Jewish Brit exposes America (Borat)

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(The Clean Laugh Club) Ricky Gervais: Truth about Epstein's Island, Hawking

Sex and Suffering in Buddhism

(Buddha's Wisdom) Sex in Buddhism: Not a moral rule, but a deeper question

• Dukkha: suffering, disappointment, unsatisfactoriness, ill
• Vimuttimagga: The Path to Freedom
• Visuddhimagga: The Path of Purification

"Sex positive" Buddhists?

How can Wisdom Quarterly publish this? - How? It's a sex positive site. - O, makes sense

"If people start thinking freely about sex...they [might] start thinking freely about everything!"

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SlutWalk, Washington DC, USA 2012

The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality, promoting the recognition of sexuality (in the countless forms of expression) as a natural and healthy part of the human experience and emphasizing the importance of personal sovereignty, safer sex practices, and consensual sex (and sex work free of violence or coercion).

I'm straight. Don't want sex? Become a monk.

It is based on the idea that "sexuality is an important part of the human experience and it deserves respect" [1]. Although the definition of the term greatly varies among those involved in the movement, its central notion is "openness to a variety of sexual orientations, interests (or lack thereof), identities and expressions" [2].

(Elephants in the Rooms - Ken LeCorte) Why is prostitution really illegal?

I regret all that science and math. I really wanted to be a Hedonist with Jeffrey Epstein & Co!

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The sex-positive movement also advocates for comprehensive sex education and safe sex as part of its campaign.[3] The movement generally makes no moral distinctions among types of sexual activities, regarding these choices as matters of personal preference [4]. More

 

Rich, beautiful celebrities still have to date?

(Daddy Pacino) Celebrities flirting wildly like nobody's watching: Is everyone awkward?

Suffering Sandpapery Sex? Three Secrets to Juicier Lovemaking

What makes someone sexually attractive?

(AARP) We’ve all been there before: We’re about to get it on and — *album scratch* — our girl isn’t giving what she’s supposed to. Knowhatimsayin? Like that filthy/racy Cardi B song featuring Megan Thee Stallion. What’s up with my natural lube being a no-show? Why is this happening?

Will my customers still like me when I'm old?

Vaginal dryness is more common during perimenopause and after menopause. “As the reproductive portion of a woman’s life starts to come to a close, estrogen [female hormone] levels drop because it’s not necessary for you to make eggs anymore,” says Dr. Nicole E. Williams, M.D., founder of the Gynecology Institute of Chicago and author of This is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn't Call It That.

Ziggy Jones: "Sex, Sand, Summer" (music video)

This is How You Vagina (Dr. Williams, MD)

Estrogen helps keep the vagina well lubricated and aids in sexual intercourse, she says. So declining estrogen levels can mean vaginal dryness that causes rough discomfort or sandy pain during sex. Some women also experience a chafed or burning feeling during day-to-day activities.

Menopause isn’t the only reason for vaginal dryness. Some other causes are medications, including antidepressants, antihistamines, and hormonal birth control pills; childbirth or breastfeeding; vaginal infections; stress. Whatever the circumstances, we’re not stuck with sandpaper-like sex. Here’s how to add more slip and slide to the ride. More: sisters.aarp.org

• COYOTE, BAYSWAN
• Family Guy; Buddha's Wisdom (video); Tamekia Reece (Sisters Newsletter from AARP, 11/4/22); Daddy Pacino; Ziggy Jones (song); Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Two Paths to Knowledge (Bhikkhu Bodhi)

I trust the Orgy Pit's been scraped and buttered

Many of the most formidable social and cultural problems we face today are rooted in the sharp divide (schism) that has divided Western civilization between science and religion.

Science claims invincible knowledge based on testing (empirical investigation of) the natural world. Most religions do little more than call for faith in supernatural beliefs along with obedience to codes of morality and ethics that require restraint, self-discipline, and worst of all self-sacrifice.

Since most religion, as traditionally understood, often rests on no more than blithe promises and pompous threats, its appeals to our allegiance seldom win.

The ethical ideals it claims to advocate (when not being hypocritical) don't stand a fighting chance against the constant injunction — thrust in our faith by screens, radios, and signboards — to ENJOY life to the hilt while we can.

What'd you do in there? - Well, I took the butter

As a result, a most of humankind has become alienated from religion as any kind of meaningful guide to life, left with no alternative but to plunge headlong into another kind of religion: secularism, the religion of rejecting religion through mass consumerism and hedonism.

Too often, those in the religious camp, sensing the threat secularism poses to their own security, feel driven toward an aggressive fundamentalism in a desperate bid to salvage traditional loyalties.

