[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-28 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christ climbed down from his bare tree this year and played poker with Shiva. They smoked fine Cuban cigars and drank expensive single malt liquors and played the music really loud. And finally, when the moon had set, and t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-26 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Having worked in video for years prior to becoming a > shrink, I can assure that the floating cross is no > accident. It might have been discovered by chance when > they were lighting the set, but the final product i

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-26 Thread Peter
--- ruthsimplicity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Lemme see if I can make the distinctions a little > > clearer. > > > > For Huckabee to put a cross in his ad in such a > > way as to send a covert messa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-26 Thread ruthsimplicity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lemme see if I can make the distinctions a little > clearer. > > For Huckabee to put a cross in his ad in such a > way as to send a covert message to the faithful, > and then pretend he didn't, is patently decept

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ruthsimplicity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Authfriend (Judy?) does some mighty fine parsing in calling Huckabee a > liar and calling him to be drummed out of Christianity and politics > for the vague moving cross in his ad, but calling for respect of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread Angela Mailander
Huckabeesterism has got to be the most brilliant term of the week. - Original Message From: Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 11:17:56 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread ruthsimplicity
Authfriend (Judy?) does some mighty fine parsing in calling Huckabee a liar and calling him to be drummed out of Christianity and politics for the vague moving cross in his ad, but calling for respect of the ice chanters and only feeling some "pause" over charges for viewing the ice. I know, not re

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 25, 2007, at 11:01 AM, authfriend wrote: I said "can be," not "always is"! I think we gotta give the payers, at least, the benefit of the doubt. And charging isn't necessarily mutually exclusive with sincerity, although it sure do give one pause. Huckabee denies the cross was intentio

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2007, at 10:17 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > I just think we don't always realize that > > weird stuff like ice lingams can actually be a > > focus of sincere religious feeling. > > It was a joke, Judy.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 25, 2007, at 10:17 AM, authfriend wrote: I just think we don't always realize that weird stuff like ice lingams can actually be a focus of sincere religious feeling. It was a joke, Judy. And if it's so sincere, why do they make people pay to see it? I've been influenced by an ar

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 25, 2007, at 8:43 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > Why is it OK here on FFL to be intolerant of > > the religious impulses of others? > > Because we're mostly a bunch of phony hypocrites, Judy, and > you, with yo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread Peter
--- boo_lives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > they're not going to see it, they're being paid to > worship it. 2 ice > "lingams" were found in vedic city, one by an > average couple and one > by a rich couple. the average guy couldn't afford > to pay to have the > pundits come chant so he was tol

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread Duveyoung
Judy, Good points about this issue, but still, I mean, come on, everyone gets ice formations on their downspouts, but, awhoa, the rich folks gotta have them worshipped or feel like they've snubbed Shiva-r-sumptin'? (I am all for lingam worship as legitimate spirituality for Hindus BTWdon't do

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 25, 2007, at 8:43 AM, authfriend wrote: Why is it OK here on FFL to be intolerant of the religious impulses of others? Because we're mostly a bunch of phony hypocrites, Judy, and you, with your amazing perception and ability to see through all the crapola, have once again ferreted t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "boo_lives" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine > > wrote: > > > > > > On Dec 24, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > > > Hey Rick,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-25 Thread boo_lives
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine > wrote: > > > > On Dec 24, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > Hey Rick, I think there actually is a lingam in Fairfield in > > > Vedic City. I prom

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 7:26 PM, george_deforest wrote: Sal, the current stories of an ice lingam in iowa are a replay of a similar event at maharishi's house in holland 2 yrs ago dhamiltony2k5 wrote: Auspicious happenings in Maharishi Vedic City; A deity in the form of an ice sculpture has emerg

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread george_deforest
> Rick Archer posted: > Hey Rick, I think there actually is a lingam in Fairfield > in Vedic City. I promised not to say who gave me the information, > but it is a totally reliable person. This person saw > the enclosed area from a short distance away. > Several pundits were entering and leav

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 4:35 PM, tertonzeno wrote: ---This online source says that there are 5 Shiva Lingams in India (associated with the 5 elements) but that the Arunachala Hill represents the fire element and extends 8 light years into the Heavens,...thus, being the biggest Limgam!: as a vast sp

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread tertonzeno
---This online source says that there are 5 Shiva Lingams in India (associated with the 5 elements) but that the Arunachala Hill represents the fire element and extends 8 light years into the Heavens,...thus, being the biggest Limgam!: as a vast spiritual organism, Shiva-Sirius would be your fi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 24, 2007, at 4:21 PM, authfriend wrote: Are these guys obsessed, or what? Something tells me they need to get out more, a lot more. Seems to me some folks here are at least as obsessed with it. At least the pundits are actually going to see it in the flesh, as it were. LOL. Y'all k

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lingam in FF

2007-12-24 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 24, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > Hey Rick, I think there actually is a lingam in Fairfield in > > Vedic City. I promised not to say who gave me the information, > > but it is a totally relia