Killing eggs comes back: Karma (epidemic)

I feel therefore I am, Descartes

Is an egg an egg? - Yes. Is it alive? - Yes. - How do we know? - We know because if cared for, it will grow (develop, transform, metamorphose) into a bird, often a bird (like a chicken) capable of procreating more eggs and birds.

Is killing unskillful (harmful, detrimental, resulting in suffering)? - Yes. - Is taking the life of an egg killing? - NO, that doesn't count! It's not a bird! It's a fetus, and a fetus is not a life! I'm not giving up my omelets and easy-overs! You tricked me! It's not killing. There's nothing wrong with stealing eggs, smashing them, and devouring the insides like common egg-stealing snake-animals from the warm wombs of mother-birds! I grew up on a farm, and all the hens gave us their eggs, I mean our eggs, and said, "Sure, eat 'em, I don't care! They come out of canal and mean nothing to me as long as the roosters are kept away so they can't be babies and we're forcibly confined for our safety to all lesbian prison-coops! Case closed, right-to-lifers! Keep your exalted karma philosophies out of my kitchen!"

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So you admit to having mixed feelings, with so much reactivity, that slurping the wombs of big mother-birds to devour their egg in the shell is kidnapping, killing, and cannibalizing fellow living beings? Kind of, but so what? EVERYONE does it! - Well, not everyone. Those who do meet with trouble, not the least of which are salmonella infections, E. coli epidemics, bowel distress, possible death, and when they meet with the results of their karma (deeds), they will not be happy about it.

Isn't the salmonella and E. coli infection the karmic result of killing? - No. That's just a natural consequence of consuming contamination. The abducting of eggs, killing of birds, the slaughter and slurping of the dead, that's the karma. And the karmic result and fruit (vipaka and phala) of killing will not be good.

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The Buddha tells a story of the past: Silanisamsa Jataka

It's not a sutra, Homer, it's a jataka. - Shut up, Flanders! *Whisper* I'll be back for those eggs.

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This ship is going to sink, friend.

Long, long ago, at the time of [a previous buddha named] Buddha Kassapa [3], a [stream-enterer] lay disciple who had already entered the path [reached the first stage of enlightenment] booked passage on a ship with his friend, a rich barber.

The rich barber's wife asked the Buddha's disciple to look after her husband. But a week after it left port, the ship sank in the middle of the ocean.

The two friends saved themselves by holding on to a plank of wood and were eventually cast up on the shore of a deserted island rookery.

Hungry, the foolish barber raided egg nests, killed birds, slaughtered and cooked them, offering a share of his bloody meal to the Buddha's disciple.

Farmer trying to steal the mother chicken's babies/eggs goes viral

The wise go for guidance to the Buddha.

"No thank you," the disciple answered, "I'm fine" [not wishing to encourage the foolish barber in his defilements and unskillful karma]. He thought to himself, "In this desolate place, there is no help [guidance] for us except the Three Jewels [the Buddha, Dhamma, and noble Sangha]."

As he sat meditating on the Three Jewels, a naga (reptilian, dragon, CDs) king who had been reborn on that island magically transformed himself into a beautiful ship filled with the seven precious things [4]. Its three masts were made of sapphire, the planks and anchor of gold, and the ropes of silver.

The naga king transforms into a ship to save the good man

The helmsman, who was a sea spirit, stood on the deck and yelled, "Passengers for Jambudipa [earth, subcontinent, or India] now boarding for immediate passage!"

"Yes," the virtuous lay disciple called back, "that's where we're bound!"

"Then come aboard," the sea spirit invited.

The virtuous layman climbed aboard the beautiful ship and turned to call his friend the foolish barber.

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(The Simpsons) Stealing to kill and devour mother and their offspring

"You may come," the sea spirit declared "but he may not."

"Why not?" the disciple asked.

"He is no follower of the pure life," answered the sea spirit. "I brought this ship for you, but not for him."

"If that's the case," the virtuous layman announced, "then all the gifts I have given, all the virtues [restraints and exertions] I have practiced, all the powers I have developed — I give the fruit of all of them to him!"

"Thank you, Master!" cried his friend the barber.

"Very well," relented the sea spirit, "now I can take both of you aboard."

