Re: [FairfieldLife] calm the situation in Ukraine-you can help!

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
Jews do NOT have to register in the Ukraine. I already told you that. Why are you repeating it? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : and you are ignoring the violence inthe Ukraine, the fact that Jews now have to register and all that???

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
Yes, the first part. I doubt he had coming back by choice post-ignorance in mind, though. Or at least it wasn't implied by that quip. Welcome back, by the way. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : This stuff is confusing - I meant that someone who is ignorant [of his basic nature

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
I think by "ignorant" he meant not enlightened, not "off the wheel." One of his better bons mots. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Makes sense - the process is not uniquely human, just that we can apprehend it, and become aware of it, during our time as humans. So there must come

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
In case anybody was confused, I was not suggesting that "Reincarnation is for the ignorant" was the only way he said it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I have heard he said it many different ways. (snip) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Just to be picky,

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-08 Thread authfriend
Just to be picky, "I don't believe in it" can mean either "I don't believe it exists" or "I'm opposed to it." If you're opposed to abortion, you might well say, "I don't believe in abortion." Anyway, what I heard that he said was "Reincarnation is for the ignorant," which is better than eithe

Re: [FairfieldLife] [FairfieldLife] Great oppurtunity for rethinking Repentance Spiritually

2014-05-07 Thread authfriend
Comments below... The flipside, of course, is why you care? I met you online what, 15-20 years ago? You weren't as anti-TM as you appear to be now, even though you made clear that you no longer practiced it. What changed? Nothing changed, because I wasn't "anti-TM" then, and am not no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spam, Spammers and Spamming the FFL list

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
the higher levels of our subject integrity on this Fairfieldlife list we do keep moderators on hand to guard and protect us as a community from spammers. We all should be on guard to report spam like that post to the Moderation here to keep track of. Thank you for your concern, -Buck

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spam, Spammers and Spamming the FFL list

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
you for your concern, -Buck authfriend writes: GET OFF IT, BUCK. You know who raunchy is; you know it isn't "spam"; and you know we're free to post anything here that others may find of interest, and that most certainly includes net neutrality Stop trying to intimid

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Raising Net Neutrality from the Dead

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
ck might condone censorship of some kind. On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 10:55 AM, "authfriend@..." wrote: GET OFF IT, BUCK. You know who raunchy is; you know it isn't "spam"; and you know we're free to post anything here that others may find of interest, and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Wise President Putin

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
If it says "Spring Water" or "Artesian Water" on the label, then it's required to be spring or artesian water, not tap water. There are many reasons to avoid bottled water, but not being able to tell whether it's tap water isn't one of them (assuming you can read). > I love, love, love, love

[FairfieldLife] Re: Raising Net Neutrality from the Dead

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
GET OFF IT, BUCK. You know who raunchy is; you know it isn't "spam"; and you know we're free to post anything here that others may find of interest, and that most certainly includes net neutrality Stop trying to intimidate would-be posters who don't know any better into thinking they can only p

[FairfieldLife] Re: Downright humility-inspiring

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
Maybe so, but that wasn't my point and has nothing to do with my point. The point is, these fanatics are also lunatics. Most of these god-men are also mad-men. --- wrote : Of course, as far as Barry is concerned, all those who don't agree with him that human beings are insignificant

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Downright humility-inspiring

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
Of course, as far as Barry is concerned, all those who don't agree with him that human beings are insignificant have been and always will be fanatics whom history will remember as "tyrants and killers." From: Share Long To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 2:0

Re: [FairfieldLife] Downright humility-inspiring

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
And others, of course, own their own computers and set their own work schedules. I don't recall ever having seen you mention them. For a very select few, all they have to do is get up early in the morning, brew some coffee in the kitchen, and then walk down the hall to their home office and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Downright humility-inspiring

2014-05-06 Thread authfriend
Weird, I was just having the same kinds of thoughts a few minutes ago while reading a piece in the NYTimes titled "Cosmic Connections in the Deep Sea" about the author's experience diving. It mentions the issue only in passing, but it triggered a "Wait a minnit" sort of response. It occurred

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-05 Thread authfriend
Click "Show message history," dumbass. That's what it's for. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 5/5/2014 7:19 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Jason, don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. > Would it be too much of a pr

