(Beyond Sacred Beliefs) 7 lies about hell so absurd the Church never dares to explain Jewish Sheol (like the gloomy and shadowy "hells" of many religions), ancient Greek Hades (the Greek underworld), not "hell" but the eternal afterlife of sleep, quiet, cold, or doom like Jewish Abaddon and Greek Apollyon. The "Gates of Gehenna" were literal gates of the municipal dump where the poor unable to afford or those deemed unworthy of a "proper" burial were therefore disgraced by getting thrown into. There they (their carcasses now bereft of life) were "eaten by worms" in ignominy, surrounded by sulfuric smells and smoldering smoke day and night along with the gnashing of dead teeth, ground up into waste amid the lamenting wails of loved ones. How many lies have we been told by the official Church?
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Right-Left agree: FBI put out fake texts
IHIP News: Did Trump's FBI fake texts from Kirk's alleged killer? MAGA calls him out!
(I've had It) IHIP News. Sept. 17, 2025: People from both sides of the aisle (Left and Right) suspect the FBI is not being truthful about Charlie Kirk's public assassination. [Who put K$H in charge of the FBI? There's going to be a long hard talk demanding a lot of answers when Director K$H Patel finally gets to Valhalla.]
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- SLATE: Some seem very determined not to face what we think we know about Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter
- Stand up comedian Sammy Obeid: Gen Z texts?
- The Jimmy Dore Show: The FBI is lying about a confession in the form of a note, which was destroyed, but confirmed to have existed by "our [FBI] aggressive interview posture"
Sunday, July 13, 2025
The end of The Simpsons? Family Guy?
Why Family Guy has suddenly become hated
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| This is it, Stewie? - Whaaat, Brian? - Nothing. |
Monday, June 9, 2025
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka (Fresh Air)
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| I have a new comedy special called "Father." |
Born in Taiwan to Japanese and Taiwanese parents, she traveled from Japan to Los Angeles with her grandmother and mother when she was 8 for what she thought was a short vacation.
In fact, they were moving.
It would be years before Okatsuka saw her father again. She later described being "kidnapped" by her grandmother on a 2023 episode of This American Life.
"My grandma and I hadn't really talked about it in depth until [then]," she says. "And it helped that I got to do with Ira [Glass, host of This American Life] and the thousands and thousands of thousands of listeners at the same time, then I'm really not alone." More + AUDIO
Can Asians even be funny?
You're never too old to rock 'n roll, Andy Huggins. - AngelenoAtsuka O. with Seth Meyers
- Atsuko Okatsuka (atsukocomedy.com), Tanya Mosley, Fresh Air, WHYY (Comic Atsuko finds humor in immigrant experience: NPR); The Late Late Show with James Cordon; CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
The real George Carlin on Donald Trump
Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Who to choose, who to choose. On the one hand there's this old white man. He sucks. On the other hand, there's this other old white man. He sucks, too. He may suck even worse. But it could hardly be worse than it is right now, with US funding for war crimes in Israel, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, the Mediterranean, Syria, and the whole volatile region made constantly worse by Israel and CIA-groomed PM Netanyahu, and our permanent war economy. Couldn't the other at least not play into it? We revile and detest them both, but when living in a One-Party system, the Money Party, with two wings fighting for the same things but emphasizing and doing PR as if they are polar opposites, there's little cause for optimism. Now who's this horrible sounding RFK? He is saying some good stuff. Jill Stein is running Green. There just may be a break in the election, when the Devil decides to smite one or the other of these senile old guys and take away their arms sales budgets and weapon funding.
- US Congress receives report on Biden's handling of classified documents: source
- Biden to NOT be prosecuted for same crime he and Trump committed because he's too old, enfeebled, and has too much memory loss -- but he's still eligible to be president for 5 more years?!
- Takeaways from this week's Nevada GOP contests: Trump wins, Haley stays, voters have doubts
- Supreme Court takes up Donald Trump’s ballot eligibility: Supreme Court likely to restore Trump’s name on all state ballots
- War is good for corporations and our US war economy: Oil heads for weekly gains after Israel rejects Gaza ceasefire offer
- What’s News World-Wide? (WSJ)
Sunday, September 24, 2023
BS: US flies to asteroid, scoops, returns?
Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
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| It doesn't look real or capable of a billion+ mile flight. That's because it isn't. It's an artist's rendition because NASA won't release a non-CGI photo of the real thing, if there is a real thing. |
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| We'll name it after Osiris then invent an acronym. |
We call BS on "OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA (NAZIesque "Never A Straight Answer" organization) asteroid-study and sample-return mission.
