[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear IMHO that we have a person on this list who has defined his behavior as Satire. THose on the recieving end feel and know it as sarcasm with a nasty bite, one might even call it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Akasha/Anon/Braaahmaan, Hey man, I'm withdrawing from our head-butting discussion. If you've realized that spending *any* time interacting with a certain person or persons is fruitless and always have been, you can

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Akasha/Anon/Braaahmaan, Hey man, I'm withdrawing from our head-butting discussion. If you've realized that spending *any* time

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread Peter
--- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Akasha/Anon/Braaahmaan, Hey man, I'm withdrawing from our head-butting discussion.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread Premanand Paul Mason
Whilst I hold that meditation is a good practise for winding-down and rediscovering oneself, I doubt the promises that it automatically makes anyone more spiritual. For that one needs to connect and relate to the suffering and joy of others. When did you last cry? --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Akasha/Anon/Braaahmaan, Hey man, I'm withdrawing from our

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've realized that spending *any* time interacting with a certain person or persons is fruitless and always have been, you can skip the whole process by hitting 'Next the momemnt you see their name in the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread Peter
--- lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've realized that spending *any* time interacting with a certain person or persons is fruitless and always have been, you can skip the whole

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Akasha/Anon/Braaahmaan, Hey man, I'm withdrawing from our

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whilst I hold that meditation is a good practise for winding-down and rediscovering oneself, I doubt the promises that it automatically makes anyone more spiritual. For that one needs to connect and relate

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-19 Thread braaahmaan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've realized that spending *any* time interacting with a certain person or persons is fruitless and always have been, you can

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread Peter
--- braaahmaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, yes. Sorry. I forgot to state the obvious prediction: you see rage and anger in my post. hahaha. What else is new? And what else is new in your denial! Can you cite one post that pokes fun at you, or criticizes you, in which you don't, in YOUR

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- braaahmaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, yes. Sorry. I forgot to state the obvious prediction: you see rage and anger in my post. hahaha. What else is new? And what else is new in your denial! Can you cite

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread Premanand Paul Mason
It's interesting to see that recently posters have used the suggestion that someone might be angry as a way of attempting to disgrace or belittle them. It is spiritual fascism to come on like this. Oh I should add,, IMHO --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, braaahmaan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, braaahmaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip That you find satire passive-aggressive is interesting. As asked before,do you find all satire as such? Or just what you find to be bad satire? Or just satire directed at you or your friends? I'd never thought

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, braaahmaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Again, looking at the comment that started this exchange, whats not funny about someone proclaiming that Brahman is seing and writing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread Premanand Paul Mason
I remember attending a social evening attended by TM meditators. I found myself talking to one of the Muesli Mafia, a really laid-back blissed-out sort, an example of just how wonderful one might become. I determined to probe how deep or permanent was this equanimity, minutes later he was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's interesting to see that recently posters have used the suggestion that someone might be angry as a way of attempting to disgrace or belittle them. It is spiritual fascism to come on like this. Oh I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, braaahmaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip That you find satire passive-aggressive is interesting. As asked before,do you find all satire as such? Or just what you find to be

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Premanand Paul Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's interesting to see that recently posters have used the suggestion that someone might be angry as a way of attempting to disgrace or belittle them. It is spiritual fascism to come on like this. Oh I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd never thought about it before, but it seems to me as I read your question that satirical and passive- aggressive are virtually synonymous. There are other forms

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd never thought about it before, but it seems to me as I read your question that satirical and passive- aggressive are virtually synonymous. There are other forms

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
It would appear IMHO that we have a person on this list who has defined his behavior as Satire. THose on the recieving end feel and know it as sarcasm with a nasty bite, one might even call it rage. Asking the Fox to tell you the opinions of the chickens in the chicken house seems inappropriate. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis
Judy writes snipped: I'm not sure that was what Tom was saying anyway. I *think* what he meant--Tom, please correct me if I'm wrong--was simply that he has realized experientially that Brahman is all he sees and all he says (and all any of us see or say, wrong or right, bad or good, the only

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear IMHO that we have a person on this list who has defined his behavior as Satire. THose on the recieving end feel and know it as sarcasm with a nasty bite, one might even call it rage.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, braaahmaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear IMHO that we have a person on this list who has defined his behavior as Satire. THose on the recieving

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear IMHO that we have a person on this list who has defined his behavior as Satire. THose on the recieving end feel and know it as sarcasm with a nasty bite, one might even call it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
And you clearly read Unc's posts that proceeded it? One cannot begin to understnd satire if they do not understand the references. If you had not carefuly read Barry's campfire and related posts, sure, the Braaahmaan post might sound a bit raw. Just as Peter apparently had not read Unc's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also had quite a lengthy exchange with this 'genius' where much of what I said was scrutinized and insulted, to the point where I will not engage him anymore. And yet of what I read of that exchange, you never

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Recently he was attempting to bully TurquoiseB, as per this exchange: And you can't see that the post he was responding to was at least as bullying? And completely lacked the overlay of humor, was just plain

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Recently he was attempting to bully TurquoiseB, as per this exchange: And you can't see that the post he was responding to was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Dec 18, 2005, at 12:40 PM, jyouells2000 wrote: When 'they' want to attempt the ultimate put down: sexually repressed, Republican You mean there's a difference? :) Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Recently he was attempting to bully TurquoiseB,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
Actually, I found Unc's campfire post amusing (in a good way) and insightful, well--- entertaining at least -- a late night rift -- him posing as if someone like curley from those billy crystal movies -- a tough weathered, few words, word and grip is lke iron, type cowboy. Saying we all have our

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread braaahmaan
It would appear IMHO that we have a person on this list who has defined his behavior as Satire. THose on the recieving end feel and know it as sarcasm with a nasty bite, one might even call it rage. Asking the Fox to tell you the opinions of the chickens in the chicken house seems

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread Peter
Dear Akasha/Anon/Braaahmaan, Hey man, I'm withdrawing from our head-butting discussion. We've done this dance several times before and we always end-up in the same place. There must be somehting of value in this for us! So, I love your serious posts. You've got a great intellect and great

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-18 Thread jyouells2000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 18, 2005, at 12:40 PM, jyouells2000 wrote: When 'they' want to attempt the ultimate put down: sexually repressed, Republican You mean there's a difference? :) Sal Just another way of clouding or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Seeing Rage

2005-12-17 Thread braaahmaan
Oh, yes. Sorry. I forgot to state the obvious prediction: you see rage and anger in my post. hahaha. What else is new? Can you cite one post that pokes fun at you, or criticizes you, in which you don't, in YOUR EYES, see rage and anger in the poster? Lets list the posts explicitly. Its such a