This is very sad to read that young sea lion pups are being abandoned by their
mothers. Nature is telling us there's something wrong with the ecosystem
that's not producing the necessary food for the animals.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Starving & sick: Sea lion pups wash
The key to this Salon article is to realize that Michael Roach practiced
make-it-up Tantric Buddhism. His ultimate faith was in his own self - which is
peculiar since by Buddhist standards he doesn't have one.
This is one reason that Traditional Tibetan Lamas no longer trust most Western
stude
NORTH BONNEVILLE, Wash. — Deep in the Columbia River Gorge, a short
drive from the Bridge of the Gods, the nation’s only government-run
marijuana shop was running low on weed.
http://wapo.st/1xt5fqy
Put that in your chillum and smoke it.
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Hell no! You put a great line together! Putting, making continual movie and
tv reviews on the pedestal of "constructive quest for understanding"
now, there's a top 10 post of the month, and...more importantly,
likely to get a pat on the head from Barry.
oh, sometime, id be neat t
Nothing wrong with TV and movie reviews.
I am just surprised at how much time some people have to dedicate to those
endeavors.
But that is coming from someone who watches maybe a couple hours of TV a week,
and maybe sees one or two movies a month.
It was not a big pick up truck that I
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24 richard
20 TurquoiseBee turquoiseb
18 Michael Jackson mjackson74
17 salyavin808
15 Bhairitu noozguru
12 steve.sundur
“I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMN THING ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/03/dont-tell-glenn-reynolds.php
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/03/dont-tell-glenn-reynolds.php
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Humanity has race
On 03/16/2015 03:31 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Negativity or reality? And what's wrong with TV (and movie) reviews?
Lots of folks here watch TV. Are they supposed to be spending their
evenings reading the Gita?
One man's negativity is another's
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
You just made our day with this piece of news.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
All part of my Global Bad News service ;-)
Seriously though, what is the point of the modern world if what we do is just
bound to end in tears
There's nothing wrong with TV or reading movie reviews, but some of us come
here to get away from mundane activities like that. Maybe we came here to get
some spiritual help. Why won't y0u help us?
Maybe we're not pirates downloading movies to watch; maybe we don't have
Netflix; maybe we don
So, it's all about Steve and Richard. Go figure.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
And I'm all for TV and movie reviews, too much bible talk gets tedious. It's
funny though, the only really negative people here are Stevie Wonder and the
Lone Star Troll. It's bizarre that anyon
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Negativity or reality? And what's wrong with TV (and movie) reviews? Lots of
folks here watch TV. Are they supposed to be spending their evenings reading
the Gita?
One man's negativity is another's constructive quest for understanding, or
Starving & sick: Sea lion pups wash ashore in record numbers, global
warming blamed
http://rt.com/usa/240609-california-stranded-sea-lion-pups/
More likely Fukushima is to blame.
On 03/16/2015 11:50 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
Humanity has raced past four of the boundaries keeping it hospitable
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
You just made our day with this piece of news.
All part of my Global Bad News service ;-)
Seriously though, what is the point of the modern world if what we do is just
bound to end in tears that might even take us with them? I think it's
You just made our day with this piece of news.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Humanity has raced past four of the boundaries keeping it hospitable to life,
and we're inching close to the remaining five, an Earth resilience strategist
has found.
In a paper published in Sci
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
The question is do we want the internet administered by the federal government
or by the free marketplace?
The ISP's left us no choice but to inflict the Federal Government upon them.
The Free Market is a Unicorn, it is mythological, and
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/images/461472a-t1.jpg
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/images/461472a-t1.jpg
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/images/461472a-t1.jpg
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/images/4...
http://www.nature.c
Humanity has raced past four of the boundaries keeping it hospitable to life,
and we're inching close to the remaining five, an Earth resilience strategist
has found.
In a paper published in Science in January 2015, Johan Rockström argues that
we've already screwed up with regards to climat
I've only watched the first episode of Netflix's "Unbreakable Kimmy
Schmidt" which is about a woman who is rescued from a doomsday cult and
winds up in New York City. Tina Fey is one of the showrunners. The
first episode was quite funny.
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/80025384
I'm not so sure you should blame your failed marriage and chronic unemployment
on the "liars and hucksters" you used to work for. Maybe you should just take
responsibility for your own choices in life and stop trying to shift the blame
to others.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
So, when are you going to visit a cult exit-counselor? It might be better for
the forum that you get cured first, then report back to us on your recovery.
As long as you are still under the trance induction it would be a waste of time
speculating on what course of action you'll be taking in t
Maybe you are still in the cult and still in a trance induction state. There
must be a reason you haven't visited a cult-exit counselor. Maybe you don't
even realize that you are still brain-washed. Nothing you've posted here would
indicate that you've gone beyond the cult-mindset, except that
When scientists develop a full quantum computer, the world of computing will
undergo a revolution of sophistication, speed and energy efficiency that will
make even our beefiest conventional machines seem like Stone Age clunkers by
comparison.
Unlike classical computing, in which the computer
Good question.
In my experience the early stage of the spiritual "process" is a slash and
burn affair, and often not pretty.
It is often marked by an urgency to, (to use an analogy that probably is not
apt) to escape earth's gravity.
And then after that, maybe you can proceed without
"Cult behaviour suppresses the tendency of nature to create unique forms, it is
basically a prison in which you are told you are free, but only if you adhere
to certain principles and behaviour and thought."
