Jesus? Christianity built on lies and holes

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(Sacred Logic) Six big holes in the Jesus story the Church tried to cover up

(Sacred Logic) Ten historical lies that created Christianity

Well then who wrote the Bible then?

(Sacred Logic) Investigating true history of the Gospels (Bart Ehrman)

Egoless Led Zeppelin (JBLZE) in Hollywood?

JBLZE “Stairway to Heaven” live at LA's Greek Theater, Hollywood, May 23, 2026

The only Led Zeppelin reunion in history

Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day, live at The O2 Arena, London (England 2007)

There is a self, but it's ultimately impersonal.

What is a "band"?* It's a lot like a Buddhist "SELF," a "UCLA" (the American college), or a Greek SHIP of Theseus. It has a name, from which it derives its stable identity, but does it really have anything else for long? It's an illusion.

To demonstrate: I went to a college called UCLA. It doesn't exist. It started as a campus near USC, which is close to the skyline of DTLA/Downtown Los Angeles.

Plant, baby, is there really a "manic" nirvana?

If anyone can grasp these few examples, such a person will understand why the Buddha taught that ultimately speaking, there is no self, no soul, no essence, no abiding consciousness that travels from life to life or stands still here now.

That's impossible to accept. So reject it. Of course there's a self (atta). It's writing right now, and another self is reading right now...in a conventional way of speaking. No one is saying there's not that.

That being the case, WHY would the historical Buddha ever say there wasn't a self? We have to consider that. What is the reason, what did he mean, was he serious?

How does "suffering" come to be? 12 links.

The answer is: It is the unexamined assumption of what this "self" is that keeps us from awakening, keeps us from enlightenment (bodhi), keeps us from liberation (vimutti, moksha). There is something, lots of "things" (dhammas, "phenomena"). Such things arise by a process the Buddha called Dependent Origination (Conditioned Co-Genesis, Mutual Interdependence, this-that-that-this). This is, so that comes to be; when this is not, that does not arise -- as if "this" is not really more than "that."

• Understanding D.O. in one example: What is a "candleflame"? If we break it down, deconstruct it, we find that it is five things. Who cares? Well, it's important because in place of this "self" we all believe in and never question the existence of, the Buddha is going to teach us that what we have been failing to see and penetrate is this very principle of conditioned co-arising or D.O. Okay, then, what five things?

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  Where does suffering go?

  There is (1) wax, (2) wick, (3) heat, (4) oxygen, and (5) a very mysterious process of combustion. (Add to the list or take away, it doesn't really matter for the example to sink in). When these five are in a functionally integrated arrangement, bam, candleflame! Where did it come from? When it goes out, where will it "go" -- east, west, north, south, hell, heaven, the sphere of nothingness, the ground, my neighbor Robby Joiner's yard never to be seen again like all my frisbees? No, the designation does not apply; it is not correct to say the candleflame "goes" here, there, or anywhere. We just say it goes "out." That is to say, when these [factors, conditions, limbs] are present, that [candleflame] arises. When they are not, it is not. Therefore, in a sense one can say that a "candleflame" does not really exist, which is to say it does not exist independent of those factors upon which it utterly depends.

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  A candleflame does not exist.

  Yet, we don't think it is any of those factors. It really seems independent, a new thing that came into being or brought those things (causes and conditions) with it. When does it come into being? When does it manifest what we conventionally call its "being" (beingness) into existence? When the final element (aggregate) is added. Try it. Put together any four of the five elements. There won't be a candleflame. Now, add the fifth. Viola! "Candleflame" arises in the mind -- which is what these five aggregate processes look like. We think it arises in the world, but probably all that was there before is still there now, nothing actually having been added. And when it goes out, one or the other factors (limbs) upon which it depended has been exhausted or removed. Right? Try it. Can we say that, for example, the heat is the candleflame? No, because there's heat everywhere yet there are very few candleflames. Is it the wax? No, because there's a world of wax yet relatively few candleflames.... But when we add the final element, "candleflame" seems to jump into existence. And, of course, it does conventionally speaking. But ultimately speaking, it does no such thing. It doesn't really ever exist, in a manner of speaking. I'll make this point again and again until it clicks what's being said and what is not.

