(Let's Be Clear with Ana Kasparian) Israeli government official Zmotrich admits their Iran War scheme is a psyops using USA to fight its wars to build its "Greater Israel" (Eretz Yisrael Empire) -- with an internationally illegal occupation (Zionist "settler colonial project") in the West Bank, an almost universally condemned genocide in Gaza, and secretive imperial plans for the rest of the Middle East with Tel Aviv/Jerusalem as the of Ashkenazi Jewish Zionist power in the constitutionless outlaw ethno-"state" of Israel in Palestine.
Bezalel Yoel Smotrich (Hebrew בְּצַלְאֵל יוֹאֵל סְמוֹטְרִיץ׳, born Feb. 27, 1980) is a Jewish Zionist Israeli illegal occupier ("settler colonialist") in the West Bank, a far-right Jewish politician, and a dandy lawyer who serves the Zionist ethnostate as its minister of finance (2022-present). Smotrich is the leader of the Religious Zionist Party, previously having participated in war crimes as a Knesset (Jewish Parliament) member for The Jewish Home and Yamina, resigning in 2023 under the Norwegian Law [1], allowing him to remain a minister (high official) in the Zionist government while his parliamentary seat in the Knesset is taken by another member of his extreme right-wing political party. Smotrich is an occupier ("settler") in violation of international law in the illegally-Israeli-occupied West Bank (a large part of Palestine), living in a make-believe new township (Jewish Israeli "settlement") calling itself Kedumim, which as a lawyer he knows to be illegal under international law. His residence was also built illegally outside the settlement proper [2]. More
It's not just Americans and the U.S. Empire. Apparently, the post-imperial Japanese also do it -- whitewashing history, hiding war crimes, colonialism, occupation, and their atrocities.
(Meeka le Fey) Why does Japan keep lying about its history?
(Serene Mind) The truth behind Buddhism | Why do [some] Buddhists not believe in God when many do, and others understand that it doesn't actually matter as far as one's own awakening, liberation, and freedom go.
Buddhism is nontheistic (not agnostic, not confirmed atheistic) and don't believe in some supreme ultimate creator God but can and do if they want to.
Theism and atheism both have very goods point and some reality to them. Pantheism and polytheism are closer to the truth.
There are no monotheists just henotheists, but they don't know it or don't want to admit it because they're afraid to question their own religion's beliefs. Parents said, priests said, Bible interpreters (and mistranslators) said...so we just believe them.
The Buddha visits Sakka and Maha Brahma
Many, probably most, Buddhists do believe in all kinds of gods (devas) and Gods (brahmas) and even GOD (Brahman, the Monad, the ONE), as well as many kinds of unseen beings. But are any of these invisible entities an ultimate creator of souls, bodies, realities, controlling everything that happens? No way, even though Jehovah (Yahweh), the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth), Allah, Ahura Mazda, YHWH, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and countless other "supreme beings" will say so or have priests say so for them.
There is Maha Brahma (the "Great Supremo") in Buddhism and the great Sakka (Indra), King of the Devas, and countless light beings (devas, lit. "shining ones") on many of the 31 Planes of Existence.
There is not just this world but worlds -- countless worlds -- to come in samsara. Rebirth is very real and has been since time immemorial but not often understood because most people are convinced it has to be some kind of "eternal soul" passing through all kinds of incarnations. It may seem that way, but ultimately it is not that way. Conventionally, yes. Many religions have good general descriptions even with culturally varying details.
So sacred texts and religious ideas can and sometimes are superior to answers science feeds us, as the Religion of the White Lab Coats claim to have irrefutable, testable, repeatable proof ("objective" unchanging evidence), mathematical formulas, cold logic, and views that later crumble. They always crumble. Science is incapable of coming to certainty about anything. There are no fixed conclusions. Everything needs more research and more scientists getting paid to work on things.
Science can't even agree on a definition of itself or its method. We are told to call it the "scientific method," but that changes and is applied differently everywhere, from lab to lab, university to university, city to city, state to state, country to country, and likely planet to planet.
Scientists, like religious priests in their flowing robes, tell us what is okay to believe, what we are given permission to believe without being laughed at -- no matter what is actually true or untrue.
We think "scientists" are unanimous. They are not! Not even within a single department of a single university. We think scientists hold to one worldview. They do not.
What's Zen Taoism got to do with anything?
In this country, most scientists are at least nominally "Christian" or members of some other Abrahamic faith. Why? If science were so sure about anything, at least it could be sure that creationists, intelligent design advocates, and fearmongers are out-and-out wrong.
