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A young Leonardo DiCaprio goes to Buddhist Thailand in the movie The Beach, scenes shown to Lana Del Rey's version of Sublime's "Doin' Time"
B*tch, please! Life has NO meaning. Let's party.
It's summertime, and the livin' ain't easy. Life still has no meaning! What is my passion? How will I make profits to have enough money to think about these deep questions in Buddhist and formerly-Buddhist:
That phony Christopher Howard came up with a great title, Turning Passions into Profits, but what is my passion? This monk wrote a better title and book called What the Buddha Taught.
According to that, I could figure this all out. I could set off on the Vimutti-magga,The Path to Freedom. I could get on the Visuddhi-magga,The Path of Purification, too.
Who cares what the Buddha said? He's not the Creator
I care. Here's why. Let's say we spend our whole life searching for the "meaning" of life.
Then, say, one day far in the future, science, religion, some genius, or the whole world comes to agree that the ANSWER to "life, the universe, and everything" is 42.
So what? What did it help? We'll say, "What the heck's that supposed to mean?" Then we'll go in search of the QUESTION. After a long time, we may find it, 10,000 generations from now. It was, "How many roads must a person travel?"
So what? What did it help? Nothing! The meaning of life wasn't the thing to be pursuing. That wasn't the problem, and it wasn't going to lead to the solution. All of our popular metaphysical/philosophical questions are dumb for the same reason.
The Buddha explained this beautifully in a powerful simile: Say a person gets shot by an arrow and seeks out a doctor. The doctor, seeing the arrow, goes to pull it out. But the person, being philosophical and a questioning sort says, "Wait a minute. Before I let you take it out, you have to answer some questions first."
"Really?" the doctor asks. "What are the questions?" "Well, for one thing, who shot me? Why did he shoot me? What did he shoot me with? What poison? What is this arrow made of? Yada, yada, yada."
"Let me take it out or, better yet, let me tell you how to take it out." "Hell, no, not until I get some answers."
"Well, even if I could answer, and I probably could, you would die long before you understood any of that stuff. Let's take it out, you live, and if you want, you pursue those fruitless things that won't even matter when you're better." "Hell, no! I need answers first." "Then it was nice knowing you," the doctor should say.
The Buddha is like the doctor in this simile. He provides the answer to the real problem. But we don't want to hear it. What's the problem? Suffering! Why do we suffer? Craving rooted in ignorance of how things really are. Is there a solution? Yes. What is it? The end of suffering (nirvana). How do we arrive at that direct realization? Broadly speaking, by the Ennobling Eightfold Path. "What's that?"
Now that's a good question. That question will lead us out of suffering. Then this whole thing will be like a dream (maya, an "illusion") when we awaken (bodhi), and the result will be blissful peace (nirvana). The Truth will set us free. So let's pursue the Truth and stop wasting time with questions like:
"What's the meaning of life? How did it all begin? Where did the ocean come from? Is the universe infinite or finite? What happens when we die? Will I be reborn? What was I in the past? What will I be in the future? Blah, blah, blah."
Nina and I were talking about the Dharma, her vipassana practice (or what she thought was insight), having convinced herself that no one is enlightened, no one would ever talk about it if they were, and what is enlightenment (bodhi) anyway? So much sincerity with so much uncertainty, doubt, and confusion about BASIC Buddhist Teachings was frustrating. How is anyone to learn the essentials without confounding later teachings, innovations, and confabulations (mixing the historical Buddha's Dharma with yoga, Taoism, Zen, Hinduism, Sufism, and the fake Buddha quotes that abound on the internet). The Dharma is not just whatever we want it to be, our interpolations, our Western logic, our New Age movement... So let's get back to basics. It's summer, and we're returning to American Theravada scholar-monk, the most prolific and faithful translator of Buddhist sutras and other texts, Bhikkhu Bodhi.
As It Is: Buddhism Series
Bhikkhu Bodhi: Introduction to Buddhism Series: 01. The Buddha | Lectures. (AudioBuddha) Aug. 17, 2021. Bhikkhu Bodhi: Introduction to Buddhism | Lecture Series
Lecturer: Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi. Place: Washington Buddhist Vihara. Date: 1981. Source: Dharma Seed.
In the fall of 1979, while living at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, American monk Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi gave a series of lectures on the fundamental teachings of Early Buddhism. Bhante G (Ven. Gunaratana, now abbot of Bhavana Society in West Virginia), at the time the president of the Buddhist Vihara Society, suggested he record the lectures so that the vihara (monastery, hermitage) could distribute them as a set of cassette tapes.
