[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Tru-believers?

2008-04-02 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you trust your Spiritual life, to a TM-TB'er now? wai, ai söötnli vud!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality...what a concept

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, endlessrainintoapapercup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurqB., you're a bit of a wild man, but that's all part of your charm. I enjoyed our conversation yesterday, but remain puzzled by the apparent lack of any congruence and understanding between us

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dome Numbers

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Om, their grand experiment... What could they possibly do to get the numbers they need for their utopia? People seem to be staying outside or not coming back in. What could they do to change that direction? They

[FairfieldLife] China is ready for the Olympics?

2008-04-02 Thread cardemaister
http://www.gypsii.com/place.cgi?op=viewid=60452

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the War Monger or the Young Woman Predator or the Atheists who tossout spirituality with religion's bathwater, would just stop regularly glorifying in their malignancies, I wouldn't be posting my vitriol.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beelzebub

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Harry Angel: Louis Cyphere...Lucifer. Even your NAME is a dime store joke. Louis Cyphere: Mephistopheles is SUCH a mouthful in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: Has had published, in major physics journals. (This was pre-MUM, but

[FairfieldLife] 'The Plot Thickens'

2008-04-02 Thread Robert
The plot thickens. Ever since January 25 when powerful Pluto entered Capricorn, the sign of the builder, you have been examining conditions you have left (or are leaving) and have been wondering where you want to put your energy and ambitions. What projects do you want to invest in? Where do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:05 AM, claudiouk wrote: Yes I think the cortex thikening is interesting. I must say I had assumed that the evidence of health benefits of TM was well established. But I came across this 2007

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: snip Another nice review of meditation research can be found in The Cambridge Handbook of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you cite studies that these folks have missed that do show methodologies and results they would accept for any meditation practice? How could we answer that, since we're not the researchers in question?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presumably you've read the thing and know what their criteria were for rejecting the ones they did reject. They've got a whole list and they state their reasons briefly. Criteria also emerge from their own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: snip Well, most people who push the Consciousness as teh Unified Field

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:08 AM, gruntlespam wrote: On a side note, what's interesting about this BBC synopsis on the show, and the BBC show it self - is how the BBC now feel the need to dumb- down everything and add

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great summary links. Thanks. With all those descriptive parts directly written about other techniques in these papers, anyone in the dome probably ought to have their badges revoked immediately for just reading

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, uns_tressor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: I thought she should have learned TM as she tried the others, but you don't know what went on behind the scenes, she may have asked to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gruntlespam gruntlespam@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 1:02 PM, authfriend wrote: And of course the study in question only lists the studies they specifically refer to! This is part of what is known as the APA style, common in almost all research for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 2:29 PM, claudiouk wrote: How about: Transcendental Meditation Effective In Reducing High Blood Pressure, Study Shows ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2007) � People with high blood pressure may find

[FairfieldLife] 'Hillary= Smelling like a 'Rocky's Cheese Steak?'

2008-04-02 Thread Robert
Hillary's like Philly's Rocky? Please... Is this comparison is so cheesey, or is it me? Proof! she will do anything to win... - You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rationale for the Maharishi Effect

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I care alot more about the ME. Hagelin predicted the market going to 18,000 by the end of 2008. Does this count as a disconfirmable prediction? Well, based on the assumption that the numbers in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:07 PM, authfriend wrote: AS staff members who traveled with the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to Bosnia in March 1996, we have followed with more than passing interest the extensive news coverage of her landing in Tuzla. Video footage clearly shows that Mrs.

[FairfieldLife] The Hillary Waltz

2008-04-02 Thread Robert
The Hillary Waltz function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1364875200en=4f4640567b166b99ei=5124';} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/opinion/02dowd.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('The Hillary Waltz');

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:29 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 1:02 PM, authfriend wrote: And of course the study in question only lists the studies they specifically refer to! This is part of what is known as the APA

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:47 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 2:29 PM, claudiouk wrote: How about: Transcendental Meditation Effective In Reducing High Blood Pressure, Study Shows ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2007) — People

[FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:07 PM, authfriend wrote: AS staff members who traveled with the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to Bosnia in March 1996, we have followed with more than passing interest the extensive

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Angela Mailander wrote: Sorry, about that last truncated message that got sent by accident before I finished typing it. So, what I was gonna say was Well, then, I'd like an explanation for why they would just ignore twenty years worth of research. If true, that is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2008, at 4:44 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:05 AM, claudiouk wrote: Yes I think the cortex thikening is interesting. I must say I had assumed that the evidence of health benefits of TM was well

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2008, at 4:53 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you cite studies that these folks have missed that do show methodologies and results they would accept for any meditation practice? How could we answer that,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Has had published, in major physics journals. (This was pre-MUM, but Lawson's point is that he was already doing professional-level work in this

