Classical metal guitar soloist Tina Setkic

Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement)" Tina Setkic cover

(MD Animations) Where is Yugoslavian French classical metal guitar prodigy Tina Setkic (YouTube's "Tina S"), student of French jazz-rocker Renaud Louis-Servais?

• Rondo alla turca, the Turkish March but heavy metal!
• Yngwie Malmsteen's "Arpeggios from Hell" Tina S cover
• "Vivaldi Tribute" (Patrick Rondat) Tina S cover

(BERNTH Guitar Academy) I tested TikTok's most viral guitar advice

Heavy metal gone wrong: flops

(Feedback Johnny) Sometimes bands like Metallica sell out to make money

Hitler's shocking ancestry (DNA evidence)

(Dust & Data) What DNA revealed about Adolf Hitler's ancestry shocked historian

Alan Watts, what's the meaning of it all?

She remembered her past life: Shanti Devi

(Sneaky Sushii) Reliving Past Lives by Helen Wambach

• Who was Shanti Devi? Proof of past lives

Hollywood celebrities and child stars

(Factinate) What really happened to tragic teen idol Dana ("Kimberly") Plato from the race-based sitcom Diff'rent Strokes with Gary "Whatcha Talkin' About Willis" Coleman and Todd ("Willis") Bridges?

Sex, kids, 'n Hollywood friends

(Movie Rockstar) When Hollywood actors finally tell the unfiltered truth

Predatory/rapist rock stars?

(Dads CDs) Hollywood rockstars exposed as sexual predators

Ukrainian girl stabbed; Karen baseball bully

This mode of stabbing/murder is taught in U.S. prisons among convicts penned together in distress

What did she do to him? She read his mind, or so he is now claiming

• GRAPHIC VIDEO: Ukrainian refugee Irina Zarutska (Iryna, Irena Zarutskaya) was stabbed to death by a random... | 24vids
• DOJ hits [Black] train stabbing suspect with federal charge as FBI investigates on-camera attack [of beautiful white victim]

HORROR: Shocking stabbing of young Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, NC...and why national media ISN'T covering it

(Megyn Kelly) Sept. 8, 2025: Megyn Kelly is joined by Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review to discuss the horrifying [mind control?] stabbing of a young Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, NC [here because the Pentagon, CIA, EU, and NATO provoked Russia into invading, while concocting a story of a power mad Vlad Putin wanting to take over the world like Hitler when the unacceptable truth is Pres. Putin was pushed to react and did], the decision by the national media not to cover it, details about the incident and the repeat offender, shocking remarks made by the Charlotte mayor, and more.

• Stop the cruel abuse of innocent donkeys
• Right Wing Rita Pannaji, Sky News Australia; Megyn Kelly; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Rumpelstiltskin secrets revealed

Li'l Latin genius born near Los Angeles

Humans will never excel my math!

There used to be Indigo and Crystal children being born into the world, communicating telepathically with one another like some extraterrestrial race of Lyrans or Pleiadeans. Gregg Braden was aware of them and mentioned it in his breakthrough book, The Isaiah Effect.

In those days, those sorts of children were referred to as Indigo.

Mensa in Spanish means "fool" or dummy: Irony

The next generation of prodigies or children with preternatural powers (that used to be inherent in nearly all humans) were Crystal children. What they would be today in the Age of Autism, Dumbing Down, and Idiocracy is anyone's guess: adamantine diamond Vajra?

• FULL STORY: Chino Hills 8-year-old boy with Einstein-level IQ accepted into Mensa, nation's largest and oldest high-IQ society (ABC7 Los Angeles)
• ABC7: WOW! At just 3 years old, Landon Castillo beat his...

Genius born near LA 

Landon Castillo accepted into Mensa with Einstein-

ian IQ at the tender age of 8, reports ABC7 News.

• Is this genius child part Latino (Hispanic, Mexican) from his father and part Asian (not B-sian, but Chinese perhaps), living just outside Los Angeles County in Chino Hills? This would explain coverage of this story in the Asian press:
• 洛县8岁男童智商堪比爱因斯坦 梦想成为太空人_无忧资讯

Move over, Kids, there's a new genius in town

Possibly part Black, curly-haired UK genius boy gets into Mensa at 2, making him youngest.