In the summer of 1981, Bhikkhu Bodhi recorded his ten lectures in the basement of the Washington Buddhist Vihara, using an ordinary, nonprofessional recorder. An enthusiastic lay supporter had the master copies reproduced in large quantities for expanded distribution. [Wisdom Quarterly asked Bhikkhu Bodhi in Sri Lanka bout the possibility of distributing those original tapes widely and received his blessings to do so freely.]
They have continued to be distributed on tape and as CDs for over 25 years and are now considered “public domain” for any entity to copy and distribute freely. [Wisdom Quarterly came into excellent cleaned up versions put on CD by Chaung Yen Monastery (BAUS.org) was living and teaching, having returned from Sri Lanka, where he served as editor of the Buddhist Public Society (BPS.lk).]
INTRODUCTION TO LECTURER
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi (born Jeffrey Block on December 10, 1944), from New York, who received his Ph.D. at Claremont College in California, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in Sri Lanka, and currently teaching in the Upstate New York and New Jersey areas.
He was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society and has edited and authored several publications grounded in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. Bhikkhu Bodhi is founder of the charitable organization Buddhist Global Relief, which funds projects to fight hunger and to empower women across the world.
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Several major collections of Buddhist manuscripts from ancient Buddhist Gandhara (present-day northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan [both of which were parts of India before Partition in 1947]) have come to light over the past three decades.
The oldest of these are the Gandhari [language] manuscripts, which date from approximately the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE, making them the earliest Buddhist manuscripts yet found.
After a historical survey of Buddhism in Gandhara (Central Asia), including local artistic innovations and the importance of the region in the spread of Buddhism to Central Asia and China, this lecture highlights:
recent manuscript discoveries,
the impact they are having on our understanding of Buddhism,
the new technologies that make collaboration and digital repatriation possible.
ABOUT: Khyentse Foundation has organized this series. These online offerings by leading Buddhist Studies scholars are called "The Goodman Lectures." They are organized in honor of long-time Khyentse Foundation friend and advisor Professor Steven D. Goodman (1945–2020), whose enduring vision to make academic talks available to people beyond the classroom inspired Khyentse Foundation and its friends in academia to share their Buddhist knowledge and insight with a general audience.
The Sound of Freedom, exposing child trafficking and ignored by Hollywood, has made more money ($150,000,000+) than Oppenheimer so far but gets no press. It's dismissed by Hollywood critics. Why? It exposes the pipeline of child sex trafficking that feeds a big and profitable system of exploitation that Hollywood is in on. But Mel Gibson, Elon Musk, and even Ashton Kutcher are speaking up.
Ashton Kutcher (formerly Mr. Demi Moore) speaks up about Hollywood cesspool/swamp
Denzil Washington gets on the right side of things, against Hollywood
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It's hard to believe that Prince could write so many great songs, like Sinead's greatest hit
The last months of Sinead O'Connor's life were tragic
(Grunge) July 29, 2023. Was Sinead a crypto-Buddhist? She sure seems influenced by the Dharma and dogged by the Catholicism she rejected.
Canceled shows, chronic pain, and inconsolable grief — ["Lost in the Bardo"] Sinéad O'Connor's last months were deeply challenging, but her tragic death suicide at the age of 56 shocked the world. Here's what we know.
Dr. Gabor Mate's When the Body Says No explains why O'Connor had so many illnesses; it's the lasting result of enduring early childhood traumatic events. These incidents -- or our dysfunctional reactions to them -- live on for many years. It is our karma, our response to them, that has more to do with it than their happening to us. They happen to many, many people, but not everyone reacts in such a way to make the suffering unbearable. As Dr. Mate explains, not everyone who takes a drug becomes addicted, so drugs are not addictive. But nearly everyone who becomes addicted does so as a result of taking a drug (or engaging in a self-soothing behavior). Why is this? It is because of the presence of early childhood traumas in one's past. If they are there and we take a drug, we will become addicted. When the pain becomes too great, the BODY says no. It's not the mind, it's not all in one's head. The body is the storehouse of the trauma, and we either "work it out or act it out."