But no, to play it safe, they align with one religion or another, almost always the one they were born into.
Way to go, science, what an inspiration and model for our reasoning and personal behavior.
We say, forget religion and science. But that can't easily be done, can it? So listen. Question. Think. Follow your heart and intuition and reason and the advice of noble friends and teachers. But to do this it is almost certainly going to mean we have to go check for ourselves what that advice is or has been in the past. We can't accept the words of well-meaning intermediaries, to say nothing of the ones who do not mean us well.
Accept what agrees with experience and understanding, like the Kalama Sutta suggests, but read it to the end. The Buddha does not stop at, "There is nothing to believe." He very much gives things that can be believed from our own personal experience and builds from there.
Unless we're enlightened, we ought never think we know for sure. After all, history shows, we humans are easily misled, too easily deceived, and sadly are also very much at risk of self-deception.
So purify the mind and heart, then systematically be mindful with it, then see for yourself if what the Buddha and the noble ones said was true isn't exactly as they said. That is our advice.
Because each person is responsible for one's own karma (deeds of thought, speech, and body that have the power to produce welcome and unwelcome results in the future), it is for each person to decide what to believe. Use it. Remain open. Truth is not arrived at by words but by practice and direct-seeing that produces insight.
(Gnostic Talk) Daniel explains what happened to him when he dared to defy the God (Yaldabaoth the Demiurge) and his administrators and architects call the Archons.
(MS NOW) Who planned murder of Charlie Kirk? Erika, Mossad, Israel, CIA, Trump, a planted patsy named Tyler Robinson? How conspiracy theories sparked a MAGA civil war
"Rapture's Delight" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series American Dad! It originally aired on the Fox TV network in the United States on Dec. 13, 2009 [and remains one of the funniest and most satirical takes the show dared to make]. This episode centers around CIA Agent Stan and his housewife Francine's life after the vast majority of the church, including their children Hayley and Steve, are raptured ("taken up"), leaving everyone else Left Behind. When Stan begins to blame Francine for not getting into heaven, Francine ends their relationship and befriends a man whom she later finds out to be Jesus Christ. Francine becomes his bride, leaving Stan behind to participate in the showdown at Armageddon. More
"The Rapture" is a Christian eschatological ("end-times") belief held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of a magic event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, together with Christians who are still alive, will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord [who might be in a spaceship] in the air" [1, 2].
I don't want to be left behind with all the sinners!
Many different timelines have been asserted that tie to ideas of a seven-year "Great Tribulation": pre-tribulation [3], mid-tribulation, pre-wrath, and post-tribulation raptures; and to a thousand-year age of Messianic rule: millennialism, pre-millennialism, post-millennialism, a-millennialism, and preterism [4, 5].
The origin of the term extends from translations of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Christian Bible, which uses the Greek word harpazo (Ancient Greek ἁρπάζω), meaning "to snatch away" or "to seize."
The idea of a rapture as it is defined in dispensational premillennialism is NOT found in historic Christianity. It is a relatively new doctrine, originating from the 1830s.
Why was I left behind, not good enough?
Most Christian denominations, and the numerically largest, do NOT believe or subscribe to "rapture theology" and have a different interpretation of the aerial gathering described in 1 Thessalonians 4 [6].
They do NOT use "rapture" as a specific theological term, nor do they generally subscribe to the dispensational theology associated with its use [7].
Instead, most Christians typically interpret "rapture" in the sense of the elect (the saved) gathering with Christ in Heaven directly after the Second Coming. They reject outright the idea that a large portion of humanity will be "left behind" (like the very profitable, fearmongering book series depicts) on Earth for an extended tribulation period after the events of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 [6, 8]. More
Why do Trump and corporate media insufflate the American public?
(The Jimmy Dore Show) Zionist Polish American Jew (Benjamin Mileikowsky from Chicago) warmonger PM Bibi Netanyahu smears Jewish victims (kibbutz socialists) of Oct. 7th
I'm kind of a doctor. I give insufflation.
The CabalNews Network: Rense.com is dissatisfied with the reportage over at CNN. What used to be a Cable News Network has become a CABAL News Network. What's a cabal?
A "cabal" is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community such as Neo-Nazi white supremacists, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.
The use of this term usually carries negative connotations of political purpose, conspiracy, and secrecy [1, 2]. It can also refer to a secret plot or a clique, or it may be used as a verb (to form a cabal or secretly conspire) [1, 3].
