RAP goes too far: metal Ghostemane

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If rap is dumbed down, I'll make it TRASH!

So much of rap is stupid, unbearably so. Rock 'n roll was better, not by much but it was making something new of older Black music (blues, guitar driven gospel, jazz). But we're coming around to this rap thingy after a half century. For all the boisterous bluster, some really has kick (umph), the right beat. We're finally seeing it.

• What four young Black men formed and called themselves "Gho$tmane," incorporating death and Black metal into their sound? Here they are:

HARD MIX GHOSTEMANE // BASS TRACKS GHOSTEMANE

White privilege extends into the rap universe?

(Yeah, that guy, Sunny McCalifornia. How could a boy with buckteeth get so groovy he not only develops a distinctive sound but a unique aesthetic from the 1920s?) We have to guess that it's because we mainly hear pop-rap (the cr-p rap the radio plays to death) that rap seems boring and anything but phresh.

But with radio removed, one is now exposed to all the other ways of listening (peer-to-peer sharing, TikTok, underground shows, networks, influencers, curation, recommendations, luck, and social media.

With the censors out and the "filters" on, there's some really good stuff out there. Some recent Buddhist articles we produced got a tremendous response with what looks like hundreds of thousands of views. It's just rap. Rap is old. Hasn't all the hoopla about rap died down already. It might have about the old stuff, but there is much more vital NEW stuff. Who even knew this was rap.

We thought it would be good to hear rap songs done in another genre thanks to the GREAT Richard Cheese (longtime fans since he appearances on the Kevin & Bean Show decades ago). So just tapping in something like death metal rap got an unexpectedly good response on YouTube. What, it's a thing? We thought, what are these suggestions? So clicking on a few of them, not bad. It was just Slipknot when Corey spits bars. We knew about that. We didn't know some of these songs got videos made for them.

Then, skipping down, we tapped the White Album looking suggestion, just to see, and the song that came up was really good or not what we expected. It was rap, not death metal. We were looking for death metal. But then it was metal as rap. Who were these guys? Are there bands of Black youths who listen to black metal (which is called "black" not because of the race of the artists or fans but due to the dark arts discussed by the music, such as Venom, Mercyful Fate, Deicide) and rap about it? No. Who knows? (There's that horrorcore freakshow stuff, but that seems very niche). Everyone listens to everything nowadays. There's no reason to stay in a compartment and limit yourself.

Rock rap with Wes and Limp Bizkit

This was someone smart enough to rap but very dark, but still actual rap, not a parody or imitation. Hey, there's something here. You see, a few months ago, we surfed through a video of Limp Bizkit live in the Netherlands, and before the show, they are getting the crowd amped up and start playing a rap song.

All of the 100% Caucasian audience loves it, starts moving, singing along. "They do know this is not a Limp Bizkit song, right?" was the question that crossed our minds. But it was a rap song, and that was the amazing thing--one that Limp Bizkit knew it, and two that the audience loved it so much. Oh yeah, duh, they are there to see rap-rock. It turns out it wasn't Limp Bizkit but Limp's DJ spinning Ludacris as Wes is standing, holding his guitar, in his briefs, about to noodle.

That's how The Heart Sutra (RAP version) article got written. Real rap is what Ludacris was doing, that old skool yellin and cars and women and other featured rappers on a track.

Who's ever heard of Gho$temane? Apparently, everybody but us because he's already played Coachella, though not with the reception he might have been expecting (during the day, under the desert sun, on the lawn, in the heat, to a smaller audience.

Australia’s drill scene is a war zone | Gangsta rap Int'l - Down Under

How is this guy not in all our faces or in the manifesto of the teen who takes a shot at Eminem in the future? Didn't Megan Fox's boytoy diss Marshal Mathers in a rap only to have it blow up in his face? Who ever heard about MGK? Or Riff Raff featured on Far East Movement's "Illest," Vanilla Ice (aka Rob Van Winkle) or the way mad white rappers The Bloodhound Gang feature him as Robby Winkle, that Australian one-hit-wonder Masked Wolf, where drill (gangsta rap is breaking out) as well as biker gangs.

Eminem said the N word with style in rap battle. - And he managed to finally rhyme with "orange"

The rap trap is some fake cr-p

• Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, Sheldon S., Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY, The Future of Musick

When can we expect Female Messiah?

