[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] > > On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk > > Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 5:01 PM > > To: Fair

[FairfieldLife] Meaning of caaNDaali (chaandaali)?

According to Wiki, the Sanskrit word corresponding to Tibetan 'tummo' is 'caaNDaali'. Anyone know what the literal meaning of it is? CDSL gives only this: cANDAlim. pl. N. of a family Pravar. vi , 1.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk > Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 5:01 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 5:01 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar Okay, I don't hold it against you, OffWorld, if you only date within you

[FairfieldLife] Prominent Scientists now think mini ice age imminent!

They say that their research shows that much of the warming was caused by oceanic cycles when they were in a `warm mode' as opposed to the present `cold mode'. This challenge to the widespread view that the planet is on the brink of an irreversible catastrophe is all the greater because the scien

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jan 09 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Jan 16 00:00:00 2010 164 messages as of (UTC) Sun Jan 10 23:00:57 2010 33 ShempMcGurk 27 authfriend 18 WillyTex 11 TurquoiseB 10 Bhairitu 9 Rick Archer 8 dhamiltony2k5 7

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > , "ShempMcGurk" > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > , off_world_beings > w

[FairfieldLife] The next thing Sal will be...

...telling us is that she has the ability to SMELL African-Americans! Sal, who is, I presume, a White, can identify African-Americans from hearing them. This is her thesis anyway. Is this from breeding? Was Sal bred, antebellum, from a long line of slave traders? Or perhaps from the slave t

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Article Shemp will like

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 4:43 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Article Shemp will like I'm more interested in what YOU think of the article, Rick, particul

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , off_world_beings wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > > > So you have to try REALLY, REALLY HARD to (1) look for who > > in the credits played Na'Vi characters; and (2) identify > > the names as belonging to members of the Af

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > , Sal Sunshine > wrote: > > > > "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - > http://shar.es/aFgIO >> > > I'm not s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Article Shemp will like

I'm more interested in what YOU think of the article, Rick, particularly the line in the first paragraph that indicates this observation was made by "some of the world's most eminent climate scientists". Please also be aware, Rick, that the logorithms of all the computer models used by global w

[FairfieldLife] Re: The do's and don'ts of sex according to Buddhism Grand Poobah

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2010, at 4:18 PM, ShempMcGurk wrote: > > > While he denies being a Buddhist "Pope," the Dalai Lama is never happier > > than when brooding in a celibate manner on the sex lives of people he has > > never met. "Sexual mis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > So you have to try REALLY, REALLY HARD to (1) look for who > in the credits played Na'Vi characters; and (2) identify > the names as belonging to members of the African-American > race. Not if you have a computer. Just go to IMDb.com.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > > "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Sal Sunshine wrote: > > "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO >> I'm not surprised. Cameron is an idiot. Might as well watch Rocky movies about the great white

Re: [FairfieldLife] The do's and don'ts of sex according to Buddhism Grand Poobah

On Jan 10, 2010, at 4:18 PM, ShempMcGurk wrote: > While he denies being a Buddhist "Pope," the Dalai Lama is never happier than > when brooding in a celibate manner on the sex lives of people he has never > met. "Sexual misconduct for men and women consists of oral and anal sex," he > has repea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: [snip] > > ?? They weren't identified by their voices. As I said, > there are cast lists that name the actors doing the > voices. > > From what I've read, some folks would have perceived > the film as racist even if the actors voi

[FairfieldLife] The do's and don'ts of sex according to Buddhism Grand Poobah

While he denies being a Buddhist "Pope," the Dalai Lama is never happier than when brooding in a celibate manner on the sex lives of people he has never met. "Sexual misconduct for men and women consists of oral and anal sex," he has repeatedly said in promoting his book on these matters. "Using

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2010, at 2:34 PM, ShempMcGurk wrote: > > I must agree. > > > > And the following exerpt conjures up the most spit: > > > > "When Jake swoops down from above astride the red Toruk, he becomes not > > just a mythical hero,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > > > > > And the following exerpt conjures up the most spit: > > > > > > "When Jake swoops down from abo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

On Jan 10, 2010, at 2:34 PM, ShempMcGurk wrote: > I must agree. > > And the following exerpt conjures up the most spit: > > "When Jake swoops down from above astride the red Toruk, he becomes not just > a mythical hero, he becomes the white messiah, and now he wants Tsu'Tey, > whose character i

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > > > And the following exerpt conjures up the most spit: > > > > "When Jake swoops down from above astride the red Toruk, > > he becomes not just a mythical hero, he becom

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > And the following exerpt conjures up the most spit: > > "When Jake swoops down from above astride the red Toruk, > he becomes not just a mythical hero, he becomes the white > messiah, and now he wants Tsu'Tey, whose character is > voic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > > "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO > > Funny. Thanks. > > It reminds me of the progressive liberal feminist > criticism of Camer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Sal Sunshine wrote: > > "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO > > Why do I have a feeling about now if you ran into James Cameron > and asked him what he was trying to say in the film he would > answer