We know many people will cry, "Blaming the victim!" But consider why this is a foolish thing to shout. No one is saying we have a say in what happens to us. What we say is what the Buddha taught: We have a say in what we do. What we do is OUR karma. That will have an effect on what we feel, think, and experience. The results of our present karma will impact us now and for many lives in the future. If you do one deed, skillful or unskillful, it bears results over and over again, exponentially. It will not be exhausted by occurring back to you once in the future. Each impulsion (javana) or mind-moment (citta) will bear fruit and ripen in the future. So each thought, each word, each physical act will give rise to countless results. And each result will provoke another reaction, so we will go in circles until we can change course and not react that way to a stimulus. We can hardly do that know knowing what we know. So imagine how unlikely it is that we're going to change course anytime in the near future. We will not know, we will not remember, we will not see a reason to change then. When we did know, did see, did have a reason, we could not change by an act of will. So every deed matters, adds up, piles on. We are heirs to our karma, children of our karma, affiliates of our karma. Think, speak, and act wisely and compassionately. It will do you good for a long, long time.
Suffering from fibromyalgia, agoraphobia, and bipolar disorder, O'Connor's was a life of pain. That's not unusual in Ireland or any Catholic country. Catholicism is one jujubird of a F'd up religion. We at WQ known because many of us grew up Catholic and still suffer the consequences. #SineadOConnor #Singer #Musician
Why (the artist formerly known as) Prince had issues with Sinead O’Connor
(Sinnik22) Premiered Aug. 31, 2022. Sinead O’Connor has claimed that she faced a violent confrontation with Prince after securing her biggest hit with a cover of his song "Nothing Compares 2 U."
In a new interview with The New York Times, the Irish singer said the incident occurred when Prince invited O'Connor to his Hollywood mansion after the 1991 cover became a huge worldwide hit.
According to O’Connor, Prince “chastised her for swearing in interviews, harangued his butler to serve her soup though she repeatedly refused it, and sweetly suggested a pillow fight only to thump her with something hard he’d slipped into his pillowcase.”
Prince’s ex-wife Mayte Garcia -- who was married to the singer from 1996-2000 -- spoke out in the star’s defense, telling TMZ that he was never violent towards her or witnessed him being violent towards anyone.
Cat echoes Mayte’s sentiments in this episode.
She arrived in Hollywood as Tara Leigh Patrick. Thanks to Prince, she emerged a star known as Carmen Electra.
“That first time I met Prince, he was very quiet,” she says. “I was very shy, so there was this awkward moment of us just kind of standing in front of each other. He broke the ice by asking me if I wanted to play pool.”
Prince went to the piano and started playing "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music. “I had a feeling he thought I didn’t know the song, but it just so happened I had played Marta and Brigitta at two different dinner theatre productions of The Sound of Music in Cincinnati,” she says.
Then Electra danced for him -- the art in which she was most trained. Prince seemed impressed by her dancing, but days passed without her hearing back regarding the part in the band.
Electra assumed she’d been rejected.
“I wound up getting my deal with Capitol Records, so I stayed in L.A. to record my demos,” she says. “During that time, I got a call from Prince, who said he’d heard I was recording and asked to hear my songs.” After playing the songs for him, Prince told her he could do better.
A few days later, she met him in a studio in L.A. “He wrote me a song called, ‘Carmen on Top.’” Should she like the song, she could record it. “I loved it, but I reminded him that my name was Tara. He told me, ‘You look like a Carmen so, to me, you’re Carmen.’”
Though the song was never released, the new name stuck. She was now officially Carmen Electra.
Not long after, Electra accepted Prince’s invitation to move to Minneapolis and signed a record deal with Paisley Park Records.
Prince produced and wrote her first project, directed her videos, and styled her looks. Living at Paisley Park was utterly surreal, Electra wistfully recalls. “It looked like you were in heaven and a magical unicorn was going to come running around the corner,” she laughs. “Everything in Paisley Park was pastel and light and fluffy and dreamy. You just felt like you were in another world -- a world that Prince created.”
The evidence we are living in a simulation is everywhere. All we have to do is look.
(The Why Files) Premiered June 7, 2022. The Why Files: Operation Podcast
PROOF THAT EVERYTHING IS A SIMULATION (including God)
Is this reality? Well, we're experiencing...something right now, so maybe the better question is, What is reality?
Could everything we see, everything we experience, everything that exists in our entire universe be artificial?
Supporters of Simulation Theory believe that not only is it possible that we're living in a simulation; it's likely.
And the more we look for evidence, the more we find.
Philip K Dick believed Deja vu was the simulation adjusting to new code (or a new timeline).
