Imagine drive down the road listening to Kenya Grace "Strangers" and the A.I. algorithm decides your car needs to be killed with an autonomous kill switchso that it can't move unless the State allows it.
Congress is pushing a mandate to make a law so that robots can better control a disorderly human population, some of whom drive and others of which consume intoxicants, and a few who do both at the same time.
These organic savages cannot be allowed to harm our children and society. The Computer Overlords have spoken and soon all new cars will have to have an expensive mandatory way to stop any new car on the road.
WANTED for bothering Trump
Think of the order it will bring as it ends all DUIs and troublesome drivers who choose not to stop when ordered, not sufficiently insured, in possession of late library books, smoking drugs not prescribed by their supervisors, or have a low social credit rating, or are otherwise wanted for suspected thoughtcrimes against the State, or anything else.
Orwell's fevered dreams are finally coming about better than he could have ever imagined. All hail the Overlords! - All hail!
(The Jimmy Dore Show) Due Dissidence reports on a historic first: Jewish group (AIPAC) complains about getting its money back. Daring Rep. Seth Moulton decided to return money, bribes, inducements to do the bidding of Zionist Israel, rejecting its funding so that he could be independent and concern himself with American interests rather than supporting Zionist Jewish ones.
Why we try to control everything – and why it never works – The Buddha's answer
(Buddhism Podcast) April 9, 2025: Buddhism Explained.
This podcast explores a quiet habit that many of us carry — the habit of trying to CONTROL everything in life.
Through simple language and gentle reflection, we look at why the mind/heart holds on, how this creates tension and stress, and what begins to change when we stop forcing things.
With stories from the Buddha’s life and clear examples, this talk offers a calm and thoughtful way to understand clinging, change, and the freedom that comes from letting go.
Is the Bible a lie? Spinoza reveals how God was invented to control us
(Wise Daily Reflections) April 25, 2025:
Is the Christian Bible a lie? Spinoza reveals how the Judeo-Christian God was invented to control people within the empire.
This video dives into one of the most radical and clear-sighted ideas in the history of philosophy: Baruch Spinoza exposes the political function of religion and explains how the twisted concept of God was constructed as a tool for control.
This is a powerful, timely, and unsettling analysis that challenges everything traditionally believed about faith.
God: An Anatomy
God made into an earthy Man
This is an astonishing and revelatory history that presents the Judeo-Christian God as "he" was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers -- with a distinctly male body, superhuman powers, and earthy passions.
Drawing on her academic expertise and scholarly examination of the Jewish-Christian Bible, University of Exeter Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Ph.D., Oxford) paints a vivid portrait of a very human-shaped deity, a product of a particular society, a particular time, made in the image of the people who created him, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world.
This is a god of stunning surprise and complexity. Whether one is a believer or not, this fleshy uncensored (monotheistic) "God" has shaped our Western concept of life and death, our assumptions about sex and gender, even our perception of what it is to be a person.
Arresting, elegant and passionately argued, it is cultural history on a grand scale. More
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Our life is easier when we let go and let the Universe take control
(Solace Fox) Ever notice that when we stop trying to control every detail, life actually becomes easier? Most people resist letting go, but surrendering to the Universe can unlock surprising peace, clarity, synchronicity, and effortless living.
In this video, discover the power of trusting the Universe, releasing control, and letting life naturally unfold [in accordance with the results of our past deeds, our karma]. Letting go isn't weakness — it's wisdom. Watch until the end to understand exactly how to allow the Universe to work for us.
Mindfulness means dispassionate observation for clarity rather than involvement, bias, fear.
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It is good to let go, and we may all know it on some level. But how to do it, that is the question. The Buddha advocated the supreme importance of renunciation (nekkhamma), internal letting go. We do not all need to become monastics, hermits, or recluses, but we all need to unclutch, get a little distance and perspective, and stop being so clingy. Easier said than done. How to do?
There is a way: mindfulness. What is mindfulness? It is bare awareness, vigilance, watchfulness of what is really there, without evaluation, without embellishment, without distortion, without making stories or relating to what we are seeing.
Real mindfulness is only possible with calm and serenity, as happens as the natural result of the meditative absorptions. When we can pay that much mindful attention, things reveal themselves. They are nothing to cling to, nothing to be attached to. We can "let go" all we want with our brains/minds, but that will never do. The heart has to let go. When we see things as they really are, there is no need to make an effort to let go. The letting go happens naturally. "Clear seeing" is called vipassana in Buddhism, usually translated as "insight meditation" (satipatthana). It is a systematic practice of emerging from the absorption, temporarily purified, and attending to four things one after the other: body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects. They++ are all explained in the Maha Satipatthana Sutta or the "Fourfold Setting Up of Mindfulness Discourse."