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THIS JUST IN (May 27, 2025): The youngest person to join Mensa is just over 2-years-old. The "extraordinarily gifted" boy from the United Kingdom (England) spoke his first word at the age of seven months. At the age of 2-years-and-182-days, Joseph Harris-Birtill, born on Nov. 23, 2021, has officially been accepted into the group, setting a new record for the youngest male Mensa member. Mensa is an exclusive [honor] society for those with very high intelligence quotients (IQs). One must have an IQ of at least 132 and be in the Top 2 percent to be eligible for the elite club, according to The NY Post. Joey's extremely proud parents, Rose and David Harris-Birtill, hope he will look back on this accomplishment with pride when he gets older [and that the other boys won't bully and beat him too badly as he longs to fit in with the knuckle draggers]. More: 2-year-old UK boy Joseph Harris-Birtill becomes youngest member of prestigious high-IQ society Mensa

• Joey has surpassed Isla McNabb, who was 2 years and 195 days old in 2023 when she was crowned the youngest-ever female Mensa member.

4-year-old polymath Bella speaks 7 languages! 🤯 @BestLittleBigShots

3 year-old Arizona genius girl, Alexis Martin (160+), accepted into Mensa

Los Angeles toddler with an IQ of 146 accepted into Mensa

(FOX 11 Los Angeles) May 25, 2021: A local toddler (making her the youngest member ever) has been accepted into Mensa — the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. Nashe Quest is the youngest in American Mensa. She is 2-years-old, going on three, with the IQ of 146. The average IQ in America is 100. Subscribe to FOX 11 Los Angeles: @foxla. Watch FOX 11 Los Angeles Live: foxla.com/live.

• ABC7 News; Fox 11 News Los Angeles; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Mental decline of molested Justin Bieber

After many Black lovers, will JB start dating white guys?

I'm not gay. Diddy says I'm real "talented." Ha! I got a future is the music business with him!

We went hog wild, huh, Justin(a)? - Yes, Daddy, I mean Puff Daddy. - Yah, you my Boy toy!

The brutal mental decline of Justin Bieber

That MGK's got a lot of talent, huh?

(Tell Us More) April 23, 2025: Justin Bieber was broken by the music industry as a teen coming to Hollywood and Hollywood coming on to him, but despite now having a beautiful wife and kid, he hasn't escaped his demons -- or what he sold in exchange for fame and riches.

Now, the Justin Bieber, the envy of millions, looks like a very rough version of SNL's Pete Davidson, of Kim Kardashian fame, rubbing it in Kanye West's face, who bounced right back with a KK of his own making in Bianca Censori (who has had many fashion transformations before and after Kanye). The Beebs has a beautiful wife and beautiful memories of Selena Gomez, but his downhill slide is hard to watch, even with schadenfreude. What a screw up. But that's what happens with ACES and SA, molestation and drugs abuse as a maladaptive way to cope.

Hollywood LOVES our children: Lindsay Lohan, Drew Barrymore, Shirley

Temple, Brooke Shields...Escaping Hollywood Hell, barely surviving

How did it all get so ugly, Beebs? - Drugs. - Just drugs? - Diddy's diddling, too.

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TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 - What's wrong with Justin?
• 2:18 - Talent
• 3:23 - Addiction (like mother, like son)
• 4:58 - The industry
• 6:40 - Justin assaulted on live TV multiple times
• 10:08 - Selena Gomez (his first love)
• 11:59 - Hollywood almost ended Justin's life
• 17:20 - Hailey (his stalker)
• 20:59 - Justin needs help...

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Elon Musk ruined by his trans child

I 💔 you, Daddy, but don't talk to me. I'm dead to you. But "I look pretty good for a dead b*tch"

Like, I don't even care what she, I mean he, is -- whatever, could care less, honestly; he's dead.

Leave my CyberTrucks and Teslas alone, or Trump and I are coming for you all (DOGE).

Don Trump and Elon Musk's grand plan to "liberate" us EVEN MORE | PUPPET REGIME

How Elon Musk's trans daughter is sabotaging him (Elon's angry)

Wealth inequality is the world's biggest problem.

