[FairfieldLife] Re: Chopra nothing without Maharishi

2013-08-18 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > You should probably read the essay: > > > > > > http://organizations.utep.edu/Por

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL looks different this morning

2013-08-11 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > > > yes yes YES YES! and IMHO not a very smart > > feature at all! I used to have 25 messages on a screen/page! > > Well, heck, that's an easy fix. Go

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL looks different this morning

2013-08-11 Thread PaliGap
- -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > yes yes YES YES! and IMHO not a very smart feature at > all! I used to have 25 messages on a screen/page! > > I don't really know what is meant by *client* in this context. Is yahoo a > client? Google? Yahoo! M

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL looks different this morning

2013-08-11 Thread PaliGap
ttings" to display, say, 25, 50 or 100 emails per screen. I haven't been following your travails closely, but is this possibly the irritation you are experiencing? > From: PaliGap > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Sunday, August

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL looks different this morning

2013-08-11 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > > > Yes, I remember it as being within the last month. That's what > > I meant by recently. I saw on yahoo help page that someone had > > already complained about it and my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did this come through? (three stooges pic)

2013-08-09 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" wrote: > I have long suspected that The Three Stooges may originally have been The > Three Goons, clearly an anglicized version of The Three Gunas http://youtu.be/Nebe1zuEtbc http://youtu.be/Nebe1zuEtbc"; target="_blank">Enjoy

[FairfieldLife] Re: Om Happy Day!

2013-08-08 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > Happy Birthday, Alex! You're The Cream In My Coffee > http://youtu.be/m-6m2CC0pPM And you bring me sunshine... http://youtu.be/ZedhoqYdfTM

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Culture of Illusion

2013-08-06 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" jr_esq@... wrote: > Lawson, > It all depends on what is your definition of cosmic consciousness. But having a noisy mind > appears to be an indication of an inertia due to having a conditioned mind. What do you think? Not just this, but that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheism rears its ugly head again!

2013-08-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" > Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" > God say, "No." Abe say, "What?" > God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but > The next time you see me comin' you better run" > Abe says, "Where do you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Most jazz drummers can't play rock'n roll?

2013-07-31 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > On 07/31/2013 04:09 AM, card wrote: > > Sometime in the 20th century, Joe Morello > > started his drum clinic here in my home town > > by playing "some rock'n roll". > > > > Of course, technically that was nothing short > > of perfect, bu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Trayvon Martin was a Homophobic bigot

2013-07-19 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > Thanks for being a good sport. I quite like the English, actually. But that > cultural superiority thing is a bit outdated, don't you think? You may have > Shakespeare, but we have, er . . . er . . . we have . . . OK, I'll get back > t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dennett on Stuff

2013-06-24 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > He was after all defending Aristotle et.al. from facile > > criticism in the article salyavin808 referred to. > Which

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mad Men and Crossing Lines

2013-06-24 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Last night was the season finale of "Mad Men". I don't know > if many here watch it and I know particularly some of our TV > fans don't. I do! I loved it earlier on, but I felt it wasn't so good recently. It became a bit too much the "

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dennett on Stuff

2013-06-24 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > Dennett's incoherence is legendary among those who > know what they're talking about (including atheists). I can't say I've ever been persuaded by anything he says about consciousness, but I do like the chap. He was after all defendin

[FairfieldLife] Hippy Altruism

2013-06-24 Thread PaliGap
Google is providing free advertising worth $240,000 to help Michigan Compassion: "Michigan Compassion will use the grant to promote its medical cannabis awareness initiatives" http://mycompassion.org/news?mode=PostView&bmi=1321918 "What makes this grant award unique is that Google AdWords, being

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
ng but the taking part that counts" - and other assorted bollocks, which is all we're left with. > Hey - others may have hated this thread. But I enjoyed it, loved your humor > :-) > > On Jun 23, 2013, at 12:24 PM, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > -

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
Groan! ...Ashwin to bowl the last over. (Objection!) Ball five. Tredwell slaps it back down the ground for two. SIX NEEDED OFF THE LAST BALL Ball six. Tredwell misses it! INDIA WIN "Man is not made for defeat" Ernest Hemingway --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
gt; On Jun 23, 2013, at 11:58 AM, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > > > > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula > > > wrote: > > > > OK, it's getting tense, but our very own "Ravi" is in > > now. > > > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
> -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: OK, it's getting tense, but our very own "Ravi" is in now. OVER 10: ENG 46/4 (Morgan 1* Bopara 0*) Morgan plays out a maiden to Ashwin, men all around the bat. Oh, so now you're fielding with one of the divine twin horsemen from th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
-( > > On Jun 23, 2013, at 10:23 AM, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > > > > The Tao Of Cricket (I think I'm channeling Buck > > with all these nutty posts. But the sap is rising!). > > "Higgs-boson", "dematerialisation" - it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did the Earth move for you?

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Yes, Share, I know you were referring to what > salyavin said Dawkins said Williams said. My > point was that you assumed this third-hand > characterization was accurate, in spite of > both Dawkins's and salyavin's own wooly-headed >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, PaliGap--

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > This is all one non sequitur after another, salyavin. > > > Argument by assertion doesn't really do

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
higgs-boson. To Bopara's first ball, delivered outside off-stump, he dematerialises a drive through cover, and then, for the first time, picks a slower ball, sweeping it to the boundary, one bounce. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > 6:10pm My man!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
6:10pm My man! DOUBLE WICKET DHONI OUT MAIDEN! Dhoni c Tredwell b Bopara 0 (India 66/5) Or should I say "my TWO men" (stop sniggering in the back) Tredwell and Ravi (aka Ravworth). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogro

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: > Yes - bad luck with the toss, but I'm banking on Dhawan. > Don't forget we have 2 Ravi's in our team and you just > got one LOL. Perhaps one "Ravworth" counts for two "Ravis"? 5.49pm WICKET! Dhawan c Tredwell b Ravworth Bopara 31 (

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: > > Richard - The site is espncricinfo.com, the match is being streamed live for > free on ESPN3, not sure if its available in UK - but do check and let me know > (I'm curious). Nah, live commentary/scorecard only for us. > Yeah - ho

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: > > On Jun 23, 2013, at 2:58 AM, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula > > wrote: > > > > > > Richard - yes I'm defi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Champions Trophy

2013-06-23 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: > > Richard - yes I'm definitely going to be watching the finals Come on Ravi. Stop snoring and out of your pit. Yeah, just step over those gopi girls. The match is starting. And, I say, what bad luck, India have lost the toss on a sti

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, PaliGap--

2013-06-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Dilettante's Delight... Feser: "To be sure, I had read the usual selections from Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas and Anselm that pretty much every philosophy student reads -- several of Plato's dialogues, the Five Ways, chapter 2 of the Pr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, PaliGap--

2013-06-22 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > Dilettante's Delight... "The cat is a dilettante in fur" Théophile Gautier http://goo.gl/n2Ljn

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey, PaliGap--

2013-06-21 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > I wanted to let you know how grateful I am to you for > calling my attention to Feser's blog a couple months > ago, after he'd fallen off my radar screen. That's so nice to hear! Actually I first came across him only recently via

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: the flooding @ Uttarkashi Ashram Purusha From Mi...

2013-06-20 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:57 AM, PaliGap wrote: > > > ** > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" > > wrote: > > > > > and pr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: the flooding @ Uttarkashi Ashram Purusha From Mi...

