(Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris) Ritual Jewish child sexual abuse scandal rocks Israel with Vanessa Beeley | Will Syrian "terrorists" invade? No, not my chosen people! Not in my country and soon-to-be Middle Eastern Empire of "Greater Israel." America, maybe, but not Holy Eretz Yisrael HaShlema (ארץ ישראל השלמה). Israel First! Shalom.
RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network) is an American nonprofit anti-sexual assaultorganization, the largest in the USA [4].
RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, as well as the Department of Defense (Trump's new Department of War) Safe Helpline, and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault, help survivors of sexual crimes, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice through victim services, public education, public policy, and consulting services [5].
RAINN was founded in 1994 by Jewish American Scott Berkowitz, with initial funding from The Atlantic Group and Warner Music Group [6].
Tori Amos was the organization's first spokesperson [7, 8, 9]. Christina Ricci has been the national spokes-person since April 25, 2007 [10], and she is a member of its National Leadership Council [11, 12]. More
(The People's Voice on rumble.com) The Israeli judge investigating Bib Netanyahu's adrenochrome [from tortured children's blood with human organ harvesting, possibly from Palestinians] links found dead:
An Israeli judge investigating Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (aka CIA asset or agent "Ben Netay") on a raft of disturbing crimes -- including corruption and his role in a global human organ harvesting and an international adrenochrome ring -- has been found dead in suspicious circumstances.
Police say that Judge Benny Sagi, president of Israel’s Beersheba District Court, was killed in a traffic accident on Route 6 when a vehicle that had been driving off-road entered the highway and collided with Sagi’s motorcycle. More
If Buddhism has no God, who are Buddhists praying to?
(Buddha's Wisdom) 🔍 IF THERE'S NO BUDDHIST GOD, WHO GETS ALL THESE PRAYERS?
The Buddha with gods Sakka and Brahma
Buddhism famously teaches that there is no "creator God." Yet, Buddhist temples across Asia overflow with [what sounds like] prayers, chants, offerings, and devotion.
From bodhisattvas and buddhas to spirits, protectors, and ancestors, this video explores whom Buddhists are actually praying to—if anyone—and why [petitionary] prayer never disappeared from Buddhism.
Discover how Buddhist "prayer" works in the absence of a supreme deity and why this "godless" religion created one of the most elaborate spiritual support systems ever conceived.
[NOTE: Theists are sure there's a God; atheists are sure there is not; agnostics say they do not know and remain on the fence. But nontheists are different. They say, "Whether there is a God or is not a God, we must still concern ourselves with our own enlightenment and liberation/salvation." No one else, not even "God," can do it for us. We must develop calm and insight, study and practice, to awaken from this illusory samsara or Wheel of Suffering and Rebirth.]
DISCOVER:
Why Buddhism rejected [an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent] creator God but preserved devotion
Why [Mahayana] Buddhism has multiple buddhas instead of one God...and what each one specializes in
The bodhisattvas who postponed enlightenment just to help all living beings (and millions pray to them daily)
The terrifying wrathful protectors (guardian deities) who guard Buddhism with fangs and flames
How Buddhism absorbed local spirits, gods, and ancestors without losing its core philosophy
Why the three Buddhist schools (Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna) solve this paradox differently
How this ancient system still explains modern meditation, ritual, and faith
📿 If this changed understanding of Buddhist devotion, subscribe to Buddha's Wisdom for more deep explorations into Buddhism's most fascinating mysteries and apparent contradictions.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 If Buddhism has no God
01:31 The core confusion: No God yet prayer everywhere
06:50 Chapter 1: The Buddha specialists (Shakyamuni, Amitābha, Medicine Buddha, Guanyin)
14:55 Chapter 2: The Bodhisattva Help Desk—compassion incarnate
21:53 Chapter 3: Protectors, Gods, and spiritual security
27:40 Chapter 4: Where Buddhism meets local spirits and ancestors
34:48 Chapter 5: Human bridges—the power of dead masters
41:48 Chapter 6: Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna Buddhism — three different solutions
50:12 Chapter 7: How all the layers work together
54:45 Chapter 8: Why this still matters today
56:17 What 'prayer' really cultivates
📚 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
Primary Buddhist texts:
The Pāli canon (Tipiṭaka) - the Buddha's final words on self-reliance
Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra) - foundation of bodhisattva devotion
Pure Land Sutras (Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtras) - Amitābha Buddha and rebirth in [his western] Pure Land
Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thödol) - death and intermediate states between lifetimes
Platform Sutra - Zen Buddhism's approach to "sudden enlightenment"
Scholarly resources:
Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
The Bodhisattva Ideal in Buddhism by Sangharakshita
Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations by Paul Williams
Tantric Buddhism in East Asia by Richard Payne
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism by Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Popular Buddhism in Sri Lanka by Michael Ames (folk religion integration)
The Cult of the Book of the Dead in Tibet by Bryan J. Cuevas
Academic articles:
"The Concept of the Bodhisattva in Early Buddhism" - Buddhist Studies Review
"Wrathful Deities in Vajrayana Buddhism" - Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
"Pure Land Buddhism in China" - Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Historical context:
The Buddhist Conquest of China by Erik Zürcher (syncretism examples)
Buddhism and Society in Thailand by Tambiah (spirit house integration)
Dark skinned Middle Easterner (Northern African) with intense eyes like Dr. Hillman explains
Who dares question ancient written scripture?
