Terrifying Amusement Parks (video)

Early amusement parks were terrifying

Tested on live subjects. Mostly harmless.

(Historidame) Creepy clowns, weird Sideshow attractions, a midway, and rides that were actively dangerous -- early amusement parks were terrifying, and I want to visit them so badly. So join me today, dear viewers, as we take a trip into the past and explore the golden age of amusement parks.

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• Historidame, April 18, 2025; CC Liu, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Science: Cats want to play fetch. Cat Sutra

"Zig, hey!" says ginger white kitty, while extending its paw in the air (zaLysonArts/Getty).

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A surprising number of cats want us to play fetch with them

What good results from the deed of meditation?

Many people have seen dogs fetch, but cats like to get into the game, too. Despite their very different hunting and play styles, fetching appears to combine elements of predatory [hunting, stalking, killing] and social behavior for both species.

Although their domestication histories and natural behaviors are very different, cats and dogs share many similarities.

Both species are predators, live closely with humans and are capable of enjoying rich social experiences with us.

Is this fake Buddha quote true? Kind of, partly

In our newly published study, we found that more than 40% of cats described in our survey data played fetch, compared with almost 80% of dogs.

We also outlined several possible reasons for fetching, including play, selection during domestication, and learning effects. More

The Creeping [Cat] Sutra (AN 10.216)

Karmic-result? Deal with it.

“Meditators, I teach an exposition of the Dharma on creeping. Listen, attend closely, and I will speak.”

“Yes, venerable sir,” they replied. The Buddha then said: “What, meditators, is the exposition of the Dharma on creeping?

“Meditators, beings are the owners of their karma (deeds), heirs of their karma; they have karma as their origin, karma as their relative, karma as their resort; whatever karma they do, good or bad, they are its heirs.

I'm a stalker. I'm a predator. I'm a killer.

(1) “Here, someone destroys life, is murderous, bloodyhanded, given to beatings and violence, is merciless to living beings.

“One creeps along by body, speech, and mind: One's bodily karma is crooked, one's verbal karma is crooked, one's mental karma is crooked.

“[Therefore,] one's destination is crooked, one's rebirth is crooked. And for one with a crooked destination and rebirth, I say, there is one of two destinations -- either the exclusively painful hells or [rebirth/reappearance as] a species of creeping animal.

“What are the species of creeping animals? The CAT, the snake, the scorpion, the centipede, the mongoose, the mouse, and the owl, or any other animals that creep away when they see people.

I was after Maus. I guess karmic-results are just

“Thus, a being is reborn from a being; one is reborn through one’s deeds. When one has been reborn, contacts [impressions] affect one. It is in this way, I say, that beings are the heirs of their karma.

(2) “Someone takes what is not given… (3)…engages in sexual misconduct… (4)…speaks falsehood… (5)…speaks divisively… (6)…speaks harshly… (7)…indulges in idle chit chat… (8)…is full of longing… (9) …has a mind of ill will and intentions of hate… (10)…  More

• [EDITOR: KARMA (deeds, intentional actions, courses of action) refers to doing. Having been willed, carried out, and stored up, there are two kinds of outcomes -- the "resultants" (vipaka) and the "fruit" (phala) that ripens. [One might distinguish between immediate mental resultants and longer-term fruits or future circumstances that result from deeds.]
• Mikel Delgado, Judith Stella, The Conversation, Nature via ScienceAlert.com, 9/5/24; Dhr. Seven (ed.) "Creeping" (AN 10.216) based on Bhikkhu Bodhi translation (suttacentral.net, AN 10.216), CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Catholic Church okays RAT eating for Lent

Tori Amos; Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Bu Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What the? Who would eat a rat of any size?

