[FairfieldLife] Re: Message from jl23234

2015-08-03 Thread geezerfr...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Now that's funny Steve. Have you compared the post counts between FFL and FFL2? You're projecting the death of FFL onto FFL2 and that just ain't the way it is. You posted there today so you really should know better. Read the posts movie critiques, a lively music discussion with Curtis an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread geezerfr...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I've seen these kinds of comments from R and others over the years. Basically it boils down to "it was years ago, what's yer problem, get over it!" Why is this so hard to understand? We (those of us who were knee deep into the TMO during the 70s and early 80s) spent the better part of our 20s

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread geezerfr...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That's totally cool Srijau, if your experience has been all positive. As the Aussy's say "good on ya"! If you are aware of the reality of working closely with MMY, and chose to ignore or to accept and not care, then it sounds like all is close to perfect for you. My only point in bringing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Cold Brewed Coffee

2015-08-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Cold brewed coffee is for a better iced coffee not hot coffee. For hot I have an espresso machine. But even the cold brewed is not that much trouble and it is a very bold flavor. On 08/03/2015 07:17 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Why go to all that trouble? Why not just do B

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cold Brewed Coffee

2015-08-03 Thread emptyb...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Why go to all that trouble? Why not just do Bullet-Proof coffee? You can buy a Hario V60 ceramic coffee dripper for a mere $23 US. If you follow the instruction on the Bon Appetit You-Tube video for the Hario V60 remember to use only grass feed butter. Bullet Proof adds Medium Chain Triglycer

[FairfieldLife] Re: Message from jl23234

2015-08-03 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I would have to agree with the assessment that the fuel that drove the FFL engine is petering out. I think it is that way with FFL-2 as well. The big battles have already been waged. There's nothing new to really talk about, and no opini

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Was his name Aslan? (-: Maybe but I don't recall having stepped through an armoire first. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nice image. I saw God once - he/she took the form of a male lion. It was incredible and powerfu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : none of these claims are news to me and I don't care. Every day peoples behavior gets misinterpreted, all our behaviors are subjects to interpretation. Recently I heard someone say that he asked Maharishi in the early 2000's if he was deliberat

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Beautiful! The Lion of Judah! After my six month course I started seeing a lot of fire in meditation, bursts of flames (Moses saw god as fire). Also saw the full moon frequently(M told me the full moon represented the transcendent, Shiva is pic

[FairfieldLife] Re: HitchBOT is dead

2015-08-03 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : HitchBOT, the cheerful hitchhiking robot that had made cross-country trips across Canada, the Netherlands and Germany, had intended to travel across the United States as well. Instead, it survived all of 300 miles on the mean streets of the U.S

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Tue 04-Aug-15 00:15:06 UTC

2015-08-03 Thread FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 08/01/15 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 08/08/15 00:00:00 73 messages as of (UTC) 08/04/15 00:12:53 10 jr_esq 10 awoelflebater 9 Mike Dixon mdixon.6569 8 Bhairitu noozguru 7 steve.sundur 5 s3raphita 5 geezerfreak 4 s

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
What's also sort of interesting, Ann, is that for many, over the years, their opinion of MMY and the TMO becomes more and more diminished to the point that he is totally insignificant, but yet, here they are, seven days a week talking about him, and his organization. Maybe Nabby was right, th

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for MJ

2015-08-03 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
S3, I don't believe Pastor Barry and Bhairitu are the same person. Their writings have different cadences. Take a look for yourself. Besides, Pastor Barry is supposedly living in the Netherlands and the other is here in the SF Bay Area. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Was his name Aslan? (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nice image. I saw God once - he/she took the form of a male lion. It was incredible and powerful enough to have left no doubt in my five year old mind that that was what it was. God comes in so many guises but the fe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Message from jl23234

2015-08-03 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I would have to agree with the assessment that the fuel that drove the FFL engine is petering out. I think it is that way with FFL-2 as well. The big battles have already been waged. There's nothing new to really talk about, and no opinions or views that are likely to be changed. And

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for MJ

2015-08-03 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : How many years have I missed that... Me too. And did Barry himself spot it I wonder? I also wonder if Barry could still be posting on FFL using a new pseudo . . . indeed perhaps "Bhairitu" IS Barry! Have they ever disagreed over any topi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread srijau
I suggest reading Svoboda's Vimalananda books, his Guru had some interesting strategies for driving away people who he didn't consider serious.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread srijau
none of these claims are news to me and I don't care. Every day peoples behavior gets misinterpreted, all our behaviors are subjects to interpretation. Recently I heard someone say that he asked Maharishi in the early 2000's if he was deliberately slowing the growth of the Movement for a time an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Beautiful! The Lion of Judah! After my six month course I started seeing a lot of fire in meditation, bursts of flames (Moses saw god as fire). Also saw the full moon frequently(M told me the full moon represented the transcendent, Shiva is pictured with a crescent on his forhead). Finally, afte

