[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-03 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anatol_zinc anatol_zinc@ wrote: don't know if this guy is genuine but believe it is possible in Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda writes about two

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-03 Thread Duveyoung
Lurk -- you did not read my words correctly. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Lurk, The guy has not been observed long enough to declare a miracle. This means I want to see more time spent no peeing etc.not that the proof so far is not valid. And, as we

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-02 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Lurk, The guy has not been observed long enough to declare a miracle. And, as we know, bribery is the life blood of India. Sounds

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-02 Thread lurkernomore20002000
A couple comments I don't doubt that to be the case. However this doesn't appear to be the classic bribe taking scenario So, Indians are likely incapable of a honest inquiry about this? I would go further and say that people who are heavily invested in the *idea* of miracles are the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-02 Thread WillyTex
Duveyoung: ...bribery is the life blood of India. lurk: Sounds like a pretty harsh, even bigoted judgement... Maybe what Edg means is Indians as a group give and accept bribes - that's how they make a living. Maybe Edg wants to pass a law deporting all Indians from the U.S. because

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-02 Thread anatol_zinc
don't know if this guy is genuine but believe it is possible in Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda writes about two lady saints who did not take food for decades one was a Catholic nun whom I assume was investigated and watched by the church but most of all I believe Yogananda and

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-02 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anatol_zinc anatol_z...@... wrote: don't know if this guy is genuine but believe it is possible in Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda writes about two lady saints who did not take food for decades one was a Catholic nun whom I assume was

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-01 Thread lurkernomore20002000
I saw this article earlier this week, and didn't get a chance to comment on it. Recently Edg commented that had Fred Lenz really been able to levitate that you would have gobs of people and press, and even the govenrment all over it. And I said that sometimes the things you expect the press

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-01 Thread Duveyoung
Lurk, The guy has not been observed long enough to declare a miracle. And, as we know, bribery is the life blood of India. The guy could be merely fasting and secretly pissing in a wad of tissue which he hands off to a friend. I saw this article yesterday about an American guy, decades ago,

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-01 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: I saw this article earlier this week, and didn't get a chance to comment on it. Recently Edg commented that had Fred Lenz really been able to levitate that you would have gobs of people and press, and even

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip The only people really into miracles are those who have never seen any. Show them one right in front of their eyes and the first thing that most of them do is find some way to rationalize it away, so that they never

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-01 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: I saw this article earlier this week, and didn't get a chance to comment on it. Recently Edg commented that had Fred Lenz really been

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-01 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sundur@ wrote: I saw this article earlier this week, and didn't get a chance

[FairfieldLife] Re: The BBC: Saint who has lived without food, water for 70 yrs

2010-05-01 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Lurk, The guy has not been observed long enough to declare a miracle. And, as we know, bribery is the life blood of India. Sounds like a pretty harsh, even bigoted judgement. So, Indians are likely incapable of a honest