We are supposed to believe that it just completed a miraculous primary mission of visiting an asteroid hurtling through the vacuum of empty space and collecting ground samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid [12]?
The [coffee grounds worth of] material, allegedly returned on Sept. 24, 2023 [13], is expected to enable scientists on Earth to learn more about the formation and evolution of the Solar System, its initial stages of planet formation, and the source of organic compounds that led to the formation of life on Earth [14], because many different extraterrestrials could surely not have been involved in coming to this rock and setting things in motion or checking back in from time to time, mining gold and rare earth minerals, taking wives, leaving DNA, and whisking off to other projects in the galaxy.
- Buddhism's Genesis account (the Agganna Sutta or "Discourse on Origins") suggests life began on Earth an incredibly long time ago, not naturally originating out of an organic broth in a soupy sea of carbon elements and amino acids necessary for life as we know it, by virtue of radiant space beings landing here, liking the sensual experience of things, and degrading -- devolving by devolution -- over the aeons (kalpas). It says nothing of "life" itself originating here. It's everywhere in the ten thousand directions of the universe (portion of the bubble like multiverse), inconceivably old, cyclical, expanding and contracting, chaotic and organized, not beginning but continuing. Those beings who alighted on this plane, because earth is described as a plane of concentric circle divided by insurmountable heights with different types of being currently inhabiting it, each group under their own sun and moon, with their own customs, appearances, lifespans, cultures, and habits, meeting by rulers who possess a special treasure that makes meeting possible -- a vimana or space vehicle capable of traveling from one world to another -- and, rightly speaking, it should be possible to call all of these beings "human," as they are all humanoids, and "earthlings," as they are all on the plane. Moreover, there are other planes below where other advanced beings abide. Just as there is all this life here that we are not generally aware of, as shown on some maps but not the official ones, there is life all over the solar system and elsewhere.
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| Burnt marshmallow that fell in the sand or Asteroid Bennu spinning in open space? |
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| What does our Secret Space Program do, Semjase? |
Afterward, its mission was extended to conduct proximity operations and in-depth study of asteroid 99942 Apophis as OSIRIS-APEX (Apophis Explorer) [15]. Oh, brother, allegedly extends.
OSIRIS-REx was launched on Sept. 8, 2016 -- though we never heard anything about that -- flew past Earth on Sept. 22, 2017 -- completely under our radar as media watchers -- and allegedly rendezvoused with Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018 [16].
It spent the next two years analyzing the surface to find a suitable site from which to extract a sample. Oh, brother! The media reported that it swooped in, extending an arm, scrapping off some random surface material from its pristine fingerprint of the early universe, like a sterile crime scene. The Big Bang sneezed dust, it landed on Bennu, rested there for billions upon billions of years, and we are the first to get our hands on it. Incredible. Unbelievable. BS.
On Oct. 20, 2020, OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu and successfully collected a sample [17, 18,19, 20]. OSIRIS-REx departed Bennu on May 10, 2021 [21, 22] and returned its sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023 [23], subsequently starting its new mission to study 99942 Apophis.
Sure, it did. Why not? There's a picture of it all burned up, sitting in the desert, except for that bright yellow spot. Why not?
The spacecraft [like a gnat in space, tinsel and fragile] will arrive at Apophis in April 2029, around when the asteroid is expected to encounter Earth.
Bennu was chosen as the target of study because it is a "time capsule" from the birth of the Solar System [24]. Oy vey ð, here we go.
Bennu has a very dark surface and is classified as a B-type asteroid, a sub-type of the carbonaceous C-type asteroids. Such asteroids are considered primitive, having undergone little geological change from their time of formation.
In particular, Bennu was selected because of the availability of pristine carbonaceous material, a key element in organic molecules necessary for life as well as representative of matter from before the formation of Earth. Organic molecules, such as amino acids, have previously been found in meteorite and comet samples, indicating that some ingredients necessary for life can be naturally synthesized in outer space [1].
There ya have it. What more is there to say? We must have a secret space program to do such missions, if they're done at all, because we do not have the technology in our open budget programs. If only NASA were a truthful and transparent organization.
The alleged billion-dollar price tag
The cost of the OSIRIS-REx mission is approximately US$800 million [25], PLUS the cost of the Atlas V launch vehicle, which is about another US$183.5 million [26]. And what with the OSIRIS-APEX extended mission costs, that's an additional US$200 million [15].
It is the third planetary science mission selected in the New Frontiers program, after Juno and New Horizons. The principal investigator is Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona.
