[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread raunchydog
The Guardian newspaper has revealed British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a coordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. In emails sent just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, British officials wrote th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tom, MZ and The I Ching

2011-07-02 Thread Ravi Yogi
Hey Bob - thanks for you kind comments and a great post, yet again, looks like MZ finally got back to you so hopefully that should lift your spirits. May be we can indeed learn from Rick and try to emulate his strategy of just dropping in the FFL Pub and saying hello instead of spending the whole e

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Greed Destroys America

2011-07-02 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > For our FFL billionaires who have worked so hard by the sweat of their > brow (apparently at near light speed) to earn their huge fortune here is > a great article: > http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/28/how-greed-destroys-america/ > "

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > What damage and loss of life do solar, wind, geothermal, and other green > energies cause? > I recall reading about two years ago that a leading expert in so called "green" alternatives for energy indicated that the technologies you me

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of seventhray1 > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 11:09 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post:

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of seventhray1 Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 11:09 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing --- In FairfieldLife@y

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of seventhray1 Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:42 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing --- In FairfieldLife@y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Art Walks & Redwoods (was: Archetypes, Music and Magritte)

2011-07-02 Thread whynotnow7
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > >> I've heard and seen pictures of the Fairfield Art Walk. reminds me of an > >> event held every Sunday in Santa Barbara along the beach - I have some > >> beautiful

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > It's more than that. THey were arrogantly positive that they had devised fail-safes that couldn't be overcome by human stupidity and margins of safety that wouldn't be challenged in 100 years or more (E.G. planning for a very large magnit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ayahuasca Toxicology

2011-07-02 Thread Buck
Yes, in contrast to dropping hallucinogens hoping for a bio-chemical opening, 'Being' forced through an immature energy system ( a system not ready or properly prepared, even of long term TM'ers) can cause its own problems. It certainly can cause physical movement like you're talking or physic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Archetypes, Music and Magritte (was: A question for MZ...)

2011-07-02 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > Rather hot and humid here in Fairfield today, with a sweet, faint, > musky floral scent > > Sounds just like a '94 Beaurdoiux * * Better than a '94 Buick, perhaps?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of seventhray1 > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:01 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post

[FairfieldLife] Re: What kind of meditation did the Buddha teach?

2011-07-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > Scholarly article on Buddhist meditation, contemporary mindfulness > practices, and the Transcendental Meditation technique by Dr. Evan > Finkelstein. > > http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/07/the-buddhas-meditation--dr-evan-finke

[FairfieldLife] Re: Art Walks & Redwoods (was: Archetypes, Music and Magritte)

2011-07-02 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: >> I've heard and seen pictures of the Fairfield Art Walk. reminds me of an >> event held every Sunday in Santa Barbara along the beach - I have some >> beautiful glass pieces I bought there 10 years ago. > > 97 with humidity in Fairf

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > We're all short-sighted. Those who built nuclear power plants did so without > knowing how they were going to dispose of the waste, and with a > "fingers-crossed" attitude toward the possibility of accidents. > It is my understanding

[FairfieldLife] Re: Children of the Night

2011-07-02 Thread sparaig
Understand: I am NOT trying to claim that Davidson IS biased, or that Fred Travis isn't, just pointing out that these guys who study meditation always have an agenda and there's none innocent of at least the appearance of bias when researching something like this. An exception might be the scie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brain, Spirituality, Science, Metaphysics, Enlightenment, Aquinas, MZ

2011-07-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > wrote: > > > > I actually wrote a long reply to this, and in a moment of > > distraction shut down my browser and lost the whole thing. > > Such is the distinction o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Archetypes, Music and Magritte (was: A question for MZ...)

2011-07-02 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > Rather hot and humid here in Fairfield today, with a sweet, faint, musky floral scent Sounds just like a '94 Beaurdoiux

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread Rick Archer
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of seventhray1 Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:01 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing --- In FairfieldLife@y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: I don't think anyone's intentionally trying to create > nuclear accidents, but such accidents are bound to happen. It's a technology > that never should have been implemented. Those who did so were > short-sighted. > Well make a blog s

[FairfieldLife] What kind of meditation did the Buddha teach?

2011-07-02 Thread Rick Archer
Scholarly article on Buddhist meditation, contemporary mindfulness practices, and the Transcendental Meditation technique by Dr. Evan Finkelstein. http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/07/the-buddhas-meditation--dr-evan-finke lstein/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Archetypes, Music and Magritte (was: A question for MZ...)

