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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
HELL on Earth, Heat in Prisons with John Oliver
WARNING: Excess use of F-word, torture of US citizens by US citizens, mass incarceration, racism!
Prison Heat: Last Week Tonight (HBO)
(Last Week Tonight, 6/13/21) John Oliver explains how the failure to air-condition prisons can cause both physical and mental health issues for forcibly incarcerated US citizens -- and why the solution is simpler than we might think.
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The heavens (sagga) are real, including the celestials realms of devas ("beings of light," "shining ones"), but not the hells? Naraka (Sanskrit नरक, literally "of man") is the hell realm in India's Dharmic religions. According to some schools of Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and Sikhism, Naraka is a place or levels of torment. The word Neraka (modification of Naraka) in Indonesian and Malaysian has also been used to describe the Islamic concept of Hell (A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities in Singapore: From Colonialism to Nationalis, p. 195). Alternatively, the "hellish beings," denizens, or hellions who are said to reside in these underworlds are referred to as Narakas. In Hindi they are called Narakis. More
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