[FairfieldLife] Spiritually Hot in Fairfield, w/ Saniel Bonder Thursday Nite

2008-04-02 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Waking Down founder in FF April 3, 7pm First National Bank Meeting Rm. info: 472-6562

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Dome Numbers

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:14 PM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: The numbers. I got introduced to someone who had lunch with Howard Settle last week. Howard is wondering, why are there so few Fairfield meditators in the domes? What would you tell Howard about this? I'd ask him if he was familiar with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:07 PM, authfriend wrote: AS staff members who traveled with the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to Bosnia in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Has had published, in major physics journals. (This was pre-MUM, but Lawson's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why Hillary was fired from Watergate committee

2008-04-02 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: So?...Laura Bush killed her boyfriend. ...and I suppose, then, that Bill Clinton brually raped and sodomized Juanita Broderick...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Dome Numbers

2008-04-02 Thread gullible fool
Many, if not most, dome-goers attend program only because they are virtually forced to. For CCP, it meant show up regularly or face a humiliating trip to the course office to explain why you are not regular. For students, it meant miss a minimal number of programs or fail. I cn't imagine what the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-02 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:31 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: I just played a blues show for a facility of Alzheimer and dementia patients today. Oh, you mean you uploaded some music to FFL, Curtis? Cool. :) Sal

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: where are vedic city pundits?

2008-04-02 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:49 PM, off_world_beings wrote: They're too toxic? Hadn't heard any of that. I'll try to take a ride out there tomorrow and see if I can sight any intelligent life out there, my own excepted of course. :) They live underground in a giant underground compund that spans

[FairfieldLife] Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/press/Newsweek_lotus_synapse.htmlThe Lotus and the SynapseTuesday, March 25, 2008 3:42 PMBy Sharon BegleyMy favorite story about the Dalai Lama doesn't concern his activities on behalf of Tibet, which is one unrelieved tragedy, but is about his interest in

[FairfieldLife] Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain March 25, 2008 by Dian Land Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip I thought that might be the case. Hugheshugo has the Hagelin's D.C. study confused with Orme-Johnson et al.'s Jerusalem study. Well you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2008, at 8:46 AM, hugheshugo wrote: God, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, I'm starting to feel guilty. I know how you feel!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:10 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Judy likes Hillary because she *identifies* with Hillary. Hillary *thrives* on conflict and adver- sarial situations. If they don't exist, she provokes them, just to create a situation in which she can appear to be a strong woman and attract

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:57 AM, authfriend wrote: So...what *do* you think the Ig Nobels are awarded for? It's for research that's considered laughable and that cannot, or should not, be reproduced. Lacking reproducibility of course is one of the hallmarks of pseudoscience.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread shempmcgurk
I remember reading in a book on meditation several years back that studies had been done on Buddhist monks who had meditated for decades. They then did the same studies on TMers who had been meditating for just a few months...and they got the same results! --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip I thought that might be the case. Hugheshugo has the Hagelin's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:07 PM, authfriend wrote: [quoting from a NYTimes op-ed:] AS staff members who traveled with the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to Bosnia in March 1996, we have followed with more than

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beelzebub

2008-04-02 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Harry Angel: Louis Cyphere...Lucifer. Even your NAME is a dime

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
What was the name of the alleged book? On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:15 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: I remember reading in a book on meditation several years back that studies had been done on Buddhist monks who had meditated for decades. They then did the same studies on TMers who had been meditating for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
March 26: Coverage of the Lutz et al. paper in PLoS ONE • UW Madison News: Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain • Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse • Scientific American: Meditate on This: You Can Learn to Be More Compassionate • WebMD: Brain Can Learn Compassion via

[FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:10 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: And that sense of entitlement extends to being regarded as someone who knows what she's talking about, especially when she clearly doesn't. Hillary gets indignant

[FairfieldLife] Hillary's Brain vs Obama's Brain -- at 3am (Straight Shooting from Tuzla)

2008-04-02 Thread Duveyoung
Judy's gonna love this concept. I feel like I'm giving her a birthday present. Does anyone else here see the irony that we have one thread going here that is proving that thoughts change the brain's anatomy, but on another thread Judy is having to bat down all these Hillary naysayers who refuse

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality...what a concept

2008-04-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipThe you's in the rap were rhetorical, or directed to Jim (Sandi Ego), whom I was conversing with, not you. snip I see you understand Spanish too- lol.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-02 Thread Stu
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttsplicer@ wrote: That was really excellent Stu. I especially dug your soul description! I too have no soul, but I sure got soul! I just played a blues show for a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread authfriend
Vaj, I'm close to my limit for the week. I'll get to your deceitful bafflegab about the TM research on Saturday. In the meantime, I'll deal with *this* piece of deceit from you: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:57 AM, authfriend wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality...what a concept

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snipThe you's in the rap were rhetorical, or directed to Jim (Sandi Ego), whom I was conversing with, not you. snip I see you understand Spanish

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Dome Numbers

2008-04-02 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you tell Howard? Howard Settle On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:14 PM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: The numbers. I got introduced to someone who had lunch with Howard Settle last week. Howard is wondering, why are

[FairfieldLife] Q. for Richard!

