[FairfieldLife] Re: Test your political compass

2009-04-27 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > http://www.politicalcompass.org/test > > > > > Thanks, that was fun. Just for the record I'm further to the > libertarian left than Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lla

[FairfieldLife] Re: Test your political compass

2009-04-27 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > http://www.politicalcompass.org/test > Thanks, that was fun. Just for the record I'm further to the libertarian left than Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Llama!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2009-04-27 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > What is it about QP and consciousness that gets people > > > annoyed? For me it's the idea that the

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogro

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Unified Field - The Big Question.

2009-04-27 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > > > > > Q: Does there actually need to be a unified field? > > > > A: No. > > > > > What do you mean by "unified field?" Are you saying that Reductionism for > physics is a

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoog

[FairfieldLife] Test your political compass

2009-04-27 Thread raunchydog
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

[FairfieldLife] 50 Ways To Kill Your Ego - MonkMojo's 1000 Cuts - Awaken Nondual Zen Enlightenment

2009-04-27 Thread Rick Archer
http://mojo1000.com/1000cuts/50-ways-to-kill-your-ego.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Jefferson County Supervisors Oppose Gay Marriage

2009-04-27 Thread off_world_beings
l issue the licenses but, as of 9 a.m., no same-sex couples had requested a license although there was at least one same-sex couple who called to inquire about the process. > > http://tinyurl.com/coczoh <http://tinyurl.com/coczoh> > http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090427/NEWS/90427010/0/NEWS11 <http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090427/NEWS/90427010/0/NEWS1\ 1> >

[FairfieldLife] The Truth in Labeling Coalition: May 9 event in Fairfield [2 Attachments]

2009-04-27 Thread Rick Archer
We warmly invite you to a public awareness event hosted by the M.U.M. Department of Sustainable Living Saturday, May 9 at 8:00 PM in Dalby Hall. Please see the attached ad for details, and forward this email. Thank you!! Citizens to Label GE Foods is helping to organize the "The Truth in Labeling

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups

[FairfieldLife] Jefferson County Supervisors Oppose Gay Marriage

2009-04-27 Thread raunchydog
d requested a license although there was at least one same-sex couple who called to inquire about the process. http://tinyurl.com/coczoh http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090427/NEWS/90427010/0/NEWS11

[FairfieldLife] Things are tough in Hollywood

2009-04-27 Thread Bhairitu
For some reason we have to look to a foreign news service to find this article? http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/27/hollywood-film-industry Then again I don't care that much for overly technical artistically soulless Hollywood films.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shukra69" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In Fairfiel

[FairfieldLife] Dying is no reason to give up online social life

2009-04-27 Thread I am the eternal
"A statesman... is a dead politician. Lord knows we need more statesmen." Bloom County http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=155339&type=Daily http://tinyurl.com/dgt8oh Dying is no reason to give up online social life The Tampa Tribune via the AP April 27, 2009 In today's world of always-c

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread shukra69
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > > > > > > > But, to the point

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2009-04-27 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 2009 End Date (UTC): Sat May 02 00:00:00 2009 430 messages as of (UTC) Mon Apr 27 23:31:20 2009 44 authfriend 36 geezerfreak 36 TurquoiseB 31 sparaig 24 Robert 22 raunchydog 21 "do.rflex" 20 Vaj 1

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Who or What has the most 'hits' on Google'

2009-04-27 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert wrote: > > > > > Technically, "I" do. > > > > Thus far, the biggest hit total I've ever seen from google > > came from simply typing "I" in the search bar, receiving > > three times as man

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread lurkernomore20002000
Great story. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Marek Reavis" wrote: > > As re the apocalypse (from Wired): > > http://snipurl.com/gu9o2 > > ** > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > I am NOT a doomsday or apocalypse freak. I do > > NOT get off on imagining th

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > > > > > But, to the point I think it's laughable that people would think MMY > > > could be consumed wi

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers

2009-04-27 Thread off_world_beings
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , "shempmcgurk" wrote: > > This explains the cooling period we've been experiencing for the past 8 years or so.>> No, but it has brought to light your lack of understanding of planetary warming. Please explain in no mor

[FairfieldLife] Re: For BillyG - Don't Look at Girls

2009-04-27 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > > > > > A public service announcement (not porn]: > > http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2008/11/dont-look-at-girls.html > > > > That was so great. Pure Shankara

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > > > But, to the point I think it's laughable that people would think MMY could > > be consumed with money and/or sex for personal gratification. If that's > > what yo

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread scienceofabundance
>I think you're fooling yourself, BillyG. Maharishi's whole effort in >his >later years was characterized by pitching for and getting more and >more money >[for proposals that most often never materialized.] I know the first part of the sentence to be true (excluding the clause which I have pl

