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Monday, February 19, 2024

Trump must now pay $400 mil to appeal loss

Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

But I'm supposed to win and win again until I'm sick of winning!!! I'm not LOSER! No!.

Who would choose you over ME, Joe? - TPTB

Poor Trump, corporate loser-in-chief but no longer CEO of any business in New York,

Americans are mocking him in front of Trump Towers,
questioning his cognitive viability (saying it may be worse than senile Genocide Joe Biden),
questioning his ability to pay a fine imposed on him by a judge he held in contempt and was erratic and unpredictable with,
and he lost a popularity contest with the most popular pop star since Elvis, one Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift, the people's choice,
Pretend to elect Joe. He's going to win anyway.
and Trump's ranking among American presidents has landed him dead last, which some might call the "worst" president so far -- which is not easy to do on a list that includes two Bushs and a Black hypocrite (who promised change and gave us more war, more government reach, and all around more of the same-same).

It's a popularity contest. I did what I had to.

Many notable conservatives, no fans of Warlord Biden, are against him, like Ann Coulter, Alex Jones, former candidates, and some silent type backbenchers in the GOP. How is he going to pull the next election out of his ASAP hat without their help?

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Conspiracy: 'Traylor,' Kansas parade shooting

KETV NewsWatch 7; Rising (The Hill. 2/15/24); text by Team Olivia (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Listen, Jack, she's with me, and if you don't like it all can yea malarkey Esther... - Shut up, Joe.

How will Nazi Barbie get Genocide Joe five more years in the White House? The gun issue?

U r so dum, Trey. Why did u push Coach?

It's all PR (public relations) with these two. He just happened to be wearing a live microphone when he yelled his [planned?] beautiful nothings to Swift, who ran to him all high school style.

Oh, Trey K, you look so dreamy winning me that big shiny trophy.

Right back at 'cha, Babe, like you did all those nights in Tokyo for me. Hardware for hardware, B*tch, just like we promised. I gotta step up my game now that we're operatives and all that cheese.

Ixnay on the confessionay, Travay, your mic-ay is still live-ay.

Oh, yeah-ay. Sorry, Bebe. I'm new to this.

(Rising) Chiefs' Super Bowl victory Kansas City parade gets tragic with mass shooting between teens

Traylor: Lives of the dumb and famous posing as the ideal high school couple

Obviously, and another thing -- don't sing anymore. That was so embarrassing. I'm the singer in Traylor; you're the dumb jock with the wholesome family, so let's keep it that way. Hey, did you almost get shot today?

Don't tell me what to do, Tay. I have a handler,

Oh yeah, Babe, good thing you didn't come to Kansas because that way there were a million people there, or like 950 thousand, and this guy went apesh*t and shot a bunch of them at the end. Then they jumped him. That ought to scare everyone into supporting the Dems and their anti-gun bills instead of Orangeman Trumpet.

Well, great, the plan is going just as, uh, planned.

Huh? Oh yeah.

We're going to be on the right side of history and get rewarded for it once the Dems secure power again.

Is Taylor as fake as Hollywood?

Roasting Grammy's fake trash (Metallica/Spiritbox snub, Taylor Swift, Doja Cat, Miley Cyrus)

(Become The Knight) Feb. 9, 2024: Senior citizens Metallica won best metal performance at the Grammy's this year, making a lot of people feel that Spiritbox got snubbed. Let's why we shouldn't care. Taylor Swift won "best pop vocal album"? Join me in collectively sighing at the very predictable news.

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

Taylor 'Nazi Barbie' Swift: "Karma is my b/f"

The Telegraph via MSN.com, 2/11/24; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift on stage at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai (Zhang Hengwei/China News Service © Provided by The Telegraph)

Paramount Plus: Stream war simulation Super Bowl LVIII Live (Paramount Plus)

Taylor Swift arrives at Super Bowl with Blake Lively and Ice Spice (msn.com)

Taylor Swift, spotted just back from Tokyo, is wearing viral outfit like Trey K (thespun.com)

I'm thinking of throwing the election to Genocide Joe. Do you think Travis is MAGA or will be mad?Travis Kelce's dad reveals what the ‘real’ Taylor 'Nazi Barbie' Swift is like (today.com)

Who dares to report on a sitting president and expose him? Mr. Jeff Rense.com

These Democrats would have been better candidates than Joe Biden (msn.com)

It's one thing to hate Trump, another to like Biden

Taylor Swift will be vilified by millions of [MAGAot] Americans and risk her own safety if she endorses [senile Genocidal] Joe Biden in the 2024 election, a top talent agent has warned.

Travis Kelce brings home the hardware, holds up 'end of the bargain' with Taylor Swift
BIDEN BODY-DOUBLE LAUGHS AT CONSPIRACY TALK: 'Just like we drew it up': Genocide Joe pokes fun at Super Bowl, Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
How to watch Super Bowl LVIII (58) free online (variety.com)

The Love Story singer’s fame has reached dizzying heights in the months since she began dating Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce ("TrayLor" couple name), with pictures of their pitch-side kiss reverberating around the world last month.

I'll turn the Nazis against you, Barbie!

In the buildup to 2024’s Super Bowl today, there has been more discussion about how Swift, 34, will have had to cross nine time-zones after her Saturday night show in Tokyo, Japan, to make it to Las Vegas in time for kick-off of football's biggest game, than there has been about the rival teams’ quarterbacks.

Holy war against the star

Who would YOU vote for? I'll vote for anyone Taylor tells me to! I let her make my decision.

I order you to stay out of it, you red b, uh, witch.

Amid speculation of her impending support for Genocide Joe Biden, Don John Trump’s allies were said to be plotting a “holy war” against the star.

It sparked right-wing conspiracy theories including claims Swift is a secret Pentagon agent and her relationship with football player Travis Kelce has been fabricated to bolster Biden.

COMMENTARY

My farts are adorable, and Travis loves them.

The conspiracy theory says she's an unwitting CIA operative who's going to make a big announcement today at the Big Game, aka the Great Plate, and encourage her legions of sycophantic followers to vote for war and more war, vote for senility, vote to fund more genocide, vote for our child molester in chief Genocidal Joe. Will she do it? (Yes, but probably not today. Today is a day for all the bookies and bettors to rake in billions because THE FIX IS IN. All professional sports betting is tampered with.

Vote for Biden, and I will destroy you, Swift

Therefore, since everyone is so sure the San Franciso 49ers are going to lose and betting by how much, wouldn't it be much more profitable to have Travis (Kansas Chiefs No. 1 social media star) throw the game? Or something to upset millions of bettors? It happens time and time again.

Tell them to vote for me, Nazi Barbie, uh, Taylor.

While most of the money this year is on side bets like what color "Nazi Barbie" will be wearing at the game (red) or how many times the camera will cut to her (101 times), or will she fart and say excuse me to Travis' mother before halftime (yes but a silent but deadly one with no need for an excuse me until Mrs. Kelce catches wind, but which time it will be too late), for example.

Don't bet if U know what's good for U
The FIX IS IN. The game is rigged.

I bake for who I want to, Mr. Donald. You won't tell me how to vote! I might endorse Nikki.

Don't worry, Joe. You're part of the Illuminati. The fix is in, no matter what Swift does.

How to watch the Big Game (Super Bowl 58) for free online: paramountplus.com

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

NeuroSoup: Anal DMT, LSD, and Krystle

Hamilton's Pharmacopeia S1 E4, May 23, 2012; Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Underground LSD Palace

(VICE) Former Goth stripper Krystle Cole talks about her time spent living in a subterranean missile silo converted into a luxurious LSD manufacturing facility -- a sort of underground LSD palace.

She spent three years of her life running from the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency), being held partially against her will and used as a guinea pig for strange new psychedelic chemicals.

Eventually, her friends-turned-captors were arrested and Krystle herself barely escaped incarceration. She now makes her living as a writer, sharing her experiences in books and on the Web.

Check out Krystle Cole's channel here: neurosoup
Krystle Cole (now defunct) website: neurosoup.com
Psychedelic Saturdays (created in 2020)
Day in My Life Vlog (created in 2020)
Best of Classic NeuroSoup
VICE feature Fentanyl: The Drug Deadlier than Heroin
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Inside a Secret Alien Society: Damanhur (Fringes)

Friday, August 5, 2022

The Daily Show on Alex Jones (video)

Kansas votes pro-choice, Alex Jones caught in lie, Beyoncé tweaks album again

(The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Aug. 3, 2022) Kansas votes to uphold the right to have an abortion, Alex Jones’s attorney accidentally gives his texts to the prosecutor, abelist Beyoncé tweaks her album again, Brad Pitt wears a skirt to his latest movie premiere, and Airbnb will no longer rent out former slave quarters.

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Monday, June 22, 2020

Underground Railroad stories (video)

K-State College of Education, May 17, 2016; Crystal Q., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground Railroad

The horrors of all-American slavery

Dawn of Day is a historical documentary about the Underground Railroad -- the route followed by blacks escaping legal slavery, usually moving from the South to the northern free states -- in Kansas. It brings to light Wabaunsee County’s unsung heroes, who traversed one of the most turbulent times in the nation’s history. Faith, family, and politics united a community of neighbors who lived and died to ensure Kansas was a free state. Richard Pitts, director of the Wonder Workshop in Manhattan, Kansas, narrates the film and interviews educators, historians, and descendants of abolitionists, whose shared heritage lives on in the freedom we enjoy today.

May 11, 2020: Richard Pitts, the narrator of this film, passed away. His life was spent working with youth, teaching and inspiring them to make a difference in the world around them.

Produced by Debbie K. Mercer, College of Education, Kansas State University. Directed by Rusty Earl. Music Licensed from firstcom.com. Cooper Reflected Motion. Elias_Trevino Coastal Divide. Pollard_Salkeld Brittle Bones. Bohn_Worsey Spiral Galaxy. Bohn_Worsey Sapphire Sky. Hill_Burrows Standing Strong. Elias_Trevino Wandering Revelation. Hoo Redemption and Grace. Cooper Aurora Skies. Elias_Trevino Return of Light. Bohn_Worsey Wild Flower. Elias_Trevino Tight Embrace. Bohn_Worsey Shallow Waters. Salisbury_Taylor Where Life Begins. Elias_Trevino Hearts Content. Pollard_Salkeld Awaken a Thought. Pollard_Salkeld Rain in my Heart. Sheppard Enchanted Moment. Elias_Hoo Hometown Magic. Hoo Redemption and Grace. Elias_Trevino American Rivers.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Tibetan monk explains Buddhism to students

Amber Larson, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly; Roger McKinney (Columbia Tribune)

Thursday afternoon he was slated to speak with members of an Amnesty International student group at Hickman about human rights violations against ethnic Tibetans in China.

[Ven.] Lhunpo escaped Tibet in 1959 after the Chinese takeover, initially settling in Dharamsala, India, home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile. Now in the United States, he teaches Tibetan language courses at the University of Kansas.

Tibetan culture survives in India's Himalayas: Ladakh Tsemo Gompa, Leh behind Mt. Everest on the way to Tibetan desert (SylvainBrajeul/flickr.com)

[Ven.] Lhunpo said after the talk that the situation in Tibet under Chinese rule is worsening. “Things are really deteriorating in Tibet,” he said. He said monks are practicing self-immolation to protest Chinese oppression.

[Ven.] Lhunpo lives a comfortable life in the United States now, but he’s in contact with people in Tibet. “My fellow citizens in Tibet are suffering,” [Ven.] Lhunpo said. “We are kind of their representatives to the rest of the world.”

He said he would encourage students in the Amnesty International (amnesty.org) group to write letters to U.S. government leaders and to sign petitions to help give Tibetans more freedom. More

What's better, monastic life or prison?

NZHerald.co.nz, Nov. 12, 2014

The 800-year-old Hilandar Monastery in Mount Athos, Greece. Photo / Brian Donovan

800-yr-old Hilandar, Greece (Brian Donovan)

A fugitive from justice has preferred life as a monk over jail, holing up in monasteries in northeastern Greece for eight years before police finally tracked him down, police say. The 48-year-old man, convicted of financial misdeeds in 2011, hid out on the remote Mount Athos peninsula, an autonomous monastic state, where he passed himself off as a novice monk, police said on Tuesday. More

Anti-Mubarak protesters shout slogans against the government and military on Saturday, after murder charges against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were dismissed.

Egypt is a police state

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Through the Rabbit Hole with Krystle Cole

Urban Shamans Amber Larson, Xochitl, Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Bela, Wisdom Quarterly; Hamilton Pharmacopeia (VICE/HBO, 2012); Krystle A. Cole (NeuroSoup)

"You should get out more," people may say. Maybe people should get in more, like Alice.

TOPEKA, Kansas - Former goth stripper, author of Lysergic, and producer of numerous YouTube videos Krsytle A. Cole talks about her time spent living in an "Underground Acid Palace," a subterranean missile silo converted into a luxurious LSD-manufacturing facility.

She take Hamilton and VICE's cameras on a tour into the rabbit hole. We're not in Kansas any... well, apparently, we still are. And this time it's underground just like Alice in Wyrd (another word for Wonderland).

Krystle Cole spent three years of her life running from the DEA, being held partially against her will and used as a guinea pig for strange new psychedelic chemicals.

Lysergic, 2nd ed. (goodreads.com)

Eventually her friends-turned-captors were arrested, whereas Krystle herself barely escaped incarceration.

She now makes her living as a writer, sharing her experiences in books and on the Web in her firsthand and Erowid.org-style accounts of experimenting with entheogens and other forbidden substances on NeuroSoup.

I wonder, I wonder, I wonder what's down in there! (Alice at the gate of the Rabbit Hole)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw7e8rGQvGc

We can't help but observe how much she looks like someone we knew, both in terms of her features and her mannerisms, who eventually became an expert Buddhist meditator and stream enterer. Of course, people do not believe anyone get enlightened nowadays. They do. How do we know? we'll be asked. That was courtesy of a strange set of circumstances too hard for others to believe. We believe it. We were there. We saw and understood.

DRUG DISCUSSION
Wisdom Quarterly (URBAN SHAMANISM)

The lights, the lights, painting with light (DigitalTurkey-Graph/flickr.com)

The devas still descend from space.

Is there anything good to be said about any "drug"? Yes, the entheogens, the ones that bring out the "divine" (theos, deus, devas, the "godly") within. So, Xochitl, which drug? Native Americans have "plant helpers," not "drugs." To say that word tosses our minds to grim concrete ghettos and dreary suburbs painted neon. We're leaving that; we're back in nature; we're going to Wyrd or the Spirit World. An entheogen, a sacred plant, root, vine, mushroom, or combination -- whatever -- is all about getting to one thing: DMT (dimethyltryptamine).

(Gnosis) "DMT: The Spirit Molecule," which explores human consciousness, weaves an account of Dr. Rick Strassman's groundbreaking DMT research through a multifaceted approach to this intriguing entheogen/hallucinogen found in the body, brain, and hundreds of plants.

And this DMT is not out there. It's in here, in the center of our brains, behind the third eye, where the pineal gland is enclosed in gray matter with active rods and cones and its own inner-retina.

There are many ways to awaken it. "Drugs" are the worst way. People are not ready to see it. Amber, does Buddhism have anything good to say about drugs? I think we all agree with Dr. Gabor Mate that the problem of "drug use and abuse" is that almost no one in the U.S. who sets out to get high is actually trying to get high. They're just trying to get wasted.

Befriending Faeries

They are trying to obtund (dull) rather than enhance consciousness, trying to get blotto, blitzed, full of toxins or intoxicated. Right, Seven? That's right! We use the same word to mean exact opposite things -- doped up or wasted versus opened up and trying to see things as they really are.

Whatever there is of substances to get "high" on, that exists within for us to access. Crystal? There are Tibetan lamas who do dream yoga. But look at the yogis of olde, not the ganja-obtunded waste-cases sitting around growing great dreadlocks and clutching hash pipes. Maybe they would have taken or produce Soma and Amrita, the "nectar of the devas."

Yogis sometimes veer off the path (D. Earlotti)

What we call chocolate was something like that, Theobroma cacao, "cocoa the food of the devas." Which extraterrestrial-gods was it who pointed out the pits of that fruit was edible?

The subtle little fairies/devis in art (1909)

Serenity-meditation that leads to the absorptions leads to bliss in the first two jhanas, independent of the senses and sensuality. It comes from within. It makes possible the concentration and mental-collectedness needed for successful insight-practice called vipassana. Anyone smoking high-THC/low-CBD cannabis to get lost or wasted will get lost and waste her/his time.

Devas watch as liberator is born.

But if one pursues awakening the pineal gland, the third eye, the seat of consciousness, the "mind door" around the heart may get something else, awakening and liberation. But real liberation is not transient. It does not fall away. Drug experiences, absorptions (jhanas), hallucinations, and delusions do. The Five Precepts warn us away from intoxicants. This is very wise. Mere "knowledge" (ñāna), study (suta), and experience cannot substitute for actual wisdom (Sanskrit prajñā, Pali paññā).

Embodying DMT as "Soma"?

Stephen T. Naylor, Encyclopedia Mythica (pantheon.org)

The devas depicted in Western/Greco-Roman forms (Ilias Flaxman, Gestochen/Wiki)

Where earthbound devas dwell, Plitvice

Soma is a very difficult deity [deva] for many outside of India to comprehend. He works on numerous levels, all of which are tied together rather strangely. Soma is firstly a plant.

He is also an intoxicating drink which was brewed from that plant [which plant or mushroom, root or vine is disputed]....Though he is never depicted in human form, Soma obviously did not want for lovers [i.e., people who loved it]; poets rarely do.

In one episode, his desires caused a war. He had grown arrogant due to the glory that was offered him. Because of this, he let his lust overcome him; he kidnapped and carried off Tara, the wife of the [deva] Brihaspati. After refusing to give her up, the devas made war on him to force her release, and Soma called on the [titans] asuras to aid him.

Finally, Brahma interceded and compelled Soma to let Tara go. But she was with child, and it ended up that this child was Soma's. The child was born and named Budha (not to be confused with the Buddha). More

There is a "road" (path) to a weird "land" (place) somewhere outside of this illusion.

Is it Amrita, the endogenous nectar of our divine nature?

Wisdom Quarterly edit of Wikipedia entry

Mohini, female-Vishnu with Amrita pot (W)

Amrita is repeatedly referred to as "the drink of the devas, the "gods," which grants them "immortality."

Immortality? Perhaps that timeless vision or realization of who we really are, which does not end at death; our personality ends, and self falls away, but something, some whole, some connection to everything else, remains or is reborn, taking and clinging to a new form it immediately mistakes for "self" again. We are not so limited as any expression or manifestation would suggest.

Amrita features in the "ocean-churning" Samudra manthan legend, which describes how the devas, because of a curse from the sage Durvasa, begin to lose their immortality (divine vision of themselves?

Assisted by their mortal enemies, the asuras (Buddhist "titans"), they churn the ocean (cosmos, world-system, Milky Way, samsara) and create -- among other wonderful (Wyrd) things -- Amrita, the nectar of immortality.

In yogic philosophy (as it found its way from Hindu philosophy into its cognate Mahayana-Buddhism), Amrita is a fluid that can flow from the pituitary gland down the throat in deep states of meditation. It is considered quite a boon: Some yogic texts say that one drop is enough to conquer death and achieve immortality. More