2013-06-20 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" wrote: > and probably could have developed a pretty good golf game. LOL! Perhaps Guru Dev was spirituality's gain, but cricket's loss? http://youtu.be/ur5fGSBsfq8

[FairfieldLife] Politician's Wife Unhappy Over Alien Affair

2013-06-18 Thread PaliGap
"Married father-of-three Simon Parkes, who represents Stakesby on Whitby Town Council, said his wife had rowed with him after revealing he had a child called Zarka with an alien he refers to as the Cat Queen." http://goo.gl/XzWXp One reader's comment: "The Natural Law and Monster Raving Looney P

[FairfieldLife] Re: Signs

2013-06-17 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" > > wrote: > > > > > > "We don't know what it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Signs

2013-06-17 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > "We don't know what it is" doesn't mean they go along with the > conspiracy theory that the world is being visited by giant > UFOs, we'd be able to tell, what with radar and eyesight > and everything. http://www.guardian.co.uk/scien

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Philosophy Of Arseholeness

2013-06-16 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Philosophy Of Arseholeness

2013-06-16 Thread PaliGap
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > Browsing in the high-falutin' section of > > my local book shop today I came across this: > > > > "Assholes: A Th

[FairfieldLife] The Philosophy Of Arseholeness

2013-06-15 Thread PaliGap
Browsing in the high-falutin' section of my local book shop today I came across this: "Assholes: A Theory" by philosopher Aaron James http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4884 Sounds like fun. (But alas it's cheaper online so my local shop may loose out). (BTW what's the difference

[FairfieldLife] Re: someone who understands M.E.

2013-06-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > Are you an intentional agent or a robot? If you cannot find out, > it will make no difference. You're not sure if you're a robot? Sheesh, Ravi's going to have fun with that. I think I know I'm not. I think you know you

[FairfieldLife] Re: someone who understands M.E.

2013-06-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > Michael, you have the right idea. Leading a good wholesome > life and learning from your mistakes and challenges. Being > a better person when you leave than when you came. Growing > more aware and accomplished. While you have a deep re

[FairfieldLife] Re: RD's astrological analysis

2013-06-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > Any planetary influence will affect you whether > you are in the womb or out of it. Birth is purely > symbolic as far as the baby is concerned, it's > fully formed in there. http://youtu.be/0emeaSF6uPY

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dwarf Planet Astrology

2013-06-14 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > In reading your objections to astrology, I fail to > see anything except objections to the *causal* way > of looking at it. An Aunt Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dwarf Planet Astrology

2013-06-13 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > Do tell us about the actual principles that I haven't > understood in all these years reading about it. That's been done already hasn't it? To repeat: "The positions of the heavens at a particular moment in time, by reflecting the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Dwarf Planet Astrology

2013-06-13 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > Dwarf Planet Astrology Regarding your *devastating* critique of astrology... Have you heard of/considered/understood (delete as appropriate) Jung's concept of "synchronicity"? I know that as a naive positivist it may be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Yugas of Sri Yukteswar

2013-06-13 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" wrote: > Further, another American researcher theorized that the Sphinx > may have been built about 16,000 years ago. He calculated that > it was a monument to show that it was built when the vernal > equinox occurred during the sign of Leo. The mo

[FairfieldLife] Re: For MJ and the Turq

2013-06-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > > > > > If you can watch the Twin Peaks series and NOT say that son > > > of a bitch is ill in his feeb

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another Voice in the Argument about Consciousness

2013-06-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > I've had no formal training in philosophy... Philosophy's loss.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Repost: what is science?

2013-06-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" wrote: > Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. > -- Richard Feynman Wonder what he would have thought of "peer review"?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another Voice in the Argument about Consciousness

2013-06-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > This reminds me of the classic scenes from "Dark Star." > In the first, Sgt. Doolittle tries to talk the AI bomb > out of exploding while still attached to the ship: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29pPZQ77cmI > > In the second, we s

[FairfieldLife] Re: For MJ and the Turq

2013-06-01 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > If you can watch the Twin Peaks series and NOT say that son of a > bitch is ill in his feeble mind then there is something seriously > wrong with you. Proud to be in the legions you decry. Loved it (well series one anyway). http:/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another Voice in the Argument about Consciousness

2013-05-31 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > Question for you: In the paragraph from "Philosophy Always > Buries Its Undertakers" that begins "We are also told that > physics mishandles time," what does the locution "abstracts > from" mean? And in the post "Why Do We Need Phi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another Voice in the Argument about Consciousness

