[FairfieldLife] Re: Pope Francis: The System Is Near Collapse

2014-06-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yeah, but as noted, ex cathedra pronouncements are very rare and typically quite narrow, on often relatively obscure points of doctrine. If the Church intended what you describe, it could easily do a far more effective job of it. Such statements tend to have very little, if any, practical effect

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pope Francis: The System Is Near Collapse

2014-06-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Er, Barry, think Buck's post might possibly have been ironic? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" Let it be known that when we on FFL speak "ex cathedra," where we "define a doctrine concerning faith by experience or proper morals of p

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Ann

2014-06-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The question is whether Barry believes his own paranoid fantasies are "Truth." Nobody else does. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Has anyone noticed that Judy seems to have as faulty an assessment of the number of people who believe her when she declares "Truth" as Jimbo do

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Ann

2014-06-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
He's losing influence here, and he knows it. Instead of trying to recoup by coming up with at least more plausible fantasies, he's doubled down on the crazy ones. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : can you say the stench of desperation? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Pope Francis: The System Is Near Collapse

2014-06-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Of course he isn't. That was kinda my point. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Judy, In this particular case, I don't believe the Pope is speaking "ex cathedra". So, he is expressing an opinion of the current economic system and does not have to be accepted as a matter of fait

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Ann

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nope. Here's what you said: Thank you so much emptybill. this knowledge about rasas and bhavas is extremely useful. However, the only "knowledge" emptybill conveyed about rasas and bhavas is that they are said to be instrumental in bringing about God-realization through anger: You t

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LightMint Gone Bad

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
LURKING REPORTERS: More ironclad evidence of why you should not trust what Barry tells you. Check it out with someone reliable. Wow. You'd think Barry was asleep and dreaming the whole time Robin was posting here. BTW, everything I'm about to say can be found in the FFL archives.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LightMint Gone Bad

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sre, Barry, sre. I understand why you don't want me to alert them to your particularly egregious misrepresentations. You seem to have deleted the part about everything I said being in the archives. The lurking reporters are more than welcome to contact me for specifics so they can che

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LightMint Gone Bad

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Wouldn't you love to see all those purported emails? Jeez, all I have to do is say "lurking reporters" and Barry freaks. LURKING REPORTERS: More ironclad evidence of why you should not trust what Barry tells you. Check it out with someone reliable. Just FYI, Judykins, I am in email conta

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LightMint Gone Bad

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I wonder if this bit is addressed to Barry, who seems to claim definitive knowledge of who is enlightened and who isn't (or wasn't, in Robin's case): I say alleged because enlightenment does not show, and an unenlightened person would not know how to evaluate its presence (assuming enlightenm

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Ann

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"Phrases" are not knowledge, Share. Any knowledge about Raudra Rasa and Krodha Bhava, you obtained on your own--except for the knowledge emptybill provided, which, as you keep avoiding, was that they are are said to be instrumental in bringing about God-realization through anger. ---In Fairfie

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LightMint Gone Bad

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually, if they accept what Barry says here, they aren't very good at "determining what is fact, what is fantasy, and what are outright lies." They might well experience some serious cognitive dissonance if they were to look at certain items in the FFL archives. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogrou

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Ann

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Stop digging, Share. You're getting yourself into an increasingly deep hole. Below, I quoted the entirety of emptybill's post--three sentences, the second of which was the one that mentioned Raudra Rasa and Krodha Bhava in the context of using anger as a path to God. There was almost nothing f

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Ann

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually, Share did not explain things adequately, but that's a red herring with regard to your own misrepresentations. The "lurking reporters" have not seen any hypocrisy from me, nor have they seen me say anything that was untruthful. Your claims about Robin in your recent post were factual

Re: [FairfieldLife] two films worth watching

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Mike, I like your insights here an

[FairfieldLife] Re: Colloidal Silver

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Michael, if you haven't read up on shingles, you really should. There's a vaccine available (approved for folks 50 years old and older) that significantly reduces the chances of a recurrence. Shingles is a huge problem for older folks. If you ever had chicken pox, the shingles virus is in your

