[FairfieldLife] Re: RoP?

That's the kind of info I'd rather not know about. There is precedent: after WWII the US government suppressed details of the Japanese torture of American PoWs. On PC speak, Stephen Fry makes his protest here . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJQHakkViPo

[FairfieldLife] Re: White Christian America’s Waning Cultural Influence

Re Ann's "I have as much sympathy and empathy with "White Christian America" as I do with that bullfighter": Would you say: "I have as much sympathy and empathy with Black American Muslims as I do with that bullfighter" ? No you wouldn't. Aren't whites getting "paranoid" because they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are We Suffering the Conseqences of Too Much Democracy?

Re "I'm suspecting that the UK joined the EU at the wrong date and hour" : Completely agree. We should either have joined at the outset and used our then still-existing prestige to push the union in an "Anglo-Saxon" liberal direction, or we should have left the other nations to forge a

[FairfieldLife] The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

The venerable Golden Dawn ritual used to clear the air before any spiritual activity is nicely explained in this YouTube vid. (Don't blame me if you end up summoning one of the 72 demons imprisoned by King Solomon in a brass vessel!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d48Ldk-TPn0

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are We Suffering the Conseqences of Too Much Democracy?

Representative democracy is fine as long as the politicians remember they are supposed to be tribunes of the people and they broadly support the wishes and values of the voters. As that is no longer the case and our ruling cliques are seen as remote, arrogant and elitist we need direct

[FairfieldLife] Re: Immigration reform.

There's been controversy recently about immigrants to the US not having to swear the full Oath of Allegiance. In 1953, the prophetic writer Aldous Huxley refused to swear that he would "bear arms on behalf of the United States" and so was denied US citizenship. It's tricky: would you

[FairfieldLife] Re: Youth Tissue Extract

Dracula was on to something . . . parabiosis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNTfjbG14Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNTfjbG14Y

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lindy Hop new Craze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahoJReiCaPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahoJReiCaPk

[FairfieldLife] Re: Medical errors

Re "Sounds like a plan. You go first!" : Only if you hold my hand. von Hartmann then realised that even if humans topped themselves the Earth could still develop future intelligent creatures via its trusty evolutionary method. So it wasn't enough to kill all people; all forms of life must

[FairfieldLife] Re: Medical errors

Re "Due to a metaphysical error, I was born. How can I fight for changes to prevent this happening to others?" Eduard von Hartmann [19th century] developed an extensive and unique treatment of universal suicide. It is heavily influenced by Buddhist thought. Hartmann posits three stages

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Power of I AM

The best of the American "New Thought" writers is William Samuel. He's the real deal. No bullshit here. "A Guide to Awareness and Tranquility" is the best book to start with. http://tinyurl.com/ht2dlt4 http://tinyurl.com/ht2dlt4

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rowling tweet: Scotland will seek indepence now!

Now it's your turn . . . http://www.thetnm.org/ http://www.thetnm.org/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Rowling tweet: Scotland will seek indepence now!

Opponents of the Confederacy pointed out that if you once allowed the southern states to secede there would then be no logical reason why that process shouldn't continue ad infinitum. If there was gold discovered in them thar hills in Iowa and the citizens realised they would be richer going

[FairfieldLife] Re: Odinism, a new religion with no rules

Re "I've heard that paganism is on the rise in Europe" : You heard right. But a lot of the appeal of the Norse option is that it is seen as not contaminated by Semitic attitudes. It definitely appeals to those on the radical right searching for their ethnic roots. This highlights one of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Odinism, a new religion with no rules

Re "Do we have members here in this new movement?" : Highly unlikely. Odinism is just a cleaned-up version of Nazi ideology.

[FairfieldLife] Re: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA

After these atrocities you always get politicians on the Left using it as an excuse for gun control and politicians on the Right using it as ammunition to attack Muslim immigration. We expect that. But the worst aspect is the way different victim groups start manouvering for advantage in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA

"Allah destroyed the people of Lot. Were they innocent?" Yes, I suspect they were innocent! The children for sure. Old Testament barbaric thinking that The New Testament tried to wean us from . . . The Koran was a backward step. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: VIOLENCE IN AMERICA

Gays against an irrational fear of Islam. You can't cure stupid.

