, I was 40 years old. I had had a standard middle-American Christian upbringing. My grandfather had won a Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War. My father manufactured window glass. As a boy, I was sent to military school. I boxed in college and served in the engineering corps during World War II. Except for a brief crack at acting, I pretty much toed the conservative straight and narrow. An influential family friend counseled me out of an actor's life. Get serious, he said, and set up an appointment for me with the general manager of the Portland Cement Company. I was hired. Later I joined Flintkote Corporation, a huge firm that supplied steel construction products as well as concrete. My whole life became wrapped up around my work. I was sales representative, a career man with blinkers, largely oblivious to almost everything else, although I did follow world events, business news, and the Los Angeles Rams with some interest. I would have had an impossible time trying to tell you anything about the meaning of life. There was absolutely nothing in my track record to suggest a tendency toward spirituality or meditation. To me, life was measured in tons of steel and yards of concrete. I could tell you how much concrete was poured into the downtown Los Angeles freeway cloverleaf and how much steel was holding up the Park La Brea Towers. I knew because I had sold the materials. My friends were people from the industry and we talked steel, concrete, and construction. In the course of a day, I would be attending the endless details involved in any number of building jobs. I'd meet with crew foremen, engineers, architects, and even company presidents. I worked hard and took the pressures of the job home with me to my wife, Helen. In 1954 I became suddenly ill. I was having lunch with a business associate in Farmer's Market. The waitress was bringing a slice of pecan pie I had just ordered. All at once, the restaurant turned upside down and my heart started thumping like a tom-tom. I grabbed onto the table and held on for dear life. I thought I was having a heart
[FairfieldLife] Cartoon of the Week - 12/29/07
Spreading Democracy with our friends: http://www.blah3.com/images/articles/20071228095617477_1.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=504969in_page_id=1811Satan=Santa This makes me feel so much better. Whatever the pope is doing here are a couple of short vid clips. The first one is a supposedly possessed girl. Real Exorcism of Anneliese Michel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4n9vK0_mdk The second one is an 'exorcism' filmed by National Geographic. Exorcism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoA-dBREM5cfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cartoon of the Week - 12/29/07
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spreading Democracy with our friends: http://www.blah3.com/images/articles/20071228095617477_1.jpg Benazir Bhutto blamed US for extremism in Pakistan When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation -- namely, life, liberty and justice for all. Dictatorships such as Musharraf's suppress individual rights and freedoms and empower the most extreme elements of society. Oppressed citizens, unable to represent themselves through other means, often turn to extremism and religious fundamentalism. ~~ Benazir Bhutto, March 12, 2007 - http://tinyurl.com/3x7775
[FairfieldLife] Satsang (was Re: Rising Insanity)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip You *must* know? You do not have the right to must anything, dude. But since you want to play games instead of continue your Intro Lecture and sales pitch, I'll play along a little. snip I think we are done. You misrepresented yourself as asking questions initially as a student, and now you mock me and disrespect me. I do not want any kind of student teacher relationship with anyone, but thought perhaps it was one way to have a mutually respectful and insightful conversation with you. Best of luck to you. So, FFL's resident 'enlightened guy' takes a powder when the heat builds up under examination. Among other 'revealing' incongruities he attributes to himself, it's interesting that this self-proclaimed 'enlightened guy' claims that he creates his own reality when the scriptures all indicate it is false to assume authorship of action. my experiential reality is as I create it moment by moment. No more and no less. ~~ sandiego108 aka Jim Flanegan message #167802
[FairfieldLife] Satsang (was Re: Rising Insanity)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip You *must* know? You do not have the right to must anything, dude. But since you want to play games instead of continue your Intro Lecture and sales pitch, I'll play along a little. snip I think we are done. You misrepresented yourself as asking questions initially as a student, and now you mock me and disrespect me. I do not want any kind of student teacher relationship with anyone, but thought perhaps it was one way to have a mutually respectful and insightful conversation with you. Best of luck to you. So, FFL's resident 'enlightened guy' takes a powder when the heat builds up under examination. Among other 'revealing' incongruities he attributes to himself, it's interesting that this self-proclaimed 'enlightened guy' claims that he creates his own reality when the scriptures all indicate it is false to assume authorship of action. my experiential reality is as I create it moment by moment. No more and no less. ~~ sandiego108 aka Jim Flanegan message #167802 You are talking apples and oranges here John. Claiming authorship of action is false attachment borne of ego. Creation of the world is as a result of the three gunas at play, creating all manifestation. Creation is a mechanical process which I do not own, resulting moment by moment in the world I experience. I am clear about that. Just because I create, does not mean I own. See the difference? Then by logic you're stating that you ARE the mechanical process of creation which results in the world 'you' experience. But you have also previously stated that there is no 'you'. So *who* is experiencing when the non-existent 'you' is saying moment by moment in the world *I* experience? And you're further muddying the water by saying *you* [which you've stated doesn't exist] don't own* the mechanical process of creation. You're spouting a bunch of bullshit as far as I can see.