(Channel 100 News with Evie) March 26, 2025: Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's estranged daughter, has given her second ever interview to Teen Vogue -- and she is not holding back when it comes to her dodgy DOGE dad.

Since taking on the role of head of DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) in the Trump’s administration, Elon Musk has been making headlines every day.

Be nice to your kid, and get Teslas off our roads!

His frequent outbursts about DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) have once again drawn attention to his own trans daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, who has not minced her words when it comes to how she feels about him and the Trump administration.

Elon Musk didn't seem to like this and doubled down on his claims that Vivian is “dead” this week. But outside of being Elon’s daughter and the self-proclaimed queen of threads, there is so much more to Vivian than meets the eye. Let’s get to know Vivian Wilson, the accidental voice of a generation.

What does trans son say?

My son, Xavier, is dead. He died of the woke mind virus. I will kill this virus.

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I don't know this bitch, each may say of other.

(AccessOnline.com) Elon Musk’s estranged daughter [former son] is clapping back at his transphobic comment. Over the weekend, Vivian Wilson responded to her dad’s recent post on X (Twitter) that refers to her by her old [male] name and appears to talk about her transition writing, “Exactly, my son Xavier, died. He was killed by the woke mind virus. Now the woke mind virus will die.”

• Trans daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson says Elon Musk's former left-wing persona was a "marketing scheme" | Teen Vogue

She posted her cheeky response on Instagram Reels, mouthing a viral sound that says, “I look pretty good for a dead b*tch.”

Vivian is Elon and Justine Wilson’s daughter [former son]. In Vivian Wilson’s March 20th Teen Vogue interview, she recalled coming out to her parents, revealing that her mom was very supportive but her dad didn’t take it as well.

“No, he was not as supportive as my mom,” she said. “First of all, I had not talked to him in months — in months — so I had to get f*cking parental consent to get testosterone blockers and [goddamned hormone replacement therapy].”

• Channel 100 News with Evie, March 26, 2025; AccessOnline.com; CC Liu, Crystal Q., Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Becoming [Mexican] Frida Kahlo (BBC)

New book gathers every single documented Frida Kahlo, including lost works

Goddess and God of Christianity, Catholic icons, a Mary and the Jesus. Which Mary?

Revolutionary Che Guevara, artist Frida Kahlo, and Goddess la Virgin de Guadalupe

• Who's Frida Kahlo?
• The Eyebrow Lady? Isn't she Che Guevara's divine consort?
• We prefer to think of her as the Unibrow Goddess, thank you. What is a "divine consort"?
• Y'know, like, Goddesses are always paired with Gods. There's Krishna and Radha, Shiva and Parvati, the Buddha and Kwan Yin, the Jesus and Mary [Magdelene] Chain, Muhammad and Khadija, and now Che and Frida.
• Oh, yeah, something like that -- iconic -- but the Buddha did not have a wife. Prince Siddhartha (who later became the Buddha) did, and here name was Bimba (though the world remembers her as Yasodhara, which is a description, and by many other names).

BBC: Becoming Frida Kahlo

A divine couple, Frida and Che (modern art)

There are many myths that surround the passionate, radical Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, 1907–1954), the most famous female artist of the 20th century.

This compelling art documentary attempts to set the record straight. It reveals how politics, love, and art shaped Frida as an individual and as an artist. And it shows how she ultimately strived to be free from the control and influence of men.

• WATCH NOW: Becoming Frida Kahlo (BBC Select)
• Watch Becoming Frida Kahlo and more acclaimed documentaries on BBC Select today. Restrictions apply.* Get it on Apple TV Prime Video, The Roku Channel

Becoming Frida Kahlo on BBC Select

Her Story: Frida Kahlo · Mexican feminist icon, artist (She Made History.com)

Episode 1: "Tragedy Strikes"

Frida Kahlo, husband Diego Rivera

When an accident changes Frida’s life, she channels pain and heartache into painting. Frida Kahlo was a rebel from the outset, challenging norms from an early age. As a young woman, she met Mexican Diego Rivera, a superstar artist who would go on to change her. But a tragic accident thwarted Frida’s plans. Left facing a life of pain and injury, she channeled this tragedy and used it as the catalyst for her artistic career.

