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Thursday, September 28, 2023

First before Columbus (documentary)

An inglorious Columbus
An Inglorious Columbus
; or, Evidence that [Chinese Buddhist monk] Hwui Shan and a party of Buddhist monks from Afghanistan [the place of the Buddha's origin, Shakya Land or the mahajanapada of the warrior nomads that was not a part of proto-India but on the northwest frontier of the future empire of India brought together by the Buddhist King Ashoka, at that time called Gandhara and later Scythia] discovered America in the fifth century, A.D. by Vining, Edward Payson, 1847-1920

Chinese named their discovery "Fu Sang" (Mexico, California, etc.)

An Inglorious Columbus by Edward P. Vining, 1847-1920: Free Download (Internet Archive)

Monday, March 20, 2023

A 6th cent. Irish monk sailed to America?

Michele Gama Sosa, Grunge, 3/19/23; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Statue of St. Brendan, County Kerry, Ireland (© Phil Darby/Shutterstock)

The Legend of the 6th century Irish monk who may have sailed to America

In elementary school, we were indoctrinated to accept that Columbus "sailed the ocean blue" and discovered America in 1492.

Later, we were told that in fact, Norse explorers made it to America at least four centuries earlier.

But what we don't learn is the possibility that someone else had already beaten the Norse to America 500 years before that. [For one thing, Buddhist missionaries from Afghanistan led by Chinese monk, as published by the American Edward Payson Vining in 1895].

Statue of St.Brendan, County Kerry, Ireland

Irish legend tells that a monk named St. Brendan the Navigator sailed west to a legendary land sometime in the 6th century AD, enduring sea monsters [dragons?], volcanoes, and storms to reach a mythical, promised land that has been identified as everything from Africa to a metaphor for paradise.

Among the more likely candidates, however, is North America. St. Brendan's journey has evoked fascination among enthusiasts and scholars, who debate its veracity to this day.

With a combination of archeological evidence, modern-day attempts to recreate the voyage, and Norse stories about the Americas, the evidence suggests that St. Brendan's voyage should not be discarded.

Here is the legend of the Irishman who may have "discovered" America.

Mobhi: The man who became Brendan

Portrait of Saint Brendan Portrait of Saint Brendan © Ary Renan/Wikimedia Commons

The man who would become St. Brendan was born in 484 AD in a place called Fenit in County Kerry, Ireland. Now, according to St. Brendan's Catholic Church, his name was originally Mobhi.

But the Ireland of the 5th century AD was rapidly changing. More

The holy maple bar: Notes on an afterlife, without religion

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

The First Thanksgiving (video)

RT; Xochitl, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; J.W. Loewen

Native American dreaming of the lost past after British and earlier European invasions.

(RT) The world's greatest genocide is hypocritically celebrated in the U.S. as "Thanksgiving"?

We didn't know! The U.S. lied to us!

Still want to celebrate Thanksgiving? Native American history -- that is, pre-American colonialism -- tells a far different story than the Lies My Teachers Told Me (everything your American history textbook got wrong).

Our American mis-education system is a cynical joke bent on distorting and covering up the truth at every turn. But as the Buddha taught that three things cannot remain hidden: the sun, the moon, and the TRUTH.

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Sadly, our mainstream media is a kind of "propaganda arm" for the U.S. government with its many tentacles and alphabet-agencies (e.g., CIA, NSA, NSC, FBI, ICE, DARPA, DHS, IRS...).

So we have to go outside of the country, to a Russian-sponsored news organization, to catch a glimpse of the truth our country keeps from us.

(Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

Given that this happened, is it any wonder we fund "Israel" and promote genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

Hooray for our side! We're so much better than other people over there here in the "land of the free." *Eye roll* (RT).

Who discovered America? Afghan and Chinese Buddhist missionaries

While Jewish-Italian Catholic-convert Columbus did NOT discover America, he did invade and enslave a fully populated continent. Buddhists arrived earlier (E. P. Vining/archive.org).

What could Native Americans have done to ward off murderous Christian enslavers, rapists, murderers, and disease-spreading Europeans coming to exploit another new land?

U.S./Israel's genocide today

Video backs claims of US-backed Israeli military ("defense forces") criminal abuses

"Criticism is NOT antisemitism."

Israeli "police" stand guard after they rammed a Palestinian demonstrator during clashes outside Ramallah. Recent video has shown Israeli troops shooting a Palestinian lying in the street at close range, pepper-spraying medics, chasing and ramming a Palestinian with their jeep, and threatening refugee camp residents with tear gas “until you die” unless they stop throwing stones. The flurry of such footage comes at a time when growing numbers of Palestinians for the first time have the tools to document such incidents; half of Palestinian households have at least one smart phone, or 10-fold what it was five years ago, according to official statistics (AP).