List of the Buddha's rebirth tales or Jataka Stories (Wiki)

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The ship carried the two men across the sea and up the Ganges River that pours into it. After depositing them safely at their home in Baranasi [the holy ancient city of Varanasi/Benares], the sea spirit used his magic power to create enormous wealth for both of them. Then, poising himself mid-air, he instructed them and their friends:

"Keep company with the wise and good. If this barber had not been in the company of this virtuous layperson, he would have perished in the middle of the ocean."

Arguing more details

What about other eggs? - Avoid harming beings.

[Doesn't that depend on whether a rooster (cock, man-chicken) inseminated and fertilized it? - That's what some people say. But is cannibalizing a fellow human's womb, the afterbirth, okay after a human birth? - That's sick. - Yeah, but people do it, saying human cannibalism is nutritious and what a waste to throw all that flesh and goo away after it is expelled from the womb and vagina, mixing with bum juices and all but being washed and sauteed before being cannibalized. - Sick! - Sick, yes, but is it killing?

- No! No one died, and no one was kept from being born or developing! - Right, so if that cannibalism is all right, why not eggs that have not yet developed a blood spot, the sign of fertilization? - Ugh, it's all so gross. I don't think humans are carnivores, given that they don't have the features of carnivores but share so many similarities with herbivores. - Meat eaters call human bodies "omnivores" like dogs, capable of eating anything. - Any nutritive substance will do, no matter how contaminated or how fouled by harmful substances that intrinsically mixed in. Carnivore bodies are the way they are to deal with quickly expelling the toxins. - Anyway, don't we HAVE to eat something, so we have to kill something to do it?

- No. We can live without killing, but let's say some lower lifeform does die in the process, are we killing it or calling for it to be killed? No. Even vegetables do not have to be killed for us to eat and live well. - How? - Fruitarianism, for example, is a great way to live on food produced by plants without killing the plants -- beans, grains, vegetable parts other than roots, bioavailable minerals, chlorella, nuts, and much more like nonplants, such as mushrooms and mycelia.

There's breatharianism, subsisting on prana and amrita, but the West doesn't believe in that, so it's out of the question -- but we know it to be true, rare as it is, upending everything we think we "know" about this body and this human life. Vegetarianism is another example, which comes in different varieties. Veganism is a better example, as it steers clear of all dead animals, dead insects, dead and killed higher lifeforms, and avoids using their slaughtered bodies and byproducts. - Is there no way to eat the dead? - There are plenty of ways to eat the dead. Look around.

- No, I mean, any ethical, moral, non-karmically-harmful way? - I can think of one, but it still has the problem of the dead's bodies being rotten, filled with harmful things that the human body will suffer to have to deal with, but at least karmically might not be a problem, other than maybe ghoulish beings standing around delighting in the dead body and its devourment.

- Well, you don't make it sound appetizing, but what is it? - What if someone were to eat the already-dead, that is, that which is dead by not being killed? - What do you mean? - Roadkill, aged animals, sick animals, dead by predation, dead by accident, and so on, these bodies, while dead, might not have been killed by the consumer aiming to consume them NOR paid to be killed, nor by approving of killing as happens when one hires and pays a butcher, a delicatessen, a slaughterhouse, abattoir, a rancher or other torturer of animals who raises them for slaughter or facilitates their slaughter.

- Never mind, I'd rather go vomit and never eat another living being if you put it like that. - The Truth is that the Truth is, whatever it is, and that may be what karma knows, regardless of our rationalizations saying, "This isn't so bad" or "This is not as bad as that" as if any of that makes killing okay, or approving of killing, or rewarding someone for killing, or digesting the dead.]

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'Christspiracy' screening: see it now

Christspiracy | documentary movie | 2024 | official featurette | (christspiracy.com)

• Christspiracy is life-changing and mind altering! Wow, religion is both the best thing (as it was originally) and the worst thing (what greedy people have made of it): christspiracy.com

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How would Jesus kill and butcher an animal, anal electrocution? Would he smite it, cut its neck with a blood-soaked knife as it gurgled and tried to scream? Use a stun gun first? Have a rabbi next to him to make sure the lamb baby he led to slaughter was killed all "kosher" like? (No, of course Jesus/Issa wouldn't do that kind of stuff! He was an ethical vegetarian. Hell-bound humans do that kind of stuff...and was it the greedy, fearful, deluded priests who led them to do it?)

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Slaughterhouse (Lovis Corinth Im Schlachthaus)

Los Angeles Animal Save and Animal Alliance Network are holding a screening of the amazing breakthrough fill Christspiracy -- exposing the biggest coverup in 2,000 years of history. Joaquin Phoenix says it "exposes unforgiving truths."

