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From: 5546yuj@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: more questions about meditation
Date: 26 Jan 1993 17:17:46 GMT
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In article <Jan.25.22.23.55.1993.12097@ruhets.rutgers.edu>, farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris) writes:
>
>I very strongly recommend finding a teacher for meditation. There is
>only so much I can tell you this way, or that you can learn from a
>book. I believe there should be no problem finding a teacher in
>Boulder, if that is indeed where you are.
>
>

How many are out there practicing meditation?
Can I find a teacher here in Milwaukee (with 1 million population)?
Or which book I can follow to learn meditation?

JY
From: farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: seeing meaning
Date: 28 Jan 93 22:31:31 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <009673C1.8236A4E0@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 5546yuj@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
:In article <jrk.728154031@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>, jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway) writes:
:..
:>
:>Can anyone suggest how one may learn to "see" meaning at a glance instead
:>of having to "read" it step by step?  Language learning is the obvious
:>context for this, but it would be relevant to other cases of knowledge
:>acquisition as well.
:>
:

Read Tony Buzan's _Using Both Sides of Your Brain_. He discusses how
to do  just that.
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From: Joan Balser
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: time and habits
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:45:18 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

In article <1993Jan25.183024.12110@midway.uchicago.edu> awl1@quads.uchicago.edu
(alpha wei-min lo) writes:
>    hi!  I have three questions
>1. Do people have tips on how to organise one's time better?
>
>2. do people have some tips on how to make a new habit stick, so that 
>one can begin to do it unconsciously, e.g. if I learn a new way to organise my
time better then how do I make this way a habit of doing things.
>
>3. what is it that makes a habit hard to change?
>
>    thank you
>
>
I'll try to answer number 2 for you.  I found if I want to change a habit, I
have to associate the old habit with pain and the new habit with pleasure. 
(i.e. Say I want to lose weight, I would probably list all the reasons why it
is bad for me to be overweight, then, I would give good solid reasons why I
should change and what benefits I would get out of it.  If I don't do this, I
cannot revert back to my old habit again.)  

I believe people can't change bad habits is because they derive some kind of
pleasure from it (i.e. smoking) even though they know it is bad for them.  If
you can somehow replace pain with this pleasure it would be much easier to
stick to a new habit.

Read the book AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN by Anthony Robbins if you require further
explanation on this.

Joan  MURPH@bnr.ca
From: prabhat@panix.com (Prabhat Keni)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: NLP Mailing List - What address ?
Keywords: NLP
Date: 27 Jan 93 03:37:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

Hi Everyone,

Could someone mail me the NLP mailing list address, which was posted here
a little while back ?

Thanks in advance,
Prabhat.

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From: farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
Newsgroups: alt.self-improve
Subject: Re: more questions about meditation
Date: 28 Jan 93 22:30:09 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <009672F4.04294A80@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 5546yuj@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
:How many are out there practicing meditation?
:Can I find a teacher here in Milwaukee (with 1 million population)?
:Or which book I can follow to learn meditation?
:

As I have said before, it depends on what kind of meditation, and what
you want to do with it. 

For general self-improvement stuff, try the Silva Method. They have
people all over the world, so there should be a group in Milwaukee.
Look them up in the phone book.

For more spiritually oriented stuff, try posting to
soc.religion.eastern or talk.religion.newage to find out about it in
your area. Transcendental meditation is all over the place. (That's
not to my particular taste though.) I think the Self-Realization
Fellowship has a correspondence course with periodic visits with a
teacher. I think you can find Zen centers near most big cities as
well. 

Any kind of holistic health center or newage bookstore could probably
point you in the right direction, or perhaps a health food store.

Good luck.
			Lorenzo
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                                        *  farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu *
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Newsgroups: alt.birthright
From: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Subject: abortion statistics
Reply-To: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Organization: Executive Networks Information
Distribution: alt
Date: 21 Jan 93 02:55:43 EST

Here are some statistics which illustrate the pervasiveness of
abortion in our society.  These statistics come from the
STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES, published by the Census
Bureau.  This is an annual publication available in virtually every
public library.  The 1991 edition was used.  Data is from tables 102-104.

BTW, the Statistical Abstract obtained this data from the Alan Guttmacher
Institute.
***************************

In 1987, 1,559,000 abortions were performed, up from 1,034,200 in 1975.