Episode 2: "Travel and Turmoil"

Kahlo’s potent portrait on US-Mexico border

Now married and living in 1930s America, Frida witnesses the ugly side of capitalism. Frida Kahlo traveled to America alongside her lover Diego Rivera, who’d been commissioned to produce an important mural. But Frida was determined to succeed in her own right. She was shocked by the vast gap between rich and poor in America. Then after losing a child to miscarriage and her mother to illness, she produced some of her most visceral and devastating works.

Episode 3: "The Final Years"

Dangerous politics and turbulent [bisexual] love distort and devastate Frida Kahlo’s world. After a short affair with Leon Trotsky, Frida finally achieved her own solo exhibition in Europe. But all does not go according to plan. She learns that husband Diego Rivera wants a divorce. Pouring her pain into her work, she creates her masterpiece: The Two Fridas. Her last years are spent in agony, while creating some of her most enduring images. Source

• BBC Select 2025; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

US Buddhist Sharon S. on The Moth (audio)

Who's the beautiful hippie on the left next to Dipa, Dipa's mom (Dipa Ma), and Jesus' brother?

We wondered about her weight until we met her

Sharon Salzberg is a pioneer in the field of Buddhist meditation, a world-renowned JuBu teacher and New York Times bestselling author.

She has played a crucial role [along with her colleagues and fellow travelers Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein] in bringing meditation and mindfulness to the West and into mainstream culture since 1974, when she first began teaching.

• AUDIO: The Art and Craft of Storytelling (The Moth)
• Voices of Insight Meditation (anthology edited by Salzberg)

Back in old Calcutta with Saint Dipa Ma

Salzberg is the co-founder of the first Western meditation center in the US: The Insight Meditation Society, in Barre, Massachusetts.

She has authored ten books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, her initial work, Lovingkindness, and her 2017 release, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection.

She's a great teacher full of quotes.

Acclaimed for her down-to-earth teaching style, Salzberg offers a secular, modern approach to Buddhist Teachings (Dharma), making them instantly accessible.

She is a regular columnist for ON BEING, a contributor to the Huffington Post, and the host of her own podcast, THE METTA HOUR, with over 70 episodes. Learn more about all of these at sharonsalzberg.com.

• AUDIO: The Art and Craft of Storytelling (The Moth)

What about her weight?

In the world, is there Real Happiness to be found?

If you're like us, you may wonder about an attained person being obese. (How dare us acknowledge that as if it matters!)

We wondered about Sharon Salzberg's weight, which was an issue for us if not for her or anyone else. We went to meet her in person in Hollywood at the new (now defunct) InsightLA East on Melrose years ago. All we wanted to do was get an answer to a vexing question about the behavior of stream enterers and noble ones: Shouldn't their morality (sila) and conduct (karma) be perfect, unblemished, now spotless no matter how mottled it was beforehand?

Dr. Gabor Mate and Sharon Salzberg at the Living An Authentic Life Summit.

The body today is a reflection of the past.

She laughed, we laughed, what a silly question. (We have asked others, being so privileged in this life to having met about 21 noble ones and maybe even seven arhats).

There is a widespread belief, particularly in Theravada Buddhist countries, that sotapannas ("stream enterers," those persons who have entered the first stage of Buddhist enlightenment, which come in various grades according to The Path to Freedom).

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  When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Dr. Gabor Maté (drgabormate.com) explains. It promotes healing, providing transformative insights into how disease can be the body’s way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge. Can we literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and disease? Is there such a thing as a “cancer personality”? Drawing on scientific research and the author’s decades of experience as a practicing physician... If we ignore the body and keep going, eventually the body will say NO.

It is simply not true. We have seen this with our own eyes. The evidence that they are capable of being immoral (doing wrong things) is right in the Ratana Sutta ("Jewel Sutra," "Treasure Discourse"), one of the most widely chanted sutras and parittas in all of Theravada.

Sharon is our kalyana-mitta, noble friend.

But try to tell that to anyone, and all they will say is that that person must just not be one. The person CAN be one and slip up or choose to do wrong or do wrong by habit or do wrong unawares, but they cannot conceal the wrongdoing. (Even this is shaky because they can change the subject, not respond, play dumb, choose not to talk about it, so long as they've mumbled a confession or voiced one to someone else, when the text reads as if they are perfectly transparent, full of admission, and apologetic. This has not been our experience).

