We live in a CAVE? (Plato's allegory)

(Bluntgard) "Standup Philosopher" or "Bullsh*t Artist" (Mel Brooks' History of the World, Pt. 1

(After Skool) The profound meaning of Plato's allegory of the cave

The Allegory of the Cave

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The allegory of the cave is presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature."

It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates. It is narrated by Socrates. The allegory is presented after the analogy of the Sun (508b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–511e).

In the allegory, Plato describes people who have spent their whole lives chained by their necks and ankles in front of an inner wall [a screen] with a view of the empty outer wall of the cave.

(T&H) Shut up, Buddhist Caveman Jim Carrey, or we will replace you

Allegory of Fortune

They observe the shadows [images] projected onto the outer wall by objects carried behind the inner wall by people who are invisible to the chained "prisoners" and who walk along the inner wall with a fire behind them, creating the shadows on the outer wall in front of the shackled prisoners.

The "sign bearers" pronounce the names of the objects, the sounds of which are reflected near the shadows and are understood by the prisoners as if they were coming from the shadows themselves.

Allegory of Queen Elizabeth

The only reality for the prisoners of the cave are those shadows and sounds, which are of course only inaccurate representations of the real world. The shadows represent distorted and blurred copies of reality we perceive through our senses, while the objects under the Sun represent the true forms of objects that we can only perceive through reason [or directly through refined intuition].

Three higher levels exist: (1) natural science; (2) deductive mathematics, geometry, and logic; and (3) the theory of forms.

(T&H) Shut up, Caveman Beatle George Harrison, or we will erase you.

Allegory of the Recognition

Socrates explains how a "philosopher" is like a prisoner now freed from the cave who comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not the direct source of the images seen.

A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave do not even want to escape their chains or leave their prison, for they know no better life [1].

Socrates remarks that this allegory can be paired with previous writings, namely the analogy of the Sun and the analogy of the divided line. More

Is being awake hard, Jimbo?

Jim Carrey: Why spiritually awake people won't have many friends

The "Comic Philosopher" (Mel Brooks' History of the World, Pt. 1)

• After Skool; Jim Carrey, George Harrison (T&H Inspiration and Motivation); Philosopher Mel Brooks; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Was Bruce Lee even human? (video)

(The Dojo) 20 best moments of Bruce Lee fighting ever recorded

Was Bruce Lee even a real human?

(Bruce Lee: The Hidden Legacy) BANNED video — Why? Watch!

Fights break out: Enter the Dragon

(BruceLeeRealFight) Three stuntmen tried to start actual fights

Teacher could stop Bruce Lee with finger

(Discoveries) How could Sifu (Teacher) Ip Man, 61, beat Bruce Lee?

Bruce Lee's philosophy: Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do Chinese (JKD, 截拳道, literally "Stop Fist Way," figuratively, the "Way of the Intercepting Fist") is Bruce Lee's hybrid martial arts style, which he conceived of and practiced. It centers on the principle of counterattacking opponents in order to impede their offense [12, 13].

As an eclectic martial art, it relies on a style of fighting heavily influenced by Wing Chun, Tai Chi, taekwondo, boxing, fencing, and jujutsu [14, 15].

JKD, which Lee intended to have practical applications in life without the traditional routines and metaphysics of conventional martial arts, also incorporates a set of principles to help practitioners make quick decisions and improve their mental and physical health [13, 16].

Lee, who based JKD on his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense, as well as on his Zen Buddhist, eclectic, Confucian, and Taoist philosophies [14, 17], did not formally codify JKD before his death.

As a result, JKD practitioners have had to rely on their own interpretations of Lee's philosophy [18, 19]. More

Another world in woods with green beings

UPDATE: They had green skin - and no one knew where they came from | The Why Files

We live on the Emerald Isle, too (Ireland)

WOOLPIT, England - The story of the green children of Woolpit concerns two [Fairy] children of unusual skin color who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen (r. 1135–1154). The odd children, found to be brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green color of their skin. They spoke in an unknown language and would eat only raw broad beans. Eventually, they learned to eat other [surface human] food and lost their green color, but the boy was sickly and died around the time of his and his sister's baptism. More

• Green Children of Woolpit
• Foundlings, Changelings, Irish Aos Sí, Pixies
• Forest Fairies (pixies), br.pinterest.com; 42 (Thoughty2 video); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

DNA reveals REAL origin of Europeans

(First Humans) Ancient DNA reveals the real history of Europeans ("Anglo-Saxons" and others)

• Did Europe devolve from its original indigenous ways?

We didn't "evolve" light skin for reason we're taught

Who is England's dark-skinned "Cheddar Man"?

The Zoroastrian schism (the Secret War for Europe's Soul)

(The Ark) Premiered Oct. 14, 2025: What if the spiritual struggle that still rages in the West today began 3,000 years ago, after a schism in the original Indo-European religion?

• 0:00 A violent people of the Steppe
• 12:35 The glory of the Sky Father
• 20:10 Thus Spake Zarathustra (= Zoroaster = Zoroastrianism) 
• 32:08 Zarathustra's legacy
• 40:41 Heroic literature course
• 42:26 The sacred order
• 57:50 The heroic ideal

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The Yakkhas of Sri Lanka: Stone Agers

(EBS World) Life with the Axe: Sri Lanka's Last Vedda Tribe

Living a Stone Age existence with magic metal axes

The Yakkha or Yakshi are "ogres" -- Sasquatch, Almas, Asian Bigfoot, Orang pendek (living Indonesian Hobbit), "Wild Men" Yeti and Chinese Yeren -- in Buddhist cosmology and Hindu, Jain, and the lore of the subcontinent. It may be that known human tribes living in the wild were referred to as Yakkhas and Yakshas as well:

Yaksha (Sanskrit यक्ष, Yakṣa, Pali Yakkha, female Yakkhini or Yakshi, likely the source of Yeti) are a broad class of nature spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness [4][5].

• YAKKHA: A class of non-human beings (amanussā), they are mentioned with devas, rakkhasas, dānavas, gandhabbas, kinnaras, and Mahoragas (? Nāgas) (e.g., J.v.420). In other lists (e.g., PvA. 45, 55) they range immediately above the ghosts (petas); in fact, some of the happier petas are called yakkhas. Elsewhere (e.g., A.ii.38) they rank, in progressive order, between humans (manussā) and deva-messengers (gandhabbā). There are many different kinds: spirits, ogres, dryads, ghosts, spooks. In the early records, yakkha, like nāgā, as an appellative, was not depreciative. Thus, not only is Sakka, king of the devas, so referred to (M.i.252; J.iv.4; DA.i.264), but even the Buddha is spoken of as a yakkha in poetic diction (M.i.386). Many devas, such as Kakudha, are also so addressed (S.i.54). More: palikanon.com

Yakshas appear in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist texts (where they are cannibal humanoid ogres with telepathic shapeshifting powers of transformation, who are known to cohabitate with human women and produce hybrid offspring, suggesting they are with the same species at least to some extent, the most famous of these being the Yakkha Alavaka and his very wise questions put to the Buddha in Sn I.10 Āḷavaka Sutta, ), as well as ancient and medieval era temples of South Asia and Southeast Asia as guardian deities [5][6]. The feminine form of the word is Yakṣī [7] or Yakshini (Sanskrit यक्षिणी, Yakṣiṇī, Pali Yakkhini) [8]. More

• These are the remaining members of the Vedda Tribe: The Vedda (Sinhalese වැද්දා, Tamil வேடர் or Vēḍar, also the Wanniyalaeto [4]. They are a minority indigenous group of people in Sri Lanka who, among other sub-communities such as Coast Veddas, Anuradhapura Veddas, and Bintenne Veddas [5], are accorded "indigenous" status. The Vedda minority in Sri Lanka may become completely assimilated [6]. Most already speak the dominant Sinhalese language (Sinhala) instead of their exotic indigenous languages, which are nearing extinction. It has been hypothesized that the Vedda were likely the earliest inhabitants of the island of Sri Lanka and have lived there since before the arrival of other groups from the nearby Indian mainland [7][8]. More

It's easier to believe these are modern Sri Lankans who got lost in the woods

Kirat Yakkha in traditional dress

Yakkha or Dewan (Nepali याक्खा, Yākkhā) is an indigenous ethnic group from the Indian subcontinent, mainly in modern-day Nepal and present-day India (related to other Kirat groups, like the Limbu, Sunuwar, Rai, and more distantly all other Sino-Tibetan peoples). It is one of the descendants of Nepal's prehistoric Kirat Dynasty.

The Yakkha people are subsistence farmers who inhabit the lower Arun valley in Eastern Nepal. They number only a few thousand and their language is nearly extinct [4][5]. They are closely related to Limbu people. More

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250K-year-old tools found in MX cave

There are many super-ancient human and alien mysteries throughout the Americas.

250,000-year-old tools in Mexico?! | Hueyatlaco mystery

(Awakened Epochs) What if humans arrived in the Americas not 12,000 years ago but 250,000 years ago? This is the forbidden story of Hueyatlaco, a Mesoamerican archeological site in central Mexico that mainstream history tried to erase.

Discovered in the 1960s and excavated by Smithsonian-backed archeologists, Hueyatlaco revealed stone tools buried beneath volcanic ash dated between 250,000 and 800,000 years old.

When scientists published their results, careers were destroyed, artifacts were confiscated and vanished, and armed men shut down the dig and hounded the participants.

From vanished bones displayed at the Smithsonian, to uranium-series dating, diatom analysis, and eyewitness accounts of suppression, this case challenges everything we think we know about the ancient peopling of the Americas.

Could humans or something like humans, have been in Mexico long before Homo sapiens sapiens supposedly left Africa? Or was this prehistory deliberately buried?

Watch as Awakened Epochs uncovers one of the most controversial and important archeological enigmas of all time.

CHAPTERS

• 00:00 – Intro: The mystery of Hueyatlaco
• 01:05 – A carved fossil [green] bone and a vanished artifact
• 01:57 – Smithsonian and US Geological Survey join the excavation
• 02:30 – Shocking dates: 22,000 to 800,000 years old
• 03:06 – Suppression, missing evidence, and harassment
• 03:42 – Independent dating confirms the impossible
• 04:12 – Skeptics, flooding theory, and stratigraphy tests
• 04:47 – Diatom analysis and the case for ancient occupation
• 05:35 – Eyewitnesses, footprints, and local legends
• 05:52 – Other evidence: Mastodon bones and white sands footprints
• 06:15 – Outro: suppression or the truth of human origins?

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• Jarid Boosters, Arizona Sphinx and other hidden oddities; Awakened Epochs, Sept. 2, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Did we choose this life?

What is the purpose of being human?

(Buddhism Podcast) What is the purpose of being human? The Buddha's answer

Aristotle’s Theory of Eudaimonia or Happiness

Eudaimonia (/u-die-moan-ee-uh/, Ancient Greek εὐδαιμονία]) is a Greek word that literally translates to the state or condition of good spirit, commonly translated as "happiness" or "welfare."  In the works of Aristotle, eudaimonia was the term for the highest human good in older Greek tradition. It is the aim of practical philosophy-prudence, including ethics and political philosophy, to consider and experience what this state really is and how it can be achieved. It is therefore a central concept in Aristotelian ethics and subsequent Hellenistic philosophy, along with the terms aretē (most often translated as "virtue" or "excellence") and phronesis ("practical or ethical wisdom") [1]. Discussion of the links between ēthikē aretē ("virtue of character") and eudaimonia (happiness) is one of the central concerns of ancient ethics and a subject of disagreement. As a result, there are many varieties of eudaimonism. More

What about the next Dalai Lama, sir?

14th Dalai Lama speaks about the 15th Dalai Lama's rebirth

(Religion for Breakfast) The battle to control the next Dalai Lama

(ReligionForBreakfast) June 19, 2025:  As the 14th Dalai Lama turns 90, a global power struggle looms. Who gets to choose his [rebirth] successor? This video explores the battle over reincarnation, politics, Chinese rule, and the future of Tibetan Vajrayana/Bon Buddhism.

• Check out earlier video explaining the Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama Explained: The Last Lama? (now that YouTube has restricted Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's interview)

Who in the world are the Han Chinese?

What do modern genetics say about the ancient Han Chinese, the dominant group in modern China?

• Millet farming over rice farming among Han Chinese?

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Buddhist creation myth: Science v Bible

This Buddhist creation myth BEATS Judeo-Christian Bible and Islam's Quran

(Maya Wisdom) Explore the profound teachings of Buddhism's primary creation myth, the Agganna Sutta, and its relevance to modern scientific understanding. This video examines:

1. The Buddhist perspective on cyclical cosmic evolution and devolution

2. How it challenges traditional creation narratives

3. The concept of Dependent Origination and its implications

4. Buddhism's unique approach to deities (devas, light beings, shining ones) and divine intervention

5. The Buddha's emphasis on personal experience over scriptural authority.

Gain insights into how this ancient wisdom offers a transformative view of human nature, societal structures, and our relationship with the cosmos.

A Buddhist Genesis?

Dharma...Evolution (Sugunasiri)

Sadly, the Agganna Sutra is not really a proper creation myth. It is only a general explanation of life on earth, and it doesn't even fully explain that. Its principal interest is to emphasize the power and significance of karma (deeds, those things willed, carried out, and stored up). How did human life begin on this plane, this planet, this earth? One day a light being (possibly a light beam if Dr. Sugunasiri's theory (Dhamma Aboard Evolution: A Canonical Study of Agganna Sutta in Relation to Science) holds up under scrutiny. He suggests it is symbolic or metaphorical, not a literal accounting. The Buddha was famous for being able to take ancient teachings from the subcontinent (proto-India) and earlier Vedic culture, which possibly encompassed the great Indus Valley Civilization and city-states of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, that people would have been familiar with and imbuing them with Buddhist knowledge of life, the universe, and everything. The problem with creation myths, including Science-ism's Big Bang Theory, is that they begin in the middle. For instance:

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  What was that? - Just another Bang

  SCIENCE MYTH 1: Once upon a time, before everything came into existence, this happened, then it came into existence in a spontaneous Big Bang.
  
• Q: Well, how did that happen if there wasn't anything yet?
• A: Uh, umm, question does not compute, insufficient data, syntax error, program will now shut down for regularly scheduled maintenance.
• 4H MYTH: (Popular in the Dharmic religions). One day God (who spontaneously arose in the midst of a great void and nothingness) got bored so He made everything (maya) else to amuse Himself, and to keep it interesting and full of drama (lila) forgot it was just Him (because we're all Him or figments of His imagination in this illusion), so it's alright whatever happens, just a part of a big game with Hells and Heavens, Hierarchies and Holes in the story (so don't read too much into it).

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  God animated dust with breath to create Adam.

  CHRISTIAN MYTH: (Applicable to all of the Abrahamic faiths, i.e., Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Yazidism, Gnosticism, Bahai, and probably their progenitors Mithraism, Zoroastrianism, ancient Mesopotamian, Babylonian, and Sumerian religion). Once upon a time, God was bored in heaven, so He made a terrarium and populated it with all sorts of creatures and even a little man like Himself, in His own image, called him Adam, gave him a partner named Lilith, whom he later divorced and remarried another named Eve, and had a whale of a time creating other fantastical living beings to be in His garden, even a scaly man who was a big smartass and troublemaker, talking Eve into all kinds of mischief so that He had to empty out the project and toss the main characters to the east, which is how we all came about in this sucky world suffering from the cradle to the grave. Nighty night, no question, time for bed!
• Our Lady of La Salette Marian apparition (miracle)

Ooh, let's land on that blue-green one! It looks nice and inviting, and we can b*ng there.

We revolve in a cycle until liberation.

• BUDDHIST MYTH: Once upon a time, in a land near, near this way, two light beings (or beams) alighted on this preexisting celestial body we call Earth, a garden like place, after flying in space and going about in their refined way. They liked it and stayed, and in so doing, they became coarser and coarser, devolving from their previous state.

Yay for Aldebaran! (Maria Orsic)

• The beings were engaging in gathering, eating, tasting, and sensual experiences like sex, experiencing the results (vipaka and phala) of their collective deeds (karma), which had a profound impact on their environment, being reborn over and over, until we find ourselves in our present state with people not realizing that the things they say and do had a previous meaning they've forgotten. And that, monks, is how things in the present are like things in the past, and it's always a good idea to keep good conduct, be pure, and evolve back to that Golden Age of Truth (Satya Yuga) when things will be better before eventually, invariably, decline again and devolve in this spiraling cyclical pattern we call samsara.
• Q: That's a "creation" myth?
• A: No, where in the sutra does it say anything about "creation"? This is just a story about how humanoid life began on this planet/plane, devolving from a higher plane by the workings of karma.

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  This is how it happened, according to math.

  SCIENCE MYTH 2: Once upon a time everything declined and collapsed falling in on itself then there was a Big Bounce and it re-expanded until we find ourselves and our universe expanding again as evidenced by the Doppler Effect of the redshift of visible light and there's no discernible beginning or end to it, just like the Buddha taught.
• In science, anything is possible: Physicists turn light into one-dimensional gas with incredibly strange properties (IFL Science) The Big Bang is utterly dumb as a theory of everything because it says there is no need for miracles except this one. Just grant that everything came out of nothing in a nano-instant then everything else we explain will be rational, lawful (in accordance with demonstrable principles), and predictable.
• Maya Wisdom (video), Sept. 3, 2024; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Neanderthal (caveman) found buried alive

Matt Hrodey, DIscover Magazine via MSN.com, 9/14/23; Eds. Wisdom Quarterly

Was Altamura Man a MISFIT? He fell through hole, got stuck, disappeared, never came home.

Who was the Neanderthal Altamura Man, found in cave in Southern Spain? (Discovery Mag)

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Altamura Man: How one Neanderthal's misfortune became a blessing for science

In 1993, cave explorers entered a long, narrow tunnel at the Lamalunga Cave near the town of Altamura in Southern Italy.

At the far end, they found an upside-down human skull fused into the rock alongside a large collection of other human bones.

The skull’s jutting brow was covered in a layer of pearl-like coralloid, calcium deposits otherwise known as "cave popcorn."

Much of the remains were covered in some form of the mineral that had leached down from the surrounding limestone.

• ART BY WHO? Archaeologists discover more than 100 ancient drawings in a Spanish cave*

Today, scientists believe the Neanderthal (the “Altamura Man”) had fallen through a sinkhole in the surrounding limestone karst and never made it back out again.

• The fascinating path of Neanderthal evolution: Where did Neanderthals come from? | Discover Magazine

He starved to death, and the calcium deposits, along with stalactites and stalagmites, had sealed him into a calcified tomb.

Who was the Altamura Man?

In the early going, no one knew if the skeleton had belonged to an early Homo sapiens human or a Neanderthal, and given its remote location, serious scientific study was slow to come.

In 2009, a group of researchers received permission from Italian authorities to remove a piece of its right shoulder blade in an attempt to understand who this unlucky person had been. More

*Who made this ancient Spanish art?

Horse head painting near extinct auroch

(Smithsonian Magazine) Two years ago, when a team of archeologists spotted a painting of an extinct wild bull called an auroch on the wall of a cave in Spain’s Cova Dones, located in Millares, near Valencia, they knew it was important. While Spain has the largest number of Paleolithic cave art sites, most are concentrated in the country’s northern region, while few have been documented in Eastern Iberia [the European peninsula that includes the Basque Country and Portugal]. However, they didn’t realize just how significant the newly discovered cave art was until they returned to fully document it. More

Were Neanderthals white or brown? (video)

History with Kayleigh, 4/9/23; Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Oh yeah, Baby! Flex those biceps, triceps! Work those gams. Show me some teeth, Nee'Andy!

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Were Neanderthals white?

(History with Kayleigh) NEANDERTHAL MUSEUM We know that Neanderthal DNA has influenced the modern human (Homo sapien sapiens) genome in quite a few ways.

I think of myself as a Nordic Anglo-Saxon beauty

But did Neanderthal's DNA influence our skin tone and hair color? Why are prehistoric Neanderthals around Europe so often depicted with pale skin and stereotypical Caucasian features? How accurate is the scientific racism or artistic license of these textbook depictions?

We're more wolf and bear than human, and we don't know to come in out of the snow to caves.

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