(Dream Time) March 18, 2026: Walk amongst the dead on a trip to paradise, where neither he nor she will return, and it comes as no surprise. Yes, let's take a walk through Hollywood and the memories it produced from the 1950s with a new romantic song. Journeys going back in time down Memory Lane combine with 1950s' musical styles from rockabilly, rock and roll, doo-wop to romantic love songs.
O, Jewish God, let me be famous!
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Production Credits and Workflow: Lyrics: 100% human-written original compositions by Thomas. Music: Musical arrangements composed via Suno AI (Premium Commercial License). Visuals: Crafted using Higgsfield AI and PicLumen for authentic 1950s aesthetics (Premium Commercial License). Post-Production: Edited with custom filters (Piclumen, Canvas, Nano Banana 2/Pro) and CapCut (Premium Commercial License). Created and produced by 1950s Dream Time. Personal appearance and original voice outro in several videos.
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967–circa April 5, 1994) was an American punk, emo, alternative rock musician and a member of the infamous 27 Club. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana, a name he chose when he found out that in Buddhism the definition of nirvana is "the end of suffering." Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, he widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock music. He was heralded as a spokesman of Generation X and is widely recognized as one of the most influential rock musicians. More
(Asmongold TV) Kurt Cobain didn't kill himself. (They found proof). [And a hired private investigator came to the conclusion that it was his drug addict wife Courtney Love.]
Syd Barrett after acid (LSD) at age 27
The Pink Floyd Sound with Syd (on right)
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (Jan. 6, 1946–July 7, 2006) was an English singer, guitarist, and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his permanent departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness writing [1, 6]. He was already absent and undependable by 1967. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo, and feedback. More: Syd Barrett
The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to a mouth-watering $525 million today (Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024) morning, after no successful tickets were drawn Tuesday night, making the jackpot the 12th biggest in the history of the game, though a lucky winner would see less than half of that amount after federal taxes are deducted.
Key Facts
A lucky ticket purchaser and holder who matches all five white balls and one “megaball” to claim the grand prize would have the choice of receiving the massive payout in 30 annual installments or as a one-time lump sum of $247.1 million, by far the more popular option among lottery winners.
Under the lump sum route, the winner’s payout would be reduced by a mandatory 24% federal tax withholding, cutting the prize to just under $187.8 million, while a federal marginal rate as high as 37% — depending on the winner’s taxable income and other tax deductions — could bring it down to just over $155.6 million.
If the winner opts for the annual installments, a full 37% federal marginal rate would reduce each payment to roughly $11 million.
State taxes could cut even more out of the grand prize, though not every state taxes lottery winnings. More
The Buddha gave this advice in The Book of the Sixes (Anguttara Nikaya, VI). We all want six things, one of which is wealth. The question is, Should we pray for it? Is petitionary prayer to some power the way to get it? The Buddha asks, If prayer were able to get it for us, who would not already have it? Better than praying is action (karma) so that one realizes the results without even asking for them. What deed results in receiving?
In 2006, Amy Winehouse (1984-2011) became a star, the voice of a new generation, by insisting she would not be going to "Rehab." She would be dead within five years.
Already a star in the U.K., Winehouse makes her debut on U.S. TV with "Rehab."
Singer Found Dead in Apartment
LONDON, England - Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse [with her violent partner in prison] was found dead at her flat in north London, police said. She was 27 years old. The Grammy award-winning [neo-]soul singer struggled with well-documented drink and drug addictions. Her death is being treated as unexplained. "Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square shortly before 4:05 pm (local time) today, Saturday 23 July, following reports of a woman found deceased," a police statement said. "On arrival officers found the body of a 27-year-old female who was pronounced dead..." More
Drunk and/or stoned, Amy Winehouse is booed during comeback tour, live in Belgrade on June 18, 2011. She then launches into "Back To Black."
Rehab without a "Higher Power"
Recovery from addictions of all kinds is possible in a Buddhist context. Buddhism is nontheistic (not dependent on a God for "salvation"/enlightenment). Many Buddhists are theists, but many others are atheistic, agnostic, or undecided.
Not recognizing a supreme being as a higher power makes traditional 12-Step programs unpalatable. (Of course, the nature of the "higher power" one chooses need not be a god, but that is definitely how most participants treat it as part of their recovery.