LYRICS: ("God" by Tori Amos) [Chorus] God, sometimes you just don’t come through/ Do you need a woman to look after you?/ God, sometimes you just don’t come through// You make pretty daisies, pretty daisies love/ (Come down and tell me what you mean, now)/ I’ve gotta find, find, find what you’re doing about things here/ (Huh, whatcha doing?)/ A few witches burning, gets a little toasty here/ (Hey now, what do you know, what do you know?)/ I gotta find, find, find why you always go when the wind blows// [Chorus]// Well, tell me you’re crazy, maybe then I’ll understand/ (Come down and tell me what you mean, now)/ You got your 9, 9 iron in the back seat just in case/ (Huh, whatcha doing?)/ Heard you’ve gone south, well, babe, you love your new 4-wheel/ (Hey now, what do you know, what do you know?)/ I gotta find, find, find why you always go when the wind blows/ “Give not thy strength unto women nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings”/ Will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky fall?/ Will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky?// [Chorus]

All the disgusting animals Catholic Church allows for new Lent, Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene begs Christian women to stop sexualizing themselves, JKL pranks Trumpers!

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Feb. 23, 2024: KFC has unveiled their latest culinary monstrosity, in Venezuela (South America) the Friday Lent menu has been updated to include new animals -- like the world's largest rodent ("water rats" called capybaras), after more than 50 years the U.S. is back on the moon [sort of, given that the Intuitive Machines Lunar Lander tipped over and ended up DOA], it will soon be illegal for kids in Florida to go on TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X (Twitter) to talk about women being good Christian role models rather than caving into the world and its ways), Don John Trump popped into a Christian religious convention to convince the crowd he is one of them, and the show conducts an experiment in South Carolina ahead of this weekend's primary to ask people who identified themselves as "supporters of Donald Trump" for their take on some of Genocide Joe Biden’s more controversial actions and quotes. But what they were not told at first was that what was said was not from Joe Biden but actually from dumb Don Trump to watch them instantly flip-flop on what they thought. #Kimmel

Dog breeder eaten alive by own dogs: KARMA?

Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

I'm cold, alone, and the ASPCA is going to kill me and call it a "euthanizing" favor. Save me.

Compton pit bull breeder mauled to death by his own dogs

(KTLA 5) LOS ANGELES, California - Feb. 16, 2024: A chaotic and gruesome scene unfolded in Compton (a ghetto in Los Angeles made famous by Snoop Dog, et. al.) Friday morning after a man who was breeding pit bulls (a similar breed) was mauled to death in his own backyard.

Get in my bag, Taylor, yer preggers!

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD), officials responded to the home on Thorson Ave., just south of Rosecrans Ave., around 7:00 am after a concerned friend visited the property and discovered the man’s mauled body.

"He was feeding the dogs at which point maybe there was an altercation between some of the dogs and [they] ultimately [turned on and] attacked and mauled the victim,” said Michael Gomez with LASD’s Homicide Bureau. KTLA's Chris Wolfe reports on Feb. 16, 2024.

• More details: ktla.com/news/local-news/man...

What kind of karma?

She's as blind as her beloved canine companion. Is it by chance or a life lesson?

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It is popularly believed that karma (intentional action, deed, conduct) means "what comes around goes around." And by this logic, the dog breeder here must have made these impressionable pit bulls vicious, the better to sell them as tough guardians for self-protection.

One sees citizens of South-Central Los Angeles and other parts of the city, such as the Venice Beach Boardwalk, walking vicious looking pit bulls on heavy chains. It's a trope. It's the obverse of West Side females carrying chihuahuas or Shitsus in their purses.

I'll be waiting in the realm of ghosts, Master.

If he did raise them to be vicious killers and they viciously killed him, isn't that karma? It may be karma except for the fact that karma does not work itself out that quickly. Lennon's "Instant Karma" is rare.

What does seem to happen is that we repeat our habitual karma over many lives, and when those deeds catch up with us, ripen and comet to fruition in this life, it may be for something like the thing we're doing now. So people deduce that, "Aha! It must have been that thing he was doing now."

But, in fact, it could, it is much likelier to be something that being did long ago bearing its results. Be nice to animals. Don't eat them. But if you do, will it be a surprise that in the future they will eat you? Not pets, pets rarely eat us, but domesticated livestock when we are reborn on the animal plane, in ghost or hellish realms, or by some good fortune (based on some previous skillful deed) on the human plane again, or wild animals.

