Life in Russia: SHOCKING MYTHS about the country will leave viewers speechless
(Wild to Travel) Why would any American be shocked that Russia is a beautiful and modern non-communist country? It's because we've been lied to in the West for so long that there is no setting us straight. And we don't travel out of our country enough to know anything directly for ourselves. Go out into the world! Stop being duped by PR propaganda from both sides. That's why Wisdom Quarterly has special correspondents like Eli from Russia and AgentNesty:
(Kayse Melone) June 26, 2025: We had a great question asked on a chat on one of my recent livestreams. What does it mean to love yourself as an American when you no longer believe in what [North] America stands for? As someone who grew up in evangelical Christian nationalism in the heart of red-state America, I’ve had to unpack the myths I was raised on, face the guilt and shame of living in the belly of the beast, and begin the long process of internal deconstruction and healing. We talk about American exceptionalism, the spiritual cost of capitalism, and why letting go of nationalism might be the most patriotic thing we can do.
#exchristian #exvangelical #unitedstates #deconstructingchristianity #atheist. Remember to join the live show at 7:00 am CT every Sunday-Wednesday on YouTube or Twitch. Connect with Kayse. Website: kaysemelone.com
What? Middle Eastern North Africans? No, we were always white. We're from Heaven.
The Bible's been changed WAY more than most people realize!
(Holy Koolaid) Since the many books of the Bible were first written, just how much has the Bible been changed? After the New Testament was compiled, how much was it edited, tweaked, and altered to fit the agendas of scribes, copyists, and early Church fathers?
Are there other versions of the Bible? Did significant copying mistakes and translations errors (to say nothing of the purposeful changes and "corrections" to improve on God's word] find their way into our modern copies of the Bible?
If the Bible is the word of God and was divinely inspired, shouldn't it also have been divinely preserved? But has it been?
She explores the idea that many of its texts were written by men grappling with complex relationships with authority figures — particularly father figures.
Drawing on her deep knowledge of ancient history and religious studies, Dr. Stavrakopoulou delves into how these "daddy issues" (androcentric psychological mental aberrations) may have shaped the narratives and theological themes within the Bible.
Her insights offer a fresh and provocative perspective on the human motivations behind some of the world's most influential religious texts.
#atheist #atheism #christianity #podcast #science #bible #scientist
The SHOCKING lie behind Israel's claim to the land
(The Sarcastic Skeptic) Sept. 23, 2024: Was the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites (who used to be called the Canaanites) a historical event or just another brutal myth?
This video explores the dark and violent story of the Canaanite genocide as depicted in the Bible and dive into the archeological and historical evidence — or lack thereof — showing that it likely never happened.
Let’s critically examine the biblical narrative promoted by Jews today and debunk this ancient fairytale of divine massacre.
Interested in challenging religious myths with logic and evidence? This video is it. #ConquestOfCanaan #BiblicalHistory #DebunkingReligion #BiblicalMyths #HistoricalAccuracy #Archaeology #Canaan #Genocide #MythBusting
I brought my family and gave them ACID - not LSD, just acetic acid, vinegar, for our tummies.
I went for the first time. Here are 5 things everyone gets wrong (Anneta Konstantinides/Insider)
Isn't Burning Man just a bunch of Mad Max cosplay wannabees in the desert? Has to be! Look at 'em
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This is "The Man" burned to stick it to The Man
I went to Burning Man for the first time in 2023 — and many people are wrong about the event.
They think Burning Man is a big music festival only attended by celebrities and CEOs. But the truth is Burning Man is full of regular people who work year-round to create an incredible sense of community.
Over the last few years, Burning Man has become known as a haven for Silicon Valley tech bros and Instagram influencers, who cough up thousands of dollars to party in "Mad Max" desert cosplay.
Mad Max, the original in the Outback of Australia
But when I went for the first time last year, I realized there's a lot that people get wrong about the legendary annual event. Now that I've done my own inaugural "Dust Angel" and gotten the full playa experience, I'm ready to correct some of the biggest Burning Man myths. Here are five things everyone gets wrong.
