RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-09 Thread Richard Hughes
>From: "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes >Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 07:49:30 - > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Hughes" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-09 Thread Richard Hughes
>From: "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes >Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:11:48 - > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-08 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/8/06 7:17 PM, wayback71 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Cool. I wish you well on that path. I'm definitely >> more of a Buddhist. May we all get to the same party >> location at some point, and get to sit down over a few >> margaritas and talk about the incredibly different >> routes we all

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-08 Thread Vaj
On Apr 8, 2006, at 9:09 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The man who takes every opportunity to hit the TMO > > for weird and crazy things and here you are defending > > probably one of the weirdest cults of them all:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-08 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/8/06 8:09 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Laugh while you can, Monkeyboy. > > (Trivia question here...who can name the movie > that the above quote comes from?) :-) Buckaroo Banzai? > > And to be even more in your face, death is going to > happen -- to YOU -- far sooner than

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes [Shemp]

2006-04-07 Thread Sal Sunshine
How do you know? All those people who bought them might be running around in heaven right now, having wild parties and boozing it up. Sal On Apr 7, 2006, at 7:53 PM, jyouells2000 wrote: > I love the idea of indulgences.  It quanitifies the field of karma > and like things with a price on th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes [Shemp]

2006-04-07 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:51 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: While I agree, I might point out that the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) is a real bargain if what you want is a fancy title. All you do is make up your own, make sure that the name could have existed during the time period and geographi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes [Shemp]

2006-04-07 Thread Vaj
On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:48 AM, markmeredith2002 wrote: > Those full-time in the tmo definitely honor the titles, though I don't > consider that insane. My main problem here is that MMY is still > giving out aristocratic titles and positions of authority to people > based on their financial contribu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-07 Thread Vaj
On Apr 7, 2006, at 8:00 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > Or, much better, read: "The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A > Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation," by Dalai Lama XIV, > Glenn H. Mullin, and Valerie Shepherd. > > This book lists the historical "tests" that were > performed to verify that the kid named as the r

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/06 6:18 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I always knew that "pie hole" was willytex's line but I thought >> that "go figure" was his, too... > > I think Willytex stole it from Barry. > > BTW, I looked up "pie hole" but couldn't find much. It > seems to be a variant on the B

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 6:10 PM, sparaig wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:46 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:26 PM, shempmcgurk wrot

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:49 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:26 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > > > > > I think it's the whole shebang, a complete package...don't need > > > anything else... > > > > Well that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:46 PM, sparaig wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:26 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > > > > > I think it's the whole shebang, a complete package...don't need > > > anything else... > > > > Well that's p

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/06 4:49 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've never much liked the way he has run his organisation and > haven't since he went to Tibet in '75 Nepal To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:31 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:15 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:47 PM, shempmcg

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:26 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > I think it's the whole shebang, a complete package...don't need > anything else... Well that's probably because you were taught to believe that. When you learn more you find out you need to perfect the mantra in all the bodies, not just the m

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:15 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:47 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > > > > > It's all almost as silly as naming some 5-year-old peasant boy > the > > > Dalai Lama because he can recognize

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > "Girl" doesn't necessarily mean underage. When the Beatles sang "Girl" > (Norwegian Wood) they weren't referring to a 14-year-old. Esp. when the "girls" I was referring to were all of legal age, as we well know. Were any of them underage? If t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/06 3:53 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jason: > > May I ask you why you are preceeding Nader's name with "His > Excellency" and Bevan's with "Exc"? Good point. Nader is "His Majesty," and don't you forget it! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 4:47 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: > It's all almost as silly as naming some 5-year-old peasant boy the > Dalai Lama because he can recognize a shoe that the recently- > departed Dalai Lama once wore... You're obviously not familiar with the real story if that's what you believe!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Rick Archer
on 4/6/06 11:16 AM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 11:47 AM, sparaig wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Apr 6, 2006, at 6:11 AM, sparaig wrote: >>> And yet, what if MMY *was* being considered for the pos

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 1:49 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 11:47 AM, sparaig wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2006, at 6:11 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > > > And yet, what if MMY *was* being considered for the position until > > > his chart was made? Justifying his lack of p

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Jason Spock wrote:    I think His Majesty Dr. Nader is a Master of the Absolute, Relative and he's qualified for the Light-sabre as well.  Looks like a Genuine guy.Unfortunately his master went over to the dark side a long time ago, so he can only have one of the red o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
True. And you have to be established in Brahman and essentially a pandit of the tradition--in other words, you had to be a master of absolute and relative jnana or no light saber...so he's down on several counts.On Apr 6, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Jason Spock wrote:    Only a Brahmin can become a Shankar

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 6:11 AM, sparaig wrote: > And yet, what if MMY *was* being considered for the position until > his chart was made? Justifying his lack of position due to his chart > certainly gives him an out that admitting that his family name was > recognized as "unworthy" by the Jyotishi do

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The four classes

2006-04-06 Thread Vaj
On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:22 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > An elitist superstition codified > > > is no less of an elitist superstition. > > > > Note that he ju