God is going to be so proud of us that we killed His children who were born into the wrong team. Teach them to stand up to the West, the imperial rulers of one hemisphere and soon to be two. Ah, it's good to have a genocidal God to follow, worship, and obey without question. If Jewish Bible scholars say He says, "Kill thine enemy," what were we to do but obey? They also say they're the "chosen ones," so they must know, being on a first name basis with the God (YHWH) and all. We're sure to get into heaven now. Thank you, CIA. Thank you, Pentagon. Thank you, Air Force, Marines, and Grunts on foot who are always the first to be sent in. If it weren't for our overlords playing 3-D chess on such a massive scale, with guns and bullets, where would we be?
Bruce Lee, what are the martial arts? Are they combat for war, a lack of peace, or something more?
Poet philosopher Bruce Lee was born Lee Jun-fan on Nov. 27, 1940, passing away at 32 on July 20, 1973. He was an American and Hong Kong mixed martial artist, teacher, actor, Hollywood superstar, and filmmaker.
He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy ["Lee-ism"?], which was formed from his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, ZenBuddhist, Taoist, and Confucian philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought [2, 3].
With a career spanning the United States and Hong Kong [4, 5, 6], Lee is regarded as the first global Chinese film star and one of the most influential martial artists in the history of cinema [7].
Known for his roles in five feature-length martial arts films, he is credited with helping to popularize martial arts films in the 1970s and promoting Hong Kong action cinema [8, 9].
Born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Lee was introduced to the Hong Kong film industry as a child actor by his father, Mr. Lee Hoi-chuen [10].
Lee's early martial arts experience included Wing Chun (trained under Ip Man), tai chi, boxing (winning a Hong Kong boxing tournament), and frequent street fighting (neighborhood and rooftop fights).
(The Kim Iversen Show) Dare to bring a humanitarian flotilla to our land to embarrass us as we commit genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, atrocities, and ethnic cleansing? We'll teach you to make our ethnostate look bad in the eyes of the world media. Who is the madman Zionist Jew Itamar Ben-Gvir?
PALESTINE - Right wing Zionist Jew and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir (Hebrew אִיתָמָר בֶּן גְּבִיר, May 6, 1976) is a lawyer and Israeli politician who has served as minister since 2022, except for a two-month gap in early 2025.
He is the leader of Otzma Yehudit ("Jewish Power"), an Israeli far-right, Kahanist, and anti-Arab party that won six seats in the 2022 legislative election and is part of the 37th government of Israel.
Beni is a "settler" [illegal invader and occupier] in the illegally-occupied West Bank (of Palestine), whose "political background lies in Kahanism — a violently racist [Ashkenazi Jewish] movement that supports the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands" [2], where "expulsion" means ethnic cleansing, a legally defined form of genocide.
We want a biblical bloodbath to steal this land.
Beni has a long history of anti-Arab activism [killing, maiming, oppressing, terrorizing, robbing, and expelling], leading to dozens of indictments and at least eight convictions of crimes including incitement to racism and support for, as well as possession of propaganda of, a terrorist organization (the now-illegal Kach political party)[3].
As a Jewish lawyer, he is known for defending Jews accused of Jewish extremist terrorism in Israeli courts [4].
Ben-Gvir is known for being a provocateur and has attracted headlines for a variety of reasons:
threatening Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on live TV in 1995 shortly before his assassination;
having had a portrait in his living room of Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish extremist terrorist and mass murderer;
calling in 2019 for the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel who are not loyal to the state [5];
inciting violent clashes between Jewish "settlers" and indigenous Palestinians in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in 2021; and
making highly controversial visits to the Temple Mount, where the al-Aqsa Mosque is located, in 2023 and 2024 [6].
On January 18, 2025, it was reported that Ben-Gvir intended to resign from his ministerial position in protest to the approval and implementation of the three-phase Gaza war ceasefire deal. He resigned on January 19, 2025.