[FairfieldLife] Rachel Maddow - Torture Orders came from the Top

2009-04-27 Thread do.rflex
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kUdUCPbOv4

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread Vaj
On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:36 PM, sparaig wrote: > You say tomato, I say tomato. You say Ayurvedic, non-GMO, Maharishi organic, scientifically-proven Vedic tomato, I say tomato. ;-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:15 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > >> > > >> But, to the point I think it's laughable t

[FairfieldLife] Re: For BillyG - Don't Look at Girls

2009-04-27 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > A public service announcement (not porn]: > http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2008/11/dont-look-at-girls.html > That was so great. Pure Shankara philosophy, right out of the Crest Jewel of Discrimination!

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:15 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > >> > >> But, to the point I think it's laughable that people would think > >> MMY could be consumed with money and/or sex

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread Vaj
On Apr 27, 2009, at 6:15 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: But, to the point I think it's laughable that people would think MMY could be consumed with money and/or sex for personal gratification. If that's what you think, you clearly don'

[FairfieldLife] For BillyG - Don't Look at Girls

2009-04-27 Thread do.rflex
A public service announcement (not porn]: http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2008/11/dont-look-at-girls.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > > > > No man can serve two masters: f

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > But, to the point I think it's laughable that people would think MMY could be > consumed with money and/or sex for personal gratification. If that's what > you think, you clearly don't understand MMY, IMO. MMY was the ultimate and > o

Re: [FairfieldLife] State Of Play

2009-04-27 Thread Bhairitu
I thought it was an okay movie and Crowe did well but Affleck doesn't sell his role well and takes you out of the movie. I think Affleck is overrated but then all we have to do is think of Gigli. :D This was the movie I had to go to twice as the first time the power went out just in to the t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 3:51 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:11 AM, sparaig wrote: > > [...] > >>> Fred is quite happy with his "object referral/self referral" scal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 3:55 PM, sparaig wrote: > [...] > >> Of course it would probably be easy to cherry-pick almost any group > >> since alpha coherence is not only common, it's frequent in most > >> humans! > >> > > > > CHerry picking as i

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > > No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love > > > the >>other; or else he

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the > > >>other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot > > serve >>God an

[FairfieldLife] State Of Play

2009-04-27 Thread TurquoiseB
*Excellent* political thriller, with a cast to die for: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, and Jeff Daniels, all at the top of their form. Great plot twists, good direction...in ahort, two thumbs up from me. Well worth whatever a movie costs you these da

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google Results on TM

2009-04-27 Thread scienceofabundance
Thank you, everyone. You have _definitely_ clarified this for me to a degree I would never have thought humanly (or FFLly) possible. Eternally grateful, Science

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread geezerfreak
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the > > >>other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot > > serve >>God an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread Vaj
On Apr 27, 2009, at 3:51 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:11 AM, sparaig wrote: [...] Fred is quite happy with his "object referral/self referral" scale. It seems to be a decent predictor of several different things, all TM-theory

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the > >>other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot > serve >>God and mammon [worldly wealth]. > Matthew 6:24 [KJV] I don't think MMY

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread Vaj
On Apr 27, 2009, at 3:55 PM, sparaig wrote: Well of course one would expect they'd describe themselves as they've been conditioned to over decades. Sure, but the tendency appears to fall outside the TMers as well. Your champion atheletes apparently tend to be less "object oriented" than th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Dollhouse -- another Joss episode, "Haunted"

2009-04-27 Thread Bhairitu
That was kind of a fun read as the blogger was setting up Whedonite TB'ers to make excuses in the comments section as to what the episode was about. However if you have to stand on your head to make a show look better maybe one should except that the writing and production just wasn't that goo

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread BillyG.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert wrote: > >  TM is a technique which transcends itself... > Unfortunately, the organization which it produced, does not. > In a way, they are polar opposites. > With the TM technique, one becomes more fluid, more free. > With the TMO, one becomes more ri

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers

2009-04-27 Thread Bhairitu
However there is nothing wrong with reducing the amount of waste and emissions we create. We would have much cleaner air, water and living areas. The only area I tend to disdain about this "new" concern for the environment is how the corporations and government are figuring into cashing in on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > I keep track of these things because I've had > > respiratory problems in the past and like to > > "Be Prepared." Also, even though my father as > > an infant survived the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:11 AM, sparaig wrote: > > >> What seems to have gone mostly unnoticed, probably largely due to the > >> success with which TM spin pulls wool over eyes, is that legitimate > >> neuroscientists are on to the coherence b