2013-05-31 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > Did you read David Albert's review of Krauss's "Universe > from Nothing" in the NY Times? It's a thing of beauty: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe- from-nothing-by-lawrence-m-krauss.html > > http://tinyu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another Voice in the Argument about Consciousness

2013-05-29 Thread PaliGap
eous fluctuations in a quantum vacuum, as if those fluctuations and that vacuum were not precisely something." > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another Voice in the Argument about Consciousness

2013-05-29 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > John Searle at CERN (TEDxTalks) > http://youtu.be/j_OPQgPIdKg > [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j_OPQgPIdKg ] Searle, Dennet & Zombies: http://goo.gl/K6NsO http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.co

[FairfieldLife] Dear FFL TV Reviewers

2013-05-21 Thread PaliGap
I did a search for "American Gothic" on FFL and failed to come up with much. The reason I ask is that my wife and I saw this ages ago - and the better half was most impressed. But I believe the series got cancelled? Anyhoo, I discovered it was available on Amazon's LoveFilm and so I reserved it s

[FairfieldLife] Homage To Materialism

2013-05-21 Thread PaliGap
Or "For Salyavin808". Headline grabber: "I weaved through a jumbled Picasso of bellybuttons, nipples, sagging breasts, hairy backs and jiggling thighs" Or for FFL readers whose minds are obviously focused on higher planes: "Plato says in one of his dialogues, "Soul is the master, and matter its n

[FairfieldLife] Re: SELF-HYPNOTIZE: Channel, End Negativity, Feel Good, Achieve Goals Dr. Shelley S

2013-05-20 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > "The condemned man may live for several days or even weeks. > > But, he believes so strongly in the curse that has been > > uttered, that he will surely die. It is said that the ritual > > loading of the kundela creates a "spear of

[FairfieldLife] Re: SELF-HYPNOTIZE: Channel, End Negativity, Feel Good, Achieve Goals Dr. Shelley S

2013-05-20 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > It doesn't contradict anything I've said about consciousness > anyway. Placing of brain structures is well understood, it > can be predicted what functions people will lose or have > difficulty with after a damage to the brain. I'm

[FairfieldLife] Re: SELF-HYPNOTIZE: Channel, End Negativity, Feel Good, Achieve Goals Dr. Shelley S

2013-05-20 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros > > Anartaxius" wrote: > > > > > We see other peop

[FairfieldLife] Re: SELF-HYPNOTIZE: Channel, End Negativity, Feel Good, Achieve Goals Dr. Shelley S

2013-05-20 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > We see other people, animals, and by their behaviour we > deem them to be conscious. Yet if the brain of these > beings is damaged in certain ways, that conscious > behaviour departs. Injection of certain drugs, such as

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free Man In Paris, v2.13

2013-04-25 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > You pay a paltry 19 Euros per year for a pass. Then you walk up to a > Velib bike rack, swipe your card, take the bike, and ride it. If you > ride for less than half an hour, when you check it in at the next Velib > site there is no cha

[FairfieldLife] Re: Undiagnosed celiac disease

2013-04-13 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" wrote: > > Gawd... that's TMI even for me. If my memory serves me well, Card's dick refuses to stand idly by during his flying sutra. Those Vikings... > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "card" wrote: > > > > > > After hearing on TV a

[FairfieldLife] Being & Nothingness

2013-04-13 Thread PaliGap
Sad, old Hendrix obsessive that I am, I came across this excellent version of Little Wing: http://youtu.be/1W6xawlcvNU Some SRV influence there, but also some very nice original input. But then I saw this: http://www.truthinshredding.com/2012/03/camila-simont-murdered-on-her-birthday.html Jeez,

[FairfieldLife] Re: NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tonight!

2013-04-13 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2013, at 8:11 AM, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > > > > > I've heard that one game of cricket can go on for h

[FairfieldLife] Re: NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tonight!

