As America's most beloved holiday Halloween fast approaches (and adults prepare for all kinds of kink) and children dream of sugar and more sugar, years of television programming (mind control) inclines the mind to the morbid, gory, and unspeakable. This is the only time of year to even attempt to speak of such things. Horror in the movies is one thing; in real life, it's quite another. It isn't Halloween's fault. Nor can we blame Obon, Samhain, the Day of the Dead, or other cultural commemorations of the departed and all this ghostly, ghastly, and frightful.
(Farrell McGuire) April 3, 2026: The local news is a part of our day that most may not give much thought to. It's a mundane form of mainstream media only meant to inform and nothing more. Yet several incidents have occurred over the years in which case "normal" newscasts have gone wrong for horrible reasons. Today, let's explore a few of these dark cases.
Dick and Bush and gay serial child rapist Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert (2003)
In prison for paying to cover up his love of boys
(CBS Chicago) Oct. 5, 2026: Former Illinois congressman and longtime U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who went to prison for cover up hush money payments to cover up his rape of boy in a child sex abuse scandal, died of natural causes this weekend at age 84.
Republican serial gay child molester U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies
Disgraced Republican homosexual, Christian sodomite, wrestling coach, child molester, and gay Boy Scout leader Congressman Dennis Hastert, 84, has died after being caught and convicted in a child sex abuse scandal. Hastert who delighted in molesting schoolboys he coached to wrestle has he put them in compromising positions. He was successfully prosecuted for financial crimes in the cover up of his primary crimes.
I built this to heal, time travel, reverse gravity.
Although sound baths are more grounded in science from Earth, the Karl sisters nonetheless lean into The Integratron’s unique extraterrestrial history, with builder George Van Tassel and his Venusian ET contact beliefs featuring prominently on the official website. The sisters continue to operate the landmark today. Visiting for a meditation and sound bath on a recent afternoon was a diverse crowd. There were crystal-collecting yogis, as well as curious retirees vacationing at nearby Joshua Tree National Park. More
"The Integratron" is a 38-foot-tall (12 m) cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by UFOlogist and space alien contacteeGeorge Van Tassel.
The Integratron, Van Tassel claimed, is capable of human rejuvenation, anti-gravity, and time travel.
The Integratron is a structure built in Southern California (in Landers, near spiritual hotspotJoshua Tree), following instructions that Van Tassel consistently claimed were provided directly to him by extraterrestrial visitors from the planet Venus.
The Integratron machine technology was started in 1957, the structure erected in 1959. It was financed predominantly by donations, including funds from superrich recluse Howard Hughes [1, 2].
After Van Tassel's passing in 1978, the building had a series of owners (and was left in various states of disrepair) before sisters Joanne, Nancy, and Patty Karl bought it in the early 2000s.
The three sisters promote the Integratron as an "acoustically perfect structure" and offer "sound baths" they describe as "meditation-like sessions accompanied by tones from 22 quartzcrystal bowls, creating binaural beats for relaxation and rejuvenation" [1].
The building is now a part of the National Historic Register and continues to be stewarded by the Karl sisters and their adult children. More
It's easy to love mom, but what about dad? What has the Men's Movement done for males in this patriarchy? (There are feminist men?) In the U.S., whether or not to celebrate "Father's Day" nationwide is a matter of debate. In 1908, Grace Golden Clayton proposed a day to honor men who had died in a U.S. mining accident. It was rejected then.
But in 1909, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, who along with her five brothers had been raised by a single father, attended "Mother's Day" in a church.
She then convinced the Spokane Ministerial Association to celebrate Father's Day nationwide [7]. In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on Nov. 19th in honor of men and boys [8]: Father's Day
In the Pāli canon, there are only two discourses (sutras) that explicitly reference Suddhodana, the Mahāpadāna Sutta (DN 14) and in the verse prologue of the Nālaka Sutta (Sn 3.11). In each of these discourses, Suddhodana is represented simply as the Buddha's father and as a Sakyan ruler.
