[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: I specifically asked her what she and her > fellow scientists thought of the New Age attempt to > co-opt her field, and was greeted by a level of disdain > and scorn I have rarely encountered before. Are you saying that you have not had e

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Mar 27 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Apr 03 00:00:00 2010 309 messages as of (UTC) Wed Mar 31 23:50:28 2010 34 authfriend 34 TurquoiseB 32 WillyTex 23 Bhairitu 20 emptybill 18 Vaj 16 tartbrain 15 Rick Archer

[FairfieldLife] Re: The biggest difference between the US and Europe

Do you understand what a Muslim No-Go zone is? Police and medical rescue crews won't go in them because they are too dangerous. The only rule of governance is Islamic Sharia. Zones Urbaines Sensibles are micro-states within the surrounding macro-state of France. One report listed 751 such

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ban democracy to save the climate!

WillyTex wrote: > Duveyoung: > >> What's your best bet on how Mother Nature will clean >> house? >> >> > Apparently Bhairitu wants to see the entire U.S. > economic system destroyed, not ny Mother Nature, but by > a violent revolution which would bring on world-wide > mass starvation and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Top Ten Reasons Not to Buy an iPad

On Mar 31, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > Bet Vaj has already ordered his. ;-) > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36099232/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets Nope, still haven't gotten over the sucky name. It has to have a chic name for me to buy it. ;-) Heck, even the iJob would'v

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ban democracy to save the climate!

Duveyoung: > What's your best bet on how Mother Nature will clean > house? > Apparently Bhairitu wants to see the entire U.S. economic system destroyed, not ny Mother Nature, but by a violent revolution which would bring on world-wide mass starvation and poverty. That would get rid of most o

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > The authors said that these findings shed light on the > > common mistake of lumping meditations together. > > > > "Meditations differ in both their ingredients and their > > effects, just

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of authfriend Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:37 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.co

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation > > > > A study to be published in April uses EEG characteristics > > to show that different types of meditation show dif

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > I just post stuff which I think will stimulate discussion. > I don't necessarily share the viewpoint of the things I > post. You didn't post a link for this one, Rick. Where did you find it?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ban democracy to save the climate!

Yeah! Efen uckin fay freedom! From: Bhairitu To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 9:09:35 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Ban democracy to save the climate!   Hugo wrote: > James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change

[FairfieldLife] Hurdles in Thinking about Hunger- A Letter to the New York Times

Hurdles in Thinking about Hunger- A Letter to the New York TimesBy Raj on 03/30/2010 in Uncategorized The New York Times seems quite happy to trot out the standard myths about how Africa is waiting to be tossed the lef

[FairfieldLife] Top Ten Reasons Not to Buy an iPad

Bet Vaj has already ordered his. ;-) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36099232/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets

Re: [FairfieldLife] New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation

On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Rick Archer wrote: The authors said that these findings shed light on the common mistake of lumping meditations together. "Meditations differ in both their ingredients and their effects, just as medicines do, so lumping them all together as 'essentially the

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation This is the study Vaj mocked recently, BTW (in a post in which he misrepresented it, not surprisingly).

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > Hagelin is not a one-off. > > As far as I know he is the only one who has tried > to justify his beliefs with a scientific paper, "Is > consciousness the unified field?" which

RE: [FairfieldLife] New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:06 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation While this and other studies are i

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Re: [FairfieldLife] New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation

On Mar 31, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation > > A study to be published in April uses EEG characteristics to show that > different types of meditation show different types of activity in the brain. > > Writing in the journal Cons

[FairfieldLife] New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation

New Study Outlines Differences Among Types of Meditation A study to be published in April uses EEG characteristics to show that different types of meditation show different types of activity in the brain. Writing in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, MUM researcher Fred Travis and former

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ban democracy to save the climate!

A fever? Actually I think we may be in for a cold summer. Duveyoung wrote: > Bhairitu, > > What's your best bet on how Mother Nature will clean house? > > Edg > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > >> Hugo wrote: >> >>> James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to preve

[FairfieldLife] Re: The biggest difference between the US and Europe

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > I don't think you can generalize too much. but yes, Europe has > > some great walks. > > I think you can generalize about the *number of people > walking*, given the population. THAT speaks volumes, > whatever the scenery or the "walka

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ban democracy to save the climate!

Bhairitu, What's your best bet on how Mother Nature will clean house? Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Hugo wrote: > > James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change > > In his first in-depth interview since the theft of UEA emails, the > > scientis

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ban democracy to save the climate!

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Humanity has become like a disease to the planet and the planet > will use it's immune system to free itself of the disease. Do you think we should report Gaia to the Department of Homeland Security? :-)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Medical Society Files Lawsuit to Block Health Care Overhaul

WillyTex wrote: > emptybill: > >> Starting in 2014, anyone who chooses not to buy >> health insurance faces a small federal penalty... >> >> > Code F? > > "IRS authority to assess and collect taxes is > generally provided in subtitle F, "Procedure and > Administration" in the Code. That

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bal Gangadhar Tilak

cardemaister wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_Gangadhar_Tilak > > Books > > In 1903, he wrote the book The Arctic Home in the Vedas. In it he argued that > the Vedas could only have been composed in the Arctics, and the Aryan bards > brought them south after the onset of the last Ice age

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ban democracy to save the climate!