Female Messiah? What Church tried to erase

(MorgueOfficial) Started streaming March 10, 2025 (during Women's History Month) Dawn of the New Earth (The Neogenian Dawn). Ancient texts speak of a mysterious, powerful figure — a female Messiah — whose wisdom was hidden, suppressed, and nearly lost. Was she the true Christ (Kristos, "Annointed One," drugged with entheogens or venoms in the mystery school, according to Dr. Ammon Hillman)?

Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene: Truth the Church didn’t want us to know

The Gospel of Mary, attributed to Mary Magdalene, offers a unique perspective on salvation through self-knowledge and inner exploration. Contrary to traditional Christian teachings, this ancient text challenges the concept of sin, framing it as an illusion tied to the physical body. It reveals a vision of spiritual authority where wisdom is accessible beyond institutional limits. Rooted in Gnosticism, this work highlights the diverse landscape of early Christianity, advocating for a personal connection with the divine.

Is there a Buddhist Messiah? Is it Maitreya?

I'd better flatter women so that they'll know they're loved (statustown.com)

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Prajna Paramita of Java

Who will it be, who will rescue the humans and gods (devas) from the blights of greed, hatred, and delusion? The world sleeps under the pall of delusion, and it is high time we awaken. But we can't rouse ourselves. Someone arrives to help. This special being was predicted long ago and named "Friend" or maitri. This Maitreya or Metteyya may be the origin of the Western world's "Messiah"). Might it be a woman? Ancient tradition seems to have been altered to exclude women in a worldwide sexist push that erased much of their contributions, leaving half the population as a sidenote. Indeed, there have been powerful women.

Prajna Paramita Devi, Tibet

In Buddhist lore there is the great Prajna Paramita, a goddess personification of the "Perfection of Wisdom" and the Goddess of Compassion Kuan Yin, a Mother Mary figure for the worldwide Mahayana tradition, which accounts for 90 per cent of Buddhists today. In the past, in Early Buddhism, there was great recognition of the female enlightened ones:

Khema, Uppalavanna, the Buddha's foster mother Queen Pajapati Gotami, Bhaddha Kaccana (Princess Yasodhara, Bimba Devi, Rahulamata, mother of the Buddha's son, Rahula Bhadda or "Lucky Fetter"), and many others still found recorded in the Therigatha, the "Psalms of the Enlightened Sisters."

Madonna and child: Pajapati and Siddhattha

But the question really comes down a savior figure, a reviver of the Dharma, a future buddha like Maitreya. Can it be a woman?

Vajra-yogini from a thangka - wrathful deities

Now the Teachings have been construed to say no in Theravada and Vajrayana traditions, but Mahayana holds out that there are many powerful female deities, the Taras, the dakinis, protectors (lokapala) and wrathful guardian spirits, and though no "Cosmic Buddha" like Amitabha or Vairocana are ever depicted as female, the caveat is always that a being determining to become a supremely awakened (samma-sam) buddha will transform into a male before achieving that ambition.

So many females and males take bodhisattva vows with the stated goal of delaying their own liberation (nirvana) to save all other sentient beings, as messiahs are won't to do. It may be a useful mindset if not an achievable goal.

• Women in Contemporary Buddhism: A Challenge for the 21st century - Buddhistdoor Global
• Stand up comedy: If only men knew this about women | Mark your territory

If I'm reborn as a woman, I want to be sexy hot.

But as the Dalai Lama once joked, "Any woman can become a buddha...so long as she becomes a man first." Why he thought this was funny, that we may never know. (Endemic sexism and androcentrism in an all-boys monastic club in the imperial Potala Palace?)

Asherah Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven

Nevertheless, none of us are really male or female but have the potential to express the best qualities of both. In the derivative Catholic/Christian faith, there may still be hope or recovering the Mother Goddess (Queen of Heaven Asherah, God’s Forgotten Wife, or Miriam, the Son-God's mother, a restored and reappointed Eve or Mary Magdalene. We can all see how openminded the God of those Abrahamic traditions is, so amenable to being talked into things like the divine rapport emphasized in Judaism, but we won't be holding our breath).

• Mariology: the study of Virgin Mary

Is the Blessed Virgin Mary Chinese Guanyin?

Marco Lazzarotti, Aug. 2023

Virgin/Guanyin in Chinese dress (researchgate.net)

In this book the author describes "Ancestors’ Ceremonies" as practiced in the Taiwanese Catholic Church. The author’s point is to demonstrate how the Chinese symbolic universe made a deep translation of the "new" symbolic system represented by Catholic doctrine. At the same time the effort of the Catholic Church in order to adapt the Gospels’ message to the local situation built up a particular phenomenon that the author defined as cultural dialogue. It is this dialogic relationship the process that the author defines as Culture.