What if the reason the world eats so much slaughtered meat (hundreds of billions of animals murdered a year) is the priests?

The Western spiritual tradition is founded on the qualities of kindness and compassion towards animals it ignores. Buddhists were not spared this madness: Most Buddhists today think it's okay to eat an animal that was not killed for them in specific (just in general, dead there in the market to and retroactively killed for them when they pay the butcher for having slaughtered and butchered it).

We love to kill, sacrifice, for our Lord.

Its titular head was all-kind, a-forgiving, and called on his followers to do the same. But the priests got greedy, from Judaism to Christian, ancient Greek paganism to ancient Hinduism, it was far more profitable to have people donate sacrificial animals to them, which they slaughtered (kosher, pareve, halal, etc.) in some "spiritual" way then sell them back to followers for feasts. Their gods demanded animal sacrifice. They made it holy and completely fine, as if unfeeling animals were fine to kill, like mowing down insentient blades of grass.

Even the grass is sentient. How much more the conscious, communicative animals all around us?

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• Thanks to Cowspiracy makers Kip Anderson and others
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Jain or Shiva Temple, Tamil Nadu, India

Jain holy site or unseen cave temple of Shiva? Sathrumalleswaram, India

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The 12 lunar calendars still in use

There are 12 lunar calendars still in use around the world. Welcome to this deep dive into the fascinating world of lunar calendars. Let’s explore how the moon’s journey has shaped timekeeping traditions across cultures and civilizations from antiquity to the present day. As we traverse this celestial journey, we’ll highlight the 12 significant lunar calendars that are still in use around the world. Ever marvel at the serene beauty of the moon and ponder its influence on our lives and cultures? Many have. From time immemorial, humans have been intrigued by the moon’s celestial dance and one of the ways this fascination manifested itself was through the creation of lunar calendars. A lunar calendar is a timekeeping system that is based on the moon’s phases (though many are actually lunisolar). While the world has largely transitioned to the solar Gregorian calendar for everyday use, many cultures and religions around the globe continue to rely on lunar calendars for various purposes. These calendars are not relics of a bygone era but vibrant aspects of contemporary life, underscoring the enduring resonance of lunar timekeeping. 

Buddhist lunar calendar

The Buddha, Gandhara bust

Thailand officially uses the solar-based Gregorian calendar for civil and business purposes to conduct business with the West. But the Thai Buddhist lunar calendar continues to hold a vital place in cultural and religious life. Its roots are deeply embedded in the country’s Theravada Buddhist traditions and agricultural practices, the Thai lunar calendar keeps track of time and also aids in shaping and preserving the cultural identity of Thai communities.

The Thai Buddhist calendar, also known as the Thai lunar calendar, is primarily a lunisolar system. Each month commences with the new moon, culminating in lunar months that span either 29 or 30 days in length, closely aligning with the moon’s synodic period.

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  Gilded Buddha statue in ancient Sukhothai, Thailand

  If a day is exactly 24 hours long, and if a month is four weeks (28 days) long, what number multiplied by these many months would equal 365 days? It has to be 12 because a year is 365 days long. Right? 12x28=365? No, do the math. It's 13x28=364, plus one New Year's turnover day to repeat. There are 13 lunar months or something close to it because there are two full moons in a month (a "blue moon") only every two years, but by our calculation, it should be every year. A day must not be exactly 24 hours, and a week must not be seven days, and a month is certainly not 28 days, so the Gregorian calendar popularized by the Vatican (formerly dedicated to the worship of Mithras, a form of the name Mitra/Mithras/Maitreya) and Catholic Church has duped our world and broken connection with the Earth's ancient timekeeper. What are we told the Native Americans said to another after a long absence? "It has been many moons," not "many suns," which if the sun is how anyone were keeping time should be the saying.

However, to reconcile the 11-day difference between a lunar year (12 lunar months) and a solar year, the Thai lunar calendar employs a system of intercalated months, adding an extra month about every two to three years.

A unique aspect of the Thai calendar is its dual year count. Alongside the Common Era (CE) count, it also features a Buddhist Era (BE) count, which begins with the enlightenment of the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama.

To find the Buddhist year, 543 years are added to the Gregorian year. For example, the year 2023 CE is 2566 BE in the Buddhist calendar.