2013-04-12 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > I've heard that one game of cricket can go on for hours and hours! Five days for a "proper" international match. Then again, the golfers at the Masters will be playing for four days. But you will at least have a result. Very often a five

[FairfieldLife] Re: A TM poster boy's eulogy for Margaret Thatcher

2013-04-11 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > > > > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: A TM poster boy's eulogy for Margaret Thatcher

2013-04-11 Thread PaliGap
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > Well now you have. It refers of course to the way the brain > unifies sense data into a coherent picture of the world as > a theatre that we are witnessing but when you look inside the > brain, no such theatre exists. It's all a cleve

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Iron Lady' Prime Minister, Dead at 87

2013-04-08 Thread PaliGap
Cher fans on Twitter were agitated apparently: #nowthatchersdead http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/margaret-thatcher-dead-worried-cher-1818681 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > http://abcnews.go.com/International/margaret-thatcher-britains-iron-lady\ > -dead-87/sto

[FairfieldLife] Re: More on Nagel's "Mind & Cosmos"

2013-03-31 Thread PaliGap
tangled thicket of Aristotelean ideas of 'matter', 'form' and 'substance'. Oh, Lordie! http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-metaphysics/ > So much philosophical discussion of consciousness takes > "seeming" for granted, when it's the ver

[FairfieldLife] More on Nagel's "Mind & Cosmos"

2013-03-30 Thread PaliGap
This is an interesting blog post IMO: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/nagel-and-his-critics-part-viii.html Or http://goo.gl/QulfS How much of our existential anguish can be laid at the feet of Monsieur R. Descartes? "From the concrete material objects of everyday life, Descartes and th

[FairfieldLife] Europe Freezes, But Help Is At Hand

2013-03-30 Thread PaliGap
http://youtu.be/oJLqyuxm96k

[FairfieldLife] Re: La Mer [Was Majorca Spain]

2013-03-30 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLif

[FairfieldLife] Re: La Mer [Was Majorca Spain]

2013-03-29 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: > - I love the water. Am more the passenger than sailor now. > Had a sailfish beached at Repulse Bay, HK, early 70's, and > downsized to a boogie board. Is that an "Alcort Sailfish"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_(sailboat)

[FairfieldLife] La Mer [Was Majorca Spain]

2013-03-29 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: >> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > (snip) >>> I could indeed. What I'd really

[FairfieldLife] Some Varieties Of Meditative Experience

2013-03-29 Thread PaliGap
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5432713 (See comments)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Questions and answers by Benjamin Creme

2013-03-27 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > Q. Is the skeleton that was exhumed in a carpark in > > Leicester, England,in September 2012, really that of > > King Richard

[FairfieldLife] Re: Questions and answers by Benjamin Creme

2013-03-27 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > Q. Is the skeleton that was exhumed in a carpark in > Leicester, England,in September 2012, really that of > King Richard III? > A. Yes, it was King Richard III, maligned by Shakespeare > and of course the Tudor dynasty. Who puts the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Balloon of Ignorance Punctured by Needle of Scientific Curiosity

2013-03-26 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" > > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.co

[FairfieldLife] Re: Balloon of Ignorance Punctured by Needle of Scientific Curiosity

2013-03-26 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > > > > > If you want to have a go at convin

[FairfieldLife] Re: Balloon of Ignorance Punctured by Needle of Scientific Curiosity

2013-03-25 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > > If you want to have a go at convincing us go ahead. Start wherever > you like on the diagram. There are many things I don't believe in. Maybe I "don't believe" in more than you (take "Scientism" for a start). It's not my point tha

[FairfieldLife] Balloon of Ignorance Punctured by Needle of Scientific Curiosity

2013-03-25 Thread PaliGap
Re: The Venn Diagram Of Irrational Nonsense http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/339067 Fowarded to FFL by a shade I met in a dream: "My dear FFLers Until my eyes died and gave me all-seeing vision I was unaware of your august journal. But what a shock to my ethereal system! My

[FairfieldLife] Re: Majorca Spain

2013-03-21 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" wrote: > (snip) > > turquoiseb: > > > The Judyborg lives in fuckin' New Jersey, ferchrissakes, > > > > > So, you're thinking that living on a dank, man-made canal > > rate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hey Nabby...