IDK Y. I'm driven to eat you alive until you die.

Animals are not here by accident. Animals are not ours to abuse or even to use. They have consciousness, thoughts, feelings, karmic lives, personalities, and futures. The entire section of the Dharma known as the "Rebirth Tales" or Jatakas illustrates how they think and feel, how karma (sowing deeds) bears fruit, how the working out of deeds and results is unimaginably complex but knowable in general terms. Killing humans is worse, particularly moral humans, but killing or inducing (paying butchers) others to kill is also very bad karma.

SUTRA: Let go, Doggy

The Buddha was a Karmavadin: he taught the
importance of deeds (karma) and their results.

There's an amazing Buddhist story, a Jataka Tale, in which a stingy man passes away without having told his wife or eldest son where he buried his treasure. He's still clinging to it in his heart, for all the good money does him as a dog.

The son searches in vain for it because the family needs it to live when he's gone. It comes to pass that he meets the Bodhisattva (the Buddha-to-be), who asks him what the problem is.

The son explains and is advised to feed the dog well and watch where he chooses to go to nap then dig in that spot. He does and finds the stash, becoming a believer in the process:

There is rebirth, there are wise people who know this world and other worlds by their own knowledge-and-vision, there are results of karma (vipaka and phala), there is a life (an afterlife) to come, humans can be reborn as animals based on their actions in this life, and there is something higher to live for than ordinary concerns like making and clinging to worldly riches.

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Halloween West Hollywood party: Carnaval '23

KTLA 5, 10/30/23; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I'm going as a powerful blonde this year -- Black Barbie, Barbs Barbie, or Nazi Barbie

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WeHo Halloween Carnaval returns

Or maybe brunette Mexican Barbie (Frida Doll)

(KTLA) After a four-year hiatus, the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval is returning on Halloween night, Tuesday from 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm. The city (next to Beverly Hills) will celebrate on a one-mile stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard between Doheny Drive and North La Cienega Boulevard. Samantha Cortese reports for KTLA 5 News at 10. Details: ktla.com/news/local...

KTLA 5 News: Keeping Southern Californians informed since 1947.

Walk wild, crazy, sexy, brave West Hollywood Halloween 2022 - Los Angeles, Southern California 

(Get Out Tours) 11/3/22: CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD It's Halloween night 2022, a Monday, and the streets of the second gayest city on the West Coast are busy! Tonight, check out the famous West Hollywood Halloween party scene! WeHo is THE place to go to for adults to party on Halloween, and it really is an adult holiday nowadays, no matter what kids think.  Unfortunately, Halloween Carnaval was still on hiatus, but a party happens anyway, with or without a plague/pandemic scare.

Halloween in WeHo 2022 despite cancellation

(German in Venice) Nov. 3, 2022: Today GIV met up with his friends, Louis and Tco, in West Los Angeles. It's Halloween night on famous Santa Monica Blvd. in the City of WeHo. The annual event was still officially canceled, but unofficially thousands of people were here to party anyway, wearing the weirdest and coolest costumes imaginable. It's an awesome time. #halloween #westhollywood #weho

Farmers vs. Vegans: hardcore debate (video)

Hammad, 3/11/23; Ananda (Dharma B Meditation), Seven, Ashley (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Youthful, vibrant, beautiful animal-loving vegans debate old, crusty, pissed animal killers.

There's more than enough delicious nutritious food for everyone when we go vegan.

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Vegans vs. Farmers: Hardcore Heated Debate

(Hammad c) The vegans vs. farmers debate is a heated battle of ethics, environmentalism, and the health implications of raising, tormenting, butchering, and consuming animal bodies.

WARNING: Violent numbing videogaming! Killer in training reacts to vegan activist compassion.

Eating "meat" free of killing animals

Conscientious and compassionate vegans argue that killing animals to make them "food" is unethical and that a plant-based diet is the most sustainable and healthy lifestyle for human health.