[FairfieldLife] HitchBOT is dead

2015-08-03 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
HitchBOT, the cheerful hitchhiking robot that had made cross-country trips across Canada, the Netherlands and Germany, had intended to travel across the United States as well. Instead, it survived all of 300 miles on the mean streets of the U.S.A. Two weeks after beginning its U.S. trip in Bosto

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Right, I thought not. If you ever actually worked day to day with him you'd have a very different experience that included some incredibly banal behavior, including temper tantrums, jealousy, obsession with money and a near melt down when one o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Right, he wasn't hard on the ears. It just got boring after you've heard him say the same thing several times. From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima  

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Maharishi wasn't God.Maybe, probably, enlightened. You could have handled his darshan, no problem. I sat on many courses with him, some times daily or nightly, frequently within a few feet of him. If he was enlightened, which I like to,think he

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I always found him hard to listen to also, whether in person or on tape. I spent almost four years at MIU as a full time student, not to mention SCI at Livingston Manor as well as Forest Academies (which seemed like months long - maybe they

[FairfieldLife] USA Is No Longer a Democracy

2015-08-03 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Former President Jimmy Carter says so. What do you think? Jimmy Carter Is Correct that the U.S. Is No Longer a Democracy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/jimmy-carter-is-correct-t_b_7922788.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp0592 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/jimmy-carter-i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread feste37
Well, no man is a hero to his valet, no writer is a hero to his editor, and I guess no guru is a hero to his intimates. There has to be some distance there for the ideal to be perceived and maintained. And as I think we have agreed on this forum in the past, the personality never becomes God, or

[FairfieldLife] Message from jl23234

2015-08-03 Thread j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I was trying to approve a moderated message on my phone, thought I pressed approved, and the message was rejected instead. G... touchscreens. Anyway, here it is: "HI Folks. I was an ardent 7-year participant in FFL from 2003-2010, followed by 5 years of intermittent lurking, and wanted

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread geezerfr...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Right, I thought not. If you ever actually worked day to day with him you'd have a very different experience that included some incredibly banal behavior, including temper tantrums, jealousy, obsession with money and a near melt down when one of his girlfriends (who flew the coup) couldn't be fo

[FairfieldLife] Cold Brewed Coffee

2015-08-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
The latest rage at Starbucks and Peet's is cold brewed coffee. Starbucks was out of it yesterday morning already and I had seen a Peet's ad for it on Hulu. It's actually quite easy to make and I am drinking my first attempt right. It's very flavorful for an iced coffee. What I did was coarse

Re: [FairfieldLife] One for MJ

2015-08-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
At the end of the 1990s the news was the porn was booming big time in India when folks got VHS players. There is a hilarious scene in the movie "Fire" when the son of Bombay store owner watches a porn movie on VHS with his grandmother sitting behind him and waving her arm in disgust. The gran

Re: [FairfieldLife] One for MJ

2015-08-03 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Bollywood was the closest Indian films could come to porn, LOL . Dancing was a substitute for sex in their film industry. From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 11:34 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] One for MJ

[FairfieldLife] One for MJ

2015-08-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
The BJP is now trying to ban porn: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/india-orders-clampdown-internet-porn-sparks-censorship-debate-101748188.html This in a country where brothels are out in the open. :-D

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Could there be an Alien Jesus?

2015-08-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
I posted it more for amusement and not to be taken seriously though I've heard her interviewed and she tried to whistleblow on the derivatives scandal and signing up people for housing loans they couldn't afford. On 08/02/2015 09:34 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Bhairitu, When

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Maharishi wasn't God.Maybe, probably, enlightened. You could have handled his darshan, no problem. I sat on many courses with him, some times daily or nightly, frequently within a few feet of him. If he was enlightened, which I like to,think he was, his darshan was tempered by his leshavidya. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I always found him hard to listen to also, whether in person or on tape. From: "awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 10:39 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima   ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread srijau
I do not have that supreme human good fortune but maybe for me I am better off for it; as when the Thunderbird Miigis came to teach no one could survive his intense spiritual radiance in human form and he had to leave. Likewise according to Judaism we cannot survive in the full presence of the E

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Went to the Guru Purnima held by the local TM Center which was a pot luck event at the vastu home of one our members. It was fun. About 30 people, mostly older teachers but some younger members too. Came for the puja which is always powerful

[FairfieldLife] Re: Gurus Purnima

2015-08-03 Thread ultrarishi
Went to the Guru Purnima held by the local TM Center which was a pot luck event at the vastu home of one our members. It was fun. About 30 people, mostly older teachers but some younger members too. Came for the puja which is always powerful in a Shakti sense. Boring video of MMY followed. T