UCLA does not (ultimately) exist. Here's why.

This "UCLA" that I say does not exist, isn't it right over there in Westwood? There sure is something called "UCLA" in Westwood right now. But what was born and originated near USC, other than the name or some transient traditions and a charter or photos, and what things came over from that first place that remain unchanged?

• All of the faculty are different
• All of the students are different
• All of the curricula, books, desks...
• In fact, let's imagine the first place burned down and was completely incinerated, so that nothing, not a brick, not a scrap of the original went from DTLA to the Westside, would we still call it "UCLA"? We sure would! Why? What we identify or imagine to be UCLA is moving from here to there.
• In a century, will there be a "UCLA"? No, but there almost surely will be a college (university) called "UCLA." All the faculty, students, books, lesson plans, and ephemera will be different, but it'll still -- in a sense -- be good ol' UCLA, at least in our minds and on some plot of real estate somewhere in LA.

There is no ship

Is it the same ship or a different ship?

Aside from the example of an empty college, a figment of our consensus reality to call this this and that that, maybe the ancient Ship of Theseus example would better communicate this. A ship sets off for Greece but along the way has to change the sails then the oars then the floorboards then the wheel then, piece by piece, every single piece. Is it still the same ship that arrives in Greece?

Whaddya mean "there's no car?" It's right here!

The nice answer is that it neither is exactly the same ship, but we can't say that it's another. It is, of course, not the same, but to say it's different does violence to our language and what we mean, as Bhikkhu Bodhi pointed out in As It Is. The same with your car. You could take it into the mechanic over and over so many times that they change every single piece. Then is it still the same car? It's your car either way, but not a lick of it remains, not a single piece. But a paper somewhere at the DMV says it's yours, even with a new license plate and engine block number, paint job, glass, carpet, upholstery, gas, oil, screws, everything.

There is no oxcart

There is no such thing as an oxcart.

In the same way, in ancient times, an oxcart. What is it? It is, broadly speaking, five components fitted in a functionally operational way (wheel, axle, body, steering, ox). Add pieces to the definition or take them away, it doesn't matter. But five is easy. Whose oxcart is this? It belongs to Thad. Its wheels are broken. Change them. Axle is broken. Change it. The body is broken. Change it. The steering is shot. Change it. Ox is exhausted. Change it. Now, every part having been changed, what oxcart? That one. Whose oxcart is it? Thad's. Why? It's because in a conventional sense (by our agreement and his delusion) it has been his all along, even though it is completely different. He has no control over it really; he can't keep it from breaking apart. But we still call it his, and we seem to have no trouble identifying it even as every single part gets switched out.

This "SELF," what is it? It is five things (form, feelings, perceptions, formations, consciousness). Whose is it? This one's mine. What do you call it? "Me." Sometimes "I." It's myself, I mean, my self. My soul. My ego. My personality. My atta (Sanskrit atman). My vessel into which I load my store of karma (deeds, doings, intentional acts, or all of my willed actions).

1. By "form" you mean this rapidly deteriorating arrangement of materiality composed of solidity, movement, cohesion, and temperature? That's the one! So this material form, this body (this temporary vessel or vehicle), is actually just Four Great Elements, which are not "elements" as such but rather qualities of materiality, in a sense quanta or quantities of it because all material particles (rupa kalapas) are actually composed of all four elements or dhatus (or maha bhuta) but in differing amounts, so that when solidity is in preponderance, it gets labelled "solid" but still has all of the other features to a lesser degree. This is "you"? No. It is my body, but I am not the body. The body changes, but "I" stay the same forever and ever, the eternal self, the unchanged soul, the essence or core of the ego (psyche), the invisible watcher, holder, and owner of all that stands.
2. Okay, these feelings, that's "you"? Yes, that's me. I'm the feeler. So you're not the feeling? Well, no, not exactly, but feeling-feeler, same thing. Okay, all of them? Which all? You are all pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feelings passing through? Yeah, sort of, I am the feeler.
3. All right then. These perceptions? Yes, I am the perceiver. And you are the perceptions passing through, too? Sure, okay, perception-perceiver, I am the all.
4. And these other mental formations, like these volitions, impulses, motives, intentions (cetanas)? Yes, I am the intender. And the intention? Intention-intender, same thing. I am the all, the owner, the doer, the knower, the experiencer, the controller or the one-who-thinks-he's-in-control.
5. Okay, and this consciousness? Yes, I am consciousness. All of them? "All"? "You" are eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind-consciousnesses? Uh, yes, I am consciousness. And all the consciousnesses passing through conscious experience? Uh, I guess.