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: LightMint Gone Bad

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Learning that you and I both had been in extensive private contact with Robin (initiated by Robin) upset Barry terribly. It made him look like a fool for his claims that Robin had no interest in us, e.g.: *From my point of view*, Robin barely tolerated his groupies here. He almost never had a

[FairfieldLife] Re: LightMint Gone Bad

2014-06-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There wouldn't have been any arguments about forum posters if Barry's comments about Robin in connection with the article hadn't been blatantly false. The parallel between Robin and Cohen is interesting, though. They both went through what sounds like a similar agonizing reappraisal of their p

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Ann

2014-06-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ho-hum, another delusional psychotic rant from Barry. Does he enjoy living in this ugly fantasy world he's created? I suspect the key to it is that it enables him to project all his own flaws onto the people he hates. The most extreme example comes at the end of this post, where he attributes

Re: [FairfieldLife] For Michael -- Game Of Thrones comment

2014-06-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Um. Didn't somebody just rail against "belittling and putting down as stupid" the folks one corrects? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Mr. I'm-Enlightened-And-Thus-I-Just-Know-Things-That-You-Lesser-Beings-Don't is showing his ignorance again. This is what he considers a "childr

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Ann

2014-06-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Oh, don't be silly, feste. Of course you're protecting her, along with the rest of the White Knights. But nobody else on FFL, as far as I can see, seems to need such protection, even when they're being harassed (by Barry, for example) in the most unpleasant and obsessive ways. You have double

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: to Ann

2014-06-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"For decades"?? Share, you've known me for less than a single decade. What on earth would lead you to think you knew what I've been doing "for decades"? It couldn't be that you're taking Barry's word as gospel, could it? I've certainly been hammering Barry for decades (or almost two), but as

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Chopra's Consciousness Challenge....

2014-06-18 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Just for da record, the nature of the God of classical theism is said to be absolutely simple: "The doctrine of divine simplicity says that God http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God is without parts. The general idea of divine simplicity can be stated in this way: the being of God is identical to

[FairfieldLife] Re: What would a cool spiritual teaching be like?

2014-06-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My contribution: * It respects other traditions and beliefs. One may disagree with the teachings of other spiritual traditions, but one refrains from criticizing or mocking the teachers, teachings, or practitioners.of those traditions. It's considered extremely low-vibe to do so and not at al

[FairfieldLife] Re: What would a cool spiritual teaching be like?

2014-06-20 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Oh, Lawson, I'm sure nobody would assume I had Barry in mind. He probably just forgot to include this attribute in his own list, don't you think? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : That's just "not cool," Judy, as it automatically casts dispersions on Unc's way of doing things.

Re: [FairfieldLife] What would a cool spiritual teaching be like?

2014-06-21 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Not a thing wrong with the idea, as far as I'm concerned, except that in the execution, you left out any mention of respecting other spiritual teachings/teachers/practitioners. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thanks for your input. As should be obvious, I'm ignoring any respon

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reformed Buddhists

2014-05-09 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually that phrasing is ambiguous when it comes to something that's only speculative. It can mean either that you don't believe it exists, or that if it did exist, you'd be opposed to it. In the case of the death penalty, we know it exists, so "I don't believe in it" can only mean "I'm opposed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: the re-invigoration of Buddhism is started!

2014-05-09 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It isn't a "grudge," Barry, and it's hardly "weird." There are quite a few of us here who feel exactly as he does about your behavior (as you may perhaps have noticed). It's not as if you'd turned over a new leaf since he left, is it, now? Nor is it as though you never attacked anybody except

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-09 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Heaven forfend that Barry should read the article at the link I posted, which reports on a recent Gallup survey showing that large majorities of Americans are in favor of various approaches to gun control. What Americans have is a political problem in which minorities and special interest gr

[FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Right, "America" is overwhelmingly against any form of gun control. Oh, wait... http://www.gallup.com/poll/160085/americans-back-obama-proposals-address-gun-violence.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/160085/americans-back-obama-proposals-address-gun-violence.aspx ---In FairfieldLife@yah