(Freely) Hollywood Mel Gibson: With its 88 books, the "Ethiopian Bible describes Jesus in incredible detail" -- and it's not what we [have been taught by the official Church to] think! The Book of Enoch openly talks about extraterrestrials, realms, UFOs, and visitations/abductions, but Catholics and Protestants are not able to read or believe it. The Ascension of Isaiah... The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was made invisible to the West and its imperial Christianity run to serve empire.
(Ud 3.1) Thus have I heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove at the multimillionaire's monastery.
At that time a certain Buddhist monk was sitting close to the Buddha, legs crossed, with body straight.
As a result (vipaka) of past deeds (karma), he suffered painful, sharp, severe, and acute feelings, which he endured unbothered, mindfully with clear comprehension.
(BAUS Chuang Yen Monastery) June 27, 2022: In this Dharma talk, Bhikkhu Bodhi discusses The Numerical Discourses (Anguttara Nikaya) AN 4.233-238, a series of sutras in which the historical Buddha explains the four kinds of karma (kamma, deed, action):
dark karma with dark result
bright karma with bright result
dark-and-bright karma with dark-and-bright result
karma that is neither dark nor bright with neither-dark-nor-bright result or the karma that leads to the ending of karma.
Bhikkhu Bodhi (BAUS, Carmel, New York, 6/18/22); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
Satirical news site The Onion (theonion.com) has won the bidding to acquire the assets of Alex Jones' Infowars, with the support of Sandy Hook [false flag] families. The site unironically acquired Infowars after their auction bid was selected by the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee overseeing the Free Speech Systems bankruptcy proceedings.
Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the USA, will be the exclusive launch advertiser for the site in the new venture.
The Onion's goal in acquiring the site was "to end Infowars' relentless barrage of disinformation [and/or misinformation] for the sake of selling supplements and replace it with The Onion's relentless barrage of humor for good," the company said in a press release.
Financial details of the bid were not disclosed. The publication plans to launch the new platform in January 2025.
"The Onion has a long history of helping the American public navigate some of the most difficult moments in American life, from our historic issue after 9/11 to our groundbreaking reportage after every American mass shooting. In that tradition, we hope the Sandy Hook families will be able to marvel at the cosmic joke we will soon make of InfoWars.com," said The Onion's CEO Ben Collins.
Trump’s team wants the case dismissed completely, and the prosecution says it needs time to evaluate the next steps now that Trump has been re-elected.
The court has granted them a week's delay to provide their position.
In a letter to Judge Juan Merchan [who doesn't want to lose his pension or job], prosecutors said they agreed with Trump's request for a stay to consider how to proceed given his new status as president-elect.
"The People agree that these are unprecedented circumstances and that the arguments raised by defense counsel in correspondence to the People on Friday require careful consideration to ensure that any further steps in this proceeding appropriately balance the competing interests of (1) a jury verdict of guilt following trial that has the presumption of regularity; and (2) the Office of the President," prosecutor Matthew Colangelo wrote in a letter to the judge.
The rich don't go to prison. This is the USA
“Accordingly, the People respectfully request that the Court adjourn the upcoming scheduled dates to afford the People time to assess these recent developments, and set November 19. 2024 as a deadline for the People to advise the Court regarding our view of appropriate steps," he added.
Trump had been tentatively scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26. Trump was convicted in May on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. He has denied any wrongdoing.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
Jon Stewart reacts to the Trump-Biden debate and Kosta tackles SCOTUS bribes | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show)
June 29, 2024: Jon Stewart weighs in on the first presidential debate, including the media's countdown to the event, Biden's senile senior moments, and Trump's calm demeanor but blatant lies. Michael Kosta handles the release of WikiLeaks's founder Julian Assange, SCOTUS now being able to accept "tips" (bribes), and famous conspiracy theorist Alex Jones losing Infowars. #DailyShow #Comedy #JonStewart
My Dad made me a lesbian questioning her identity, while my Mother just stood by.
Does the Christian God of the Bible send gay people to hell?
Silk mylk's marketed to?
(Bible Animations) The God Jehovah (YHWH, Yahweh, Asherah's husband) hates gays, right? Homosexuality is an "abomination" to the almighty. We all know that. But that was the old Christianity. What's the new spin in the age of LGBTQIA+ rights? Same old gay hatred but using nicer and more inclusive words and pronouns? Do we let lesbianism and bisexuality slide but condemn male homosexuality, unless it's child molestation in which case we give fathers and priests (both patriarchs, who are the foundation of our Patriarchy) a big pass? Right, Padre? Right, Pope? Catholics have much to answer for in this respect, whereas Protestants mainly molest their own children rather than their neighbor's kids, right, relative to non-incest cases, when Mormons and all sects are added up.
TIMESTAMPS
0:12 - Is Being Gay a Sin?
1:47 - What is the outcome for those who act on their homosexuality?
2:01 - What does God think of gay people?
2:49 - What do good Christians think of gay people?
3:34 - Why do Christians care about the gay marriage debate?
Got any tough topics to have covered or answered the Bible Animation way? Send a comment.
Sub Count: 7,475
#homosexuality#pridemonth#jesus
What about Buddhism?
Buddhism loves gays. Which is not to say that all Buddhists do. Buddhists are not told to hate gays or homosexuality. But the patriarchs (apart from the Japanese Zen ones and others who practiced or advocated pederasty, a kind of homosexual child molestation made famous by the ancient Greeks and, it would seem, the Muslim Pashtuns in Afghanistan) seem to love them.
Ancient scholar-monks may have been less favorably disposed to any non-normative "gay" practices, particularly cross-dressing, which in many countries around the world was a stoning offense. The wrinkle is that "homosexual" is not actually a perfectly defined term. It is, and just ask any gay person or social science buff, a social construct.
That means it is socially constructed by implicit bias and made into a consensus reality. Once it gets to that point, it seems like a natural category and we say and honestly believe that "everybody knows what it means."
But this is just not true. There is no fixed definition of "gay," even now. Do an experiment. Ask around. Go to Brazil or an American prison and ask them what "gay" means. The answer may shock you until you realize that the self-serving definition they're using is pretty popular around the world and throughout history. It may even make one wonder what definition one has been using all this time.
Isn't effeminate behavior "gay"? No, of course not. One can lisp, droop the wrists, talk in a high-pitched, whining, or singsongy way all one wants. That doesn't make one "gay." It may earn them the title. But surely homosexuality has to do with sexual behavior and desire, not one's choice of wardrobe. But because we cannot see their internal states or past conduct, we simply infer it.
What is "gay" in Brazil, parts of Europe such as Greece, and in American prisons? Making love to men? Nope. (Huh?!) Getting aroused by males and their openings and then raping them? Nope. (Say what?!) Wanting to be with a member of the same sex in a sexual way to satisfy some sexual urge? Nope. (You gotta be kidding!) A man knowing another man biblically? Nope. (Goddammit, that must be it?!) A male placing his aroused sexual organ into another male -- by force, trickery, implied threat, or financial compulsion -- with the intent of sexual pleasure that consummates in a futile procreative act? Nope. (Aw, you gotta be kidding?!)
"Gay" in Greece and some other parts of Europe, Brazil and many parts of Latin America, and throughout the American prison system means, get this, "being on the bottom." What?? Being the receptive partner makes one "gay" or developing feelings of attachment and puppy love or going about acting weak, receptive, effeminate, or insufficiently masculine and tough?
For example, in Brazil, go to the beach where all the beautiful people are, with stunningly attractive women are wearing bikinis and showing off their Brazilian hair removal, and ask the men hitting on them if they also want to have sex with males and boys walking around the beach. They're likely to say yes, in this way showing off their masculinity or machismo. Now ask if they want males having sex with them, and the answer is likely to be disbelief or something like, "What do you think I am, a 'gay'?"
But you just said you want to have sex with guys. "Yeah," they will explain, "but I want to be on top." This means they want to be aroused, active, and have agency, which will make them -- by this popular definition of "gay" -- perfectly "straight." In fact, ask the women, and they are likely to agree that only receivers are "gay," whereas as givers are even more "macho" for being indiscriminate sodomites, rapists, molesters, and virile givers.
It's the same in prison, where everything is perverted and topsy turvy in distinction to the world and mores outside the prison. The same in Greece. It's almost certainly the same in some parts of Afghanistan where foreign Pashtuns have settled and brought their own mores and ideas. See the practice that horrified American soldiers fighting for capitalism and world domination during the 20-year US War on Afghanistan called sex with "dancing lady boys" (bacha bazi) or "boy play."
There are girls they could be molesting, but they prefer to trick, force, or hire boys to dress as girls and then be passed around by normatively "heterosexual" men whose wives and daughters are home as they drink, sing, and have a gay night out with the boys (their peers) and their victims.
If we say "bitch" or "punk" in prison and subsequently in the ghetto, barrio, and machine shop or blue-collar workplace where whites on parole congregate, these terms do not refer to females so much as "weak" males, victims, receivers, prostitutes, gays, and those who were sexually abused or about to be sexually assaulted by "straight" gay manly men.
Therefore, as in ancient times, the Buddhist scholars, particularly the most famous one of all named Buddhaghosa (the "ghost or voice of the Buddha") wrestled with the catchall term pandaka. In a kind way we could translate this strange term as "pansexual," but the traditional rendering has been more akin to "pervert." And one did not need to be "gay" to be labeled one.
"Gay" as we have been using the term to far has the functional definition, for this purpose and saying nothing about its changing nature and definition, of a member of one biological sex (XX or XY or an anomaly such as an intersex or hermaphroditic individual)
Bible Animations, June 17, 2023; CC Liu, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Stormy details sex with Trump, Jimmy mentioned again, and Republican Puppy and Pony Killer Noem's disastrous book
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 7, 2024: Today the prosecution called Stormy "Honeybunch" Daniels to the stand in Trump’s criminal financial fraud (a.k.a. hush money payment) case, Jimmy was mentioned AGAIN in reference to an interview she did on his show to talk about Trump's penis, she revealed some details about her sexual encounter with Trump, after hearing the first half of her testimony he took to his X-knock off "Truth Social" begging for a mistrial, after making a huge deal about missing his son Barron’s graduation, Don John T. is set to headline an event in Minnesota, dog killer Governor Kristi Noem is now distancing herself from her own autobiography after admitting to shooting her puppy, horses, goat, and lying about meeting Kim Jong Un, the Met Gala took place in New York last night, and the monologue gets interrupted by a man named Von SchitzInPantz (Shits in Pants), who bares the same name that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen came up with for Trump. #Kimmel
Count Flatula Trump’s big mouth could land him in jail, Republican puppy killer Kristi Noem lies about meeting Kim Jong Un
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 6, 2024: Guillermo was at the roast of Tom Brady, in NY the judge in the criminal trial found Trump to be in contempt for violating the terms of his gag order again, he is threatening to throw Trump in jail if he doesn’t stop talking about the case, Trump’s alleged former mistress Karen McDougal posted a picture of the book Catch and Kill from her bathtub, potential Trump VP and puppy killer Kristi Noem has a book coming out tomorrow where she lies about meeting North Korea's secretive leader.
Trump caught ‘cursing audibly’ during Stormy testimony
(MSNBC) May 7, 2024: In a private sidebar, Judge Merchan told Trump’s defense attorney that Trump was cursing and shaking his head during direct examination of Stormy Daniels. “It has the potential to intimidate the witness,” the judge said. Chris Hayes, Harry Litman, and Lisa Rubin discuss. #Trump #judge #hushmoney
Seth Meyers tries to summarize trial: penis testimony, Trump farting himself awake
Stormy Daniels will not describe Trump's genitalia at trial
(Late Night with Seth Meyers) Seth Meyers does his monologue for Tuesday, May 7th, before Late Night writer Amber Ruffin recaps what's happening in pop culture news.
Judge threatens to jail Trump over gag order violation, finds him in contempt for 10th time: A Closer Look (Late Night with Seth Meyers) May 6, 2024: Seth takes a closer look at the judge in Trump's criminal trial threatening to throw him in jail for violating his gag order while MAGA Republicans humiliate themselves in a desperate bid to become his running mate.
What was that, Mr. Trump? - He who smelt it dealt it, Judge, so you should know, you SOB.
Trump FARTS in open court and stews over Jimmy K, Guillermo grinds with Madonna
Adderall makes me incontinent
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) April 22, 2024: Opening arguments began this morning in the People of the State of New York vs. Donald Jessica Trump, he posted little bursts of lunacy on Truth Social in protest, his lawyers made it clear that they are going to continue to try to deny that Trump had sex with porn star Stormy Daniels (and paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about the sex they didn't have), Trump is rumored by many to be farting in the courtroom.
[According to family friend and longtime TV co-worker Noel Casler, Trump defecates (makes feces) in his pants and adult diapers. Listen to Casler's in-depth knowledge of Trump's explosive and foul smelling bowels:]
But there’s no way to prove it, so please don’t repost this video out of context with dumb captions like “The Shart of the Deal” or “Gassolini,” Farting Donny has reportedly been stewing in private over everything from the ugly look of sketches of him in court to Jimmy making fun of him every night on ABC TV, New York Times reporter Susanne Craig wrote that Trump is STILL having trouble staying awake during the trial and nods off constantly.
I smell bad, wear a girdle, am bald and diseased
(The world will hear testimony from Trump's old friend David Pecker tomorrow), Taylor Swift’s album dropped over the Earth Day weekend and Jimmy was confused about a bumper sticker he saw, and Guillermo traveled to Mexico City over the weekend as a special guest of the singer Madonna who pulled him up on stage at her concert for gay sexual activity.
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