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  "Self" as impersonal processes

  Does anyone know why the Buddha called each of these heaps an "aggregate"? It's very important. It is because there are trillions of them, not one form, one feeling, one perception, one formation, one consciousness. At least with the oxcart, it seems like there is one (or more) wheels, axle, one body, one steerer, one ox, and the conglomeration of those forms one oxcart. But with "SELF," there are no such single items. There are aggregations (heaps of rupa kalapas) of material particles, countless numbers of them in every "material" thing, and that's just the body, the form, which has 32 main parts and lots of subsidiary parts, so many that one cannot find it tenable to consider one's "self" this body. So we cling to the other four mental formations as "self." (Yes, we call the fourth heap "mental formations" or sankaras, but the fact is that feelings, perceptions, and consciousnesses are all mental formations, too. The Buddha segregated them into these five for explanatory and insight purposes. As we develop liberating insight into these, we will clearly know-and-see that what we took to be MY feeling was just feeling being felt -- arising, turning, and passing away at all times, hurtling towards destruction, never standing still for even a submoment. The reason a feeling lasts is not because it arises and hangs around for a while then, realizing it's impermanent, it leaves. One feeling arises, turns, passes away, as another almost identical feeling arises, turns, passes away, in succession until this process dies out, at which time "the feeling" which was a heap of feelings passes to be replaced by another kind of feeling. The same is true of the other four aggregates. Science tells us this material body is nothing but a conglomeration of cells, which are molecules, which are atoms, which are quarks and strong-and-weak forces and thingies and whatnots, ever more subtle until they're not even material.

Add ingredients to the definition of "SELF" or take them away, it doesn't matter. The same is true. What we call "self" is not-self. It is impersonal, and radically impermanent, and ultimately disappointing, painful, stressful, incapable of ever fulfilling us.

*What is a "band"?

Meet the future legendary "Mr. Jimmy" [Sakurai] as he shreds on guitar for an adoring crowd

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With John Travolta as Robert Plant

If ANY of this has made sense, let us deal with the problem at hand: What is a "band"? It's a group, an assemblage, an aggregate, a "heap" of four or five basic members. Whose band is it?

(Whoever owns the name, which is just about the only stable thing other than ownership rights of music catalog performed and/or written under that name).

 

What five members (factors)?

Fifth member Pete (Manager Peter Grant) is the best like Fifth Beatle Pete Best

 

So one day four guys and their manager became the New Yardbirds. And they got threatened with a lawsuit, so they became Lead Zeppelin. But Peter Grant, the manager and fifth member, said, "To avoid mispronunciation, let's call the band Led Zeppelin." All agreed. They played, recorded, became famous, and then the drummer had a son and died. End of the story. Led Zeppelin was over. But capitalism and greed being what they are, Led Zeppelin lived on. There was even a reunion of sorts, but they couldn't bring back the dead, so they did the next best thing: They brought in the next of kin, drummer John Bonham's son Jason. It was like having 3.5 of the original four members present. It worked!

It worked so well, that everyone but Jimmy Page or Robert Plant could have quit, and the behemoth could have gone on like the Who, Stones, Chicago, or any other massive rock act has done for years and years until not even a single member of the original band is touring! How is that possible?! Ship of Theseus. Oxcart.

Who am I? There is no me?

What're ya doin in my hole?!