Two months later, it was announced that he and other party members would return to the government after an agreement was reached, following the continuation of genocidal airstrikes in Gaza. More
The TM corporation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- the Beatles', Beach Boys', and other celebrities' own guru -- used to sell "levitation" during meditation, which turned out to be a kind of flipper hopping by flapping the knees, a ridiculous compromise in the way we can bend reality and language to match. Even this wouldn't be "levitation" as we understand it even with the great hang time.
(AS) This "yogic flying" TM style "levitation" is more embarrassing than Heshers' sill trick above.
It only took us two views to see how he's doing it, and we guarantee anyone with the right camera set up can do this tonight, with less stress on his plastic drawers from the pushing.
Buddhism's Path of Purification on levitation
95. Uplifting happiness can be powerful enough to levitate the body and
make it spring up into the air. For this was what happened to the Elder
Mahá Tissa, residing at Punnavallika.
He went to the shrine terrace on the
evening of the full-moon day. Seeing the moonlight, he turned in the direction
of the Great Shrine [at Anurádhapura], thinking:
“At this very hour the four assemblies [Note 29] are worshipping at the Great Shrine!” By means of objects
formerly seen [there] he aroused uplifting happiness with the Enlightened
One [the Buddha] as object, and he rose into the air like a painted ball bounced off a
plastered floor and alighted on the terrace of the Great Shrine.
[Note 29: Four assemblies (parisá) Buddhist monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen.]
96. And this was what happened to the daughter of a clan in the village of
Vattakálaka near the Girikandaka Monastery when she sprang up into the air
owing to strong uplifting happiness with the Enlightened One as object.
As her
parents were about to go to the monastery in the evening, it seems, in order to
hear the Dhamma [144], they told her:
“My dear, you are expecting a child; you
cannot go out at an unsuitable time. We shall hear the Dhamma [the Buddha's Teachings] and gain merit
for you.” So they went out. And though she wanted to go, too, she could not very well
object to what they said. She stepped out of the house onto a balcony and stood
looking at the Ákásacetiya Shrine at Girikandaka lit by the moon.
She saw the
offering of lamps at the shrine and the four communities [assemblies] as they circumambulated
it to the right after making their offerings of flowers and perfumes. And she
heard the sound of the massed recital by the Community of Monastics. Then she
thought:
“How lucky they are to be able to go to the monastery and wander round
such a shrine terrace and listen to such sweet preaching of Dhamma!”
Seeing the
shrine as a mound of pearls and arousing uplifting happiness, she sprang up into
the air, and before her parents arrived she came down from the air into the shrine
terrace, where she paid homage and stood listening to the Dhamma.
97. When her parents arrived, they asked her: “What road did you come by, my dear?”
She answered, “I came through the air, not by the road.”
And when they told her, “My
dear, those whose cankers are destroyed [the enlightened] come through the air, but how did you
come?”
She replied, “As I was standing looking at the shrine in the moonlight a
strong sense of happiness arose in me with the Enlightened One as its object.
Then I knew no more whether I was standing or sitting, but only that I was
springing up into the air with the [mental] sign that I had grasped [apprehended], and I came to rest on
this shrine terrace.”
So uplifting happiness can be powerful enough to levitate the body and make it
spring up into the air.
98. But when pervading (rapturous) happiness arises, the whole body is
completely pervaded [like soap powder suffused with water], like a filled bladder, like a rock cavern invaded by a huge
inundation.
99. Now this fivefold happiness, when conceived and matured, perfects the twofold
tranquility, that is, bodily and mental tranquility. When tranquility is conceived
and matured, it perfects the twofold bliss, that is, bodily and mental bliss. When bliss
is conceived and matured, it perfects the threefold concentration, that is,
Of these, what is intended by happiness in this context is pervading happiness,
which is the root of absorption and comes by growth into association with
absorption [145].