[FairfieldLife] Re: German Court Applies Sharia to Child Marriage

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : The point of the article is that German Law was suspended by a German judge to allow Sharia to rule. EXACTLY. In the same way, English law should apply to everyone who settles in England. If you can't accept our culture then

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Haley and Roots

Re "Kin to Gen. Robert E Lee": Respect. Re your comment on the RoP thread: "Destroy all of the old cultures, religions, national borders, and national identities to remake the world.": I see that some philistine in Charlottesville has started a petition to remove the Robert E. Lee

[FairfieldLife] Re: Love This Man

Amen to that. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :

[FairfieldLife] Re: Religion of peace?

Suppose I were to say to you: "If you see a group of Germans you should a toss a grenade into their midst and let them share it out between them." Would not that be a vile piece of advice? But if you were a G.I. about to land on a Normandy beach in 1944 could that not be just the sort of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Alex Haley and Roots

When my father tried to trace back the roots of his family's line the farthest he could get back was the time of the French Revolution. I like to think we are descended from émigré Frog aristocracy. Our family's motto? "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" ("Let them eat cake" ).

[FairfieldLife] Re: Da-dee-dee Da-dee-dee versus Da Doo Ron Ron

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Wow... people just don't dress like they used to! Those flared pants made a comeback in the sixties and are popular again now! From: "s3raphita@... [FairfieldLife]" To:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Now It Can Be Told - There Is No Shankara In MMY's Teachings

since false knowledge is the cause of bondage, samâdhi cannot therefore be the cause of liberation. We get it, but re samâdhi : Shankara is simply saying that it's not a sufficient cause of liberation but it is surely a necessary cause. So MMY's attempt at a mass initiation via the TMO is

[FairfieldLife] Re: This is Eggzactly why Trump will be elected

Completely agree. People will see the violence of the anti-free speech mob and will think "This is what Obama's America has come to. We need Trump to restore civility." Ironic really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QPGeuduAr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QPGeuduAr4 ---In

[FairfieldLife] Da-dee-dee Da-dee-dee versus Da Doo Ron Ron

I've posted this clip from "The Chess Players" before, but does anyone know what that style of singing is called when the Indian male vocalist starts his "Da-dee-dee" noises at the 3:25 mark? Thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG-mE61bvlgindex=129list=FLJad8vN225Nr5hDIzlEOYMA

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are You Going to Greet Him or Protest Him?

Re "I find her [Ann Coulter] utterly loathsome" : She was on BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme last week. This has a celebrated reputation of hard-hitting interrogations by the presenters, so I thought: "Coulter is about to get her arse well and truly kicked." Instead, Coulter started

[FairfieldLife] Re: How America can Pay for its $20 trillion National Debt

Isn't letting inflation run riot the quickest way of paying off debt? A wheelbarrow load of old-skool dollar bills that can now only pay for a can of Coke is the way to go. An alternative is to declare the whole of the USA bankrupt. Apologise for any distress caused to your international

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are You Going to Greet Him or Protest Him?

Me neither option also. I'm watching all the Trump stump shenanigans from a safe distance. I find him quite amusing but then I don't think he actually believes what he spouts. Do you think people used to say the same thing about Adolph? Now if Ann Coulter were to become President then I'd

[FairfieldLife] A question for Anne

Anne has spoken : "I am also in the Never Trump fold and will remain so if it is the last thing I do." "Trump is so full of shit." "Trump has awakened and validated within a certain segment of the American population an anger and a hatred which will cause untold damage to everyone. He

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sharia enforced in London!?

The ginger-haired white chap shown was also pictured in a survey showing that "gingers" are more likely to be drawn to radical Islam than those with other hair colours! See here: http://universalfreepress.com/2015/ginger-jihadis-why-red-heads-are-converting-to-radical-islam/

[FairfieldLife] Indian vibes

The first western rock song to integrate Indian raga sounds - "See My Friends" by The Kinks. Inspiration for the song came from a stopover in Bombay during The Kinks' 1965 Asian tour, where the jetlagged Davies encountered fishermen chanting on their way to their morning work.

[FairfieldLife] Trump is going to make America great again, isn't he?

That's if I haven't misunderstood his campaign slogan . . . If (when?) Trump becomes President I'd intended to post an "amusing" comment on FFL - it would simply be that (awesome) final clip from "Planet of the Apes", when Heston despairingly cries out: "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Free will an illusion?

