One of the few Americans to be skeptical of Obama when he was campaigning with Oprah
Monday, August 28, 2023
Cult Rocked (Rocks)
In 1972 the Bee Gees drummer left to join a band dedicated to a cult leader named Maharaj-ji. A few years later George Harrison of the Beatles produced a different band dedicated to the same cult leader. Carlos Santana was given the name Devadip by his abusive guru Sri Chinmoy. Donovan traveled to India with the Beatles studying Transcendental Meditation. Soon the Doors, Mick Jagger and the Grateful Dead would all be practicing TM. The Beach Boys recorded one of Charles Manson's songs. Leonard Cohen dropped out and moved into a Zen Monastery, but his guru would be ousted for sexual abuse. Musician turned cult leader Mel Lyman was dubbed the "East Coast Charles Manson." John Travolta and Frank Stallone recorded a vinyl record made up of Scientology lyrics that went gold.
These are just some of the fascinating stories in Cult Rocked
And Away We Go (And We Are Going Away)
Why Are We Obsessed with Cults - when there was NO interest in cults, and there was even massive denial cults still exist, much less are flourishing, when I started this blog?
"Modern Dating Is A LITERAL Nightmare" but people are doing it - because they so smaaaart.
"Your parents are right, they're right, you don't know who you are. It's unfortunate really because we're so confident from 16 to 23 that we know who we are, who we're gonna be, what we're going to do, we're so smart. Are we?"
I can't believe "voters helped break California’s justice system" after repeatedly re-electing Gavin Newsom, who defended "gay marriage" by betraying his Best Friend, sexually - I just can't believe it: I would've thought all that was going to lead to something good.
"Months After CNN Firing, Don Lemon Thinks He Knows The Real Reason He Was Let Go" - and it's NOT because his smarmy ass really, really sucked at the job. But because CNN sucked, too.
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Better Than Expected
This is a Vice documentary about people leaving the Jehovah's Witness cult, which I thought was gonna suck, but turned out to be pretty interesting. It digs into the agony and suffering, that those people dish out, a little more than most. That's how you keep my attention, anyway,...
Believe Women
"All of us have worked demanding jobs with tough bosses. This was not the same. Working for her did not feel ‘tough.’ It felt emotionally abusive and hopeless,...It feels like a literal cult.”
Considering all the Trump critics, who swear-to-God see him running a cult, I'm surprised their eagle eyes didn't call out Oprah's former "spiritual advisor" as manipulative, instead of it having to be insiders. They must've gotten really distracted lately.
A Nation Within A Nation
It's pretty remarkable, how often white guys have told me that blacks shouldn't focus on the past but should look forward, while Joe Rogan and his guests can talk about whatever they want, and nobody cares. Or should I be imagining white guys at home, watching this and freaking out, screaming "Change the subject!"?
MSNBC Or CNN?
International Views of Biden and U.S. Largely Positive, which should only make Americans wonder what news of Biden the world is getting - in this age of manipulative journalism - as we watch a guy who showered inappropriately with his daughter, let his crackhead son sleep with his other son's widow without comment, ignored his latest Granddaughter for years, blew up the NORD stream pipeline to Yurp, and is now in the hot seat as an international bribery scandal unfolds around him, his crackhead son, and the war in Ukraine?
It can't be the same news I'm watching.
Cause (And Effect)
August 25, 2023, an angry white man tells me: "The history of slavery is nearly the history of mankind. Try to stop thinking you are special," as I consider even Dave Chappelle needing space from such people.
August 26, 2023: a white man fatally shoots 3 Black people at a Florida store in a hate crime, then kills himself, as I listen to blacks still teaching each other history, in our country that's still too ashamed to do it right.
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Reading Material (For A Wasted Education)
"I don't know how to heal religious trauma." It just attacked me.
Click here and destroy what little trust you had left in the world
"It took 50 years for the French state to acknowledge that Vichy’s crimes were also France’s crimes." It will take them another 50 to admit they were lying for the first 50: they're French.
Springtime for Yurp’s fascists - Strike a pose, Guys.
Cobras, Clowns and Psychics. That's all I got: Cobras, Clowns and Psychics.
The story of San Francisco - minus the NewAge movement's embrace, which seems pointless
And 'China Has 10 Years Left' to,...not take over the world? Well boo-fucking-hoo for them.
Three White Guys (With Black Backgrounds)
David Brooks says he thinks Nikki Haley is the best Trump alternative, as though anyone's looking for a Trump alternative. Who would give him that idea?
Maybe Steve Schmidt, of the Trump-hating Lincoln Project, who accused Ron DeSantis of lying about "Penny," when it was Steve Schmidt, of the Trump-hating Lincoln Project, lying about "Penny".
Or Rocker Alice Cooper, who says transgenderism has reached the 'point of absurdity' where it endangers women and children,...though people always thought he'd kinda be into that by now.
It's A Cultural Conspiracy
"Reparations"
It appears Matt and Trey are onto the whole NewAge Nazi idea, even if the general public ain't
"So, if the [2008] election is fake, what's really going on?" "The end of America."
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