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And I'm back to "America has a political problem," given that the overwhelming majority of Americans want stricter gun controls, but the appropriate legislation is consistently blocked by the minority who don't want any gun controls. Obviously that political problem has an impact on many othe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
America also has a very different history from the Netherlands, one in which guns of necessity played a major role. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Not really my conversation, but I thought it was also mentioned that diversity plays a factor. Holland is probably more homogeneo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : And I'm back to "America has a political problem," given that the overwhelming majority of Americans want stricter gun controls, but the appropriate legislation is consistently bl

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'll confirm this from my experience when I lived in NYC. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : You are extrapolating for about two hundred million of us (urban dwellers). There is no constant low level fear here. As usual, I don't know anyone who thinks the way you assume they do. M

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comment below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Comments below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : And I'm back to "America has a political problem," given that th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I'm sick of your debating tactics, Curtis. Your response here is just more of same. I shouldn't have stuck with our theism discussion as long as I did. From now on, when you begin hauling out the old tricks, I'm gone. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yaho

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: It turns out that America is more insane than I thought

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sure didn't take long for the old Curtis to surface. But I'm not playing any more, sorry. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : J: I'm sick of your debating tactics, Curtis. Your response here is just more of same. C: Your conte

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Who says they have to? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Why? Because they can't let go of the idea that God doesn't exist. What do you think?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-10 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Let me try that again. Who says they have to let go of the idea that there is no God in order to transcend? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Judy, Nobody says they have to. And that's precisely why they can't transcend. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Who sa

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... I should also point out that you seem intent to portray anyone who *doesn't* believe in a God as "lesser" and on some lower plane of existence. Sorta like you portray anyone who DOES believe in a God. My continuing experiences of what he called "transcenden

[FairfieldLife] Re: Uh oh...Nabby is gonna freak right out :-)

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nabs is a fan of Buddha, just not of Buddhists who don't practice TM. Opsie! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From an interview with David Lynch: David Lynch’s Heart Opened When… The director spoke of two times when he was shaken to his core. One was when he first saw Franc

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually, there's major scholarly disagreement with the translation "within." Jesus was directly addressing the Pharisees, after all, not making a general statement; and he'd made it crystal clear that he thought they were corrupt inside and out. Just contextually, it's extremely unlikely he was

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
P.S.: The complete sentence is, "The Kingdom of God is within/among/in the midst of you"--"you" meaning the Pharisees. You can't leave off the "you" without seriously misrepresenting what Jesus was saying. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Actually, there's major scholarly disagre

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nope. "But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you" (Luke 12:31). Matthew has "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness..." (6:33). Again, Nabby, Jesus was talking to the Pharisees, who he thought were spiritually corrupt and incapable of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
But believe it or not, there is an "Atheism for Dummies" book. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I think it could be a great title for a book, "Atheists Can't Transcend" Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen a book in the series along the lines of "Transcending for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-11 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sure. And for all we know, similar sayings of Jesus to those in the Gospel of Thomas may have been redacted from the canonical Gospels. But in this case, he had a very specific point to make to the Pharisees about his identity and their inability to see him for who he was. He wasn't saying "Look

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hmm, I always did wonder where Jesus learned English. Oh, Barry, you tiddlywink. I just want to hang you up by the collar of your little sailor suit and pinch those chubby pink cheeks. (No kidding, folks, Barry's said a lot of unbelievably stupid things here, especially recently. But this

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You know, I missed this part: If you cannot, please explain to us why we shouldn't consider them mere examples of spiritual bigotry and hatred, spouted by someone anxious to impose his notions of an Old Testament God onto Maharishi's notions of "Being" and overwrite them...replace them with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Lucid dreaming can be induced with an electrical current

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Who thinks of lucid dreaming as "mystical" or "spiritual"? I don't think I've ever heard that one before. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Another fascinating article presenting a different way of looking at experiences that many would call "mystical" or "spiritual." To a scienti

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Are 'visions of God' really just temporal lobe epilepsy?

