Black Madonna would be proud like we all are. Who knew girls could do math? Everyone. Who knew girls could teach old white mean a thing or two? No one.
What have we lost because of sexism and racism? They deprive us of so much human greatness that they have to be stopped.
A world of parity and equal opportunity would be a much more amazing place. The way we've lived has advanced us but brought us to the edge of ruin. And the problem cannot be solved at the same level of the problem.
We need breakthroughs -- insight, ingenuity, innovation, and some follow through. Could the Hollywood movie Hidden Figures really be a true story that no one had ever heard of? We doubt it, but that's what Hollywood would have us believe is pure history.
Teens surprise math world with Pythagorean Theorem trigonometry proof
(60 Minutes) May 6, 2024: A high school teacher didn’t expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.
60 Minutes is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments, and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10.
60 Minutes, May 6, 2024; Hidden Figures (2016); Crystal Quintero, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(Let's Talk Religion) This episode explores the fascinating life of /the wandering hippie vegetarian sage Apollonius of Tyana, a Neopythagorean philosopher whose life in many ways mirrors that of Jesus Christ. He went to India to study with the Brahmins, the source of Pythagorean theory and gnostic knowledge, casting out demons, raising the dead... #Apollonius #PaganJesus
Apollonius of Tyana [\app-puh-lone-ee-us of tee-ann-uh\] (Ancient Greek Ἀπολλώνιος, Arabic بلينس;, Sanskrit अपालुन्य, circa 15–circa 100 AD [2]) was a wandering sage with mystic powers, possibly the source of many of the stories of Jesus of Nazareth.
He was a first-century Greek philosopher and religious leader from the town of Tyana, Cappadocia in Roman Anatolia, who spent his life as a celibate wanderer, traveling and teaching in the Middle East, North Africa (Israel), and South Asia (India).
I raise the dead, learned in India
He is a central figure in Neopythagoreanism and was one of the most famous "miracle workers" of his day.
His exceptional personality and his mystical way of life, which was regarded as exemplary, impressed his contemporaries and had a lasting cultural influence.
Numerous legends surrounding him and accounts of his life are contained in the extensive Life of Apollonius, which collects a large part of the legendary material about his life and work.
A sage bunny wanders and sits in silence.
A large part of the ancient legends of Apollonius consists of numerous reports about miracles that he was said to have performed as a wandering sage (Indian-style shramana) with his lifelong companion Damis. [This is an echo of the Buddha and Ananda.]
He was tried for allegedly having used magic as a means of conspiring against the emperor; after his conviction and subsequent death-penalty, his followers believed he underwent heavenly ascension [3]. Most modern scholars of antiquity agree that Apollonius existed historically [4, 5]. More
"No bunny saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must hop the path. Buddhas only point the way" (BunnyBuddhism.com, Wisdom Quarterly, wandering quote sages)
Easter and the Goddess Ishtar
(RevivalProphecy) This video is a presentation detailing the connection between the worship of the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar and apostate Christian practices, exemplified by the Holy Roman Imperial Catholic observance of "Easter." The so-called Easter worship in nominal (in-name-only) Christianity. It is 100% paganism and 0% true Christian practice.
Happy to see me, Bunny? - Yes, Goddess! You know I am! - Worship me. - OK, but in secret.
Kirstie Alley (Cheers) was once a Playboy bunny? (eonline.com UK)
Do Bunnies with eggs (ova) prompt spring fertility fests?
Let's Talk Religion, 9/30/22; BunnyBuddhism.com; RevivalProphecy, March 7, 2021; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit "Apollonius of Tyana"
My daughter doesn't know anything. She just tries to help Daddy sometimes, beginner's luck.
Who invented math?
What brilliance have math lost due to sexism?
(IFLScience) Was math invented or discovered? This video takes a deep dive into all of the possible candidates who might have been the first mathematician.
00:00 Intro
00:07 The Roman Emperor's dislike of math
00:31 How ancient cultures discovered math
01:38 How ancient Egyptians found math
02:39 Math before ancient cultures
Hang him for playing dangerous hangman
[White men should not be allowed anywhere near a marker board to play hangman, but give all of them cameras to make more funny videos.] (Jaydaddy) Your class is playing hangman, Nov. 1, 2023. Binge the rest of the channel: youtube.com/jaydaddyy... IG: itsjaydaddy TT: itsjaydaddy.
These guys got it all wrong. I could do better. But they won't show me the rules.