Jainism

Mahavira mirrored the Buddha

Jainism (the religion most analogous to Buddhism, as the only other surviving shramanic or wandering ascetic tradition, both of which rejected the Vedas as the ultimate source of knowledge, whereas Hinduism embraces them as its root texts) has a calendar.

It is the prime example of a lunar calendar that seamlessly weaves religious practice, timekeeping, and the rhythms of the natural world.

Used by the Jain community predominantly in India but also worldwide, the Jain calendar plays a vital role in religious observances and cultural practices, thereby upholding the enduring relevance of lunar calendars.

Gymnosophist (naked philosopher) Mahavira

The Jain calendar, also known as the Jain Panchang or Jain Panchangam, is a lunisolar calendar that balances the lunar year’s shorter duration with the solar year’s longer span, by incorporating an extra month, or “adhik maas,” approximately every three years.

This intercalary month helps align the calendar with the seasons, a key factor considering many Jain observances are intimately tied to seasonal cycles.

In accordance with lunar cycles, each month in the Jain calendar commences with the new moon, resulting in lunar months of approximately 29.5 days, closely mirroring the moon’s synodic period.

The month is divided into two halves, the Shukla Paksha, or “bright fortnight,” and the Krishna Paksha, or “dark fortnight,” each lasting around 15 days and ending with either the full moon or new moon. More: The 12 Lunar Calendars Still in Use Around the World

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Buddhist pyramids and other ruins

Pagan, Burma (Bagan, Myanmar ©soft light/Shutterstock)

Who was the architect in Taiwan who thought of Mahabodhi Temples and a pyramid?

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Balloons really fly over Bagan as best way to see

The most memorable time to see the ancient site of Bagan is at sunrise or sunset, when the ancient peaks of this sprawling temple complex (filled with many Buddhist monuments, temples, and a thousand+ stupas) are illuminated by a soft glow.

They can best be seen in the morning by hot air balloon, but we rented a bike and drove around from ancient ruin to ruin to well-kept temple, at least one of which was like a European castle made of stone.

This living archeological site, which sits on the fertile plains of the Irrawaddy River delta, is composed of more than 1,000 red-brick temples, pagodas, palaces, and Buddhist monasteries, which were built between 1057 and 1287 AD.

Sadly in 2016, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the site, and 185 of the buildings were damaged, with restoration work continuing to this day. It was the Pagan (\puh-gone\ not \pay-gan\) Empire, circa 1210.

[The reason there are so many is that the Burmese Theravada Buddhists learned that they could make merit by building a Buddhist monastery or monument. So they competed with one another so that ever villager of means began construction to ensure the future with good karma.]

Proof the ETs planned and built these structures: the presence of vast amounts of liquid mercury under a Chinese Buddhist tomb site, the Mexican pyramid site at Teotihuacan (40 miles from modern Mexico City), and at least one ancient Egyptian pyramid. Ancient humans mined and moved super toxic mercury for its value in energy production?

The wonders of Angkor in Cambodia, once the world's largest city

Cambodian (Khmer) Theravada Buddhist monks still use the grand monastery (Angkor Wat)

The walls, levels, peaks, and geometry represent the Buddhist universe with its many worlds

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Buddhist Angkor (Khmer language អង្គរ, lit. "Capital City"), also known as Yasodhara-pura (Khmer យសោធរបុរៈ, Sanskrit यशोधरपुर) [1, 2], was the capital city of the Khmer Empire in the Cambodian jungle.

The city and empire flourished from approximately the 9th to the 15th centuries. The city center houses the great temple-monastery Angkor Wat, one of Cambodia's most popular tourist attractions.

These walls represent the four quarters of the sky (akasha) and the heavens (sagga) above.

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The geometric arrangement is visible to the godlings (devas)

The name Angkor is derived from nokor (នគរ), a Khmer word meaning "kingdom," which in turn derived from Sanskrit nagara (नगर), meaning "city" [3].

The Angkorian period began in AD 802, when the Khmer Hindu monarch Jayavarman II declared himself a "universal monarch" (chakravartin) and "god-king" (deva-raja, melding church and state like the Dalai Lama system once did in Tibet before China overthrew it) and lasted until the late 14th century, first falling under Ayutthayan suzerainty in 1351.

A Khmer rebellion against Siamese (Thai) authority resulted in the 1431 sacking of Angkor by Ayutthaya, causing its population to migrate south to Longvek.