[FairfieldLife] Rupert Murdoch Says Obama Will Win [video]
Tonight at the All Things Digital conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch -- Chairman of News Corp, new WSJ owner, and longtime torchbearer for conservative politics -- said this about Barack Obama: He is a rock star. It's fantastic I love what he is saying about education. I don't think he will win Florida.but he will win in Ohio and the election. I am anxious to meet him. I want to see if he will walk the walk. About the presumptive Republican nominee, Murdoch said, McCain is a friend of mine. He's a patriot. But he's unpredictable. Doesn't seem to know much about the economy. He has been in Congress a long time, and you have to make a lot of compromises. So what's he really stand for?... I think he has a lot of problems. Video here: http://tinyurl.com/4fenln
[FairfieldLife] Carville: I Think Obama Will Win General Election
Prominent Hillary supporter James Carville diverges from the Hillary campaign message on several key electability questions in an interview with TPM Election Central. If he gets what Kerry got he will still win the election, because the dynamics have changed, he says. Asked if he thought Obama would beat McCain, Carville said: I think he will. I think Democrats will win in November...There's a crushing desire for change in this country. No one has seen a party or brand held in such low esteem than the Republicans. [...] Carville stressed that he thought Hillary was a better bet against McCain, but reiterated his confidence in Obama. Hillary would be a stronger candidate, but I think he'll win this thing, Carville said. http://tinyurl.com/44y8g3
[FairfieldLife] Latest on Peckman's alien video
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1227150.ece
[FairfieldLife] Re: Latest on Peckman's alien video
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do.rflex wrote: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1227150.ece Looks like a publicity stunt to me. Peckman must have learned a lot from the TMO. :) It sure looks like that.
[FairfieldLife] Stonehenge Used as Cemetery From the Beginning
At least part of the mystery of Stonehenge may have now been solved: It was from the beginning a monument to the dead. New radiocarbon dates from human cremation burials among and around the brooding stones on Salisbury Plain in England indicate that the site was used as a cemetery from 3000 B.C. until after the monuments were erected around 2500 B.C., British archaeologists reported Thursday. What appeared to be the head of a stone mace, a symbol of authority, was found in one grave, the archaeologists said, indicating that this was probably a cemetery for the ruling dynasty responsible for erecting Stonehenge. It's now clear that burials were a major component of Stonehenge in all its main stages, said Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield in England. Some scholars have contended that the enigmatic stones, surrounded by a ditch and earthen banks in concentric circles, more than likely marked a sacred place of healing. The idea is at least as old as medieval literature, which also includes stories of Stonehenge as a memorial to the dead. So there could be an element of truth to both hypotheses, experts say. In a teleconference with reporters, arranged by the National Geographic Society, Dr. Parker Pearson described three burials of burned bones and teeth that were dated in recent weeks. Researchers estimated that up to 240 people were buried there, all as cremation deposits. Other evidence from the British Isles shows that skeletal burials were rare at this time and that cremation was the custom for the elite. Another Sheffield archaeologist, Andrew Chamberlain, noted one reason to think that the Stonehenge burials were for generations of a single elite family. The clue, he said, is the small number of burials in the earliest period and the larger numbers in later centuries, as offspring would have multiplied. Given the monumental surroundings, Dr. Parker Pearson said, one has to assume anyone buried there had some good credentials. The earliest burial to be tested came from a pit at the edge of the stone monuments; it dates to more or less 3000 B.C. The second burial dates to around 2900 B.C. The most recent one is from around the time the first arrangements of stones appeared on the plain, about 2500 B.C. It was previously believed that the site was a burial ground for only a century after 2700 B.C., well before the distinctive large stones were put in place. Dr. Parker Pearson said finding other datable burials was a huge priority of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, which has been excavating the site since 2003. The National Geographic Society is a supporter of the research, and some of the results, but not the latest burial dates, are reported in the June issue of its magazine. The findings, including those dates, are also reported on nationalgeographic.com. Although most of the cremated remains were uncovered decades ago, Dr. Parker Pearson said, it is only in recent years that improved methods of radiocarbon dating have made it possible to analyze burned bones. In other recent findings at Stonehenge and adjacent sites, archaeologists uncovered a piece of a red-deer antler that was apparently used as a pick for digging. It was found in what is known as the Stonehenge Greater Cursus, a cigar-shaped ditched enclosure nearly two miles long that is thought to have a sacred significance. Julian Thomas, an archaeologist at the University of Manchester, who led this investigation, said the antler was dated at 3630 to 3375 B.C. That puts the cursus about 1,000 years before the large stones were erected, meaning, he said, that this landscape maintains its significance over a long period of time. New York Times: http://tinyurl.com/4fe4vw
