[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just that you can't really settle the pragmatic issues if solipsism is theoretically possible. I'm not sure it was ever intended to be used as an actual possibility though. The point is that you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It's just that you can't really settle the pragmatic issues if solipsism is theoretically possible. I'm not sure it was ever

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It's just that you can't really settle the pragmatic issues if solipsism is theoretically possible. I'm not sure it was ever

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread curtisdeltablues
why not slide down the slope? where would it lead you? That's what philosophical inquiry does. I think you are using this term in the context of Eastern philosophy where it is really a poor transplant as a concept IMO. You can use this term almost like poetry, but it was not meant as a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It's just that you can't really settle the pragmatic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread new . morning
Developmental psychologists commonly believe that infants are solipsist, and that eventually children infer that others have experience much like theirs and reject solipsism. Solipsists assert that this rejection is not logically justified.

[FairfieldLife] Re: New UFO sightings

2008-05-05 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: What do you suppose this is? I reckon one of those new aurura spy planes, they apparently do some weird exhaust patterns. Lol, some spy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It's just that you can't really settle the pragmatic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Story about FF from a musician who came to the David Lynch Weekend

2008-05-05 Thread Rick Archer
http://www.mensvogue.com/magazine/blogs/daily Once you open it scroll down the page to a story about Fairfield, written by Moby's accompanist. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.8/1415 - Release Date: 5/5/2008 6:01 AM

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why not slide down the slope? where would it lead you? That's what philosophical inquiry does. I think you are using this term in the context of Eastern philosophy where it is really a poor transplant as a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: It's just that you can't really settle the pragmatic

[FairfieldLife] Vegas Promotes Enlightenment

2008-05-05 Thread new . morning
NYT today To manage the slowdown, Las Vegas is revving up an overseas marketing campaign, and in the United States, it is pitching spontaneous Vegas escapes. Do it without thinking! says one television spot.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why not slide down the slope? where would it lead you? That's what philosophical inquiry does. I think you are using this term in the context of Eastern philosophy where it is really a poor transplant as a

[FairfieldLife] Moyers on Wright

2008-05-05 Thread Rick Archer
Published on Sunday, May 4, 2008 by PBS.org Beware The Simplifiers by Bill Moyers I once asked a reporter back from Vietnam, Who's telling the truth over there? Everyone, he said. Everyone sees what's happening through the lens of their own experience. That's how people see Jeremiah Wright. In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread yifuxero
---Everybody knows that everything is inside the Mind of John Malkovich. See it for yourself: http://www.tinyurl.com/5fupne In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Old Dog, New Tricks, New Brain Cells

2008-05-05 Thread new . morning
But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread new . morning
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't have to have any reference to enlightenment, nor is adopting it as an assumption even necessarily pathological. It doesn't have to change anything about how you interact with the world; it just changes your

[FairfieldLife] Re: McCain's Pastor

2008-05-05 Thread bob_brigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, boo_lives [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why is this guy not on national news every night like Wright? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qNi7tPanUA Because McNuts has already clinched the Repub nomination -- later, if it gets down to Mc v Obama, you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread curtisdeltablues
snip The concept was not created for that purpose. Curtis, I seriously doubt it was created for a purpose, i.e., by philosophers as a conceptual tool. That sounds possible but its origin is presocratic so I don't know if we can get to the bottom of it. It's the sort of thing any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: It doesn't have to have any reference to enlightenment, nor is adopting it as an assumption even necessarily pathological. It doesn't have to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread sandiego108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: It doesn't have to have any reference to enlightenment, nor is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread curtisdeltablues
Yeah, I'm just interested in how you deal with it in your Western context. Seems to me it's kinda the elephant in the room in terms of what it says about the nature of knowledge. It's like this huge edifice of epistemology is missing its foundation. I forgot to comment on this point which I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The concept was not created for that purpose. Curtis, I seriously doubt it was created for a purpose, i.e., by philosophers as a conceptual tool. That sounds possible but its origin is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notes from Satsang Fairfield

2008-05-05 Thread curtisdeltablues
If you leave the door open a crack, maybe take a peek through from time to time, you might one day see something interesting. So I was just throwing it out there for the heck of it. It definitely launched me into a level of conceptual thinking that I don't often hang out in. A much

[FairfieldLife] Re: Old Dog, New Tricks, New Brain Cells

2008-05-05 Thread ispiritkin
One correlation is how some couples find that, in spite of their fears, their relationship is recharged by an outside affair. Of course, any deception involved necessarily reduces the beneficial effects. --- new.morning wrote: But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously

[FairfieldLife] Re: New UFO sightings

2008-05-05 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@ wrote: What do you suppose this is? I reckon one of those new

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