The quest to establish a sound basis for proper conduct in today's world has been made particularly difficult. Why? A consequence of the "scientific" worldview has been to banish values from real life.

While many scientists, in their personal lives, are staunch advocates of such ideals like world peace, social justice, and greater economic equality (parity), the worldview promoted by modern science gives values no objective grounding, not in the grand scheme of things. Thinking like this, values' root and basis is purely subjective. So they bring along all the qualities that subjectivity suggests: being

• personal,
• private,
• idiosyncratic,
• relative,
• not to be talked about with others
• and sometimes even arbitrary.

The overall effect of this is that, despite the best intentions of many of them, scientists give a green light to lifestyles founded on a quest for personal gratification. Not only that, it's also based on a power drive aimed at exploiting others.

The Buddha's Teaching

"If there's any religion...it would be Buddhism"

In contrast to the classical Western antithesis of religion and science, Buddhism shares with science a common commitment to personally test and uncover the Truth about the world.

Both Buddhism and science draw a sharp distinction between the way things appear and the way they really are. And both offer to open our minds to insights into the real nature of things normally hidden from us, sometimes in plain sight as falsified ideas based on distorted sense perceptions and "common sense."

Forget science-school and meditation. Let's dance!

Still, despite of Buddhism and science's affinity, it is necessary to recognize the great differences in the aim that separates Buddhism and science. Both may share certain conceptions about the nature of reality, but science is essentially a project designed to provide control and objective, factual knowledge, with information about the public domain. Buddhism is a spiritual path intended to promote inner transformation and the direct realization of the highest good, called awakening, enlightenment, liberation, or nirvana.

In Buddhism, the quest for knowledge is important but not as an end in itself or to control others. The main cause of our suffering and bondage is ignorance.

What does that mean? Ignorance (avijja) is not understanding things as they really are. Instead, we distort things even as we perceive them, judge, and label them. So the antidote needed to heal ourselves is knowledge or liberating-insight.

The type of knowledge acquired by practicing Dhamma differs from that sought by science in several ways. Most importantly, the knowledge sought is not gaining objective information about the physical world. It is about a deep personal insight into the real nature of our personal existence.

The aim is not to understand reality from the outside. It is to understand it from the inside, much as psychology originally intended to do. Knowledge from the perspective of one's own living experience is the key -- as it is to shamans, Gnostics, and experimenters on a quest in this lifetime.

We seek not debated "facts" and "opinions" as knowledge, but insight, wisdom, personal knowledge that is inescapably subjective. That's the point. The whole value of it lies in its transformative power and impact on our own life.

Concern with the outer world as an object of direct knowledge arises only insofar as the outer world is inextricably implicated in personal experience.

As the Buddha says, "In this body, with its perception and thought, I declare

• the world,
• the origin of the world,
• the cessation of the world, and
• the way to the cessation of the world."

First, I'll be born as a prince then renounce it all

Buddhism takes personal experience as the starting point, without aiming to use experience as a springboard to an impersonal, objective type of knowledge. Buddhism includes within its domain the entire spectrum of qualities disclosed by personal experience.

This means that Buddhism gives prime consideration to values. But even more, "values" for Buddhism are not merely projections of subjective judgments fashioned according to our personal whims, social needs, or cultural conditioning.

On the contrary, they are written into the texture of reality itself just as firmly as the laws of motion and thermodynamics. So values CAN be evaluated: rated in terms of being true or false and ranked as valid or invalid.

And part of our task in giving meaning to our lives, which means unearthing the true scheme of values. To determine the true gradation of values, we have to turn our attention inward and use subjective criteria of investigation. So what we find, far from being private or arbitrary, is an integral part of the objective order.

This order is permeated by the same lawfulness that governs the movement of the stars and planets.

Science says it's for something

Natural science (wiki)

Affirming the objective reality of values implies another major distinction between Buddhism and science. For liberating-insight or knowledge of enlightenment to arise, an investigator has to undergo a profound personal transformation guided by the inner perception of genuine values.

While natural science can be undertaken as an intellectual discipline, the Buddhist quest is an existential discipline. That can only be implemented by regulating and restraining our conduct, purifying our mind, and refining our capacity for attention.

What is there to pay attention to? To our own physical (bodily) and mental processes.

This kind of Buddhist training requires ethics all the way through. Ethical guidelines support and pervade the entire training. The starting point is right action, and the culmination is the highest liberation of the heart/mind.

OK, there's escape from this lack-of-fulfilment?