However, conservative and compassionate farmers stand by their animal butchering practices, arguing that it's necessary to make "food" out of these living beings to make money (a livelihood).

The stakes are high, and both sides have compelling arguments. To find common ground, we need constructive dialogue and solutions that benefit everyone -- including animals, our shared environment, farmers, and these d*mn cr*zy vegans.

Thanks to sponsors UpInSmoke, Kauphy Place, and Autolinx for supporting this intense discussion and promoting sustainable and ethical practices. #vegan #funny #debate. Follow: instagram.com/hammadhtc, web.facebook.com..., tiktok.com/@hammaddstv, linkedin.com/in/hammad-ch..., etsy.com store. Support on Patreon: patreon.com/hammadchaudhry95 Link to YouTube channel: @hamstarist.

Happy "Fat Tuesday" (Mardi Gras), Catholics

Emanuella Grinberg, CNN, 2/20/23 edited by Crystal Q., Pfc Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Boobs for beads? Mardi Gras means excess nudity and drinking (women.com)

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Boobs are bad. Don't look! (Getty Images)

It's National Sticky Bun Day, Fatties, but that's not why it's called "Fat Tuesday." This is the day Romans (Catholics) fattened up before the religious observance of Ash Wednesday. It's a Lent thing, and other Christian denominations observe it, but not the mainstream Protestants, who try to avoid the pagan holiday holdovers.

• Mardi Gras is really the pagan holiday Saturnalia
• Celebrity couples with huge age gaps (reference.com)
• fattuesday.com is a website for pre-alcoholics
  

In the States they flash boobs like they were mammals (dailystar.co.uk/news)

(WGRZ-TV) Celebrating Fat Tuesday in Buffalo, NY, Feb. 21, 2023, by getting fat on junk.

Hey, Fat Tuesday Fans, lay off the sugar.

(CNN) — It’s time to break out the beads and get in any last bites of king cake. Mardi Gras is here! Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday." It’s also called Shrove Tuesday, Carnival Tuesday, or Pancake Tuesday [and Sticky Bun Day], depending on where the celebration is taking place.

No matter the name, it’s a day of carnal revelry that includes parades, parties, and gastronomic indulgence before the Christian "fasting" season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday (February 22 in 2023).

It marks the last day of the Carnival season, basically a six-week period of partying across the plane of the Christian-Catholic earth.

Mardi Gras is synonymous with Carnival celebrations in New Orleans, Venice, and Rio in the Americas, but the day is marked in similarly festive fashion around the world in countries with large Roman Catholic populations.

However, what began as a holiday rooted in religious tradition has become a cultural phenomenon, leading to parties for the sake of partying, not necessarily in anticipation of 40 days of penance between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.

Whatever the motivation, here’s everything to know about Mardi Gras to be conversant in the holiday’s history:

The celebration dates back to the Romans

The Butterfly King float makes its way down St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans in 2014.

A group of people shout for beads on Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras day back in 2007.

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According to historians, festivities resembling Mardi Gras go back thousands of years to ancient Roman festivals celebrating the harvest season.

After Christianity arrived in Rome, old traditions were incorporated into the new faith and debauchery became a prelude to the Lenten season.

This fusion resulted in a hedonistic period of boozing, masquerading, and dancing with a heavy dose of religion. As Christianity spread throughout Europe, so did the pre-Lenten festivities.

Along the way, new traditions were born and some old ones took on new incarnations. One of those Roman traditions became the sweet staple of New Orleans’ Mardi Gras known as the king cake.

During pagan Saturnalia, a winter solstice celebration of Saturn, the "god of agriculture", beans were baked into cakes to celebrate the harvest. Whoever found the bean was named “king of the day.”

[That meant eating a lot of cake looking for it, so maybe that lead to the Sticky Bun Day moniker, like the name Pancake Tuesday.]

In the Middle Ages, Christianity appropriated the tradition for the festival of the Epiphany, also known as Three Kings’ Day. (That's not unlike our newfangled and unpopular American holiday "[Three] Presidents' Day.")

