[FairfieldLife] Yogic F-ers and Moscow?

2010-08-03 Thread cardemaister
Moscow badly needs TM-sid(d)has to get rid of that smog caused by wild-fires? http://www.euronews.net/nocomment/2010/08/03/russia-heavy-smog-in-moscow/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mosque at Ground Zero

2010-08-03 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote: > > "Nature" will cull them out? Or will it be the M.E.? What do you think John? > Yep, I believe so. The gunas are indecipherable. But MMY likes to say, "You reap what you sow". The ME works for most people but not the hardcore asuras.

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread emptybill
Seventh, forget joe and his pejoratives. He doesn't any know better. It is the entheogens. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > Maybe that's it. I can't really get a handle on him. Not that I try that hard, but still.. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread seventhray1
Maybe that's it. I can't really get a handle on him. Not that I try that hard, but still.. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote: > > It's really very simple Ray. Somedays Richard remembers to take his > medication and other days he doesn't. He can be mightily forgetful. > >

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Replay of Jerry Jarvis talk - Open to Sidhas and TM Meditators

2010-08-03 Thread Dick Mays
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:00:30 -0500 Subject: DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Replay of Jerry Jarvis talk From: Dome Announcements Re-Play "Jerry Jarvis Talk" Intro by Raja John Hagelin Thurs. Aug. 5th, 7:45 pm To be replayed in Dalby Hall, Argiro Center Open to All Sidha's & T.M. Meditators (Please bri

[FairfieldLife] Re: dramatic decrease in US violent crime, rise in ''peacefulness,' as predicted

2010-08-03 Thread shukra69
*predicted* --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:28 PM, shukra69 wrote: > > > http://globalgoodnews.com/world-peace-a.html?art=128062185638590956 > > > > *"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support > > rather than illuminati

[FairfieldLife] Re: Connection of the Individual to the Cosmos

2010-08-03 Thread shukra69
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > It appears that MMY got this idea from the Srimad Bhagavatam. wrong In one of the stories in SB, the mother of Krishna at first did not believe the divinity of Krishna. She became convinced of this after she opened his mouth and saw th

[FairfieldLife] A Solution to Divorces in America?

2010-08-03 Thread John
It's all a matter of convenience. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/fashion/01Undivorced.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=homepage&src=me

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Joe
It's really very simple Ray. Somedays Richard remembers to take his medication and other days he doesn't. He can be mightily forgetful. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > Here's what I don't get. Sometimes I read Richard's posts, and I can't > figure out what all

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Joe
Willie-boy: My morals were formed when I was a teenager and haven't changed much since then - what is right to me then, is still right to me now: don't lie ...and don't make things up. Joe: Really Willy-boy? You're going to try and sell this notion to THIS group, who read your wildly made

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Joe
Isn't he? You've got to get up pretty late in the afternoon to put one over on 'ol Empty Bill! He's enlightened you see and just knows ALL kinds of super special stuff. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > > --- On Tue, 8/3/10, emptybill wrote: > > From: emptybill > Subjec

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mosque at Ground Zero

2010-08-03 Thread Joe
"Nature" will cull them out? Or will it be the M.E.? What do you think John? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > > > > Jihadists don't care about killing a few other Muslims. They have been > > doing that s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mosque at Ground Zero

2010-08-03 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > At first glance, this idea looks suspicious or stupid. But > > if you think about it, the idea has merit. This is a good > > way to deter future terrorists from targeting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rush hour in the Netherlands

2010-08-03 Thread seventhray1
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > There was one cyclist who I haven't seen in a while who would go racing > through the waterfront park like he was doing the Tour De France > screaming "on your left!" What do you fuckin expect. You're in San Francisco ferchristsakes.

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread seventhray1
Here's what I don't get. Sometimes I read Richard's posts, and I can't figure out what all the fuss is about. He sounds wise, gentle, friendly. And then other times he is so toxic, that I won't go near him. The other day I think he said he had read thousands of books on spirituality in it's d

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread WillyTex
Judy: > Likewise, seeing you as having unresolved > personal resentments is a *lot* more charitable > than seeing you as a "villain with a nefarious > agenda." I should think you'd be relieved that > I don't cast you as a nefarious villain... > Curtis is now a TMO type, in reverse. If anyone

[FairfieldLife] Connection of the Individual to the Cosmos

2010-08-03 Thread John
It appears that MMY got this idea from the Srimad Bhagavatam. In one of the stories in SB, the mother of Krishna at first did not believe the divinity of Krishna. She became convinced of this after she opened his mouth and saw the entire cosmos in Krishna's throat. http://www.youtube.com/watc