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-05 Thread authfriend
Jason, I'm sorry you feel like a piglet. But I was obviously not trying to draw you into an argument but rather suggesting you butt out. You didn't add anything helpful; most of what you said was irrelevant to what Curtis and I were discussing; some of it repeated what I've been saying as if you

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-05 Thread authfriend
Jason, don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : > > > --- wrote : > > > I still think you're painting with too broad a brush when you use the > > > term "society." Some elements of society take the position you desc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I still think you're painting with too broad a brush when you use the term "society." Some elements of society take the position you describe, but others do not. C: Seems like a reasonable objec

[FairfieldLife] Re: One for those few who can admit to having been Deadheads...

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
And Barry, of course, is Oh-So-Superior to us poor benighted less-than-human losers who missed it. No "hierarchy" there, nope nope nope. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ...or human. These are a few moments of one of the "unsung heroes" of the Grateful Dead finally bei

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Wise President Putin

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
The "Jewish registration" story turns out to have been what amounts to a hoax, Michael. A flyer with the announcement that Jews must register was distributed in one town in the Ukraine by three masked gunmen, but nobody has been able to determine where it originated--certainly not from Putin. In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
Comments below... Bingo. One of the things that I don't think a number of theists or quasi-theists or theists-in-denial-that-they're-theists Oh, you forgot to list the nontheists, like moi. don't "get" on this forum is that what they call atheists barging into an otherwise pleasant c

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
To demean points of view he disagrees with is high on Barry's list of personal values. Er, I mean, preferences... Rhetorical question. No need to reply. I was just amused that neither you nor Share can conceive of having a preference without the presence of some kind of hierarchy. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : My guess is that having preferences or hierarchies is hard wired into us for survival value. I disagree. I see nothing wrong with preference or believing in hierarchies, but I definitely don't

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

2014-05-04 Thread authfriend
Comments below... Because the thing is, humans, at a fundamental level, cannot prefer or value more highly, what they even unconsciously hold as detrimental. Nonsense. People do this all the time, continue behaviors that they consciously *know* are detrimental to them. Their position within an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-03 Thread authfriend
Not to mention, we have no idea what the relative percentages are of TMers who commit suicide versus those in the general population. For all we know, the percentage of TMers could be smaller. Certainly suicidal TMers tend to draw more attention because it's so contrary to what TM promises. But

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-03 Thread authfriend
I still think you're painting with too broad a brush when you use the term "society." Some elements of society take the position you describe, but others do not. And the negative reaction to criticism from atheists has a great deal to do with its hostility quotient. Simple disagreement doesn'

[FairfieldLife] Re: One last set of thoughts for Curtis

2014-05-03 Thread authfriend
Actually, this distinction is pretty elementary with regard to neuroscientific studies; it really isn't something that has just never occurred to the researchers. Libet's studies, for example, looked directly at the apparent time lag between decisions made on the unconscious level and when they

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-03 Thread authfriend
Curtis, you way overstate the case. In this country, at least, there's oodles of criticism of biblical ideas, including ideas at the heart of Christian belief. Ever heard of the Jesus Seminar? And a currently popular book, "How Jesus Became God," maintains that the idea of Jesus as God developed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
Comments below... From a sociological POV this question has vast implications, and always has, in how we approach society's sense of justice in our legal system. It wasn't long ago that we hanged an elephant for killing a man. Today we have people on death row who were not mentally able t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
sive bullshit when it had something to do with Robin. But this was before my time here so I am conjecturing based on having read some old posts just previous to my showing up here. On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:20 AM, "authfriend@..." wrote: I hope you're not alluding to me, Curt

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
Barry on some of his abusive bullshit when it had something to do with Robin. But this was before my time here so I am conjecturing based on having read some old posts just previous to my showing up here. On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:20 AM, "authfriend@..." wrote: I hope you're

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
FWIW, Maharishi said at one point, "Bliss isn't blissful." By which he meant, I assume, that to experience blissfulness required some degree of waking-state consciousness. IOW, you wouldn't experience blissfullness in transcendental-consciousness-by-itself--but you would be in a state of bliss b

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
Okey-doke, glad to hear it. I don't recall anyone trying to stick you with Barry's perspective on Lenz's alleged levitation exploits, though, "previous poster" or otherwise (it wasn't entirely clear what "previous poster" meant--it could have referred to a poster not involved in the current disc