The ratio of abortions to live births in recent years
(with total number of abortions for comparison) is as follows:

1980       1,553,900 Abortions    428 abortions per 1,000 live births

1985       1,588,600 Abortions    422 abortions per 1,000 live births

1988       1,590,800 Abortions    404 abortions per 1,000 live births

***************************

I'm no mathematician, but these numbers are scary!

Doesn't this point to some serious problems in our society?

Something is very wrong.  Wake up America!

How child-friendly is our society?

Adrienne Franco
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From: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Subject: abortion & child abuse
Reply-To: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Organization: Executive Networks Information
Distribution: alt
Date: 26 Jan 93 08:58:57 EST

NS>    before it becomes a child to be abused or neglected.

NS>    Only those who wish to give proper care to a child should have
NS>    one.  There are worse things in the world than non-existence.
NS>    Child abuse is one.

Consider this:

"The specter of child abuse is used as part of a broader pro-abortion
argument, that every child born into this world must be 'wanted', and
that social evils will result if they are not.  I have some important
philosophical objections to the 'unwantedness'line, but will limit
myself here to matters of simple logic."

"Would that all children were wanted.  But projections of future harm
from present emotions are totally unreliable.  At some point in
pregnancy, many children are temporarily 'unwanted'.  For that matter,
offspring are often 'unwanted' at certain moments after they
are born.  An unwanted alpha <author's term for unborn child> does not
always end up as a resented baby.  AS FOR BATTERED CHILDREN, THERE IS
NO SOLID EVIDENCE THAT UNWANTEDNESS DURING PREGNANCY PRODUCES BATTERING.
RATHER, BATTERED CHILDREN APPEAR TO BE THE RESULT OF MISTREATMENT OF
THE PARENTS WHEN THEY THEMSELVES WERE CHILDREN."

From: Nathanson, Bernard, MD with Richard N. Ostling.  ABORTING AMERICA.
Garden City, NY:  Doubleday, 1979.  Quotes from pp. 190-191.

To which may I add, abortion is a form of child abuse.

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Newsgroups: alt.birthright
From: elambert@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Eber Lambert)
Subject: Re: abortion statistics
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:48:22 GMT

"adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com> writes:

>1988       1,590,800 Abortions    404 abortions per 1,000 live births

>***************************

>I'm no mathematician, but these numbers are scary!

I'm no theologian  but these numbers are reasonable.

>Doesn't this point to some serious problems in our society?

Yep. We need better kinds of and better access to birth control

>Something is very wrong.  Wake up America!
>How child-friendly is our society?

Just think how friendly and vibrant our society would be with 40%
more babies born each year, many if not most, to unwed mothers
not financially and likely not emotionally able to raise the child.
Thus relgating another 2 million or so people to the already near
bankrupt welfare and/or public assistance programs per year.

Abortion is the lesser of two ugly scenarios for many people while
for other its the greater of two evils. Therein lies the problem.

el
Newsgroups: alt.birthright
From: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Subject: definition of "child"
Reply-To: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Organization: Executive Networks Information
Distribution: alt
Date: 26 Jan 93 08:58:56 EST

AF> The unborn child is *NOT* part of the woman's body.

JF>The unborn is a fetus.  It will become a child when and if it is born.
JF>That is what being born means.

Let's define the word CHILD:

"An unborn or recently born person."

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (c1984, Merriam-Webster)

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From: bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Bill Conner)
Subject: Definitions?
Organization: Okcforum Unix Users Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:30:20 GMT


   At some time, some one's going to have to define what is the most
fundamental element of human-ness is. What is it that determines what
we will become? How are we basically different from non-human things?

   It would seem that we are best and most completely described by our
DNA but possibly by our chromasomes. At what ever point the newly
conceived being possesses the full cpmplement of chromasomes, that
being is human. This seems much simpler than any other standard and
neatly avoids the moral questions. How about some facts and figures on
this ...

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.birthright
From: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Subject: abortion and economics
Reply-To: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Organization: Executive Networks Information
Distribution: alt
Date: 26 Jan 93 08:58:57 EST

LT>      Fetuses are aborted yes.  And if those babies had been born, who
LT>would take care of them?  Who is paying to feed and clothe them and
LT>their mothers?

Consider this:

"It is cheaper for our society to destroy alphas <author's term for
unborn children> at $100 apiece <note: 1979 fees?> than to take
responsibility for aiding poor women and children.  This may be good
politics, perhaps, but it is hardly exemplary social morality."

"Certain human issues are too grave to be handled in this way and
must be shielded from a cost-effectiveness theory.  Abortion is one
of them."

From: Nathanson, Bernard MD with Richard N. Osling.  ABORTING AMERICA.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979.  Quotes from p. 190.

