Heavy metal vs. mental illness (video)

Blame it on "Barbie" (actor Margot Robbie) - Why's your metal music so depressing, Bro?

Heavy metal or mental illness?

You call yourself a meditator with that racket?

(Wyatt's Metal) It's 2025, and there is one kind of music that is not going away. Rather than fading, it spreads. Why? The fanbase. Misfits like metal? Mental patients are moved? Animals like the beat and melody of music? Let's take a deep dive into the effects heavy metal (with all its genres like death metal, symphonic metal, extreme metal, speed metal, black metal, etc.) music can have on mental health.

Science: Happiness from heavy metal?

(DW, 2022) Why metalheads are happier than most other people

Slayer ruins the Grammys with a heavy metal performance

But isn't Los Angeles' Slayer satanic and evil?

If only Beavis & Butt-head meditated

Let's meditate, Butt-head? - Nah, Beavis, let's do a bunch of drugs.

(B&B) Public school teachers and role models emotionally damaged us

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• Beavis and Butt-Head (MTV), Pantera "I'm Broken"; Wyatts Metal, Jan. 22, 2025; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Oumuamua in Earth orbit? (Angry Astronaut)

Oumuamua UFO seen in Earth orbit?

(The Angry Astronaut) July 11, 2024: Oumuamua (pronounced \oh-moo-ah-moo-ah\) shaped UFOs are cropping up everywhere -- during eclipses, on Mars, and in Earth orbit. What's going on? #space #alien #uap

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Bible terror: God to destroy USA on 4/8

Repent, sinners! God's sick and tired of the USA, so it's killing time.

Aleister Crowley

Seven years ago, God gave the USA a warning of "peace" (Salem), but Americans didn't listen. Seven years later, He (the tribal Jewish god of the Israelites and Christian creator of the universe, Yahweh, Jehovah, YHVH, Zeus, Shiva, whatever His name is) is giving another sign, Nineveh, an Old Testament city, hinting at Jonah and destruction. And just when everyone thought it was 666, it's actually 777 (like the book Liber777 by "the most evil man in the world" Aleister Crowley wrote about in his Jewish mysticism book).

You've deceived the world long enuff! - No, you

Seven years apart, seven American cities named Salem (2017) and seven American cities named Nineveh, it's got to mean something. So we put the data into the Language of Q and, shazam, it means our world is about to end. We regret everything, love you Mom, and brace yourself for the Apocalypse...or we may have 40 days from Monday for the Ascencion, or it's Rapture time just like the Protestant Christians have been going on about for the last 100 years or so in a great conspiracy theory that everybody better drop everything else and start believing as Christians believe.

God is hate and here to kill everybody at any moment, oh but just the sinners, ah aah, just the unrepentant sinners. So start groveling, begging for mercy, and praying to the one true god of Palestine and His wife Asherah, and his mom, Miriam, and their only begotten son. Or send in your tithe and get a receipt. It's time to smite creation again like the last time Dad killed everyone with a flood, but it'll be a fire this time, so sayeth the Lord.

• Oops, Mercury is in retrograde, so it's a time to check and re-check things, according to astrologer Yasmin Boland
• Full Solar Eclipse in the USA 2024: Experts had the "Map of Totality" WRONG, See updates
• New calculations have raised concerns popular eclipse maps might be off. Here’s what scientists say (You're probably reserved a hotel and are sitting in the wrong spot to see "totality." It's time to move to see 100% eclipse, which is a world apart and far different than 99% coverage! And NASA now plans to shoot some rockets into path of totality.
  
• Map shows US towns that could miss out on 'perfect' solar eclipse as path of totality SHIFTS

Scientists got the map wrong. See updates.

(Mirror.co.uk) A new solar eclipse map has revealed how some residents in the USA could now MISS OUT on seeing the amazing celestial phenomenon.

Scientists had previously plotted a ‘path of totality’ that identified the key cities and towns that were expected to see the Moon [or Rahu] directly covering the Sun on Monday. However, John Irwin, an amateur astronomer, recently released an updated version of the map charting the eclipse’s 115-mile journey, from East to West across the USA.

[Surely, the map shows the shadow of the solar eclipse moving from West (Texas) to East (New York), which should be impossible given that we are told the Earth is constantly revolving from West to East (giving the illusion that the sun is rising in the East) so that an eclipse shadow could only ever move in one direction]. And his calculations show that its original path could be altered by about 2,000 feet (609m). More

Map of eclipse's path of totality shows shadow going in wrong direction for our cosmology.