2013-03-21 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > Some of them there hillbilly music for y'all.. > > > > http://youtu.be/b0eknUtEMWw > > > > In the world of

[FairfieldLife] Hey Nabby...

2013-03-21 Thread PaliGap
Some of them there hillbilly music for y'all.. http://youtu.be/b0eknUtEMWw Damn can he play! Erich Arvidson: "Well it looks like the devil lost that round of the guitar duel" Just business as usual... http://youtu.be/tnepPZChA5U

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and its Rock Stars

2013-03-19 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" wrote: > > > It has been suggested here, that a person does not hav

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM and its Rock Stars

2013-03-19 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" wrote: > It has been suggested here, that a person does not have full brain > development until they are 25. And I think the part of the brain > that is not fully developed, IIRC is that part which evaluates the > future consequences of our a

[FairfieldLife] Think your vegetable spring roll is safe from the sea gulls?

2013-03-19 Thread PaliGap
Think again! http://youtu.be/ol8c9bdp7YI

[FairfieldLife] Much Ado About "Nothing"

2013-03-19 Thread PaliGap
No longer can you take your seats for Krauss v Albert - the Rumble In the Ontological Jungle. http://tinyurl.com/cmx9dfw "Among the speakers will be several leading physicists, including Lawrence M. Krauss, whose book "A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing" became

[FairfieldLife] Re: A lie is only a lie when it's about Judy or someone she likes

2013-03-14 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok wrote: > > > > If I may say something more esoteric here, for me Judy is still a young > > soul, despite of the age of her physical body. There will be always a > > conflict with older

[FairfieldLife] Re: TV review: "House Of Cards"

2013-02-10 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > BTW, I found a way to watch episodes of "Utopia". I would think > the only outlet for this in the US would be streaming on > Netflix. The accents are too strong for most Americans to > understand. I just *love* the beautiful sing-son

[FairfieldLife] Re: Health benefits of Xanthohumol

2013-02-07 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Yifu" wrote: > > http://www.xanthohumol.com "It is 200 times more powerful than Resveratrol, the world renowned Antioxidant found naturally in Red Wine." Yes but...red,red wine...mmm... http://linsiloo.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/mmm-red-wine-cheese-platter

[FairfieldLife] Re: Serious Question

2013-02-04 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > The problem is compounded in those who carefully stayed > away from him and never met the man. They got to base > their fantasies on what he wrote in books and said on > videotapes, and carefully stayed far, far away so that > they'd ne

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on History Chan to Carol & Emily

2013-01-29 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ann" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for posting this laughinggull.  Carol and Emily, > > > this is a good overview of the whole TM wo

[FairfieldLife] Brave New World: Better Than Dieting?

2013-01-11 Thread PaliGap
http://youtu.be/WfBE_DIR2Jo http://www.healthhabits.ca/2013/01/10/aspire-assist-medically-assisted-bulimia/ >From the the inventor of the Segway apparently.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Subjective vs. Objective Experience

2012-12-30 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > >> My friend said that he often had to interview 20 witnesses of a > homicide, and take down their testimony. He looked at me deeply, > possibly hoping for some compassionate understanding (and luckily > finding it) and said, "More often th

[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for Marshy's Kin Folks

2012-12-30 Thread PaliGap
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > Some of your assertions seem suspect to me. Like crazy people flocking to the > supposedly enlightened or as you say those with an oz of charisma. If he were > so sattvic and enlightened, no crazy people could get within a mile of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for Marshy's Kin Folks

2012-12-30 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mjackson74" wrote: > > > > A comment on the article about the 8,000 flyers in Mexico > > > > "I too am a former TM sidha. I gave thousands of pounds to the organisation > > over many years, but

[FairfieldLife] Re: Reflections on Dec 21

2012-12-30 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > I'll let Barry or may Curtis respond to that if they so choose. Me not B/C, but humbly suggest food for thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/30/world-impr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lincoln

2012-12-30 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > Bbut...wha wha wha what if we had us some visions of our past lives? What > do we think then? (Happened to me at MIU - he he!) Gosh, when I think about how you were so ripped off... > > >

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