Thanks to mavericks like Kevin Griffin, who wrote One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Stepsit is quite possible to successfully overcome addiction and unrelenting craving in a nontheistic context.
A Buddhist Version of the 12 Steps
Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction -- that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 2 - Came to believe that spiritual practice could restore us to sanity.
Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the power of the Dharma.
Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5 - Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our suffering.
Step 6 - Were entirely ready to let go of all these defects of character.
Step 7 - Humbly asked for our shortcomings to be removed through prayer and meditation.
Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with reality and to live a life with more wisdom and compassion.
Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
There are many creation myths as all cultures found the need to explain their origins. Buddhism differs from most explanations in that it does not posit an ultimate beginning. Rather, things are cyclical. The universe arises and passes away. On arising, it passes through stages. The most recent stage was commented on by Shakyamuni Buddha. This came to form the Agganna Sutra (PDF, UrbanDharma) or "Discourse on Origins."
The Buddha, as he was wont to do, used this as an opportunity to teach the Dharma. He focused on the importance of virtue and skillfulness in actions (karma). This discourse is sometimes referred to as a "Buddhist Genesis." It should be understood in the context of Buddhist cosmology and timespan rather than mistaking it for a document on the beginning of all things or as a creation of any single being (i.e., intelligent design).
Discourse on Origins
The Dialogue Primeval (DN 27)
Albert J. Edmunds (translator)
O, Vâsetthâ, there is a season, at vast intervals in the lapse of time, when this world is dissolved; and upon the world's dissolution, the inhabitants are mostly brought together in the heaven of the Radiant, and there they dwell for a long, long period, mind-made, feed[ing] on joy, self-resplendent, traversing the sky, and abiding in goodness.
Again, there is a season, at vast intervals in the lapse of time, when this world is re-evolved; and upon the world's evolution, people disappear from the host of the Radiant and come down hither. And they are mind-made, feeders on joy, self-resplendent, traversing the sky, and abiding in goodness. [And so] do they dwell for a long, long period.
Now at that season there is gloom and darkness universally: moon and sun are known not; stars and constellations are not known; nor night and day, nor month and fortnight, nor seasons of the year. Women and men are known not, but people say: "Sentient beings only are considered."
Now for those beings there arises, after a vast interval in the lapse of time, a savory earth everywhere upon the water. Even as the tree of paradise on high is to a self-restrained one who is reaching Nirvâna, such does it appear. It was endowed with color, scent, and savor like unto ghee and butter: such was its color. And even as a little honey undefiled, such was its taste. Then some luxurious person saying, "Oh! What can this be?" tasted with his finger the savory earth, and as soon as he had done so, craving therefore became clothed and entered in. Others also, following the example of that being, tasted the savory earth with a finger. When they had done so, craving became clothed and entered in. More >>
Tom X. Chao and Anthony Duignan-Cabrera (LiveScience.com)
Several parents won a lawsuit against a Pennsylvania school district in 2005 that had added the controversial theory of "intelligent design" to its curriculum. Unlike the theory of evolution which is taught at most schools as a fact-based science, "intelligent design" -- as argued by the plaintiffs -- was nothing more than a philosophy predicated on the Judeo-Christian belief that the logical sequences found in nature are not random happenings or surprising mutations, but deftly managed events created by a greater omniscient and omnipresent intelligence with a specific plan. In short, the work of God. A federal judge thought otherwise.
But therein lies the rub: Which god? When the founding fathers established the Constitution of the United States, they chose to include the separation of church and state. This was to ensure that the state-sanctioned religious persecutions that plagued much of Europe during the 16th century would not despoil the young, yet grand experiment in democracy that was to become this Republic.
Scientific research has come a long way since Charles Darwin first posited the concept of "natural selection." In the intervening years, humanity has learned much about how we became the dominant species on the planet, how the Earth and the solar system were formed and the ever-changing development of the Universe. Over that time, how we understand the theory of evolution has also changed.
Scientists now think that there is an intrinsic logic to our reality, that there are absolutes, laws of nature. Much remains a mystery, and as one question is answered, many others arise. The question that faced Pennsylvania's Dover School District was whether or not the imposition of one creation belief on a multi-ethnic, secular student body is in keeping with the law that prohibits the creation of a state religion. If they allow one belief system to be taught, surely they must also teach others?
To help out with this dilemma, LiveScience presents a list of those Creation Myths that helped define civilizations both past and present... More >>
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