Friday, February 5, 2016

In 1421 Chinese "discovered" America (video)

CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; PBS video

The Chinese lunar calendar tells us that February 8th, 2016 is New Year's Day!

China, once protected by a Great Wall, is the oldest continuous country on the planet.

Arriving from Mars in successive waves, the space aliens wanted an enclosed new world.

Father, is it true what they say? We were a great nation, an empire, arriving from Mars to uplift this planet and conceal the work of other aliens? - Stick out your tongue, dear. Let me feel your pulse. Your chi is blocked. Would you like some tea? (chinabusinessmarketing.com)

"Mystery of the First Americans" (PBS.org) was uploaded because of a "firestorm of white guilt" that drove "MensRightsTV" (youtube.com) to promote three videos. Together they allegedly suggest that whites (Caucasoids/Europeans) were living in America before Native Americans (or at least before Siberian North Asians crossed the Bering Straits land bridge between the former USSR and the current USA).

(MensRightsTV) It always helps to have multiple documentaries to corroborate an issue. All three documentaries should be watched. [This is Number 2.] This is not meant to diminish the role of Native Americans. The real purpose of this video is to address a current issue: Massive immigration is being pushed by globalists who [allegedly] claim that white people in America should be displaced because we really do not belong here anyway. [Fear of] that is why this video has been uploaded. It is NOT meant to challenge the status of Native Americans/Indians. Here are a few keywords suggested by a recent comment: United States, Europe, Caucasian, France, America, documentary, history, culture, Kennewick Man, Ice Age Columbus, England, civil [racism, white privilege, implicit bias, conspiracy, PBS...]

THE CHINESE DID WHAT?
Chinese Discover America.com
Narrative History of Buddhism in America (Rick Fields)
VIDEO: Ancient Chinese treasure fleet discovered world

In fact, bones dated to 50,000 before the present show aboriginal features or people we would label black. Native or indigenous Americans are constantly likened to Asians as if they have no other source or origin. The story is layered and complex and affected by off planet populations that mainstream science will not yet allow into the conversation.

There are the reds, the yellows, the blues, the pinks (whites), browns, the golden, the pale, sickly, the crepey skinned, the little people (many diminutive groups), the six-fingered, the red heads, the giants, those with two rows of teeth, those living inside the planet, those of us on the surface, earthlings on other planets, our descendants all over the place, the Denisovans, Neanderthals, Almas, yakshis (Yetis) and rakshasas, "bear people," wild men, nature guardians, hybrids, and those genetically manipulated from above.

Where do "white" people come from?

(CDF) A funny and well made video (rare on Youtube) that asks interesting questions we are normally not allowed to ponder in colonized Eurocentric countries. Sure to upset almost everyone, particularly those with biases. Description: My "conspiracy theory" on where white people come from. Donate. To request a topic email theconspiracydude@gmail.com

Big Leshan Buddha, China

Human life, according to "forbidden anthropology" (e.g., see Michael Cremo, David Hatcher Childress, or Lloyd Pye), is exceedingly old, so much older than modern minds can conceive. The Buddha and others availing themselves of the mystical experiences open to us all, as well as communication with devas and other types of beings living alongside our ordinary human experience, know a story that is far more complex.

It does not fall into our neat categories. And our world is marred by European racism, modern guilt about it and push back because no one wants to feel guilty for crimes of ancestors. Fair answers will certainly not be coming from nearly all white crews working on Native American sites in search of "objectivity."

The implicit bias is painful to see, even as well meaning people are blind to their bias, assumptions, and lines of research they pursue. Until we get some kind of parity, some kind of representation, all we can hope for is rationalization on top of former rationalization, burying the past, selective interpretation of data, and a helpless ball of "more of the same."

(Rudolph/This Crazy German) "White people are not human" (but aliens)
5: Our friend Rudolph reveals the true "God" and the fake one we are sold

Out of respect for the oppressed who suffer in very real ways under the weight of white privilege, police racism, court racism, scientific racism, and medical racism, we can only look to all sources of data and information, both that favorable to the powers that be and that which contradicts the consensus reality we live in.

The "white" mummies of China
(AncientDiscoveryHistory) Secret Redheaded Mummies Found in China!

Chinese Buddha (mesosyn.com)

Happy fish cannot see the water. Disturbed or very thoughtful fish may start to get a glimpse of it. Those serve can hardly be expected to sympathize with the servant classes, but they may in time become sensitized.

Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal is not interested in giving in to white pressure to tell a pleasant story to ourselves. We want the truth, whatever that may be. It may color us in a bad light, and still we have to pursue it. Who would happily live in a self-serving delusion? There is such a thing as rebirth, and one does not get to come back as the same race, gender, caste, class, health, beauty, strength, longevity, and so on.

