[FairfieldLife] Re: "Japan and God": Reprise

2011-05-01 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > Remember that appalling video that was linked here > featuring a fundamentalist college gal complaining > about "Asians in the library" using their cell phones > to call relatives in Japan after the earthquake--the > earthquake she sai

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-17 Thread Mike Dixon
permitted to build it? I'm all for nuclear power, but please, a little common sense, not on or near active faults or on shores prone to tsunamis. From: Robert To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 11:54:54 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-17 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > (snip) > > Well, according to the law of karma, the Japanese of course > > get what they deserve. I wasn't accusing anybody. > > So, why fram it "God of Israel against Japan"... > what does that mean... > There have been many nuclea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-16 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > So, not only can we blame the Jews, but we now can also blame their god. I'd > rather blame all the rajas, especially King Tony, for not creating a better > ME. > At least Bush dodges this one, for now. > Maybe it's just the 'Earth's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-16 Thread Robert
(snip) > Well, according to the law of karma, the Japanese of course > get what they deserve. I wasn't accusing anybody. So, why fram it "God of Israel against Japan"... what does that mean... There have been many nuclear physicist, some Jewish and some from other races, and nationalities..

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-16 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "danfriedman2002" > wrote: > > > > I wish I could say that I'm shocked by cardemaister's comment. I only ask > > that card try to reflect on his words. > > > > Dan Friedman > > > Don't be sh

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-16 Thread whynotnow7
Wow vs Why - I like that. I agree with a lot of what you say here Turq, though I see the "set up" as dueling tendencies within us humans to have both an insatiable curiosity, and to want to find answers. And each six plus billion of us has a different take on "the answer". Our existence here

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-16 Thread danfriedman2002
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-16 Thread WillyTex
turquoiseb: > And this tendency in human beings to want "pat > answers" to unanswerable questions has been the > basis of centuries of war, suffering, and intol- > erance... > So, this is your "pat" answer. > > I am not inventing a God that hates Japan... > > It's just that some of us, like to h

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-16 Thread cardemaister
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > Oops that should have been intellectual and not interlectual, though he does > sound interlectual - Lectures of intermediate intellect. Nice! According to my Latin dictionary, the root of "intellectual" is the Latin verb "intel-leg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-16 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > I am not inventing a God that hates Japan... > It's just that some of us, like to have a reason, > Why things happen as they do.. And this tendency in human beings to want "pat answers" to unanswerable questions has been the basis of cent

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > Karma is not a notion of any particular movement or religion... > > > > > > It is a spiritual notion and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "danfriedman2002" wrote: > > I wish I could say that I'm shocked by cardemaister's comment. I only ask > that card try to reflect on his words. > > Dan Friedman > Don't be shocked Dan... Just be couragous, like Dan in the Lion's Den... There's still muc

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread whynotnow7
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > > > > > I would blame God for cre

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread emptybill
Yeah ... blame that little daimon yhwh for all that Jewish karma. That's why Jesus was crucified – he was really a daimon and thus could proclaim himself as the little YHVH. In the end he got his karmuppance. To bad for him. Now he knows how it feels to be massacred. His karma was to take rebirt

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread Ravi Yogi
Oops that should have been intellectual and not interlectual, though he does sound interlectual - Lectures of intermediate intellect. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > Thanks for clarifying - I guess I didn't pay attention to your emails - I > shouldn't have relied

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread Ravi Yogi
Thanks for clarifying - I guess I didn't pay attention to your emails - I shouldn't have relied on Turq, the master of interlectual deception's comments :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > > > For me Kar

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" wrote: > For me Karma is not a theory but an intimate spiritual principle for self > improvement that teaches feminine spiritual qualities such as faith and > acceptance and I definitely disagree with PaliGap and Robert - it is not > meant to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread danfriedman2002
I wish I could say that I'm shocked by cardemaister's comment. I only ask that card try to reflect on his words. Dan Friedman --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > > > So, not only can we blame the Jews, but we