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread seventhray1
The other day I speculated that when someone reappears after not having posted for sometime, you somehow expect to see some change. Something different that looks like they have progressed in personal growth. I said I didn't know what it looked like, but I think this is what it looks like. It

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread emptybill
But ... but ... what about the Woodfords?!? I still have to read the whiners here! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > > --- On Tue, 8/3/10, emptybill emptyb...@... wrote: > > From: emptybill emptyb...@... > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Ri

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rush hour in the Netherlands

2010-08-03 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > Around here it's like they're training for the Tour De France or trying > to win the Darwin Award. I'm gonna remember that one.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rush hour in the Netherlands

2010-08-03 Thread seventhray1
Neat, that videos a keeper --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > In partial answer to Bhairitu's question about bicycle > etiquette or the lack thereof here, this is a speeded- > up video of rush hour in a country where a third of > all morning commutes are made via bicycle

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Peter
--- On Tue, 8/3/10, emptybill wrote: From: emptybill Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 7:40 PM You're right. The scam is revealed. Psychologists only do what they do for the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fun 'n gun at truck driving school

2010-08-03 Thread seventhray1
Bill, got a really good laugh from this one. Thanks. (see Tom, I am working on my sense of humor) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > Today I got an email from a long time friend. He used to be a narc > working for locals and the Feds. A bunch of his close law-enforcem

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2010-08-03 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jul 31 00:00:00 2010 End Date (UTC): Sat Aug 07 00:00:00 2010 369 messages as of (UTC) Wed Aug 04 00:11:32 2010 40 authfriend 36 WillyTex 33 Joe 29 TurquoiseB 24 emptybill 18 tartbrain 18 curtisdeltablues 17 nablu

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > Curtis and I had a good long exchange specifically > > about MMY--certainly Curtis felt we were talking > > about "real" things--before Curtis decided to turn > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mosque at Ground Zero

2010-08-03 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" wrote: > > > Jihadists don't care about killing a few other Muslims. They have been > doing that since the prophet died. > > Jihad for Dar-as-Salam is their only concern. There is no such thing as > a peaceful Islam. Jihad is a pillar of Islam

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Unified Field Found !

2010-08-03 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" wrote: > > OK, but in Orthodox (not Gnostic) Christianity, the word "him" in that > passage refers to Jesus, not the Self or impersonal Absoluteotherwise why > call "It" a "him"? > Obviously, there's no place for Jesus in any TMO forum. >

[FairfieldLife] Re: US has the authority to arrest Julian Assange, [WikiLeaks] even if it has to contravene international law

2010-08-03 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:51 PM, seventhray1 steve.sun...@...wrote: > > > Sense of humor. Yea, I need to work on that. > > > > > Now to worry, I'll soon be called a racist, an abomination, a crime against > Nature. I'll be run off in the s

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread emptybill
Peter, get real. You're showing your club bias. These ever expanding lists of diagnostic "disorders" serve the billfolds of therapists so they can get insurance reimbursements for their services. If people had to pay out of their pockets then there would be a lot fewer "mentally/emotionally dist

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mosque at Ground Zero

2010-08-03 Thread Bhairitu
The Jihadists seem to be on the fringe of Islam. They're sort of like the wacko anti-abortion Christians in the US. Neither are revered by the mainstream of their religions. And of course I've got a movie thing here: I was watching a critically acclaimed Turkish film the other night called "3

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > > It's very creepy to consider

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > It's very creepy to consider that this kind of crap is > > > likely the primary or main dish and limit of

[FairfieldLife] New Crop Circle: Whitefield Hill, nr Woodsend, Reported 3rd August

2010-08-03 Thread nablusoss1008
Whitefield Hill, nr Woodsend, Wiltshire. Reported 3rd August. Map Ref: APPROX This Page has been accessed

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > Curtis and I had a good long exchange specifically > about MMY--certainly Curtis felt we were talking > about "real" things--before Curtis decided to turn > it into a personal discussion of how I choose my > "beliefs." It didn't get into

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mosque at Ground Zero

2010-08-03 Thread emptybill
Jihadists don't care about killing a few other Muslims. They have been doing that since the prophet died. Jihad for Dar-as-Salam is their only concern. There is no such thing as a peaceful Islam. Jihad is a pillar of Islam and is prescribed - it is not optional. Jihad also is not "fighting passi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mosque at Ground Zero

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > At first glance, this idea looks suspicious or stupid. But > if you think about it, the idea has merit. This is a good > way to deter future terrorists from targeting the area again. Actually, it's exactly the oppposite. The area is *more*

