If the Ten Commandments of Christianity, as borrowed or modified by Judaism because they come in varying official lists from the all-knowing, never wrong, and never ever misquoted or misunderstood God of All Things, are foolish. Not because rules are bad. Rules good. Clear instructions good. Boundaries good. Kindness and fairness to all, very good.
The foolishness derives from the fact that the religion can't even agree and these rules straight. Then we hear that the Black Egyptian Jew Moses (of the founding myth, aka the Exodus that never happened, who has now been scrubbed and completely Ashkenazified) dropped another list and broke the tablet, or perhaps he threw it in anger. In any case, the list changes. Who knew the list ever changed?
The Ultimate Creator (the Demiurge, the El, the god, Baal, Molech, Yahweh, YHWH, Yaldabaoth, Jehovah, God thirsty for sacrificial blood when nothing else will do but black magic for the forgiveness of sin even if it means killing His son, the Big Whomever, Lord of the Universe and Children's Playgrounds and Hell because He rules all, knows all, decides all, wills all, controls all, and is never wrong not to the slightest, which is why He never changes His mind or His word or His law, unless someone talks to Him and gets a personal variance or exception) is said to have decreed them, so who can argue with them? They are the law, the Ritual Decalogue, the Finger of God pointing and cursing when He doesn't get His patriarch way. So OBEY and shut up.
What about them? The Buddha advised all human beings to restrain themselves and keep the precepts -- five, eight, ten, 227, 311, or more, in accordance with one's wishes for the future. A minimum of the basic five should remain inviolate because the wholesome (skillful) karma (actions, deeds) of doing so benefits beings here and hereafter, in this world and the next (a reference to many future worlds one finds oneself in in the future). These are not "commandments," not even for Buddhist monastics (nuns, monks, maechis, anagarikas, temporary novices and spiritual retreatants). They are undertaken voluntarily and violated voluntarily. The goal is not to "please" some god or God. It is to bring about peace of mind and purification of view by insight, which leads one to see things as they truly are. And in seeing them that way, one wishes no harm or suffering on anyone.
How dare Buddhism outline a standard of conduct for individuals/communities! Is that "Zen"?
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How did the Buddha know and care so much?
Also note that none of the precepts is self-serving. There's no "Love Thy Buddha and worship Him above all" or "I am Thy Lord Your God, Obey me, you speck of dust!" or any such thing. All human societies would agree and have agreed for millennia and aeons (kalpas), that everyone is happier and has much more peace of mind when no one is going around killing, stealing, sexually misconducting themselves, lying (bearing false witness), or becoming so intoxicated that they are heedless to these guidelines for human conduct. The additional vows or precepts to temporarily abstain from luxuries, adornments and self-beautification, or eating at inappropriate times are all excellent aids to mindfulness (presence of mind), meditation (absorption), health (vigor and longevity), and undistracted focus.
Right action is just one factor of eight
What a heavenly world this would be if living beings here just kept these five. Rebirth in better worlds is possible just from better conduct here. And liberation from rebirth in any world is possible, making an end of all possible future suffering, is within reach. Maybe that's not what most people want or are aware of, but it is attainable. If all anyone ever wanted out of Buddhism were health, wealth, wishes, beauty, fame, and influence, that is all within reach through karma, here and now and there and then.
(Let's Be Clear with Ana Kasparian) Will Israel assassinate Pres. Trump or harm his family because he is not doing what they say in Iran? Make a deal with the devil, and what do you expect?
(Times Now World) [DISTURBING] "What kind of people are your
[Zionist IDF] soldiers?" U.N.'s explosive attack on Israel's military
(The Daily Show) Jon Stewartdares to criticize Warlord Bibi Netanyahu, his b**ch boy Doni Trump and all the nice, hardworking folks at the CIA, Shin Bet, Pentagon, Mossad, and the collective we lovingly call the "military-industrial complex" our U.S. War Machine depends on to churn the economy and give our fiat currency its meaning. Ask the Ashkenazi Rothschilds.
