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Showing posts with label conception. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Mardi Gras, Valentine's Day, pregnant fish
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Eggs communicate from inside shell (video)
Daily Mail Science Correspondent Colin Fernandez (The Daily Mail, July 22, 2019); VeganKit.com; ScienceAlert.com; Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Bird eggs vibrate to communicate with each other to warn of imminent attack to their nest, scientific study finds.
- Study conducted on 90 eggs of the yellow-bellied gull from Sálvora Island
- Some eggs removed before hatching and exposed to signs of attack
- Embryos exposed to the alarming noises vibrated more than those left alone
- The egg left alone then began shaking after being reunited as it received the warning second hand
Rather than sitting blissfully unaware of the world outside, gull eggs -- or rather the living embryos inside of them -- have a "sophisticated" awareness of what goes on around them, the study found.
The research found that yellow-legged gull eggs, which are found around the UK's coastline, can pick up on warning squawks from adult birds.
The eggs -- having heard [or otherwise sensed] the warning -- will then delay hatching because the coast is not clear [insofar as potential danger exists]. More
COMMENTARY: When does life begin?
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Life in the womb (Genetic Literacy Project)
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The same happens to us. Human embryos in our mother's womb are aware of the world for nine months before we are officially "born." But life actually begins at conception. So in Buddhist Asia, people are born 1-year-old because of the ten lunar months they spent swimming in the womb on earth are counted as being here and being far more aware than we ever thought. This is unlike the Judeo-Christian West where our age is counted from our birth date. So we in the West are "younger," but we don't look it when we see race groups side-by-side in the same society. "Asian don't raisin" and "black don't crack," it is said. Caucasian skin needs all the antioxidant help it can get, even if that is the self-deceptive youthful number we label ourselves with. But egg science shows the baby inside is alive. This has karmic implications for egg eating and abortions. Think what are doing before you act. Life is precious, and not just our lives but the lives of living beings who make it to the womb.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
3,000-year-old Egyptian PORN found (video)
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| In this modern sexualized advertisement, a scarlet woman sells fizzy, gooey soda pop (BI). |
WARNING: Sex is discussed and crudely drawn, carved in stone, and scrawled as graffiti!
People had sex in ancient Egypt? Surely, it was only for procreative purposes! That's what we were taught in school, church, and college. Now we come to find there was *blush* something called the Turin Erotic Papyrus -- shocking pornography from Egypt. The hieroglyphs show penises, eroticism, orgies, wanton abandon, pleasure, even bestiality. Is it the "gods" (devas and asuras), royalty, or ordinary citizens and slaves? Fortunately, graffiti survives from those ancient pyramids, tunnels, and tombs. |
| Kama Sutra temple (uglypeople.se) |
Now that we think of it, does it get any more erotic than ancient India and its temples celebrating -- and depicting -- sex manuals as temple walls? Of course, there are the ancient Greeks who are credited with inventing Western sexuality, and what the Romans were up to (think Caligula), well, who can be surprised that other countries and cultures knew about the birds, bees, and linga and yonis?
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| A papyrus scroll so hot, so lust inspiring, so puerile and swinger-like... How, Egypt? |
David Mamet's "Lost Masterpieces of Pornography" w/ Kristen Bell, Ed O'Neill, Ricky Jay
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Channeled Explanation of "Karma"
The Hindus learned about karma from two primary sources. The first was the handed down knowledge of the Vedas. This was given to them by sky beings (Brahmas, Nagas, Yakkhas, Asura, and Akasa Devas or "space deities" who keep what Edgar Cayce in a New Age Christian context called the "Akashic Records"). The second was by direct seeing of rishis (seers). These psychics had the ability to see. But they were subject to bias.
The Buddha warned that without perfect development of one dibbu-cakkhu (divine eye), a seer was likely to misunderstand what had been seen. For instance, if one perceived a very bad person passing away and going to a fortunate rebirth destination, the seer was likely to say that either
- There is no result of karma or
- Bad actions yield good results or
- One's destiny after death is haphazard.
It is the fault and failure of the seer. The error is to extrapolate too broadly from too few cases. The first view is particularly harmful. As a fixed wrong view (miccha-ditthi), it results in a great deal of suffering. The other views have the tendency to mislead beings but are slightly less harmful.
The present seer should therefore be understood on the terms of what is said as it is perceived and understood. What is directly seen is nevertheless focused through the prism of one's understanding. And that is where distortions and interpretations come in. Information can still be useful. It takes a sammasambuddha (a fully-awakened one) to make sense of karma.
The views of this seer are presented only to arouse discussion. Many Westerners may hold the first wrong-view -- that of not believing that there is any result of karma whatsoever. It would be better to mistakenly think that this will lead to that instead of believing that there is no result at all.
The topic of karma is very complex. However, it is explained in modern English in accord with the Buddha's teaching by Pa Auk Sayadaw in The Workings of Kamma. Available for free download at:
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