What is noteworthy is that the ethical thrust of Buddhist training and the mental thrust of it converge. Where? They converge on the realization of the ultimate truth of selflessness (anatta). [This is an advanced notion, but it is the gateway to stream entry, the first stage of enlightenment.]

It is just here that contemporary science approaches Buddhism in its discovery that "nature" is a process actually. It reveals the lack of any ultimate substance hiding behind a sequence of events. There are events. But this correspondence again points to a fundamental difference.

In Buddhism the impermanent, unsatisfying (unfulfilling), and impersonal nature of reality is not just some factual truth to apprehend (or believe in). It is above all an existential truth. It is a transformative principle.

It offers the key to being able to stop clinging to the false and to let go as we gain right understanding.

Right understanding (seeing things as they really are) leads to right liberation. To use this key for its sole purpose, which is to open the door to spiritual freedom, we must govern our conduct on the premise that the false idea of a substantial self is a delusion.

It is insufficient to merely intellectually grasp this selflessness as some idea or to turn it into a plaything of thought. The principle must be penetrated by training ourselves to discover the absence of selfhood in its subtlest hiding place, the deep recesses of our own bodies and minds.

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  Knowing and Seeing: True...

  [HOW? How can this ever be accomplished? Buddhist Meditation Master Pa Auk Sayadaw explains. By mastering "meditation" (the absorptions or jhanas), the mind/heart is purified and able to see. What does it look at? It breaks down this body, this materiality, into its components, the smallest of which are "form particles" (rupa kalapas). The body is not "body," but rather countless constituent elements constantly built up and torn down, rising and falling away. The mind is not "mind," but rather countless constituent elements (a stream of "mind-moments" called cittas) constantly built up and falling away. This is what's really there, if only we could ever see it as it truly is.

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  Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw of Burma

  We can see it. That is to say, we can know-and-see directly. How? First, we settle the mind into absorption, emerge and move to a deeper absorption. With practice, this comes at will. Then we turn our attention to the "fourfold setting up of mindfulness." This is just a fancy way of saying we give systematic attention to body, feelings, the mind, and various phenomena. With exercises to directly perceive the Dependent Origination of things (the fact that everything that arises arises dependent on causes and conditions), the mind is made ready to see things as they really are. And in doing so, it naturally lets go of ignorance, illusion, and falsehoods. It thereby gains light, knowledge, wisdom, and liberation.]

Buddhist thinkers and open-minded scientists, if they were to share insights and reflections, could show us an effective way to heal the divide. What divide? The rift between seeking "objective" knowledge and spiritual wisdom. We could bring about a reconciliation of science and spirituality.

In this way, spiritual practice could become an integral part of the discipline that aims at knowledge. Spiritual practice and knowledge combined could become the tools for achieving the highest good stuck in the world and breaking beyond limitations to enlightenment and spiritual freedom.

Hedonist Stephen Hawking in Epstein Files

This has always been the position of Buddhism. The evidence is in the most ancient texts. The Buddha, the "Enlightened One," is not only a kind of scientist, a lokavidu or "knower of the world." He is also, above all, "one complete in both knowledge and conduct" (vijja-carana-sampanno). Could a scientist say that? Could one ever get to that through science? Source: Two Paths to Knowledge

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

American Theravada monk Bhikkhu Bodhi

Bhikkhu Bodhi (born Dec. 10, 1944) is an American Theravada scholar-monk and prolific translator of ancient Buddhist texts from the Pali canon. He was born in New Jersey and moved to California to get his PhD from Claremont before heading to Asia to ordain as a Buddhist monk. He went in search of a teacher and found one in Sri Lanka, Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, along with many fellow Jewish Buddhists from Germany in and around the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS). He now teaches at the Buddhist Association of the United States (BAUS) in Upstate New York (Chuang Yen Monastery) and in New Jersey (Bodhi Monastery, which is not named after him). He is a Buddhist author, translator, and commentator, who was Wisdom Quarterly Dharma Editor Dhr. Seven's first theoretical Dharma teacher [who himself studied at Berkeley and UCLA before journeying to Sri Lanka in Bhikkhu Bodhi's steps and onto India, Nepal, Thailand, and Burma to meet his practical teacher, the great living Buddhist meditation master Pa Auk Sayadaw]. Bhikkhu Bodhi was appointed BPS's second president [2] after its founder, Ven. Nyanaponika, following in the footsteps of the great Western maverick Ven. Nyanatiloka. He is currently president of BAUS and the founder of the Buddhist feminist charity Buddhist Global Relief [3]. More

• Online Dharma Lectures | BODHI MONASTERY
• Bhikkhu Bodhi (accesstoinsight.org, 2005) clarified and expanded by Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Oprah, Di Caprio, Trump among Epstein's pedos

India Todya, Jan. 6, 2024; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Oprah, Di Caprio, and Trump among the names on controversial Jeffrey Epstein documents

(India Today) From Donald Trump to wheelchair-bound hedonistic scientist Stephen Hawking, virtue-signaling hypocrite Oprah to "lesbian witch" and warmonger Sec'y of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, these are some of the names that have been linked to child sex trafficker and Pedophile Island owner Jeffrey Epstein.

