Showing posts with label true. Show all posts
Showing posts with label true. Show all posts

Sunday, June 28, 2026

Rome removed 'true' Jesus to control us


The Roman Empire REMOVED the "True" Jesus to control Christians
Prof Jiang Explains(Prof Jiang Explains) June 25, 2026: Mainstream Christianity doesn't want us to know the real Jesus (Y'shua, Kristos, the Anointed One, Saint Issa, Isa).

Discovered in 1945, the [Lost] Gospel of Thomas reveals a radically different Jesus whose teachings were suppressed by the Roman-backed Catholic ["Universalist"] Church.

This ancient text exposes a profound truth: the divine spark resides within each of us, making us all "sons of the living [sky] father," directly challenging hierarchical church control.
Prof. Jiang Xuehin delves into these revolutionary teachings, drawing parallels to Plato's Allegory of the Cave and other ancient wisdom [and ancient Gnostic] traditions.

Jesus' true message wasn't about blind faith or external salvation. It was about inner knowledge, self-mastery, and the rejection of material intoxication.

The Church worships the Adversary

He saw organized religion and the pursuit of worldly power as distractions, keeping humanity from recognizing its own inherent divinity and interconnectedness.

Uncover the shocking truth behind the "official" narrative. Learn why Jesus opposed the religious authorities of his time and taught that seeking knowledge, even if it means questioning established "gods," is the path to true fulfillment and spiritual awakening.

This clip will change everything viewers thought they knew about the foundations of Christianity and our place in the universe.

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Who's my true SELF, false self? (Alan Watts)

  • WARNING: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain" - the Great Alexander Pope (reddit)
O, those Greeks of Macedonia were something
This is in reference to the spring in the Pierian Mountains in Macedonia, sacred to the Muses. The first line of this couplet is often misquoted as "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

In Greek mythology, the "Pierian Spring" of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia was sacred to the mythological Pierides and the Muses. As the metaphorical source of knowledge of art and science, it was popularized by a couplet in Pope's 1711 poem An Essay on Criticism:

Alexander Pope "high" on his Muse
A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts [sips] intoxicate the brain,
And drinking [more medicine] largely sobers us again.
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts;
While from the bounded level of our mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind,
But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise!
So pleased at first the towering Alps we try,
Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky;
The eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last;
But those attained, we tremble to survey
The growing labors of the lengthened way;
The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes,
Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

(After Skool)

I don't know what I'm supposed to think.
Alan Watts, what is The Self (Ego), the True Self, False Self, Higher Self, Eternal Atman, Soul, Invisible Spirit (Prana, the Pneuma, Holy Spirit), Immortal Essence, Sine Qua Non of Me, Myself, and I?

Who am "I"?
  • Wisdom Quarterly says there is "NO self."
  • WQ says no such thing. What we say is that, in an ultimate sense, "self" (soul, ego, atman, atta, spirit) is impersonal.
  • So there IS a "self"?
  • In a conventional sense, of course there is! How else would we live in a squiggly universe without a sense of our boundaries demarcating where we end and others start?
  • Oh, so I don't have to give everything away, join a commune, and do whatevers my Guru tells me to?
  • Ugh, no, you do not. Be yourself. Think. Practice. Buddhism only makes sense for those who practice the Dhamma, not the debaters or scholars of it.
Joe Rogan: some "drugs" are not drugs

Been Dazed 'n Confused for so long it's not true

DMT on LSD: Reptilian transformation

Ego death is good?
Wait, then, so I'm as "real" as this chair? - Yes.
EGO DEATH is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity" [1]. The term is used in various contexts, with related meanings.

The 19th-century psychologist and philosopher William James uses the synonymous term "self-surrender." Jungian psychology uses the synonymous term "psychic death," referring to a fundamental transformation of the psyche (soul) [2].

So I can be responsible with a career? - Yes.
In death and rebirth explanations, ego death is a phase of self-surrender and transition [3, 4, 5, 6] as described by mythologist Joseph Campbell in his research on the "Hero's Journey" [3].

It is a recurrent theme in world mythology and is also used as a metaphor in some strands of contemporary Western thinking [6].

What if I can't get it to stop?
In descriptions of drugs, the term is used synonymously with "ego loss" [7, 8, 1, 9] to refer to temporary loss of one's sense of having a self due to the use or abuse of drugs [10, 11, 1], be they negative (deluded) hallucinogens or positive (pro-realization) entheogens.