2008-04-02 Thread cardemaister
Benoît Mandelbrot seems to be of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Mandelbrot So, is it true that some features of certain rural dialects of Lithuanian are closer to the language of, say, Rgveda, than any other modern Indo-European language?

[FairfieldLife] Sharia and the TMO

2008-04-02 Thread shempmcgurk
The following is an introduction to an article on Sharia law on frontpagemag.com: How Islamic law dictates every single aspect of human life -- from having sex to using the bathroom. We're not quite there yet, but wouldn't it be fair to say that the TMO and its various programs and

[FairfieldLife] Clapton is G-d!

2008-04-02 Thread cardemaister
But do I have to know anything about him to enjoy the best of Cream (Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, Tales of Brave Ulysses, White Room, Toad, and stuff)?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-02 Thread Duveyoung
Curtis, I figured you'd be riled up. Sigh. This Zeus concept of yours is proof that you don't hear me when I write about throwing out spirituality with religion's bathwater. Religions all have this dark side that's all about controlling the masses, gaining power, getting rich, aggrandizing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:10 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: And that sense of entitlement extends to being regarded as someone who knows what she's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality...what a concept

2008-04-02 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
TomT: Have Fun! Barry: Always. You, too, I trust... TomT: It seems that is our purpose or so it seems. Barry: This could be interpreted as a throwaway comment on your part, but I don't see it as one, because I thoroughly agree. I think that fun is one of the most misunderstood principles in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:26 AM, authfriend wrote: The only explanation that makes any sense is that she simply misremembered. She *did* remember that it was a stressful, dangerous situation, and her mind filled in the details to justify that memory. We all do that kind of thing; we'd be abnormal if

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Am a Strange Loop

2008-04-02 Thread Duveyoung
Douglas Hofstadter's clear about so much and yet, yep, there goes another baby with the bathwater. Unless one embraces the concepts of void, absolute, transcendence, then Douglas Hofstadter has all the answers except one. Like Newton's physics remaining true but not as true as Einstein's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-02 Thread curtisdeltablues
Snip My moms slowly working her way towards Alzheimers. Right now her memory is about 5 minutes long. She still has her emotions and manages to be happy, though that probably the anti-depressants talking. Its been toughest on my father who has devoted his life to her care now. Sorry to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality...what a concept

2008-04-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sandiego108 sandiego108@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snipThe you's in the rap were rhetorical, or directed to Jim (Sandi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once more I've had the opportunity to use my last post of the week to expose Barry as a chronic liar and a hypocrite. He never quite seems to get how this works. And once more Judy never seems to notice that I'm the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's Oil Spill

2008-04-02 Thread Duveyoung
Judy, Thanks for this. GAWD I hate it -- do you think that Obama deals with the devil or is he a devil wannabe? I'm fingers-crossed that he's just doing what he's got to do until he's got true power. But my hope has never been all that strong for his being able to fight the good fights.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:08 AM, authfriend wrote: Vaj, I'm close to my limit for the week. I'll get to your deceitful bafflegab about the TM research on Saturday. In the meantime, I'll deal with *this* piece of deceit from you: Don't bother unless you have some independent research on TM you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Again, does this behavior sound familiar? YES- your behavior and responses to Judy are numbingly and endlessly familiar...face it bub- you are addicted.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was the name of the alleged book? Can't remember...but I do remember that the author was NOT happy about the TMers getting those results, in particular because they weren't meditating for spiritual reasons but, rather,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:26 AM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:10 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: And that sense of entitlement extends to being

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's Oil Spill

2008-04-02 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'm fingers-crossed that he's just doing what he's got to do until he's got true power. But my hope has never been all that strong for his being able to fight the good fights. [snip] Am I reading this

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality...what a concept

2008-04-02 Thread endlessrainintoapapercup
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, endlessrainintoapapercup endlessrainintoapapercup@ wrote: TurqB., you're a bit of a wild man, but that's all part of your charm. I enjoyed our conversation yesterday, but

[FairfieldLife] How TM'ers are set adrift morally and ethically.