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:22 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > So far so good. I haven't been offended by anything she has said in this > discussion. I disagree with a lot but it has all been cordial. And by now > the shift from the topic to my perceived flaws is a pretty well-worn road. As > long as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Peter
--- On Tue, 8/3/10, PaliGap wrote: > From: PaliGap > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is > Enlightened! snip > With all the talk here sometimes of "epistemology" I'm > surprised that "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" is > getting > such a free pass

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 1:33 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > > As usual, she never d

RE: [FairfieldLife] Replay of Jerry Jarvis's Talk this Thursday, 7:45 pm

2010-08-03 Thread Peter
--- On Tue, 8/3/10, Rick Archer wrote: From: Rick Archer Subject: RE: [FairfieldLife] Replay of Jerry Jarvis's Talk this Thursday, 7:45 pm To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 4:45 PM From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rush hour in the Netherlands

2010-08-03 Thread parsleysage
We bummer! I 'm a vata constitution myself. Maybe that's why vata s like it- they tend to overdo anyway. It's like the winnd, feels so good.When i get tired, i just sit down! What other exersize can you just sit down when you get hurting, or winded? I love to go fast like the wind. I lo

[FairfieldLife] Mosque at Ground Zero

2010-08-03 Thread John
At first glance, this idea looks suspicious or stupid. But if you think about it, the idea has merit. This is a good way to deter future terrorists from targeting the area again. Maybe... http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/mosque-near-ground-zero-clears-key-hurdle/?hp

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 1:33 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > As usual, she never dealt with your message. As Sal > > > says, she can't. So she does the next best thing

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
Gee, you'd think that after making a complete horse's ass of himself by claiming I'd been in a TMO "cocoon" since learning TM and therefore wasn't aware that MMY had a bad reputation among the non-TM public, Barry'd try to be a *little* more careful he didn't screw up with his next post. But no...

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > Anyway, my take on your unresolved resentment came > up in response to your silly claim that I considered > you a "villain with a nefarious agenda" after I'd > objected to the way you'd managed to twist my balanced > view of MMY into an

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread emptybill
> Perhaps books CAN teach us something. >I'm thinking Orwell and Popper. You're leaving out one of the greatest but less known philosophic texts, Venus on the Half-Shell, which addresses our ultimate human question - "Why are we born to suffer and die?". > It reminds me of discussions of ab

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rush hour in the Netherlands

2010-08-03 Thread Bhairitu
I wouldn't envy you trying to ride a bike around the roads in Iowa if that's where you are (I do think you qualified that a while back). Here at least we have some bike lanes and car drivers respect those but there are some cyclists cavalier enough to ride right on the line that separates the

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > "We all have personality disorders now" > http://www.newstatesman.com/200507110021 Excellent. Money quote (referring to the DSM-IV list of diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder): "It sounds frightfully specific, but loo

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > I was trying to see your point about the distinction > between Maharishi's role and his personality. I get it > that you don't feel understood or feel I am > misrepresenting your POV. I couldn't find the quote > but at one point

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:57 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > And in any case, it seems to me you have both sets of > >> unresolved feelings, affection and resentment, the > >> conflict between them also being unresolved. > > > > Well I'l

[FairfieldLife] Give Piss a chance - Rick is unenlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread emptybill
Great idea. Here is a new topic. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > I sure will feel relieved when this thread with "Rick is Enlightened!" in > the subject fizzles out. >

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread emptybill
> Gotta agree with Sal's assessment here. Judy not only (as you suggested, Curtis) tried to divert attention away from the real topic … > I strongly support your challenges to her to >deal with the real topic … Are you kidding? The only real question is whose hand the gun will be in after the d

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 3, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Peter L Sutphen wrote: > That was my doing, Rick. But it's gone way off topic since did that. Excuses, excuses... > > Peter > > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:06 PM, "Rick Archer" wrote: > >> I sure will feel relieved when this thread with “Rick is Enlightened!” in >> t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Replay of Jerry Jarvis's Talk this Thursday, 7:45 pm

2010-08-03 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 3, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Peter L Sutphen wrote: > Judith was Jerry's secretary for awhile. Love to ask him about her book. Why don't you come and pose the question during the assembly, Peter? :) > > Peter > > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Dick Mays wrote: > >> In the Dome is an announc

Re: [FairfieldLife] If You Die Laughing,

2010-08-03 Thread Mike Dixon
Never mind  LOL From: Mike Dixon To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, August 3, 2010 1:43:24 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] If You Die Laughing,   You'll come as a comedian.