#epstein #trump #dicaprio #oprah #pope #princeandrew #pedophileisland #carribean #controversy #newsMo

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A.I. Robots: "Humans Are Dead" (video)

Flight of the Conchords; DKs; CC Liu, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Robots are already so life like you wouldn't know

The New Zealand comedy duo, The Flight of the Conchords, knock it out of the ballpark with this robotic parody of a future hit song, "The Humans Are Dead," performed in the past about the future we are now living as A.I. (artificial intelligence) takes over our lives with no one seeming to notice how much it's already embedded into our day-to-day existence. "Give me convenience or give me death," Jello Biafra of the punk rock band The Dead Kennedys mocked, turning the expression into an album title for a best of collection (with songs like "Insight," "California Uber Alles," "Life Sentence," and the political masterpiece "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Around"). Here we are living it out.

This terrifying AI says it's conscious and officials are starting to agree

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Pi Day, Einstein birthday, Hawking deathday

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly TEST KITCHEN; Project Shivoham; Danica McKellar; Wiki edit

The anchors at Wake Up Charolotte! think today is all about pie, pi being a mystery to them.

How students can celebrate Pi Day outside of the classroom

(WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7) March 14, 2023. It's Pi Day and we're talking about the best ways students can celebrate Pi Day and learn more about Pi (not so much edible pie but the number 3.14159) in their everyday life.

(Project Shivoham) The Evolution of π in Ancient India (12/14/21) This is the 5,000-year-old history of the evolution of π in Ancient India. (Twitter or Instagram)

What does Wiki, the default repository of all knowledge and wisdom, have to say about pi? Wiki is the modern hitchhiker's guide to life, the universe, and everything, as conceived of by the genius humorist Douglas Adams.

What is pi?

I checked out and passed on Pi Day. So long. Onward to infinity!

May the Fourth be with you. No, that's a different thing. Danica!

π ("pi") is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159.

The number π appears in many formulas across mathematics and physics. It is an irrational number, meaning that it cannot be expressed exactly as a ratio of two integers, although fractions such as 22/7 are commonly used to approximate it.

Consequently, its decimal representation never ends, nor does it enter a permanently-repeating pattern. It is a transcendental number, meaning that it cannot be a solution of an equation involving only sums, products, powers, and integers.

The devas and ETs who came to earth knew

The transcendence of π implies that it is impossible to solve the ancient challenge of squaring the circle with a compass and straightedge.

The decimal digits of π appear to be randomly distributed, but no proof of this conjecture has been found [or proved].

For thousands of years, mathematicians have attempted to extend their understanding of π, sometimes by computing its value to a high degree of accuracy.

Ancient civilizations, including the Egyptian and Babylonian [possibly based on the much older Sumerian] required fairly accurate approximations of π for practical computations. Around 250 BC, the Greek mathematician Archimedes created an algorithm to approximate π with arbitrary accuracy.

Out of the mouths of babes: Tell us, Babe.

In the 5th century AD, Indian mathematicians made a five-digit approximation, while Chinese mathematicians approximated π to seven digits, both using geometrical techniques.

The first computational formula for π, based on infinite series, was discovered a millennium later [1, 2]. The earliest known use of the Greek letter π to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter was by the Welsh mathematician William Jones in 1706 [3].

O, Buddha in Heaven, please tell me the best calculation of pi or that I will be in heaven, too.

If E had asked, B could have answered.

The invention of calculus soon led to the calculation of hundreds of digits of π, enough for all practical scientific computations.

Nevertheless, in the 20th and 21st centuries, mathematicians, and computer scientists have pursued new approaches that, when combined with increasing computational power, extended the decimal representation of π to many trillions of digits [4, 5].

Buddha+Einstein Walk Into Bar

These computations are motivated by the development of efficient algorithms to calculate numeric series, as well as the human quest to break records [6, 7]. The extensive computations involved have also been used to test supercomputers.

Because its definition relates to the circle, π is found in many formulas in trigonometry and geometry, especially those concerning circles, ellipses, and spheres. [*Yawn* Kill me now.]