We create the mainstream media, and we control it via governmental intel collaboration.
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Jewish mysticism is a cabal[lah]
ETYMOLOGY: The term cabal is derived from Kabbalah (a Jewish word that has numerous spelling variations), the Jewish mystical interpretation of Hebrew scriptures (קַבָּלָה).
In the Jewish language (not to be confused with Yiddish), it means "received doctrine" or "tradition" [4], while in European culture (Christian Cabala, Hermetic Qabalah) it became associated with occult doctrine or a secret [5].
It came into English via the French cabale from the medieval Latin cabbala and was known early in the 17th century through usages linked to Charles II and Oliver Cromwell.
By the middle of the 17th century, it had developed further to mean some intrigue entered into by a small group and also referred to the group of people so involved, that is, a semi-secret political clique [6].
Butt smoke enema?
Accoutrements of insertion
(Wiki) The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by hose and pipe, was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments.
The West recognized tobacco as a medicine soon after it was first imported from the "New World," and tobacco smoke was used by Western medical practitioners as a tool against cold and drowsiness.
Butt applying it by enema was a technique allegedly learned from the North American Indigenous peoples [1]. The procedure was used to treat gut pain and in attempts to resuscitate victims of near drowning.
Liquid tobacco enemas were often given to ease the symptoms of a hernia. During the early 19th century, the practice became obsolete due to poor efficacy and risk of nicotine poisoning. More
What kind of addictive substance do you mean by "heroin," boys? - C&H White Processed Sugar.
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Danger, Will Robbing Son, danger!
Yeah, sure, Eddie, but what is "American" society? At least with LA punkers Wasted Youth, they get right to the point, claiming to be as addicted to all-American stuff (junk food, junk TV, junk relationships, etc.) as "heroin" addicts are to heroin. Pretty sure they didn't mean actual opioid, morphine, poppy plant extract from Afghanistan. - You know, "American" society, it's like "whatever." - Okay, well, then, in that case, let's ask Dr. Robert Lustig.
The Hacking of American Mind: Science Behind Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains
Author and narrator Dr. Robert H. Lustig, MD, has 4.6 out of 5 stars (with 1,159 ratings). This unabridged audiobook "explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts," says Dr. David Perlmutter, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain and Brain Maker.
Dr. Lustig, the New York Times-bestselling author of Fat Chance, reveals the corporate scheme to sell pleasure, driving the international epidemic of
While researching the toxic and addictive properties of white sugar for his New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, Dr. Lustig made an alarming discovery: Our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover.
Dopamine is the “reward” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we want more; yet, every substance or behavior that releases dopamine in the extreme leads to addiction.
Serotonin is the “contentment” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we don’t need any more; yet, its deficiency leads to depression.
Ideally, both are in optimal supply in our bodies.
But dopamine evolved to overwhelm serotonin—because our ancestors were more likely to survive if they were constantly motivated. The result has been that constant desire can chemically destroy our ability to feel happiness, while sending us down the slippery slope to addiction.
In the last 40 years, government legislation and subsidies have promoted ever-available temptation (porn, sugar, illegal drugs, social media) combined with constant stress (work, home, money, internet).
The end result is an unprecedented epidemic of mental addiction, anxiety, depression, and chronic physical diseases.
We can hack this cave, build fires, project images
With the advent of neuromarketing, corporate America has successfully imprisoned us in an endless loop of desire and consumption from which there is no obvious escape.
With his customary wit and incisiveness, Dr. Lustig not only reveals the science that drives these states of mind, he points his finger directly at the corporations that created this mess and the government actors who facilitated it.
Fast version: "I Don't Want to Drown in American Society"
And he offers solutions we can all use in the pursuit of happiness, even in the face of overwhelming opposition.
Always fearless and provocative, Dr. Lustig marshals a call to action, with seminal implications for our health, our well-being, and our culture. More
(Sadhguru Darshan) "Nobody expected this question from Indian Tibetan Buddhist monk (lama)"? As scandal-ridden "Sadhguru"JaggiVasudev pontificates and goes on an on with his humble brag about how "enlightened" he must be now that he, having been an agnostic atheist not interested in spirituality, he experienced "ecstasy" one day. This made him feel like a holy man (sadhu), and he wants to make the whole world blissful or at least get rich trying.
(The Narrative Brief) Pres. D. John Trump lied when he said he graduated first at Wharton Business School, but his roommate kept the records to PROVE he has been lying all along.
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