2008-04-02 Thread BillyG.
Since TM is being taught in the context of Science, for many, (if not all) TM has become Science *in lieu* of Religion! What a great loss, MMY teaches to pull the arrow back on the bow, but he doesn't teach *where to aim* the arrow! That is where Religion comes in, the direction given by

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's Oil Spill

2008-04-02 Thread boo_lives
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From FactCheck.org: Obama's Oil Spill March 31, 2008 Obama says he doesn't take money from oil companies. We say that's a little too slick. Summary In a new ad, Obama says, I don't take money from oil

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:38 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once more I've had the opportunity to use my last post of the week to expose Barry as a chronic liar and a hypocrite. He never quite seems to get how this works. And

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:56 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was the name of the alleged book? Can't remember...but I do remember that the author was NOT happy about the TMers getting those results, in particular because they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Would You Sign This?

2008-04-02 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you trust your Spiritual life, to a TM-TB'er now? If you had the time to read and think about this, would you sign this? o the A of E Agreement 4. I understand that the practice of the programs

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread Stuart Bass
Shemps referring to Richard Davidson's research. Its been trumpeted all over the media. Since then there have been other researchers out there looking into meditation. Scientists have been using Mindfulness Meditation as a focus. A number of psychologists have been incorporating MM into

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread Vaj
On Apr 2, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Stuart Bass wrote: Shemps referring to Richard Davidson's research. Its been trumpeted all over the media. Since then there have been other researchers out there looking into meditation. Scientists have been using Mindfulness Meditation as a focus. A number

[FairfieldLife] De-Regulation Wins - New Deal Loses in Invincible America

2008-04-02 Thread do.rflex
BIG MONEY TYCOON$ NOW IN CHARGE IN INVINCIBLE AMERICA No more extensive examiner audits or regulatory directives for commercial banks or anyone else. Fed supervision will be like SEC supervision – regulatory light practices of the type that allowed the investment

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-02 Thread Marek Reavis
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curtis, Stu, Anyone, It bugs me that I'm unable to make music and I'd like to learn. What would be your recommendations re best instrument to learn? Marek ** Snip My moms slowly working her way towards

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reality...what a concept

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TomT: Have Fun! Barry: Always. You, too, I trust... TomT: It seems that is our purpose or so it seems. Barry: This could be interpreted as a throwaway comment on your part, but I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Straight Shooting from Tuzla

2008-04-02 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Vaj wrote: Possible topics for next week: TM: Is it really effortless? Hillary: Slut or Saint? I'm probably missing something really obvious here, Vaj, but what exactly has she ever done to qualify her for either title? Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Stuart Bass wrote: Shemps referring to Richard Davidson's research. Its been trumpeted all over the media. Since then there have been other researchers out there looking into

[FairfieldLife] Re: De-Regulation Wins - New Deal Loses in Invincible America

2008-04-02 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BIG MONEY TYCOON$ NOW IN CHARGE IN INVINCIBLE AMERICA No more extensive examiner audits or regulatory directives for commercial banks or anyone else. Fed supervision will be like SEC

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://brainimaging.waisman.wisc.edu/press/Newsweek_lotus_synapse.html The Lotus and the Synapse Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:42 PM [...] But there is one clue that he's right: he's been finding that the more hours of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread hugheshugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Hugheshugo, I suspect, is simply misinformed.) Do you ever wonder why people don't like you? The Ig Nobel Awards are not what either Vaj or Hugheshugo claim they are. My claim was a quote from their website;

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stuart Bass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shemps referring to Richard Davidson's research. Its been trumpeted all over the media. Since then there have been other researchers out there looking into meditation. Scientists have been using Mindfulness

[FairfieldLife] Re: Newsweek: The Lotus and the Synapse

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:56 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: What was the name of the alleged book? Can't remember...but I do remember that the author was NOT happy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-02 Thread Duveyoung
Stu, There's tons we agree on. Maybe even everything. Thank God! ;-) Let me make another attempt -- If the below is not resonant with you, then I would say it indicates merely an incongruence in our spiritual educations -- not a cognitive dissonance between precise axioms. (I'm going to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Beautiful, sweet, innocent -- but a creepy zombie nonetheless.

2008-04-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stu: I think its very cool your playing at these facilities. A buddy and I get together weekly to play jazz standards and we always talk about playing the nursing homes but it never seems to develop. By

[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's Oil Spill

2008-04-02 Thread Duveyoung
Yep, Shemp, if Obama turns out to be what African Americans deeply need, then he's lying big time now, and yeah, if he lying now, I'm all for it. BushCo murders 3rd worlders, what's so bad about a few lies in order to get the murdering to stop? The fundies and the Repugs told every lie possible

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: (Hugheshugo, I suspect, is simply misinformed.) Do you ever wonder why people don't like you? The Ig Nobel Awards are not what either

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield on the BBC!

2008-04-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hugheshugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: [...] Er, do you think, regardless of whether or not his theories are valid (I'm not claiming that his current theories are, BTW) that what he presents

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