Re: [FairfieldLife] Yoga without tapas?

cardemaister wrote: > Vyaasa's comment on YS II 1, first clause: > > naatapasvino yogaH sidhyati | > > We think, without sandhi that would be: > > na + atapasvinaH; yogaH sidhyati > > Well, tapasvin is: > > tapasvin a. distressed, miserable; devout, pious, doing penance; m. & f. > {tapasvinI

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > >> "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO > >> > > > > Funny. Thanks. > > > > It reminds me of the progressi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > >> "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO > >> > > > > Funny. Thanks. > > > > It reminds me of the progressive

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yoga without tapas?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > > Vyaasa's comment on YS II 1, first clause: > > > > naatapasvino yogaH sidhyati | > > > There is a commentary on the 'yoga sUtras > by vyAsa', to which SankarAcArya has written > a sub-commentary. Apparently the metaphysics

Re: [FairfieldLife] Another take on Avatar

Sal Sunshine wrote: > "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO Why do I have a feeling about now if you ran into James Cameron and asked him what he was trying to say in the film he would answer, "it's just a movie." :-D

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > >> "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO >> > > Funny. Thanks. > > It reminds me of the progressive liberal feminist > criticism of Cameron's first film, "The Terminator." >

[FairfieldLife] A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

As you may know northern California had a 6.5 Earthquake yesterday. It took place about 200 miles north of me so I didn't feel it though an hour before I did feel a 2.1 that took place about 60 miles south of me. On Thursday there was a 4.1 near the same location but I was driving and didn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another take on Avatar

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > "Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO Funny. Thanks. It reminds me of the progressive liberal feminist criticism of Cameron's first film, "The Terminator." Confronted with arguably the strongest fem

[FairfieldLife] Re: Payback

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > How long did it take Bush to speak publicly about > the shoe bomber? > > Where had Bush been during that time? > Who cares what that bum did? We got reid of him (typo intended) and elected CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN. Please don't

[FairfieldLife] Another take on Avatar

"Avatar" Is a White Savior Movie | The Progressive - http://shar.es/aFgIO

[FairfieldLife] Re: First Sex Robot

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "It's just a ride" > wrote: > > > > http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/CES/high-tech-sex-porn-flirts-cutting-edge/story?id=9511040 > > http://tinyurl.com/ycfx7q9 > > This is the best news I've hea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Payback

How long did it take Bush to speak publicly about the shoe bomber? Where had Bush been during that time? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > > Remember when Michael Moore did his tick-tock bit in one of his movies (I > think it was "Farenheit 9/11", which I have not se

[FairfieldLife] Re: First Sex Robot

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "It's just a ride" wrote: > > http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/CES/high-tech-sex-porn-flirts-cutting-edge/story?id=9511040 > http://tinyurl.com/ycfx7q9 > -- > Life isn't like a bowl of cherries or peaches.. > it's more like a jar of jalapenos. > What you d

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: "Avatar", as seen through the eyes of Shemp

WillyTex wrote: > "We have the shortest waiting time for non-emergency surgery in the world; England has one of the longest. In Canada, a country of 35 million citizens, 1 million patients now wait for surgery and another million wait to see specialists" >>>

[FairfieldLife] Re: fossil free, cheap energy

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > > > www.steorn.com > > > > The beginnings of creating fossil free, cheap energy!! > > Before we get all excited about yet another perpetual- > motion machine, we migh

[FairfieldLife] Payback

Remember when Michael Moore did his tick-tock bit in one of his movies (I think it was "Farenheit 9/11", which I have not seen) criticizing Bush for taking all that time (what was it, 5 minutes?) in responding to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center? The Left -- and many on this forum --

[FairfieldLife] First Sex Robot

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/CES/high-tech-sex-porn-flirts-cutting-edge/story?id=9511040 http://tinyurl.com/ycfx7q9 -- Life isn't like a bowl of cherries or peaches.. it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow.

[FairfieldLife] Re: fossil free, cheap energy

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > www.steorn.com > > The beginnings of creating fossil free, cheap energy!! Before we get all excited about yet another perpetual- motion machine, we might want to have a look at what skeptics are saying, e.g.: http://dispatchesfrom

[FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > > > Isn't that interesting, Obama wants to give foreign > > terrorists full American constitutional rights > > When they're captured on American soil. P.S.: Kinda like Bush

[FairfieldLife] Re: "No negro dialect": do Blacks have an advantage in basketball?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > Shemp wrote: > > ...why should he apologise? > > > Reid had to apologize because Obama was offended by > the remarks. Apparently during the 2008 campaign, > Bill Clinton said that people like Obama would have > been 'serving him coffee'

[FairfieldLife] Re: fossil free, cheap energy

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > www.steorn.com > > The beginnings of creating fossil free, cheap energy!! Fascinating. And I just *love* the fact that they open their promo video with the worst things that have been said about them. My kinda guys. Whatever becom

[FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > Isn't that interesting, Obama wants to give foreign > terrorists full American constitutional rights When they're captured on American soil.

[FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel

Mike Dixon wrote: > > ...kill them and anybody around them, with drone > attacks. > It's going to be real interesting to see how the prosecution is going to keep out of court how the U.S. tried to kill KSM even before he was arrested, when there was no state of war declared by the U.S. Congre

[FairfieldLife] fossil free, cheap energy

www.steorn.com The beginnings of creating fossil free, cheap energy!!

[FairfieldLife] Re: 3D TV is here

TurquoiseB wrote: > I haven't even been able to see "Avatar" in 3D yet... > The best way to see 'Avatar' is at an IMAX 3D Theater. http://www.imax.com/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: US special envoy threatens to freeze aid to Israel

Isn't that interesting, Obama wants to give foreign terrorists full American constitutional rights, Marandize them, trial by jury of their peers in civilian courts, but, if they haven't been caught, kill them and anybody around them, with drone attacks. Instead of having high speed chases on fre

[FairfieldLife] Re: "No negro dialect": do Blacks have an advantage in basketball?

Shemp wrote: > ...why should he apologise? > Reid had to apologize because Obama was offended by the remarks. Apparently during the 2008 campaign, Bill Clinton said that people like Obama would have been 'serving him coffee'. He will probably be apologizing soon too, for that remark! It's not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ashes and Snow - Feather to Fire

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, hermandan0 wrote: > > The exhibit website www.ashesandsnow.org > is an incredible, interactive site. You can explore for hours. It's > amazing. > Yes, yes... Here's a quote from the creator of the work: "In exploring

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ashes and Snow - Feather to Fire

The exhibit website www.ashesandsnow.org is an incredible, interactive site. You can explore for hours. It's amazing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > Beautiful, haunting, powerful . . . > > Gregory Colbert has used both still and

[FairfieldLife] Re: How is "guffaw" pronounced...or is it?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" > wrote: > > > > > > > > http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?guffaw01=guffaw > > Okay, that's how the WORD "guffaw" is pronounced but I > don't think that's how a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yoga without tapas?

> Vyaasa's comment on YS II 1, first clause: > > naatapasvino yogaH sidhyati | > There is a commentary on the 'yoga sUtras by vyAsa', to which SankarAcArya has written a sub-commentary. Apparently the metaphysics and psychology of yoga (and sAm.khya, through yoga) have been absorbed into th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yoga without tapas?

> Thus, Vyaasa could mean something like: someone who is > not an ascetic, shall not be successful (sidhyati) in > yoga; or: yoga without suffering is not possible... > According to Theos Bernard, "The phenomenal universe is considered a dynamic order, an eternal process unfolding, without b

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Fine Art Of Not Knowing

> > > > > > > > > Om Come all ye 'Followers of Science', > > > > > > I. > > > > > > These portending global changes may well come to pass in the daily and ongoing passage of those 50 full coal trains passing through Fairfield. Daily heading to power plants east; but, these pundits and a Fairfield

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Fine Art Of Not Knowing

> > > > Passed along from Marek, who discovered it, a neat > > video in which Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, S. James > > Gates, Jr., and Freeman Dyson discuss the very thing > > I was trying to get at in my reply to Doug this > > morning. What is it we "know?" What is it we even > > *can* "know?"

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Avatar", as seen through the eyes of Shemp

> > > "We have the shortest waiting time for non-emergency > > > surgery in the world; England has one of the longest. > > > In Canada, a country of 35 million citizens, 1 million > > > patients now wait for surgery and another million wait > > > to see specialists" > > > > > Private busi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judy's review of Mel Gibson's new movie "Edge Of Darkness"

TurquoiseB wrote: > I found this review of Mel Gibson's > new film on a "women's blog"... > You said you didn't read very many reviews, but lately it seems like you've been reading a lot of reviews. LoL! > ...by our resident > I-don't-need-to-have-seen-a-film-to-be-certain-about-it critic, >

[FairfieldLife] Re: http://www.maharishichannel.in/archives/gfc-2010.html

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > Global Family Chats > > January 9th > Dr Eckart Stein > reported on three developments in Germany, all reflecting the current >

[FairfieldLife] Yoga without tapas?

Vyaasa's comment on YS II 1, first clause: naatapasvino yogaH sidhyati | We think, without sandhi that would be: na + atapasvinaH; yogaH sidhyati Well, tapasvin is: tapasvina. distressed, miserable; devout, pious, doing penance; m. & f. {tapasvinI} an ascetic, a religious man or wom