CHAPTER IV
The Earth Kasina
100. But as to the other word: pleasing (sukhana) is bliss (sukha). Or alternatively:
it thoroughly... More: Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)
Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), The Path of Purification edit
Underground crime ring: Stolen cars in secret tunnels in LA County | FOX 11 LA
(FOX 11 Los Angeles) Whittier Narrows, Los Angeles County, near Montebello - Sept. 4, 2025: FOX 11's Matthew Seedorff received a tip suggesting that criminals are storing stolen cars inside remote runnels in Los Angeles County. Where do stolen cars disappear to with LoJack and all of the new built-in GPS tracking devices? So this is where stolen cars go before they hit the "chop shops" and are sold for parts or shipped out of the country at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro to be sold on the world market by crime syndicates. Meanwhile, the LAPD and LASD and CHP all have their fingers up their nose not knowing anything and being too afraid to enter the tunnels to chase after the car thieves and criminals.
There are many ways in which surfing, which seems to have been "invented" in the Pacific -- in Peru and Polynesia, with important contributions from Buddhist Japan (which at that time included a cultural hold on what is now part of Hawaii in the Imperial USA), tracks with the best elements of Eastern philosophy.
That philosophy, distinct from Western philosophy we are all generally familiar with, is a syncretic blend of Buddhism, Zen, the Vedas, Hinduism, Taoism, Shinto, and indigenous shamanism. (British Californian Alan Watts explained it very well to Westerners).
Mindfulness (fully absorbed in monotasking)
Absorption (undistracted doing temporarily freed of discursive thinking)
Letting go (non-clinging, as in "Let Go, Let God," with "God" understood to be Nature, the Universe, things just as they are at this moment, more Brahman than a brahma)
Going with the flow rather than struggling against it (entering flow states familiar to poets, rappers, artists, and persons able to enter trance states at will)
Skillful allowing and accepting rather than shoving, muscling, and efforting (radical acceptance as understood by Buddhist teacher and psychologist Tara Brach)
Riding the wave (internally of emotions, externally tolerating and skillfully adapting to the "Eight Worldly Winds"):
Practicing at home in the Deep South, USA
Theravada Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg elaborates on the Taoist idea of “the ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows.” Our lives are constantly changing, sometimes in the space of a minute. The Buddha taught that the “Eight Worldly Winds” are:
They (and all things) are constantly arising and passing away, beyond our control. We suffer when we cling to pleasure, gain, praise, and fame or hold the expectation that they will always be present.
When instead we get pain, loss, blame, and disrepute, we feel that something is terribly wrong, or that we’ve done something wrong... More
Well, what should we do when everything sucks? Surf.
Whether that means ride the waves of life constantly coming at us like Eight Worldly Winds or vicissitudes or actually getting out on the water, waiting for the swells, and riding them back to sure with the practiced skills of balance, poise, allowing, persistence, and mindful awareness.
Lexus WSL Finals Fiji 2025 | World Surf League
Map shows Fiji cluster of islands in center
What to know: The paradise and power of Cloudbreak | Lexus WSL Finals Fiji. At the Lexus WSL Finals, the WSL Final 5 will face off at Cloudbreak, one of the most powerful lefts on Earth. It's a wave that demands total commitment and punishes hesitation. With a world title on the line, this is the ultimate test of talent, mental acumen, and pure surfing instinct. The stakes have never been higher, and there's no room for error. History will be ridden, and World Champions will be crowned: Paradise and power of Cloudbreak (WSL)
Where is Fiji?
Where in the world is Fiji? It is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean (between Hawaii and Australia). It rests about 1,300 miles (1,100 nautical miles or 2,000 kms) north-northeast of New Zealand.
Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 7,100 square miles (18,300 sq kms). The most outlying island group is Ono-i-Lau.
Mexico's Baja California in upper right, Fiji in center, Southeast Asia on left, Africa at far left
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About 87% of the total population live on the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. About three-quarters of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts, either in the capital city of Suva, or in smaller urban centers such as Nadi (where tourism is the major local industry) or Lautoka (where the sugar-cane industry is dominant). The interior of Viti Levu is sparsely inhabited because of its terrain [13]. More
It isn't just quasi-white supremacist ad campaigns that are adding to bodacious Sydney Sweeney's fame quotient. There is also her bathwater, which has allegedly been added to some expensive Dr. Squatch soap. It's doubtful there is even a molecule of her in any bar, but maybe she looked at the water before it got watered down, spread out, and mixed with fat and lye. Can you imagine anyone liking someone so much that she'd gladly swim in that person's bathwater? If not, ask Gwen about it:
The answer, in brief, is join this tribe and do what they do. Become a master diver by epigenetics -- kickstarting our natural human capacity that mostly goes unprompted and dormant.