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread Sal Sunshine
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > So, not only can we blame the Jews, but we now can also blame their god. I'd > rather blame all the rajas, especially King Tony, for not creating a better > ME. > At least Bush dodges this one, for now. > > > > > __

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread Ravi Yogi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb > > > That's where I would differ from most believers > in karma, *especially* any of the New Agers. I > don't see any "moral" component to karma at all. > Of course, I don't see any "moral" component to > the universe at all, either, so I'

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread wgm4u
Now we can see how Atlantis sunk... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Yeah, I agree that karma can't be proven, or even seen as necessary for > understanding life. If it were, everyone would know about it. Of the things > we need as humans, food, clothing, shelt

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread whynotnow7
Yeah, I agree that karma can't be proven, or even seen as necessary for understanding life. If it were, everyone would know about it. Of the things we need as humans, food, clothing, shelter, water and space (off the top of my head), karma isn't on the list. So it gets relegated to the much la

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > > > I would blame God for creating life in the first place. I > > > think we would all have been better of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > I would blame God for creating life in the first place. I > > think we would all have been better off without it. > > The rest of life on the planet would surely have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread feste37
Ah, I'd not seen that before. Very nice. My references are more classical. Here is old misery guts Sophocles, for example, from Oedipus at Colonus: Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light And then go back quickly whence we came. --- In Fairfie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > I would blame God for creating life in the first place. I > think we would all have been better off without it. "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad mov

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > I would blame God for creating life in the first place. I > think we would all have been better off without it. The rest of life on the planet would surely have been better off without Homo sapiens. Do we (Homo sapiens) have some kind o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Yeah, agreed. Karma is a feeling or an intuitive thing that > seems to work well as a personal teaching mechanism for me, > but I find it impossible to apply to the actions of someone > else, except as a kind of slang - for example, if

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread feste37
I would blame God for creating life in the first place. I think we would all have been better off without it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > So, not only can we blame the Jews, but we now can also blame their god. I'd > rather blame all the rajas, especially King

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread whynotnow7
Yeah, agreed. Karma is a feeling or an intuitive thing that seems to work well as a personal teaching mechanism for me, but I find it impossible to apply to the actions of someone else, except as a kind of slang - for example, if someone is really speeding on the freeway, and later I see him get

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread WillyTex
> > But I think us karma believers typically add an extra > > dimension to the austere and blind "laws of thermodynamics": > > the moral dimension. So there becomes a qualitative (or > > "moral") measure to the action/reaction principle... > > urquoiseb: > Karma is a THEORY. Nothing more... > S

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > (snip) > > More like, how greedy is it, to build a nuclear power station > > in the middle of an earthquake zone? > > Last time I counted there were nine large-scale > nucle

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > > > Karma is not a notion of any partic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > Karma is not a notion of any particular movement or religion... > > > > > > It is a spiritual notion and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > Karma is not a notion of any particular movement or religion... > > > > It is a spiritual notion and a fact of physics... > > But by most accounts, it's inscrutable. > > So

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > > > (snip) > > > More like, how greedy is it, to build a nuclear power station > > > in the middle of an earth

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread PaliGap
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > Japan like the Germans of the Nazi Era, committed many > atrocities and 'Crimes Agains Humanity'... > > What is happening in Japan, is perhaps due to karma from > that time... > > Besides the Mayor of Tokyo, said that, it was 'God's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > > > (snip) > > More like, how greedy is it, to build a nuclear power station > > in the middle of an earthquake zone? > > Last time I counted there were nine large-scale > nuc

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Robert" wrote: > > (snip) > More like, how greedy is it, to build a nuclear power station > in the middle of an earthquake zone? Last time I counted there were nine large-scale nuclear plants in California. Both San Onofre and Diablo Canyon are sitting *on

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God?

2011-03-15 Thread Robert
(snip) More like, how greedy is it, to build a nuclear power station in the middle of an earthquake zone? R.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > In my understanding, the most remarkable developers of nuclear > energy and bombs were Jewish (Einstein, Oppenheimer...). > > So, is it possible that the God of Israel is using nuclear > energy to punish Japanese for their pagan r