Also known as Twelfth Night, Three Kings’ Day marks the start of the Carnival season each year on January 6th [which in America we now call "Orange Bozo Day," at least in Washington DC.] It commemorates the visit of the three kings -- or wise men or [Tibetan] magi [searching for their Buddhist tulku] -- to the Christ child ["Anointed One" or Kristos] on the 12th night after his birth, for a celebration, gifts, and feasting.

Christians in Spain, Latin America, and the United States mark the occasion with lots of drinking, lots of boobs and nudity, shiny beads, parades, gifts, and family feasts.

Thousands of people gather each year in Mexico City to polish off a mile-long Rosca de Reyes, or “king cake,” a staple of the holiday.

Elsewhere, families prepare the crown-shaped dessert at home. The cake has a trinket or baby figurine baked inside it to symbolize Christ and is eaten throughout Carnival festivities.

Just as in Roman times, the person who finds the trinket is crowned “king or queen of the Carnival,” a distinction that carries various duties depending on the culture, from preparing tamales (pronounced [tuh-mall\ not \tuh-mall-lee\) for the next family party to riding on a parade float.

Shrove Tuesday is basically the same thing

Elaborate masks are another long beloved tradition of Mardi Gras. Along the way, Shrove Tuesday emerged as the last day of Shrovetide, the week preceding the start of Lent. [Yuletide is the other big tide or "season."]

The word Shrovetide is the English equivalent of Carnival, which comes from the Latin words carnem levare, meaning “to take away the flesh.”

“To shrive” means to hear confessions, according to Catholic theologian Father William P. Saunders. “While this was seen as the last chance for merriment, and, unfortunately in some places, has resulted in excessive pleasure, Shrovetide was the time to cast off things of the flesh and to prepare spiritually for Lent,” he wrote in CatholicCulture.org.

To prepare for Lent, Christians prepared pancakes to deplete their stock of eggs, milk, butter, and fat, giving rise to Pancake Day in England.

As the tradition spread through Europe, it became Mardi Gras in France, where waffles and crepes are prepared as part of a lavish feast.

Mardi Gras in the New World

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Following a long tradition, revelers pack Bourbon Street USA during Mardi Gras day back in 2016. European colonists and slave traders brought the pre-Lenten festivities to the Americas, where they became huge celebrations throughout the Carnival season.

Celebrations in Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti include musical competitions, elaborate costumes, feasts, and cultural shows at various points leading up to Mardi Gras, or “Carnival Tuesday.”

French settlers brought Mardi Gras to New Orleans and the Louisiana territory. The Galette des Rois, or “king cake,” came too, becoming a symbol of New Orleans’ brand of Mardi Gras.

The first recorded Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans is believed to have held in 1837. Over time, balls, parties, and parades have spread out to take place throughout Carnival season, organized by social clubs called “Krewes.”

The celebration took on even more meaning for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. A group of people shout for beads on Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras day back in 2007.

The tradition of “parade throws” is thought to have originated in the 1920s with the Rex Krewe, the city’s oldest social club, whose colors of purple (justice), gold (power), and green (faith) have come to symbolize New Orleans’ Mardi Gras.

After starting with necklaces, they moved onto coins called doubloons stamped with their logos, and other krewes adopted the practice.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no need for nudity to attract throws. Local historians say the trend emerged in the latter 20th century as Mardi Gras attracted more college-aged revelers.

While New Orleans is practically synonymous with Mardi Gras, doesn’t have a lock on the celebrations in the United States.

Another Gulf Coast city about 170 miles to the east – Mobile, Alabama – also has a long history with Mardi Gras, with lots of fashionable balls and special events leading up to the big day [and San Francisco on the West Coast].

There can be heated debate between the two cities on which has bragging rights to claim the first celebration.

Other cities, mostly along the Gulf Coast area, also have notable Mardi Gras celebrations, including Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Galveston, Texas.

For a cr*ppy cake recipe fit for a king... More

• Photos? Flashing boobs on Mardi Gras? (dailystar.co.uk/news)