7 days with the tribe that BREATHES underwater (Bajau Sea Nomads)
(Joe HaTTab) The BAJAU (Sama-Bajau): Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia. 🌊
Meet the Bajau — the “Sea Gypsies” who have lived in and on the ocean for centuries. With a population of about 100,000 people across Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, they are legendary free divers (70 meter + depths with no oxygen tanks).
Let's visit their stilt villages in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines, and North Sulawesi, Indonesia, to uncover their survival secrets — and find out why their ancient way of life is vanishing.
Young men, beware of selkies, beautiful but vicious
Mermaid princess Suvannamaccha (Thai สุพรรณมัจฉา, RTGS Suphannamatcha or Suphan Matcha, Khmer សុវណ្ណមច្ឆា, ALA-LC Suvaṇṇmacchā, Pali सुवण्णमच्छा, suvaṇṇamacchā, literally "golden fish") is a daughter of Ravana (Thotsakan), appearing in the Thai and other Southeast Asian versions of the Ramanaya [1].
Suvannamaccha tries to spoil Hanuman's plans to build a bridge to (Sri) Lanka but falls in love with him instead [2].
The figure of Suvannamaccha is popular in Thai folklore and is represented on small cloth streamers or framed pictures that are hung as luck-bringing charms in shops and houses throughout predominantly Theravada Buddhist Thailand.
Story
A mermaid charm in Thailand
[The Hindu monkey-headed god] Hanuman, while building a causeway [that has really been found to exist], discovered that he was hampered by mermaids underwater.
Hanging wall mount: Suvannamaccha luck bringing charm (amulet) in a riverside shop in Nonthaburi, Thailand.
When the divine Mother GoddessSita is kidnapped, her husband [ET] Lord Rama enlists Hanuman's help in rescuing her. Hanuman learns that Goddess Sita is being held captive on the island of (Sri) Lanka.
Hanuman informs Lord Rama, her husband, who orders him to build a causeway to Lanka from Proto-IndiaJambudvipa so that Rama's army can attack.
Chris Columbus reported seeing mermaids.
Hanuman collects his band of Vanaras and they begin placing huge boulders in the sea [between the tip of the subcontinent and the teardrop shaped island to the south] to make a foundation for the causeway.
After a few days, they notice something is wrong and call Hanuman to report that matter to him. They tell him that each day they throw rocks into the sea and the next day they are gone. Hanuman asks for volunteers to join him while he instructs the others to continue throwing rocks into the sea.
When several volunteers step forward, Hanuman leads them into the waves. They find a large number of mermaids living underwater. As they watch, a new rock is tossed in. The mermaids underwater take the rocks and carry them away.
Golden Fish, you're real! Every Thai knew it!
Hanuman looks around for their leader. He spots a lovely mermaid supervising the others. He swims towards her, but she skillfully evades him. Time and again he begins an attack, but it comes to nothing. Hanuman soon finds he is falling in love with the aquatic creature.
He changes his tactics and begins to silently woo her. She responds to him, and soon they are together at the bottom of the sea.
When Maha Moggallana, the Buddhist monk the Buddha declared "foremost in psychic powers," looked into the sea, he saw a delightful world of mermaids (sea nymphs) dancing and existing by what sounds like advanced technological means:
"Mansions stand for an eon in the middle of the sea,/ The hue of beryl-stones, brilliant, glowing, radiant;/ There dance full many nymphs in divers hues" (Isaline Blew Horner, born 1896, trans. of MN 50).
"There are mansions that last an eon standing in the middle of a lake./ Sapphire-colored, brilliant, they sparkle and shine./ Dancing there are nymphs shining in all different colors." (Bhante Sujato, trans. of MN 50). More: Are mermaids manatees?
