USC is the University of Southern California, a wealthy private college that usually reserves its brutality for the football field and the sworn enemy of neighboring public UCLA, the University of California at Los Angeles (which doesn't ultimately exist as we were recently able to show).
Tick-borne allergy to red meat: alpha-gal syndrome (AGS): A mammalian meat allergy (MMA) [1] is an acquired allergy to the epitope of the carbohydrate molecule galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose ("alpha-gal") [2]. Reactions can be life-threatening and typically either begin rapidly after exposure from intravenous therapy or 2–8 hours after ingesting foods and medicines. Reactions can also occur from skin contact and environmental exposures [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. AGS results from tick bites and, possibly, bites from other parasites [8, 9, 10]. Alpha-gal is present in all foods and ingredients made from slaughtered beef (cow), pork (pig), lamb (sheep), venison (deer), rabbit (rodent), and other mammal sources, including gelatin and milk.
In this Firestarter radio re-upload, Sinead McCarthy covers the level or flat earth, NASA, Freemasonry, Judaism, veganism, kosher slaughter, penile circumcision, Hitler, the Holocaust hoax, "controlled opposition," who really runs this world, and why they have convinced us that we are standing on a spinning ball moving at 1,038 MPH but too weak to throw off its watery surface.
Our eyes tell us one thing, but we are force fed a version of our environment we are not allowed to so much as question. Obey. Close your eyes. Go to sleep. Be quiet! Shut up! Sit on it!
Hey, but seriously, who could possibly believe -- after being bombarded with forced Western education -- that our Earth is flat? Anyone who tries to prove it is a round, spinning ball. Try it.
Zetetic: proceeding by inquiry and investigation; the zetetic method; of or related to an ancient Greek school of philosophy that espoused extreme skepticism [and testing ideas objectively].
It has come to mean believing in or based on the [reproducible evidence] that the earth is a plane and that the sun, moon, and other celestial bodies are only a few thousand [miles] above it. See dictionary.com
Zététique (from Ancient Greek ζητητικός zētētikós, "inquisitive," "keen") is the application of the scientific method when investigating allegedly "paranormal" phenomena [1]. It can often be seen as equivalent to or somewhat different from (scientific) skepticism (French scepticisme (scientifique) and is widely used in the modern skeptical movement in France for self-identification. See en.wikipedia.org
These words are attributed to Einstein: "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty" (A surprisingly Buddhist quote by Albert Einstein. : r/Buddhism).
DMT opens phases of a liquid crystal in our minds?
Scientists just PROVED the past can change! (Be Inspired) "The future already happened."
What if the past isn’t fixed? Scientists have just proven that the future can influence the past (retro-causation), shattering everything we thought we knew about time and reality. From mind-bending quantum experiments to the shocking science of precognition, this video explores the hidden connections between time, consciousness (vijñāna), and the universe.
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Be Inspired, March 2, 2025; Curt Jaimungal, March 10, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
From the CEO’s Desk: From the Beach to Black Rock City and the World in 1986, a small group gathered on Baker Beach for the first burn, not yet imagining what would become Black Rock City.
That initial connection sparked a global culture. Now, with Black Rock City just days away, Marian Goodell shares her thoughts. In the spirit of transparency, Burning Man is keeping it real with the Burner global community.
Please don't dial 911 [at our] screams of pleasure
There aren't really sex ORGIES at Burning Man, are there? No, no, well, I mean, I suppose it depends on how you define "orgy." Are there tents with mattresses inside and naked people horsing around in a Bacchic manner? Well, yeah, sometimes. It depends on the attendees. Anyone can have any kind of tent. Come to our ECSTATIC MEDITATION TENT (jhanic-piti) on the Playa by the smoking dragon structure where "No sex, please; we're Ameboids and Gatchularians" is our motto if it's a non-orgy you want. But if it's an orgy of diversion and hedonistic distractions, keep going to the Orgy Dome.
Come hear the Buddha's "Fire Sermon" or read it below.*
WARNING: Adults only! Orgy in progress.
In days, there will be a gathering of people in the Black Rock Desert, celebrating and putting into practice a culture of creativity, innovation, and connection.
The Burning Man Project has been supporting and encouraging this Burning Man cultural movement since 1986.