From the article: "The scientists cautioned that the illusion of choice might only apply to choices that are made quickly and without too much thought.": Precisely. If you're deciding whether to take up a job offer, marry your new partner or emigrate to Australia then the way you turn

[FairfieldLife] Sita Sings the Blues

The "Ramayana" animated! A film version of the legend and set to songs performed by 1930s jazz singer Annette Hanshaw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTg7YXuy34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTg7YXuy34

[FairfieldLife] Re: Trump's Christianity explained

Many today find themselves at odds with the liberal, PC establishment and are looking for an alternative philosophy. Realising that the West has been raised on Christianity some have decided that's the alternative option to go for. But what modern can sign up to the tenets of medieval

[FairfieldLife] Re: The War on Drugs

Thanks. Your experience sounds like what I half expected. I was always too fearful to give it a try in case it turned unpleasant! I recall when I was initiated the teacher asked me if I'd used drugs during the previous 15 days. I said not - as indeed I hadn't - but he was pretty dubious as I

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, Quietism, & the Quakers

Re "Thanks for the excellent quote by Alexander Parker": Yes, thanks for those limpid sentences. Can't imagine The Pope or Archbishop of Canterbury ever coming up with words like that. Jesus said: "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of

[FairfieldLife] Re: The War on Drugs

Did anyone on FFL ever try the experiment of having a TM session after smoking some weed? The effect might have been interesting . . . ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Donovan came to his Initiation high but still everything turned out ok.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How to Become a God

U G Krishnamurti had a radical physiological/psychological turnaround (he called it his "calamity") that seems to have left him asexual and spiritually transformed. (Oddly, Jiddu Krishnamurti [no relation!] had a not dissimilar spontaneous experience.) I've wondered if those who practise

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RIP

Never related much to Prince's output. But I did appreciate some of the cover versions, like Sinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U". This one by The Bangles ("Manic Monday") is a good 'un . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmVgoXDq2wlist=FLJad8vN225Nr5hDIzlEOYMAindex=18

[FairfieldLife] Re: I Remember

Interesting. Cohn was a lawyer of course. They've always been looked down on! I see he was involved in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Is it generally accepted these days that they were indeed atomic spies (though not deserving the death penalty) or is that still a controversial

[FairfieldLife] Re: The War on Drugs

The use of sniffer dogs at Manchester Airport has been criticised after dogs there failed to discover any Class A drugs in a seven-month period. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36041316 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36041316

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why did Humans Become Monogamous?

With the rise of indiscriminate promiscuity during the sixties I always marvelled how people were so blasé about the likelihood of picking up an STD. This attitude lasted until the emergence of the HIV virus. A comedy quiz on TV here had the guests devise slogans you would be unlikely to see

[FairfieldLife] Re: US Brings B-52 Bombers to Help Defeat ISIS

"No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence . . . Then 19 years is the term beyond which neither the representatives of a nation nor even the whole nation itself assembled can validly extend a debt." (Thomas Jefferson) You should have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Aquinas on God

Re "The Buddhist idea of Dependent Co-Arising, which is a philosophy that would allow for the concept of infinite regression to exist": Intriguing suggestion. Never thought of that. You sure you're a novice? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : These Crash

[FairfieldLife] Re: Message for Jim at the Peak

Re "It's a sense of purpose thing for me. You're part of something that's much larger than yourself. ": I understand where he's coming from. (An excellent Yank idiom that!) And good luck to him. But is it really so impossible a task to build a social order that gives all who yearn for a

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Whiny Brat

Re "Hillary is Mrs Establishment or same ol' same ol'.": Pretty depressing option. A boring, time-serving insider with nothing to say that inspires me or sounds like it wasn't written by a PR advisor. The only plus would be a female President. Might as well get that milestone out the way if

[FairfieldLife] Re: Athiest arguments

Best atheist arguments? Sam Harris is a humane, penetrating critic (and I can relate to his life experiences), but the others featured are not open to possibilities beyond the mundane. Nice challenge from Ricky Gervais though: if homosexuality is a free choice then why don't you try it?

