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The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was a bipartisan U.S. government committee formed in 1985 [1] with the stated goal of "increasing parental control over children's access to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes."
The committee's work led to the widespread adoption of the Parental Advisory sticker. The PMRC was known for its prejudicial targeting of heavy metal music, which drew opposition and criticism [2].
On political and religious grounds, the committee was supported by American Protestant televangelists, Reaganites, and the larger Christian evangelical movement, who accused hard rock and heavy metal music of harboring Satanic and occult related themes.
The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with the government power elite in the Washington, D.C. area.
Those female founders of the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore... More
(History But Fast) Originating from ancient cultures and societies, prostitution [trading sex for consideration, usually monetary] has been documented as a defined thing as far back as 2400 B.C. in ancient Mesopotamia, where sacred edicts legitimatized this practice.
Deeply rooted in tradition, culture, and socio-economic dynamics, it grew with civilization, oftentimes blurring lines between religious acceptance and societal norms.
Commerce, slavery, segregation -- various factors intertwined, shaping its complex history. With changing times, the perception and status of prostitution has also metamorphosed, sparking a spectrum of laws, debates, and attitudes around the world.
Let's journey back in time, unraveling the enigmatic roots of sacred prostitution in Sumer as reported in the oldest written work we have, The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Archeologist finds tomb of Gilgamesh in Euphrates
Get Real: Pimps 'n Hoes
On the Block with Pimps and Prostitutes
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Would it be the worst thing to bring back sacred prostitution?
Girls Gone Bible (not Wild)
There is a fascinating little book out there in the world somewhere (and lost in the stacks of the Wisdom Quarterly Library), a pamphlet really, called something like An Experience of Enlightenment. Fascinating title but misleading. First of all, no one gets enlightened.
What happens is that the author recounts the true story of an incident that happened to affluent Westerners, friends dabbling in the occult by having a seance to "communicate with the other side." Sounds ominous, but who wouldn't want to connect to the Other Side, the Twilight Zone, the Shadow World? Sounds scary, but it ended well, not with actual enlightenment but with an experience that was eye opening.
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A spirit came through telling them an unbelievable story. They're all Judeo-Christian by tradition so, of course, they don't really care about or believe in religion or spirituality. But then this being, entity, ghost comes through a medium with such a stunning story that it makes them all doubt their secularism. The spirit says that thousands of years ago (~3,000) he used to be a priest in charge of a temple in what is now India, at the sacred confluence of some rivers up north (in the IVC, Gandhara, Scythia region under the Himalayas).
One day a prince is traveling through, and as priest he shows him hospitality. He claps for a temple dancing girl to come out and entertain this guest, this youth, as he is given food and drink. The priest has a crush on this dancing girl, possibly a temple prostitute of some kind or just a veiled sacred Kathak dancer, She immediately falls in love with the youth and he with her. The priest notices and sends her away. But it's too late. They elope. And when the priest, the spirit through the medium, notices, he loses control and kills her. He might have killed the youth, too.
In either case, it's in contradiction to his religion and priestly duties, so when he dies and expects to get into Brahma's heaven for his life of religious devotion to protecting the temple to some god or another, he is unable. Kind Brahma tells him he needs to get their forgiveness. That is, it's not enough that he apologize. That would be easy. It's that they must forgive him. Everyone at the seance table is moved by his testimony and glad he contacted them with this story of past lives, heaven, sin, lust, possessiveness, God, and karma, BUT what's it got to do with them?
Westerners horsing around at an American seance table. That's when he lays down the boom, showing how strange the working-out-of-karma is: Those two people he needs to get the forgiveness from at sitting at the table right now. You're one of them, temple dancing girl being ogled by the priest, and that guy's the former youth.
Would sacred temple prostitution have mitigated this situation? Or is emotional love going to always win out, prompting our craving, longing, and attachment? This poor priest, possessive murderer. This poor frustrated couple, gets reborn to find each other anew, in the holy precincts of a temple to the God, but then this jerk's attachment leads him to a jealous rage that gets people killed and him in 3,000 or more years' worth of trouble, trying to track these two down to get them to understand what happened, accept his apology, and grant their forgiveness so he finally move on and up. Do they grant it?
Readers come a way with a dizzying set of questions about what the Buddha was talking about when he warned about craving, lust, attachment, karma (deeds), thoughts, views, words...and forgiveness (khanti). This is a Western author talking to Westerners. There is no Indian, except what we were before rearising here. Even us, why do we care about spiritual India so much?
Why did Paramahamsa Yogananda claim he found his former students now living in the West, reborn white and prosperous? And they recognized him, were attracted to him, found his Kriya Yoga teaching perfectly in line with the Jesusism and Christianity they were now born into, when even today few people realize the "lost years" of Jesus (Issa) were spent in northern India, at that time culturally Tibet, at Hemis Gompa, where he
studied with Buddhist monks,
met Brahmins,
learned Vedic teachings...
