Multi Dimensional Yin Yang

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Multi Dimensional Yin Yang (MDYY) is a term I made up.

It can be used when two people are making a joint decision and discover that both of them care a lot about what the other one thinks or wants.

This kind of situation can arise between husbands and wives, good friends, or even business partners.

It’s good to have a term like this so that when weighing the factors going into a decision, this part of the weighing has a referent which both partners understand is intrinsically difficult to weigh rationally and to discuss.

MDYY is useful only when both partners care about each other and the decision they are making.

And both partners want to be honest and fair with each other and arrive at a good outcome.

In colloquial short-hand, the usefulness of MDYY arises when one partner says, my wanting to do this depends on how much you want to do it, and the other partner feels the same.

I have been using this term with my partner as we discuss a very consequential and complex decision we are making together.

Using this term allows us to set aside the MDYY aspect of our decision-making while talking about other factors that impinge on both the weighing of the decision and the final decision itself. ABN

Anyone claiming that Enoch Burke  hasn’t been sentenced to life for refusing to submit to gender ideology, but simply for ‘contempt of court’ is dishonest. Here’s why — Eva Vlaardingerbroek

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Anyone claiming that Enoch Burke  hasn’t been sentenced to life for refusing to submit to gender ideology, but simply for “contempt of court” is dishonest. Here’s why:

Technically speaking contempt of court is indeed the ground the High Court used to lock him up, but this whole case is about him being a Christian teacher refusing to forsake his beliefs by calling students  by the pronouns of a sex that they simply are not.

That was what he was fired for by the school. Wrongfully. And Mr. Burke’s refusal to accept the school’s decision and showing up to work anyway, makes him a hero with a backbone. It makes him someone who refuses to just stand by and let evil be done without putting up a fight. That’s why he keeps showing up and that’s why they are now locking him up till he stops doing that.

They want him to bow down, to submit to something he knows to be wrong. And they want the general public to be confused about what the legal grounds are for locking him up.

This shows you that just because something is “legally” justifiable, like the High Court’s decision to indefinitely imprison Burke, doesn’t meant that it’s right.

Burke should be freed this instance, and I hope the People of Ireland will fight for his cause.

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To my eye, this is judicial intellectual corruption or usurpation of powers they do not legally possess. USA has similar problems. It’s always a chore to apply laws well, and discussion is often warranted, but authoritarian rulings that bastardize the law harm society for that reason alone, to say nothing about the many other evil ramifications of a grossly unfair ruling like this. ABN

MAINE: Migrant agency with extensive ties to Maine Democrats appears to have defrauded MaineCare

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Here’s the summary:

  • Former employees allege Gateway Community Services systematically overbilled MaineCare (Medicaid) for services never provided, with falsified records and forged client signatures.
  • Despite prior audit findings that showed nearly $1M worth of erroneous billing by Gateway from 2015-2017, the Mills Administration continued awarding no-bid contracts to Gateway, totaling $3.3M since 2022, in addition to the continued flow of MaineCare money.
  • At the same time, Gateway leaders helped create the Community Organizing Alliance (COA) — a group dedicated to voter turnout in migrant communities aligned with Democratic Party goals.

Here’s the full story:

The migrant agency accused of running a five-year MaineCare fraud has extensive ties to Maine Democrats, ties that have proven mutually beneficial for Gateway Community Services and Gov. Janet Mills.

Gateway Community Services, founded in 2014 by Somali-American refugee Abdullahi Ali, came under fire last week thanks to whistleblower allegations reported exclusively by The Robinson Report that detailed an elaborate effort to overbill Medicaid, known in Maine as MaineCare.

At the same time the alleged fraud was happening, the Mills Administration handed lucrative contracts to Ali’s company and related nonprofit, while Ali and a former employee were creating the Community Organizing Alliance (COA) to boost voting for Democrats in migrant neighborhoods.

Those contracts flowed from the Mills Administration to Gateway Community Services despite a 2018 audit that found Gateway had previously overbilled MaineCare from 2015 to 2017 for close to $1 million…

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This appears to be the same sort of scam which has plagued Minnesota, California and elsewhere. Taxpayer money is funneled into a bogus ‘non-profit care’ organization, which then pockets the money or uses it for purposes not authorized but that benefit the Democrats who funneled the money in the first place. ABN

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My friend’s girlfriend suddenly confessed she used to be a Christian.