Who is Prince Siddhattha's father, the Gandharan (Afghanterritorialchieftain?*) King Suddhodana? In Theravada Buddhism (a major branch) — Suddhodana is recorded in the ancient Pali canon.
He was a Saka, Sakka, Shakya, Scythian, Sakiyan raja ("king," "leader," "head," "royal") in Kapilavatthu, the father of Prince Siddhattha Gotama, who became the historical Buddha.
He was the son of Sihahanu and Kaccana. His brothers were Dhotodana, Sakkodana, Sukkodana, and Amitodana, and his sisters were Amita and Pamita.
Maya was his chief consort. After her death, her sister Pajapati was elevated to that position (Mhv.ii.15f.; Dpv.iii.45; J.i.15, etc.)
When soothsayers predicted that his son Siddhattha had two destinies awaiting him, either that of a universal monarch (cakkavatti, chakravartin) if he stayed in the world or a universal teacher (Buddhahood) if he renounced it, he exerted his utmost effort to provide the prince with all kinds of sensual luxuries and hedonistic pleasures to hold him to the household life.
It is said (e.g., J.i.54) that when Asita, who was his father's [Brahmin] chaplain and teacher, visited King Suddhodana to see the newborn prince, he paid homage to the infant by allowing his feet to rest on his head. Suddhodana was filled with wonder and also worshipped the child.
I wish for you to be a noble warrior, my son.
Seven years later, at the annual Ploughing Festival ceremony, Suddhodana saw that the shadow of the jambu tree under which the child had been placed in the shade when he spontaneously went into meditative absorption (jhana, samadhi) did not move even as the sun traveled overhead. Then the child, seated cross-legged without moving, levitated in the air. So he again worshipped him (J.i.57f).
Twenty-nine years later, when in spite of all his father's efforts, Prince Siddhattha renounced and left behind the household life and took to practicing austerities in the East, Suddhodana sent a messenger/private investigator to find his son and see what he was up to.
The investigator returned with news that his son had died, owing to the severity of his penances (tapas). But Suddhodana refused to believe it, saying that his son would never die without achieving his spiritual goal (J.i.67).
When this was afterwards related to the Buddha, he taught the Maha Dhammapala Jataka, showing that in the past, too, Suddhodana had refused to believe that his son could have died even when he was shown the heap of his bones.
I failed as a father. My son left.
Seven years after that, when news reached Suddhodana that his son had reached enlightenment, he sent a messenger to Veluvana in Rajagaha ("Bamboo Grove" in Rajgir, where King Bimbisara reigned) with many others to invite the Buddha to return home and visit the seasonal capital of Kapilavatthu.
But when the messenger and his companions heard the Buddha teach, they renounced worldly life, entered the Monastic Order, and forgot their mission. This happened nine more times with different messengers.
On the tenth occasion, King Suddhodana sent Kaludayi (Sanskrit Kālodāyin) who had advance permission to join the Sangha on the express condition that he give the king's invitation to the Buddha.
The next day, when King Suddhodana remonstrated his royal (noble, warrior) son, the Buddha, because he was seen "begging" (going on almsround) on the streets of Kapilavatthu, the Buddha told him that surviving on offerings was the custom of all buddhas. Hearing this, King Suddhodana became a stream enterer (sotapanna, the first stage of enlightenment).
Son, at 16, you shall marry the beautiful Bimba.
He then offered to feed his new teacher the Buddha, inviting him to visit the palace, where he entertained him. At the end of the meal offering, the Buddha further taught the king, who became a once returner (sakadagami, J.i.90; cf. DhA.iii.164f).
This was when the Buddha was reunited with Princess Bimba (Yasodhara) and his 7-year-old son Rahula, both of whom were "saved" in that they were inspired to renounce their worldly lives in the palace and take up the path-of-practice the Buddha taught as wandering ascetics. In no long time, they both became enlightened. Many Saka/Shakya/Scythian relatives were inspired to follow suit, join the Sangha (spiritual community), and make an end of all suffering.
The king then became a nonreturner (anagami, the third of four stages of awakening) after hearing the Maha Dhammapala Jataka (DhA.i.99; J.iv.55).
Suddhodana was the Bodhisatta or Buddha-to-be’s father in numerous previous births, but he is mentioned as such by name in only a few birth (jātaka) tales, namely:
*Where is the real Kapilavatthu (Sanskrit Kapilavastu)? There were three seasonal capitals (with three palaces, one for each season) of the Sakas, Shakyas, Indo-Scythians of Gandhara, which we speculate were Kabul, Bamiyan, and Mes Aynak. Was Suddhodana really a "king" as we understand the term? A janapada is the "foothold of a family clan," in the case the Sakas. More likely he was a tribal leader as of the Pashtun's loya jirga. While the Pashtuns may be new to the area of Bamiyan, the tradition of leadership "councils" seems to be longstanding.
They called Half Dome "just like the gym." They all died.
(The Last Hike) Aug. 15, 2026: Welcome to the channel. Today we'll watch the story of influencers going up and over Half Dome, after they called the hike "just like the gym." Then they died. Enjoy and don’t forget not to remember to subscribe for more videos completely not unlike this.
Half Dome is a quartz batholith at the eastern end of the valley in Yosemite National Park. It is a well-known rock formation in the park, named for its distinct shape. One side is a sheer face while the other three sides are smooth and round, making it appear like a dome cut in half. It stands at over 8,800 feet above sea level and is composed of quartz monzonite, an igneous rock that solidified several thousand feet within the Earth. At its core are the remains of a magma chamber that cooled slowly and crystallized beneath the Earth's surface. The solidified magma chamber was then exposed and cut in half by erosion, therefore leading to its geographic name [3]. More
Wendigo: an ancient monster on the trail, a mythological cryptid shapeshifter or malevolent spirit originating in Native Algonquian folklore. It is sometimes depicted with human-like characteristics and may possess human beings, causing victims to feel insatiable hunger, crave human flesh, and murder.
(The Theory of Samsara) CANADA - I'm done. I can't do this anymore! Why I'm giving up my Western Vajrayana Buddhist monastic robes as a lama.
The Bhavacakra is a Tibetan Buddhist depiction of Saṃsāra, the "Wheel of Life and Death" (the "continued wandering on," cycling through endless rebirths in search of unattainable satisfaction and fulfillment through pleasure).
All things are hurtling towards destruction. If they just ended, that might be all right. Sadly, they will renew, and the suffering (dukkha, "disappointment") will continue. Beings in their becoming (bhava) will continue to wandering, not having made an end of suffering in this life, never having glimpsed nirvana (won the stream).
The same applies to Buddhist monastics (monks and nuns) who fail, fall short of the goal, or quit. Westerners will one day learn the wisdom of the East.
Sangha means "spiritual community"
Take care of one another, monks.
One key is that the monastic experience is a collective one, not a solo endeavor. It would be nice to move into a cave and just meditate. But that is not how the Buddha set up this path-of-practice towards enlightenment (bodhi) and liberation (nirvana) in this very life.
So, sadly, another one bites the dust. This fine Western monk realized too late that going it alone was no way to go. Support is crucial. How crucial is it? One day, the Buddha's attendant, the much-beloved Ven. Ananda realized something, and he went to the Buddha to confirm it.
Venerable sir, it seems to me that half the high life [the life of well-conducted monastic in the Buddha's Dharma] is noble friendship, good companions on this path.
"Do not say so, Ananda, do not say so!" the Buddha scolded Ananda.
Ananda was startled. Surely noble friends (kalyana-mitta) are wonderful companions, helpers, inspirers, guides, supporters, and encouragers along this sometimes-arduous path to awakening.
The Buddha continued, "they are not half the path; they are the whole path!" If only someone had told this fine gentleman before he set off alone on so noble a task as carrying on the tradition.
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