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:11 AM, sparaig wrote: [...] > > Fred is quite happy with his "object referral/self referral" scale. > > It seems to be > > a decent predictor of several different things, all TM-theory related. > > Where was this pub

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers

2009-04-27 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" wrote: > > This explains the cooling period we've been experiencing for the past 8 years > or so. > > The sun is 99.% responsible for whether the Earth experiences global > warming or global cooling. Other factors (and CO2 is NOT the #1 fa

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers

2009-04-27 Thread shempmcgurk
This explains the cooling period we've been experiencing for the past 8 years or so. The sun is 99.% responsible for whether the Earth experiences global warming or global cooling. Other factors (and CO2 is NOT the #1 factor, according to the IPCC, it is livestock farting) are responsible f

[FairfieldLife] 'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers

2009-04-27 Thread do.rflex
BBC - The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly a century. Comparative video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8009185.stm There are no sunspots, very few solar flares - and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time. The observations are baffling astronomers, w

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread guyfawkes91
Fred is probably one of the few people in the TMO doing a useful job. Shame that MUM will fold sometime in the next 20 years because they can't get the staff.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread I am the eternal
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM, authfriend wrote: This one /appears/ to have a higher mortality rate than the Spanish Flu, though we have to find a way to explain why the only deaths so far have been in Mexico. We have global transportation where at any one time 500,000 people are in the air

[FairfieldLife] So you hate taxes and government?

2009-04-27 Thread do.rflex
Here's a great place to go that has NO taxes or government: http://snipurl.com/fz1c5 Paradise for Libertarians For Ron Paul's growing legion of dope-addled contradictarian libertarians, Somalia is like nirvana. There are no taxes. No public education. No national healthcare. No national de

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > I keep track of these things because I've had > respiratory problems in the past and like to > "Be Prepared." Also, even though my father as > an infant survived the flu that killed both > his parents, I'm not convinced I inherited > his h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2009-04-27 Thread guyfawkes91
It's possible that the critical issue is the fact that classical information can be duplicated and quantum information can't. Because classical information can be duplicated then an observer can share it with another observer, who can share it with even more, so that the information exists indep

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two more examples of the TB "create a diversion" tactic

2009-04-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > Here's my theory. Do NOT take it as fact, merely as a > "finger pointing at someone mooning you," a suggestion > for something to *watch for* in the future posts of > Judy Stein and other "TM defenders" on this forum. > > That is, a tend

[FairfieldLife] An insight about TB tactics (was Re: "On The Program" and "Off The Program")

2009-04-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > Just to point out something interesting, the > *only thing* that Judy found in the following > post worth commenting on was the ice cream > incident. > > And WHY? Because I assume it's a given that we all find the various rules Barry li

[FairfieldLife] Re: "On The Program" and "Off The Program"

2009-04-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > Judy took the opposite approach. She not only > did everything she was told to do, she became > a "petty tyrant in training," aiding and abetting > the petty tyrants by berating anyone who was not > as compliant as she was. She still does

Re: [FairfieldLife] Did Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code author, use TM to battle writer's block?

2009-04-27 Thread Bhairitu
Rick Archer wrote: > Here's a Baltimore Sun literary quiz: Did Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code author, > use Transcendental Meditation to battle writer's block? We'll have to wait > and see in tomorrow's answers. > A literary quiz -- Baltimore Sun version > > So you know Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code autho

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert wrote: [snip] > All I know is, I am my own 'Maharishi Effect'... > When I meditate, the atmosphere around me 'settles down'... > This is my experience. > I appreciate the teaching, the puja is beautiful, the teaching simple and > pure. > But, I don

Re: [FairfieldLife] Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: > I am NOT a doomsday or apocalypse freak. I do > NOT get off on imagining the worst as a way of > feeling self-important. > > However, I am also the son of a man orphaned > by the 1918 flu pandemic that killed an estimated > 20 to 100 million people worldwide. Therefore my > ears

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread Vaj
On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:11 AM, sparaig wrote: What seems to have gone mostly unnoticed, probably largely due to the success with which TM spin pulls wool over eyes, is that legitimate neuroscientists are on to the coherence boondoggle. For many years people simply accepted the assertion that alp

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread pranamoocher
RG: Thanks for posting that. Beautifully stated. Absolutely my experience and couldn't be written better than you did. Love the technique; have stayed away from the TMO shenanigans since 1980! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert wrote: > > TM is a technique which transcends itself...

[FairfieldLife] Did Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code author, use TM to battle writer's block?