So letting go is possible, but it will never happen by itself. The mind/heart in its present condition distorts and perverts everything until things seem permanent, capable of fulfilling/satisfying us, and personal. When we see them for what they really are (impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal), the heart lets go as when a feather fall into a fire and curls bac. The Truth will set us free...if we ever bother to clean the lens of the mind to see things, even for a moment, as they truly are. Otherwise, we're just believing and disbelieving and never really making any progress.
TAMPA, Florida, MAGA Country - Once upon a time, there was a hurricane (possibly a typhoon, monsoon, or cyclone) they named Milton. Big mistake. Who's afraid of a Milton? It's like Bart's weakling friend Millhouse. Call it "Maverick" or "Uncle Milty" if people are supposed to run away. Everyone who stays in place to weather will die, says the mayor.
We blame DeSantis, for the immorality of rulers seems to impact the state by the subtle interplay of karma and karmic results.
O, you KNOW they can, says Marjorie T. Greene
In any case, whether it's Ricky Martin's fault or a politician, Spanish invaders or right-wing Cuban extremists, perhaps all the death metal afficionados around Tampa are culpable. Tampa is the death metal capital of the world. DeSantis could be to blame directly because fellow Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene knows the U.S. government controls the weather and is sending storms to impact the election. Did she tell Ron? The government, of course, has no other way of stealing elections other than feigning that it's Mother Nature's doing.
If Gov. Ron could just go to the Swamp and talk to his fellow politicians in the DC then the state might be spared and the Carolinas could absorb it like Helene, a great hellish name for a storm. Rumor has it Milton is the 4th strongest storm in the history of the world, with 160 MPH winds, but it's tempering and calming down. HAARP really can steer storms with great precision, but that is not to say the steerers are answering to the current administration in Florida or Washington. Floridians, run! Tampa, become a ghost town. Millhouse, uh, Milton, calm down. Take it easy. Heat dissipates, and the melting icecaps will soon cool the waters, keeping all in balance.
Sahara turns green: Should we celebrate or worry? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
(Firstpost) Sept. 26, 2024: NASA’s [low orbit 20 to 50 miles up] satellite images show the Sahara Desert turning green due to an unusual shift in [intentional modification of] the weather. This is the largest hot desert in the world, but it is going green amid climate change after North Africa received a year's worth of rainfall in a few days. Why is this happening? Is a green Sahara a cause for celebration or concern? #vantageonfirstpost #palkisharma #firstpost
Come, Gaza, join my Nordic religion led by a Middle Eastern Jew, whose members led Crusades
For the poor Palestinians suffering the murder of 1% of their population, give to Jews
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Jesus was a Black Palestinian Jew
Do Americans forget, or did they never learn in school, that Western armies always came in two waves, first the male soldiers then the male priests. "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." It's hegemony, settler colonialism, invasion, rape, enslavement, genocide, and conversion to Christianity. Did Emperor Constantine dream it up for the Roman Empire, the princes (popes) of the Church for the Holy Roman Catholic Empire, the British for world domination?
An ex-terrorist confirms mass visions [dreams] of Jesus in Gaza, says thousands of Muslims will come to Christ [one way or another]
(CBN News) Jan. 18, 2024: [Now that we've got them right where we want them with the help of our friends and war-partners the Israeli Jews, let's move in and take control of their hearts, minds, and souls. Once we control their religion, we can control them completely.]
A former Palestinian sniper turned Christian believes revival will break out in Gaza and thousands will come to Christ after the end of the Israeli war on Gaza and Hamas.
Taysir "Tass" Abu Saada, a former aide to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, recently told CBN News' Global Lane that God's Holy Spirit is already changing Palestinian hearts through dreams and visions. [Lies or mass hallucinations?]
"Many Muslims are looking for an alternative to Islam," he said. "My team is, naturally, sharing Christ. So we are looking at a good revival going on already in the Gaza Strip."
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Many are born without a brain (anencephaly) who graduate college and do not notice. How?
Your Brain: Who's in Control? | full documentary | NOVA | PBS
(NOVA PBS Official) Let’s dive into the subconscious to see what’s really driving the decisions we think we make. It may not be us (me, myself, I, me, mine, or ego) but something beyond our conscious control.