Who are the "Semites"? For our purpose, it may refer to any peoples who speak Semitic languages: Sumerians, Palestinians (called "Arabs" by Jews), Jews, Bedouins, Mesopotamians, those cultures in and around the Levant.
Ancient way of "worship"
Kill Palestinians and feed them to me.
Traditionally, the name Moloch (Molech, Molek) has been understood as referring to a (or the) Canaanite God [3]. However, since 1935, possibly biased scholars have speculated that Moloch refers to the sacrifice itself, since the Hebrew word mlk is identical in spelling to a term that means "sacrifice" in the closely related Punic language [4]. This second position has grown increasingly popular, but it remains contested [5].
Among proponents of this second position, controversy continues as to whether the sacrifices were offered to the Jewish tribal god Yahweh or some other holy deity and whether they were a native Israelite religious custom or a Phoenician import [6]. More
Many liberal Jews as well as very Orthodox Jews OPPOSE Zionism, war crimes, and the abuse of Judaism as an instrument of war occupying, oppressing, ethnically cleansing, and genocidally exterminating another people, the Arabs/Palestinian people, particularly but not limited to the Muslim ones.
Alex Jones: Everything we didn't know about his sh*tty past
(Hysteria) Nov. 23, 2025: In our 29th episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco dive deep into the past of moronic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
From the conspiracy theory Bible (a novel) that inspired Infowars, to spreading 9/11 false flag propaganda that grew his following, to having vein-popping tantrums that would terrify most cardiologists, to owing the Sandy Hook families $1.4 billion U.S. dollars, this may be our most hysterical man-baby-guy yet.
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39:31 - Sandy Hook conspiracy and defamation case
51:39 - Outro/matrix ratings
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Zionist Jew musician David Draiman ATTACKS Tom Morello, backfires tremendously
(Democracy Watch) July 26, 2025: #TYTsports #RickStrom #Sports Watch the full interview HERE: "You don't think I've cried?" Tom Morello... Watch Anthony Fantano's full video HERE: Disturbed guy David Draiman is pathetic
The legendary Rage Against the Machine (RATM) guitarist Tom Morello recently spoke on the current climate of left-leaning politics and music with George Stroumboulopoulos, praising embattled Irish hip-hop group (Gaelic rappers) Kneecap as the "Rage Against the Machine of today" for speaking truth to power and carrying on the tradition of past political musicians. Rick Strom breaks it down.
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Call it another win for Dictator Donald. He sued CBS and they settled instead of fighting it because they need some corporate favors. And just by coincidence, they fired his nemesis 15mil-a-year Colbert, who is his weakest critic among the Boys Club of late night comedians who all recycle the same jokes and, apparently, the same pool of writers. He used to be so funny on Strangers With Candy, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. This corporate gig was his worst work ever, so maybe he'll make a comeback to something risky and actually funny?
Elon Musk's family history in South Africa reveals ties to Apartheid and Neo-Nazi movements
(Democracy Now!) March 27, 2025: Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in a wealthy family under the country's racist apartheid laws. Musk's family history reveals ties to apartheid and neo-Nazi politics.
DN! speaks with Chris McGreal, reporter for The Guardian (UK), to understand how Musk's upbringing shaped his worldview, as well as that of his South African-raised colleague Peter Thiel (VP J.D. Vance’s relationship with billionaire GOP donor Peter Thiel), a right-wing billionaire who co-founded PayPal alongside Musk.