...[The] most usual and popular representation of this Goddess is a beautiful and gracious woman, who holds a child in her arms [Maya and Siddhartha rather than Mary and Jesus] and wears a rosary [mala] around her neck. This iconography has been reused in order to paint the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary at a point where it is hard sometimes to distinguish between the two figures (Figures 3a and 3b).

My point is not that Catholic people consider the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Christian reference of Guanyin [Kwan Yin, the Mahayana Buddhist "Goddess of Compassion"], but I want to stress that, when honoring the "new" supernatural figure, Taiwanese Catholics still maintain the forms they learned through their involvement in popular religious practices from an early age, which are linked to the cultural system they inhabit. God Jesus and the Ancestors: An Ethnography of the Ancestors’ Rites in the Taiwanese Catholic Church

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Retro-causality changes past: Science

Scientists PROVE the past can change (but the future already happened)?

Wait, what is 'time' if not the order of events?

(Be Inspired) "The future already happened." What if the past, like the future, isn’t fixed? Scientists have proven that the future can influence the past, in a phenomenon known as retrocausality, shattering everything we thought we knew about reality and time. This calls into question freewill. From mind-bending quantum experiments to the shocking science of precognition, what are the hidden connections between time, consciousness, and the universe (or samsaric simulation) we live in?

TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 - Mind-Blowing Experiments
• 1:43 - Presentiment
• 2:26 - Precognition
• 5:12 - J.W. Dunne’s Precognitive Dream Protocol
• 7:33 - Feeling the future
• 10:00 - Remote viewing
• 12:18 - Free will and retrocausality
• 14:43 - Lucid dreaming

If great meditators volunteer for science

Paradox of time: Alan Watts' warning to world

Is the way to meditation facial relaxation?

(T&H - Inspiration & Motivation) “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is,” claimed Alan Watts. This talk is from an inspirational and profound, some might even say terrifying, speech from the late British Californian Zen philosopher Alan Watts. The source of the original audio source is “The Future of Politics, Part 3" with video produced and edited by T&H Inspiration. Alan Watts Videos by T&H Motivation & Inspiration

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Channeled guidance from Bashar

WARNING: Is "Bashar" right? We do not know. Ask Darryl Anka, his channel. As when "Seth" speaks or "Abraham" advises, we ourselves must judge and decide.

What is the way? Shall we follow our bliss, like Abraham-Hicks says of the Law of Attraction? Are we to follow our feelings and heart...maybe our reason and head? Is it the Law of Vibration? What is the way of manifestation?

All asking, none knowing. All talking, none showing. All searching, none finding, traveling roads that go on winding. Channel Darryl Anka seems so passionate and sure.

The experience of our physical reality is mediated by our thoughts and views, our cognitive labels and feeling tone. Our response matters more than the world or universe that provokes us. Life is 51% response to 49% things that happen. Maybe what happens is the result of our previous karma, but what it (the results) will mean is yet to be determined, discerned, designated?

The road opened up before me. The Universe said, "Not this way" but did not seem to say which way then. Who or what was that up to? Might I choose? Did I fail to see the signs? Whither go I? Which way is "right"?

The Dharma knows all. The Buddha articulated a path (of practice) to bring about realization. Is it in line with what Bashar is saying? How about Galactica and Abraham-Hicks? Who can say, who can say when it can be any way?

The simulation seems adaptable. Now what? It's always the now. That means it's ours to choose. But we know not which way this leads or that -- so what to do? What is the guide?

I know, I'll call 888-CALL PSYCHICS and they can tell me for as much as $9.99 a minute or more. There was also that mysterious lady at the palm reading shop at the pier. And there's Aunt Lucy the Slatanic seance meister who listens to Slayer while prognosticating futures. Cash only.

Dead Internet Theory: Glitch in Matrix?

A Glitch in the Matrix (free with ads TV-14)

(YouTube Movies & TV) A Glitch in the Matrix, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher (Room 237, The Nightmare), is a multimedia documentary that dives into the great existential question: Are we in fact living in a simulation?

• [Was the "simulation" called Samsara by the Buddha?]