• Is the width of the zone of totality 113 miles? That would mean the object casting the shadow is a 113 miles wide, depending on how close our Sun is. The width was 72 miles in 2017. Test it. Take a ball or disk and put a flashlight behind it. If you put the flashlight close, it distorts the shadow of the object and makes the shadow bigger. But no matter how close you bring the light, it can never make the shadow any less wide than the object casting the shadow. It's just a fact of light, the way things stay the same size in a mirror even if we get closer or step back. (Hold a phone, draw a square around it with a marker on the surface of the mirror, and back up. You may feel you are getting smaller, but the phone stays the same size to fit perfectly within the box). We are told our moon is how wide? It's certainly not a mere 72 miles or 113 miles wide. We are told it's much bigger (about as wide as Australia) and much farther away (239,000 miles) than it truly is. We are further told that our Sun is much bigger and 93 million miles away. Nonsense, that's demonstrable nonsense. Our eyes are not fooling us, as we have been told.

Good Christians between rockhead and a hardplace

Good Christians don't like Trump; it's just that Biden is even worse (more senile, less biblical). Trump may lie, but at least he's telling the right lies so one could fool oneself that God is using him to do good, whereas Genocidal Joe is just between in Looneyville and Lalaland:

• Theo Wolmarans, fundamentalist Christian Sunday School terror teachings; Eds. Wisdom Quarterly

Fix a dysregulated nervous system ASAP

What it FEELS like when our nervous system is dysregulated

(Crappy Childhood Fairy) Dec. 26, 2022. "Dysregulation" is a core symptom of Complex-PTSD, which usually occurs due to childhood traumas. If we had a rough childhood, we may have thought these symptoms were our fault -- personal failings that we're ashamed we haven't changed yet. Once we know the normal signs that childhood trauma has impacted us, we can drop the guilt and learn to adopt workarounds that help us re-regulate and resolve life's problems.

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How to reset a dysregulated nervous system (in under 60 seconds)

(Brain retraining program | re-origin®) Jan. 31, 2023. Stressful events from the past can have a lasting impact on the state of our nervous system in the present and even determine our reactions in the future.

Intense emotions, fearful thoughts, negative emotions, old (dysfunctional) behaviors, and past traumatic events can all build and contribute to a totally overwhelming stress load that can cause our nervous system to become "dysregulated" (out of control), causing us to feel constantly uneasy and on edge.

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Too angry? Dr. Peter Attia explains way to stop it to podcaster Huberman

Snowflake cops, Hillary, Biden, BIPOCs

Hillary Supporter, Joe Biden, Chris Christie, Chuck Shumer (Mike MacRae), Jimmy Dore (jimmydorecomedy.com, 6/18/20); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, A. Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Old demented sexual predator VP Joe Biden is still telling people to vote for a Trump

(June 18, 2020) NBC and Google team up to censor conservative news

What about our money/economy? (comedy)

Jimmy Dore, Mike MacRae, Prof. Mark Blyth (jimmydorecomedy.com); Wisdom Quarterly

Angrynomics

Is there any sensible use of anger? Revolution?

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good?

While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive.

In Angrynomics, Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan explore the rising tide of anger -- sometimes righteous and useful, often destructive and ill-targeted -- and propose radical new solutions for an increasingly polarized and confusing world.

Angrynomics is for anyone wondering, Where the h*ck do we go from here? More

The practice of subduing demons (video)

Master Sheng Yen (GDD-1111, DVD, 1/15/17); CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The woeful realms of hungry ghosts, demons, and evil spirits can become bothersome.

The practice of subduing demons is actually harmful to demons and ghosts

Catholic Christians want to kill and cast out.

Buddhism advocates loving-kindness and compassion (metta and karuna) in delivering all beings, rather than attempting to fight, subdue, or "defeat" demons, malevolent spirits, poltergeists, and bothersome ghosts. More online courses: youtube.com/user/DDMTV05.

Now you've really pissed me off! The haunting begins.

Buddhist Geeks (audio archive)

BuddhistGeeks.com

Emerging Science of Mindfulness Meditation

Harvard Prof. David Vago, an instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, has held the position of Senior Research Coordinator for the Mind & Life Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering dialogue and research at the highest possible level between modern science and the great living contemplative traditions. Prof. Vago relates how his personal mindfulness practice has integrated with his professional scientific research. He talks about the thriving community of scientists interested in mindfulness that has taken root in contemporary academia and research, and he highlights some current projects and lines of inquiry that have benefited from this uniquely...

 

Is Super Mario a Buddhist?

Stanford Prof. Jane McGonigal is an author and game designer who wants to change the world through gaming. In this second part of a presentation recorded during the 2011 Buddhist Geeks Conference, she shares the details about games where people are going into the world and using gamer virtues for real life good. From better community organizing, to solutions for regional famine, to possible treatments for cancer, McGonigal and her gamers are changing the world one epic win at a time....