And he said that was no biggy for him at all.

She laughed and said she was so glad he understood. She was much happier as a Christina.

People on the Venezuelan Payroll Are STILL Inside the US Government

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In a jaw-dropping new interview, @PatrickByrne  says U.S. officials were bribed by the Venezuelan government and some are STILL in power:

“We have people in U.S. custody who were in the room when Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro arranged $20 million in payments… to U.S. officials.”

Byrne says he’s under oath not to name names – until certain arrests are made.

But he confirms: Yes, they actively interfered and delayed @realDonaldTrump on Venezuela and the voting machines.”

“There are people of such seniority, secretly on the payroll, it will shake this nation.”  

“We have diaries. We have the witnesses. It’s all documented.”

He adds: “Some of these traitors have already been exposed. More are coming.”

This wasn’t just foreign corruption.

This was an intelligence-level counterattack against America… from within.

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Also mentioned by both Emerald and Byrne is Ric Grenell, who may be ‘compromised’.

And, per Byrne: there are ‘some people around Donald Trump who have worked very, very hard to convince Trump to bury the hatchet with Venezuela’.

Election theft by Venezuela coupled with US insider corruption with Venezuela appear to be major reasons Trump is pushing hard on Venezuela right now.

Trump may be hoping someone will flip or something else will change to stop full on kinetic war. ABN

Facial reconstruction of a 5,100-year-old Afanasievan from Mongolia with Yamnaya-like auDNA

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Facial reconstruction of a 5,100-year-old Afanasievan from Mongolia with Yamnaya-like auDNA

He carried Y-DNA haplogroup J1a2b and mtDNA U5a1. His maternal lineage, associated with European hunter-gatherers, was widespread among Indo-Europeans. His paternal lineage, J1a2b, has been previously detected in the Khvalynsk culture; a downstream of this haplogroup also dominates the Y-DNA of the Kura-Araxes culture, possibly suggesting a dispersal of J1a2b from the Caucasus into the Steppe, where a related branch persisted and became the main haplogroup of the Kura-Araxes culture.

The man, belonging to the Paleoeuropoid/Protoeuropoid type, stood roughly 180 cm tall (498mm femur length) and possessed a notably massive and robust skull, with a very long cranial length of 193 mm, massive cranial width of 151 mm, and a very broad cheekbone width of 147 mm.

In Inner Asia, the Bronze Age begins with the emergence of the Afanasievo culture, which spread across vast regions of southern Siberia and Central Asia. Its sites are known from western and central Mongolia, eastern Kazakhstan, the Dzungarian Basin, and even the Middle Zarafshan, though the highest concentration lies in the Altai and the Minusinsk Basin. AMS radiocarbon dates place the Afanasievo horizon between 3300–2500 BCE. Both anthropological and ancient DNA evidence indicate that the Afanasievo culture arose from a migration of populations from Eastern Europe, specifically from the Yamnaya cultural sphere (Solodovnikov et al. 2023).  

The Altai Afanasievo individuals rank among the tallest ancient populations of Eurasia (Solodovnikov et al. 2018). A similarly tall stature is seen among Afanasievo individuals from central Mongolia, based on limited material from the Shatar-Chuluu cemetery (where the reconstructed individual was found) near the Khangai range (Tumen 1978; Solodovnikov, Erdene 2022).  

Two published Afanasievo individuals have been identified as fifth-degree relatives. One was buried at Inskaya Dol in the northwestern Altai (I11752, BARN-039) [Narasimhan et al. 2019], and the other at the Shatar-Chuluu cemetery in central Mongolia (SHT002, AT-25 (I6221, the reconstructed individual)) [Jeong et al. 2020; Ringbauer et al. 2023]. Although these sites lie 1,410 km apart, both individuals share the characteristic Afanasievo/Yamnaya genetic profile and cluster closely with other Afanasievo samples. Their biological relationship implies that at least one ancestor in their family line must have traveled several hundred kilometers within their lifetime.