The socioeconomic problems you mention exists, but is abortion the
solution?  Don't we have other options?

BTW, there are organizations which will help.  Not enough, perhaps,
but the call is out now to provide more centers where women may be
helped before and after live birth.

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From: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Subject: prolife and biology
Reply-To: "adrienne franco" <adrienne.franco@execnet.com>
Organization: Executive Networks Information
Distribution: alt
Date: 26 Jan 93 08:58:56 EST

DP>And the basis of their argument is the THEOLOGICAL belief that a
DP>one-celled fetus is as much of a human being as you or I,

While theology is concerned with personhood and the value of human life,
the humanity of the unborn child is not solely based on this.
Evidence comes from other disciplines/perspectives as well.

Is the following "theological"?

 "At day 14 after conception, occasional heart contractions can be
perceived, at day 17 blood cells begin to develop and by day 18, alpha's
<the author's term for unborn child> primitive heart has been known to begin
its work.  By approximately day 31 the heart has settled into rhythmic
contractions...  By five and a half weeks alpha's heartbeat has a general
configuration similar to that of an adult and is sometimes traceable by
electrocardiogram (EKG).  Alpha by now is also pumping its manufactured
blood through its own closed vascular system."

 "..Birnholz et al. at Stanford University reported motions 'from
early in the first trimester' with considerable twitching of the trunk and
head beginning as early as 7 weeks, independent limb movements by 8-10
weeks, and more elaborate motions subsequently.  ... alpha's motions are
visible even earlier, at the first stages at which current ultrasonography
is able to pick up alpha."

 "By the twelfth embryological week, when brain structure is essentially
complete, alpha is spontaneously able to kick its legs, turn its feet,
curl and fan its toes, move its thumbs, make a fist, bend its wrists, turn
its head, squint, frown, open its mouth, suck its thumb, swallow amniotic
fluid, and make inhaling-exhaling motions ..."

"At 6 weeks or so, the major organ systems have formed."

"BY WEEK 12, THE CLOSE OF THE SO-CALLED 'FIRST TRIMESTER,' ALPHA IS A
FULLY DEVELOPED, FUNCTIONING HUMAN BODY IN MEREST MINIATURE, 3 INCHES
IN LENGTH AND TIPPING THE SCALES AT 1/2 OUNCE.    Its fingerprints and
sole and palm lines are by now unique for each individual ... "

"What remains?  The mother will experience movements of the body within
her ('quickening') at 16-17 obstetrical weeks, BUT WE KNOW FROM MODERN
BIOLOGY THAT THIS AGE-OLD RULE OF THUMB FOR LIFE'S EXISTENCE IS MEANINGLESS."

From: Nathanson, Bernard M., MD, with Richard N. Ostling. ABORTING AMERICA.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979.  Quotes from pp. 198-203

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From: santafe@watserv.ucr.edu (michael a parisi)
Newsgroups: alt.whine
Subject: Whinnnnnnnnnnnnnee
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:38:39 GMT




Damnit I'm sick of crowded computer labs, the can of pepsi that got
warm, the blood that keeps dripping from my nose, call waiting, drips 
from the ceiling, arthritis from using the keyboard all day, stepping
on potato bugs with my bare feet, bartenders that leave out ingredients
in Sex-on-the-Beach, people that think Elvis is alive, that friggin
beeping sound on the west side of the belltower, the frat and sorortiy
arseholes that sit in the commons cafeteria all day, people that write
about anal sex in public bathroom stalls, cats that lick their ass in
front of me while I'm eating my dinner, cats that throw-up their dinner
while I'm taking a shower, that smell from the printers in this room,
car trips to Bakersfield in the summer, train trips to Sacramento in the
winter, people who don't call back, people who call back too much, that
God-damn "Your printer is out of paper" british lady voice, the sight
of the "C" from my bedroom window, the sight of my bedroom window from
the "C", the thought of paying back loan money because I went to 
Riverside, people that scratch their genitals in public, rotting 
banana peels in the sink disposal unit, the fact that Marina Sirits is
not in a hard core XXX movie counting ceiling tiles, coughing up
firey balls of mucus in the middle of the night and having nowhere
to spit them out, eating microwaved food labled "Microwave preparation
not recommended", having to walk home from school, realizing that I
lived in Lothian for 6 months, going to Santa Barbara and seeing the
guy that invited me there for only 15 minutes, postcards of stupid buildings
in Riverside, farting silent gas attacks during a midterm in a crowded
room, running over the neighbors kid on your way home from a Barry
Manilow concert, not seeing any oranges in Orange County, not seeing
any Angels in Los Angeles county, not seeing a river in Riverside,
7-11's that only carry Cola and Cherry slurpees, water slides where
little children get scared and throw up their corndogs, bathroom 
attendants at the Bank of America in San Francisco, the people that
sit in your favorite stalls when you have that 25 minute dump
to produce, inhaling gasoline at the Exxon station, going to the 
Salton Sea and seeing that the water is red, and classrooms that 
have the heat turned on in the middle of the summer.  Other than 
that, everything is going pretty well.
Newsgroups: alt.whine
From: eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman)
Subject: Re: Damnit, I'm sick of California!!!!
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:55:56 GMT

