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Friday, August 2, 2024

Calling them 'weird' works?

Desi "Lou" Lydic Foxsplains accusations that Republicans are "weird" | The Daily Show

(The Daily Show) Aug. 2, 2024: Democrats have taken time away from building a socialist abortion laser to call Republicans weird, so Desi Lydic Foxsplains who the real weirdos are. #DailyShow #DesiLydic #FoxNews Subscribe to The Daily Show: @thedailyshow

Careful, Ladies, men at work, and it's men's work.

Monday, June 13, 2016

How I became a PORN actress (video)

Official trailer for "Hot Girls Wanted" -- investigating how girls end up in porn.

"A cinema verité look at the disturbing exploitative world of amateur porn industry."

- Los Angeles Times

An official 2015 Sundance selection, Hot Girls Wanted shines a light on the thriving "amateur" porn industry through the experiences of five young women in the business.

Is it true? It's ALL true and it's even worse

(RHR Paige)

(VICE) The Office and Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones has established a lovable reputation for herself through roles in hit comedies like I Love You Man. Over the past few years, she's also ventured into writing and producing films, currently tackling projects like writing Toy Story 4. VICE had a chance to hang out with Rashida and talk about her shift behind the camera and the documentary she recently produced on Miami's amateur porn industry, Hot Girls Wanted.

Rashida Jones (Netflix); VICE; Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, May 23, 2014

Rebirth: Indian Buddhism under Modi (video)

Crystal Quintero and Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; BuddhistChannel.tv (buddhistnews.tv); "India Jones and the Election of Doom" (Daily Show with Jon Stewart)

The Daily Show's Jason Jones chases down look-alikes of India's new PM Narendra Modi in an attempt to interview him about a bloody piece of his past. (thedailyshow.cc.com)

Rebirth of Indian Buddhism under PM Modi

Senaka Weeraratna, Lankaweb, May 21, 2014

Newly elected prime minister will promote India’s rich Buddhist heritage to attract tourists and scholars and enhance India’s standing in the world.

NEW DELHI, India - The world’s first global Buddhist missionary, Anagarika Dharmapala, and the most talked about man in India today and perhaps in the entire policy and decision making world, Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi, share something in common. More

Bangladesh makes amends after anti-Buddhist rampage

Nicholas Farrelly, Myanmar Times, May 22, 2014

In contrast to Burma, the government moved quickly to rebuild and restore Buddhist buildings.

DHAKA, Bangladesh - “Who did this?” I asked a monk [in formerly Buddhist now Muslim "Bangla" or "West Bengal"] on a recent afternoon in Ramu, southeastern Bangladesh. “It was the Islamists,” he replied. He pointed to the marks beneath the glistening new paint where a Buddha’s head had been cleaved off and rented asunder. When asked about the culprits -- “miscreants” in the local application of English – he gave me a glimpse of monastic resignation. “I don’t know. They are people who don’t understand.” More

Lonesome Japanese Buddhist temple comes alive with cute anime characters
Yusuke Kato, Asahi Shimbun, May 19, 2014

TOKYO, Japan - Shoeizan Ryohoji Temple, tucked away in a residential area in western Tokyo, has a 400+ year history. But until just a few years ago, many locals didn’t even know the Nichiren Shu [devotional] sect Buddhist building was there. More

More from BCTV

Saturday, March 9, 2013

"Turn Back, Woman" (Buddhism-Gnosticism)

Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; "Turn Back, O Man" (Godspell)

(Vanessa Painter) Marlington High's production of Godspell with Megan Husk as Sonia, 2010.

Turn back, woman. Forswear thy foolish ways. Old now is Earth, and none may count her days. Yet thou, her child, whose head is crowned with flames, still will not hear thine inner-god proclaim.

Turn back, woman! (Is your seat comfortable sir?) Turn back, woman! (Mmm, I like that.) Turn back, woman! (Can you take it?) Forswear thy foolish ways. (See ya later; I'm going to the front of the theatre.)

Earth might be fair and all men glad and wise. Age after age their tragic empires rise. Built while they dream and in that dreaming weep. Would Man but wake from out his haunted sleep.