In fact, there's an Early Buddhist or later Chinese Buddhist parable that may illustrate this even better: A man (let's say it's YOU) is walking and falls into a deep hole, at the bottom of which are two ghoulish demons arguing as they prepare some human stew from human limbs strewn all around their gloomy hole. Seeing you fall in, the angry one asks what the h*ll you're doing there and tears your arm off. And the other, just to p*ss off the first, grabs another arm from off the ground and attaches it to your body. It works! You move the fingers. These demonic ghouls have black magic powers. You're elated to get your arm back, which p*sses off the first, who then tears off your other arm. The other grabs another arms, attaches it to you. Again it works, you're elated, and it, being p*ssed off, tears off a leg, which is replaced, a torso with heart and head. Getting all five limbs torn off and others reattaches, you get the heck out of the hole. Who got out? Who went in. All five limbs are still down in the hole, but here "you" are running away. Is it you, is it not you, is it sort of you?

There is no UCLA?

"UCLA" can restart anywhere with anyone.

Is there one "UCLA," many UCLAs, no UCLA? Is this feeling the self, is that perception the self, is this consciousness what dies and is reborn -- or is it all an impersonal ("empty," devoid of self) process just rolling on? And that's all it's ever been? Ask Jason.

Because Jason must have asked all the remaining members of Led Zeppelin, Inc. to join him on tour. But for one reason or another (think ego, clashes, not wanting to ruin the profitable brand, and solo careers), they did not. So he did. Jason did. Jason went on tour.

Is there a Robert Plant? - Now and Zen

The O2 Arena show (called the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert) was in 2007, and on Saturday night, Jason Bonham said he's been doing JBLZE about 16 years or so. That seems to be how long Jason and Co. ("JBLZE," Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening) have been at it. They don't need Page; they have "Mr. Jimmy" (Sakurai) on guitar, and he looks and plays more like Page did back then than Jimmy Page does now.

• Is original Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant a Buddhist or simply a Gypsy mystic with a penchant for writing epic Nordic lyrics? What about Now and Zen and Manic Nirvana?
• Science find a cure for ringing in the ear? Lenire ®: Tinnitus treatment using bimodal neuromodulation

Original Led Zeppelin drummer John's son Jason’s Led Zeppelin Experience Evening “Kashmir” LIVE The Greek Theater Los Angeles Hollywood, California May 23, 2026

Anattā is not a joke or punchline. All things are impersonal and always have been. And so long as we do not realize it (or that they are impermanent and disappointing, too), we will cling. And by clinging, we will suffer. And the way to let go (and stop suffering) is to realize the True Nature of All Things.

We never step into same river twice: Heraclitus

All things are impersonal: anattā

Ven. Nyanatiloka, Buddhist Dictionary of Doctrines and Terms edited by Wisdom Quarterly

What are the Five Aggregates in Buddhism?

THERE IS NO SELF (an-attā, not-atta): "not-self," egolessness, soullessness, the impersonal nature of all phenomena (particularly the Five Aggregates clung to as "self") is the final and most incomprehensible of the Three Universal Characteristics of All Existence (ti-lakkhana).

The anattā doctrine is unheard of throughout the universe, except that a supremely awakened buddha has made it known (or a nonteaching buddha has cultivated up to supreme realization) and thereby opens up an escape from the phenomenal world of endless rebirth and incomprehensible suffering.

This doctrine teaches that neither within body-and-mind (nama-rupa, the bodily and mental phenomena of existence) nor outside of them can there be found anything that in THE ULTIMATE SENSE able to be regarded as a self, soul, self-existing real ego-entity, or any other abiding essence or substance.

This is the central doctrine of Buddhism. Without understanding it, real knowledge of Buddhism is altogether impossible.

It is the only really specific Buddhist doctrine with which the entire structure of the Buddha's Teaching (Dhamma) stands or falls.

All of the remaining Buddhist doctrines may, more or less, be found or hinted at in other philosophical systems, doctrines, or religions. But the anattā-doctrine has been clearly and unreservedly taught only by a buddha.