Let's go, Mark. - Where? - I'll kick your @$$!
Burning Man became more prominent as it began attracting high profile Burners like billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, including supermodels like Heidi Klum and Cindy Crawford. Morevia Yahoo
(DamiLee) What is this magical communion of humanity? This is not a capitalist endeavor like Coachella or Lollapalooza. This is the peoples' event, powered by participants and their creativity. It's like nothing else in the world. There's a reason why 70,000 make it out to desert in a journey as tough as the good old mystery rave days before they got commercial.
CHAPTERS
0:00 INTRO
02:43 Evolving City
05:03 NEW SITE - HUALAPAI VALLEY
05:30 THE CIRCLE
08:06 Safety & Accessibility
08:54 AN EXAMPLE
12:19 Maayan Ziv
14:00 Participatory Design
Some of the footage comes from the videos published on the Burning Man official channel: burningman
Check out their work. It's amazing! I do not own any of this footage or any other footage used in this video. I use it only for the purpose of commentary. Please let me know if I missed anyone. :) GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you! Commenting on a video or tweeting @damileearch will be the quickest way to get a response from me, but if your question is very long, feel free to email me at hello@damilee.com. I try my best to respond to the emails, but unfortunately, there just aren't enough hours in the day! #architecture#burningman
The Mutants of Black Rock
(Burning Man Project) Astounding! Unbelievable! Motorized! Witness the relentless onslaught of mighty mutant vehicles into Black Rock City, the home of Burning Man in the Nevada desert. THRILL to giant alien predators on wheels. GASP at the mechanized mayhem of these strange and wonderful art cars. AMAZING! Two years in the making, Mutants of Black Rock is a production from Profiles in Dust, the all-volunteer documentary crew that’s been dealing in playa AWE AND WONDER since 2011. Catch more of their work at vimeo.com/profilesindust. Coming soon from Profiles in Dust: Out of Nothing, the first ever behind-the-scenes look at the building of Black Rock City and the dusty heroes who make it happen. You, too, can be a hero and help make it happen: gofund.me/a3e44a7b
"White Trash" historian Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy," and class in America
(Democracy Now!) July 18, 2024: American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance a peddler of the "self-made man myth." Isenberg criticizes Hillbilly Elegy, the memoir that propelled him to fame, as a deceptive way of selling this myth and the conservative politics it comes with.
"Much of what his memoir says tells us nothing about real class conditions," Isenberg says, pointing to her own historical and sociological research on the rural poor in the United States.
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(Fortress of Lugh) This is a brief look at the ancient origins, history, and myths of the region of modern-day Afghanistan [ancient Gandhara, Scythian Central Asia]. The region is extremely complex with a very eventful history, so this is a very general account. It does not necessarily reflect the origins of ALL ethnic groups in modern Afghanistan. Primary focus is on the Pashtuns, Tajiks, and other Iranian (Aryian) peoples in the region.
The Buddha was born in a place called "Kapilavastu," the three seasonal capitals of the Saka/Shakya (Scythian) people, which Indian historian Dr. Ranajit Pal, Ph.D. (Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander, New Delhi, 2002) identifies as Bamiyan and Kabul/Kapil, and we concur, placing the third seasonal capital in or near Mes Aynak, home of the largest unexcavated Buddhist temple complex in the world, seated above an ancient gold and rare earth mineral mining operation.
Bamiyan has the largest Buddha statues in the world, with the largest being a 1,000-foot-long reclining-into-nirvana Buddha buried for its protection, as the CIA and Pakistani ISI collaborated to create the Taliban by releasing hardened criminals from prisons and turning them into Mujahadeen fighters, useful in the CIA's proxy war against Russia in Central Asia, particularly in Afghanistan.