Exxcellent piece of writing and thinking!
From: "anartax...@yahoo.com [Fairfi
Willy musta removed the pic cuz the link no longer works but...
There is no question the movement knew of incidents and numerous others.
A review of files in La Antilla, the results of rounding courses in Majjorca
[sic], Spain and Fiuggi, Italy confirmed these same disastrous consequences for
which is another way of saying lets turn a blind eye to the liars frauds and
hucksters and let them keep ripping people off and ripping lives apart.
From: "Martin A Rosenthal rozenth...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: "fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com"
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 4:37 A
Naw waddin' nuthin' wrong with them folk - it was jist that there global
healing mechanism thingy the TM people yap about now. It uz all good.
And I too have posted a number of comments on other cults here, other frauds,
other so-called gurus like Amma, Muktananda and so forth, but Feste and Will
What do you conceive the spiritual process to be? As far as I can see everyone
is following it to a lesser or greater degree, unconsciously or consciously,
lackadaisically or with focus. It seems to me Turq focuses on the pitfalls of
the process, the things that lead one astray, he does not talk
Just one other comment, for the record, before Barry gets carried away with the
exaggerations, misrepresentations, and outright lies which have become his
calling card over the past so many years.
Those early courses were wild events. We all know that.
But as in any experiment, the proc
Being overly critical is a malady similar to being overly gullible. Being
straightforwardly critical however is the only way to navigate any situation,
to attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff, the useful from the bullshit.
You have to examine carefully what others tell you, and you have
Buck, here's something for you to ponder. In this reply you essentially
hijacked a post I made that did not mention or reference TM *at all* and turned
it into an opportunity for YOU to rant about the "theocrats" that you believe
are "separating people" in Fairfield.
I mean, I posted the origin
“..a naked attempt to force Christian theocracy upon the citizens of Oklahoma.”
Of course there is a spectrum in the story. Likewise in a spectrum it is not
just that some of the methodical TM-haters here are 'out of harmony with the
group', but they actively and methodically are disharmoniou
I'm sorry you don't realize what you sound like here.
You really don't understand the spiritual process, and as such, you've ended
up in some lonely back water.
You have a couple people here who think you are on to something.
Everyone else has written you off.
As Feste suggested, be
Welcome. While you are welcome to your beliefs, might I point out a potential
problem with how you express them?
You write: "Find me any yoga or religious system or person who is not
associated with some fault. To be overly critical is also a fault, and it the
mentality of the asuras. The divi
Buck, I applaud your spiritual open-mindedness but is it any wonder they don't
let you in the dome?
Q. Is this a new look for the old ISKCON movement? Their website has lots of
stuff about Prahbupadha so I'm guessing they are re-branding for some reason.
You'll be lucky if it is them
Whoa! This is the house across the street from my house! Funny old world (-:
From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 6:14 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Welcome, Vaikuntha of Fairfield
Welcome to FairfieldLife,
Welcome to FairfieldLife, Vaikuntha of Fairfield. Another Fairfield, Iowa
meditator spiritual practice satsanga!
I always appreciate seeing your literature in the corner of Paradiso Cafe
in Fairfield and around.
Welcome to the spiritual fray that is FFL at yahoo-groups and in Fairfield,
Just to show that it's not just TM that I focus on as being a cult, here's an
article about a former member of a Tibetan Buddhist organization who went off
the rails and became a total cult leader.
It can happen to anyone in any group, IMO. The temptations are always the same
in any group that
The best part of this article for me was the subtitle that it was given in the
forum on which I saw it posted: "Some state governments think they can do
anything. They're not that tough. They're the mall cops of government."
Oklahoma House Passes Bill Restricting Marriage To People Of Faith
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Re this exercise in cult apologetics from David Orme-Johnson, here is the
challenge I wrote to Feste in an earlier post:
Here's a challenge for you, Feste. As a long-time TMer who claims not to be a
cultist and who in fact seems to be affronted by the very notion that I suggest
you're one, how d
Dear Friends,
In the material world, faults abound. One must perform the work born of his or
her own nature, both materially and spiritually, even if one can not perform
perfectly.
Find me any yoga or religious system or person who is not associated with some
fault. To be overly critical is al
From: salyavin808
Anyway, celebrity endorsement is gold and is what everyone aims for, for some
reason things are considered more likely to be effective if some actor or model
does it. Strange really that the quest for the deepest level of consciousness
and the highest state of life depends ul
Cultist, cure thyself. You and Steve-o seem to feel no compunctions about
projecting your "They hate Maharishi" fantasies onto Michael and I. T'ain't
true, at least in my case. How is that NOT "assigning us beliefs, emotions, and
motivations?"
I don't consider myself "obsessed" with Maharishi
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
I thought Shahada was a bad group recreating 1950s rock 'n roll.
It's also sounds like a planet in Dr Who, which is why I opened the post in the
first place but my adblocker wouldn't let me see the pictures, so I remained
baffled until now.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
Another intelligent post.
Re "The TM website . . . looks like a health page from a women's magazine":
Indeed. A depressing insight into the concerns of current TMers.
In my time at the TMO we had plenty of celebs who didn't want to be publi
I thought Shahada was a bad group recreating 1950s rock 'n roll.
From: "j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:21 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: What Is "Shahada"?
No, it's bullshit:
Shahada Been
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