It is on account of this that the historical Buddha was known as the anattā-vādi, or "Teacher of Impersonality." [He was also called a karma-vadin for emphasizing personal actions and karmic results.]

Whoever has not penetrated the impersonal nature of all existence and does not comprehend that in reality there exists only this continually self-consuming PROCESS of arising, turning, and passing away of bodily-and-mental phenomena and that there is no separate (independent, self-standing) ego-entity in or outside of this process, that person will be unable to understand Buddhism.

That is, that person will be unable to understand the teaching of the Four "Noble" (Enlightening) Truths (sacca) in the correct light. One will instead think that it is:

• one's soul, self, ego, or personality that experiences suffering (dukkha, disappointment, pain, distress),
• one's personality that performs skillful and unskillful deeds (good and evil actions)
• one's soul who will be reborn according to such actions (karma),
• one's personality that will enter into some kind of everlasting heaven, sphere, place, or state the Buddha called "Nirvana" (Pali Nibbāna),
• one's "self" that practices on the Enlightening (Noble) Eightfold Path.

So it is said in The Path of Purification (Vis.M. XVI):

"Mere dukkha [ignorance] exists;

No experiencer of dukkha is found;

Deeds are, but no doer of deeds is there;

Nirvana is, but not one who experiences it;

The Path is, but no traveler on it is seen." More

Get Him to the Greek: smoke Epstein

Penis Diddy, accused rapist Russell Brand, that Jewish guy and Jonah Hill

Rock's future: Japanese Buddhist girls?

(KreciolaTV) Hanabie. LIVE Pol'and'Rock Festival 2025 (full concert)

• Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Do gay FRAT crimes lead to Epstein Island?

(Law&Crime Network) Shirtless, blindfolded fraternity brothers exposed in hazing horror | On the Case with Jesse Weber

To get in this all men's club requires acts of the unspeakable: pledge allegiance to power elite

Jewish ancestry in genes? DNA separation

The Jewish Queen of Porn (documentary)

Not me, you ninny. That Queen of Porn is the Yank named Chelly of Times Square, Manhattan

What were you expecting, you sick pervert?

Have Jews ever controlled Hollywood? It's antisemitic to say so, not because it's not true but just because it sounds suspect to specify religion or ethnicity in anything seedy. Let's just say many Jews Hollywood were there (building an industry). There's another darker side to Hollywood that Jewish entrepreneurs also were near and capitalized on. It's Hollywood adjacent and called NoHo (North Hollywood) in the Valley in Los Angeles on the other side of the hill from the Hollywood sign. It used to be a bedroom community with a high concentration of mostly secular Jews looking for work in the "entertainment industry." It was built from videotape and VCRs and is now an empire. Meanwhile, on the other coast of this mainly bicoastal country, Chelly Wilson had already blazed the trail of Jews in porn.

Queen of the Deuce | official trailer

Gay porn by New York Jewish lesbian

(Greenwich Entertainment) In theaters and on Amazon and Apple TV beginning May 24, 2024. From the late ’60s to the mid-’80s, in the notorious Times Square vicinity known as "The Deuce," Greek-born Jewish lesbian and Porn Queen Chelly Wilsom built a porn cinema empire and a reputation as one of the most savvy, seminal, and enigmatic figures on the scene.

From pre-WW II Greece to her meteoric rise through the Times Square porn circuit in the 1970s, Queen of the Deuce tells the fascinating story of Grandma Chelly, trailblazing entrepreneur and unconventional matriarch, who built an empire based on desire, lust, and profit. Queen of the Deuce greenwichentertainment.com, GreenwichFB, TweetGreenwich, InstaGreenwich

• VIDEO: Demon babies of Jewish masturbation with proud Jewish standup comedian Ari Shaffir reads The Zohar
• Larry Mantle of AirTalk (LAist) FilmWeek (IMDb)

Demon made me masturbate

(HungryGeneration) For any woman struggling with pornography and masturbation (featuring confession by female masturbator Mari Pablo) Ascension presents: What the whole world fails to understand about masturbation by the holy preacher Vlad Savchuk: "Delivered from 40 Years of Pornography Addiction" | Testimony

Not creepy at all Vlad Savchuk: Demons made me masturbate. Set free from pornography and masturbation (HungryGeneration) March 25, 2022: #deliverance #prophecy #healing 📽 Streaming every Sunday and Wednesday. 📺 Join on Zoom: http://hungrygen.com/zoom 📲 Text "HUNGRYGEN" to 97000 to get text alerts of when live.

• Sheldon S., Pf. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Orthodox Easter: Fire Ritual, Jerusalem

Imagine spending Easter in the Holy Land, with all of its ancient spiritual significance!

When is the real Easter? We know the Bible is wrong, probably changed by Constantine at the Council of Nicaea, who created Ceasar's Messiah to rule a pagan empire. The text of the Bible clearly indicates dates have been changed by animals being out to pasture in the winter if Dec. 25th were anyone but Mithra's birthday when the whole world knows the New Year begins in spring with the Eostre the sexy bunny and the colorful mushroom "eggs" in the grass.

LIVE Holy Fire ceremony LIVE | Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem | Middle East

(CNN-News18) Worshippers attend the [Hindu, Baku, Zoroastrian, Yazd-style] Holy Fire ceremony at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Greek Orthodox pope with war criminal Bush

[This is the rock cut-out Tomb of Jesus, where he recovered from his Roman crucifixion torture ordeal on a cross before returning to India/Tibet, where he passed away at 80 and was physically interred in Kashmir in the Himalayan Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir, according to Nicolas Notovitch and many other researchers since then, most notably Holger Kersten.]

Candles and torches from a flame are expected to be carried out by the Greek Orthodox Pope (Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem) as he emerges from Jesus’ tomb.

#middleeast #holyfireceremony #jerusalem

The Buddha on fire worship

Clinging to useless rites and rituals is an impediment to letting go and enlightenment.

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While Diwali (Dipawali), India's ancient Festival of Lights, has many candles and Buddhism itself recognizes the usefulness of candles, incense, and lights in one's spiritual practice, there was a misuse of fire.

At the time of the Buddha there was an ancient custom of worshipping fire or using fire for worship. One day the Buddha met 1,000 yogis, wandering ascetics sporting long dreadlocks. This gave rise to a famous Buddhist sutra called "The Fire Sermon" (Ādittapariyāya Sutta).

Meditators, all is burning. And what is the all?

In it, the Buddha says, "All is burning." But what is the "all" he is referring to? That is the key.

• ALL is burning: the eye, eye-consciousness, contact of the eye with objects, and the sensations that arise (and similarly the other senses). They are aflame with lust, annoyance, ignorance, and the anxieties of birth, decay, death, and so on. Realizing this, the follower of the Ennobling Eightfold Path experiences revulsion (the strong wish to let go) towards them and relinquishes passion for them and thereby ultimately attains supreme freedom.

The Fire Sermon is the third sutra delivered by the Buddha several months after his great awakening, on top of the Gaya Hill, near Gaya, India.

He delivered it to a thousand newly converted wandering ascetics who formerly practiced the sacred fire ritual (Pali aggihutta, Sanskrit agnihotra) [7].

Who would still worship a holy votary fire?

The 5th-century CE post-canonical Pali language commentary called the Sāratthappakāsini thought to have been written by Buddhaghosa, draws a direct connection between the ascetics' prior practices and this discourse's main rhetorical device: fire.

Having led the 1,000 ascetics Gayā's Head, the Buddha reflected, "What kind of Dhamma talk would be suitable for them?"

He then realized, "In the past they worshipped fire morning and evening. I will teach them that the 12 sense bases are burning and blazing. In this way they will be able to attain full awakening and liberation" [8].

The Buddha describes our sense bases and the resultant mental phenomena as "burning" with passion, burning with aversion, burning with delusion and disappointment (dukkha, suffering).

Seeing this, a noble disciple becomes disillusioned, disenchanted with, and dispassionate toward the senses and illusory pleasure one formerly clung to.

Thus one is temporarily liberated from clinging to the sense bases and the mind/heart, in a moment of clarity is able to let go and see the Truth. The Truth sets one free, leading to the achievement of enlightenment. This is described in more detail... [9] More

• CNN-News18, May 4, 2024; Pat Macpherson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit The Fire Sermon

All hail the Easter Bunny (Pagan Jesus?)

Would a bunny, could a bunny meditate with a bunch of chicks? (Bunny Buddhism ☸️)

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The Pagan Jesus? - Apollonius of Tyana

Bunny fertility bait at the Playboy Club (59 pics)
Playboy Bunnies Then and Now (acidcow.com)

(Let's Talk Religion) This episode explores the fascinating life of /the wandering hippie vegetarian sage Apollonius of Tyana, a Neopythagorean philosopher whose life in many ways mirrors that of Jesus Christ. He went to India to study with the Brahmins, the source of Pythagorean theory and gnostic knowledge, casting out demons, raising the dead... #Apollonius #PaganJesus

Sources/Suggested Reading

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  Bunniness (BunnyBuddhism.com)

  Dzielska, Maria (1986). Apollonius of Tyana in Legend and History. L'Erma Di Bretschneider. Kirk, G.S., J.E. Raven & M. Schofield (1983).
• The Presocratic Philosophers. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press. Huffman, Carl A. (ed.) (2017).
• A History of Pythagoreanism. Cambridge University Press.

Support Let's Talk Religion on Patreon (letstalkreligion) or through a one-time donation (paypal.com/paypalme/letst...) Also check out the Let's Talk Religion Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/0ih4sqt... Music by Filip Holm.

Who is Apollonius of Tyana, source of many Jesus of Nazareth myths?.

Apollonius of Tyana

Apollonius of Tyana [\app-puh-lone-ee-us of tee-ann-uh\] (Ancient Greek Ἀπολλώνιος, Arabic بلينس;, Sanskrit अपालुन्य, circa 15–circa 100 AD [2]) was a wandering sage with mystic powers, possibly the source of many of the stories of Jesus of Nazareth.

He was a first-century Greek philosopher and religious leader from the town of Tyana, Cappadocia in Roman Anatolia, who spent his life as a celibate wanderer, traveling and teaching in the Middle East, North Africa (Israel), and South Asia (India).

I raise the dead, learned in India

He is a central figure in Neopythagoreanism and was one of the most famous "miracle workers" of his day.

His exceptional personality and his mystical way of life, which was regarded as exemplary, impressed his contemporaries and had a lasting cultural influence.

Numerous legends surrounding him and accounts of his life are contained in the extensive Life of Apollonius, which collects a large part of the legendary material about his life and work.

A sage bunny wanders and sits in silence.

A large part of the ancient legends of Apollonius consists of numerous reports about miracles that he was said to have performed as a wandering sage (Indian-style shramana) with his lifelong companion Damis. [This is an echo of the Buddha and Ananda.]

He was tried for allegedly having used magic as a means of conspiring against the emperor; after his conviction and subsequent death-penalty, his followers believed he underwent heavenly ascension [3]. Most modern scholars of antiquity agree that Apollonius existed historically [4, 5]. More

"No bunny saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must hop the path. Buddhas only point the way" (BunnyBuddhism.com, Wisdom Quarterly, wandering quote sages)

Easter and the Goddess Ishtar

(RevivalProphecy) This video is a presentation detailing the connection between the worship of the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar and apostate Christian practices, exemplified by the Holy Roman Imperial Catholic observance of "Easter." The so-called Easter worship in nominal (in-name-only) Christianity. It is 100% paganism and 0% true Christian practice.

Happy to see me, Bunny? - Yes, Goddess! You know I am! - Worship me.  - OK, but in secret.

Kirstie Alley (Cheers) was once a Playboy bunny? (eonline.com UK)

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  Do Bunnies with eggs (ova)
  prompt spring fertility fests?

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• Let's Talk Religion, 9/30/22; BunnyBuddhism.com; RevivalProphecy, March 7, 2021; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit "Apollonius of Tyana"