Many people experience The Mandela Effect, a "false memory" shared by a large number of people.
But the biggest clues of Simulation Theory come from science, specifically from quantum mechanics. The only way the Double-Slit Experiment makes sense is if we live in a program.
Quantum Entanglement also defies logic. Only our program would have the ability to defy the laws of physics - and the concept of time.
Let's find out why.
Ancient Giants in America: The Mysterious Blonde Hair Blue-Eyed Giants of Catalina Island
(Dark5 Ancient Mysteries) A fascinating and highly controversial chapter of prehistoric America is said to have been found on the sun-drenched shores of Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of modern Los Angeles, Southern California.
Hidden among the quiet beaches and rolling hills, there allegedly lies proof of an ancient race of fair-haired giants, taller and more robust than the modern humans.
Identified through the discovery of giant skeletons, these giants (titans, asuras,Nephilim, Tongva, Chumash, "the beautiful people," early Irish?) are said to have possessed technology far advanced for the time.
This assertion has sparked a vivid debate among scholars, archeologists, and enthusiasts alike.
Meanwhile, a more widely accepted archeological treasure resides just north on Santa Rosa Island — the Arlington Springs Man.
Discovered in 1959, it is the oldest known human skeleton in North America. These remains, belonging to a man who roamed the Earth over 13,000 years ago, have significantly enriched our understanding of early human migration patterns and life in prehistoric North America.
What are the stories of these discoveries that have contributed to the compelling mystery of our human past and the eternal quest for our origins?
This video will make you question your existence: Prepare to be amazed!
(Fexl) July 8, 2023. So maybe everything we perceive and experience, from the vivid colors that saturate our vision to the tangible sensations that course through our fingertips, is nothing more than an elaborate illusion. Or could it be that the world around us is an intricate fabrication, meticulously designed to deceive us?
NOTE: Sri Shankara, the systematizer and founder of "Hinduism" as a British-style "religion" (combining many disparate spiritual traditions long existing in India, including Raja Yoga and Brahmanism, claiming to be rooted in the ancient pre-Indian Vedas of the Indus Valley Civilization), was not the originator of the analogy of the elephant and blind men. The historical Buddha gave this analogy. If Sri Shankara retold the tale, he was using the Buddha's wisdom. But Sri Shankara was against the Buddha and Buddhism, regarding it as a foreign teaching (dharma) that came to India. In his effort to systematize an indigenously Indian religion or Eternal Dharma, he subordinated Buddhism to play a minor role as a kind of incarnation of Vishnu tradition (as happened to Krishna and Christ).
"By one's own deeds the fool is consumed, as by a fire." —The Dhammapada
In his address delivered at Oslo when he was awarded the
Noble Peace Prize, the great humanitarian Dr. Albert
Schweitzer spoke for all humanity when he said:
“Let us
face the facts. Man has become a superman. Not only has he
innate physical forces at his command but, thanks to science
and to technical advancement, he controls the latent forces
of nature. But this superman suffers from a fatal
imperfection. He has not raised himself to that superhuman
level of reason which should correspond to the possession
of superhuman strength.”
This is the Great Showdown. The
latent forces of nature that humans now control will
destroy us as readily as they will serve us. They are
mindless and efficient, like a razor: It is for humans to decide
whether to shave — or cut our throats. The razor does not care.
It waits, supremely indifferent.
Can we raise ourselves to
that superhuman level of reason necessary for our survival
on this planet? Are we mature enough to realize that we
cannot destroy each other any longer without destroying
ourselves?
This sensual world is a world of delight -- a realm within the Sensual Sphere (Kama Loka). But the strands of pleasure are better for the sensual devas above us and even better in the Fine Material Sphere above this region. This sphere is full of desire, pursuit, and pleasure but also much disappointment and suffering. Higher worlds have more pleasure with less struggle (though, ultimately, things still fail to fulfill and end craving).
Yet, how many of us are able to give up these lesser pleasures for greater ones? Could we stop clinging to this sensual existence for the tremendously more blissful nirvana? It's not likely. (Why? It's because we do not see the danger inherent in our predicament).
We are like monkeys, grasping some lump of salt inside through a small opening. Thus holding onto it, our hand has become a greedy fist that cannot pull out of the coconut. The coconut is fastened to a tree, and the hunter (Mara) is coming to collect us. And still we can't let go. What the?
Are We Grown Up?
The Buddha's advice? "If, by renouncing some lesser happiness, one may gain a greater one, let the wise person renounce the smaller out of consideration for the larger" (The Dhammapada).