The CIA's hand is seen in the creation and promotion of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaida, "The List," as well, turning disaffected young Muslims into enemy forces as a pretext for bringing in the American military-industrial complex "war machine" to set up some of the largest U.S. military bases in the world, which keep the US Department of War Defense within easy reach of the geopolitical "Middle East," Russia, and other targeted countries, such as:
Iran,
Iraq,
Northern African states like
Israel,
Libya,
Egypt,
Syria,
Yemen,
Somalia,
Jordan,
Saudi Arabia, and
Lebanon,
keeping them and others in check because we have an endless need of targets to promote imperialism and hegemony.
In ancient times, this sweeping area was known as Scythia and before that as Gandhara, which gives us the term Gandharan or Greco-Buddhist art, from the first human depictions of the historical Buddha, Prince Siddhartha "Shakyamuni" Gautama. The ancient Greeks came to the area to set up a country called Bactria, and there were other would-be empires in the militarily strategic area that yet remains problematic, geo-politically speaking, such as the Sasanian Empire.
Dr. Pal maintains that Prince Siddhartha's mother (and her sister, his foster mother, both co-wives of the Future-Buddha's father, King Suddhodana, though perhaps more accurately to be thought of as a kind of Afghan chieftain carrying on ancient traditions of Afghans, Gandharans, Pashtuns, and Scythian nomads like the loya jirgaor "great councils") were from Sistan-Balochistan, on the border of today's Afghanistan and Iran.
CIA/ISI/Taliban damage in Bamiyan
This is where his mother was returning when she was pregnant with him, giving birth along the way in a magnificent garden grove that came to be called Lumbini, the Buddha's birthplace outside Kapilavastu, not to be confused with any place now in Nepal, as Dr. Pal asserts that its placement in Nepal is a Jonesian archeological fraud, prompted more by religious politics and tourism than reality.
India utterly controls tiny Nepal and could get it to officially accede to anything, including locating some of these Buddhist Circuit sites on their territory, as borders are said to have moved over the centuries. But as Dr. Pal correctly points out, the wandering ascetic Siddhartha was an outsider, not an Indian. In fact, there was no "India" at that time. This was Proto-India, which would become "India" proper under the Buddhist Emperor Asoka centuries later. Siddhartha traveled to Magadha, Savatthi, Rajagriha, and Bihar (named after the many vihars Buddhists set up to practice in).
(MythVision Podcast) July 5, 2023. Second channel: @MythVisiontv. Unveil the enthralling origins of the biblical flood myth in this captivating documentary.
Delve into the ancient Mesopotamian flood stories, including the Sumerian flood myth, Atrahasis Epic, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and witness the undeniable connections to the iconic tale of Noah.
From shared themes to linguistic correlations, let's explore the rich tapestry of these ancient narratives, shedding light on their profound influence on the Genesis (Bible chapter) flood account.
This thought-provoking journey navigates the ancient myths, uncovering the purpose and significance behind the Genesis narrative.
Discover the intriguing motifs, literary intertextuality, and cultural contexts that shaped the iconic flood story we know today.
With expert insights and compelling evidence, this is a compelling case for the dependence of the Bible's flood myth on much earlier Mesopotamian myths.
As this documentary reaches its climactic conclusion, be prepared for a tantalizing glimpse into future explorations. The next episode will delve into the captivating realms of Nimrod and the Ziggurat, unveiling their fascinating connections to the ancient city of Babylon.
Stay tuned for an exhilarating continuation of this journey through the ancient world, unraveling the mysteries and revealing the hidden truths behind these timeless myths.
Join in this captivating exploration of ancient mythology, where the past comes alive and reveals its secrets, providing us with a deeper understanding of the origins of some of the world's most cherished stories.
Catch this enlightening documentary that will leave many with a fresh perspective on the fascinating connections between the derivative Bible we have and the original ancient Mesopotamian lore that was largely lost.
Thanks to Dr. Joshua Bowen for providing the details in this video. His book: The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament, Volume 2 (Audible or in hardback). This book covers much more. @DigitalHammurabi
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