2009-04-27 Thread Rick Archer
Here's a Baltimore Sun literary quiz: Did Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code author, use Transcendental Meditation to battle writer's block? We'll have to wait and see in tomorrow's answers. A literary quiz -- Baltimore Sun version So you know Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code author? Dan Brown burst into the h

[FairfieldLife] 'Bye, bye Caesar/Hello Obama'

2009-04-27 Thread Robert
CAPTION:   "The Truth" by Painter Michael D'Antuono which will be unveiled on President Obama's 100th Day in Office at NYC's Union Square. (PRNewsFoto/NOAH G POP FAM) LOCATION:  NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES POST DATE:  Apr/24/2009 1:31 PM TAG ID:  prnphotos080981 FORMAT:  9.0" x 4.9"

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2009-04-27 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > Physics deals with the physical world, not consciousness. If you > study physics and quantum physics at the college level this becomes > immediately apparent. > > If you study and/or practice in an eastern tradition with any depth, >

[FairfieldLife] Re: I see Bevan has been polishing his thumbscrews

2009-04-27 Thread Richard J. Williams
> "In other words, the Golden Dome at Fairfield, > (not to be confused with the Maharishi Golden > Dome of Pure Knowledge at Radience, Texas, > home of the Superadiance program), is a sort > of hollow tope, surmounted by a kalasa, > supported by the amalaka in which the akasha, > symbolizin

[FairfieldLife] 'Can't buy me Enlightenment'

2009-04-27 Thread Robert
The big lesson of  the TMO? You can't buy enlightenment. If you don't believe me, just ask...  Ask the Kaplan's... 'Can't buy me Love' Can't buy me love, love Can't buy me love I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright I'll get you anything my friend if it makes you

[FairfieldLife] Mother Meera, June 27 / 28

2009-04-27 Thread Rick Archer
Mother Meera will do a very short trip to the US in June and give Darshan in Fairfield June 27 / 28. http://www.mothermeera-fairfield.com/

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Unified Field - The Big Question.

2009-04-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > Q: Does there actually need to be a unified field? > > A: No. > What do you mean by "unified field?" Are you saying that Reductionism for physics is a red herring? Lawson

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2009-04-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > > > > > What is it about QP and consciousness that gets people > > annoyed? For me it's the idea that there isn't a world > > outside of my perception of it. > > Or, as another

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:45 AM, guyfawkes91 wrote: > > > If CERN doesn't find a Higgs Boson then unified field theories are > > in big trouble. If people stop believing that there's a unified > > field theory then what happens to the expla

[FairfieldLife] The Swine Flu, hand-shaking, and the fist bump

2009-04-27 Thread shempmcgurk
I was just watching the morning talk shows and, as expected, the Mexican Flu is pretty much all they're talking about. I've now seen at least three "expert" interviews and in each one the expert said that one of the main ways the virus is spread is via hand-shaking and that's why multiple hand

[FairfieldLife] 'Cause and Effect and Free Will'

2009-04-27 Thread Robert
Cause and Effect and Free Will There is nothing inherently right about cause and effect. Cause and effect has been a part of this plane because you as humans decided to honor it, to venerate it, to say, “It is the preferred condition that you will follow.” Thus you will need proof. Thus you will

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread Marek Reavis
As re the apocalypse (from Wired): http://snipurl.com/gu9o2 ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I am NOT a doomsday or apocalypse freak. I do > NOT get off on imagining the worst as a way of > feeling self-important. > > However, I am also the son of a man orphaned >

[FairfieldLife] Fw: Mother Meera, June 27 / 28

2009-04-27 Thread Alex Stanley
- Forwarded Message From: Michael To: fairfieldlife-ow...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:14:57 AM Subject: Mother Meera, June 27 / 28 Mother Meera will do a very short trip to the US in June and give Darshan in Fairfield June 27 / 28. http://www.mothermeera-fairf

[FairfieldLife] Re: "On The Program" and "Off The Program"

2009-04-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > I will say this, I can see how a lot of petty > > rules would become intolerable if one were subject > > to them on a long-term basis. It's one of the > > reasons I neve

[FairfieldLife] Swine flu (was: Re: Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics)

2009-04-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > So, just in case you have similar "just in case" > plans for yourself or your family, t'would be > better to act upon them sooner than later IMO. > > 'Nuff said. The two antibiotics in question are: > > Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Akshaya Tritiya Day, April 2009

2009-04-27 Thread shempmcgurk
What are you doing back? I thought you left us. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > > News from the International Course Materials Office > MERU, Akshaya Tritiya Day, April 2009 > > Pictures not showing? Please click here to view this newsletter online! > <

[FairfieldLife] Todays Dilbert....