The term was used as such by Harvard Dr. Timothy Leary and others [1] to describe the death of the ego [12] in the first phase of an LSD trip, in which a "complete transcendence" of the self [Note 1] occurs.


Did the Grateful Dead know about this?
The concept is also used in contemporary New Age spirituality and in the modern understanding of ancient Eastern religions (such as Nondualism/Advaita/Oneness) to describe a permanent loss of "attachment to a separate sense of self" [Web 1] and self-centeredness [13] (egoism, egotism, selfishness, conceit).

This kind of conception is a part of Eckhart Tolle's Buddhist-like teachings, where Ego is presented as an accumulation of thoughts and emotions, continuously identified with [and clung to], which creates the idea and feeling of being a separate entity from one's self, and only by disidentifying one's consciousness from it can one truly be free from suffering [14]. More

Life: break us to wake us? DRUNK

(T&H Inspiration & Motivation) I was disgusted, busted, and not to be trusted. I was a drunkard, an alcoholic. I wasted 33 years of my life in my head before Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins explained this

I'm going to go divinely mad: LOVE
The incessant chatter of the Self

Friday, November 14, 2025

Romantic love? (Thich Nhat Hanh)


Does Buddhism support romantic love?
(Plum Village) Thich Nhat Hanh or "Thai" answers questions during a retreat in Plum Village (May 2014). Question: "If Buddhism supports love for Mother Nature, why doesn't it also support romantic love between two people and demonstrations of affection between two people?

(Plum Village App) Love, Desire, and Intimacy (short teaching video)

Help us caption and translate this video (amara.org/v/FzFP).

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Punk in the Park 2025, Los Angeles (tour)

LA punk legends Bad Religion live at the Hollywood Palladium (DVD, live show only)
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Punk in the Park TICKETS | San Pedro, CA
PUNK IN THE PARK comes to San Pedro, Los Angeles, California on October 4 and 5, 2025 | Berth 46 ​

​ ​​ Punk in the Park, North America’s premier outdoor punk rock and craft festival, returns to Southern California on Saturday, October 4th and Sunday, October 5th for two epic days of punk rock at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
What's punk rock, Gramps? - Let's go to Vegas, and I'll show you (thepunkrockmuseum.com)
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Punk in the Park Los Angeles will take over Berth 46 at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, Southern California with 40+ bands on three stages, along with a craft brew festival, Punk Rock Swap Meet, and Vinyl Village.

Los Angeles lineup
This is too hardcore for KLOS (KROQ.com)
Punk in the Park Los Angeles
will feature headlining performances from Bad Religion and Pennywise (Saturday), Descendents and The Interrupters (Sunday), along with Face To Face, Screeching Weasel, The Adicts, Stiff Little Fingers, Street Dogs, Comeback Kid, The Bronx, The Casualties, Michael McColgan & The Bomb Squad, T.S.O.L., Adolescents, Agent Orange, Manic Hispanic, Dead To Me, Teenage Bottlerocket, Authority Zero, The Bombpops, Dwarves, The Aggrolites, The Queers, The Briggs, Ignite, Death By Stereo, Spiritual Camp, Niis, Slaughterhouse, The Drowns, Left Alone, Chaser, Crazy & The Brains, Love Canal, DFL, Grito, Toxic Energy, Terror Attack, and more.

Event details​
  • Saturday, October 4th, 2025
  • Sunday, October 5th, 2025
  • Doors open at noon
  • Location: Berth 46, 3011 Miner Street,
  • San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA 90731
  • Punk Festival | Punk in the Park | San Pedro, CA
  • Seth Auberon, Crystal Q., Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

The True Nature of Existence (Class 3)

There's another BuddhistSummerSchool.org?
What is the Heart Sutra really about other than realizing that all of these "heaps" or "aggregates" are devoid of self, empty (shunyata), without self, not the property of a self, not under the control of a self? But there seems to be a "self" (atta, atman, or soul). What is that? That is the functional integration of the Five Aggregates: form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, consciousness.

But if 'I' am not I, what am I?

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Happy birthday, DJ: DC War Parade (live)


Is Trump to be the Human Rat King? - Do The Simpsons really say such things?

I got my copying Elaine Benes
Yeah, he got them from me. I'm the best!

Ohio's Dave Chappelle explains Trump's popularity - Who is Trump for, whites, Blacks, or rich?