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Please be sure to visit the original post for more high quality work like this. ABN

Can you be aware of nothing? The rare sleep experience scientists are trying to understand

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For some people, sleep brings a peculiar kind of wakefulness. Not a dream, but a quiet awareness with no content. This lesser-known state of consciousness may hold clues to one of science’s biggest mysteries: what it means to be conscious.

The state of conscious sleep has been widely described for centuries by different Eastern contemplative traditions. For instance, the Indian philosophical school of the Advaita Vedanta, grounded in the interpretation of the Vedas – one of the oldest texts in Hinduism – understands deep sleep or “sushupti” as a state of “just awareness” in which we merely remain conscious.

Similar interpretations of deep sleep are made by the Dzogchen lineage in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. According to their teachings, different meditative practices can be followed during wakefulness and sleep to acknowledge the “essence” of consciousness. One of those meditative practices is that of dream yoga or luminosity yoga, which enables the practitioner to recognise the states of dream and sleep. This aims to bring them to a state of “pure awareness”, a state of being awake inside sleep without thoughts, images or even a sense of self.

For western science, this state poses a conundrum. How can you be aware without being aware of something? If these reports are accurate, they challenge mainstream theories that treat consciousness as always about an object. For example, my awareness of the laptop in front of me, or the blue sky rising above my window, or my own breathing. The existence of this state pushes us to reconsider what consciousness is.

In those studies, we found a spectrum of experiences we called “objectless sleep experiences” – conscious states that appear to lack an object of awareness. In all cases, participants who alluded to an objectless sleep experience reported having had an episode during sleep that lacked sensory content and that merely involved a feeling of knowing that they were aware.

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This is an interesting article, sent by an alert reader.

From a Buddhist POV, these states are samadhi or dhyana states, which are essential to successful Buddhist practice.

The reason these states are essential is they provide the experience of pure awareness, pure consciousness with zero self and zero referent.

The Mind-Only Buddhist explanation of these states is they are touching on or engaging with the universal Tathagata, or enlightened mind.

In modern philosophical terms, these states are awareness of ‘mind at large’ or some version of ‘quantum consciousness’ or the fundamental ‘field of consciousness or thought’, which is posited as a primary component of the cosmos.

These states are extremely valuable and worth remembering and pursuing.

In higher levels of samadhi, enormous joy or bliss is experienced along with a total absence of self or referent.

The highest samadhi state is perfect equanimity coupled with deep awareness of the Tathagata.

Samadhi states eventually bump up against nirvana.

I love Western civilization, but the one thing it deeply lacks is a tradition of knowing about and using samadhi, which at the very least provides a marvelous and wonderful place to stand aside from all that is mundane.

Philosophically, Buddhism recognizes ‘relative truth or reality’ (mundane reality) and ‘ultimate truth or reality’, the full knowing of which constitutes Buddhist enlightenment.

In many Buddhist traditions, samadhi states are understood to be natural and attainable by anyone who tries diligently.

If you are fortunate enough to experience samadhi without trying, be thankful!

You have gained a deep realization.

One of the most difficult parts of Buddhism for non-Buddhists to understand is the experience of samadhi.

Also fundamental to Buddhism is the experience of a clear conscience, an honest and pure mind which is gained through wholesome moral and ethical thoughts and behaviors. ABN

These people are NOT politicians as we understand the term

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You have to understand. These people are NOT politicians as we understand the term. They do not represent the interests of their constituents. They’re political constructs. Bad actors sloppily regurgitating scripted rhetoric at the behest of their oligarchical overlords. All to provide the illusion of participatory governance to the peasantry. They represent an international oligarchical order and they’re desperate to hold on to power.

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The hideous compact between corrupt Western politicians and invasive migrants

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Africa and all the world benefitted from Western science, agriculture, medicine, and money.

The result is massive increases of populations everywhere, resulting in migrants to the West who have next to no idea of the bounty they have received.

Yet have been trained to hate White people.

This must change, and it is only the West that can accomplish that, as usual.

The left in the West today is a hideous compact between corrupt politicians and invasive migrants.

Both of whom want power and money at any cost (to others).

Idiotic ideologues are also to blame, but you can’t fix stupid. ABN