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Buddha

Re "I don't believe that the Buddha fully resolved the question of Suffering": He may have done. But communicating the path (or leap?) (or letting-go?) to others was perhaps even trickier than resolving the question to his own satisfaction. Of course, making a distinction between the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Impossible God

I enjoyed that. I particularly liked: "Therefore, to argue that God exists is to deny him." That's the kind of paradoxical language that drives these new atheists up the wall. Is it gobbledygook? In a way it is. But it's gobbledygook at a higher, more suggestive level than the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: US Brings B-52 Bombers to Help Defeat ISIS

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Put it on the national *credit card*. I don't think so. It was Britain that put wartime bills onto the national credit card. (FACT: in 2015 Britain finally paid off the last of its World War One debts!) It really seems

[FairfieldLife] Re: US Brings B-52 Bombers to Help Defeat ISIS

Re "We got punked with Hitler and Japan": And yet the USA emerged from WWII not only as top nation but super wealthy. I never understood that. How can you splurge all those dollars on warships, tanks, aircraft, . . . , not to mention the ginormous expense of the atom bomb, . . . and all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Can This Guy Stoop Any Lower?

Re "Because these people earned this money, it is theirs to spend it any way they like.": Exactly! Mind you, I think the same applies when I hand over money to a pan-handler in the street. Once the cash leaves my hand it is his to do with as he chooses. I'd prefer it to go on food

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Jesus Christ Say He is the Unified Field?

Re "[The Eucharist] is not a symbol, it is the real thing - it is the literal flesh and blood of Christ transformed. ": Indeed, not a symbol - a concept or thought. But the literal flesh and blood are phenomenal through and through. (As are literal pines and their scent.) And all

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Jesus Christ Say He is the Unified Field?

Re "Reading scripture, libraries full of books, following one-pointed and intentional devotional paths through meditation, abstinence or asceticism just can't hold a candle to a noseful of pine scent as you stumble over moss-covered rocks on a woodland trail": Isn't that why Christians have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Jesus Christ Say He is the Unified Field?

Re "Reading scripture, libraries full of books, following one-pointed and intentional devotional paths through meditation, abstinence or asceticism just can't hold a candle to a noseful of pine scent as you stumble over moss-covered rocks on a woodland trail": Isn't that why Christians have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Jesus Christ Say He is the Unified Field?

Taking a first-century (named in his honour!) rabbi as a symbol of The One Self is fine - as long as you realise that he is only one symbol among many others. The problem that Christianity faces is its designation of Jesus as the one-and-only symbol. It's tricky! As there is only a unique

[FairfieldLife] Re: Did Jesus Christ Say He is the Unified Field?

That's my take also. Though I'd expect very few church-goers would understand what we're on about. Alan Watts wrote clearly defending this same interpretation. The more correct post header should be: Jesus Christ said "I am the Unified Field" - the "I" is all of us. ---In

[FairfieldLife] Re: More reasons to vote for The Donald??

There's a common sophomoric question: If you could go back in time would you kill Hitler before he gained power? I'd reply no as I have pronounced quietist tendencies but many (most?) would say yes. For those who compare Trump to the Austrian corporal isn't the logic of their position

[FairfieldLife] Re: Diet of Worms

Re "Since to be antinomian implies that the believer becomes automatically and instantaneously sinless": Sounds good to me! To belittle justification by faith is to find yourself condemned to trying to live up to an *external* standard (ie, not your own standard) which you must

[FairfieldLife] Re: Julius Evola - a heavy quote

It's a fantastic quote. Barry - over on FFL-2 - criticized my posting the passage as Evola flirted with fascism in the 1930s (and he was also a complete snob). That's true. Evola believed we are in the Kali Yuga and vainly hoped that fascism would put the brakes on the decline.

[FairfieldLife] Re: More reasons to vote for The Donald??

Sweden is a basket case. But then it always has been. Sweden cosied up to Hitler when the going got tough and they've been feeling guilty about it ever since. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : http://www.infowars.com/im-the-immigrant-fking-your-daughter/

[FairfieldLife] Julius Evola - a heavy quote

"While he who exists absolutely, without external supports, does not fear the infinite, does not fear chaos, does not fear what the Greeks called apeiron — because he sees reflected in it his own deepest nature as a being whose very substance is freedom — he who is transcendentally insufficient

[FairfieldLife] Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Asked why he hadn't lost his faith after the "Final Solution": "I know Jews who lost their faith in the Holocaust; who lost their faith because of the Holocaust; but with me I lost another kind of faith when I began in my late teens to reflect on the Holocaust. I lost faith in humanity;

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM, Quietism, & the Quakers

Miguel de Molinos was the main inspiration. But Madame Guyon - particularly through her book "A Short and Easy Method of Prayer" - helped popularize his approach. Her high-profile supporter was Archbishop Fenelon. All three were targetted by the Church hierarchy. The history of

