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Showing posts with label census. Show all posts
Showing posts with label census. Show all posts
Saturday, June 6, 2026
Sunday, March 10, 2024
How to have The S-e-x Talk with your kids
TBS on YouTube (Seth MacFarlane's American Dad,), March 10, 2024; Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY
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| Homer, rich Kurt wasn't Bean's worst parent. |
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| Did world's worst mom kill Bean's dad? |
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| What if Patriarch Jesus got a tattoo? (Lev. 19:28) |
- VIDEO: A psychologist explains how to get out of a pattern of constant worry and rumination
- Courtney Love: Kurt Cobain's daughter's explosive never-before-seen deposition revealed; drugs, hoarding, dead pets (radaronline.com)
Wasn't Prince Siddhartha (who later became the Buddha) the worst father? - No, he was the best. - But he left. - Yes, but why did he leave? He did not leave, as many think, because he thought he would be a bad father and that he was doing his family a favor. He left to find what no one else could give them -- a solution to the problem of suffering (brought on by craving, karma, old age, and death).
The prince was a better father.
It strikes us all, and would have included all of Prince Siddhartha's his future subjects, his parents, his children (he may have had two boys), siblings (a half-brother and sister he grew up with), two or three moms (depending how one counts), many cousins (extended family of Scythians/Shakyians), and a longsuffering dad, who did as much as a father could do.
Your father's back!! That's him! Go ask, Rahula. - At least that was true until the Buddha taught that there was one more thing. What more could a parent do for a child than King Suddhodana, the Buddha's father, did for Prince Siddhartha? A parent, beginning with the Buddha, could thereafter teach the child the Dharma, the Path to Freedom we now call Early Buddhism.
- Anyone for whom this is news must what the Buddha did seven years after his great awakening under the bodhi tree, his first turning of the wheel of the Dharma, and his establishing of a fourfold (composed of monks, nuns, and male and female disciples) assembly called the Sangha (spiritual community) to keep the Dharma in the world as long as possible, all of which had been his goal from past lives over four aeons up until his final rebirth.
The mom, Francine, on American Dad!
The Best of Stan Smith | American Dad | TBS
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| "My Purity Ball..." (American Dad! S12, E10) |
(TBS) March 10, 2024: U.S. father Stan Smith (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is an all-American CIA agent, husband, and dad. He can be pretty selfish, but when it comes down to it, all he wants is the best for his family: wife Francine, daughter Haley, son Steve, pet Klaus, and Roswell survivor Roger. Check out some of his best moments and comment. Watch American Dad on TBS. #AmericanDad #StanSmith #SethMacFarlane #TBS
Mother and daughter do unthinkable
They sell drugs for Big Pharma
Avoid Big Pharma's drugs
Friday, November 25, 2022
Moving out of Los Angeles (Tongvaland)
Stacker.com via MSN.com; Xochitl, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
(MSN) To learn more about migration patterns in the US, Stacker compiled a list of where Los Angelenos (people living in LA County, California) are moving to the most using data from the US Census Bureau. Counties and county equivalents are ranked by the estimated number of people who moved to the county from Los Angeles County between 2015 and 2019. Ties were broken by gross migration. More
Fray GerĆ³nimo Boscana, a Franciscan scholar who was stationed at San Juan Capistrano for more than a decade beginning in 1812, compiled what is widely considered to be the most comprehensive study of precolonial religious practices in the San Juan Capistrano valley.
Where people in Los Angeles County, California, are moving to most
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| When one tires of Tongvaland and has gathered a big fortune, there's Acjachemen territory. |
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US occupation and genocide of Indians followed by land stealing ("territorial conquest")
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| What does the flag of the "United States" represent to Native people post-genocide? |
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Following the American occupation of California in 1846 and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, "Indian peoples throughout California were drawn into the 'cycles of conquest' that had been initiated by the Spanish."During the 1850s alone, the California Indian population declined by 80 percent. Any land rights Native people had under Mexican rule were completely erased under American occupation, as stated in Article 11 of the treaty:
"A great part of the territories which, by the present treaty, are to be comprehended for the future within the limits of the United States, is now occupied by savage tribes."