Burning Man migrated from the beach in San Francisco, to the Nevada desert and then out into the world.
In 2023, 74,000 people came together in Black Rock City and, incredibly, an additional 95,000 people participated in official Burning Man Regional Events (regionals) around the world.
I didn't mean to cling! I was just curious
Specific to Black Rock City this year, we can’t wait for the Curiouser & Curiouser convening. We expect the metropolis to bring together nearly 70,000 participants, including similar levels of first-time Burners on the Playa as in the past.
Those who are new will discover as they acculturate with the Survival Guide what community—at Burning Man events and in the world—is truly all about:
Let’s remember, we were all newbies once, and with that wide-eyed expression caught up in awe and joy we went on to do more and bigger things. From building a wilderness camping experience in Black Rock City as an experiment in civics to achieving our nonprofit goals, no one said it would be easy.
Tantric sex is better for intimacy in dating.
And the goal remains the same—to make the world better. The key to our collective success is the long-term survival of the Burning Man culture and our continued ability to inspire participation—in Northern Nevada and worldwide.
In this moment of societal division, isolation, and a decline in people connecting, the antidote is more togetherness, mental well-being, and creativity.
On one occasion the Buddha was dwelling in Gaya, at Gaya’s Head, together with 1,000 meditators. There he addressed them: “Meditators, all is burning! And what, meditators, is the 'all' that is burning?
“The eye is burning.
“Forms [visual objects] are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning, and whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition — whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that too is burning.
“Burning with what? Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of delusion; burning with rebirth, aging, and death; with sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair, I say.
“The ear is burning…
“The nose is burning…
“The tongue is burning...
“The body is burning…
“The mind is burning
Maitreya: What is the "all" that is burning?
and whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition — whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — that, too, is burning.
“Burning with what? Burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hatred, with the fire of delusion; burning with rebirth, aging, and death; with sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair, I say.
“Seeing thus, meditators, the instructed noble disciple experiences dispassion [disillusionment, revulsion, letting go] towards the eye, towards forms, towards eye-consciousness, towards eye-contact, towards whatever feeling arises with eye-contact as condition — whether pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant...
Bomjon, the Nepalese boy meditator, perhaps practicing tummo, spontaneously catches on fire.
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“One experiences revulsion towards the ear…towards the mind…towards whatever feeling arises with mind-contact as condition….
“Experiencing revulsion, one becomes dispassionate. Through dispassionone's mind is liberated.
“When it is liberated, there comes the knowledge: ‘It’s liberated.’ One understands, ‘Destroyed is rebirth, the utmost life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, and there is no more [of this to come] for this state of being.’”
This is what the Buddha said. Elated, those meditators delighted in the Blessed One’s statement. And while this discourse was being spoken, the minds of the thousand meditators were liberated from the taints by letting go (nonclinging).
This giant symbolic man will burn. He'll be set on fire. Think of the symbolism! Eh, don't think.
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DANGER: Dust storms may strike. No refunds.
Burning Man culture is more relevant than ever. This is exactly what it offers through art, music, learning, leadership, and civic engagement.
In the early years, annual ticket revenue was sufficient, but it alone does not fund Black Rock City and all the other ways the nonprofit brings Burning Man culture to the world.
Since becoming a nonprofit in 2011, philanthropic support has been increasingly vital. It is even more important today given lower ticket sales to this year’s event.
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It is easy to hypothesize about why we’re in this moment, but let’s not forget that while the movement is vibrant, any culture is impacted by what is happening in broader society. Moods and societal values change, economic forecasts and consumer confidence fluctuates, local, state, and federal laws shift, the weather patterns become unpredictable, and costs rise,
But one thing remains: Our passion and commitment to bringing more Burning Man culture to the world is steadfast. More (COMMENTS)
Aug. 25, 2024: Rain and mud problems
(KCAL) It's last year all over again, when we were trapped in a mud flood of desert rain and slop clay
It might rain and become muddy. Pack accordingly. Bring mud tires and trip insurance.
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Y'know things are bad when ya pray for drought
The desert is an unforgiving place. It's not really that it's hot. That's not what makes it a "desert." What makes it one is temperature extremes. Sure, it's hot in the day and you'll die of dehydration. But in the night, you'll freeze to death and die of predation. Jinn, snakes, coyotes, scorpions, shapeshifters, the wilderness is not the place to be wandering. But if lost, travel by evening or night when it's cooler.