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Earthlings are stupid. Alien felines rule the world
[Who invented math, maths, or mathematics? It certainly was not the British, but they appropriated knowledge from Muslim and Indian advancements, brought them back to England at Oxford and Cambridge, and over the centuries erased any credit to the sources, leaving it to seem the West must have discovered all these things like algebra and the development of calculus.]
[The Greeks are credited with things that ancient Greece absorbed from ancient India and Vedic number wranglers. In particular, Pythagoras gets credited with the Pythagorean Theorem even as a recent archeological find reveals it was known to the Babylonians 1,000 years earlier. If math exists objectively to be discovered rather than invented by anyone, it is a crime to credit this person or that for any invention. Theoretical mathematicians seem intent that what they come up with is real and timeless, not fabricated or a social construct, as new methods of calculation or figuring -- fuzzy logic, machine computing, HTML code, electronics, statistics -- are discovered and developed. So no one on Earth who first "discovers" anything is actually the first to discover it.]
(Amy Alpen) Seven didn't invent it, even if it has his name. It's also called the "Hangman Division Strategy," shown here by female mathematician Amy Alpen on May 18, 2016. Hang him next to Pythagoras' Tomb for trying to take credit!
Early Christians: YAHWEH (the Old Testament God) is actually the DEVIL
(Gnostic Informant) (Wiki) In the Platonic, Neo-Pythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neo-Platonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe.
The Gnostics adopted the term demiurge. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the Creator figure in the monotheistic sense, because the demiurge itself and the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are both considered consequences of something else.
Depending on the system, they may be considered either uncreated and eternal or the product of some other entity.
The word demiurge is an English word derived from demiurgus, a Latinized form of the Greek δημιουργός or dēmiurgós.
It was originally a common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan," but gradually came to mean "producer" and eventually "creator."
The philosophical usage and the proper noun derive from Plato's Timaeus, written circa 360 BC, where the demiurge is presented as the creator of the universe.
The demiurge is also described as a creator in the Platonic (c. 310–90 BC) and Middle Platonic (c. 90 BC–AD 300) philosophical traditions. In the various branches of the Neoplatonic school (third century onwards), the demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the Ideas, but (in most Neoplatonic systems) is still not itself "the One."
In the arch-dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material universe is evil, while the non-material world is good.
According to some strains of Gnosticism, the demiurge is malevolent, as it is linked to the material world.
In others, including the teaching of Valentinus, the demiurge is simply ignorant or misguided.
The first and highest aspect of God is described by Plato as the One (Τὸ Ἕν, "To Hen"), the source, or the Monad.
This is the God above the Demiurge that manifests through the actions of the Demiurge. The Monad emanated the demiurge or Nous (consciousness) from its "indeterminate" vitality due to the monad being so abundant that it overflowed back onto itself, causing self-reflection.
This self-reflection of the indeterminate vitality was referred to by Plotinus as the "Demiurge" or creator.
The second principle is organization in its reflection of the nonsentient force or dynamis, also called the One or the Monad. The dyad is energeia emanated by the one that is then the work, process, or activity called nous, Demiurge, mind, consciousness that organizes the indeterminate vitality into the experience called the material world, universe, cosmos.
Plotinus also elucidates the equation of matter with nothing or non-being in The Enneads [9], which more correctly is to express the concept of idealism or that there is not anything or anywhere outside of the "mind" or nous (c.f. pantheism).
The figure of the Demiurge emerges in the theoretic of Iamblichus, which conjoins the transcendent, incommunicable “One,” or Source.
Here, at the summit of this system, the Source and Demiurge (material realm) coexist via the process of henosis.
Iamblichus describes the One as a monad whose first principle or emanation is intellect (nous), while among "the many" that follow it there is a second, super-existent "One" that is the producer of intellect or soul (psyche).
The "One" is further separated into spheres of intelligence: The first and superior sphere is objects of thought, while the latter sphere is the domain of thought. Thus, a triad is formed of the intelligible nous, the intellective nous, and the psyche in order to reconcile further the various Hellenistic philosophical schools of Aristotle's actus and potentia (actuality and potentiality) of the unmoved mover and Plato's Demiurge.
Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God or Supreme Being and the demiurgic "creator" of the material, commonly identified as Yahweh, the God of the Hebrew Bible.
Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: This being's act of creation occurs in an unconscious semblance of the divine model and thus is fundamentally flawed or is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality.