Turn back, woman... (I'll say it again.) Turn back, woman... (Can you see from where you're sitting?) Turn back, woman... (Hi, ya big boy.) Forswear thy foolish ways.

HOLYMAN: "Earth shall be fair and all her people one. Not till that hour shall God's whole will be done. Now, even now, once more from Earth to sky, peels forth in joy Man's old undaunted cry. Earth shall be fair and all her people one."

Come here, Issa. I got something to show ya!

Turn back, woman. Forswear thy foolish ways! Old now is Earth, and none may count her days. Yet thou, her child, whose head is crowned with flames, still will not hear thine inner-god proclaim. Turn back, woman! Turn back, woman! Turn back, woman! Forswear thy foolish ways!

Play it again, honey!

(BBC Four/GnosisLosAngeles.org) Anglican priest Pete Owen-Jones explores the huge number of ancient Christian texts that did not make it into the New Testament (Christian Bible).

Shocking and challenging, these were works in which the historical Jesus did not die on the cross, did not resurrect, but took revenge on his enemies, and kissed Mary Magdalene on the mouth -- a Jesus unrecognizable from the one remade for the popular canon.

Owen-Jones travels through Egypt and the former Roman Empire looking at the emerging evidence of a Christian world that was very different from the one the world knows. He discovers that aside from the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, there were over 70 gospels, acts, letters, and apocalypses all circulating in the early Church (Nag Hammadi texts).

UFOs, angels, and celestial "saucers" from heaven figure in Christian art (misija.com)

Through these lost Gospels, Owen-Jones reconstructs the intense intellectual and political struggles for orthodoxy that was fought in the early centuries of Christianity, a battle involving different Christian sects, each convinced that their gospels were true and sacred.

The worldwide success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code sparked new interest as well as wild and misguided speculation about the origins of the Christian faith (as opposed to the knowledge of Gnosticism). Owen-Jones sets out the context in which heretical texts like the Gospel of Mary emerged. He also strikes a cautionary note: If these lost gospels had been allowed to flourish, Christianity may well have faced an uncertain future, or perhaps not survived at all.

The documentary, although a great feat of scholarship, falls short of exploring some other important manuscripts such as the Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Barnabas. It also fails to explore the evidence in the gospels of the other possibility of Christ's nature -- that he was entirely human.

Buddhism and Gnostic-Christianity

Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly edit of Wikipedia entry

St. Issa (Jesus) in Hemis Gompa, Ladakh, India

Certain modern scholars, most notably Buddhologist/Heart Sutra translator Edward Conze (1966) and Princeton Professor of Religion Elaine Pagels (1979), have proposed that similarities exist between Buddhism and Gnosticism. The latter term derives from the name "Gnostics" (Greek, gnosis = "knowledge") given to a number of Christian sects by those who study heresies.

An early suggestion of the connection of gnostic-theosophic teachings with Buddhism came from the Saint Petersburg (Russia) Tibetologist and Mongologist Isaac Jacob Schmidt in his pamphlet, Über die Verwandtschaft der gnostisch-theosophischen Lehren mit den Religionssystemen des Orients, vorzüglich dem Buddhaismus (Leipzig 1828).

This was developed by the American Edward Conze in his paper "Buddhism and Gnosis" presented to the Origins of Gnosticism Colloquium of Messina, held from April 13-18, 1966 -- a seminal event in the modern revision of scholarship on gnosis and gnosticism in Judaism and early Christianity.

Silk Road from Jerusalem to Kashmir (India)

Conze pointed out that his starting point for Mahayana (Universalist) Buddhism is contemporary with the starting point for universal Christianity. He noted that, "This Buddhism I propose to compare with 'Gnosis' rather than 'the Gnostics,' because the connotation of the latter term is still so uncertain that this Congress has been specially convened for the purpose of defining it."

(Holger Kersten)

Conze's suggestion was supported and expanded by Pagels in her book The Gnostic Gospels (New York, 1979). It was followed by appeals to Buddhist scholars to find evidence for contact between Buddhism and Gnosticism.