Using a seminal 1977 speech from Philip K. Dick as a jumping-off point, Ascher presents compelling scientific evidence and philosophical musings through interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, as well as samples from cultural texts like Minecraft and The Matrix, to support the idea that the [world within this cakkavala, this prison planet, this Empire of the City, or] universe is a highly advanced computer simulation.

Part sci-fi mind-scrambler, part true-crime horror story, A Glitch in the Matrix is an eye-popping, open-minded, and highly entertaining journey to the limits of radical doubt that leaves no stone unturned.

The Dead Internet Theory

Whoa, I know I played Neo, but I feel my most important role in life was like playing Budda.

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There is an online conspiracy, speculation, explanation, proposition (with evidence) that asserts that, due to a coordinated and intentional effort, the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity not of real people.

This activity is automatically generated content, manipulated by algorithmic curation, to control the population and minimize organic human activity [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

Proponents of this "theory" (explanation of how things actually are) believe social bots were created intentionally to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to manipulate consumer [6, 7], and no one can doubt that -- just as spam ruined email and junk calls ruined answering the phone when it's from an unfamiliar number.

Dog teleports in. Man's legs switch as he slips.

Some proponents of the theory accuse government agencies (like the CIA, NSA, NSC, DHS, DARPA, FBI, IRS, ISI, KGB, Meta, Google Corporation/Alphabet Inc., FB, Apple, AI, CCP, SpaceX, Amazon] and many more we do not know about) of using bots to manipulate public perception [2, 6].

The date given for this "death" is generally around 2016 or 2017 [2, 8, 9]. The Dead Internet Theory has gained traction because many of the observed phenomena are quantifiable -- one such quantifiable is increased bot traffic.

But the publicly available literature on the subject does not yet fully support the theory [2, 4, 10] but aspects of it are not in doubt.

• This is where-when it becomes crucial to have read George Orwell's warning Nineteen Eighty-Four, to have a language or metaphor to refer to. In it the protagonist, Winston Smith (the Everyman), works in a cubicle at the Ministry of Truth manipulating reality, and all life is hounded by a "Telescreen." The screens are everywhere, always watching. Whether they are always all monitored, that is unknown, but one never knows when one is being watched. (Now, thanks to recording technology, we are always being watched not in real time but at any time authorities want to review the footage they are amassing for A.I. to go through). Sadly, most attempts to "rebel" are manipulated by police to preemptively (sting operation) undermine resistance, much as happened to the Occupy Movement, which was evaporated so that no one even seems to remember it now. It was big at the time. And the mainstream media was all for destroying it

Origins and spread

The Dead Internet Theory's exact origin is difficult to pinpoint. In 2021, a post titled "Dead Internet Theory: Most Of The Internet Is Fake" was published onto the forum Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe esoteric board by a user named "IlluminatiPirate" [11], claiming to be building on previous posts from the same board and from Wizardchan [2], and marking the term's spread beyond these initial imageboards [2, 12].

The conspiracy theory has entered public culture through widespread coverage and has been discussed on various high-profile YouTube channels [2]. [It has? This is the first we're hearing about it from a poorly done video by a man who can barely pronounce English words.]

It gained more mainstream attention with an article in The Atlantic titled "Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet 'Died' Five Years Ago" [2]. [Yes, thank you, we had missed it, though we suspected something was off, and it all started from the time we first surfed the Internet.] This article has been widely cited by other articles on the topic [13, 12]. More

First 'Thanks-taking' was US genocide

Lakota historian on Thanksgiving, settler colonialism, continuing Indigenous resistance

(Democracy Now!) Nov. 28, 2024: Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. "This history…is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country," says Estes, who is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

Our History Is the Future

Our History Is the Future features a new afterword by Nick Estes about the rising Indigenous campaigns to protect the environment from extractive industries and to shape new ways of relating to one another and the world.

In this award-winning book, Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the present campaigns against fossil fuel pipelines, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations.

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world.

Its slogan Mni Wiconi — “Water is life” — was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before. They also knew that even with the encampment gone, their anti-colonial struggle must continue.

While a historian by trade, Estes draws on observations from the encampments and from growing up as a citizen of the Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires) and his own family’s rich history of struggle.

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That time my ANGER killed me (NDE)

But I hate him so much because he's so full of hate, and I hate hate and people who hate!

Why are you mad? - Oh, I'dunno, no reason.

Can anger grow so bad that it eats us alive? But anger is "natural," and it's not good to hold it in. Science has found that people who express their anger, say by beating a pillow, significantly worsen. Acting out what is a transient emotion into a practice trigger-and-response.