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Barry just hates it when people laugh at his button-pushing attempts. That's why he snipped this from his quote of Ann's post: He was posting this to imply that visionaries or those who have had spiritual or revelatory experiences were most likely diseased in some way. I wonder if he was frot

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lucid dreaming can be induced with an electrical current

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
My understanding has been that witnessing dreams is just that, witnessing them, not trying to change what's happening in them. No? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 1:04 PM To: Fa

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Ann has had Barry's number virtually from the beginning of her time here. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ann, Well said. You're a very intelligent woman. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : John, since you per

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Lucid dreaming can be induced with an electrical current

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Be interesting to compare EEG measurements of lucid dreaming vs. witnessing dreams, see if they're similar or distinct. I've witnessed dreams, but there was never any impetus to interfere with them; and I've had a few lucid dreams in which becoming lucid was the trigger for changing them. For me

[FairfieldLife] Re: Atheists Can't Transcend

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Judy, Jesus said many mysterious ideas in his teachings. IMO, he was conveying the idea of consciousness as the basis of everything to ignorant people, including the apostles, at that time. I'm not contesting this, John.

[FairfieldLife] Re: A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Have you ever considered the possibility that those who believe in free will are just too dull to imagine the world they see around them any other way? Fish in a barrel, baby... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Have you ever considered the possibility that those who believe

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FWIW, determinism and predestination are two different things. Predestination is the doctrine that everything that happens has been destined to happen from the beginning. Determinism is the doctrine that every action is determined by the previous action. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, w

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-12 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Yes, I do know, but actually, I was responding to Bhairitu, not Barry. Really just a point of possible general interest for anyone following these discussions. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : FWIW, determinism and predestinatio

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-13 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Uh-oh, Barry's having another ego-crisis. 600-plus words' worth. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : My thanks to both Judy and Ann for responding on cue to my one-liner, and thus proving that *they* live in a deterministic universe of their own making. :-) That was the point of

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-13 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Couple comments below... That was the point of my post, after all. I just thought up the line, considered it funny, and posted it intentionally using the word "determinist" because I knew that Judy would feel she "had" to respond to it by ragging on me. And she did. Because *she*

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-13 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck, you're a disgrace. You inveigh against "spam" but you don't even know what it is. And it's hard to believe the dishonesty of referring to Alex as "A ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Ranchydog could certainly attempt to give some spiritual or FFL context as to dumping t

Re: [FairfieldLife] A thought -- freely willed -- about determinism

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Question is, why would you want to "suss out" someone's "trigger words"? Why would you want to make a person your "puppet"? What kind of sick ego/power trip is that? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : As a more serious reply, the effect of language on people is (obviously) a co

[FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Buck hasn't won anything but the Pain in the Butt Award, IMHO. It's dishonest of him to claim Alex took what he quoted "out of context." What's out of context is the single sentence Buck quoted, given that what Alex quoted specifies the sorts of topics that that sentence potentially includes. Bu

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"EFT has no useful effect as a therapy beyond the placebo effect or any known-effective psychological techniques that may be used with the purported 'energy' technique, but proponents of EFT have published material claiming otherwise. Their work, however, is flawed and so unreliable: high-qualit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Non Sequiturs 'R' Us... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Of course destroying words is no solution at all. But just think how the word *cancer* can affect people, making their heart race, causing all those fight or flight hormon

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Have you really never read or heard any of the arguments against abortion? That's hard to believe. BTW, abortion is not necessarily always a "personal tragedy" to those who have one. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Lawson, I admit I'm flummoxed by peoples' fanatical positi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Beyond True and False

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Sam Harris insists that free will is just an illusion, so this would be an excellent topic for Rick to ask about when he interviews Harris, no? http://www.samharris.org/free-will http://www.samharris.org/free-will I even suspect that this irrelevance of true/false might be at play w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It isn't a matter of whether you agree with it (that's a non sequitur, as are eating meat on Fridays and the Inquisition), it's why you wouldn't understand that people who believe abortion involves murdering innocent, helpless human life are so appalled by it and feel it's their duty to help sav