OSIRIS-REx was the first United States spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid; the earlier, similar Japanese probe Hayabusa returned samples from 25143 Itokawa in 2010, and Hayabusa2 allegedly returned from 162173 Ryugu in Dec. 2020. Oh, those pesky Japanese nontheistic Buddhists and atheistic scientists are ahead of us and have better engineers, STEM graduates, and math nerds? There's a surprise. More
OSIRIS-REx capsule
NASA/Keegan Barber - This image or video was catalogued by NASA Headquarters of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: NHQ202309240002.
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
Thursday, June 1, 2023
King Charles w/ John Cleese (Monty Python)
South Park DESTROYED Prince Harry Windsor and American Princess Meghan Markle...
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| Meditation is tough for Harry and Megs |
John Cleese in hysterics over King Charles’s coronation" ‘It was a Monty Python sketch!’
Monty Python co-founder John Cleese tells Andrew Doyle that he was in hysterics watching King Charles’s coronation.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Liberated from Myth of American dream
Alissa Quart, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (democracynow.org); Ed., Wisdom Quarterly
Alissa Quart on Liberating Ourselves from the Myth of the American Dream
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| Republic of Outsiders Alissa Quart (NYT) |
The promise that we can “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” is central to the story of the American Dream. It’s the belief that if we work hard and rely on our own resources, we will eventually succeed.
However, time and again we have seen how this foundational myth, with its emphasis on individual determination, brittle self-sufficiency, and personal accomplishment, does not help us.
Instead, as income inequality rises all around us, we are left with shame and self-blame for our condition.
BOOK
Acclaimed journalist Alissa Quart argues that at the heart of our suffering is a do-it-yourself ethos, the misplaced belief in our own independence, and the conviction that we must rely on ourselves alone.
Looking at a range of delusions and half solutions — from “grit” to the false Horatio Alger story to the rise of GoFundMe — Quart reveals how we have been steered away from robust social programs that would address the root causes of our problems.
Meanwhile, the responsibility for survival has been shifted onto the backs of ordinary people, burdening generations with debt instead of providing the social safety net we so desperately need.
Insightful, sharply argued, and characterized by Quart’s lively writing and deep reporting, and for fans of Evicted and Nickel and Dimed, Bootstrapped is a powerful examination of what ails us at a societal level and a plan for how we can free ourselves from these self-defeating narratives. Bootstrapped
Monday, January 23, 2023
What evil does the CIA do for the USA? (video)
A Day In History, Jan. 16, 2023; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
These bizarre CIA documents expose the most horrifying secrets
Many of the declassified secrets are more absurd than creepy. Wacky plots and absurd technology like bird spy drones, catfish spy drones, dragonfly spy drones -- a lot of animal spy drones, come to think of it -- are among the stranger revelations from declassified archives.
#cia #history #classified #ciasecrets #mkultra #projectnorthwood
- Scriptwriter: Nathan Hewitt
- Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Jason Bohol
- Voiceover Artist: Lain Heringman
- Music: Epidemic music
Friday, September 27, 2019
Baking: Making Bread from Weed (video)
The King of Random, Joseph & Joseph, Good and Basic; CC Liu, S.Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly
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| Dude, let's make bread instead of getting high. |
A better gluten-free option would be to use sorghum, brown rice, quinoa, amaranth, tapioca, potato, organic corn, or even glutinous rice. Dr. Joel Wallach at criticalhealthnews.com warns that everyone who wants to be healthy will avoid 13 foods -- including wheat, rye, barley, and oats.
(Yes, oats are almost exclusively gluten, which the plant uses to protect itself from being eaten. The "gluten free" label refers to wheat gluten, because oat gluten is not called "gluten" but avenins, prolamins, or gliadins.) Gluten is starch-glue, as used in papier mache, that makes bread stretchy and chewy, which feels and tastes good but is harmful and addictive. It damages the lining of the intestines, curtailing absorption of nutrients like minerals and vitamins, and it contains comforting heroin-like compounds.
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| Let's make veggie burgers from Impossible |
Intolerance to certain gluten proteins includes oats: Gluten is present in wheat, barley, rye (as shown in this video), oat, and all their species and hybrids.[2][21] So it cannot be "gluten free" even if the bag says so in big red letters. It contains hundreds of proteins, with high contents of prolamins.[22] Oat prolamins, called avenins, are similar to toxic gliadins found in wheat, hordeins in barley, and secalins in rye (as in the weed here), which are collectively named "gluten."[2] Avenins toxicity in celiac people depends on the oat cultivar consumed... More
Saturday, May 27, 2017
So you want to be a writer? (Here's how!)
Colum McCann (The Guardian.com, May 2017); Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly
“This most of all,” he says. “Ask yourself in the most silent hour of night: must I write?”
There are no rules?