"Musk lived what can only be described as a neocolonial life," said McGreal. "If you were a white South African in that period and you had any money at all, you lived with servants at your beck and call." More: democracynow.org
Woman, Thy Name is Ezer ["Rescuer"] The [Judeo-Christian] LORD God said, “It is not good for the man [Adam] to be alone. I will make a helper [ezer, rescuer, Eve] suitable for him” (Genesis 2:18). [Hey, LORD, but what about my first wife, Lilith? - Don't worry about her, Adam, my boy, I'll send her away to become a demoness and jealous eater of babies. That ought a teach her to mouth off. - Like your wife, Asherah, LORD, who I suppose was therefore my mom? - Don't ever bring her name up, Adam, or else! Anyway, my boy, we were better off alone just kicking it in this groovy garden planet we grew out of effort. Enjoy it before I throw you out. Unless you want a guy-pal to hang with. How about a Steve? - Whatever, LORD, as you see fit.]
Scholar R. D. Freeman observes that ezer (pronounced /et-sir/) is a combination of two words, one meaning “to rescue” or “to save,” the other meaning “to be strong.”
Theologian and author Dr. Walter Kaiser notes that ezer appears in the Old Testament often in parallel with words denoting strength and power. The word ezer does not mean that a woman should never be an assistant, an ally, a supporter.
There is nothing negative about a man or a woman helping someone or being called by the [God] to fulfill that role! It’s always a privilege to serve [the God] as we serve others. But it is also crucial that we understand that in the biblical definition of “helper,” the ezer can also fulfill a different role.
It seems that ezer has more to do with what helping looks like, because it doesn’t seem to suggest anything about hierarchy. In some instances, ezer is a word with military connotations; the ezer is also a warrior.
In this context, help comes from one who has the power and strength to provide it. Ezer is a verb as well as a noun, meaning “to defend, protect, surround and cherish.” The ezer is an amazing mix of strength, power, proactivity, and vulnerability. Source
— Adapted from Chapter One, “The Blueprint,” by J O Saxton
What is anyone to make of Adam and Eve on Earth (Eden)?
Of course, the story of Adam and Eve (the Adama or first iteration of humankind and its other half, Eva, the second woman after Lilith in Judaism) is deep and ludicrous.
It is deep that it must be hinting at something else, a truism set in a mythological tale, ludicrous if taken at face value after centuries of translation and misinterpretation.
For instance, there is no "apple," but Christians will swear there is. The "snake" is a humanoid reptilian. There is much here, likely inherited from Sumerian sources, spun by countless rabbis and sincere students to take some useful teaching from it.
Likewise, Buddhism has an origin myth -- not of how it "all" started but rather how human life on this earth began. Long, long ago, light beings (devas, which are a superior class of brahmas) alighted on this planet and over the course of time devolved and became coarser and coarser until we find ourselves the way we are today.
The full tale the Buddha told, almost certainly rooted in true things but explained simply in ways that are hard to take literally, is known as theAggañña Sutta or "A Buddhist Genesis," "On Beginnings."
In this analysis, the "light beings" (lit. "shining ones") are not humanoid beings who can fly alighting on earth by light itself reaching earth like photons from a faraway source. The author explains his motive for writing it:
The Aggañña Sutta of the "Long Discourses of the Buddha" (Dīgha Nikāya) is no satire or parody, as seen by some scholars. Drawing upon cosmology, Darwinism, psychology (Freud, Piaget, etc.), and linguistics, it paints a historically and scientifically accurate picture of devolution and evolution, going beyond the Big Bang. Sentient beings emerge [on earth], bringing with them the latent defilements of craving and passion, nourished by evolving plant life around them. Compatible with Western science, the breakthrough comes when Abhassara beings [from the Abhassara heaven or plane of existence] are taken to be photons, taking Abhassara in a literal etymological sense of "Hither-come-shining-arrow." However accurate this picture may be, the Buddha’s point, is that knowledge of the Dhamma is more important than anything else, explaining the title. More
Buddhist cosmology
Artists paint images of space for NASA
The Buddha described a universe consistent with the multiverse theory where there are countless worlds in all 10,000 directions, anywhere we can point. But all of these are classified into 31 Planes of Existence. One such plane is this world of "radiant ones."