As the United States government declared its right to police and control Native people, the "claims of Indians who had acquired land in the 1841 formation" of the San Juan pueblo, "were similarly ignored, despite evidence that the [American] land commission had data substantiating these JuaneƱos' [Acjachemen] titles" [13].
By 1860, JuaneƱos were recorded in the census "with Spanish first names and no surnames; the occupations of 38 percent of their household heads went unrecorded; and they owned only 1 percent of the land and 0.6 percent of the assets (including cattle, household items, and silver or gold)."
It was recorded that 30 percent of all households were headed by women "who still lived in San Juan on the plots of land that had been distributed in 1841" under Mexican rule.
It was reported that "shortly after the census was taken, the entire population began to leave the area for villages to the southeast of San Juan."
A smallpox epidemic in 1862 took the lives of 129 JuaneƱo people in one month alone of a population now "of only some 227 Indians." The remaining JuaneƱos established themselves among the LuiseƱo [farther south], who they "shared linguistic and cultural similarities, family ties, and colonial histories."
Even after their relocation to various LuiseƱo villages, "San Juan remained an important town for JuaneƱos and other Indians connected to it" so that by the "latter part of the nineteenth century individuals and families often moved back and forth between these villages and San Juan for work, residence, family events, and festivals" [14].
American occupation resulted in increasing power and wealth for European immigrants invaders and Anglo-Americans to own land and property by the 1860s, "in sharp contrast to the pattern among Californios, Mexicans, and Indians."
In the Santa Ana and San Juan Capistrano townships, most Californios lost their ranchos in the 1860s. By 1870, European immigrants and Anglo-Americans now owned 87 percent of the land value and 86 percent of the assets.
Native people went from owning 1 percent of the land value and assets, as recorded in the 1860 census, to 0 percent in 1870. Anglo-Americans became the majority of the population by the mid-1870s and the towns in which they resided "were characterized by a marked lack of ethnic diversity" [15].
In the 1890s, a permanent elementary school was constructed in San Juan. However, until 1920, for education beyond sixth grade, "students had to relocate to Santa Ana – an impossibility for the vast majority of Californio and JuaneƱo families" [16].
Modern day
On December 10, 2021, the JuaneƱo people celebrated the opening of Putuidem Village, a [token] 1.5-acre park (0.61 ha) in San Juan Capistrano, [a miniscule] part of their original lands, which commemorates their history [17].
Religion
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| Spokesperson Clarence H. Lobo, 1946-1985 |
Religious knowledge was secret, and the prevalent religion, called Chinigchinich, placed village chiefs in the position of religious leaders, an arrangement that gave the chiefs broad power over their people [18].
Boscana divided the Acjachemen into two classes -- the "Playanos" (who lived along the coast) and the "Serranos" (who inhabited the mountains, some three to four leagues from the Mission) [19].
The religious beliefs of the two groups regarding creation differed quite profoundly: On the one hand, the Playanos held that an all-powerful and unseen being called "Nocuma" brought about the earth and the sea, together with all of the trees, plants, and animals of sky, land, and water contained therein [20].
The Serranos, on the other hand, believed in two separate but related existences -- the "existence above" and the "existence below."
These states of being were "altogether explicable and indefinite" (like brother and sister), and it was the fruits of the union of these two entities that created "...the rocks and sands of the earth; then trees, shrubbery, herbs and grass; then animals..." [21]. More
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The Largest Database on the Human Race
Why does it seem to be the mission and focus of the Mormon religion to collect information on genealogies? [It is as if they want Edgar Cayce's Akashic Records here on Earth.]
They have got a vault carved into the solid granite of a mountain 20 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. There they store information about the births, marriages, and deaths of over 2 billion people, the largest single database on the details of the human race in the world.
Buried 600 feet into the mountain, protected by two nine-ton and one 14-ton doors built to withstand a nuclear blast...with five billion documents stored on 1 ½ million rolls of microfilm and 1 ½ million microfiche, wtih 25,000 volunteers currently working to scan and index it all (beforeyoutakethatpill.com).Why the secrecy? Why the vaults? What is the real mission of this organization?