Pagels' suggestion, however, has not gained academic acceptance or generated significant further study. Although the book was a bestseller, Donald Akenson (2001) concludes that the success of the book was due to it being a message the American popular audience was ready to hear. More

(also see Buddhism and Christianity)

There is a strong and obvious connection between Mahayana-Buddhism, Christian-universalism (Catholic, Gnostic, Coptic), and devotional Hinduism (centering on Krishna), not to mention Islam. This is perfectly apparent to anyone who studies them. They deviate from what their historical founders -- notably the Buddha Gautama and Christ Jesus/Issa -- taught, but groups of men rewrote canonical history to create astro-theological salvation "religions" to manipulate the masses. Only by studying the original mysticism with instruction stripped of myth can one hope to get to the heart of the spirituality often missing in the West. And understanding the originals leads to a great appreciation for the beauty of the universalized message we were sold in place of authentic teachings.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Bilderberg 2012 Exposed (video)

InfoWars.com, David Icke, Alex Jones; PatrickSaintJames

Infowars.com www.Infowars.com traveled to Britain's Isle of Wight to speak with pioneering author and speaker David Icke about the Bilderberg Group, trends in global activism, and how the global "elite" are able to control society as well as their ability to manipulate our reality.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Ancient Egyptians in the Grand Canyon (audio)

Wisdom Quarterly; Coast to Coast (12-26-11); David Hatcher Childress; SteveQuayle.com

Poring over a map one is amazed to see that much of the area on the north side of the canyon has Egyptian names. The area around Ninety-four Mile Creek and Trinity Creek had areas (rock formations) with names like Tower of Set, Tower of Ra, Horus Temple, Osiris Temple, and Isis Temple.

In the Haunted Canyon area were such names as the Cheops Pyramid, the Buddha Cloister, Buddha Temple, Manu Temple, and Shiva Temple. Was there a relationship between these and the Grand Canyon's Egyptian discoveries? A Grand Canyon state archaeologist says the early explorers just liked Egyptian and Hindu names, but that it was true that this area with its caves is off limits to hikers, investigators, and visitors.

David Hatcher Childress (Grand Canyon Egypt connection)

(LR) Hailed as a real life "Indiana Jones," Childress is an explorer of ancient civilizations. Repeatedly interviewed on Coast to Coast about his research indicating that Egyptian chambers and artifacts were found in the Grand Canyon.

The closing scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" hinted at a government cover up: hiding evidence in a bland wooden crate consigned to a faceless warehouse full of such crates (secrets). While fictional, it was rooted in a true story: the Smithsonian, one of the most revered institutions in the US, ignores or hides staggering discoveries (redicecreations.com).

In Buddhism "giants" (nephilim and annunaki) are called Titans (asuras) -- suggestive of the wars between the Greek extraterrestrial "gods" (devas) and titans -- who landed on Earth after being cast out of their space world and mated with human women.

This conception is broadly derived from the wicked asuras of Hinduism, but have acquired distinctive Buddhist elements (see etymology), painting them as addicted to the passions, especially wrath, pride, boasting, and bellicosity.

Here one is shown as a titanic gate guardian (dvarapala) holding a mace and flanked by two fairies (apsaras, celestial nymphs) on an outer wall at Borobudur separating the Sensual Realm (Kama-dhatu) from the Fine-Material Realm (Rupa-dhatu) in Central Java, Indonesia.

The Grand Canyon Findings

Author and researcher David Hatcher Childress, like Stephen Quayle (see Longwalkers, Chp. 1, for a fictionalized account of actual events), definitively states that the Grand Canyon was inhabited by ancient Egyptians.

A Phoenix Gazette story in April 1909 reported that the Smithsonian [which continues to be engaged in a massive cover up of skeletal artifacts proving the existence of titans and giants] was doing excavations of unusual caverns at the Grand Canyon, where a prospector said he had found a mine opening that contained Egyptian artifacts and hieroglyphics.

A recent article from the Arizona Republic reported that figurines recovered from a limestone cavern in the Grand Canyon had been carbon dated to 2145 BC. This may be too shocking to contemplate, but Michael Cremo's adventures in "forbidden archeology" shows that human (and earthling) history extends much further back than we can begin to imagine. The picture is more in line with Indian mythology, Buddhist cosmology, and things we are lied to about by the government.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Famous Alex Jones (in his own words)

(TheAlexJonesChannel) prisonplanet.com

Psychologists are More Dangerous than Conspiracy Theorists

According to a Psychology Today hit piece written by psychologist John Gartner, people prone to thinking that powerful people might actually get together and plan to maintain and advance their power are borderline psychotics who are a danger to society.