So this sutra is saying this is the divine and sublime world we came from, not evolving from microbes in a primordial soup up to great apes or hominids (though that may be the origin of these bodies). We are fallen devas with every potential of becoming devas again, so in that sense we are divine beings in these sensual bodies.
Our karmas (actions, deeds, intentional acts) determine where we are subsequently reborn, just as previous karmas led to our rebirth on the human plane. We also have the potential to fall further down.
ābhassara: The "Radiant Ones" are a class of heavenly beings of the Fine-Material Sphere (rūpa-loka); cf. deva.
Abhassara is a brahma-world where radiant devas ("shining ones") live from whose bodies rays of light are emitted, like lightning.
This plane of existence belongs to the rūpaloka (the Fine-Material Sphere)
The Buddhist cosmos (universe/multiverse) is classified into three spheres: the Sensual Sphere (kama-loka), where earth and the sensual heavens are, as well as every other plane below the human world (animal, ghost, titan, hells), the Fine-Material Sphere, where more ethereal heavens are, and the Immaterial Sphere, where non-material worlds of pure mind are. This is an interesting distinction as it suggests that all that we call "form" or ultimate "materiality" (rupa) is coming from finer energy that is not yet form. All there is is called nama-rupa, "name and form" (mind and body). Form is of two general kinds, sensual and subtle (matter and light). And there is a sphere of worlds without form, only name or mind, a kind of Logos or Platonic "forms").
It is essential to note that they are brahmas, as this means they are neither male nor female but "god-goddesses" ("supremos") without sexual dimorphism like the lower devas of the Sensual Sphere.
Is there a "heaven"? - There are many!
This plane corresponds to the second meditative absorption or jhāna (Abhs. v.3; Compendium 138, n.4).
All being depend on nourishment: The devas living on this plane subsist on joy (pītibhakkha) (S.i.114.; DhA.iii.258; J.vi.55).
Their span of life is two aeons (kalpas, kappas or more loosely speaking two "eternities"), but there is no guarantee that a person reborn here may not later be reborn in some unfortunate destination/unhappy condition (A.ii.127; but see Abhs. v.6, where their lifespan is given as eight kappas), as is the case for all beings who have not yet attained the first stage of enlightenment.
From time to time these devas utter shouts of joy exclaiming, "Aho sukham, aho sukham!" This sound is said to be the best of sounds.
These devas are completely enveloped in ease (sukhena abhisaññā parisaññā) (A.iii.202; D. iii.219). Their plane forms the third station of consciousness (viññānatthiti). Like humans on the human plane, they are of uniform body, but their perceptions are diverse (ekattakāyā nānat-tasaññino) (A.iv.40, 401; D.ii.69; D.iii.253).
During the periods of the development of the world (evolutionary cycle), many beings are reborn in the Abhassara world, and they are then called the highest of the devas. Yet, even they change their condition (A.v.60).
In lists of devas (e.g., M.i.289) they are listed below the Appamānābhā and above the Subhā. More
Video shorts: Robot Chicken; Magnify explaining ezer, "rescuer" Eve; Billy Carson on the Sumerians; irate Irish lass on feminism overdoing it and crapping on the menfolk
J O Saxton, More Than Enchanting; Ven. Nyanatiloka, Buddhist Dictionary; Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri, Dhamma Aboard Evolution; Agganna Sutta (DN 27, Digha Nikaya, Pali canon); G. P. Malalasekera (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
HEADLINE: Southern California-based neo-Nazi group members federally indicted. Federal and local law enforcement officials announced court filings and arrests related to an organized crime ring in Los Angeles run by a neo-Nazi group affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood.
U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said that the bust being announced Wednesday [today, 10/2/24] morning is one of the largest takedowns in the history of the Department of Justice of a neo-Nazi, white supremacist, violent extremist organization.