These new oversized mud tires keep me unstuck
If you happen to be driving to a new city in the desert that pops up once a year for a week, bring mud tires, a raincoat, galoshes, boots, and chains to get hauled out of mud and sand traps. Today, Sunday, Aug. 25th, is the first day of Burning Man 2024. Problem. The gates are locked to Black Rock City due to rain. Burners and Newbies must have sensed this when they were buying tickets like previous years. Form a line. Pull a tarp over your art installation. And wait for the water to soak in the ground before driving and getting stuck in the soup like last year.
Why scientists turn to Buddhism: The hidden science in Buddhism
Einstein thinks Buddhism is best for science
(The best Philosophy of Life) UNITED STATES. What is the relationship between Buddhism and science? It is a fascinating study that bridges ancient wisdom and modern knowledge-seeking. Both Buddhism and empirical science strive to understand the true nature of reality, albeit through different methodologies and perspectives. While Buddhism focuses on the inner experiences and transformative practices leading to enlightenment, science relies on empirical evidence and logical reasoning to uncover the laws governing the natural world. Despite these differences, there are significant areas of convergence where Buddhist teachings and scientific discoveries resonate and complement each other.
CHAPTERS
00:39 Buddhism’s philosophical framework
03:59 The scientific method and its contributions
05:01 Points of convergence
08:43 Integrating Buddhism and science
09:45 Conclusion
Buddhism and Science: Collected Essays
It is a historical fact that the scientific revolution that arose in the 17th century in the West was largely responsible for upsetting the earlier religious conception of the universe. Not only did science controvert the specific dogmas of Western religions, but it seemed to have undermined the foundations as well as the fundamental concepts implicit in the religious outlook on things.
The new cosmology of Copernicus, Galileo, and their successors altered the geocentric [earth at the center] picture of the universe although it was pronounced to be “contrary to the Holy Scriptures.” The new biology (theory of evolution) upset the doctrines of the special creation and the fall of man.
And the new psychology seemed to show that the human mind, like the physical body, worked on a pattern of causal law and that however deep one plumbed its depths, there was not discoverable in it an unchanging soul that governed its activities entirely.
EQ, BA (Supawan Green)
But much more serious was the effect of the scientific outlook on the general religious attitude, which involved a belief in a personal God, in purpose, and in the objectivity of moral values.
Science made its discoveries and progressed quite comfortably on the assumption of universal causation without the necessity for teleological explanations [karma and karmic results] or divine intervention. It dealt with an amoral universe indifferent to the aspirations of humans.
As among humans, moral values, like economic values, were subjective since they were dependent on the needs and desires of humans, and an ethical humanism was the best that could be hoped for.
Even such an ethics need not be universal, for as anthropologists discovered, different societies seem to have followed different moral codes that suited them, and ethical relativism was the scientific truth about the nature of moral values. More
#taoism #laotzu #philosophy #Buddhism #Stoicism [Is this AI answering a question or actual writers who can't write at @bestphilosophylife? It sure sounds like AI cobbled this all together.]
Best Philosophy of Life, July 26, 2024; K.N. Jayatilleke, Buddhist Publication Society, Buddhism and Science (Wheel #3); CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(The Comments Section with Brett Cooper) Tell it to Rolling Stone. There was once a time when we kept private information to ourselves, where it belonged. (But Billie Pirate has Tourette's syndrome). After reading a new article about Billie Eilish, I believe we need to return to that time now more than ever. #masturbation #billieeilish #BrettCooper #DailyWire
WARNING: May put ideas in impressionable children's minds like Disney and peers do! Rated Y(?)
I'm better than my old inspiration.
There must be something wrong with us to always like sophomoric El Sensitivo Land music by solo female artists. Maybe it's what the radio plays now and gives all the hype to.
Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift? No, vacuous, pointless, so very self-absorbed; she's just a stripper on stage selling fantasies to nice girls who secretly want to be devious and scandalous like their moms.