I am the king, the unchallenged king...
Hey, Everybody, come to my party, I mean, the U.S. military's 100 million dollar party with tanks tearing up the street! It's turning 250, older than my country. Yeah, MY country, not your country no more.

I'm turning 79 and it's about time I start telling the truth. You can dance and you can cheer and you can buy my branded memorabilia. But you better not try to protest or disrupt my festivities, I mean my military festivities. And no Anti-Jew things, we're at war right now. 
I hope my BFF Elon Musk brings his tanks.
Go do your King Day celebratings somewheres else, not in MY town DC. Why do they call it DC? Is it not in Columbia, the original name of America?  I'dunno. That's where my throne is, where I rules from. I replaced the porcelain with pure gold for my bottom, that's MY throne. I wish Melania could see it. Where is she? Anyways, it's gonna be alotta fun. See you alls there!!

The Simpsons on future and Tupac Shakur on New Yorker Trump (Prof. Bob Reich)


What are we creating in our USA?

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

True Nature of Reality (Bhikkhu Bodhi)


Four Elements Meditation
Venerable sir, what is the true nature of existence? American Theravada scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi (Chaung Yen Monastery, Carmel, Upstate New York, BAUS.org) explains from a set of ten lectures called The Buddha's Teaching: As It Is, which he recorded while residing at the Washington DC Buddhist Vihara.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Buddhism: Rebirth not Reincarnation


Buddhism on Rebirth and Reincarnation: Rebirth is NOT reincarnation
(Buddhism Podcast) Jan. 15, 2025: The Buddhist understanding of rebirth is not about becoming something else in the future. It is about transforming who we are right now. 
  • [WARNING: The AI voiceover mispronounces every Pali term, pronouncing it without consideration to what language it is but rather treating it like it were following English pronunciation rules.]
  • 00:00 - Intro
  • 00:11 - Understanding Rebirth in Buddhism
  • 04:32 - Reincarnation in Other Traditions
  • 08:40 - Key Differences Between Rebirth and Reincarnation
  • 12:50 - Understanding the Process of Death and Rebirth
  • 18:33 - Modern Understanding and Daily Practice
Uncover how understanding rebirth as distinct from ideas about "reincarnation" illuminates the true nature of existence, the cycles of suffering, and the underlying mechanisms of cause and effect (or how one cause has many effects, and each effect is itself a cause).

Grasp how comprehending the Buddha's teachings offers essential insight into the true nature of reality, the path to final liberation from all suffering, and the cultivation of profound wisdom and boundless compassion.

See how these ancient teachings offer practical guidance for living a more meaningful life, free from clinging to attachments, and in accordance with ethical principles that benefit all.

This knowledge changes how we see our lives. #rebirth #reincarnation #buddhismpodcast #buddhist

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Monday, December 9, 2024

Going to California (Reservation Dogs)


Reservation Dogs: Best of Season 3
(FX via HEXXXX) Oct. 27, 2023: Follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who lie, cheat, and steal in order to get to the exotic, faraway, and mysterious land known as "California," where everything is golden and easy. To succeed, they will have to save enough money, outmaneuver the meth heads at the junkyard on the edge of town and survive a turf war against a much tougher rival gang. This first-of-its-kind creative team tells a story that resonates with them and their lived experiences -- which is amazingly universal for nearly all American teens trying to grow up, rebel, and make something better of their lives than what they see around them.

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Math Goddess: 'Man Who Knew Infinity'

Tridevi: Sarasvati, Lakshmi (aka Namagiri Thayar), and Parvati (Divine Feminine)
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The Man Who Knew Infinity (Free w/ads PG-13)
(YouTube Movies & TV) Based on a true story, Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel star in this inspirational film about an obscure Indian mathematician whose groundbreaking theories changed mathematics forever.

The Goddess told me these secrets.
  • If the genius author (the modern rishi Srinivasa Ramanujan) is to be taken at his word, it is not his genius but that of his Hindu Goddess Namagiri Thayar who imparted pure math knowledge and insights. She is said to be an avatar or incarnation of Lakshmi Narayana, though the titular goddess of knowledge and learning in the Hindu pantheon is said to be the great Saraswati (who together with Parvati and Lakshmi form a trinity known as Tridevi).
Indian math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar[a] (Dec. 22, 1887–April 26, 1920) was an Indian mathematician often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He had almost no formal training in pure mathematics. Yet, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation. According to Hans Eysenck, "he tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered." More