A total of 68 people were indicted as part of the Peckerwood gang, Estrada confirmed. Of the 68, a total of 42 are in custody.
The Peckerwoods are involved in a wide variety of criminal activity, from drug trafficking to fraud offenses to firearms offenses, violence and identity theft, Estrada said. But what truly distinguishes them is their hate and animosity towards ethnic and religious minorities [like the Jews].
(What's a pecker-wood? An erect p*nis of a person seeking to commit racist hate crimes and be sent to prison to become the love object of older, bigger Aryan brothers and/or similar Neo-Nazis?).
More than 100 suspected Neo-Nazi "Peckerwood" gang members were rounded up for the Jewish New Year celebration of Rosh Hashanah in and around Los Angeles today. (Certainly, no one in law enforcement, many of whom are also racist gang members with tattoos to prove it had anything to do with the coincidence). There are large contingencies of Neo-Nazis living in LA, OC, and Ventura counties, longing to vote for Trump and make America great. Their MAG movement sometimes drives them to march on Washington and violently launch a Hitleresque "putsch" to seize power under their fearless leader's rambling rally speeches and the swinging body of a traitor on the gallows. But their plans were foiled. Not all hope is lost. Nick Fuentes and Friends on the Internet still support the Leader and his new push to seize leadership of the country from within [the Swamp] to remove inconvenient elections and find for him a lifetime appointment as dictator or overseer and kingmaker like Putin and strongmen around the world enjoy. Netanyahu and Kim (Israeli-occupied Palestine and North Korea) and other strongmen the world over are keeping their fingers crossed.
Peckerwood gang member opens up about serving a life sentence under California's three strike law
(THE CONNECT) Cinco de Mayo, 2024: There are Neo-Nazi white supremacist racist gangs in SoCal? Yes, not only in Los Angeles County but also in neighboring Ventura and Orange County. This documentary introduces the bound-for-prison gang affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood. It is the smaller and oddly named phallic group of boys known as the Peckerwoods. A "pecker" in American slang is a [cartoon bird], and "wood" is a reference to [what the cartoon bird pecks], but it is not gay, not gay at all. Prison rules are different from the outside world, and what happens in jail stays in jail.
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(Full episode) Chris Curtis grew up in [once predominantly white] Orange County, California, in area rife with addiction and crime.
As a child [who should have enjoyed white privilege from a long history of institutional white supremacy] he was not protected from this reality and in fact was encouraged to be a part of it.
Struggling with addiction and turning to a life of crime, Curtis ended up getting sentenced to life in prison as a result of California's Three Strikes law. There he found himself in some of the most dangerous institutions in the state.
CHAPTERS
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:41 - The Inception of Addiction at a Young Age
00:11:15 - Living in a Horrible Situation
00:15:33 - This Episode Is Sponsored By Perfect Jeans
00:17:30 - Transition into Criminal Activities
00:23:07 - Street Life: Stealing and Shooting
00:28:43 - Confrontation and Shootout
00:30:24 - [This episode is sponsored by MOOD]
00:31:45 - High Speed Chase and Arrest
00:39:48 - The California Three Strike Law
00:45:25 - Gang Violence and Racial Tensions
00:51:05 - Life in Prison and Gang Violence
00:56:28 - Life in Prison: Survival and Hustles
01:02:06 - Back to Selling Drugs and Evading Arrest
01:07:53 - High-Speed Chase and Felony Charges
01:13:15 - Life in Prison and Overcrowding
01:18:59 - Chaos and Violence in Selena's Valley
01:24:33 - Taking matters into my own hands
01:29:34 - The Violence and Chaos of Prison Life
01:34:48 - Gangs and Prison Violence
01:40:35 - The Impact of Victimhood on Others
01:46:15 - The Chaos and Struggles of Addiction in Prison
01:51:39 - Preparing for the Board
01:57:03 - Admitting to Everything
02:02:37 - Life After Prison
02:08:20 - A Dream Come True
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