Hugo wrote: > James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change > In his first in-depth interview since the theft of UEA emails, the > scientist blames inertia and democracy for lack of action Like capitalism democracy has somewhat gone off course. Democracy is not about one's righ

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" wrote: > > > > carde: > > The Arctic Home in the Vedas... > > > The question is, did the Aryan speaking people > come from outside India? > > > ...that book is well worth reading. > > > More questions: > > Isn't there a strange affinity bet

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

The realm of possibilities and implications of QM, relativity, string theory, cosmology, can be huge mind benders. Far more out there than new-age stuff. But non- physicists or old/not current physicists who try to establish solid parallels using cliches without understanding -- using good buzz

[FairfieldLife] Re: Medical Society Files Lawsuit to Block Health Care Overhaul

emptybill: > Starting in 2014, anyone who chooses not to buy > health insurance faces a small federal penalty... > Code F? "IRS authority to assess and collect taxes is generally provided in subtitle F, "Procedure and Administration" in the Code. That subtitle establishes the rules governin

[FairfieldLife] Re: The biggest difference between the US and Europe

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > (Notice again that Barry has completely ignored the > > points I made, because he has no response to them. > > Please note that Barry probably did not even *read* > "the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tantra and History

emptybill: > I'm sort of surprised that you base your > judgments only upon professional readers > of written texts... > Actually, I read the books *after* learning some of the tantric practices. There's a some 'tantra' in everyone, right? Hey! It is a double mirror, we may be on the same spir

[FairfieldLife] Re: The biggest difference between the US and Europe

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > > In my experience, resort, tourist and university towns are > > very walkable -- whether US Asia or Europe. Big noisy smelly > > parts of cities can be horrible -- anywhere

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Vaj: > You'd probably also enjoy Joscelyn Godwin's classic... > Thanks for mentioning this, Vaj, I'm ordering it from Amazon today! Most archaeologists and linguists agree that the Indo-Aryans migrated into India in the 2nd millennium B.C. from their homeland of Eranvej (the present Russian T

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

carde: > The Arctic Home in the Vedas... > The question is, did the Aryan speaking people come from outside India? > ...that book is well worth reading. > More questions: Isn't there a strange affinity between Finnish and Sanskrit? Read more: Subject: Out of Siberia and into India Author

Re: [FairfieldLife] Bal Gangadhar Tilak

On Mar 31, 2010, at 6:14 AM, cardemaister wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_Gangadhar_Tilak Books In 1903, he wrote the book The Arctic Home in the Vedas. In it he argued that the Vedas could only have been composed in the Arctics, and the Aryan bards brought them south after the on

[FairfieldLife] Re: The biggest difference between the US and Europe

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > *My* point was that some people -- people who on the > > whole have no personal experiences on which to build > > their opinions -- believe that it's "just as good" to >

[FairfieldLife] Ban democracy to save the climate!

James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change In his first in-depth interview since the theft of UEA emails, the scientist blames inertia and democracy for lack of action • Read the full transcript of James Lovelock's G2 interview with Leo Hickman

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > Hagelin is not a one-off. As far as I know he is the only one who has tried to justify his beliefs with a scientific paper, "Is consciousness the unified field?" which was roundly rejected. > Just take Josephson for > example (Nobel

[FairfieldLife] Re: The biggest difference between the US and Europe

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > (Notice again that Barry has completely ignored the > > points I made, because he has no response to them. > > Please note that Barry probably did not even *read* > "t

[FairfieldLife] Bal Gangadhar Tilak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_Gangadhar_Tilak Books In 1903, he wrote the book The Arctic Home in the Vedas. In it he argued that the Vedas could only have been composed in the Arctics, and the Aryan bards brought them south after the onset of the last Ice age. He proposed the radically ne

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sam Harris and Michael Shermer debate Deepak and Jean Houston

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > > What if M was going on and on about the vacuum state or > quantum field of all possibilities as PC and Max Plank appearing > and saying, "What you say is preposterous. You know nothing of > my work." Or perhaps something quite diffe

[FairfieldLife] Re: The biggest difference between the US and Europe

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > (Notice again that Barry has completely ignored the > points I made, because he has no response to them. Please note that Barry probably did not even *read* "the points she made," whatever they were, because he has no interest in eit

[FairfieldLife] Re: The biggest difference between the US and Europe

-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain wrote: > > In my experience, resort, tourist and university towns are > very walkable -- whether US Asia or Europe. Big noisy smelly > parts of cities can be horrible -- anywhere -- but near by > can be lovely. I used to stay in downtown LA on busi

[FairfieldLife] Re: The biggest difference between the US and Europe

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > Obviously you've never ambulated your karif carcass into > a no-go zone - unless, of course, you had a muslim guide > to surveil and protect you. Au contraire, Pierre. I worked for two years in a largely muslim area of Paris, and nev

[FairfieldLife] Climate sceptics in pay of US oil company

US oil company donated millions to climate sceptic groups, says Greenpeace Report identifies Koch Industries giving $73m to climate sceptic groups 'spreading inaccurate and misleading information' * John Vidal * guardian.co.uk