Ancestry.com, a subscription-based service started by members of the LDS church, has 900,000 subscribers and is growing. In May 2007, they dumped the military records of all the soldiers who fought in all of the US wars, 90 million of them, online.
How did this organization get unrestricted access to census records?
Strange how the recent census did not ask for names yet all the previous census records put together the names with the data.
AboveTopSecret.com claims to have come across a comment in a document that one day a little known, obscure doctrine will be uncovered from the archives of the Mormon church in Salt Lake City which will reveal information regarding our previous lives in the First Estate. [This earthly present life is considered the Second Estate.] More>>
Friday, March 5, 2010
U.S. Workers Needed
Census Bureau goes extra mile looking for workers
With the real unemployment rate at over 17 percent (when you count people who have given up looking), any job is a good job. What would be better than fairly counting people and apportioning Federal dollars to where they're needed? While the jobs bill is still in the works, there one a man riding around on Lancaster County buses looking to fill some jobs. But workers are needed around the country. And there's a small army of recruiters working in every area of the country doing the same thing in different ways. In Los Angeles most positions pay in the neighborhood of $17 an hour, require no face-to-face interview, only a simple test score, and do not affect unemployment payments. Find out more: Census Bureau is hiring supervisors, clerks, enumerators.
With the real unemployment rate at over 17 percent (when you count people who have given up looking), any job is a good job. What would be better than fairly counting people and apportioning Federal dollars to where they're needed? While the jobs bill is still in the works, there one a man riding around on Lancaster County buses looking to fill some jobs. But workers are needed around the country. And there's a small army of recruiters working in every area of the country doing the same thing in different ways. In Los Angeles most positions pay in the neighborhood of $17 an hour, require no face-to-face interview, only a simple test score, and do not affect unemployment payments. Find out more: Census Bureau is hiring supervisors, clerks, enumerators.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Buddhism by the Numbers
Buddhism so influenced the ancient world that even money felt the impact among the Greeks (see Greco Buddhism).
Buddhists around the world
Vipassana Foundation (thedhamma.ocm)
The number of Buddhists around the world is grossly under-estimated. The statistics found in nearly all encyclopedias and almanacs place the number of Buddhists at approximately 500 million. This figure completely ignores over one billion Chinese people who live in the People's Republic of China.
While China is officially "communist" (although many free market conditions are already in place), it does not keep records on religion statistics. Another problem is that many Western reference sources refuse to accept that a person can belong to more than one religion. In Asia it is quite common for one person to have two, three, or more religions. In China, it is extremely common for a family to have a shrine in their home with statues and icons from Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism.
Currently there are about 1.3 billion Chinese living in the People's Republic. Surveys (Gach-Alpha Books, U.S. State Dept. report on China, Global Center for the Study of Contemporary China, BBC News, China Daily, and a report by Christian missionaries in China) have found that about 8% to 91% identify Buddhism as one of their religions.
A percentage near the upper end of this estimate, or about 80%, works out to there being about 1.1 billion Chinese Buddhists. To ignore over one billion people as if they do not count is a terrible miscount and very misleading in the reporting of adherents. A Chinese Buddhist forum (bskk.com) currently has about 60,000 registered members and over 2 million posts, which is about double the amount of the largest English language Buddhist forum (which also has Chinese Buddhists participating in the discussions). But to be above reproach, a more conservative estimate is also shown (see below).
The following are links to studies that have analyzed or counted the number of Buddhists in China and the percentage found in their studies:
- U.S. State Department report: approximately 8% to 40% (the report lists 8% but then states that there are "hundreds of millions" of Chinese who practice various religions together, which includes Buddhism).
- BBC News, 2007: approx. 16% to 23%
- ChinaDaily.com, 2007: approx. 16% to 21%
- Seanetwork.org (article by Dr. A. Smith, 2004): approx. 50% to 80%
- Global Center for the Study of Contemporary China: approx. 23% to 98% (the report lists 23% but states that as many as 98% follow more than one religion, which includes Buddhism).
- Gach, Alpha Books, 2001: approx. 91%
The counting of Buddhists in America is also a little problematic since the U.S. Census Bureau does not ask religious affiliation. There are studies that suggest the percentage of Buddhists in America is More>>
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