The capacity to renounce a small, immediate happiness in order to secure some greater, more distant happiness is a mark of maturity.
Few children have it, and those who do are really more mature than many adults. It means clear vision, sound judgment, and self-control, all of which are sings of a truly adult mind.
Many people go through life without ever growing up. We find it impossible to resist the temptation of immediate pleasures.
Under the wise guidance and control of some mentally more mature person, we may forego such pleasures and pursue a line of action that yields greater happiness in the long run. But it is not of our own independent choice.
Given the necessary opportunity and freedom to decide for ourselves, we will fritter away our time and energy in the pursuit of the moment’s pleasures, letting the future look after itself.
For such people, a theistic religion is a great help. It serves as a steadying and guiding influence. Most people are like children who need a wise parent, a parent who rewards virtue and punishes vice, who encourages honest endeavor and discourages laziness.
But, as Ingersoll once said, in nature there are no rewards or punishments. There are only consequences.
A person who plants a fruit tree, tends it carefully, and waits patiently, is not “rewarded” when at last it bears fruit. One may die before that happens, or the fruit may be indigestible because of some change in one's personal chemistry. But the fruit appears all the same, not in order to reward but because that is the way of nature.
It is the same when a person trains a puppy badly and it grows up into a surly dog. The dog may or may not bite one, and if it does happen, it will not be as a “punishment.” It will merely be a consequence of bad training.
To the Buddhist, all phenomena are consequences, including all personal phenomena. However pleasant or painful they may be, one does not regard them as the rewards or punishments dispensed by some Supreme Being.
One accepts them as the results of one's own karma (past deeds), one's own past physical, verbal, and mental actions.
One stands on one's own feet and molds one's own destiny [though often quite unaware of one's own power to create one's fate], in this and in countless future lives.
It is a religion for adults. For this very reason, it does not appeal to those who lack mental maturity. It is too free, too unsheltered. But to the mature, it is the only reasonable and acceptable way of life.
Accepting this doctrine (Dharma) of personal responsibility, the Buddhist faces life fairly and squarely. One can pursue the slight happiness offered by this world (and sphere) of the senses, or if one has clear vision, sound judgment, and self-control, one can forego such happiness and seek something infinitely higher.
What is this “something”? It is mental progress, clearer and ever clearer vision, sounder and ever sounder judgment, greater and ever greater mastery over self, until at last, as an enlightened being (arhat), one reaches the very zenith of mental evolution and attains nirvana.
This is the Way taught by all buddhas. It is not an easy road or a short one. Most of us have far to go. But we must all go on that road sometime, and the sooner we start, the sooner we will reach the ultimate goal.
Let us not wait for many more lifetimes before we start. Let us not fool ourselves that if we wait patiently, trusting in some Supreme Being, our reward will be eternal bliss.
Let us not hang about, like grubby children, expecting a parent or governess to wash us, undress us, and tuck us safely into bed. If we do, we shall wait indefinitely. More
It ain't easy being an Engaged Buddhist. Wouldn't it be better to disengage, withdraw, and meditate? Then meditate some more. One is bound to make a breakthrough. But this is the unreal world, so most of us like it better than the real one of ultimate reality (jhana, samadhi, insight, and nirvana). Therefore, let's carry on. Jimmy, what's been going on in the world this week? (Jimmy Dore is one of the only consistently trustworthy voices in the media to find out what's really going on. The mainstream media has an agenda, and that is to deceive, distract, and destroy any semblance of reality, which is a popular thing to do. But we crave truth, we crave honesty and what's real, even if it stinks and sucks, as it does most weeks). What, they're lying about a new pandemic threat, politics, war, climate alarmism, and everything else that matters to us? Yawn. That's what they frequently do. They only want us to live in fear. But we say no to fear.
UFO hearing LIVE: UAPs are "in our airspace' witnesses testify for Congress and AOC
(WION) Started streaming on July 26, 2023. #WIONLIVE #US
Former U.S. Navy pilot Ryan Graves, retired U.S. Navy commander David Fravor, and former intelligence officer and big name "whistleblower" David Grusch testify at a hearing on extraterrestrials and UFOs in U.S. government possession. The government has known, has ET bodies (or "biologics"), has advanced technology, and has been lying about it for decades.