The Black version, Beyonce, that's a step up in quality but every bit a product of the Illuminati. (One recent creepy TikTok had a woman eating ice cream explaining that Beyonce was lost long ago, replace by Sasha Fierce, a demonic alter ego who brought Queen B to fame and then stole the show. Now Mrs. Carter is lost, and Sasha wants to invade the country music sphere T-Swift once inhabited.
Rihanna will set everyone straight. Or not.
There's no more Nicki Minaj, replaced by the male demon Roman. What or who has gotten into Taylor? It must have a name, "Legion"? There's a funny video made by Christian preachers condemning her as a fake AF hypocrite selling witchcraft. And as for witchcraft, which promises one everything one could ever want like The Secret and the Laws of Attraction and Vibration, look what it did for talented Bambie Thug and wobbly Billie Eilish, whose album gets released today.
Meeting articulate and self-effacing Olivia on Jimmy Kimmel Live
C'mon, who are we kidding? B loves it.
There's her new anthem to lesbian experimentation, "Lunch" (is Katy Perry mad, pushing the "I Kissed a Girl" idea up a notch to the next level?) released today, where she channels a bisexual Fred Durst. (Who's her retro-stylist?)
Reading a gentleman's magazine as a teen, I remember reading a strange thing. A girl wrote in asking if it was weird that she thought about her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend so much. The Dear Abby style answer said, "It doesn't mean you're a lesbian. It's normal to have these feelings."
But it made me wonder, WTH? Was it ego driving her and millions of high school girls to distraction? Was it attraction? Was it some crazy mix of both? With the way America (a country founded on the Goddess Columbia) raises its children, it's no wonder we have all this gender bending and confusion. Eilish even says, "I don't want to break it [gender], just bend it." *Wink wink*
Does Finneas help write the lyrics, a focus group hired by the record company, or her mom (who is referenced as reading the lyrics in "Bad Guy"). Her mom doesn't like the bad guys but she might like the girls coming over.
Olivia Rodrigo "obsessed" (official)
(Olivia Rodrigo) Premiered March 21, 2024: From the album GUTS (spilled) out now: OliviaRodrigo.lnk.to/GUTSspilled. Shop: OliviaRodrigo.lnk.to/store. Follow Olivia Rodrigo: Instagram: oliviarodrigo, Twitter: oliviarodrigo, TikTok: livbedumb,
Facebook: oliviarodrigoofficial,
Discord: discord.
LYRICS: la-da-da-da, da-da-da
la-da-da-da-da
la-da-da-da, da-da-da
if i told you how much i think about her
you'd think i was in love
and if you knew how much i looked at her pictures
you would think we're best friends
'cause i know her star sign, i know her blood type
i've seen every movie [oh, so she does p] she's been in, and, oh god, she's beautiful and i know you loved her, and i know i'm butthurt
but i can't help it, no i can't help it
There's nothing wrong with my emotions.
i'm so obsessed with your ex (uh-huh)
i know she's been asleep on my side of your bed, and i can feel it
i'm starin' at her like i wanna get hurt
and i remember every detail you have evеr told me, so be careful,
baby
i'm so obsеssed with your ex (ah)
yeah, i'm so obsessed with your ex (ah)
la-da-da-da, da-da-da
she's got those lips, she's got those hips the life of every f*ckin' party
she's talented, she's good with kids
she even speaks kindly about me (ah-ah)
Sing and grow rich!
and i know you love me, and i know it's crazy
but every time you call my name, i think you mistake me for her
you both have moved on, you don't even talk
but i can't help it,
i got issues, i can't help it, baby
i'm so obsessed with your ex
i know she's been asleep on my side of your bed, and i can feel it
i'm starin' at her like i wanna get hurt
and i remember every detail you have ever told me,
so be careful, baby
i'm so obsessed with your ex (ah)
yeah,
i'm so obsessed with your ex (ah)
is she friends with your friends? is she good in bed?
do you think about her? no i'm fine, it doesn't matter, tell me
is she easy-going? never controlling?
well-traveled? well-read? oh god, she makes me so upset
i'm so obsessed with your ex (ah)
she's been asleep on my side of your bed (ah, woah)
i'm so obsessed with your ex (god, she makes me so upset)
i'm so obsessed with your, with your ex.
Meanwhile, in Europe, explicit witchcraft is on the rise: Bambie Thug
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