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
old hag, so are you. Sorta like the way you're trying to barge into a pleasant conversation that doesn't concern you and trying to turn it into an argument of some kind? What a pathetic old hag you are, Judy. From: "authfriend@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.c

[FairfieldLife] Re: Harris is a practicing transcending MEDITATOR afterall

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
What happened here?? - Harris: "Given the degree to which religion still inspires human conflict, and impedes genuine inquiry, I believe that merely being a self-described “Buddhist” is to be complicit in the world’s violence and ignorance to an unacceptable degree". - See more at: http:/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
s discussed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Christopher Hitchens would agree with him if Barry were to say such a thing. -------- On Fri, 5/2/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@...> wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: R

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis - Sam Harris

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
Nobody ever disputed this point with Barry, including those who believe in determinism. He could never quite understand how someone could believe in determinism and yet continue to act as if they had free will without serious cognitive dissonance. He was unable to grasp that believers in determi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
Right. You just regularly barge into such discussions, announcing that there is no God and that anyone who believes there is is worse than a fool. Although I fully understand that some people get off on debating the existence of God and things like that, *nothing bores me more* these da

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Re-Facilitating a Future and the New TM Movement:

2014-05-02 Thread authfriend
I hope you're not alluding to me, Curtis, because if you are, this would be a seriously misleading way of putting it. Verging on deceptive, in fact. A previous poster was also a big fan of trying to hold me accountable for Barry's perspective. What is with you guys? Can't keep yer eye on

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Bob Hoskins

2014-04-30 Thread authfriend
o need to wait; the photo you want is the very one you've been stupidly ragging on. :-) From: "authfriend@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 9:21 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Bob Hoskins Well, that would actually be a

[FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Bob Hoskins

2014-04-30 Thread authfriend
Well, that would actually be all of your talk about such faces, Barry. BTW, below is a photo of Hoskins in his late 30s. With all of this talk recently of faces that "show their age," it is sad to bid farewell to one that never did. Bob Hoskins was a journeyman actor, as comf

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-30 Thread authfriend
I'm happy to report that I have never seen your dick, Barry, but if you say it's tiny, I'll take your word for it. Hey Jude...if your panties are this twisted, you and Ann might want to switch over to comments about how tiny my dick is. That would fit in better with you gals' obvious

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
n what someone looks like exposes a certain, well, deficit in the ability to come up with meaningful criticism of the person's participation. It says far more about them than it does about the object of their disapprobation. On 4/29/2014 1:23 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
n. It says far more about them than it does about the object of their disapprobation. On 4/29/2014 1:23 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: Actually, as you know, Richard, I did post a photo of "my own face" a few years ago (along with "Barry's Fantasy Image

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nazi Cult Mentality

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
paradise" - Adolf Hitler ---- On Tue, 4/29/14, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@...> wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Nazi Cult Mentality To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
oman. What's less acceptable is being an ugly old woman and being completely unaware of it. That implies either never having looked in a mirror or being a vampire, and unable to see her own image in it. :-) From: "authfriend@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tues

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
Actually, as you know, Richard, I did post a photo of "my own face" a few years ago (along with "Barry's Fantasy Image of Judy"). It's in the Members section. That's the one azgray is referring to. Apparently he believes he's the only one who can see it, so he feels safe in describing it as what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nazi Cult Mentality

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
Fascinating, Michael, that you would see this comment as describing TMers (presumably TB TMers). TMers generally are fairly well educated, first of all. And if they didn't "question the world around them," they would be unlikely to become committed to TM to start with, given that TM is promot

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
Thanks, Steve. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Based on that picture of her, I'd say it's pretty accurate. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Rather that admit the effects of all those years of cigarettes and seething anger, she calls herself “a fairly nice-lo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Watch Dav i d Lynch’s hy pnoti c new video

2014-04-29 Thread authfriend
Er, Salyavin, there are plenty of David Lynch fans who aren't TMers. (Not to mention TMers who aren't David Lynch fans, like moi.) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Share, Nabby is motivated here by the fact that Lynch does TM. Whether you are on his side spiritually is his prim