[FairfieldLife] Mono footage of celebs and MMY at Rishikesh

Yet another mix of "Across The Universe" . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9O1uvlNaPAindex=1list=FLJad8vN225Nr5hDIzlEOYMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9O1uvlNaPAindex=1list=FLJad8vN225Nr5hDIzlEOYMA

[FairfieldLife] Re: 1 in 4 consider fleeing Trumpland

This is a threat(?) that crops up all the time in the UK with various celebs saying they'd leave the country if The Conservatives (or who-you-will) win the next election. I've never heard of one of them who made good on their promise. The only exception I know of is that rogue actor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Li Ching-Yuen

Thanks for that. I really love these "mysterious orient" anecdotes. They're like Arabian Nights' tales that *could* - just possibly - actually be true so they open an imaginative window in my soul that would otherwise remain closed. Goji berries huh. Do they taste nice? ---In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Here be dragons

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I'd love to have a home outside of Edinburgh. Are you wealthy? If not, forget it. Are you fit? Edinburgh is very hilly and it takes a dedicated slog to get around. But otherwise your desire is shared by me. The

[FairfieldLife] Here be dragons

A doctor has caught on camera the moment what looked like a fire-breathing dragon appeared over the skies of Edinburgh. Tom Foster, 25, was taking pictures of the Scottish capital when he said the "heaven's opened" and a giant rain-cloud appeared against the sunset.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Benito Trump

Mussolini (like Putin) liked to be photographed bare-chested. At least we've been spared that with The Donald.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why a Narcissist Like Trump is so dangerous as President

Re " I belong to the human race.": So did Alaric the Visigoth, Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan and his mongol hordes. ;-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You aren't very *aware* are you. I belong to the human race. Those are all the credentials I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Why a Narcissist Like Trump is so dangerous as President

Re "A global shaktipat": That's what the sixties' LSD advocates were attempting. It turned into another disastrous Children's Crusade. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Not force but a global shaktipat. On 03/06/2016 06:43 PM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why a Narcissist Like Trump is so dangerous as President

Re "Have you ever seen "The Handmaid's Tale" or read the book?": Not me. This is what always gets me about liberals. They worry about ridiculous paranoid fantasies: women in the US being forced into a serf-like status (I mean, c'mon: do American women strike you as that docile?) or they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Col. Henry Steele Olcott

These early pioneers in the opening up of the West to eastern philosophy and religions deserve more respect that they usually get nowadays. We know far more about Buddhism, Taoism and Vedanta than they could have had access to and, yes, they were gullible about the mysterious "wisdom of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Krishnamurti, Besant, and Leadbeater

Re "This Fairfield Liberal Catholic Church group was initiated by meditators on coming to Fairfield": Interesting cross-pollination. From the footage it is clear that Leadbeater had an attractive speaking voice and that Krishnamurti was a strikingly handsome young man. Yes, we all

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check it Out

empty also mentioned Eisenhower. I really should have remembered him. emily's link brings up the names Abraham Lincoln, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. All Republicans! So it's not as uncommon as I'd assumed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check it Out

Eisenhower! He was one of the greats. A "liberal Republican". ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Has it ever happened in recent US history that a non-professional politician has become President? Yep ... Dwight Eisenhower, who helped save your British Arse.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check it Out

Sorry - another Brit question. Trump isn't a member of either The Senate or The House of Representatives. Has it ever happened in recent US history that a non-professional politician has become President?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Check it Out

As a Brit watching this race from a safe distance I've observed Trump's rise with a certain amused detachment. I've been assuming that if Trump does become Republican candidate he would go down to defeat before Hillary. What shook me up was Trump's Nevada result after which he said: "You

[FairfieldLife] Re: Woman in black holding severed child's head

Evil woman. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Woman in black holding severed child's head near Moscow metro station detained (GRAPHIC) https://www.rt.com/news/333928-woman-severed-head-metro/ https://www.rt.com/news/333928-woman-severed-head-metro/ Woman

[FairfieldLife] Re: Some Good Thoughts Here

Re "So buckle up...I'm about to be politically incorrect.": But his rant is totally PC! And condescending - "you are probably a little racist and should work on that". "Racism" is the new original sin. You can never get free of it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Good One