2011-07-02 Thread whynotnow7
responses below: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > A lot of the same creative choices to be made with sound vs. color.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How Greed Destroys America

2011-07-02 Thread Bhairitu
On 07/02/2011 06:39 PM, wgm4u wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: >> For our FFL billionaires who have worked so hard by the sweat of their >> brow (apparently at near light speed) to earn their huge fortune here is >> a great article: >> http://consortiumnews.com/2011

[FairfieldLife] 'Happy Birthday~USA~U-2~johhny'...

2011-07-02 Thread Robert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xB4dbdNSXY&feature=related

[FairfieldLife] Re: Children of the Night

2011-07-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > Eh, I can't find the exact quote by Alan Wallace quoting > Davidson as saying "I didn't need to do research to kknow > this stuff works," but wikipedia points out that this > isn't really news to many: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richar

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Greed Destroys America

2011-07-02 Thread wgm4u
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > For our FFL billionaires who have worked so hard by the sweat of their > brow (apparently at near light speed) to earn their huge fortune here is > a great article: > http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/28/how-greed-destroys-america/ So

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-02 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > Dear Feste36, > I didn't miss seeing this, and as you will understand, it (and because of > where it seemed to come from) was consoling to me. Indeed at the point that I > read it, I was seriously considering suspending operations

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price wrote: > > Frankly, the wife thinks AuthFriend is the only Normie on > > FFL and said if it wasn't for AuthFriends presence on FFL > > she would insist I start on my first step ASAP. I g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Children of the Night

2011-07-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Jul 2, 2011, at 4:01 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > Yes, it is called "researcher bias" and a huge portion of the "scientific > > method" is designed to try to compensate for it. > > And the only ones who get taken seriously are > the

[FairfieldLife] New Crop Circle; Wroughton, Wiltshire. Reported 2nd July.

2011-07-02 Thread nablusoss1008
[Display until 14th July 2011] Barbury Castle (2), Nr Wroughton, Wiltshire. Reported 2nd July. Map Ref: This Page has been accessed [Hit Counter] Updated Saturday 2nd July 2011

[FairfieldLife] How Greed Destroys America

2011-07-02 Thread Bhairitu
For our FFL billionaires who have worked so hard by the sweat of their brow (apparently at near light speed) to earn their huge fortune here is a great article: http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/28/how-greed-destroys-america/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Archetypes, Music and Magritte (was: A question for MZ...)

2011-07-02 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > A lot of the same creative choices to be made with sound vs. color. Lots of > fun. Yes! :-) > > >> I figured it was stuff in Magritte's head that transcend

[FairfieldLife] Post Count

2011-07-02 Thread FFL PostCount
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): Sat Jul 02 00:00:00 2011 End Date (UTC): Sat Jul 09 00:00:00 2011 93 messages as of (UTC) Sat Jul 02 23:45:46 2011 15 Yifu 14 whynotnow7 7 authfriend 6 cardemaister 6 Denise Evans 5 RoryGoff 4 raunchydog 4 maske

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brain, Spirituality, Science, Metaphysics, Enlightenment - AND THE MUSIC

2011-07-02 Thread Denise Evans
These are compiled in a disk called Arabesque: Various Artists. In preparation for the 4th of July Kidda - Natacha Atlas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTsa_HFjzL0 Der Bauch (Other Stuff 2, Part 1 Of 3)  http://www.last.fm/music/MC+Sultan/_/Der+Bauch+%28Other+Stuff+2%2C+Part+1+Of+3%29 Is a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Archetypes, Music and Magritte (was: A question for MZ...)

2011-07-02 Thread whynotnow7
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > Happy Saturday! Through musical themes. Transitioning from visual art, > > shapes, shades and colors, into music, I find it easier to use > > instrumentation vs.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Archetypes, Music and Magritte (was: A question for MZ...)

2011-07-02 Thread RoryGoff
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Happy Saturday! Through musical themes. Transitioning from visual art, > shapes, shades and colors, into music, I find it easier to use > instrumentation vs. lyrics. Cool! > You were trying to piss someone off by using perspicaci

[FairfieldLife] Re: Archetypes, Music and Magritte (was: A question for MZ...)

