The Moment You See Someone Hot, Realize They're A Demon, And You're In Hell

"THE CRACK EMCEE TOLD US TO - AND LAUREN BOEBERT'S GRABBING CROTCHES":

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HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM:

  The Dalai Lama Is Landing in the Middle of the 2024 Election

JUST LIKE THAT:

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WE CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY ANYTHING

: Americans still not sold on EVs despite Biden push, poll shows 

   

 COINK-A-DINK?

One of the breakout stars of Netflix's hugely controversial documentary series Unlocked has died at the age of 29 just 30 days before he was due to be released.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS WERE ALL BOOKED-UP:

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IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA - SATAN:

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 DO TELL:

  How the Logic of Cults Is Taking Over Modern Life

SO WHAT DO YOU KNOW - SO DOES CRACK:

  Visitor discovers that China's "highest waterfall" comes from a pipe 

   

 ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY:

  Prominent California rock climber Charles Barrett exposed as a 'monster' sex predator who used fame to rape women at Yosemite National Park

THEY RANK THEM BY THE CENTURY NOW: 

Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe’s fraud of the century 

   

MAKING THEM NICE AND "HEALTHY":

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SHE KEEPS GOING BACK:

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THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH:

  How the Monoculture Made "Super Size Me" - Morgan Spurlock’s Untimely Death and Gatekeepers’ Refusal to Call Out Film Fakery

NO LONG WALKS WITH YOKO:

  John Lennon’s son received death threats for mocking Prince Harry

HE REALLY KNOWS HOW TO PICK 'EM:

  Inside the wacky world of Jelena Djokovic: Tennis ace's wife and high-school sweetheart uses meditation to heal physical ailments, believes science is 'reductive' and works with a controversial 'trauma therapist'

TRIGGERED:

  Rob Schneider opens up about his conversion to Catholicism and reveals the moment that triggered his newfound faith

I HEAR HE FARTS A LOT, TOO:

  Texas pastor's controversial sermons have driven 'hundreds' away from church

TIME TO "SWITCH TEAMS" IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN:

  Caitlin Clark is a WNBA target as she is 'a white heterosexual woman in a black lesbian league', claims Clay Travis

I'VE NEVER HAD A FAVORITE WITCH - THEY ALL MELTED:

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EVEN IN HOT YOGA:

  Dave Canales connecting with staff, even in hot yoga class

NOTHING UNUSUAL HERE:

  Teacher reveals how he was fired for refusing to call children who identified as trans by their preferred pronouns 

   

 "A LOT of conspiracy theories,..."

THEY ACTUALLY WATCHED "THE GOLDEN GIRLS" - BUT FOR REAL THIS TIME:

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Hello, Dalai - News Flash: He's Not Reincarnated And Tibet's Now Going To China

Of course, just like The Pope, he said nothing to anyone and let the kids suffer:

Dalai Lama: I knew of sex abuse by Buddhist teachers since 1990s

You can still worship him, if you want, but - if his position wasn't much help when it comes to reporting child abuse - I doubt it'll work, in any other context, either.

TMR: A Simple Blog - Partially About Making An Album

"It isn’t the money that makes people thrilled with their life, since we already know their day-to-day experience doesn’t change past $75,000 in terms of emotional happiness.  Rather, it is the fact they landed the CEO job or sold their company to Wall Street or signed a record deal.  The money, in these cases, is a symptom, not a cause."

"Everyone wants to be happy, but even revered thinkers have struggled with the how. The Dalai Lama said happiness comes when we practice compassion. Thomas Jefferson claimed it requires "a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." The ever-optimistic Ernest Hemingway noted that "happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know," yet the hyper-intelligent Albert Einstein had a simple prescription: "a table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin."

Back at it, I guess - kinda, sorta,...

 

We're On The Road And We're Gunning For The Buddha

 

There's some crazy music coming out these days.