Later, Hanuman asks the mermaid why she is stealing the rocks. She tells him that she is Suvannamaccha, a daughter of Ravana (the "demon" who had abducted Sita).
When Ravana saw Hanuman's Vanaras building a causeway, he instructed Suvannamaccha to stop it. Hanuman tells the mermaid why he is building the causeway.
He tells her of the abduction of Sita, the battle between Rama and her father Ravana, and why they started to build a bridge to reach Lanka. More
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There’s something magical about April: It’s not too hot, not too cold, and everything feels like it’s waking up from a long sleep (including megafauna after a long winter of indoor hibernation).
It’s the absolute sweet spot for getting outside and soaking in some stunning landscapes without freezing toes off or melting into a puddle of sweat.
Where better to do that than in some of the most awe-inspiring national parks the US has to offer?
From vibrant blooms to wild adventures, this is the season when these national treasures really show off their best sides.
Let’s skip the tourist brochure chatter and get right into the good stuff. More
Hey, don't you mean FASTING? Yes, but David Wood (below) assures us it's actually FEASTING that will be happening all of this Muslim-month, with lots of sleep and deluded back-patting of how "pious" and "holy" we're being in observance of sacred traditions.
The many benefits of fasting
The same happens in Buddhism, where monastics observe a daily "fast" (not eating after noon or before dawn) but may overeat the rest of the time, often developing diabetes, cholesterol problems, and all kinds of diseases of modernity as a consequence. Saudi Arabia has many people suffering from overeating, not starvation, during the Ramadan "fast."
It seems even more ridiculous in Holy Roman Catholicism, at least the American version, where asking good Catholics to "fast" -- abstain from eating dead animals in the form of "meat" -- was just too much to ask. Forty days without dead fish? How is McDonald's supposed to make money? (Are fish animals? We thought they were).
Maha Shivratri – celebrated in February/March, the Great Honoring of the Trinity Component God Shiva is a solemn Hindu festival that occurs towards the end of winter, before the spring. It is marked with rituals such as fasting (vrata) and meditation (dhāraṇā and dhyana). The holiday occurs on the last night of the waning moon in the Hindu month of Phalguna or Magha. What do Hindus consider "fasting"? Six important fasts or vrats Hindus should keep and why
Juice fast (just take fresh juices, but be careful of the natural sugar content separated from its healthy fiber)
Fast all day (24 hours)
Fast part of the day (from 12 noon to about 6:00 am)
Fast all night (like when sleeping, avoiding after dinner snacks)
Fast part of the night (like during Ramadan, after the giant feast dinner, staying up all night to digest before ruining that digestion with a big breakfast, before the recovery-sleep done all of the rest of the day)
Food? Give it a rest and clean house, as fasting allows the body to clean itself like a self-cleaning oven, the energy-consuming organs of digestion.
All forms of fasting are good for the body, if undertaken correctly. It may seem scary because we overeat and are sugar addicts with diabetes, prediabetes, and all sorts of metabolic syndrome conditions, which fasting would eventually clear
Who's healthier and more alive than someone trapped for a time without food, finding all the senses heightened and fully alert?
Ramazan begins with crescent moon, how official start time can still vary around the world
(WION) Ramazan (aka Ramadan), the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, is one of the holiest periods for Muslims around the world. In 2025, the world's Muslim community anticipates a rare alignment in the moon sighting for the beginning of Ramadan. Watch to know more.
#Eid#Ramadan#worldnews
Fasting, the Islamic way: FEASTing
The REAL Ramadan rules we never knew existed
(Acts 17 Polemics) #Ramadan is typically described as a month-long "fast" (period of not eating). Yet, the entire month is filled with "feasting" (periods of eating).
Indeed, binge eating during Ramadan is causing a health crisis in Muslim countries. So why is gluttony and excess portrayed as strict discipline and self-control in Islam?
Is there a spiritual component to Ramadan? Christian critic David Wood explores the issue and uncovers the disturbing truth about Islam's holiest month.
"The puzzle of self-reported weight gain in a month of fasting (Ramadan) among a cohort of Saudi families in Jeddah, Western Saudi Arabia": ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
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