In article <25341@galaxy.ucr.edu> santafe@watserv.ucr.edu (michael a parisi) writes:
>I'm sooo friggin sick of the rain, crime, police helicopters,
>Dennys in Hemet, buttkegs, bitchy kodaks, school, pig biology teachers,
>anal roommates, the stains on the carpets, the smells in the 
>bathroom, the idiots in wheelchairs in the labs, the reruns of the
>Simpsons, the stupid Deep Space Nine show, the lack of good 
>television, the sight of Clinton's daughter, the dog next door,
>the crooked lawyers, the drunk judges, the lack of chicken-fried
>steak after hours, the ugly sorority chicks who are fat and think
>they're hot, the sound of the bell tower at 12, the guy who keeps playing
>the same U2 song over and over again, the cold weather, the jerks at
>McDonalds, Wendys, Carls, Burger King, Arbees, Jack in the Box, Taco 
>Bell, Del Taco, Dairy Queen, and Krusty Burger, the arse holes that
>work in the registrars office, the girls that look like guys, the 
>guys that look like girls, the cat that peed on my facecloth, the 
>girl with the big mole on her ass, the putz in Iraq, the guy in 
>Moscow, the kid in Cape Town, the woman in Sydney, the jackrabbit
>in Ulan Bator, the snake in Helsinki, the zebra in my closet,
>the deformed canary in Panama City, the old Twinkee between my
>pillows, the rotting orange in my top drawer, the piece of pencil
>lead lodged between my skin and fingernail, the pus filled zit on 
>my eyelid, the burning sensation everytime I go to the bathroom, the 
>itch I always get in my crotch while I'm attending mass, the radio
>stations that keep changing their formats, the sperm bank that doesn't
>have an ATM, posting an article 6 times even though your machine tells
>you you can't do such a thing, cracked lips, blow-up dolls that won't
>put-out even though you took them out for dinner, nose hairs that keep
>making your nose itch, not wiping good enough after a good dump, running
>out of paper during those crucial dumps, throwing-up in bed, throwing-up
>on mom, seeing flies have sex and not being invited to join in, eating
>on campus, yeah yeah yeah


Hey! What's wrong with Dairy Queen!??!

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Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
From: pstonge@TrentU.CA (cmdr keener)
Subject: Re: QUERY: Important NAFTA issues ?
Reply-To: pstonge@TrentU.CA
Organization: Trent University, Peterborough
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:00:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.172222.13886@nstn.ns.ca>, bo_bs@ac.nsac.ns.ca writes:
>Hi!Yes I can read you.I think Im having more difficulty figuring this system
>out than you are.Im Brooke Oland at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in
>environmental biology.Please let me know if you receive
>this.Thanks.Address=bo_bs@ac.nsac.ns.ca
	YUP, we got you loud & clear.

	Pete St. Onge, Trent University

* My Traill Includes Trent!!! *
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:48:40 EST
From: Rich Urban <RJU101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.org.pugwash
Subject: Religous Conservative Concerns

  It is interesting that you bring this up. I was recently having a discussion
in a class about this.
   We had begun discussing about cahnge in the world, many feel that our genera
tion is at the edge of a new era.  On in which many changes will take place, es
pecially in the area of religion and spirituallity.
   We came to feel that the reactions of the religios right were in fact a reve
lation of the common fear of change.
   Afraid to push forward into a new world, the religious conservatives are act
ing out of blind fear by retreating to dogmatic hullabalo.
   Also, although I havn't really studied this much, may have something with wh
at Nietzsche said.  from what i understand Nietzsche not only declared that God
 was dead, but that there would be serious consequences in his abcence.  Namely
 that numerous groups would rise up to fill the shoes The religious ultra conse
rvatives seem to fill this description pretty accurately.


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