 If the Dalai Lama knows he's a faker (and I'm convinced he does) this would be a smart move:

"Dalai Lama says if scientific method finds Buddhist principles wrong, Buddhism must change."

 

It's whatever you say it is, just say it's Buddhism.

Meanwhile, probably from looking at old Hitler photos, Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams has mastered patting herself on the back while giving the Black Power salute:

"B-37 may have been legitimately concerned that a book would all but surely expose her identity and put her privacy and safety in jeopardy. She may have been motivated entirely by self-preservation. And her retreat certainly doesn’t spell the end of the Trayvon Martin industry – there will be other deals to be made, other stories to be sold off. And none of it changes the fact that a kid is still dead, that parents still grieve for a son lost. But what unfolded so quickly on Monday – from a potential profit off senseless death to a very public shaming that led to a change of heart – shows that sometimes our outrage really does have a positive effect."

 

Death threats - I mean, "a very public shaming that led to a change of heart" - always seem to do the trick, once someone's "been motivated entirely by self-preservation," don't they, Gangsta?

The things you can read in the so-called legitimate press these days,...

 

As Rap Says, "Pump It Up, Homeboy, Just Don't Stop!"

This battle can seem like it will never end: 

 Religious doofus' become "spiritual but not religious," former NewAgers become devout religious nuts, and Buddhists - well, believers will do anything but give it up. 

Check out the work of The Dalai Lama's buddy:

Eighteen years after the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult released deadly sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway, relatives and metro employees gathered in mourning at one of the stations where the attack took place. 

At 8 a.m. on March 20, around the time the attackers struck, 25 Tokyo Metro Co. staff of Kasumigaseki Station in Chiyoda Ward stood in silence in memory of the 13 victims, two of whom were staff members of the station. More than 6,000 people were affected by the gas. 

Some bereaved relatives were present too, adding flowers to a floral tribute and praying for the victims. 

Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult punctured bags containing sarin, a deadly nerve agent, inside subway cars during the peak morning commuter period. They targeted trains near the central government district. 

The attack was ordered by cult leader Chizuo Matsumoto, also known as Shoko Asahara, now aged 58 and on death row. 

Aum Shinrikyo was later disbanded, only to reform under a new name, Aleph.

And, for most, that's all it'll take to make it all go away - and allow it to begin again. 

Don't forget - this is Buddhism:

Life's about suffering.

Your life,....

 

Starship Troopers

They think my friend has meningitis, which I knew little about until this happened. Nasty stuff. They're hitting him with 5 different antibiotics now, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens. There doesn't appear to be any brain damage, which is good, and hopefully he'll make a full recovery.

Thank You for everyone's kind words.

Why isn't there more talk about institutionalizing the mentally ill?

That was Ann Althouse after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The question strikes me as disingenuous, or even maybe naive, in light of the recent events in my immediate vicinity:

We're a freedom-loving people, and we labor to allow others (and ourselves) as much autonomy as possible - which allows, whatever troubles the afflicted, a lot of leeway.

Plus, in this culture, who are the mentally ill?

"What kind of country is this? There's a disconnect, between the country we think we are, and the country we actually are. And that only gets you so far, as you coast on the investments of the previous generation. But if you think you're there and you're not, that's called 'delusion,' and stuff catches up with you."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

One popular presidential candidate thought trees grow to a "right height," and is now the proud owner of The Plain English Campaign's 'Foot in Mouth' award for speaking gibberish, with this:

 

'I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.'

Problem? And what about Jesus coming "back" to Missouri? Or, say, Westerners who think the Dalai Lama is reincarnated? In the NewAge, madness is more difficult to diagnose, apparently.

And that's where we careen into the side rail, right? Whoopee - bumper cars with the Feds:

Does NASA seriously think someone who's sold all their worldly possessions and run off to Serbia is capable of understanding facts? Or even cares?

If you ask me, everybody needs to do some reframing - fast. This is the NewAge. So we shouldn't be hearing about a "Mayan prophecy" but a NewAge prophecy - the Mayan are as confused by the nature of these events as anyone else. I think we should be investigating that.

What is NewAge? What effect is it having on people? On society?

This preposterous cosmology, that has believers gathering in "power spots," awaiting rescue spaceships as others die. Is that mental illness? What else is going on? I'll tell you - again:

 

Naw, forget that - I think you can figure it out for yourselves,....

 

A Question For The Many Followers Of The Dalai Lama: When He Finally Steps Down From Power Will You Ever Finally Stand Up For Yourselves?

"Buddha" is the number one search term for TMR and, considering the number of people who think Buddhism and all that flows from it is cool, I (and a few others) don't see how most supposedly-educated people in the 21st Century can hold their heads up in public:

Every Western liberal’s favourite man-god has finally announced that he will relinquish political authority and allow his people to choose their own leader. Yes, the Dalai Lama, doyen of the West’s metropolitan chattering classes and hero of every suntanned seeker of spiritual enlightenment, has decided that 52 years is rather long enough to have claimed to speak on behalf of the Tibetan people (10 years longer than Colonel Gaddafi has been making similar BS claims in relation to Libya) and that the time has come for a leader “elected freely by the Tibetan people”. One question springs to mind: what took him so long?

I have never understood the Western hippyish love-in with this giggling monk from the East, where everyone from Hollywood royalty (Richard Gere, Sharon Stone) to literal royalty (Prince Charles) treats him as some kind of unfathomable well of godlike insight. After all, this is a bloke who claims to foreswear worldly goods yet who once guest-edited French Vogue, a mag packed with photos of half-naked women holding handbags that cost more than my house. He’s also done an advert for Apple, which I suppose is marginally better than doing one for BP, and he frequently turns up at glitzy celeb balls held in his honour, including one at which Sharon Stone introduced him as “Mr Please, Please, Please Let Me Back Into China!”, silly bint that she is.

Also, the Dalai Lama has the sorts of views on women and ethnic minorities which if they were uttered at an Islington dinner party would lead to half the guests instantly text-messaging Trevor Phillips to complain. One expert describes Tibetan Buddhist theocracy as “relentlessly misogynistic”. The Dalai Lama says gay sex is “unnatural”. In 1993 in Seattle (where else?) he told a fawning audience of students and part-time Buddhists that “nature arranged male and female organs in such a manner that is very suitable… same-sex organs cannot manage well.” Someone needs to send his Holiness a gay-sex manual. It is striking that some of the very same latte-sippers who get hot under the collar about the Pope’s hang-ups over homos and women also decorate their homes with the paraphernalia of a religious figure who believes the exact same stuff.

[Photo of the Dalai Lama with his "friend", the Nazi Heinrich Harrer.]

I guess I'll just have to accept that most people's beliefs are so superficial and pathetic, I'll never be able to expect anything more than blind cultists, searching for invisible "energy", by following a bunch of nobodies claiming to deliver magic that never appears.

Buddhism's A Belief Right Out Of Sesame Street

How a supposedly atheist country can continue to play this game is beyond us:

It’s probably best not to even try making sense of Beijing’s pronouncements on the 14th Dalai Lama and other Tibetan spiritual leaders: you’ll only make your head hurt. Last week the officially atheist Chinese government’s State Administration for Religious Affairs disclosed plans to enact a new law forbidding the 75-year-old Buddhist deity to be reborn anywhere but on Chinese-controlled soil, and giving final say to Chinese authorities when the time comes to identify his 15th incarnation.

That might seem to pose a dilemma, given the exiled leader’s earlier promise that he will never again be reincarnated in Tibet as long as his homeland remains under China’s heel. Still, no one seems too concerned just now about the Dalai Lama’s next life.

Considering no one in the history of mankind has ever been proven to have reincarnated, that last line is the only thing in the entire article resembling a connection to reality. Here's a fun fact about why the Dalai Lama's staying in India, though:

The Chinese say he’s merely on a quest to retrieve a black hat said to have magical powers,...

A magic hat? Suurrre. We think he's also traveling with an imaginary friend. Whatever.

There's some other nonsense in there about him somehow magically acquiring $1.6 million dollars, but who cares about that? The man's reincarnated and looking for a magic hat!

Look, call us whenever those guys in the orange robes decide to grow up, o.k.?

Crap: I Am Young Enough To Know Everything

Sp!ked's Brendan O'Neill just got back back from Tibet and discovered something no Buddhist, here in the West, will tell you:

"I know I’m not supposed to say this, but Tibetan Buddhism really freaked me out.

The most striking thing is how different real Tibetan Buddhism is from the re-branded, part-time version imported over here by the Dalai Lama’s army of celebrities.

Listening to Richard Gere, the first incarnation of the Hollywood Lama, you could be forgiven for thinking that Tibetan Buddhism involves sitting in the lotus position for 20 hours a day and thinking Bambi-style thoughts. Tibetan Buddhism has a 'resonance and a sense of mystery,' says Gere, through which you can find 'beingness' (whatever that means).

Watching Jennifer Aniston’s character Rachel read a collection of the Dalai Lama’s teachings in Central Perk on Friends a few years ago, you might also think that Tibetan Buddhism is something you can ingest while sipping on a skinny-milk, no-cream, hazelnut latte.

Or consider the answer given by one of Frank J. Korom’s students at Boston University when he asked her why she was wearing a Tibetan Buddhist necklace. 'It keeps me healthy and happy,' she said, reducing Tibetan Buddhism, as so many Dalai Lama-loving undergrads do, to the religious equivalent of knocking back a vitamin pill.

The reality couldn’t be more different."

How different? Well, aside from the "garish statues of dancing demons, fat golden Buddhas surrounded by wads of cash, walls and ceilings painted in super-lavish colours, and such a stench of incense that it’s like being in a hippy student’s dorm room", he says:

"The first devout Buddhists I encountered looked neither healthy nor happy. They were walking from their villages in southern Tibet to Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibetan Buddhism’s holiest site, and the journey had taken them nearly three months. Which isn’t surprising considering that with every third or fourth step they took, they got down on their knees and then fully prostrated themselves on the ground, lying flat on their bellies and burying their faces in the dirt, before getting back up, taking a few more steps, and doing the painful prostration thing again.

It looked life-zappingly exhausting. They moved at a snail’s pace. Their foreheads were stained grey from such frequent, unforgiving contact with the bruising earth. They wore wooden planks on their hands, which made a deathly clatter every time they hurled themselves downwards."

Now that sounds like a truly "green" lifestyle to me! And one O'Neill says he'd "like to see Jennifer Aniston try", as would I, since she's so keen on getting the rest of us into it. I'd also like to see the inside of her home because, I'm sure, it's probably not "spiritual" enough yet:

"Packed with weird statues. Red demons with contorted faces. Smug-looking Buddhas smiling patronizingly at the poor, exhausted worshippers. There’s a statue of the 'Living Buddha' (now deceased) who administered this temple in the 1950s and 60s and it is wearing sunglasses. Terrifyingly, it looks like a cross between the Buddha and Bono."

Are you starting to get the impression these holier-than-thou celebrities are either deceiving themselves, or "trying to pull a fast one" on you, yet? And what about all that Western worshipping of the Dalai Lama? Surely in Tibet, of all places, they must be down with that, too, right?

"Tibetan Buddhism, like every other religion on Earth, is made up of various, sometimes horn-locking sects.

I excitedly lined up an interview with one of the monks and asked if he’s looking forward to the day when the Dalai Lama returns from exile in northern India. He patiently told me—dumb Westerner that I am—that he doesn’t worship the Dalai Lama, because he is a member of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism while the Dalai Lama is head of the Gelug school. Then there’s the Kagyu school and the Sakya school—making four in total—which have hot-headed disagreements and have even come to blows in recent years over which deities should be worshipped and which should not. Religion of peace? Yeah, right."

Hmmm. This isn't going too well. So maybe Jennifer wants the rest of Americans to go the Eastern route because Buddhism isn't like those close-minded religions in the West? You know, receiving all that "enlightenment" one gets when you're "spiritual but not religious"? That has to be it.

"Tibetan Buddhism has a whole lotta hang-ups about gays and girls, too. It says gay sex is 'unnatural.' The Dalai Lama declared in a talk in Seattle in 1993, during one of his whistle stop, U2-style world tours, that 'nature arranged male and female organs in such a manner that is very suitable… same-sex organs cannot manage well.' (Someone needs to explain to His Holiness how gay people get it on.)"

Funny, but I've never heard Richard Gere mention that when he was putting on a show, bowing and scraping at the Dalai Lama's feet in San Francisco. Surely, it was only a mere oversight - or maybe he's got it all wrong - or somebody's lying:

"As Bernard Faure of Columbia University says: 'Like most clerical discourses, Buddhism is… relentlessly misogynist.' So while Tibetan women can become nuns, they can’t advance nearly as far as men. Because according to Buddhist teachings it is impossible for women to become 'the perfectly rightfully Enlightened One,' 'the Universal Monarch,' 'the King of Gods,' 'the King of Death,' or 'Brahmaa'—the five highest, holiest positions in Buddhism."

Wow. That sounds a lot like the evil Catholic church, there. So much so, that even O'Neill notices something is amiss:

"It is striking how much the backward elements of Tibetan Buddhism are forgiven or glossed over by its hippyish, celebrity, and middle-class followers over here,...the way in which this religion has come to be viewed in Western New Age circles as a peaceful, pure, happy-clappy cult of softly-smiling, Buddha-like beings. Again, it’s no such thing."

Well, I'm glad to see he got the "c" word in there, but "backward"? Buddhist nonsense is supposed to be far, far superior to the nonsense being delivered on this side of the planet, isn't it? I've been told that for years - some Buddhists have practically threatened my life to make the point of how great it is - and now you're telling me it's just the NewAge nonsense I've been railing against all along?

"Frank J. Korom describes it as 'New Age orientalism,' where Westerners in search of some cheap and easy purpose in their empty lives 'appropriate Tibet and portions of its religious culture for their own purposes.' They treat a very old, complex religion as a kind of buffet of ideas that they can pick morsels from, jettisoning the stranger, more demanding stuff—like the dancing demons and the prostration workout—but picking up the shiny things, like the sacred necklaces and bracelets and the BS about reincarnation.

It is all about them. They have bent and warped a religion to suit their own needs. As the Tibetan lama Dagyab Kyabgon Rinpoche puts it, 'The concept of "Tibet" becomes a symbol for all those qualities that Westerners feel lacking: joie de vivre, harmony, warmth and spirituality… Tibet thus becomes a utopia, and Tibetans become noble savages.'"

In other words, it's just more racist NewAge crap, dressed up to make white Westerners feel good about themselves - again:

"Western losers have ransacked Tibetan Buddhism in search of the holy grail of self-meaning."

"Western losers" - just as I've always said. A bunch of empty, purposeless fools in search of a way to attract attention from the rest of us, and away from themselves, because if they don't have *something* - anything - to distract them, the idea they're absolutely worthless human beings will become way too obvious and overwhelming. Even if they have money. Especially if they have money.

Or did you think "Friends" was great art?

It's no wonder Jennifer Anniston can't keep a man.

Or that - by a long shot - Western Buddhists/NewAgers make being an atheist (of knowing yourself and the world around you for what it truly is) look better and better every day.

Oh - and before I forget - if any of this information is new to you, you might want to also check out my post, "Goose-Stepping To God":

There's more to this "Dalai Lama" person - and his fans - than meets the eye,...