2009-04-27 Thread Hugo
worth a chuckle http://www.dilbert.com/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Google Results on TM

2009-04-27 Thread Duveyoung
Yeah, but look at the big numbers that "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi," "Maharishi," and "meditation" yields. Funny how I want TM stuff to be more a "google mountain" than Scientology's stuff -- heh heh. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance wrote: > > I have put the phrase "transc

[FairfieldLife] Akshaya Tritiya Day, April 2009

2009-04-27 Thread nablusoss1008
News from the International Course Materials Office MERU, Akshaya Tritiya Day, April 2009 Pictures not showing? Please click here to view this newsletter online! NEW! One-Day Seminar of Starting Consciousness-Based Middle and Second

[FairfieldLife] Re: "On The Program" and "Off The Program"

2009-04-27 Thread dhamiltony2k5
Whose voice was this in Wiki on TM about the recerts? Seems to have an old eye for things TMO. > > It's not exactly a "Human Resources" manual, but it is a > > 14 page "Overview of Policies and Procedures" document for > > "Recertified Governors." According to the file history at > > Wikileaks.o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum gods don't deserve your faith

2009-04-27 Thread Vaj
On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:45 AM, guyfawkes91 wrote: If CERN doesn't find a Higgs Boson then unified field theories are in big trouble. If people stop believing that there's a unified field theory then what happens to the explanations about the ME? What seems to have gone mostly unnoticed, pr

Re: [FairfieldLife] Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2009-04-27 Thread Vaj
On Apr 27, 2009, at 4:12 AM, Hugo wrote: What is it about QP and consciousness that gets people annoyed? For me it's the idea that there isn't a world outside of my perception of it. That makes me a realist, the idea that the universe depends on my/our existence is so intuitively ridiculous t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Google Results on TM

2009-04-27 Thread Vaj
On Apr 26, 2009, at 11:38 PM, grate.swan wrote: Yes! This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that TM is the best, most illustrious and glorious ultra-special bus of all! I was just following the supreme logic of Curtis-ji. No ax to grind. If it proves anything, it would seem to prove that

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Who or What has the most 'hits' on Google'

2009-04-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert wrote: > > Technically, "I" do. > > Thus far, the biggest hit total I've ever seen from google > came from simply typing "I" in the search bar, receiving > three times as many hits as "me," a just a bit more than > "you," and eight times as many hi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > I am NOT a doomsday or apocalypse freak. I do > > NOT get off on imagining the worst as a way of > > feeling self-important. > > > > However, I am also the son of a man orphane

[FairfieldLife] 'Who or What has the most 'hits' on Google'

2009-04-27 Thread Robert
Technically, "I" do. Thus far, the biggest hit total I've ever seen from google came from simply typing "I" in the search bar, receiving three times as many hits as "me," a just a bit more than "you," and eight times as many hits as "them."

[FairfieldLife] Re: Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I am NOT a doomsday or apocalypse freak. I do > NOT get off on imagining the worst as a way of > feeling self-important. > > However, I am also the son of a man orphaned > by the 1918 flu pandemic that killed an estimated > 20 to 100 mil

[FairfieldLife] 'Transcending the TM movement'

2009-04-27 Thread Robert
 TM is a technique which transcends itself... Unfortunately, the organization which it produced, does not. In a way, they are polar opposites. With the TM technique, one becomes more fluid, more free. With the TMO, one becomes more rigid, more dependent. Every organization has this problem...it's

[FairfieldLife] God and Quantum Physics

2009-04-27 Thread Hugo
So are the Vedic chaps right when they say that the UF is a field of pure awareness that creates the universe on a moment by moment basis and without affecting the outcome of that universe? Possible, but I think it's an example of an analogy with the flat field of awareness you get when medita

[FairfieldLife] Just a hint, for those not averse to antibiotics

2009-04-27 Thread TurquoiseB
I am NOT a doomsday or apocalypse freak. I do NOT get off on imagining the worst as a way of feeling self-important. However, I am also the son of a man orphaned by the 1918 flu pandemic that killed an estimated 20 to 100 million people worldwide. Therefore my ears perk up every time the mention o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Quantum Physics and Consciousness

2009-04-27 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > What is it about QP and consciousness that gets people > annoyed? For me it's the idea that there isn't a world > outside of my perception of it. That makes me a realist, > the idea that the universe depends on my/our existence > is so

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Unified Field - The Big Question.

2009-04-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > Q: Does there actually need to be a unified field? > > A: No. Heresy. There *does* have to be a unified field because Maharishi said there was.

[FairfieldLife] The Unified Field - The Big Question.

2009-04-27 Thread Hugo
Q: Does there actually need to be a unified field? A: No.

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