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Translated: "Donald Trump lives in my head rent free and I'm incapable of exorcising him." "Your mother sucks MAGA hats in the Oval Office. Arrrrhhhhhhhgggg!!!" 🤮

Trump refuses to accept that for Netanyahu and Putin forever war is the only option For the United States, regardless of who is in office, Forever War is the only option. The MIC must be paid in order to keep the campaign funds flowing and the insider trading tips rolling making Congress-critters and Senators millionaires on a Congressional salary. There are no revenues or profits in peace. Peace on earth may never be allowed to happen. It's bad for business. Therefore the United States must have Forever Enemies. Those now include in no particular order: China Russia Iran DPRK Yeman Lebanon Venezuela Cuba Nicaragua Panama Myanmar Greenland Syria Overthrown Libya Overthrown Iraq Overthrown Afghanistan All countries aligned with BRICS All crappy little countries who don't do what Uncle Sam tell them to do Any countries trading with any of the above

Translated: "Donald Trump lives in my head rent free and I'm incapable of exorcising him." "You mother sucks MAGA hats in the Oval Office. Arrrrhhhhhhhgggg!!!"

Cannabis trafficker Ex-cannabis trafficker cum author with book about Thai prisons

What I find amusing is that the evangelical hellfire & brimestone holy-rollers and the "there's-nothing-after-you-die-but-annihilation" nihilist are usually as equally strident in supporting their own views. Both end up sounding like fingernails raked across a chalkboard.

Fine with me.

I was wondering who long it would take to inject "Trump" into the conversation. "I guess you are lining up for a Trump bible." Translated: Donald Trump lives in your head rent free and you can't exorcise him no matter what you do. You should probably find a priest to help you. "Agggghhhhhh - You're mother sucks MAGA socks in the Oval Office!"

Like the genocide of Amaleks because god told his prophets to wipe them off the face of the earth in "his" name? And still happening to this day.

Science is only as effective as the tools used to measure phenomenon. If phenomenon can't be empirically measured, its discounted as fiction and fairy-tales. So most of physics 120 years ago was nothing but fiction and fairy-tales until the tools were developed to make quantitative measurements. Little more than grumpkins, snarks, and quarks. Think about that. 🤔

Virgin birth is a reality. Parthenogenesis.

"We can't prove he exists and non believers can't prove he doesn't. You'll find out soon enough." (snicker snicker snicker) 👈 I love the implied threats. "Big Daddy in the Sky is gonna get you unbelievers! Just wait!!!" (snicker snicker snicker) "God is gonna get 'cha!" That's just sad imho. Buddhism is in fact atheistic (Latin: atheus ("godless," from Greek "a-" [without] + "theos" [god]). Buddhism is not about the worship of a god. It's about following the path to end suffering. Siddhartha Gautama Buddha was very much a man. I'd technically be correct to say that in Buddhism followers don't worship Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, but unfortunately many do (worship him like a god) which completely misses the entire point of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha's teaching. And Siddhartha Gautama Buddha is only one Buddha within an infinite incarnations of Buddhas (study quantum physics and you can get a better feel for that statement). Siddhartha Gautama Buddha existed. He taught. He died. His teaching (dharma) stands the test of time. Yet even in the Buddha's teaching he acknowledges that the dharma is cyclical. Everything is cyclical. Anicca - everything changes. Nothing is permanent. But there is no worship of a single, eternal God of gods per-se. In actually, the Buddhist Pantheon includes a diverse number of gods in celestial realms. And some Buddhist, especially in the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions do pay homage to them as a number of these entities are considered to be Buddha's incarnate. And some of these gods are as scary as the "wrathful, jealous god" of the old Testament, who all good Christians are promised will throw all non-Christians into eternal Hell (snicker snicker snicker - "You'll find out!!! Just wait!") It's sad when humans have more compassion then the "wrathful, jealous, vengeful god" of the Old Testament. Hey! I'm a fan of Jesus of Nazareth. His teaching have more in common with Buddhism than the teachings of other Abrahamic religions. He was compassion incarnate. So I apply the KISS principle to my Buddhism (Keep It Simple Sāmaṇera) and concentrate on the core teachings encompassed in the 4 Noble Truths. And I acknowledge that there is a pantheon of gods among all of the other sentient begins - seen and unseen - which inhabit this particular incarnation of reality. But the core teachings of Buddhism have nothing to do with worshiping any of these gods. By the way. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. You gotta figure it out on your own. Believe what you want.