All of these are variables, and we cling to them when they favor our wishes and push back when they do not. (Karma is the reason for distinctions, so the need for wholesome deeds and merit cannot be overstated). We have to see that we are all in the same boat doing different things, suffering mightily under the authority of others.

And if and when we gain authority and without meaning to we oppress others. Why go on with this cycle when we can break it right now?

We can be fair and open right now, we can admit our faults and do all we can to treat people fairly, without bias, inclusively, learning from one another. For every genius, how many geniuses do we lose because we prejudge who can be a genius or in what way?

Women didn't used to be human. Nonwhites didn't used to count. Goodness knows, whites were mistreated.

Unknown to most of us, until recently there was no such thing as "white" then even when the notion came to be, who was in and who was out would shock us. (See, e.g., the work of professors Joy DeGruy, Michelle Alexander, or Gerald Horne). If we do not liberate ourselves (using the way of the Buddha or some other teaching that leads to freedom), who will liberate us?

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The humanoids and earthlings on Mars today (must be covered up, so ignore this).

Squirrel alive and well on the "inhospitable" surface of Mars revealed by NASA photos.

White people are originally from Mars and Black people are native... (GodlikeProductions.com) The Chinese/Japanese race is certainly the only anomalous race on this... It is the African Zulu who have stated that they come from Mars and...

Are whites originally from Mars? (David Icke's official forums)

My oldest brother, who is also a great artist, came up with the craziest...A team of American and Chinese researchers working in a ...

Did humans come from Mars? (Yahoo Answers)

...Almost all "Western" inventions were invented by the Chinese nearly...Yes, humans came from Mars.

Were we on the Moon in 2309 BC?

(Bibliotecapleyades.net) According to Chinese historical tradition, a man and a woman landed on the Moon... Within the city, Duparc came upon a mass of monoliths (once coated with....not only from the Moon, but from 40 million miles away on the small planet Mars.

Babylonian Brotherhood - Ancient Great White Brotherhood

(Bibliotecapleyades.net) The bloodlines of European royalty came from the Reptilian-Aryan bloodlines of Babylon...of the Egyptians with its equivalent in India, Asia, China, and elsewhere...which seems to have originated on Mars, and the reptile-human bloodlines...

Mars in culture (Wikipedia) In ancient China, the advent of Mars was taken as a portent for "bane, grief, war...Thus originated a large number of science fiction scenarios, among which is...

Martian language (Chinese) Martian language (Chinese 火星文, Pinyin huǒxīng wén, literally "Martian script," 吙☆魰) is the nickname of unconventional representation of Chinese...

Mars - The Lost History of Mankind (Talc.site88.net) It is plausible that in the very distant past Mars was once a fertile planet with water, vegetation, and other forms of life. On the barren red planet we find many dried up...

Ancient Mars, Page 1 (Above Top Secret) Ancient Chinese astronomers named the planet Mars the "Fire Star. ... This is why no rebuttal of these images has come up to this day.

Updated: Alien face discovered by Mars Rover 2014, UFO

I think that you are right. I also think we could have come from Mars. ....Updated: Alien Saves Man's Life In China Car Accident, Sept 2012...

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Scientology slave "monastery" discovered

Ex-Scientology lawsuits reveal elite Sea Org group
Text by Gillian Flaccus (AP)

SAN JACINTO, California – At the edge of arid foothills far outside Los Angeles, hundreds of Scientology followers live on a gated, 500-acre campus and work long hours for almost no pay reproducing the works of founder L. Ron Hubbard and creating the church's teaching and promotional materials.

The church says its 5,000 so-called Sea Organization members are religious devotees akin to monks who are exempt from wage requirements and overtime.

But two lawsuits filed by two former "Sea Org" members, as they are known, allege the workers are little more than slave laborers, forced to work 100-hour weeks for pennies and threatened with manual labor if they cause trouble. More>>

Monday, September 28, 2009

850 pale, underground creatures discovered

850 mostly blind, pale creatures discovered underground
LiveScience.com

Down under in Australia, down underground that is, scientists have found 850 previously unknown species living in subterranean water, caves, and micro-caverns. These insects, crustaceans, spiders, and worms are likely only about one-fifth of the number of undiscovered species the researchers think exist underground amid the harsh conditions of the Australian outback. Two species of blind fish and two of blind eels were also uncovered.

"What we've found is that you don't have to go searching in the depths of the ocean to discover new species of invertebrate animals — you just have to look in your own backyard," said researcher Andy Austin, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia. [Scientists say only a fraction of the species of plants and animals on the planet have been discovered.]

Only half of the species discovered have so far been named, the scientists announced today. Generically, the animals found in underground water are known as "stygofauna" and those from caves and micro-caverns are known as "troglofauna." More>>