Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Is Anti-TM a New Religion? Well, if we consider religion to be a pointer to something it no longer contains, Isn't that a bit self-confirming? Who - apart from you - ever used that as a description of religion? then the answer is "yes".

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No reason yagyas shouldn't work. After all, yagyas have been working for several thousand years, so there is no reason they should suddenly stop working, just because we have several hundred years of Newtonian science under our belt. I hav

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread steve.sun...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
We know one thing, they spend one helluva of a lot of time ranting and raving about it here and on the other site, pretty much all hours of the day. That tells ya something! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Is Anti-TM a New Religion? Well, if we consider religion to be a pointe

[FairfieldLife] Group chanting

2016-05-09 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Group associated with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar chants Om Namah Shivaya (sounds similar to but not quite the same as SYDA - Muktananda's group chanting). Om Namah Shivaya-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar-Sacred Chants of Shiva.(30 min.Version).wmv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_2sh-kMyU https://www.y

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread olliesed...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Is Anti-TM a New Religion? Well, if we consider religion to be a pointer to something it no longer contains, then the answer is "yes". Just as those who go to church regularly because it strengthens their beliefs, so do these naysayers regularly repeat themselves, feeling "safer" inside the boun

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread olliesed...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No reason yagyas shouldn't work. After all, yagyas have been working for several thousand years, so there is no reason they should suddenly stop working, just because we have several hundred years of Newtonian science under our belt. Apples and oranges. Pretty obvious that Salyavin considers him

[FairfieldLife] What is God like?

2016-05-09 Thread yifux...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
10 min Crash Course video on what philosophers and theologians have to say on the "Omni" properties of God: Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omnitemporal, and Omnibenevolent. After presenting these attributes, the host shows how all of them are internally inconsistent, and may be contradic

[FairfieldLife] Post Count Tue 10-May-16 00:15:06 UTC

2016-05-09 Thread FFL PostCount ffl.postco...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Fairfield Life Post Counter === Start Date (UTC): 05/07/16 00:00:00 End Date (UTC): 05/14/16 00:00:00 35 messages as of (UTC) 05/09/16 23:00:37 9 dhamiltony2k5 4 authfriend 3 salyavin808 3 hepa7 2 wleed3 WLeed3 2 srijau 2 feste37 2 awoelflebater 2 Willia

[FairfieldLife] BSF/T Financial statements

2016-05-09 Thread srijau
Freely available for donors on-line About Us | Maharishi Vedic Pandits http://vedicpandits.org/about-us/#statements http://vedicpandits.org/about-us/#statements About Us | Maharishi Vedic Pandits http://vedicpandits.org/about-us/#statements THE TRUST AND FOUNDATION Funding for the gro

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
[Update: Maharaja won't be able to be here in person.] ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : We’ll know more about this shortly from the top down. Maharaja will be in Fairfield speaking to the meditating community on Monday. So the lot evidently is about achieving proper vas

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I do not have any problem with your content here. It is interesting and I appreciate it though to assert this is not also about something religious between some cohort of anti-TMO’ers and some TB’er pro-TMO’ers I feel would miss an aspect of what is going on underneath the wrangling on both side

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
I had a yagya performed once for me. It was not a TM yagya but performed by the Hindu temple in Livermore in the SF Bay Area. I happened to be there with a friend before Indian new year and they offered put visitors on the yagya list for the new year. It only cost $55. I wasn't expecting any

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I've got the links working now, I think. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : (snip) I always ask for evidence as I believe the only way we can find out whether our cherished beliefs are real or not is by setting up tests for the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I am probably one of the few people here who would venture to remark that (and this is based on my own experience), yagyas work, although the ones done for me were not done through the TMO. What intrigues me about Salyavin's tirades is his clai

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : (snip) I always ask for evidence as I believe the only way we can find out whether our cherished beliefs are real or not is by setting up tests for them, that's the difference between science and religion. So did you ask JamesAlan for evi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Is Anti-TM a New Religion? So you'd rather make up neat ways to not answer the points I raise? Anyone would think I didn't always give examples and explanations! You can read it all again to check if you like... Ollie, Interestin

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread feste37
I am probably one of the few people here who would venture to remark that (and this is based on my own experience), yagyas work, although the ones done for me were not done through the TMO. What intrigues me about Salyavin's tirades is his claim that the TMO actually does not even perform the ya

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread awoelfleba...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Is Anti-TM a New Religion? Ollie, Interesting observation you are making here about the Anti-TM’ers. Salyavin’s consistent content as criticism here is honed and well stated within the Yahoo-groups guidelines except for the default to the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Is Anti-TM a New Religion? Ollie, Interesting observation you are making here about the Anti-TM’ers. Salyavin’s consistent content as criticism here is honed and well stated within the Yahoo-groups guidelines except for the default to the ad hominem, the interesting thing in general is ho

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Tony Nader's new lot

2016-05-09 Thread olliesed...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
yeah, very strange. These people have become bitterly disappointed at their experiences regarding TM, and so, "attempt to spread the truth about TM and the org behind it" and "save" others. There is not a nickel's worth of space between that expression and the Christian fundamentalists - same ps