If you ever dabbled in chemically altering your consciousness, you begin the first steps to question the nature of consciousness: what it is, how it arises, what are its boundaries. Most people never take the step. Nor do you need to. You can accomplish that investigating through meditative practices. Granted, it takes longer, but you arrives at some interesting insights. I was raised Catholic but I always found the religion to be a rather grotesque death-cult. Especially the “stations of the cross” which are predominant in all Catholic churches, where the murder of a man preaching compassion by torture and crucifixion is glorified. “But He arose from the dead!” Of course, and it was codified under Roman Emperor Constantine during the Council of Nicaea in the 4th century AD. After that - “Believe it or else.” I’ve never responded well to threats. I gave it up as a teenager around the same time as I had an NDE. In my late teens I began exploring Eastern religions. And why not, as they were an exploration into consciousness. I began meditation practice over 50 years ago and later sort of naturally gravitated to Theravada Buddhism which is the form practiced in Thailand, which meant taking up the study of Buddhist texts and sutras, as well as commentaries in various Buddhist traditions including the Vajrayana (Tibetan) tradition. One of the things that you can subjectively verify for yourself. There are various states of consciousness which can be encountered in meditation. Some are incredibly profound, like watching what we call "self" fabricate itself. Buddhist texts provide a road-map of consciousness. If you spend most of your life practicing meditation, you will encounter the "landmarks" which delineate various states of consciousness from the gross to the most subtle. For all of the skepticism by those who "embrace science," meditation is quite empirical in an anecdotal manner. Granted, it's subjective, you can't measure states of consciousness directly although you can implicitly and indirectly inferred by the state of the body while in meditation, just like you can measure bodily reactions during sleep. Which is why I have no problem fathoming what occurs during near-death experiences. I nearly died when I was a teenager. I remember the effect on consciousness crystal clear. Decades later I found that the shifts in consciousness that I experienced mapped exactly to the stages of death outlined in the Tibetan Buddhism commentaries on dying. That was a rather profound eye-opening. So what does it mean? It means that I could empirically verify that the stages of dying according to Tibetan Buddhist texts. If I can do that, then I have "faith" that in the reality of rest of the stages of death as outlined in the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead) as that "faith" is experiential, it's based on my previous experiences with NDE and meditation. It's not the blind faith you find in other religions, i.e., "I believe because it's written in my religion's scriptures which I’m told to believe by my religious leaders – or else." I believe because I can empirically verify to myself that my experiences match the "landmarks" of consciousness found in Buddhist text. So I have no problem with those who believe that consciousness snuffs out with bodily death. If that’s the case, fine – why worry? Eat, drink, and be merry. Embrace hedonism and greed. Screw morality. Why not? Ya only live once, 'eh? Then you wonder why the psychopaths in organizations like the WEF gravitate to trans-humanism where they actively seek a "scientific" way to transfer their consciousness to a machine. Gawd - talk about a living Hell. And well deserved. In a sort of Philip K. Dick manner I don't discount that eventually man will create semi-synthetic life, i.e., androids, and those life forms may actually be capable of sentient, consciousness. But I seriously doubt that consciousness can be mechanically transferred from one life form to another. Yet the same people who believe that consciousness winks out at death, also harbor hope that a mechanical method of consciousness transfer can be developed. The irony of holding those two disparate ideas is rather amusing. But though my own anecdotal experiences, I don’t buy the nihilistic view that consciousness winks out at bodily death any more than I buy the view that Big Daddy in the Sky is going to throw all non-believers into a pit of fire forever and ever. So I take a very Buddhist view of the eternal nature of consciousness and the continuity of consciousness from life to life across a pantheon of sentient beings. And as a Buddhist, I attempt to take the steps to break that cycle. Dualistic consciousness as we experience it becomes irrelevant once the cycle of birth and death is broken. But that’s a whole different conversation.

Trump’s attacks on the media Translated: Donald Trump lives in my head rent-free and I'm powerless to evict him.

How to tell if you're dealing with a MAGA folk? Translated: Donald Trump lives in my head rent-free and I'm powerless to evict him.

Donald Trump Jr Hints at Possible Presidential Bid: ‘That Calling Is There’ Translated: Donald Trump lives in my head rent-free and I'm powerless to evict him.

Manchild who is president of the US throws his pacificier out of the pram again. Translated: Donald Trump lives in my head rent-free and I'm powerless to evict him.

Good thing Trump likes golf, less time confusing the hell out of the world. Translated: Donald Trump lives in my head rent-free and I'm powerless to evict him.

Ohhhh. Tell us what you really think of anyone who questions the efficacy of vaccinations.

I wonder who Tulsi will put on the Trump admin "terrorist watchlist." If you don't like what US citizens say or do: Call them "terrorists."

Nothing surprising about that. The Trump era parallel will be when all anti-genocide protestors are labeled the same: "Domestic Violent Extremists." That's already in the works. First: US visa holders. Next: US citizens. Coming during Trump's term. Stay tuned... I keep saying, their really isn't any difference between the Democrats and Republicans. Different sides of the same coin. When things don't go their way, the leadership will revert to calling people they don't like "terrorists."

I've read all of Connelly's books and watched all of his shows. Bosch, Lincoln Lawyer. Ballard should be a good show. They are all well done.

There's an old saying. Money talks; 🐂💩 walks. My wife keeps me informed on how the local elections actually work. Cha-Ching.

Study history: Shin dynasty leadership. Coup. Shin dynasty leadership. Coup. Shin dynasty leadership. (Fill in the blank) 🤔 As much as I hate to say it, but military coups are the counter-balance to family dynasty which usurp control of Thai leadership. If they really did work for the benefit of the average Thai they might get away with it, but instead they create power cartels which only benefit a small subset of Thais. At the end of the day, Thailand is just one big badminton court and the average Thais are naught but the shuttlecocks being slammed back and forth. Eventually they'll be a generational shift that might change that.