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
You mean, this one? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/photos/albums/408557067/lightbox/1672927237?orderBy=ordinal&sortOrder=asc https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/photos/albums/408557067/lightbox/1672927237?orderBy=ordinal&sortOrder=asc ---In FairfieldLife@ya

Re: [FairfieldLife] Questions for Rick

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
OK, looks like Rick was referring to Tredwell's specific claims, whatever they are. Still, to point out that Amma has a lot of critics is hardly to "cast aspersions" on her; it's just a matter of fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Except, of course, for the fact that Nabby is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Questions for Rick

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
Except, of course, for the fact that Nabby is right. We've been hearing complaints about Amma here on FFL for years. I believe there's even an anti-Amma Yahoo Group. So it really is a little odd to see Rick saying Tredwell's is a "lone voice." Maybe Rick didn't express himself clearly; perhap

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi interview excerpts

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
"Clever" is not another word for "perfect," dumbass. In other words, it was "perfect." I rest my case. :-) :-) :-) From: "authfriend@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 6:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi interview excerpts

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
Lenz may well have been interviewed by Hard Copy at some point, but the reporter in the wheelchair was crack journalist John Hockenberry interviewing Lenz on Dateline NBC. When I saw the tapes, I couldn't believe how phony Lenz came across. Just as an aside: If one isn't a terminal tightass,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi interview excerpts

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
He probably didn't know what "snake oil" was, but I wouldn't put it past him to have been familiar with the term (he loved playing with idioms) and set the reporter up. If the reporter had defined it differently--"Snake oil is a fake panacea"--he'd have had a smart-ass response to that instead.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
What a crashingly stupid paragraph. There were, of course (as Barry knows), umpty obits published after MMY died. As I recall, quite a few of them were posted or linked to here. Some were biased negatively, some were biased positively, some were nicely balanced. I probably did critique one of th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi interview excerpts

2014-04-28 Thread authfriend
I wouldn't call his answers "enlightened wisdom," but a lot of them are clever and funny. One would have to be a real sourpuss not to find them charming, even if one were a True Unbeliever. Barry hasn't had the chance to spill his bile for three whole days. Expect a veritable flood in the wee

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heaven on Earth for all Mankind

2014-04-27 Thread authfriend
Seems like there's a limited number of things that can be done with bulls. What happens to male buffalo, for example? They can't each have their own herd of females, and you can't have a herd of males, can you? They'd kill each other. I'm serious; I really don't know. Something in nature must

Re: [FairfieldLife] Heaven on Earth for all Mankind

2014-04-27 Thread authfriend
Not quite true, Alex. One of the males is featured here: http://www.universalfields.org/tala_ram.html http://www.universalfields.org/tala_ram.html Doesn't sound like he's going to end up as veal chops, but perhaps he's the exception. At any rate, the text sounds very respectful and protect

[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth for all Mankind

2014-04-27 Thread authfriend
Those sure are some gorgeous Jerseys they've got. They make the huge hulking Holsteins that supply supermarket milk look like ungainly monsters. (Not the Holsteins' fault; they were bred that way to give as much milk as possible. But it isn't anywhere as good as milk from Jerseys.) A

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji is to be praised

2014-04-27 Thread authfriend
He knows that, Lawson. He's trolling. The Raj is in the USA. We're talking about the Maharishi AYurveda facility in India that the press says is worth $1.5 billion US. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 4/27/2014 4:29 AM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... wrote: > The pla

Re: [FairfieldLife] Creationists thwart mammoth bid!

2014-04-26 Thread authfriend
Actually, Episcopalianism (Anglicanism) is Protestant. But it "looks" too Catholic for some fundamentalists and other Protestants to be comfortable with it. My parents both came from long lines of Presbyterians. Although they weren't at all religious, they were scandalized when my father's br

Re: [FairfieldLife] Creationists thwart mammoth bid!

2014-04-26 Thread authfriend
Also, Episcopalianism in the U.S. is the same as Anglicanism in the U.K., except it isn't subject to the British monarch. Not clear whether Richard is just trolling, but of course Anglicanism is not subject to the pope. That's kind of its raison d'etre, in fact. You do realize tha

Re: [FairfieldLife] Creationists thwart mammoth bid!