He took all of this back to the West with his Zen-like parables for answers and other oddities, totally unJewish but very much in line with what the Essenes suddenly started to practice in Palestine/Israel out of nowhere, with no predecessor in Jewish texts or customs. The Gnostic texts that talk about the way of the Essenes is very Dharmic and much more Buddhistic, Eastern, and mellow as opposed to anything Abrahamic.
And if we go much further back to the Sumerian roots of Judaism (who took those ancient stories and made them about themselves), to a time before the Jewish priests desecrated "God's House" and turned the temple into a usury-bank for moneychangers, a den of iniquity and hypocrisy, so odious that Saint Issa/Jesus Christ flipped those tables over and chased them out, securing the place for godly things again.
Imagine a temple economy based not on the disgusting ritual slaughter of sacrificial animals and black magic rites of scapegoats and blood atonements to some insane tribal war god demanding the scent of burnt offerings (roasted flesh) wafting up to Him but instead the disgusting ritual prostitution of holy orgasm and sex with respect and not possessiveness and clinging. We could be as bonobos rather than chimps and vicious apes!
This temple economy based on killing animals is exposed in Christspiracy and is just like the ancient Greeks' obsession with dead offerings to their pantheon in Homer's The Odyssey and which even the good Vedas talk about having Brahmin priests do for Brahma or other more sinister spirits, godlings, demigods/titans, ogres, reptilians/Draconians, and interlopers (superiors, devas, asuras, yakkhas, nagas, brahmas)
Who knows how the great Sumerians set up a system of sex at church, sex at temple, sex in the holy precincts of houses of worship, devotion, and morality-learning, but it would be great to bring it back.
Whether prostitution is ultimately good or bad, no one can question how bad it is in current practice -- full of condemnation, shame, drug abuse, exploitation, pimps, madams, abusive boyfriends, lack of agency and advancement. Sex work could be a positive thing. It's going to be a thing anyway.
Look at the bonobos, chimps, gorillas, monkey, macaques, orangutans, and other primates, they use sex the way humans do. And to say we don't is willful ignorance, foolishly dismissing what anyone can see.
History But Fast, March 9, 2024; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly, orig. 3/27/24
Edgar Cayce was once America's "Sleeping Prophet," a healer who channeled many healers, guides, and a mysterious consortium of helpful beings trying to give a message to humanity and those who came seeking cures and answers as to why they were sick. The cures were provided in many case studies preserved by the A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The reason for strange illnesses that didn't seem to have a cause was often found to be past karma from past lives. Cayce was a Protestant Christian. He didn't believe in past lives, as that did not seem biblical nor in line with the belief system of the official church. He, however, studied the Bible and saw that it did teach that there were past lives and it certainly taught that karma (sowing what we reap) was real and an official position of the church today. His psychic abilities were present from childhood, but his greatest power came when he stepped out of the way in a trance like state (mistaken for sleeping) when he channeled information for those seeking it for themselves or others. He worked on much more than health and wellness. He predicted wars, discoveries, stock market trends, and even engineering through remote viewing, once going through a bridge to find defects in its construction. Cayce, who live a century ago, is alive and well today, reborn as David Wilcock (divinecosmos.com). You or anyone can talk to him and ask him questions about that life or this, as he is glad to answer. We almost traveled to Egypt with him to see the pyramids. He is now very busy with his ongoing research and his show on Gaia.com TV. (How can we know Cayce was reborn as Wilcock? Author Wynn Free proved it in his book on the subject, The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?: Interdimensional Communication and Global Transformation).
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Bardo Thodol
(ReligionForBreakfast) What is the "Tibetan Book of the Dead"? The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is arguably the most popular Vajrayana Buddhist text in Europe and the United States. Freud's protege Carl Jung loved it. So did Beatle John Lennon. But why? What is this text all about?
Sources
Lopez, Donald S. Jr. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Coleman, Graham, and Thupten Jinpa, eds. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation. Translated by Gyurme Dorje. New York: Penguin Random House, 2005.
(The Borderless Office) June 10, 2025: American men living in Pattaya Thailand (Buddhist Southeast Asia): Here's why it beats life in the United States. Whatever happens, falling in love and being suckered out of a fortune is common:
(Studio Croma Animation) BOLOGNA. An old man is sitting on the edge of a bed in a bare room with stoned walls, his face furrowed with deep wrinkles and his unkempt beard, gnarled hands still full of life, curved shoulders: he is alone and thoughtful. A small and ramshackle window with bars is the only outlet to the outside.
In front of him he has a mysterious suitcase. Opening it the man finds himself in his hands the photographs and the personal effects of a whole life. Thus begins the sequence of memories and visions, synapses of the mind that come to life and invade the room of the elderly bringing him back in time, first adult then boy, finally child.