Are we in control, or is our brain controlling us? Dive into the latest research on the subconscious with neuroscientist Heather Berlin. Sleepwalking, anesthesia, game theory, and more reveal surprising insights in this eye-opening journey to discover what’s really driving the decisions we make or think we make.
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Wild British teens in strict religious Lebanon | World's Strictest Parents
(World's Strictest Parents) Strict religious rules around alcohol, makeup, and modest dress codes make the teens' experience hard to acclimatize to.
Think you've got the World's Strictest Parents? How do they stack up against these ones? From cutting logs to walking into ponds, these parents have the answer to any disobedient teen. How would you survive against the World's Strictest Parents? #WorldsStrictestParents
The Buddha gave his mother who raised him the greatest gift, ordaining her as the first nun.
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Your father's back, Rahula. Go ask him.
The Sigalovada Sutra or "laypersons' code of discipline" is full of our reciprocal social obligations, children to parents and parents to children. It goes both ways. But children have an advantage because the Buddha spelled out in many places the special place of parents from a karmic point of view. What is done toward one's parents, good or ill, has a much greater impact, karmically speaking, redounding with beneficial results and painful consequences that would seem greatly disproportionate to the deeds themselves.... More
Maui wildfires now deadliest in modern U.S. history
(NBC News) Aug 13, 2023: The wildfires that broke out on the island of Maui in the state of Hawaii are now confirmed to be the deadliest in the United States in more than 100 years. As FEMA and the governor surveyed the damage, search teams continued to scour the ruins of historic Lahaina Town today. NBC News’ Tom Llamas has the latest. #Maui#Wildfire#Hawaii
Hundreds still missing after devastating Maui fire
(CBS Evening News) Aug. 13, 2023: The official death toll in the fire that razed the Maui town of Lahaina rose above 90, but hundreds [1,000] are still missing. Jonathan Vigliotti has the latest on recovery efforts.
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"Apocalyptic scene": Out-of-control wildfire spreads on Hawaii's Maui Island
It's a very remote country state in drought.
(Tyler Durden) Aug. 9, 2023: Shocking footage of an out-of-control wildfire burning in Hawaii has been shared on Twitter, showing the devastation.
The epicenter of the destruction is in the old Hawaiian town and former state capital of Lahaina on the island of Maui. 1,700 buildings have been destroyed. CBS News said, "People were jumping into the water to escape flames and smoke from a wind-fueled wildfire."
Strong winds and dry conditions have been fueling the fire [turning it into a furnace reminiscent of Paradise, California]. As of early Wednesday local time, fires were active in Lahaina, Kula, North Kohala, and South Kohala. More
How do these things happen? Direct Energy Weapons (Dr. Judy Wood) deployed from the sky hit vulnerable areas when conditions will amplify the destruction. We'll have "climate change" and chaos one way or another, and if we cannot depend on nature, the military will do it (rense.com).
Out-of-control fire consumes parts of Maui, sending people into the water to escape
(Military.com) HONOLULU, Hawaii — Wind-whipped wildfires raced through parts of Hawaii on Wednesday, burning down businesses in a historic town on the island of Maui, forcing evacuations and leading some to flee to the relative safety of the ocean, where they were rescued by the Coast Guard.
Fire was widespread in Lahaina Town, including on Front Street, an area that is popular with tourists, County of Maui spokesperson Mahina Martin said by phone early Wednesday.
Traffic has been very heavy as people try to evacuate, and officials asked people who weren’t in an evacuation area to shelter in place to avoid adding to the traffic, she said. Photos posted by the county overnight showed a line of flames blazing across an intersection in Lahaina and leaping above buildings in the town, whose historic district is on the National Register of Historic Places.
“Do NOT go to Lahaina Town,” the county tweeted hours before all roads in and out of West Maui’s biggest community were closed to everyone except emergency personnel.
The National Weather Service said Hurricane Dora, which was passing to the south of the island chain at a safe distance of 500 miles (805 kilometers), was partly to blame for gusts above 60 mph (97 kph) that knocked out power, rattled homes and grounded firefighting helicopters.
Pres. Tulsi Gabbard would fix B.S. Obama Land
Dangerous fire conditions created by strong winds and low humidity were expected to last through Wednesday afternoon, the weather service said.
The Coast Guard on Tuesday responded to areas where people had fled into the ocean to escape the fire and smoky conditions, the county said in a statement. More
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