The alternate name, Yasodharapura, was derived from the name of the foster mother of Lord Krishna in Hinduism [which is also the name of Prince Siddhartha's wife before he became the Buddha].

Hinduism -- which had swallowed and melded itself with Buddhism by this time -- was the largest religion in the ancient Khmer Empire, and many temples were constructed by Khmer kings dedicated to Hindu deities, including Angkor Wat. More: Angkor

This tiered motif represents a hierarchical arrangement of heavens (deva lokas)

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The great pyramid temple of Java, Indonesia: Borobudur, the largest excavated site

This Buddhist-Hindu masterpiece is the largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world. There is a larger temple complex underground in Mes Aynak, Afghanistan (ancient Gandhara) but that may stay underground due to the US war on Afghanistan's economy and chance of recovery, leaving it wholly dependent on outside investors from China.

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From the Buddhist empires of Indonesia (Java), India, Burma, Cambodia to the Greek kingdoms Buddhist Bactria and Europe to Africa (Egypt), to China, to Mexico and the Mayan sites of modern Mesoamerica and the Indigenous dwellings of the Americas, these breathtaking ruins offer a fascinating insight into how some of the world’s oldest cultures lived. Here are 30 ancient sites that any history lover should visit at least once in their lifetime.

• The Buddhist-Hindu temple above, with Buddhas in bells atop it, is called Borobudur, Java, Indonesia (Adel Newman/Shutterstock). One would be hard-pressed to find a more stunning sight than sunrise over Buddhist Borobudur (with the exception of the larger sites of formerly Buddhist Afghanistan or ancient Gandhara), with Mount Merapi rising up in the background. This impressive structure, located in Central Java, is the world’s largest (excavated) Buddhist temple. It was built between AD 778 and 850, under the Shailendra dynasty. (It needed to be excavated because invading Muslims could neither explain how Buddhists and Hindus built it nor could they tear it down, so they buried it in mud, and it was forgotten for many years. Then one day a British surveyor arrived with a map, looked around, and said, "That mountain does not belong there." He climbed it, dug into it, and rediscovered it for all humanity. It was cleansed of the caked mud and plants, revealing wonders that can hardly be explained today. It is so level and all made of stone without mortar or cement. How? Even with a laser level, it would be an impressive feat to build it now.] It’s thought that the ancient kingdom was used for only two centuries before volcanic activity from Merapi, between AD 928 and 1006, led Buddhist monks to abandon the sacred site. Today, it’s best visited with a guide, who can be hired for about 50,000 Indonesian rupees (US$3.22).

We are lied to. Much is kept from us. Which country has the most pyramids? No, not Egypt. Not Mexico. It is Syria. (Who even knew there were any there? If there are 167 Egyptian pyramids, there are about 220 ancient Syrian ones. Yet, we do not remember ever being shown even one of them).

The latest discovery of a Buddhist pyramid (square stupa) is in Central Asia, near Afghanistan.

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The largest pyramid in the world? Egypt? No, not even close. The largest is in Cholula, Mexico. But there are likely larger ones in Bosnia and Indonesia, super ancient sites the size of mountains. We are not allowed to believe in those. They certainly look like pyramids from a distance. Closer up it is not as clear. They are so old they have crumbled and are overgrown. But at least in Bosnia, there is a tunnel system underneath, just as we find in Cholula, Mexico, and Egypt.

Modern Buddhist Taiwan has built the latest Buddhist pyramid with a giant Buddha behind.

Borobudur, Indonesia, in the mist, topped by many small hollow stupas with Buddhas inside.

These are the archeological remains of a mountain-sized pyramid in Indonesia.

Science is having a hard time accepting that the ancients could have built something this big.

Because Buddhist missionaries arrived in Mexico and California, the pyramids here suggest a connection to other empires and even distant ancient Egyptians who built in the Grand Canyon.

There was once a single worldwide culture connecting most if not all human groups.

The alignments and perfection of Borobudur cannot be explained, and no mortar was used.

The Borobudur site has a map of all its many surprises as it was laid out like an Angkor Wat.

Giant Amitabha Buddha overlooking pyramid

The grand architecture of the layout is only visible from sky-vehicles (vimanas)

This is an overview of the latest discovery, a square (yantra, mandala) pyramid (Newsweek)

What are the secrets of the world's pyramids?  (globalpyramidconference.com)

The similarities of the stonewok in the Americas and the jungles of Cambodia are shocking.

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• MSNN.com; edited and expanded by Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly