Viva dying Las Vegas: collapse

• Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys, "Viva Las Vegas"; Discovery Globe - Life Documentary; Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds,), Wisdom Quarterly

To win, read this before gambling in Sin City

Ludwig van B. Mozart Vivaldi (guitar)

The Buddha's sister Sundari Nanda

Why kill (when you can overkill)? What's the fun of being a guitar heroine unless you can rub it in their face and say, "Hey, look, Men, you may think you're all that, but you can't hold a candle to girls. So step aside and let some ladies in the band already. It's a tale as old as Shakespeare's sister. Did Shakespeare have sister? We'd never know it! If she'd existed and had been more talented than he, we'd still never know it due to implicit bias and sexism ingrained in us. We're losing more than half the talent pool to discrimination. What females never arise to tower in virtuosity, mathematics, STEM in general, to say nothing of all the agonizing loss of creativity in better fields? Don't believe it? Just look at this:

• The Buddha's sister Sundari Nanda Gotami

Ludwig van Beethoven "Moonlight Sonata"

(Tina S) It was the summer of 2016 when Tina S decided it was time to record and show people. Ah, what might have been if her brother, Willy, hadn't told her to turn it down and then given her an atomic wedgie and smashed her guitar and sold the broken pieces for cigarettes to smoke with his friends in the backyard knowing that she was sensitive to the smoke and would have to get a better air filter? No, just kidding, little Shakespeare would never do that to his little sis.

Jasmine Star, we need a talent-and-beauty combo

Instagram: tinasetkic, instagram.com/spintwiceof... TikTok: spintwiceofficial. This version of "Moonlight Sonata (Third Movement)" by Beethoven was arranged for electric guitar by Dr. Viossy and played by guitar phenom and possible karmic child prodigy Tina S. It's the Best of Tina S (Sandris Jansons). Oct. 31, 2014: Here's a medley of Tina's best pieces. I'm amazed at Tina's technique. This girl will definitely make a great future [if only she can] keep on shredding!

Vivaldi's "Winter" (metal edition) Chris Joao, 12/18 written 300+ years ago

The white cannibals of America (video)

White cannibals of US: Sarah Winnemucca tells of a red-haired tribe in Nevada, 1858-1860

What would giants eat? (gen6giants)

(Unworthy History) Aug. 3, 2024: In this video we read from Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Their Claims by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, published in 1883. It tells of the Pyramid Lake War that broke out in 1860 between the Paiutes and the white settlers near Genoa, Nevada. It also tells the Paiute legend of the red-haired cannibalistic people exterminated by the Paiutes several hundred years before the book was written.

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• There were Spaniards who came to what is now the USA in post-Columbian times. One such Conquistador or scout was the captain of a ship who produced written documentation (ship's log) of sighting an interacting with these red-haired giants. In on curious incident, a massive young girl was spotted and tracked with the intention of abducting her and kidnapping her back to Europe. Armed men followed her from shore to her house, where they had a run in with her father, who was much bigger. They abandoned the plan, ran back to the ship, and observed the parents angry on the shore as they departed. These written documents must still exist for review.

Wonderhussy investigates Lovelock Cave

(Wonderhussy Adventures) Oct. 25, 2023: Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #756. Date of adventure: Oct. 11, 2023. If you get arrested at Burning Man, they'll bring you to jail in Lovelock. It's better to explore this remote cave in northern Nevada without cops. Here, back in 1911, a couple of bat guano (fertilizer) miners discovered the mummified body of a 6'6" red headed man. The local Paiutes were not red headed, nor were they that tall. So who was this mummy, and where did he come from? Could he have been a descendant of Viking [or Irish or Nordic or Extraterrestrial] explorers?

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Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims

Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Their Claims

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (4.3 out of 5 stars with 25 ratings). This 1883 book by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins is an autobiographical account of the Paiute people during their first 40 years of interaction with European-American invaders/settlers. The author was the daughter of the Paiute Chief Winnemucca and was raised in the area that is now western Nevada.

Born about 1841 into a tribe that -- at that time -- had only limited contact with settlers, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins would go on to spend the majority of her adult life apart from the Paiutes.

Mrs. Hopkins came to the East from the Pacific coast with the courageous purpose of telling in detail to the mass of our people, "extenuating nothing and setting down naught in malice," the story of her people's trials.

(SteveQuayle.com)

Finding that in extemporaneous speech she could only speak at one time of a few points, she determined to write out the most important part of what she wished to say.

In fighting with her literary deficiencies, she loses some of the fervid eloquence which her extraordinary colloquial command of the English language enables her to utter, but I am confident that no one would desire that her own original words should be altered.

It is the first outbreak of the American Indian in human literature. Sarah Winnemucca (1844–1891) was a prominent female Paiute activist and educator; she helped gain release of her people from the Yakima Reservation following the Bannock War of 1878, lectured widely in the East in 1883 on injustices against Native Americans in the West, established a private school for Indian students in Nevada, and was an influential figure in development of United States' 19th-century Indian policies.

Giant red-haired cannibals of Lovelock, Nevada

The mysterious red-headed mummy giant of Lovelock Cave

(Let Us Try That) March 20, 2024: The Northern Paiute people have an oral tradition that tells of a barbarous tribe of [tall, redheaded] people. These barbarians were cannibals who would kill and eat the Northern Paiute people and even eat their own dead. At war for three years, the Paiutes eventually killed many of the cannibals. The rest fled to a deep cave. The mouth of the cave was stuffed full of brush and set ablaze, killing the last of those people. There have been archeological expeditions at this site, and there have been a lot of claims made about what was found there. Today, we're trying to get to the truth and find out what really happened at Lovelock Cave.

Sources used in this video:

• Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1882 digital.library.upenn.edu/wom...
• The Salt Lake Tribune June 07, 1908 Cheats and Hoaxes Recalled By National Gallery Forgeries chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...
• LOVELOCK CAVE BY LLEWELLYN L. LOUD and M. R. HARRINGTON -- 1929 archive.org/stream/LovelockCa...
• Nevada Historical Society Quarterly - Fall 1975 John Reid's Redheaded "Giants of Central Nevada: Fact or Fiction? SHEILAGH BROOKS, CAROLYN STARK AND RICHARD H. BROOKS https://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/de...
• Nevada Historical Society Quarterly - Winter 1984 John T. Reid's Case for the Redheaded Giants by Dorothy P. Dansie epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/e...
• L.L. Loud and the Beginning of Nevada Archaeology -- 2011 onv-dev.duffion.com/articl...
• Graham Hancock Re: The Red Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave -- 2013 https://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read...
• The Red Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave -- 2013 by Brian Dunning skeptoid.com/episodes/4390

• Pat Macpherson, Xochitl, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mexico's ET alien mummy "was alive" (video)

WION, 9/20/23; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mainstream media is propaganda arm of US military-industrial complex: Cake? They're bodies

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Gravitas: "It was alive," scientists say after analyzing Mexico's alien corpses | WION

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Space aliens live among us in Los Angeles?

Mudras: hand gestures for meditation

Crystal Quintero and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit; pinterest.com

Hand and finger positioning can be very helpful in the practice of meditation.

Yoga (bodily poses) and mudras (gestures) are so easy, even kids can do them (pinterest)

 

The Buddha, vajra mudra

What is a mudrā? It is a Sanskrit (मुद्रा) word for "seal," "mark," or "gesture" (Tibetan ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ or chakgya).

It is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Vedic Brahmanism (the ancient tradition inherited and preserved by Hinduism) and Buddhism.

Some mudras involve the entire body, as when the Buddha is sitting in full lotus pose holding one hand close to his heart with fingers signifying absorption (jhana).

Will they help me sit and focus the mind?

But most are performed with the hands and fingers. A mudrā is a spiritual gesture and an energetic seal of authenticity employed in the iconography and spiritual practice of Indian [Dharmic] religions. One hundred and eight mudrās are used in regular Tantric rituals.

 

In yoga, mudrās are used in conjunction with pranayama (yogic breathing exercises), generally while seated in lotus pose, easy pose, or vajra pose to stimulate different parts of the body involved in breathing and to affect the flow of energy/chi/prana in the body. More

Donald Trump ROAST (Comedy Central)

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Seth MacFarlane (Comedy Central); Epic Rap Battles (ERB); Vimeo; SNL WARNING: Profanity! Vulgarity!
(Comedy Central) WARNING: Profanity! Choice bits from Trump roast. See full show below.

"From the files of...Conservative Jones, Internet Detective" (thismodernworld.com)

"A Year to Fear" (guest cartoonist Rochelle Bassarear/jensorensen.com)

That's not funny. None of this is funny. This is as bad as SNL and Alec Baldwin! (AP)

(Epic Rap Battles of History) Who's worse, Trump or Ebenezer Scrooge?

Main show: the FULL LENGTH roast

"Radical Cleric versus President Trump" (Jen Sorensen/jensorensen.com)

(Donald Trump's The Wall) If EMI Records silences this video
on YouTube.com, watch it in full on Vimeo.com/194220676

KOAN: One Finger Zen

Dhr. Seven, Roshi Jeff Albrizze (PasaDharma.org), CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly, The Book of Equanimity, Case 84 "Gutei's One Finger"; The Gateless Gate (Mumonkan)

Alt pop idol Avril Lavigne, following Zen Master Gutei's example but misunderstanding which digit he used, points out the path: middle finger, middle way.

 

PREFACE TO THE ASSEMBLY

Zen zero (Stanoin/etsy.com)

One hearing, a thousand awakenings;

One understanding, a thousand [results].

A superior person with one realization takes care of everything.

Mediocre and inferior persons, though they hear a great deal, mostly don't have faith.

Let's try to show the most accurate, simple point and see.

MAIN CASE

Attention!

Great Zen Master Gutei, whenever he was questioned, simply raised one finger.

APPRECIATORY VERSE

Eminem's Lose Yourself is Buddhist?

Old Gutei's fingertip Zen.

For thirty years, inexhaustible

Truly a person of the Way has limitless stratagems,

But common people can't see it in front of them.

What is gained is so utterly simple,

Yet expedients become endless in number.

Thousands of lands and seas swallowed up by a hair-tip.

Boundless dragons falling into whose hands?

Ninko's holding the fishing pole is appreciated.

I, too, raise one finger and say, "See?"

 

Tenryū-ji (天龍寺) is the head temple of the Tenryū branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism in Kyoto, Japan, founded by Ashikaga Takauji in 1339 to venerate the Buddha Gautama. More

 

Which finger?

Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps (trans.), Mumonkan, "Gutei's Finger"

Juzhi Yizhi (Gutei)

Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had preached about, the boy would raise his finger.

Gutei heard about the boy's mischief. He seized him and cut off his finger. The boy cried and ran away. Gutei called out and stopped him. When the boy turned his head, Gutei raised up his own finger. In that instant the boy was "enlightened."

When Gutei was about to pass from this world, he gathered his monks around him. "I attained my finger-Zen," he said, "from my teacher Tenryū, and in my whole life I could not exhaust it." Then he passed away. 

Mumon's comment: Enlightenment, which Gutei and the boy attained, has nothing to do with a finger. If anyone clings to a finger, Tenryū will be so disappointed that he will annihilate Gutei, the boy, and the clinger all together.

Gutei cheapens the teaching of Tenryū,

Emancipating the boy with a knife.

Compared to the Chinese god who pushed aside a mountain with one hand,

Old Gutei is a poor imitator.

It is due to this story that Gutei has commonly become known as Gutei Isshi, meaning "Gutei One-finger."

Fall Zen Retreat with Brad Warner

Dogen Sangha Los Angeles

Author Brad Warner (There is No God and He is Always With You, Hardcore Zen, etc.), an ordained Zen monk and former punk rock musician, will lead a three-day intensive at the Mount Baldy Zen Center in the forest above Los Angeles Nov. 8-10, 2013. Includes zazen (sitting meditation), dokusan (interviews), chanting, hiking. Also yoga with Nina Snow ($350). See videos

Occupy Colleges: Berkeley or Penn State

Occupycolleges.org, Wisdom Quarterly, Occupy Cal, Occupy Together

History in the making: Students lock arms as violent police in riot gear move in to beat them in front of Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley campus, Nov. 9 (AP/Ben Margot).

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."
- French writer Victor Hugo

Penn State and Berkeley: A Tale of Two Protests

On Wednesday night, two proud universities saw student demonstrations that spiraled into violence [one by police, the other by footballers]. On the campus of Penn... More

Stand up by sitting down: A peaceful movement for peace and justice. Violence for peace and justice has never worked. Because change comes from within, we have to "be the change we want to see in the world."

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious -- makes you so sick at heart -- that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."

- Sixties student leader Mario Savio

Occupy Cal (Berkeley) tents on the famous free speech zone of Sproul Plaza surrounded by supporters. Students and faculty staged a walk-out at Occupy SFSU (San Francisco State Univ.) as well protesting budget cuts and fee hikes. Students gathered at UC Davis to protest police brutality and tuition hikes (Occupy Together).

It's not true. But since the New York Times (the most visible manifestation of State propaganda) says it is, people believe it:

Occupy Wall Street protesters shifting to college campuses
Malia Wollan and Elizabeth A. Harris (Nov. 14, 2011)
BERKELEY, California - Goodbye, city park, hello, college green[?] As city officials around the country move to disband Occupy Wall Street encampments amid growing concerns over health and public safety, protesters have begun to erect more tents on college campuses [which was happening long before any camp got disbanded]. “We are trying to... More

• The Nation begins student articles
• Pledge of Nonviolence (ahimsa)
• Become a student journalist
  

A New Student Youth Movement?
UC Berkeley students Caroline and Aaron (Wisdom Quarterly)
Is it true? Is the police state re-turning this into a student protest movement? Look what it did the last time. No, this is not a "youth" movement. This is ALL of us now -- parents, whistleblowers, teachers, labor, monastics, the 99.9%!

What happened in the Sixties when the US war machine was attacking Vietnam (and secretly bombing Cambodia, Laos, and anyone else who stood in its way) was student bulldozing.

War is a way of life at the CIA, Pentagon, and Corporate-Military Complex. This is more true at home than on foreign soil. We are the ones being monitored, controlled, and deprived of rights.

But like fish in a bowl, we are unaware of the water most of the time. Yet it becomes clear when our MIC (military-industrial complex) is annihilating others. What it does it does in the "storm trooper" style of that famous would-be world empire: The jack boots are the same, the insignia a little different, full of badges, batons, and black outfits.

• Occupy Cal makes Occupy history at Berkeley
  
• Occupy protesters move to California universities
• Occupy California (UC Santa Cruz - San Francisco)
  
• Occupy Affiliated ReFund California march on Cal State
• Occupy protesters move to California universities
• Latest developments in the Occupy protests in places...
• VIDEOS: Police, unprovoked, beat Berkeley students
  

• Bay Area Occupy Blog: Occupy Cal takes field trip to SF
  
• Live Blog: Scene calms at Cal; more details from SF raid
  
• Police shoot armed man at UC Berkeley's business school
  
• Occupy Cal protesters vote to pitch tents
  
• Occupy Oakland protester could be deported
  
• VIDEOS: Police clash with Berkeley protesters, Nov. 9th
  
• Occupy Oakland protesters to join Occupy Cal action
  
• Peaceful raid on Oakland tent city likely not the end
  
• Occupy Oakland: Police outnumber protesters at plaza
  
• 'Occupy Martinez' debuts outside Shell refinery
  
• BART reopens 12th St. station after Oakland police raid
  
• Occupy Oakland gets third eviction notice

Six-fingered Titans (Giants) among us

Wisdom Quarterly, SteveQuayle.com, AP

One telltale sign of space alien-human hybridization is polydactyly, a common excess of digits. They were noted by Giant expert Steve Quayle (stevequayle.com) from an asura/nephilim brought out of Afghanistan (Long Walkers: Return of the Nephilim).

Cuban man proud of his 24 digits
Known as "Twenty-Four," in this photo taken Aug. 24, 2011, Yoandri Hernandez Garrido, 37, drinks juice from a coconut in Baracoa, Guantanamo province, Cuba. Hernandez is proud of his extra digits and calls them a blessing, saying they set him apart and enable him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts and posing for photographs in this eastern Cuban city popular with tourists. Known as polydactyly, Hernandez's condition is relatively common. But it is rare for the extra digits to be so perfect (AP/Javier Galeano).

Lost City of the Grand Canyon
Remarkable Finds Indicate Ancient People Migrated From Orient

ARIZONA GAZETTE, 1909 - "The latest news of the progress of the explorations of what is now regarded by scientists as not only the oldest archaeological discovery in the United States, but one of the most valuable in the world, which was mentioned some time ago in the Gazette, was brought to the city yesterday by G.E. Kinkaid, the explorer who found the great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon during a trip from Green River, Wyoming, down the Colorado in a wooden boat, to Yuma, several months ago....

The Shrine

"Over a hundred feet from the entrance is a cross-hall, several hundred feet long, in which was found the idol, or image, of the peoples god, sitting cross-legged, with a Lotus flower or Lily in each hand. The cast of the face is Oriental, and the carving shows a skillful hand, and the entire is remarkably well preserved, as is everything in this cavern. The idol most resembles Buddha, though the scientists are not certain as to what religious worship it represents. Taking into consideration everything found thus far, it is possible that the worship most resembles the ancient [Buddhist] people of Thibet. Surrounding this idol are smaller images, some beautiful in form, other crooked necked and distorted shapes, symbolical, probably, of good and evil. There are two large cacti with protruding arms, one on each side of the dais on which the god squats. All this is carved out of hard rock resembling marble." More

• Giants and Ancient History (stevequayle.com)
  

Indian baby born with two faces (CBS)

Spiritual Materialism and...the Finger

Spiritual Materialism and Where to Point the Finger

Tamara Levitt (Super Spiritual Girl) is not an overachiever but is the founder of Begin Within (and production company) with resources, blogs, music, and videos designed to inspire and assist, educate and entertain (elephantjournal.com).

I’ve had it up to here with spiritual materialism: spending $200 on yoga outfits, the abundance of self-proclaimed gurus repackaging ancient Eastern spiritual principles into fragmented Coles [Cliff] Notes versions, and books and films that suggest that if we simply repeat our daily affirmations we’ll attract the perfect partner and a super high paying job.

And if it doesn’t attract them, we must be doing it wrong. Suddenly, personal growth is all about outcome. Everybody’s jumping on the spiritual bandwagon. But hey, it’s hip. It’s cool. It’s fun. Let’s all chant “Namaste” together!

I don’t know, personally my spiritual path hasn’t always been so hip, cool, and fun. It has often felt beautiful. But along that path there has also been pain. When I was in my early 20s being spiritual wasn’t hip at all.

I spent my evenings hanging out with people 30 years older than I was in Buddhist and meditation classes. I remember feeling isolated, with a mind full of questions, desperately wanting to share my path.

I felt such frustration that everyone my own age was hanging out in bars getting wasted instead of wanting to discuss concepts such as impermanence and emptiness. It was a lonely time. Even now, I consider myself a happy person, but my current path is by no means a simple one.

I’m grateful to have connected with an abundance of authentic, aligned seekers and feel no lack of sangha [spiritual community]. But similar to when I was younger, I still feel disconnected from the mainstream.

Before, this disconnect was due to an absence of spiritual support, and now it involves me questioning the authenticity of fellow seekers and the teachings available. I find myself concerned about what the Westernized spiritual movement has become. More>>