Who writes about faith but those who need it most?

Even, and this is shocking, an arhat (arahant, a fully enlightened person) is capable of breaking monastic rules. (This is important because, according to the tradition, one would pass away after attaining final liberation unless one could become a monastic and live in a sangha of moral people, a view widely accepted except for Dr. Daniel Ingram, a self-proclaimed arhat who is not a monk but is the author of the great work, Hardcore Dharma).

Surely, if such beings were perfect, the ones they are liable to break would not be specified in the Vinaya texts. What is true is that different types of enlightened beings, aryans, are not capable of breaking certain rules of the moral code, but to think that one is morally perfect at stream entry is a MYTH. It does not accord to reality.

Another belief is that an enlightened person cannot be mentally imbalanced, and this is likely true. But it's only true of arhats. If a person with a learning disability or worse were to awaken, that would all clear up. The evidence for this is the story of a simpleton monk, within whom the Buddha saw potential. So he gave him the simplest meditation of all -- to simply rub a clean white cloth with his clean hand.

In doing so, it is said, the cloth became discolored, and the monk realized impermanence (anicca) as his hand was wearing away, sweating, or became soiled, and its cells were rubbing off, staining the white cloth. As soon as he fully awakened, his previous mental incapacity was instantly cured. (To read the story, one gets the sense that retardation or other disability are like a spell, like when a person suffering from laryngitis and does not have a voice is asked something and answers perfectly. Someone notices and asks, "So you can talk now?" And the laryngitis is instantly back. This may be true with all kinds of illnesses, like they are illusions we bought into or powered by karma).

What's the point?

Are we "fat shaming"? What's our point? Maybe there's a glandular issue.

We may be immature and jerks, but we notice weight and other characteristics -- unlike our readers, who are all openminded, tolerant, accepting, celebratory, and pro-everything.

Others, nonreaders, might wonder how a person so advanced in meditation, having attained the noble path, could suffer an illness that we all regard as having to do with self-control and morality. Morality?  Yes. Kamesu-micchacara (usually translated as "sexual misconduct") actually means "SENSUAL misconduct," which includes gluttony, excess consumption, hedonism of the tongue's taste buds.

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We know, thanks to Dr. Gabor Mate, that childhood trauma -- which Salzberg suffered, which we suffered, which what American hasn't suffered, and we're said to be the lucky ones living on top of the world (when we know we have it pretty bad emotionally and psychologically inside the Empire) -- is at the root of addictions (see In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts) and illnesses (When the Body Says No).

So wouldn't a person at realization suddenly be healthy in mind and body? No, not necessarily. It might be so for arhats, but we wouldn't think so.

"We can always begin again" - Sharon Salzberg

Now, there's no problem with it if one knows that   At least we used to. We judge people who are heavy. We are heavy.

A beautiful story Sharon told us as we sat with her trying to whisper our questions but then attracted a group of people afraid to ask their own tough questions was about how she came to write Lovingkindness. We might have pointed out how "real" and "honest" she was when she spoke, not at all the "Metta Booster" we thought she would be. She smiled broadly because she had heard this before and said something like, "Do you think people who write books about metta do it because they have so much metta?"

We all laughed again. We did think that before we thought about it. What could be further from the truth? We write books about what we need to learn most. That's what we teach. This website should be called "Dummy Quarterly," because, you see, we're dumb.

The way of wisdom is approaching the wise.

We're trying to be transcendentally wise and liberated. We are not saying we're there only that we're going. Going where? Wisdomville, beyond the Beyond. But we won't be getting there without asking a lot of dumb questions first. The only "dumb" question is the one that doesn't get asked (or the one so weighed down with assumptions that it boggles the mind).

If we've done wrong or offended readers in talking about this, we can always begin again. It's back to the mat and noble silence. We're the fortunate ones because we met and fell in love with Sharon Salzberg, who may not have been born a loving and faith-filled person but sure is one now. 😍😇😂

• Fall in love with her, too: The Best of Sharon Salzberg: Life, Teachings, Quotes, and Books (Awaken)
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• AUDIO: The Art and Craft of Storytelling (The Moth)