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama resigns from Trinity (the church)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CNN breaking news: Barack Obama has resigned as a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, his campaign says. (CNN) Barack Obama resigned Saturday from his Chicago church where controversial sermons by his former pastor and other ministers had created repeated political headaches for the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, his campaign confirmed Saturday. Obama plans to hold a news conference after the town hall meeting he is presntly holding in Aberdeen, South Dakota, the campaign said. CNN: http://tinyurl.com/5qxch8 === Sources tell ABC News that Obama felt that as the campaign continued, the media would continue to focus on the church, to the detriment of the church community, that Obama would be held responsible for what happened in the church, and that the Church would be held responsible for his campaign. It would be best, Obama felt, to simply cut ties. He has not yet joined a new church. ABC News: http://tinyurl.com/5p8p32
[FairfieldLife] God created the Universe
Image: http://tinyurl.com/4mwpyg
[FairfieldLife] Re: ADVANCED TECNIQUES NUNBER 6
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:46 PM, marciohal wrote: Hi I am tm-sidhis practitioner and am practicing to 17 years , I would like to know what is the advanced technique number 6 somebody would know to inform ? believe that the sequence that is published in trancenet.org this wrong , somebody could inform what is the technique number 6 correct ? Hi Marcelo, The 6th advanced technique? I'm think it was ka-ching! or something very similar. :) Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: ADVANCED TECNIQUES NUNBER 6
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:46 PM, marciohal wrote: Hi I am tm-sidhis practitioner and am practicing to 17 years , I would like to know what is the advanced technique number 6 somebody would know to inform ? believe that the sequence that is published in trancenet.org this wrong , somebody could inform what is the technique number 6 correct ? Hi Marcelo, The 6th advanced technique? I'm think it was ka-ching! or something very similar. :) Sal LOL
[FairfieldLife] Daily Show - Bizarre Interview with Clinton Spokesperson Terry McAuliffe
Senator Clinton Spokesperson Terry McAuliffe assures Jon Stewart that Hillary is going to the White House. Watch via: http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10535
[FairfieldLife] Re: Daily Show - Bizarre Interview with Clinton Spokesperson Terry McAuliffe
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 1:39 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Senator Clinton Spokesperson Terry McAuliffe assures Jon Stewart that Hillary is going to the White House. Watch via: http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10535 John, you have outdone yourself. This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I just can't *wait* for Judy to spin this one. I get the feeling he was kidding, but what do I know. He was funny though. Sal McAuliffe doesn't appear to me to be connecting with reality.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Daily Show - Bizarre Interview with Clinton Spokesperson Terry McAuliffe
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:31 PM, do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 1:39 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: Senator Clinton Spokesperson Terry McAuliffe assures Jon Stewart that Hillary is going to the White House. Watch via: http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10535 John, you have outdone yourself. This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I just can't *wait* for Judy to spin this one. I get the feeling he was kidding, but what do I know. He was funny though. Sal McAuliffe doesn't appear to me to be connecting with reality. flex, Hillary's whole campaign hasn't been connecting with reality for months now, one more day won't hurt. Sal It seems that many in the Hillary camp are not willing to accept her defeat [including herself] - even though it's clearly obvious. It's like they're in an alternate world. Also, the statements that Hillary wants to 'negotiate' for VP are totally inappropriate in my view. Obama won the nomination. He holds all the cards and the earned right to make a choice for VP. To suggest otherwise as if HC has some kind of entitlement to the position, or that Obama 'need's' her as a running-mate to win, is insulting. It's *totally* Obama's call. From all I've seen I personally don't think he'll want Hillary on the ticket. Hill and Bill have really turned me off this time around.