2014-04-26 Thread authfriend
Not clear whether Richard is just trolling, but of course Anglicanism is not subject to the pope. That's kind of its raison d'etre, in fact. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 4/26/2014 10:09 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: You do realize that vast majori

[FairfieldLife] Re: Portia de Rossi Pregnant

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
Really? She'd file for divorce just because something's wrong with the marriage? How petty! Judy, We still don't know if this story is true or not. Yes, that's why I said "most likely possibility" and "almost certainly just a dumb rumor." Are any of those words unfamiliar to you?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Portia de Rossi Pregnant

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
Most likely possibility: She isn't pregnant. This is a story from the National Enquirer. It's almost certainly just a dumb rumor, tabloid B.S. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Anything is possible in any marriage these days. Gay or straight. http://www.inquisitr.com/1225474/

[FairfieldLife] Re: When it isn't your time to go....

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
Oh, OK, thought you were being sarcastic. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Sorry, but Edg's right: I know, that's why I said yeah... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naSZBdJoEbM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naSZBdJ

[FairfieldLife] Re: When it isn't your time to go....

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
Sorry, but Edg's right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naSZBdJoEbM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naSZBdJoEbM Courtesy snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp (Actually, the Snopes.com cite is courtesy one of

Re: [FairfieldLife] The poetry of motion

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
Good one, Share! Wow! thanks, salyavin PS I'd say this is one way that balls can be used to prove the existence of God (-: On Friday, April 25, 2014 5:53 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Pendulum Waves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkdfJ9PkRQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkdfJ9

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-25 Thread authfriend
yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "authfriend@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer Ooops. Looks like I pushed a few more of Barry's buttons. It makes him absol

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-24 Thread authfriend
Ooops. Looks like I pushed a few more of Barry's buttons. It makes him absolutely crazy that I'm actually a fairly nice-looking dame rather than the hideous hag of his nightmares. In many cases what people say about your face is more devastating than turning it into a caricature. We see pol

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-24 Thread authfriend
Barry's linked to that "Barry's fantasy image of Judy" photo at least a dozen times since I posted it (and at one point he did a Photoshop job making it appear to be a huge crop circle). Talk about obsession! Admittedly, the photo was an afterthought. If anybody wants to see what I look like w

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-24 Thread authfriend
posted it seven years ago. It's haunted his dreams ever since. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "authfriend@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Bel

Re: [FairfieldLife] The World's Highest Ranking Alien Believer

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
Willytex is only pretending, but I certainly am an ET. Just ask Barry. Why do you think I freak him out so badly? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I am perfectly willing to believe that WillyTex and possbily Judy are indeed ET's. On

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
Share, were you in the Reply window when you tried to do the edit? What's "File Edit"? I have no trouble editing in Neo. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Richard, I just attempted to edit your post in Neo. I highlighted what i wanted to edit. When I hit backspace, nothing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji "is to be praised"?

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
Oh, for crying out loud, Michael. This is just as extreme, and just as laughably unrealistic, as the effusions of the blissninniest TM TB. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Nope this WAS the plan all along - to use the idea of enlightenment and whatever else would sell to ge

Re: [FairfieldLife] ACTIVE Need for More Meditation, Chemtrails Discussed At United Nations, Must Watch For All Non-belivers

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
"Better is death in one's own dharma; the dharma of another brings danger."--3:35, Maharishi's translation ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Buck, it isn't everyone's dharma to be meditating more and as it says in the Gita, the dharma of another, though higher, brings danger. Bett

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Brahmachari Girish Varma Ji "is to be praised"?

2014-04-23 Thread authfriend
For once I completely agree with Barry: the guy is positively icky. But then, that's what I thought about Fred Lenz too. (Maybe even ickier given that he was better looking.) Run away! Run away! When it comes to Girish Varma, IMO anyone who couldn't just look at photos of him

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Projection, as I just pointed out. This is a person who actually believed Robin Carlsen was bright and charismatic and worth following as a spiritual teacher. > As opposed to Barry who actually believed Fred Lenz was bright enough to turn huge halls golden and worth following as a spiritual t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
oopsie! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I'll reply just because it's perversely pleasing to see Judy trying to steal someone else's funny insult because she's incapable of thinking up her own. She's been reduced to "I know she is, but so are you!&qu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Actually, the "fire hydrant" analogy is a perfect one for Barry's near-total ignorance of metaphyics. (As well as of Robin.) Discussions of God and theology make Barry very nervous; that's why he's especially irritable and gratuitously nasty this morning. But what do you think of the me