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DIRECTOR
Pier Paolo Paganelli
SUBJECT AND SCRIPT
Laura Castaldini, Pier Paolo Paganelli
WITH
Roberto Herlitzka
Rodolfo Bianchi
Alex Polidori
Riccardo Suarez
PRODUCED BY
Ivan Olgiati, Stefania Marconi, Daniele Paganelli
ASSOCIATED PRODUCER
Gloria Giorgianni per Anele
PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR
Gianmarco Rossetti
EDITING
Davide Rossetti
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Guglielmo Trautvetter
ANIMATION
Giacomo Giuriato
SOUNDTRACK
Matteo Malferrari
PUPPET MACKER
Matteo Burani
POST PRODUCTION
Jacopo Gaustini, Luca Lazzarin
DIGITAL VIDEO EFFECTS
Sara Passuti
SOUND
Giovanni Frezza
PROMOTION
Stefania Marconi, Chiara Galloni
DISTRIBUTION
Paolo Pellicano.
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(Steveo, Summer 2024) I’m not an attention 'hore, more an attention pimp. Just ask Johnny Knoxville. I’ve had this tattoo idea for a long time, before the movie Jackass, and it finally happened (but only after the movie because Johnny chickened out and wouldn’t let me do it on camera for our MTV film). I told Post Malone to tattoo a dick on my forehead, giving penis tattooing a whole new meaning. You thought a Prince Albert was bad. At least that's hidden. It wasn't my first bad tattoo idea:
"Getting dumb, regrettable tattoos has been a hobby of mine for decades, and many of them arguably went too far. One, in particular, was such an unbelievable disasterpiece, I'm hereby asking you all for ideas to further transform it into something I can feel really good about. Please check out the video and leave your tattoo-cover-up suggestions in the comment section. Thanks!"- Steve-O, July 2019.
This is no joke! Well, it's kind of funny. Use condoms - Jackass too hot for MTV, so it goes Hollywood
It's not gay if...whatcha say?!
Evidence of explicit genital male representations [d*ck drawings?] have been found in "art" made in Europe approximately 11,000 to 38,000 years ago.
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Many of us love the idea, or perhaps casually entertain the notion, that the choices we make in life will somehow not a play a factor down the road. It's inconvenient for us to think about because it might put the brakes on whatever desires we want to act on in the moment. Let's consider the tradeoffs.
I learned the hard way that life, though unfair at times, is a giant investment firm that rewards us according to our actions.
This is my take: Whoring around is not ideal. There, I said it. It's not ideal. Bam, deal with it. It should be avoided at all costs.
I see the lust in your eyes. Want to get freaky? Why sowing your wild oats is a terrible mental, emotional, and physical investment you will regret all the days of your life except maybe the days you're doing it, and don't think the Judge ain't seeing you do it neither because what if He is, then who's going to regret it?
The all-German ideal of a WASP family
I understand that in our youth, say, between ages 16 and 25 or thereabouts (maybe 13-31 for some) we're at our physical peak, raging with hormones, desiring to have a blast in life before settling and turning ourselves in to start serving a long marriage sentence with family and kids around our mid 20s or early 30s.
I'm not a prude. I'm all for having a blast since our youth is really short and life only offers a one-way ticket to that other thing (nonlife).
However, I suggest that whoring around should not be part of the package called a fun life.
Being loose sexually isn't all it's cracked up to be, at least not in the end. All it ever leaves behind is -- well, sure, along with some great memories -- is regret and feeling dirty.
Yeah, sure, it feels great in the moment while doing what the body desires, but when its all said and done, we're left holding the short end of the stick. Hear me out.
Maybe we never catch an STI that harms us physically, but mentally and emotionally a promiscuous lifestyle carries a heavy price, a boatload of baggage like heartbreak, infidelity (cheating), distrust, and a lack of intimacy.
Sensitives should think twice about carnal fun.
Once we finish sowing our wild oats and decide it's time for a sweet harvest, I'm saying we will not be reaping oatmilk or drinking the cream of the crop.
We will mostly likely be forced to settle for the bottom of the barrel -- rejects, washed up single moms who no one really desires for marriage or a serious relationship as they once did when they were in their prime.
What could be worse than a man in his 40s or 50s with a beer gut who looks like he's carrying twins, balding with a dead-end job?
For guys who decide to get a younger woman in her prime to settle down versus a decade or more older, don't think for a second that it's a win just because she's a decade younger. Don't think that she's somehow not from the bottom of the barrel neither.
The cute face she has and the fit body do not play a role in her character, not at all. She won't have a problem being sneaky, blowing a younger stud off behind your back and lying to your face about it with no shame about it at all; not to mention that she deep down desires a physically young looking, fun stud rather than dealing with your E.D. old arse anyways.