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-14 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Exactly. And also why they want abortion to be illegal. Why that should be hard to understand, I can't imagine. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : They consider it MURDER. Not just rhetoric; that is how they really see it, as the murder of a child. That is why they are so upse

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Did you miss the word "allegedly," Barry? It is not a synonym for "I believe..." Well, there's floating during TM-SIdhis pracice, and then there's floating during daily activity. Allegedly someone fully in Unity could perform any and all TM-SIdhis at any time, in any circumstance. And you

[FairfieldLife] Re: For Buck

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Nobody is spamming us, Buck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, and Om may the Unified Field of our forum community guidelines and our FairfieldLife community list owner and moderators protect us all from the spamming spammer who spams us. -Buck in the Dome Awoelflebater s

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Spam on FFL

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You left something out, Buck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : “Fairfield Life focuses on topics of interest to seekers (and finders) of truth and liberation everywhere.” Yahoo forums guideline: “Stay on topic. Although all groups are different, most groups appreciate it when yo

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You'll wait forever, given that Lawson never said he believed it. The rest of us will just laugh at you and go on about our business (so you can strike the "we" and just use "I"). Just as an additional point, haven't you seen the reports that many of these statements about imm

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Spam on FFL

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
No, not spam. Alex deletes spam whenever it's posted, so you have nothing to worry about. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yes, Pretty much any topic is fair game. But Not Spam. -Buck authfriend writes: You left something out, Buck. “Fairfield Life focuses on t

[FairfieldLife] Re: A polite request...

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Is there any possibility that you could simply refrain from reading the posts you aren't interested in instead of demanding self-censorship from us poor unfortunate Americans? Oh, and who are the "those of us" besides yourself? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : ...from those o

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Spam on FFL

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I don't think you mean "thoughtcrime," Buck. Are you a mind-reader? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Yep, and this FFL is a moderated list particularly around the thoughtcrime of the posting of spam. As a protection to the life of the group we have a policy given to us by o

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This time Barry missed "and excited on another." Of course, the "wish to find out" in and of itself doesn't mean "no possibility of sadness or disappointment" any more than it means no possibility of excitement. What's sad is the person who is so emotionally repressed as to suggest either.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I also strongly disagree with Jim's thesis. However... This time, Barry missed "cancer cannot get a foothold"--i.e., cannot "flourish and replicate." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Thank you for the clarity, Curtis, and for taking on this particular meme, and form of New Age

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Comments below... Especially coming from one of the "Maharishi enlightened." "What if what has been described as enlightenment in the past has *absolutely nothing* to do with personality or behavior? What if, just as those who described it in the past have said, it is purely about conscio

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-15 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Isn't that something? Yes, I've said the same thing. I wonder if he remembers it. I stumbled on it some time ago when I was looking for something else on alt.m.t, saved it, then forgot I had it until I stumbled over it in my own files a couple days ago. I suspect it was intended as a putdown of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditators and Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016?

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think what Barry means by "what [they] do in their posts" is the spin he puts on what they say, whether that's what they intended or not--e.g., if you or I say something negative about Barry, it's because we're trying desperately to force him to respond to us. Of course, that cuts both ways

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cafe Zen

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It's good that you're taking a break from demonstrating your spiritual advancement by trying to "get" those who disagree with you, Barry. While others on this forum demonstrate their spiritual advancement by trying to "get" those who disagree with them, you'll have to forgive me if I prefer t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Cutting Spam on FFL

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I suspect Richard is referring just to your posts, Buck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Whoa, TM/MIU/MUM are a sacred posting ground here. The TM/MIU/MUM postings to FFL are well grandfathered on to FFL as a kind of fact based postulate and original thought. They are a partic

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Good for Sam Harris. Anyone without a solid understanding of this elementary truth is not going to get anywhere studying the nature of consciousness. According to Sam Harris, to say that consciousness may only seem to exist is to admit its existence in full—for if things seem any way at al

