[FairfieldLife] Name that movie

In a movie, you're only allowed to be in the list of actor/actress credits if your character has a speaking role. Even if your character says "Hi" and that's your only line, you get a screen credit. So, even given the rampant gender bias in Hollywood, what would you think of a movie that conta

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

According to you, all the quantum physicists are lazy? I suppose assuming about spirits and soul, is hard scientific work? You sure are a hard ass. --- wrote : just say We don't know but the event is analyzable . . . then go home and have dinner with the SO. Instead of calling it 'ra

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mummified Monk is "not dead"

I told you he was just meditating. I was joking though. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This qualifies for a believe it or not story. Mongolian mummified monk 'not dead' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 Mon

[FairfieldLife] Mummified Monk is "not dead"

This qualifies for a believe it or not story. Mongolian mummified monk 'not dead' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 Mongolian mummified monk 'not dead' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31125338 A mummified monk found preserved i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

I took Barry's comment to be a "gotta get a reaction from somebody" quota type thing. I suppose Barry is more of an academic, or movie critic, so really, I wouldn't expect him to understand the nuances of what it might be like to be in a combat situation. Not that I have, but being in rea

[FairfieldLife] Bitter Lake

Adam Curtis has made a name for himself with some out-of-left-field documentaries. His latest offering looks at the disaster of western intervention in Afghanistan. Wonderfully hypnotic footage and a compelling soundtrack make it an enjoyable ride. From one reviewer: The argument of Curtis’s

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

I try not to cross the Bay Bridge, or any of the bridges or freeways in the SF Bay Area, during the commute hours. We're glad you made it back home in one piece. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I made a little trip today down to Mountain View to a little company whose name s

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Nice. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Move review: "Inherent Vice"

"THINGS then did not delay in turning curious. If one object behind her discovery of what she was to label the Tristero System or often only The Tristero (as if it might be something's secret title) were to bring to an end her encapsulation in her tower, then that night's infidelity with Metzger

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

I made a little trip today down to Mountain View to a little company whose name starts with G. I don't know whether they will make it or not. Anyway this was kinda last minute and there was fog all the way down 680 until just past Fremont. Such fun. Then I notice they now have tool HOV lane

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

"We show that European and Near Eastern lineages largely fall into discrete, ancient clusters, with minor episodes of gene flow, suggesting that haplogroup K diversified separately in Europe and the Near East during the last glacial period." http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3543/

[FairfieldLife] There are many forms of child abuse

This barber will publicly shame your misbehaving kid with an old man’s haircut |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | This barber will publicly shame your misbehaving kid wit...Effective discipline, or dangerous parenting that could have "a deeper or more lasting effect on the child’s self image"?

[FairfieldLife] Mark Landau Link

could u include thins link? www.facebook.com/events/855650274476512/ thanks m mark-landau.com healing, books and music

[FairfieldLife] Move review: "Inherent Vice"

If you ever read any Thomas Pynchon back in his heyday ("V," "The Crying Of Lot 49," "Gravity's Rainbow"), you know that he has a...uh...somewhat tenuous relationship with that thing that most people call reality. So what would happen, one is tempted to wonder, if such a writer decided to writ

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

just say We don't know but the event is analyzable . . . then go home and have dinner with the SO. Instead of calling it 'random' - which is just woo for science folks who are afraid the conversation might degrade into talking about spirits or the soul. But then, I'm a hard ass : )

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

That one tunnel is now a bus-train tunnel. After much ado, the Alaskan Way Viaduct is also being replaced with a tunnel that will serve vehicles. "Bertha," the largest tunnel boring machine in the world is currently stuck and broken. Real estate in Pioneer Square is settling. A complicated prob

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

Which stretches from southeastern Europe on the Black Sea all the way into Asia on the Caspian Sea, so if your progenitors came from the more northwestern part of the Caucasus region, the scholars are still correct - southern Europe. From: "j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"

[FairfieldLife] Friday! Iowans Return to Freedom Summer at Sondheim

Special Fairfield Screening at Friday's Art Walk! Iowans Return to Freedom Summer Friday, February 6 . 7:30 pm Sondheim Center, Fairfield Arts & Convention Center See this moving, powerful documentary recounting the experiences of six Iowans who participated in the Mississippi Summer Projec

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

It should be noted that neither Barry or Michael Moore ever served in the military. If they were in a combat situation, they would probably refuse to shoot a terrorist about to behead a fellow combatant. Instead, they would probably head for the nearest coffee house in town to count their mone

[FairfieldLife] Re: Science backfires for Fairfield :-)

There are two main problems with scientific studies of meditation: 1) a scientific definition of meditation and 2) exclude the randomized placebo effect with controlled trials. Most scientific studies on the subject are not double-blind studies. According to Harris, there is no substitute for

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

Apparently the explanation for these observations is a common genetic origin, which is consistent with an historical formulation of the Jewish people as descending from ancient Hebrew and Israelite residents of the Levant. "All studies nevertheless agree that genetic overlap with the Fertile C

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

My paternal haplogroup, which occurs almost exclusively in a small percentage of Ashkenazi Jews, originated in the Caucasus region. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No one knows where the Ashkenazim came from but most scholars think they started in southern Italy and other part

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

By my logic those that won the war get to do what they want with the land and the resources. Since the Allies won the war they got to chop up the Middle East how they saw fit and so they drew lines in the sand on ethnic and language lines. There are no "Red Indians" in North America the native i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

No one knows where the Ashkenazim came from but most scholars think they started in southern Italy and other parts of southern Europe. From: "jason_gre...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 8:03 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] R

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Stupid Bowl

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ... It's not just a matter of peanut vendors vs athletes. There is an entire industry creating millions of jobs( at all levels) and products which are all taxed for the *common good*. Professional sports also gives people a way of taking their

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

By the logical extension of your own argument, the entire north america should be handed over to the Red Indians. They were the original inhabitants of the Americas. Many ethnic groups all over the world don't have a seperate country of their own. That is not necessary either. The Ashkanaz

[FairfieldLife] Re: Science backfires for Fairfield :-)

Have you ever looked at mindfulness research? Most of it makes TM research look absolutely brilliant in its design and execution. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : While you can never fully trust science, you can pretty much distrust TMO promoted science as a matter o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

I bet if I was a soldier in combat, I would be mighty glad of the snipers, long as they were on my sdie, shootin' at the soldiers who wanted to kill me. From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:3

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

Whereas claiming that it is possible to "understand" everything ISN'T lazy?  :-) From: "inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 10:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?   Claiming some event is ran

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

--- wrote : This is not necessarily so. Comments in your text. I'd like to riff on this. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Xeno, let's use a little logic here. If you existed before you were born, you will continue to exist after you die. If you didn't exist before you wer

Re: [FairfieldLife] Church of Scientology targets film critics over Going Clear documentary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_%28Scientology%29 From: eustace10679 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 4:14 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Church of Scientology targets film critics over Going Clear documentary   http://www.theguardian.com/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Columubus: Sephardi??

Not Bloody Likely, since he spent the last few years of his life writing religious tracts glorifying his role in the conversion of barbarians to the "true faith," Catholicism. Sounds to me as if Simon Wiesenthal is guilty of trying to find more prominent Jews in history than actually existed the

[FairfieldLife] Columubus: Sephardi??

Wikipaedia: Simon Wiesenthal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Wiesenthal postulates that Columbus was a Sephardi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardi (Spanish Jew), careful to conceal his Judaism yet also eager to locate a place of refuge for his persecuted fellow countrymen. Wiesenthal arg