[FairfieldLife] Breaking: Hillary Clinton To Suspend Campaign on Friday
MSNBC is reporting that Senator Hillary Clinton will be suspending her campaign and plans to endorse the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama, on Friday. More from the New York Times: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving to suspend her campaign and endorse Senator Barack Obama on Friday after Democratic members of Congress urged her Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Mr. Obama, according to a senior adviser to Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Clinton is likely to make the announcement in New York City, an aide said, though no final venue has been chosen. Her decision came after a day of telephone conversations with supporters on Capitol Hill about what she should do now that Mr. Obama had claimed enough delegates to be able to clinch the nomination. Mrs. Clinton had initially said she wanted to wait before making any decision, but her aides said that in conversations, some of her closest supporters said it was urgent that she step aside. Read on NYT: http://tinyurl.com/6ycq9e MSNBC Video report here: http://tinyurl.com/3kc3q4
[FairfieldLife] Re: Breaking: Hillary Clinton To Suspend Campaign on Friday
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To lose, and to lose so closely after having poured all her attention and all her energy into this campaign that came as the culmination of an entire life's ambition and well-intentioned work must be an extraordinary blow to absorb. And I feel that Senator Clinton truly understood that she embodied and carried the hopes and ambitions in this campaign for millions of people who felt *she* was the one to be president; to relinquish that collective ambition must be unimaginably difficult; it's certainly not anything I can imagine. There was a comment following a blog on the HuffingtonPost that I particularly appreciated and I've copied it below. The blog preceding it was more than a little derisive of Clinton and chided her for making Obama's presumptive victory still all about her. The comment was posted by an ardent Clinton supporter and I was impressed with the graciousness and magnanimity and insight it provided. ** As I've said earlier, in her pre-concession speech last night Hillary was preparing her supporters for the transition from activism on her campaign's behalf to refocusing on the ultimate goal - taking back the White House. In the fervor surrounding this very long campaign, most of us lost sight of what values truly make ours the big tent party. It's not atypical to any campaign season, but both the length and strength of conviction of supporters for both candidates personalized politics in a way which has long been absent from our party. I, for one, am greatly encouraged by this historic opportunity to redress the many issues which seemed to stagnate in the 1970's. More importantly, as a Hillary supporter, I've already made my concession. I would ask that those decrying Hillary's speech last night as another betrayal to please try and look at it from our perspective. Millions of us poured our entire beings into her campaign, not out of some ill-will towards fellow progressives, but because we truly believed in her candidacy. In delaying concession until the weekend, Hillary has given her supporters time to absorb their disappointment and regain perspective. You might not understand how deeply we were committed to seeing Hillary in the White House, but these passions cannot be converted to support for Obama overnight. With a little time, our side will come around to see that Obama is not only our candidate, he's also our future, and what a good thing that is! That's a good explanation. I was beginning to wonder... wtf? [snip]
