[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:55 PM, emptybill wrote: > > > Counterviews not considered, as usual. Vaj just talks the > > usual stuff. > > > > http://www.sandeepweb.com/2011/08/09/lies-damned-lies-and-meera-nanda/ > > > Don't you just hate those wom

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread Vaj
On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:55 PM, emptybill wrote: > Counterviews not considered, as usual. Vaj just talks the usual stuff. > > http://www.sandeepweb.com/2011/08/09/lies-damned-lies-and-meera-nanda/ > > Don't you just hate those women caste protestors!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread emptybill
Counterviews not considered, as usual. Vaj just talks the usual stuff. http://www.sandeepweb.com/2011/08/09/lies-damned-lies-and-meera-nanda/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Dec 30, 2011, at

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread curtisdeltablues
I recently read about people taking a technology sabbath on Sundays by having the whole family unplug for a day. I would like to do it, it would do me so much good. But short of an intervention I am not sure I am going to pull it off on my own! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turq

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread Vaj
On Dec 30, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Susan wrote: I find this hard to believe - that the government is paying for these schools. But I am going to ask an Indian friend who returns to Delhi with her family every year for a few weeks. I know there is a sense that the Westerners rediscovered or co-o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > I am coining the term iphone orphans. I see it all the time, > parents walking with kids and intend of interacting with them > they are glued to screens. You can see whole families around > restaurant tables each in their own

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread Susan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Susan wrote: > > > Wayback: Very interesting post, Vaj. The use of science to validate > > spiritual experiences is one thing, but using the Vedic knowledge > > to justify all sorts of applications of scie

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread curtisdeltablues
I am coining the term iphone orphans. I see it all the time, parents walking with kids and intend of interacting with them they are glued to screens. You can see whole families around restaurant tables each in their own cyber world. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > -

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread Susan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > > > Speaking of video gaming, I just learned of international > > competitions in a game called Star Craft 2. Lots of money > > to be made if you win. The best players on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > I have a serious question for you and I hope you take a moment to answer > > it. How do you det

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread Vaj
On Dec 30, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Susan wrote: Wayback: Very interesting post, Vaj. The use of science to validate spiritual experiences is one thing, but using the Vedic knowledge to justify all sorts of applications of science is something I had not considered, altho it all rings familiar. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > Speaking of video gaming, I just learned of international > competitions in a game called Star Craft 2. Lots of money > to be made if you win. The best players on the planet are > young Koreans, who actually spend every waking moment

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread Buck
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > I have a serious question for you and I hope you take a moment to answer it. > How do you determine who is a prophet? In particular, how can you explain > why Guru De

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread Susan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > This is such a nail down, thanks for posting this. It explains so much about > Maharishi's triumphalist approach to science. But deeper than that, since > time has marginalized the TM group, it reveals a major thinking flaw

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread curtisdeltablues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: I have a serious question for you Doug and I hope you take a moment to answer it. How do you determine who is a prophet? In particular, how can you explain why Guru Dev is a prophet, but Rev, Sun Yung Moon is not? What are the criteria and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread curtisdeltablues
The antidote to the body buzz of sitting in the blissful atmosphere of Fairfield would be to actually read the Laws of Manu. They represent some of the most hideous cruel backward thinking in any religious text. And we have already been around the bend of Maharishi's phony claim that it was a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread curtisdeltablues
This is such a nail down, thanks for posting this. It explains so much about Maharishi's triumphalist approach to science. But deeper than that, since time has marginalized the TM group, it reveals a major thinking flaw that affects public policy. And given India's rise in the world, this is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread Vaj
On Dec 30, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Buck wrote: > > people remain > mired in a view of the world that is deeply irrational and > objectively false.  > > Nanda Meera > Prophets Facing Backward > Well, that's certainly a point of view from Nanda'a simple lack of spiritual experience, just arguing wi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic War and the Pizza Effect

2011-12-30 Thread Buck
> > people remain > mired in a view of the world that is deeply irrational and > objectively false.  > > Nanda Meera > Prophets Facing Backward > Well, that's certainly a point of view from Nanda'a simple lack of spiritual experience, just arguing with the progress of the new age. He an