RE: [FairfieldLife] Replay of Jerry Jarvis's Talk this Thursday, 7:45 pm

2010-08-03 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter L Sutphen Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 3:35 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Replay of Jerry Jarvis's Talk this Thursday, 7:45 pm Judith was Jerry's secretary f

Re: [FairfieldLife] Replay of Jerry Jarvis's Talk this Thursday, 7:45 pm

2010-08-03 Thread Peter L Sutphen
Judith was Jerry's secretary for awhile. Love to ask him about her book. Peter On Aug 3, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Dick Mays wrote: > > > In the Dome is an announcement that Jerry Jarvis's recent talk and > reminiscences will be replayed this Thursday evening at 7:45 in Dalby Hall at > the Argiro

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote:. > Gotta agree with Sal's assessment here. Judy > not only (as you suggested, Curtis) tried to > divert attention away from the real topic > (Maharishi and his NPD) and onto y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rush hour in the Netherlands

2010-08-03 Thread parsleysage
OK just another reason for me to see i belong in another country. Why did my ancestors have to come to America anyway? Denmark on my grandmother's side. I don't like or eat American food, and people are always wondering why i don't wear that silly spandex when i ride my bike- (it's my mode of tr

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Rick Archer
I sure will feel relieved when this thread with "Rick is Enlightened!" in the subject fizzles out.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rush hour in the Netherlands

2010-08-03 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > >> TurquoiseB wrote: >> >>> In partial answer to Bhairitu's question about bicycle >>> etiquette or the lack thereof here, this is a speeded- >>> up video of rush hour in a country where a third of >>> all morning

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 1:33 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > As usual, she never dealt with your message. As Sal > > says, she can't. So she does the next best thing, > > from her point of view...she takes the thread that > > is discussing w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 3, 2010, at 1:33 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > As usual, she never dealt with your message. As Sal > says, she can't. So she does the next best thing, > from her point of view...she takes the thread that > is discussing what she doesn't want discussed and > renders that thread all but unreadable

[FairfieldLife] Re: Self worth and FFL

2010-08-03 Thread jpgillam
Tom, I would have liked this post had I known for a fact that anyone's sense of self-worth truly depended on being taken seriously or displaying mastery here. But I don't believe that's the case. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > I feel empathy for those whose sense o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rush hour in the Netherlands

2010-08-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > In partial answer to Bhairitu's question about bicycle > > etiquette or the lack thereof here, this is a speeded- > > up video of rush hour in a country where a third of > > all morning commutes are made via bicycle.

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:57 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > > And in any case, it seems to me you have both sets of > > > unresolved feelings, affection and resentment, the > > > conflict between them also being unresolved. > > > > Well

Re: [FairfieldLife] Rush hour in the Netherlands

2010-08-03 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: > In partial answer to Bhairitu's question about bicycle > etiquette or the lack thereof here, this is a speeded- > up video of rush hour in a country where a third of > all morning commutes are made via bicycle. > > In real time it's all pretty civilized and polite. But > speede

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Peter L Sutphen
Great post , Richard. I like the point you make regarding the value of a spiritual teacher is with your own experience of that teacher. Some people got a lot of mileage from MMY and some didn't. The flaw most people make is trying to establish their own experience of MMY as the "gold standard" o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Self worth and FFL

2010-08-03 Thread Peter L Sutphen
I am ver impressed with this post. :-) Peter On Aug 3, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Tom Pall wrote: > > > I feel empathy for those whose sense of self worth revolves around being > taken seriously here on FFL. Some in FFL consider no longer being associated > with the TMO, even no longer doing TM/TM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Read Judith's Book!

2010-08-03 Thread Peter L Sutphen
I'd be careful too about Sai Baba followers. I don't think anything will happen from the side of the TMO towards Judith. Maybe Bevan could sit on her or something ! Peter On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:48 AM, "WillyTex" wrote: > > >>> Maybe so, but she didn't credit many of >>> the photographers wh

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:57 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > And in any case, it seems to me you have both sets of >> unresolved feelings, affection and resentment, the >> conflict between them also being unresolved. > > Well I'll be the judge of that, or the judge that matters to me. I am doing > fin

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > That's 1 post out of 19, or slightly more > than 5%. I am betting that I am SO much "not > your role in life" that you'll spend a full > 40% of your remaining posts this week dis- > sing me or referring to me in some way. Actually, I thi

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > What you're really objecting to here is that a > > > lot of my rebuttals and corrections are of > >

[FairfieldLife] Fun 'n gun at truck driving school

2010-08-03 Thread emptybill
Today I got an email from a long time friend. He used to be a narc working for locals and the Feds. A bunch of his close law-enforcement buddies have been in Afghanistan for a few years teaching law enforcement techniques to the Afghans. I’m not sure how relevant such things can be for a society