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Just out of curiosity, Barry, when have I "tried to appear technical" without having a clue? Let's have an example. You're "pulling a Judy," Share, and trying to appear technical while having nary a clue.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Bar, you have NO IDEA how transparent your mind is. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "authfriend@..." To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Barry was taking a shot at me because he assumed I'd started the God argument in this exchange (not having read the whole thing, as usual). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Hey, Salyavin, you and I were talking about paranormal r

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Me in blue... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Hey, Salyavin, you and I were talking about paranormal research in this exchange, remember? You brought God into it, not me. I think God is quite paranormal and Ed Fess usually

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Barry has always been...uh...metaphysically challlenged. ;-) Hey, Bar, "metaphysical ultimacy" isn't an argument, unprovable or otherwise. It's just a technical term. Relax. You mean unprovable arguments like "metaphysical ultimacy?" I'm sorry, but that strikes me as a made-up phrase desi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-22 Thread authfriend
Hey, Salyavin, you and I were talking about paranormal research in this exchange, remember? You brought God into it, not me. BTW, the light green type you're using now is so faint it's really hard to read. Please pick something darker. Again, speaking just for myself, I have no problem

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-21 Thread authfriend
Xenosophistry: you can't beat it. Metaphysical ultimacy = divine simplicity. Being Itself. Doesn't get much simpler than that. Quantum mechanics, most successful theory in the history of science. And the simple formula that everyone can understand is...? “Do not keep saying to yourself

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What are the *benefits* of believing in God?

2014-04-21 Thread authfriend
More comments below (in blue). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Comments below... > One reason I don't rule paranormal stuff out is that I'm not convinced > science knows how to test for some of it. I could not possibly disagre

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-21 Thread authfriend
Summary! my own summery

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hey Sal, Re: Entities

2014-04-21 Thread authfriend
This sounds like one of Barry's paranoid fantasies--that Steve, by his own admission, wants to "force" atheists to be uncomfortable. There's zero indication of that in what Steve wrote. He lists some possible future scientific developments that he speculates might make an atheist uncomfortable

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Depends on whether you say something nefarious, Curtis. Maybe you're just too entrenched in the behavior to change. Interesting that you can't acknowledge anything I wrote in this post. Doesn't bode well, but we'll see. Here's Feser's post on classical theism, the one you said was a good s

[FairfieldLife] Brain injury makes man a math genius

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
What are the implications? For the nature of consciousness, perhaps for reincarnation? First paragraph of an excerpt from the book "Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel" http://www.amazon.com/Struck-Genius-Injury-Mathematical-Marvel/dp/0544045602/?tag=saloncom08

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday!

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
I imagine *pop* will be bringing in the *take-out*. On Sunday, April 20, 2014 2:36 PM, "authfriend@..." wrote: Mike, a minute ago she scooted out of the nest carrying something fairly substantial in her beak that she apparently deposited outside somewhere. Couldn't see what it

Re: [FairfieldLife] Is Classical Theism Really the Strongest Version of the God Idea?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
It occurs to me that I should make this additional point: If Curtis can effectively deal with the classical theism argument, he'll have done precisely what I said those who wish to debunk theism should do: address the strongest argument for it. If he does this well and responsibly, with intel

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday!

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Mike, a minute ago she scooted out of the nest carrying something fairly substantial in her beak that she apparently deposited outside somewhere. Couldn't see what it was; could it have been the remains of the carcass she was feeding the chicks? Was she housecleaning? Dinnertime's over; she'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday!

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Oh, she's feeding them, right this instant! Hubby must have brought some grub. Shame there's no microphone; it would be fun to hear their peeps. They look like they're making quite a racket. Little pure white puffballs! http://www.pacast.com/players/falcon.asp http://www.pacast.com/players/fa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Ishtar?

2014-04-20 Thread authfriend
Hate to say it, Salyavin, but it looks like somebody messed with your gal. Here's a photo of the same British Museum sculpture from Wikipedia: She doesn't look at all disgruntled in this photo. Wha' hoppen? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yaho

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