Thus, in such systems, the Demiurge acts as a solution to (or, at least possibly, the problem or cause that gives rise to) the problem of evil.
The Forbidden Secret revealed by Dr. Stanley Monteith
Dr. Stanley Monteith delivers a mindblowing lecture, "The Forbidden Secret." It reveals the source of the power for the elites. It has been utilized by sages, adepts, witch doctors, shamans, priests, prophets, wise men, diviners, and mediums down through the ages.
Secret societies have existed since the dawn of civilization, and they exist today. What is their purpose? Adepts claim they possess secret knowledge that provides fame, power, and prosperity. Is it true?
Why are some people fabulously wealthy, while most people struggle to make a living? Why do half the people in the world live in abject poverty? Where does the secret knowledge come from? They will make one world, with one ruler, one monetary system, and one religion.
Host Lilou Mace talks to Dr. Raymond A. Moody, M.D., P.hD. about the phrase he coined, "near death experience," and
discusses his astonishing bestseller Life After Life, a book that
offers real experiences of people who were declared clinically
dead and returned.
The descriptions they give are similar, vivid, and usually so overwhelmingly positive
that hearing about them changes our view of life, dying, and spiritual
survival beyond death. The Buddha frequently speaks of karma carrying experience beyond "death after the dissolution of the body." One can mystically see beings re-arising ("again-becoming") according to their deeds, the fruition of a karmic act that serves as the "rebirth-linking consciousness."
It's okay. I'm not staying dead (zenmotion.com)
Is it the same being surviving death or wholly another? Both views are mistaken and rooted in ignorance of the impersonal process. Conventionally speaking, it is the same person. But ultimately speaking, there is no identity from one moment to the next even while alive. (Materiality, sensation, perception, mental formations, and awareness are not identical from one submoment to the next but rather are constantly in flux, giving rise to different subsequent replacements). Therefore, Buddhism uniquely teaches the doctrine of not-self or not-soul (anatta). This does not mean that there is nothing that lives, dies, and is reborn.
Instead, the "ghost," "spirit," or subtle body involved is called the gandhabba.* The Buddha meticulously described and explained the process-of-consciousness (viññāṇa). These phenomena exist, and their nature is radically impermanent, impersonal, and unsatisfactory, and therefore they cannot ultimately be called an immortal or permanent self or soul. A superficial grasp of Buddhism leads to the wrong view that Buddhism is materialistic like science, contradictory, or that it denies or is ignorant of subtle-forms commonly reported in mystical experiences. The Buddha was perfectly aware of the dying process, the rebirth-linking process, and life continuum in any state of existence. *Gandhabba(Sanskrit, gandharva) refers to a being (or, strictly speaking, part of
the causal continuum of consciousness) in a liminal state between death
and rebirth.
Death can prompt us to live well
We almost never want to think or speak of our own death, but it can be more difficult to deal with the death of a loved one. This is a source of great grief the Buddha called "suffering" (dukkha, unsatisfactoriness). In this long course of rebirths, we have lost uncountable loved ones -- children, parents, spouses, relatives, and friends. Loss and separation are inevitable in wandering life after life. Even heavenly rebirths, which are often incredibly long, eventually come to an end.
HOW TO CONTACT THE DEPARTED: Anyone can use the Psychomanteum, a chamber developed by Dr. Moody. He was inspired by ancient Greek techniques used for 2,500 years at the Oracle of
the Dead in Ephyra, Greece. A visitor to a psychomantium (mirrored room) often
experiences contact with departed loved ones. How? The process takes several hours of sincerely and emotionally speaking of
the departed while gazing into a specially lit mirror tilted so as not
to reflect oneself. This is explained in the doctor's DVDs Through the Tunnel & Beyondand Reunions.
Heather Whipps (LiveScience.com) Have special plans this 09/09/09? Everyone from brides and grooms to movie studio execs are celebrating the upcoming calendrical anomaly in their own way. In Florida, at least one county clerk's office is offering a one-day wedding special for $99.99. The rarity of this September 9th hasn't been lost on the creators of the iPod, who have moved their traditional Tuesday release day to Wednesday to take advantage of the special date. Focus Features is releasing their new film "9," an animated tale about the apocalypse, on the 9th. Not only does the date look good in marketing promotions, but it also represents the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that we'll see for almost a century... More>>
PHOTO: In some cultures, the number 9 is special and can carry good or bad omens. These characters from the movie "9," which opens on 09/09/09, flee for their lives from the Fabrication Machine.
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