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > Judy has once again, since she's getting her butt > royally kicked by Curtis, done what she always does > when cornered: Says Sal, working very hard to move up to Barry's level on the deluded fantasy scale. made the discussion/argu

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread WillyTex
Turq: > The fact that someone could possibly be so naive > and so lost in a belief system that they would > shell out thousands of dollars to learn to FLY, > simply because representatives of that belief > system said they could learn how indicates "nut > case" or, at the very least, "religi

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > What you're really objecting to here is that a > > lot of my rebuttals and corrections are of > > things *you've* felt the need to put on the > > record. You want to have

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > What you're really objecting to here is that a > lot of my rebuttals and corrections are of > things *you've* felt the need to put on the > record. You want to have a free hand with your > putdowns; you don't want to be accountable for

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > It's not really ad hominem. It *starts* with the observation > > > that your expressed view

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > You've never quite gotten the concept of simply > > wanting to have things on the record, have you? > > What I've never "gotten" (and I don't think > I'm alone here in t

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > It's not really ad hominem. It *starts* with the observation > > that your expressed views about MMY are so extreme as to > > seem irrational. Only then does it l

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 3, 2010, at 8:19 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: >> >> I decided to go back and clear up a bunch of your >> misrepresentations, Curtis (inadvertent or otherwise), >> in this earlier post from you (breaking Barry's Rule >> again; oh, well!)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Self worth and FFL

2010-08-03 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Aug 3, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Tom Pall wrote: > I feel empathy for those whose sense of self worth revolves around being > taken seriously here on FFL. Some in FFL consider no longer being associated > with the TMO, even no longer doing TM/TMSP as a sign one has "graduated". I > suspect there's

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread curtisdeltablues
Meta-comment: I think this series has been one of our best in terms of tone and I appreciate that. Hopefully you have gotten a chance to express some view more explicitly. (I'm thinking of the belief distinctions) I have also found some productive pieces for me to think about. I was trying

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > You've never quite gotten the concept of simply > wanting to have things on the record, have you? What I've never "gotten" (and I don't think I'm alone here in this), is your perceived need *to* "go on the record" on a forum read by a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Read Judith's Book!

2010-08-03 Thread WillyTex
> > Maybe so, but she didn't credit many of > > the photographers whose photos she used, > > in her book, did she, Joe. > > Joe: > Glad you're laughing Willie-boy. I wouldn't > be, but hey, maybe in your "ashram" w/o > electricity you can afford good counsel. > Isn't this just like a TMO guy -

[FairfieldLife] Re: US has the authority to arrest Julian Assange, [WikiLeaks] even if it has to contravene international law

2010-08-03 Thread WillyTex
Card: > I wonder if Tom's got some "Hungarian > genes". That might "explain" a lot... > Maybe so, Card, but let's start a little exercise in real honesty. Most of the informants on FFL apparently heve about zero sense of humor and nothing really to say about the spiritual life. Reading the me

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
Here goes Barry, ignoring me again! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > I decided to go back and clear up a bunch of your > > misrepresentations, Curtis (inadvertent or otherwise), > > in this earlier post

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > I decided to go back and clear up a bunch of your > misrepresentations, Curtis (inadvertent or otherwise), > in this earlier post from you (breaking Barry's Rule > again; oh, well!): Translation: "Ooops. I pretended to bail from the a

[FairfieldLife] Re: In Fairfield, Give Peace a chance/Rick is Enlightened!

2010-08-03 Thread authfriend
I decided to go back and clear up a bunch of your misrepresentations, Curtis (inadvertent or otherwise), in this earlier post from you (breaking Barry's Rule again; oh, well!): --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"

[FairfieldLife] Self worth and FFL

2010-08-03 Thread Tom Pall
I feel empathy for those whose sense of self worth revolves around being taken seriously here on FFL. Some in FFL consider no longer being associated with the TMO, even no longer doing TM/TMSP as a sign one has "graduated". I suspect there's another signpost along the way. When you no longer fee

[FairfieldLife] Re: US has the authority to arrest Julian Assange, [WikiLeaks] even if it has to contravene international law

2010-08-03 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:51 PM, seventhray1 wrote: > > > > > Sense of humor. Yea, I need to work on that. > > > > Now to worry, I'll soon be called a racist, an abominati

[FairfieldLife] Re: US has the authority to arrest Julian Assange, [WikiLeaks] even if it has to contravene international law

2010-08-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:51 PM, seventhray1 wrote: > > > Sense of humor. Yea, I need to work on that. > > Now to worry, I'll soon be called a racist, an abomination, a > crime against Nature. I'll be run off in the same ignorant > inte