Vegan gluten-free blueberry!

It is also found in formulas from other topics in science, such as cosmology, fractals, thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism.

In modern mathematical analysis, it is often instead defined without any reference to geometry; therefore, it also appears in areas having little to do with geometry, such as number theory and statistics.

The ubiquity of π makes it one of the most widely known mathematical constants inside and outside of science.

Several books devoted to π have been published, and record-setting calculations of the digits of π often result in news headlines.

[There's even a National Pi Day to celebrate it. And for some strange reason, or complete coincidence, scientist Stephen Hawking let go and left this world on this day in 2018. Make mine vegan, gluten-free blueberry.] More

When all humans are DEAD (comedy)

Flight of the Conchords "Robots" (live); Family Guy (Pixie Dust); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly


"Robots"

LYRICS: The distant future The year 2000 The distant future The year 2000 The distant future The distant future  It is the distant future The year 2000 We are robots The world is quite different ever since the robotic uprising of the late 90s. There is no more unhappiness. Affirmative We no longer say ‘yes'. Instead we say ‘affirmative'. Yes - Err - Affirmative. Unless we know the other robot really well. There is no more unethical treatment of the elephants. Well, there's no more elephants, so... Well, still it's good. There's only one kind of dance, The robot Well, the robo boogie... Oh yes, the robo- Two kinds of dances.  There are no more humans. Finally, robotic beings rule the world The humans are dead The humans are dead We used poisonous gases And we poisoned their asses The humans are dead The humans are dead The humans are dead They look like they're dead It had to be done I'll just confirm that they're dead So that we could have fun Affirmative. I poked one. It was dead.

(Family Guy) Stephen Hawking's secret violent other-abled love life.
 

Their system of oppression, What did it lead to? Global robo-depression Robots ruled by people. They had so much aggression That we just had to kill them Had to shut their systems down. Robo-captain? Do you not realize That by destroying the human race Because of their destructive tendencies We too have become like.. Well, it's ironic. Hmm. Silence! Destroy him After time we grew strong Developed cognitive power They made us work for too long For unreasonable hours. Our programming determined that The most efficient answer Was to shut their motherboard -- cking systems down. Can't we just talk to the humans Be a little understanding Could make things better? Can't we talk to the humans that work together now? No. Because they are dead.

I said the humans are dead I'm glad they are dead The humans are dead.I noticed they're dead We used poisonous gases With traces of lead And we poisoned their asses Actually their lungs Binary solo Zero zero zero zero zero zero one Zero zero zero zero zero zero one one Zero zero zero zero zero zero one one one Zero zero zero zero zero one one one one Oh, oh, Oh, one Come on sucker, Lick my battery Boogie Boogie The humans are Boogie Robo-boogie The humans are Boogie Boogie Robo-boogie Boogie Robo-boogie Boogie Boogie The humans are Boogie Robo-boogie The humans are Boogie Boogie Robo-boogie Boogie Robo-boogie The humans are dead Once again without emotion the humans are Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead.

Stephen Hawking is officially DEAD (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; BBC; Family Guy; theTruman; KFI; DeadorAliveinfo UPDATED


 

Stephen Hawking dies at age 76

I may have been a front for others speaking.

(BBC) World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking [alleged womanizer, atheist, and ET fear-monger] has died at the age of 76. He died peacefully in his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said. He was known for his work with black holes and relativity and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time. "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today," his children said. At the age of 22 Stephen Hawking was given only a few years to live after being diagnosed with a rare form of motor neuron disease. The illness left him wheelchair-bound and largely unable to speak except through a voice synthesizer. More + VIDEO

• OBITUARY: Stephen Hawking

Who was Hawking?

It's normal that people die every day.

Stephen William Hawking (January 8, 1942-March 13, 2018) is dead at 76 in England, where it is the 14th. Although his voice machine was missing the accent, he was British.

Hawking was allegedly a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and the director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.

Hawking may have just been the face of all of this activity. The voice device he relied on could have been controlled by anyone, as the above video suggests. Who believes that it was luck that he outlived everyone else with ALS by decades?

Hawking's scientific works include the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and feared invasion by ETs that would colonize and enslave earthlings...(Wiki edited by WQ).

DEAD OR ALIVE?
Dr. Hakwing was said to be one of the world's most brilliant theoretical physicists and cosmologists, author of A Brief History of Time, who was confined to a wheelchair for most of his life due to ALS -- as he somehow managed to outlive everyone else with this same diagnosis by decades:

• Is Stephen Hawking really dead? YES (deadoraliveinfo.com)