[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-17 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: snip Also, St. Aquinas (he may have gotten it from Plato) came up with a logical principle to follow regarding moral questions. The action that one takes to correct or answer a moral question should be inherently good in itself.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-16 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: Depression is always curable, all it takes is effort and a search for the personal best cure. Yeah, but depression *isn't* always curable; and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: To All: A British conductor and his wife decided to commit suicide. See link http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/world/europe/15britain.html?ref=world Let me see if I've got this straight: * Believing that myths and fairy tales

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip * Believing that someone who is old enough to be a grandfather but who still enjoys sex is acting like a teenybopper There are many more ways, of course, in which Barry acts like a teenybopper. snip * Having been

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread Hugo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip * Believing that someone who is old enough to be a grandfather but who still enjoys sex is acting like a teenybopper There are many more ways, of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread raunchydog
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: I find the idea worrying. Someone with depression wanted to visit this clinic, not sure how it turned out but what doctor could kill someone *just* because they wanted to die? Depression is always curable, all it takes is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Seems to me it's the most fundamental violation of human rights to force somebody to endure whatever unpleasantness they want to avoid by taking their

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: A British conductor and his wife decided to commit suicide. See link http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/world/europe/15britain.html?ref=world Let

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread John
I find the idea worrying. Someone with depression wanted to visit this clinic, not sure how it turned out but what doctor could kill someone *just* because they wanted to die? Depression is always curable, all it takes is effort and a search for the personal best cure. I don't think it should

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip * Believing that someone who is old enough to be a grandfather but who still enjoys sex is acting like a teenybopper There are many more ways, of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread Robert
(snip)_ Again, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I had a friend who was manic-depressive who made a *heroic* effort to get better--from one medication to the next, hospitalization, therapy--for many years with no discernible improvement. Finally she decided enough was enough and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread Nelson
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote: I find the idea worrying. Someone with depression wanted to visit this clinic, not sure how it turned out but what doctor could kill someone *just*

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ignorance in High Society?

2009-07-15 Thread John
Not if they've been doing sadhana for awhile. They should be at least judging matters as lines on water. I learned years ago not to judge anything on how other people think. This came when as a high school jazz musician back in the 1960s that the public cared little for good