Ven. JC Reilly, Dr. Nicholson, and angry Sandler

Every time I hear that man's name, I get so triggered and p*ssed off, I'm just like Whoopi Goldberg cussing like I did when I was best friends with Mr. Trump, who often hired to me to cuss with my filthy mouth during my act.

Shut the h*ll up, Kids, before I beat you! - Yeah, you heard Mom, shut the h*ll up! - No, you!

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The way to "manage" anger is to let it all hang out, behave irrationally, right? What could be healthier? When anger arises, watch it mindfully (non-reactively). If that is impossible, apply the immediately-effective antidote of metta (loving-kindness).

What are the Three Poisons the Buddha warned against? Craving, HATRED, and delusion.

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If feeling cold indifference towards others and their plight, practice karuna (compassion).

If not happy enough and wishing to instantly be happy, engage in mudita (joy in others' joy), the opposite of schadenfreude.

(What's that? It's delight in the misfortune of others, like poor Mr. Trump, who has to wear an adult diaper and fouls himself daily, which is why his baggy pants are so ill-fitting and wrinkled and his posture so extraordinarily bad, pushing his butt out and behind him. Just ask firsthand witness Noel Casler.)

What's wrong with anger if I don't hurt anyone?

One of the very dysfunctional things about anger is that, without realizing it, we often use it as the basis of our bad habits: I have to drink, I have to party, I have to get my grind on...or I'll explode. First, make things internally intolerable with messy emotions. Then "solve" the distress with a dysfunctional coping method.

Angry activist dies from heart attack and discovers we are all one (NDE)

Anger Management my @$$!

(Coming Home) Mr. David Williamson shares the story of his near-death experience, dying of a heart attack brought on by hypertension after years of intense anger-fueled activism in support of the Black community.

During his encounter on the Other Side, he is surprised to realize that we are All One, while experiencing himself as a glowing orb of light and learning that no experience in this human life is ever lost or wasted.

Mr. Williamson shares how the experience transformed the way he views life now and how it changed the way he relates to all other people.

"We are creating our next life right now in this moment, with our attention"

- David Williamson

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• David Williamson (Coming Home NDE (video), June 27, 2023; Dhr. Seven, Ani, Melissa MacKay of insightla.org (video recommendation), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

"Jesus" is an amalgamation of other figures

Mithras (like Maitri = Maitreya = Messiah)

Why is "Jesus Christ" so famous? Could it be that it's because he is unreal and an amalgamation of many historical (and mythological) figures? Who would those be?

• Mithras (previously worshiped in the center of Rome in a place now dedicated to Jesus called the Vatican grounds, a tiny country officially called the Holy See, a city-state within Italy's Rome, now center of the Holy Roman Empire known as the Catholic Church),

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  Hermaphrodites...& Jesus

  Maitreya Buddha (or the "Messiah" to come), Horus, and
• many other astrotheological figures, who are anthropomorphic projections of astronomical and astrological information.

Jesus has been propped up, made white (a kind Thor, Zeus, Odic Nordic war god), and given stories and associated with circumstances made famous by others.

• Why did Christian monks have such strange haircuts?

Christspiracy: priests rule

The story of Jesus Christ [christ being a drug term, according to biologist and classicist Dr. David C. Ammon Hillman, Ph.D., author of Chemical Muse, as a means "anointing" or dabbing on drugs to penetrate cut skin] has many fascinating similarities with ancient mythological figures, revealing common themes of a "virgin birth," resurrection (rebirth, reappearance), divine parentage, and savior or messianic roles.

The ancients used many drugs

These parallels, evident in mythologies from ancient Egypt to Greece and beyond, underscore a universal human fascination with divine narratives. Studying figures like Horus, Mithras, Dionysus, Krishna, the Buddha, and Osiris enriches understanding of Jesus’s [phony, synthetic] narrative within global mythology.

• More: 15 mythological figures similar to Jesus (msn.com)

Jesus Never Existed

Scholar of Christianity Dr. Reza Aslan made a very clear distinction in his book. Zealot, about two different figures -- Jesus Christ of history and Jesus Christ of popular fantasy (biased theology, apology, and soteriology). Dr. Aslan attempted to get at the historical figure and leave aside all the myths built up on purpose (by the Church) and by natural human speculation about who this godman figure could have or might have been.

Jesus of Tyana or Apollonius of Nazareth?