Thursday, April 10, 2025
How all life began: Big Bangs by Bashar
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Interview: Kamala 'Word Salad' H. & Walz
- VIDEO: Spin for the nominal left (MeidasTouch)
- VIDEO: More pro-Kamala spin (Brian Tyler Cohen)
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| C'mon, JP, vote for me. *Wink* |
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| You go, Girl! - I intend to, believe me. |
- Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com, 8/31/24); CNN, Aug. 29, 2024; Sky News Australia, 8/29/24; Awaken with JP, Aug. 2, 2024; David Pakman Show; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Saturday, September 9, 2023
Poet Olivia Gatwood knocks 'em dead (video)
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| Here's an ode to my resting bitch face (O.G.) |
- "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" (Olivia Gatwood, Button Poetry)
- Dharma Lemon (feature) live at El Cid open mic, Los Angeles
- Get Lit: Words Ignite - Classic Poetry Slam
Monday, January 15, 2018
POEM: "Until I Come to Rest"
The 102 titles in Tales From the Otherground: 30 Years Tending the Wordrows of Elsewhen represent about 10% of the author's wordwork for the three decades spanning 1983-2013.
Some recurring themes are: working, studying, hoping, thinking, walking, remembering, doubting, more thinking, driving, regretting, resolving, thinking again, leaving, loneliness, returning, and thinking some more. If you appreciate antiquated language... MoreFriday, December 29, 2017
ALAN WATTS: Are we brainwashed? (video)
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| The Path of Freedom: Vimutti-magga |
We have 28,000 days that make up our entire lives, so spending even an hour of that doing things we hate in order to try to live up to a lifestyle we were taught by our parents, teachers, and society is a form of psychic suicide.
"We all run on two clocks," says Max Lerner. "One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season.
"The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.”
Are you tired of playing the social game?
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Alan Watts asks: What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? Let’s suppose -- I do this often in vocational guidance of students, [when] they come to me and say, well: 'We’re getting out of college and we haven't the faintest idea what we want to do."![]() |
| Fight the power. Praise the freedom! |
Monday, February 18, 2013
Old Testament is Forgery; Pope gets immunity
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| Dangerous reading: Read all about the Bible and apocrypha before believing the translations |
How We Detect The Forgery
THE Word of God a
forgery! I can understand the bewilderment of a religious reader, but
let one consider coolly what the statement means. It does not mean that
God forged a book. It means that men forged a book in God's name. That
can be examined dispassionately by anybody.You never heard of it? Why, they hold -- and quite rightly -- that almost all of the stories of saints and martyrs which are treasured in the Roman Church are forgeries; and there are Roman Catholic scholars who agree with them! They hold -- all the non-Roman historians in the world hold -- that the documents on which the power of Rome is essentially based are sheer forgeries. They hold that from the 6th to the 12th century Roman priests poured upon Europe a flood of forgeries, very much to their own profit.
The simple question here is whether ancient Jewish priests had done the same thing a thousand years before. But that is different, you say. These supposed forgeries are not lives of saints and decrees of councils, but the Word of God. Well then, what is a forgery? More
- How We Detect the Forgery
- The Priestly Forgers
- The Mistakes of Moses
- The Mythical History of the Jews
- The Truth About the Prophets
- Pious Fiction
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| What? I don't know nothing about no laws, courts, banks, child molesting, or Vatican politics. |
(Reuters) - Pope Benedict's decision to live in the Vatican [a private corporation within a city-state known as the "Holy See," which is not part of Rome or Italy but located on the grounds of an ancient Mithra temple complex repurposed for the "holy" Roman Empire's Christian Universalism a.k.a. catholicism] after he resigns [i.e., escapes prosecution] will provide him with security and privacy [in the face of the anticipated furor, while giving him the ability to save face by saying he quit because of his health and age, not his intention to evade prosecution as the CEO of the Vatican, Inc. engaged in a criminal conspiracy to shield homosexual pedophiles and corrupt Vatican bankers].
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| Now who's foolish, me or my church? |
Monday, May 11, 2009
Bad Words: the Karma of Talking
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[On the subject of karma and talking, the Buddha said:] I declare that [physical, verbal, or mental] actions willed, per-formed, and accumulated will not become extinct as long as their results have not been experienced, be it in this life, in the next life, or in subsequent future lives. And as long as these results of actions willed, performed, and accumulated have not been experienced, there will be no making an end to suffering, I declare....And how is tainted failure in living fourfold in verbal acts?
There is one who is a "liar." When one is in the council in one's community or in another assembly, or among one's relatives, one's guild, in the royal court, or when one has been summoned as a witness and is asked to tell what one knows, then,
- though one does not know, one will say, "I know";
- though one does know, one will say, "I do not know";
- though one has not seen, one will say, "I have seen"; and
- though one has seen, one will say, "I have not seen."
2. One utters divisive speech: what one hears here one reports elsewhere to foment conflict there; and what one hears elsewhere one reports here to foment conflict here.
3. One speaks harshly, using speech that is coarse, rough, bitter, and abusive, that makes others angry and causes distraction of mind. It is such speech that one utters.
4. One indulges in frivolous chit chat: one speaks what is untimely, unreasonable, and unbeneficial, having no connection with the Doctrine or the Discipline [the Dharma or the Vinaya]. One's talk is not worth treasuring; it is inopportune, inadvisable, unrestrained, and harmful.
In this way, tainted failure in living is fourfold in verbal acts.*
*NOTE: On the threefold ripening of karma, see Text 24 and Chapter III, Note 13. The Buddha's statement -- that there is no making an end to suffering without experiencing the results of all actions performed -- must be understood with the reservation (which [the commentary] makes explicit in connection with "karma ripening in future lives") that reference is to "karma that is actually capable of yielding a karmic result" (vipakaraha-kamma).
But under certain circumstances karma can be annulled by a counteractive or destructive karma, and the arhat, by terminating the conditions for rebirth, extinguishes the potential for ripening of all one's past karma. The statement in the present text must also be understood in the light of the following sutra passage:
"If one says that in whatever way a person performs a karmic action, in that very same way one will experience the result -- in that case there will be no (possibility for) the holy life [brahmacarya or a life leading to enlightenment], and no opportunity would appear for making a complete end to suffering.
"But if one says that a person who performs a karmic action (with a result) that is variably experienceable, will reap its result accordingly -- in that case there will be (a possibility for) the holy life, and an opportunity would appear for making a complete end to suffering" (AN III, 110).
- Excerpts from "The Extinction of Karma" discourse (AN X, 206) translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi, from the book The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, Chapter of the Tens, Discourse 206.