Fun now, tears later
Bad tattoo ideas that make it worse
As a self-righteous Christian now, I wish I had had a mentor leading me, teaching me the ways of Lord G and his Word when I was young, in high school or college, so I could be an obedient sheep and not stray or be too black of a sheep murmuring about how everything sucks when we don't get what we want when we want it.
It would have saved me from getting into fun things I had no business getting into like pleasure and relations and drugs and drink and what not.
Like I said in the beginning, our actions are always followed by results, truth and consequences, whether we like it or not. We may not feel the effects right now and right here, in most cases, you know, not all, but most. But believe you me that that vicious dog will catch up to us down the road, years later, and put a mean bite on our rear ends. Eventually it ain't going to be hahaha no more like it once was in the beforetime, the salad days of our youth, when we were having fun.
The seeds and choices we make and sow or sow and make today will be the harvest of our tomorrows just as surely as the leaf follows the tree, the sun the moon, and the milkshake the cow. Make no mistake. We will bear it all alone or with our spouse, or maybe our friends, and of course our family and companions, and maybe even our workmates and possibly strangers.
We're solely responsible for our life, in addition to all the people around influencing us. In the end, it pays to live and do right by others and by ourselves and not live a sexually loose lifestyle. Not to be too heavy, but take it from me because I partied like The Dickens and had a good old time and am now miserable every day full of regret and shame and punishment by the Judge and forced to write moralizing diatribes to save others from the great heck hole that awaits anyone who dares to even dream of thinking of beginning to ponder doing anything bad. Don't be bad.
Or don't say I didn't tell you so. I could get all preachy and find some Bible quotes that don't really relate directly but you know you shouldn't be doing nothing your granny wouldn't do because they knew how to live back in the good old days unlike now when everything's all loosey goosey and who knows what's going to happen. Take heed, folks, you heard it from me. Word to the wise, guys, don't pee it all away or, alack and alas, the grime reefer awaits with his hand on a jay puffing away like there's no tomorrow and you'll be singing that hippie anthem "Hey hey live for today, sha la la la..." More
(MSNBC) July 26, 2024: JD Vance wrote the forward to the Project 2025 agenda that Trump is to run as far away from as possible. The Trump campaign says the ex-president will not commit to a debate until VP Kamala Harris is the official Democratic nominee. And then at that time, he will find another reason to avoid debating her. Also, JD Vance is facing growing backlash for comments he made about childless people in 2021, about who should pay taxes, and about how much he and Trump are invested in living out the Project 2025. Former New York Rep. Max Rose and former advisor to George W. Bush and John McCain Mark McKinnon join Ana Cabrera to share their political analysis. #JDVance #Trump #Politics
Donald Trump may ditch JD Vance as VP after ‘damaging’ week
(Sky News Australia) July 29, 2024: Speculation continues to grow over whether former US Pres. DJ Trump will ditch JD Vance as his running mate after a “very damaging” week.
It comes as a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson resurfaced last week, in which Vance referred to Democrats like AOC and VP Kamala as a "bunch of childless cat ladies" who don’t have a stake in the future of the country.
The Republican VP nominee has since defended his comments after facing backlash following the remarks he made back in 2021.
The Australian’s Washington Correspondent Adam Creighton joined Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss the recent backlash the senator is facing and whether Trump will remove him from the ticket as the Republican vice president nominee.
“It’s been very damaging,” Creighton said.
“I mean he's had to explain himself and as they say in politics if you’re explaining you're losing and there’s been a lot of explaining this week.”
The woman behind the viral Hawk Tuah meme speaks out for the first time
(Plan Bri Uncut) July 1, 2024: Haliey Welch has taken the internet by storm these past few weeks over a street interview that went mega viral. No one could find her, but Brianna Lapaglia of Plan Bri Uncut sat down with her and Hawk Tuah Jr. (drunk friend Chelsea) and asked all the questions the internet has been dying to know. She's a cowgirl Southerner from Tennessee but not a fan of Trump?
(Page Six) July 4, 2024: Starved-for-sex Americans just can't get enough of sexy Southerner. “Hawk Tuah Girl” (Hailey Welch), the young woman who shot to online superstardom thanks to an X-rated on-the-street interview, has shot down widespread calls for her to join OnlyFans (so everyone can see her naked) — even as her viral fame continues to skyrocket.
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We love her more than you!
Hailey Welch, 22, ruled out joining the racy (degrading) website on Wednesday as she called on her newfound fans to quit pestering her for the account details.
“Stop asking me about the link in bio for my OnlyFans,” Welch said in a clip posted on her Instagram.
“I don’t have an OnlyFans, and there’ll never be an OnlyFans. I just make funny jokes; that’s all I do.” Read more at nypost.com...
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