How to write a killer opening line. Why Google is not research. When to rip it up and start again. Whatever you do, just write! -- lessons from acclaimed novelist and creative writing Prof. Colum McCann.
[Anyone can be a writer, but how does one get to be a published writer?]
“Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody,” said Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet more than a century ago. “There is only one way. Go into yourself.”
[Anyone can be a writer, but how does one get to be a published writer?]
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| Dear Editors, I have lots of Buddhist opinions. |
Rilke, of course, was right -- nobody but yourself can help. In the end it all comes down to the strike of the word on the page, not to mention the strike thereafter, and the strike after that. But Rilke was taken by the request from a young writer, and he corresponded with Franz Xaver Kappus in 10 letters over the course of six years.
Rilke’s was advice on matters of religion, love, feminism, sex, art, solitude, and patience, but it was also keyed into the life of the poet and how these things might shape the words upon the page.
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| I'm blasting off for a new career or hobby! |
Everybody who has ever felt the need to write knows the silent hour. I have come across many such people -- and indeed many such hours -- during my writing and teaching life. I’ve been teaching now for the best part of 20 years.
That’s a lot of chalk and a lot of red pencil. I haven’t loved every minute of it, but I’ve loved most. There’s been a National Book award for one student. A Booker prize for another. Guggenheims. Pushcarts. Mentorships. Friendships. But let’s be honest, there has been burnout, too. There’s been weeping and gnashing of teeth. There have been walkouts. Collapses. Regret.
That’s a lot of chalk and a lot of red pencil. I haven’t loved every minute of it, but I’ve loved most. There’s been a National Book award for one student. A Booker prize for another. Guggenheims. Pushcarts. Mentorships. Friendships. But let’s be honest, there has been burnout, too. There’s been weeping and gnashing of teeth. There have been walkouts. Collapses. Regret.
All of these students, bar none, are looking, in Rilke’s words, “to say ecstasies that are unsayable.” The unsayable indeed. The job is theirs. The ability to trust in the difficult. The tenacity to understand that it takes time and patience to succeed.
There are no rules?
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
- W. Somerset Maugham
There are no rules. Or if there are any rules, they are only there to be broken. Embrace these contradictions. You must be prepared to hold two or more opposing ideas in the palms of your hands at the same time. More
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
Death of Nobel: Bob Dylan wins lit prize
Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Alex Shepherd (The Republic)
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| WTH?! This is impossible! |
Has the academy lost all credibility first with Obama now with Dylan?
"The times they are a changin'." Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish-Christian folk-hippie troubadour/poet Bob Dylan (who allegedly chose his nom de plume after the famous poet Dylan Thomas, which he denies) has been voted the latest Nobel Laureate in "literature."
"The times they are a changin'." Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish-Christian folk-hippie troubadour/poet Bob Dylan (who allegedly chose his nom de plume after the famous poet Dylan Thomas, which he denies) has been voted the latest Nobel Laureate in "literature."
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| I love war. I never said I didn't, kids. |
This news comes from Sweden (where, sadly, they did not choose Woody Guthrie or Joni Mitchell who were more deserving). Dylan's archives were recently purchased and will be housed at the University of Tulsa.
He plays this weekend at Coachella's "Desert Trip." So potheads will be headed en masse to see a laureate perform his literature before an unusually big crowd. Elvis must feel cheated.
He plays this weekend at Coachella's "Desert Trip." So potheads will be headed en masse to see a laureate perform his literature before an unusually big crowd. Elvis must feel cheated.
Bob Dylan [born Robert Zimmerman] wins the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature
Alex Shepherd, The New Republic
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| What about Sanders? Did the Nobel Academy figure out Bernie was a sell out/fraud? |
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| I have real audacity; I ain't givin' my medal back! |
But in a shocking decision, songwriter Bob Dylan -- not novelists Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, or Thomas Pynchon [or folk superstars Woody Guthrie or Joni Mitchell] -- won “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
Dylan’s
citation also compared him to [the Ancient Greek poet and author of the Odyssey and Iliad] Homer -- the Swedish Academy had to reach
back 3,000 years to find a precedent.
Born [Jewish] Robert Zimmerman in
1941, Dylan was the enfant terrible of the New York City folk scene -- a
impish trickster who annoyed (and stole from) many of his elders,
particularly Dave Van Ronk and Pete Seger.
Dylan [who later converted to Christianity] first broke out in the
early 1960s as a part of a growing movement of songwriters who were
writing and performing topical material about the Civil Rights Movement
and other current events.
Dylan has been labeled a “topical songwriter”
since that period, but he spent only a short period writing songs like
“When The Ship Comes In” and “The Times They Are A Changin’”... More
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