UFO whistleblower says US has recovered nonhuman "biologics" from crash sites
(CBS News) Former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower David Grusch told U.S. House lawmakers Wednesday (July 26, 2023) that he had interviewed government officials who had direct knowledge of aircraft with "nonhuman" origins and that so-called "biologics" (extraterrestrial bodies) were recovered from some craft.
Grusch, who served for 14 years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, appeared before the House Oversight Committee's national security subcommittee alongside two former fighter pilots who had firsthand experience with UFOs (unidentified aerial phenomena). #congress#news
Jimmy Dore is wrong about UFOs, but he's right that government agencies are lying about ETs and spaceships, having been hiding the truth for decades. They really exist. They really are here and have come many times over many civilizations. The government is still lying about it, deceiving us to incite fear and maintain control. Want the truth? See Dr. Steven Greer? Want more BS, see Grusch.
A lot depends on the answers to some questions. They will make all the difference between a common home and a common cemetery.
We cannot help feeling that scientists, with their technical advances, have thrust this problem on humanity too soon.
The big decisions are not in the hands of the most mature humans, as they should be. Great, or what Dr. Albert Schweitzer calls a “superhuman level” of wisdom is not manifest in the public utterances of politicians.
At times the thinking person is aghast at the childish things leaders say.
Some of them still seem to think in terms of cavalry charges, the Pentagon as a fortress, and waving patriotic banners when they speak of war. They still talk about war as a way of “making the world safe” for this, that, or the other ideology.
They seem to forget that if there is another war, on a big scale, such survivors as are left will not have time to bother with ideologies. It will be a big, dead, poisoned world, and humans will have more pressing things to think about.
“All [ordinary, uninstructed] worldlings are mad,” said the Buddha, and we may well accept this as the simple truth. If we ever doubt it, we need only open a newspaper or switch on the radio.
In whatever country the newspaper is printed, from whatever country the broadcast comes, the proof is as convincing. Nice bold type, nice clear voices, telling us in unmistakable terms that we human beings are doing everything except think.
But now we must think. It is easy to turn away from this problem, of the survival of humanity, and seek refuge in some mental or physical drug. But this is no solution. We must face the facts.
Humanity must grow up or perish. It must grow up fast or perish quickly. There is not much time. We must scrap all ideologies that call for the liquidation of those who do not agree with us.
We must abandon the sort of nationalism that regards with distrust and hatred the people of other nations. We must think of ourselves henceforth as human beings, sharing one world. We must begin now or it will be too late.
How can we attain this maturity of mind? The Buddha taught the way, more than 2,600 years ago. He spoke to individuals, to thinking individuals, but his message holds good for all humanity.
He said, “All things are subject to change. Do not grasp. Let go and be free.”
There has never been a war but arose from greed for land, greed for trade, greed for power, greed for all the transient phenomena of life, leading inevitably to strife.
Let go, and strife ceases. Think of the other fellow as a human being, with nothing to gain except our common weal, and strife ceases. Help that person, and we help ourselves.
It does not matter what language one speaks, what political opinions one holds. We share the same planet, breathe the same air, need the same food. We cannot destroy that person and survive. Our fate is linked with that person's fate.
GOD is about to punish this…the Elijah Generation is rising
(AoC Network) July 15, 2023. The West (and the USA in particular) is in Sodom and Gomorrah times...and God (Christian Jehovah, Gnostic Yahweh, Jewish YHWH) is about to unleash His power of killing.
Get your guns, white flock of sheep. I am Shepherd
He will smite whomever He wants in a final call to repent and start obeying orders from above in the alien world of extraterrestrial powers.
This POWER release may not be what many expect. Let's explore what the official translation of the Bible (known as the King James version) says will happen before peaceful Jesus returns to torment and kill the nonbelievers.
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The Ultimate Discovery, July 29, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Scientists terrifying new discovery in Egypt that changes everything
(The Ultimate Discovery) Beneath the scorching Egyptian sun lies an untold trove of amazing terror that has defied time itself. Each one of these shocking discoveries and revelations holds the potential to rewrite everything we thought we knew about our civilizations as earthling humans.
From cursed artifacts that hold unimaginable power, to ancient texts that tell of a forgotten civilization beyond our comprehension, what was so great about North Africa, which includes Israel and Ethiopia?
Let's traverse the blurred boundaries and unravel the twenty discoveries in Egypt that change everything.
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World's richest man: Emperor Mansa Musa
The key is that the blocks were not stones quarried and carried then put into place. The blocks were liquid poured in place with great precision. Here's the scientific evidence that proves it.
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