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Actually, according to the dictionary, "meditation" can mean several different things depending on the context. You can use the term in an everyday sense to mean "to think things over," but it doesn't "simply" mean that, and that isn't what it means when we use it on FFL or in the context of a s

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As you know, Knapp hasn't been associated with TM-Free for several years. Mike Doughney runs it now. You already did this, over on TM-Free, for John Knapp.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-16 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As you know, minet.org is Mike Doughney's Web site. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : On 5/16/2014 9:55 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: As you know, Knapp hasn't been associated with TM-Free for several years. Mike Doughney runs it now. > Appare

[FairfieldLife] Re: Witnessing

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The first paragraph here is a good example of what Maharishi meant by "Knowledge is structured in consciousness." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : While alive, everybody has experience, consciousness. So 'something' is making the content of experience visible. There is always a '

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why did TM *really* become so popular (for a while)?

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Almost 900 words devoted to an attempt to make TMers feel bad about themselves. This, of course, is how Barry makes himself feel Special these days--by attributing to TMers the fantasies of Specialness that he himself entertained about TM. Ultimately it didn't work out, so he moved on to Rama

Re: [FairfieldLife] The transition from BC to the state that comes after it

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Has anybody else noticed how obsessed with dicks Barry is lately? (BTW, Barry, Viagra didn't come onto the market until long after you'd beat feet from the TMO.) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Because I was once a teacher, and have no wish to lead prospective seekers Off Th

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis, on "witnessing"

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As I believe was mentioned here not long ago, as far as DSM-IV is concerned, dissociation is to be considered a "disorder" only if it bothers the person who is experiencing it. As should not be a surprise, I completely agree with you that the science of dissociative disorders pretty m

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
On what basis do you think this? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Richard, I think the soul enters the body at 3 months. I'm not sure what should be done after that.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And he would have known this how, do you think? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Judy, opening a can of worms, I think this because I heard through the grapevine that Maharishi said it. On Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:53 AM, "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" wrote: On what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Life on Mars

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Hoagland, whose conspiracy theory it is, appears to be something of a crackpot. Look at the last of the links at the end, about India's moon mission: http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-81.htm http://exopolitics.org/Exo-Comment-81.htm I'm highly dubious about the conspiracy theor

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And where would this ancient source of wisdom have gotten it from, do you think? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Judy, important to repeat that I did not myself hear Maharishi say this. But it makes sense to me and if he did say it, I'd say he got it from an ancient source of w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
That isn't a problem with Harris's definition, it's a problem of inadequate understanding of the nature of the practice (possibly the result of poor instruction). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Richard, the problem with Sam Harris' definition is that it might lead people int

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And these wise and ancient women would have known this how, do you think? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Judy, ancient source of wisdom would get it from wise and ancient women... On Saturday, May 17, 2014 11:25 AM, "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" wrote: And where w

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: commenting on enlightenment, without a clue

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I think everyone understands the word he used, "nonjudgmental." And it fits right in with New Age thinking about avoiding judgment. "Destroyed" makes no sense. You can't destroy a word. Plus which, Sam Harris was born in 1967, right at the beginning of the New Age. And finally, I doubt anyone

Re: [FairfieldLife] Hillary's Health: An Issue in 2016

2014-05-17 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
And they perceived and observed the accuracy of this idea how, do you think? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Judy, from their own experience and that of other women they experienced as being mostly accurate in their perceptions and observations. On Saturday, May 17, 2014 11:33

Re: [FairfieldLife] Clay and Silk

2014-05-18 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Anybody have any idea what she means by "old Yahoo format"? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Buck, herein I'm responding from Neo rather than old yahoo format. On Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:20 PM, "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" wrote: No, MJ it is odd and unique. I

Re: [FairfieldLife] Clay and Silk

2014-05-18 Thread authfri...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Michael's posts have always looked just fine to me on the Web site. Maybe the problem is on your end, Buck. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No, MJ it is odd and unique. It is something [bad and unconventional] with you. -Buck mjackson74 writes: I'm just using yahoo mail

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >