KOREAN BUDDHISM began in the 4th century CE during the Three Kingdoms Period. Centuries after Buddhism originated in India, the Mahayana (Hinduism as Buddhism's "Great Vehicle") tradition arrived in China through the Silk Road in the 1st century CE, then entered the Korean peninsula in the 4th century, from where it was transmitted to Japan.
In Korea, it was adopted as the state religion of three constituent polities of the Three Kingdoms Period, first by the Goguryeo (Goryeo) in 372 CE, by the Silla (Gaya) in 528 CE, and by the Baekje in 552 C [1].
Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what its early practitioners saw as inconsistencies within the Mahayana Buddhist traditions that they received from foreign countries. More
Blame aging culture or youth music?
Cultural hegemony: Is white Western culture ruining the lives of South Koreans in the East?
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OMG, we're not gay! We're K-pop boy idols.
K-pop (Korean 케이팝, RR Keipap, an abbreviation of "Korean popular music" [1]) is a form of popular music originating in South Korea [2]. The music genre that the term is used to refer to colloquially emerged in the 1990s as a form of youth subculture, with Korean musicians influenced by Western dance music, rap, hip-hop, R&B, and rock [3, 4, 5]. Today, K-pop commonly refers to the musical output of teen idol acts, chiefly all-girl groups and androgynous boy-bands, who emphasize visual appeal and performance [6] over substance and individual expression.
It's OK to be angry, but keep the hits coming.
They represent a corporate approach to profit making and an illusory bigger-than-life persona and emphasis on PR (public relations). As a music genre, K-pop is characterized by its melodic quality and cultural hybridity [7, 8, 9]. K-pop can trace its origins to "rap dance," a fusion of hip-hop, techno, and rock popularized by the group Seo Taiji and Boys, whose experimentation helped to modernize South Korea's contemporary music scene in the early 1990s [10, 11, 12]. Their popularity with teenagers led the music industry to start to focus on this demographic. More
Like Korean Buddhism,* K-pop (Korean 케이팝, RR Keipap, "Korean popular music") is a best-selling creation originating in South Korea [2]. The music genre that the term is used to refer to colloquially emerged in the 1990s as a form of youth subculture, with Korean musicians influenced by Western dance music, hip-hop, R&B, and rock [3, 4, 5].
Today, K-pop commonly refers to the musical output of teen "idol" acts, chiefly all-girl groups and all-boy bands, who emphasize visual appeal and performance [6].
As a pop genre, K-pop is characterized by its melodic quality and cultural hybridity [7, 8, 9]. K-pop can trace its origins to "rap dance," a fusion of hip-hop, techno, and rock popularized by the group Seo Taiji and Boys, whose experimentation helped to modernize South Korea's contemporary music scene in the early 1990s [10, 11, 12].
Their popularity with teenagers led the music industry to focus on this demographic. Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, who developed the Korean idol system in the late 1990s, created H.O.T. and S.E.S., the "first generation" of K-pop [13].
By the early 2000s, TVXQ and BoA had achieved success in Japan and gained traction for the genre overseas [14, 15]....
ROSE and PSY perform "APT." (live from Summerswag 2025)
By 2019, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) listed South Korea as the 6th largest music market in the world [116], with boy band BTS alone accounting for $4.65 billion, or 0.3%, of South Korea's GDP [117].
In 2024, IFPI declared K-pop the leading global genre in unit sales, across both physical and digital formats. Seventeen of the top 20 albums on the IFPI Global Album Sales Chart that year belonged to this genre [118, 119] thanks to BTS, Blackpink, solo Rosé, Katseye, and a few others. More
Korean Buddhism began in the 4th century CE during the Three Kingdoms Period. Centuries after Buddhism originated in [Gandhara, now modern Afghanistan] and Magadha [a Buddhist territory later brought into the empire under the umbrella term "India" under Buddhist Emperor Ashoka], the Mahayana tradition arrived in China through the Silk Road in the 1st century CE, then entered the Korean peninsula in the 4th century, from where it was transmitted to Japan.
In Korea, it was adopted as the state religion of three constituent polities of the Three Kingdoms Period, first by the Goguryeo (aka Goryeo) in 372 CE, by the Silla (Gaya) in 528 CE, and by the Baekje in 552 CE [1].
Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what its early practitioners saw as inconsistencies within theMahayana Buddhist traditions that they received from foreign countries.
To address this, Korean Buddhists developed a new holistic approach to Buddhism that became a distinct form, an approach characteristic of virtually all major Korean thinkers.
The resulting variation is called Tongbulgyo ("interpenetrated Buddhism"), a form that sought to harmonize previously arising disputes among scholars (a principle called hwajaeng 和諍) [2].
As it now stands, Korean Buddhism consists mostly of the Seon [Zen] Lineage, primarily represented by the Jogye and Taego Orders. The Korean Seon has a strong relationship with other Mahayana traditions that bear the imprint of Chan teachings as well as the closely related Zen.
Other sects -- such as the modern revival of the Cheontae lineage, the Jingak Order (a modern esoteric sect or Vajrayana), and the newly formed Won -- have also attracted sizable followings [3].
Korean Buddhism has contributed much to East Asian Buddhism, especially to early Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Tibetan schools of Buddhist thought. More
(Miracle Process) More than a doll, how Chinese craftsmanship is redefining intimacy
Industrial sexbot factory gives whole new meaning to "manufacturing consent"
I can't wait to make money for my daddy
Sex robots or "sexbots" are anthropomorphic [human-like] robotic sex dolls that have human-like movements or behaviors and some degree of artificial intelligence [1][2].
As of 2025, although elaborately instrumented sex dolls have been created by a number of inventors, no fully animated sex robots yet exist.
Simple devices have been created which can speak, make facial expressions, or respond to touch [3][4] and even carry babies to term if they get pregnant.
I blame myself...and Hollywood
There is controversy as to whether developing them would be morally justifiable [5][6].
In 2015, robot ethicist Kathleen Richardson called for a ban on the creation of anthropomorphic sex robots with concerns about normalizing relationships with machines and reinforcing female dehumanization [7][8][9].
Questions about their ethics, effects, and possible legal regulations have been discussed since then.
Lexicology
Elon Musk's Tesla is working on cheaper EBs (electric beings) and discount models for Mars.
First robot pimp: prototype (Futurama)
Human people [as distinct from the nonhuman people/AI robots will one day no doubt be referred to] who are sexually attracted to sexbots are sometimes referred to as digisexuals [10] or robosexuals [11][12].
A person in "love" with a purchased vibrating phallic device is just called a nymphomaniac by the medical profession and a horndog or slamhound in the vernacular.
Sexbots with a male shape design may be referred to as malebots [13] or manbots [14]. Gender neutral terms for sex robots include pleasure bot [15] or sex droid [16].
Sexbots with a female shape design have been referred to as chick-bots [17] or fembots [18] or b*tchbots in some unsavory circles. More:sex robot
(Exam Word) Character Analysis. Emmanuel Goldstein occupies a central role in the Party’s (as opposed to the Proles’) narrative, serving as a symbol of rebellion and a tool of control.
Goldstein only appears on screens during the Two Minutes Hate ritual and never directly in the story, his presence looms large as the alleged leader of the resistance (The Brotherhood), the enemy within, against the Party.
Through his role in the narrative, symbolic significance, and broader implications, Goldstein becomes a multifaceted character who represents the complexities of dissent, propaganda, and manipulation in a totalitarian regime.
More at
lak12.com/book/character...
Manufacturing Consent is a book, but there's a movie, too: Manufacturing Consent (film). We are being lied to all the time, assured we have a participatory democracy when what we have is a delusion giving us the illusion of control and choice.
Brian Eno, "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" (2004 digital remaster); Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; The Jimmy Dore Show; NBC News; KGW 8; CNN
LYRICS: When I got back home/ I found a message on the door/ Sweet Regina's gone to China cross-legged on the floor/ Of a burning [Boeing] jet that's smoothly flying/ Burning airlines give you so much more// How does she intend to live when she's in far Cathay?/ I somehow can't imagine her just planting rice all day/ Maybe she will do a bit of spying/ With micro-cameras hidden in her hair// I guess Regina's on the plane, a Newsweek on her knees/ While miles below her the curlews call from strangely stunted trees/ The painted sage sits just as though he's flying/ Regina's jet disturbs his wispy beard// When you reach Kyoto send a postcard if you can/ And please convey my fond regards to Chih-Hao's girl Yu-Lan/ I heard a rumour they were getting married/ But someone left the papers in Japan// Left them in Japan, left them in Japan/ Left them in Japan, left them in Japan/ Left them in Japan, left them in Japan/ Left them in Japan
Boeing cargo plane forced to make emergency landing after fire and "engine malfunction"
(NBC News) Jan. 19, 2024: An Atlas Air cargo flight caught on fire mid-air not long after takeoff and was forced to return to the Miami airport. All five people on board were uninjured. NBC News' Stephanie Gosk reports the FAA and NTSB are investigating. #EmergencyLanding#Boeing#Fire
Boeing's quality management failure explained 737-Max-9 door Jan. 24, 2024
Media company MeidasTouch reported that Trump "echoes Hitler nearly verbatim" in his calls to destroy the "vermin," or liberals.
Tristan Snell, a former assistant attorney general in New York, added his take, as well.
Specifically, Snell quoted, “This vermin must be destroyed. The Jews are our sworn enemies, and at the end of this year there will not be a Jew left in Germany.” — Hitler, 1939.
Former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger also pointed out the post. "Meh. He's going to jail," Kinzinger wrote. "American veterans deserve a not insane leader."
Journalist [and wit] Bill Grueskin said Trump's long-winded post is "a paragraph for readers who can't handle the subtle nuances of Mein Kampf," Hitler's book ["My Struggle"]. (MSN)
There are calls to bring Netanyahu to the ICC on war crime allegations (dailymail.co.uk)
I would never enlist and kill for a country. They had to draft me and make me entertain them.
Palestinian groups ask ICC to arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu for war crimes and genocide
(Democracy Now!) Nov. 10, 2023: DN! speaks with Palestinian human rights lawyer Noura Erakat about a new effort to hold Israel accountable at the International Criminal Court over the asymmetric atrocities in Gaza, where Israel's monthlong air bombardment and ground assault have killed more than 10,000 Palestinians.
On Wednesday, three Palestinian rights groups filed a lawsuit with the international body, urging it to investigate Israel for the crimes of genocide and apartheid. The petition also calls for arrest warrants to be issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. International inaction against Israeli aggression is part of "a systematic failure to hold Israel to account for decades," as well as the "absolute double standard" applied to war crimes committed against people of the Global South, says lawyer Erakat, who was part of a team of academics and activists who came together to support the ICC lawsuit. "This is not just a crisis of international legal institutions, but also a crisis of democratic — or so-called democratic — institutions in the countries in which we live." Support DN!'s work: democracynow.org/give. Latest Shows
The first episode will focus on Israel's aerial bombardment against the human beings in Gaza, Palestine, a historical and monumental atrocity that could not happen at this time without U.S. aircraft, missiles, and bombs produced by three of the four defendants on trial before the Tribunal:
"We render you, corporations obsessed with war-profiteering, accountable, answerable!"
- Dr. Cornel West, Ph.D., Member of Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal
We fund them to fight Russia and MidEast
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will hold accountable — through testimony of witnesses — U.S. weapons manufacturers who knowingly produce and sell products that attack and kill combatants and non-combatants equally well.
These U.S. manufacturers may have committed crimes against humanity and violated U.S. federal criminal laws. The Tribunal will hear the evidence and render a verdict. More (merchantsofdeath.org)
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