  

The Angry Buddhist

Fiction author Seth Greenland is also a playwright and screenwriter. For two seasons he was a writer-producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO series "Big Love." His latest novel, The Angry Buddhist, is the story of an ex-policeman seeking guidance from an online Buddhist teacher. The novel is currently in development with Showtime as a possible series for the network with Greenland writing and producing. Buddhism is really making its way onto the pop culture landscape. More

2012 CONFERENCE
Lama Surya Das (American lama), Amber Case (cyborg anthropologist), Stephen Batchelor (former Buddhist monk, author), Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel (teacher and author), Matt Flannery (Kiva.org CEO), Martine Batchelor (former Buddhist nun, teacher, author), Michael Stone (Buddhist Activist), Daniel Ingram (practical Dharma teacher), Willoughby Britton (contemplative scientist), Ken McLeod (teacher, executive coach), Tami Simon (Sounds True CEO), Rohan Gunatillake (meditation entrepreneur), Stuart Davis (bodhisattva rocker), Vincent Horn (Buddhist Geek), Robert Spellman (contemplative artist)...

"Angry Birds," "The Angry Buddhist" (audio)

Madeleine Brand, Seth Greenland, KPCC.org (SCPR.org); Wisdom Quarterly

"Angry Birds may be the closest to Buddhism that many of us ever get" (tobeydeys.com)

What does a "Buddhist" have to be angry about? Politics? Lesbian affairs? "Hello Kitty" tattoos? Murder? The declining habit of pleasure reading and corresponding drop in book sales?

This year's election season is already proving to be full of drama and fireworks. But it doesn't measure up to the political drama in Seth Greenland's forthcoming novel, The Angry Buddhist.

The book takes place in the days leading up to a November election, where the incumbent under fire -- a slimy congressman -- is in a battle against a sexy, Sarah Palin-esque challenger. There's in-fighting, sexual affairs, and even a murder.

But, interestingly, the author is actually quite knowledgeable about Buddhism. It is not merely a gimmick to draw in readers. Set in trendy Palm Springs, near Coachella, in Southern California.

• Greenland, author of The Bones and Shining City, was also a writer/producer on HBO's "Big Love."
• LISTEN (9:07 mins); discussion of Buddhist practice starts at Minute 5:57.

Happiness Formulas

Imitation love is anything we substitute for the unconditional love lacking in our lives. This usually takes the form of power, pleasure, safety, and praise. Our addiction to imitation love keeps us alone and unhappy. Learn more from Dr. Greg Baer, M.D., a nationally recognized relationship expert at reallove.com. What is imitation love? On the other hand, anger is a very common condition, so common that we have come to accept it as almost normal. More>>

What is "imitation love"?

• Letting the Relationship Die
• Can others make us angry?

Happiness Formulas (FREE eBook)
(PRNewswire) To celebrate the "Summer of Happiness 2010," the Institute of Subjective Well-Being released a free eBook today, summarizing scientific research about happiness, how to measure and improve it. It describes several formulas for subjective well-being and advocates why understanding happiness requires a paradigm shift.

• Trying to find happiness on "The Hills": "This is what I chose, and there's nothing I can take back" - Heidi Montag (crying)
• "The Hills" ends with admission: It's all fake

Perfectionists: Researchers say they die sooner
(CBS) Maybe anti-perfectionist Homer Simpson will have the last laugh, if psychiatrists who are studying the positive and deleterious of perfectionism are right. It seems that being highly critical of yourself and others may cause such high levels of stress and anxiety that you are at a higher risk of early death than people who take it easy. "D'oh!"

Slackers, take heart!
Don’t work too hard! Perfectionists have an increased risk of premature death, according to research reported in LiveScience.com (via Msnbc.com).

• Shocking; Mother imprisoned for sex with teenage son
• Fears grow as millions of Americans lose jobless benefits
• Animal activists move into mainstream with slew of new laws

Nobel Peace Laureate Prepares for War

Obama rights record questioned ahead of Nobel ceremony

While President Obama makes plans to escalate Bush's war in Afghanistan to make it his own, he also has to prepare to receive his Nobel Peace Prize. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty Int'l gave Obama mixed reviews on his human rights record a day before he is slated to accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. They urged him use his acceptance speech on Thursday to renew U.S. leadership on human rights after it was undermined by abuses committed during the Bush administration's endless "war" on terrorism.

Happy Holidays from the American President (Diwali is the Indian "Festival of Lights")

Fighting Back: Traffic Cameras

Traffic cameras spark rage
Angry motorists are fighting back over the increasing number of intersection cams.

• Unusual methods (WSJ.com)
• The big money in traffic cams
• Find the top speed-trap cities