2011-07-02 Thread whynotnow7
Happy Saturday! Through musical themes. Transitioning from visual art, shapes, shades and colors, into music, I find it easier to use instrumentation vs. lyrics. You were trying to piss someone off by using perspicacious? That doesn't seem like you. I saw it more as a humorous big word. I had

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Protests in Greece

2011-07-02 Thread Bhairitu
Mike, all you're doing is showing how naive you are. Bill Gates DID NOT work hard for his money. He was in the right place, at the right time with the right idea. In fact he wasn't the only one with the same idea and in fact he bought it from someone else (who got $50K). The Judeo-Christian

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brain, Spirituality, Science, Metaphysics, Enlightenment, Aquinas, MZ

2011-07-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > I actually wrote a long reply to this, and in a moment of > distraction shut down my browser and lost the whole thing. > Such is the distinction of age. No, it's not! It can happen to anybody, of any age. It's infuriatin

[FairfieldLife] Re: The trouble with having a fixed POV is...

2011-07-02 Thread seventhray1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: > Lip service. Your "preferences" are virtually always > expressed in judgmental terms. The paragraph above > is an example. > > > Some can't seem to tell the difference

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-02 Thread emptybill
Yep, them ol' hindoo demons are out to destroy us all. Why, if you say one of their man-truh names jus' once they'll seize yer soul. It's only the luckiest souls that will get to join the demons as their slaves in hell. The other souls, weakened by concupiscence, will be sucked dry and perish wit

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans protect Millionaires - Minnesota government shuts down

2011-07-02 Thread Mike Dixon
So TM had little *job satisfaction* influence in your life? From: Denise Evans To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, July 2, 2011 10:04:56 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans protect Millionaires - Minnesota government shuts down   A 21st

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Protests in Greece

2011-07-02 Thread Mike Dixon
"Most of those people got their money through illicit means anyway"(just a tad prejudice)? So let's just take all their money. That should teach them to make a profit and  that would be more *spiritual*, right? Thou shalt not covet, Bhairitu. Coveting, the ultimate in materialism, desiring  to p

[FairfieldLife] We tried it their way and Republicans pretend it never happened

2011-07-02 Thread do.rflex
Kevin Drum looks back on the last decade: Republicans got the tax cuts they wanted. They got the financial deregulation they wanted. They got the wars they wanted. They got the unfunded spending increases they wanted. And the results were completely, unrelentingly disastrous.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread Rick Archer
From: wle...@aol.com [mailto:wle...@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 7:36 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Cc: r...@searchsummit.com Subject: Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans protect Millionaires - Minnesota government shuts down

2011-07-02 Thread Bhairitu
I was lucky in that I went to work from being a contractor for a firm to working in house and the founder was into "New Age" stuff and wanted to run a "hip" company so it was more democratic to a fault. I wound up trying to herd cats that had wondered off the path. What I learned from th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tom, MZ and The I Ching

2011-07-02 Thread Bob Price
Ravi, I want to thank you for your heart felt response to my post. Even more so as I know you were getting close to your limit and there were so many other more interesting topics to jump in to. You're a generous soul which, for me, says everything about your state of consciousness. Starting

[FairfieldLife] Archetypes, Music and Magritte (was: A question for MZ...)

2011-07-02 Thread RoryGoff
Building a redemption sequence into a song...! Hmm! With words, or with musical themes alone? As to Magritte, yes, officer, apparently I did use the word perspicacious. God knows why. Probably just to piss off anyone who wants to be pissed off at us for being more highfalutin than we SHOULD be. We

[FairfieldLife] Re: Archetypes, Music and Magritte (was: another question for MZ, ...)

2011-07-02 Thread RoryGoff
Building a redemption sequence into a song...! Hmm! With words, or with musical themes alone? As to Magritte, yes, officer, apparently I did use the word perspicacious. God knows why. Probably just to piss off anyone who wants to be pissed off at us for being more highfalutin than we SHOULD be.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans protect Millionaires - Minnesota government shuts down

2011-07-02 Thread do.rflex
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans wrote: > > A 21st century slave society > My last two years in corporate america were spent repeating to myself that I > was a "slave", which wasn't far from the truth > Michael Tomasky in the Daily Beast tells Why the GOP Loves the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans protect Millionaires - Minnesota government shuts down

2011-07-02 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > > > > The Republicans are becoming more aggressive in pursuing > > their agenda. It's the American version of suicide bombing. > > The Minnesota government shutdown is just a pre