To even use the names "Obama" and "Trump" in the same sentence is sacrilege. You'd be hard-pressed to find a Trump supporter who wouldn't fully endorse that sentence! Aren't you all making a mistake in just concentrating on Trump's (or Bernie's) rise? In Europe there is the same swing

[FairfieldLife] Re: A.H's final (unverified) prophecy

Frederic Raphael, who wrote the Eyes Wide Shut script for Stanley Kubrick recalled that Kubrick once remarked that "Hitler was right about almost everything." (Both Raphael and Kubrick were Jewish.) If someone made such a remark in my presence I'd ask them what exactly Hitler was right

[FairfieldLife] Soul music

Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979), directed by Peter Brook, and based on the book of the same name by Greek-Armenian mystic(charlatan?) G. I. Gurdjieff, was shot on location in Afghanistan (except for dance sequences, which were filmed in England). It starred Terence Stamp. The dances

[FairfieldLife] Re: Organ donation

Reminds me of Deepak Chopra's account recalling when MMY was seriously ill at the London Heart Hospital: Maharishi's complete recovery happened slowly. There was a point where the doctor informed us that he had severe anemia and needed a blood transfusion. When they typed and cross-matched

[FairfieldLife] Re: Thanks to a Friend

Re " I sometimes don't see my nose in front of my face." : You are close to the final enlightenment. There are no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. - The Heart Sutra ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Well, I've been told

[FairfieldLife] Re: Neoplatonism

Succinct and lucid. Two points: 1) Plotinus' claim that the sensible world was inferior but still noble was in response to Gnostic ideas that the world is evil. Curiously, he viewed Gnostics as being identical to Christians. A sure sign that Gnostics were far more influential in the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Chocolate is for life

They do have Aldi in the States. I live in London and I've *never* seen one of their stores. Lidl (also a German cut-price supermarket) is far more common here. Yank chocolate isn't bad but it's not a patch on UK chocolate. Can the Aldi brand really compare with Cadbury's milk

[FairfieldLife] Chocolate is for life

From The Telegraph: Cheering news for those with a sweet tooth - a recent study has found that regular chocolate consumption is associated with better cognitive function. According to the study, published in the journal Appetite, chocolate consumption was found to be associated with cognitive

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why ?men destroy civilizations?

This guy is seriously paranoid. (Almost scarily so.) Voting preferences of men and women in the UK show little gender variation. (Women are a few points more likely to vote Conservative than men.) Of course, to retain women's vote the parties have had to respond to women's concerns. But

[FairfieldLife] Déjà vu all over again

I listened to Hillary's victory speech: "We see African-American families denied mortgages at nearly three times the rate of white families." Hang on. Wasn't that Bill's big idea? The thinking that led to the subprime crisis? His grand plan that means we're all now in crippling debt

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Scalia Poisoned?

Re "a pillow over my head to muffle noise" : A "white noise" CD works for me. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Exactly, but that was the implication. Sensationalism! Quite frankly, I sleep almost every night, at some point, with a pillow over my head

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why we needed the Revolution

Re "I voted "Green" in Canada and I voted Bernie in the primary" : When western civilization finally collapses we'll all know who to blame ;-) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why we needed the Revolution

Re "What if you stood in front of a mosque and shouted: “Mohammed was a murderous pedophile” or “The Koran is a pack of lying hate vomited by a demon-worshiping schizoid”. Think they wouldn’t set upon you and beat you to death right there?": They definitely wouldn't be happy bunnies. We

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why we needed the Revolution

Re "We saved their arses in WW EYE EYE. Didn't mean much did it?" : Those Britain First activists would probably have been fighting for Hitler judging by their tactics! I'm pretty much a free-speech absolutist but this group are fringe yobbos - essentially a bunch of self-promoters.

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Originalists v Progressive Practitioners, The TM Movement Community

Re "Since when do "shyster lawyers" get to rule": Roe v. Wade? "The Court recognized the right to an abortion as a fundamental right included within the guarantee of personal privacy." Let me spell it out. Here in Europe abortion rights are not a live issue. The right of a woman to

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Originalists v Progressive Practitioners, The TM Movement Community

Re "Leave it to the individual states to decide" : My view also. And one of the most attractive features of the US federal structure. Here in the UK you can foul the atmosphere in a pub by asking if someone is for or against fox hunting/the ban on handguns/the smoking ban/ . . . I

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