In reality, hundreds of years of history has taught us that psychologists routinely aid authoritarian regimes in enforcing tyrannical and inhumane policies while helping them crush political opposition by defining suspicion of authorities as a mental illness.

As we highlighted in our article yesterday, psychologists in the Soviet Union were used to stifle free speech by classifying skepticism and political opposition to the state as a mental illness, which is precisely the implication littered throughout Gartner’s crass hit piece.

In the former Soviet Union, psikhushkas -- mental hospitals -- were used by the state as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally. The Soviet state began using mental hospitals to punish dissidents in 1939 under Stalin.

According to official Soviet psychiatry and the Moscow Serbsky Institute at the time, ideas about a struggle for truth and justice are formed by personalities with a paranoid structure.

Treatment for this special political schizophrenia included various forms of restraint, electric shocks, electromagnetic torture, radiation torture, lumbar punctures, various drugs -- such as narcotics, tranquilizers, and insulin -- and beatings. Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History, indicates that at least 365 sane people were treated for politically defined madness, although she surmises there were many more.

The profession of psychology blossoms under tyrannical regimes, as explored in Ulfried Geuter's The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany. Under Hitler's Third Reich, the relationship between the ruling Nazi thugs and psychologists was close and mutually beneficial. People like Nazi psychologist Robert Ritter, Ph.D. (pictured above) were instrumental in persecuting minorities and enforcing eugenic policies of genocide.

"From Nazi Germany, South Africa, Russia, and the former Yugoslavia, to Iraq today, psychiatry has been and/or remains a key player. In fact, the marriage between authoritarian government and psychiatry is as old as psychiatry itself," writes Jan Eastgate, International President, Citizens' Commission on Human Rights. "In the 1800s, Germany's militaristic 'Iron Chancellor,' Otto von Bismarck, utilized psychiatry to influence and control whole populations in order to fulfill his dreams of conquest through war."

In his book Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and Its Origins in the Mao Era, praised as “eloquent and convincing” in a New York Times Review of Books piece, author Robert Munro exposes how psychiatrists and psychologists continue to be at the forefront of the brutal Communist Chinese system of ascribing mental illnesses to those who express even mildly negative political opinions towards the ruling Party.

The book reveals how, “From the 1950s onward not only Chinese dissidents but people who submitted petitions to the authorities have been detained by the police, examined by psychiatrists, and found to be criminally insane -- or, if found mentally “normal,” designated as criminals to be cast into the prison system.”

An official Chinese police designation for those worthy of “psychiatric custody” cited by Munro lists people who write anti-government letters, make anti-government speeches, or those who merely express opinions on important domestic and international affairs that could be considered anti-government. More>>

Thursday, April 30, 2009

FEAR: What to do about the Flu

I. Ronic (WQ Special Correspondent)

MEGALOPOLIS, Gaia -- Be afraid, very afraid. Fear, that's the most important thing! Fear prevents illness...at least it feels like it does. Okay, it causes illness. But fear makes you feel like you're doing something useful. So obey authorities, be fearful, and don't bother them with questions.

Instead, help out: Demand your local government purchase flu vaccines and allopathic drugs from large pharmaceutical cor-porations. Especially if Rumsfeld is on their board. Price should be no object. Do it for the kids. Big Pharma is your friend, and we're here for you. I mean, they're here for us. A drug is not a drug if it's used as medicine.

Who's to say the price is to high anyway? "Price goug-ing" helps the economy. And you do want to help the economy, don't you?? Gouging is in the eye of the gouger.

Discourage foreign travel. (Sorry, no refunds). So don't bother the attendant at the ticket counter. We might have to call security. Just be glad you didn't go. Stay home. Avoid other people. Watch more TV. Shop the Web.

We have a great special on surgical masks. Nothing sells like fear. We can hardly keep them in stock. So get yours now, be the first on your block, show those Jones who's who. And remember, be afraid, very afraid ...no, even more afraid than that.