[FairfieldLife] solve americas problems

2011-07-02 Thread merlin
http://www.solveamericasproblems.com/read.php?8,27101,27101

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-02 Thread Tom Pall
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:36 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > > > > > I note there is a Catholic priest in Brazil teaching children > Transcendental Meditation. I have seen the David Lynch tape. An obviously > sincere and heroic character

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brain, Spirituality, Science, Metaphysics, Enlightenment, Aquinas, MZ

2011-07-02 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
I had heard of this. Denise, you came on this forum a short time ago kind of in a pickle and uncertain, but more recent posts show a growing confidence, which is really nice. Keep it up. This research was based on mindfulness meditation. TM researchers have been avoiding this kind of researc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Sai Baba's Legacy: Death Threats & Scandal

2011-07-02 Thread Denise Evans
These statements from the Guru Papers are good reminders It appears that almost without exception..the various guru organizations devolve to authoritarian regimes in the endregardless of the "enlightenment" factorguru's appear to all demonstrate that they are human in the end.  I

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-02 Thread maskedzebra
Dear Feste36, I didn't miss seeing this, and as you will understand, it (and because of where it seemed to come from) was consoling to me. Indeed at the point that I read it, I was seriously considering suspending operations (for at least a week: the proper sentence for having abused my privileg

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans protect Millionaires - Minnesota government shuts down

2011-07-02 Thread Denise Evans
A 21st century slave society My last two years in corporate america were spent repeating to myself that I was a "slave", which wasn't far from the truth --- On Sat, 7/2/11, Bhairitu wrote: From: Bhairitu Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans protect Millionaires - Minnesota gov

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-02 Thread maskedzebra
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > > > > > I note there is a Catholic priest in Brazil teaching children > > Transcendental Meditation. I have seen the David Lynch tape. An obviously > > sincere

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brain, Spirituality, Science, Metaphysics, Enlightenment, Aquinas, MZ

2011-07-02 Thread Denise Evans
Read this last night...your brain after meditating http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3717&Itemid=0 --- On Sat, 7/2/11, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brain, Spirituality, Science, Metaphysics, En

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans protect Millionaires - Minnesota government shuts down

2011-07-02 Thread Bhairitu
The Republicans are doing this to buy the country for pennies on the dollar. They are materialists who focus only on wealth. They want to regain their ancestral legacy of being feudal landlords. They've been trying to do this ever since the US was founded. And I won't be an obedient serf (

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brain, Spirituality, Science, Metaphysics, Enlightenment, Aquinas, MZ

2011-07-02 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
I actually wrote a long reply to this, and in a moment of distraction shut down my browser and lost the whole thing. Such is the distinction of age. Now a few days will pass before I can return to doing much on the forum. Let me ask the question my reply was about. What *is* the premise on which

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sign Senator Sanders "Share the Sacrifice" letter to Obama

2011-07-02 Thread Denise Evans
Thank you for posting this. What kind of BS are Mitch McConnell and Boehner saying - everywhere...on NPR...in the papers, on the "news""the Americans don't want us to raise taxes" I want the Republicans to start saying"the Americans don't want us to raise taxes on the extremely wealt

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans protect Millionaires - Minnesota government shuts down

2011-07-02 Thread Denise Evans
The link below has some interesting info on the influence of the Koch brothers in taking down the government, etc.   What I don't understand is...what is the end game of the Republican philosophy...if the working class go down, so does the country...we already are going down...what is the purpos

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Children of the Night

2011-07-02 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jul 2, 2011, at 4:01 AM, sparaig wrote: > Yes, it is called "researcher bias" and a huge portion of the "scientific > method" is designed to try to compensate for it. And the only ones who get taken seriously are the ones who succeed at it, with things like double-blind studies, etc. > It's

[FairfieldLife] Re: The trouble with having a fixed POV is...

2011-07-02 Thread whynotnow7
You often demonstrate through your posts that despite the mind's (your) desire to be "free and easy", if the ego is not liberated, that will be impossible, and you remain locked into attachment/aversion cycles. So even though you profess to be this shamblin', ramblin' fellow with no attachment

[FairfieldLife] Re: The trouble with having a fixed POV is...

2011-07-02 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > ...that some start to feel that they need to sell or > justify or defend that POV. The liberation of having > no fixed POV is that one does not necessarily ever > feel this way. > > These last few days have for me been a fun exercise >

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-02 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra wrote: > > I note there is a Catholic priest in Brazil teaching children Transcendental > Meditation. I have seen the David Lynch tape. An obviously sincere and heroic > character, this priest nevertheless (it's not his fault: his Church can

[FairfieldLife] The trouble with having a fixed POV is...

2011-07-02 Thread turquoiseb
...that some start to feel that they need to sell or justify or defend that POV. The liberation of having no fixed POV is that one does not necessarily ever feel this way. These last few days have for me been a fun exercise in Tantra, the juxtaposition of opposites. While on a combination busines

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sneltrein Musings

2011-07-02 Thread authfriend
He's *s* predictable... "And I fully expect Barry to launch a rant against Steve and everyone else whose posts he doesn't like off of Curtis's post."--Me, yesterday evening --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ayahuasca Toxicology

2011-07-02 Thread Buck
Yeah, though the heavy metal poisoning of ayurvedic medicine is different from this psychedelic central nervous system damage like of ayahuasca. Either way it points to the razor's edge of sound mental-health bio-chemistry. The folks that got metal poisoned neurologically are getting kelated

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sneltrein Musings

2011-07-02 Thread seventhray1
Barry, the master of projection. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" curtisdeltablues@ wrote: > > > > I put this in the category of: "so and so poster should post > > differently than they do because it is not my p

[FairfieldLife] Check out Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

2011-07-02 Thread WLeed3
_Activist Post: The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing_ (http://www.activistpost.com/2011/06/perfect-radiation-storm-is-brewing.html)

[FairfieldLife] Wanna hear some "tankero-English"?

2011-07-02 Thread cardemaister
After Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop, Mr. Jukka (yucca) Kiiskinen (key-ski-nen) tells something about Nokia "Sea Ray" (~= N9), the first Nokia Windoze phoney, in genuine "tankero-English": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl_zUFprjbA&feature=related

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ayahuasca Toxicology

2011-07-02 Thread Tom Pall
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:07 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:58 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > > > > Are you referring to serotonin overdose? I've had that. It's a > fascinating > > > experience, but I've never hear

[FairfieldLife] Re: Understanding the "Tao".....

2011-07-02 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > Actually, the character of Kwai Chang Caine was Bruce Lee's > idea, and you're showing your inner bigot if you think that > Bruce Lee wouldn't be able to play the character he created. Actually, the idea that Bruce Lee thought up the se

[FairfieldLife] Re: Understanding the "Tao".....

2011-07-02 Thread sparaig
Actually, the character of Kwai Chang Caine was Bruce Lee's idea, and you're showing your inner bigot if you think that Bruce Lee wouldn't be able to play the character he created. If you want to see Lee in a more average role, look at his guest appearances on Longstreet with James Franciscas.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ayahuasca Toxicology

2011-07-02 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:58 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > Are you referring to serotonin overdose? I've had that. It's a fascinating > > experience, but I've never heard of TM or TM-SIdhis practice causing the > > symptoms I observed:

[FairfieldLife] G and the siddhi of omnipotence?

2011-07-02 Thread cardemaister
Jesus gives an example of the siddhi of omnipotence (sarva- bhaavaadhiSThaatRtvam, YS III 50)? 21 And answering, Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do the miracle of the fig tree, but even if you should say to this mountain, Be taken up

[FairfieldLife] Re: Children of the Night

2011-07-02 Thread sparaig
Yes, it is called "researcher bias" and a huge portion of the "scientific method" is designed to try to compensate for it. It's not just TM researchers who are susceptible to it. Every researcher needs to be on his or her guard. What I find amusing is that no-one on this forum questions the bia

[FairfieldLife] (Repost?) Faces of meth

2011-07-02 Thread cardemaister
http://www.myfox8.com/kswb-pg-faces-of-meth,0,2801604.photogallery?index=kswb-pg-faces-of-meth-082 Oddly enough, a couple of them look better in the "after" image, IMO...

[FairfieldLife] So many old-fashioned models, with a keyboard!?

2011-07-02 Thread cardemaister
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia-phones-1.php

[FairfieldLife] Re: Brain, Spirituality, Science, Metaphysics, Enlightenment, Aquinas, MZ

2011-07-02 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > "'You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your > ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, > are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly > of nerve cells and their associated molecules." >