Deborah Lipstadt, who is firmly on the left and got in trouble by her past statements on Republicans during her confirmation hearing, is confident that the Trump 2.0 will be good for the Jews and she is probably right. “Lipstadt’s recent insistence that the incoming Trump administration will be well-equipped to handle antisemitism is a strong, if surprising, marker of the goodwill that President-elect Donald Trump has generated on combating antisemitism.”
Actually, not surprising at all. Trump’s appointments to the Middle East are all pro-Israel fanatics and he has stated that if Gaza doesn’t release the hostages by the time he becomes president, “all hell will break loose.” Our antiwar president going to war right off the bat. Very disappointing, and a horrible way to start Trump 2.0.
Notice that Lipstadt claims that opposition to Israeli actions in Gaza is nothing more than anti-Semitism, asserting that Jews become stand-ins for “anti-democracy, anti-capitalism, anti-Western values.” I see it a bit differently. As always, conflicts of interest are at the root of anti-Semitism, and Jewish activists frame their interests as a moral crusade in an effort to persuade the gullible and uninformed even while inflicting massive casualties on a defenseless population. Lipstadt is taking advantage of the fact that Jews dominate the West to the point that Jewish interests and attitudes have come to virtually define the West. And since the West has retained its dominant global position, Lipstadt and Israel can completely ignore any and all complaints about its genocide in Gaza knowing full well that there will be no negative repercussions. And of course, democracy and Western values like free speech, individualism, and deemphasis on ethnocentrism and the priority of ethnic identification are entirely antithetical to the mainstream Jewish community throughout its history and into the present. If democracy was a Jewish ideal, Israel would allow all Palestinians in their control to vote. Generations of Jewish intellectuals wouldn’t have sided with the Soviet Union during its most murderous period. And as an elite with very large influence in the media and politics throughout the West (think Israel Lobby in the U.S.), they wouldn’t be the main force behind the anti-White hatred that is now entirely mainstream throughout the West beginning with the influence of the Frankfurt School and other groups of Jewish intellectuals. This anti-White hate is now eagerly embraced by non-Whites that Jewish elites have imported and promoted as fellow victims in Western societies.
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Putin says ‘Godless people’ are tearing apart Russian Orthodox Church
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, during his lengthy end-of-year press conference, said ‘Godless people’ including ‘ethnic Jews’ of tearing apart the Russian Orthodox Church.
During the press conference, Putin was asked about punitive measures some European countries have taken against the Russian Orthodox Church in the wake of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine over the church’s close relationship with Putin’s regime. The Council of Europe recently labeled the church a propaganda tool of the Kremlin, and several European countries have expelled church officials due to security concerns.
“These people that are attacking the church, they are not atheists,” said Putin. “They are absolutely faithless people, Godless people. Well, ethnically, many of them are Jews, but you haven’t seen them visit any synagogue.”
After adding that the alleged opponents of the church were also neither Orthodox Christian nor Muslim, he added, “These are people without kin or memory, with no roots. They don’t cherish what we cherish and the majority of the Ukrainian people cherish as well.”
‘And this is the gate of heaven’
Lost revisions of the Bible discovered inside 1,750-year-old Syriac manuscript
Hidden for centuries, a forgotten chapter of the Bible has emerged from the shadows of history. Researchers, armed with ultraviolet light and meticulous scholarship, have uncovered a 1,750-year-old text that offers a fresh glimpse into the evolving nature of scripture. This find isn’t just a historical curiosity; it’s a profound insight into how faith and tradition were shaped in early Christianity.
The newly unveiled chapter offers an expanded version of Matthew 12, a passage where Jesus and his disciples are criticized for picking grain on the Sabbath. In this version, subtle textual variations bring fresh theological nuances to light, emphasizing compassion and mercy over rigid observance of religious laws. While the core message aligns with established teachings, these differences hint at the dynamic and adaptive nature of early Christian scripture.
What’s particularly striking is the role of early scribes. Far from being passive transcribers, they actively engaged with the material, reinterpreting and preserving it in ways that reflected their own spiritual and societal realities. This hidden chapter, with its emphasis on mercy, reveals a faith not rigidly bound to dogma but alive with reinterpretation and evolution—a window into the beliefs and priorities of communities navigating the complexities of their time.
Samadhi
Samādhi (Pali and Sanskrit: समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness. In many Indian religious traditions, the cultivation of Samādhi through various meditation methods is essential for the attainment of spiritual liberation (known variously as nirvana, moksha).[1]
In Buddhism, it is the last of the eight elements of the Noble Eightfold Path.[web 1] In the Ashtanga Yoga tradition, it is the eighth and final limb identified in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.[2][3] In Jain meditation, samadhi is considered one of the last stages of the practice just prior to liberation.[4]
In the oldest Buddhist sutras, on which several contemporary western Theravada teachers rely, it refers to the development of an investigative and luminous mind which is equanimous and mindful. In the yogic traditions, and the Buddhist commentarial tradition on which the Burmese Vipassana movement and the Thai Forest tradition rely, it is interpreted as a meditative absorption or trance, attained by the practice of dhyāna.[5]
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With so much now depending on what Christians, Jews and Muslims think and do and how they interact so poorly with each other and any one else and how their beliefs are based on old stories and not much else, this may be a good time to remind or inform anyone who wants to listen that there are much older and deeper traditions of the mind including how individuals should conduct themselves morally, ethically, spiritually. Samadhi states are but one aspect of ancient traditions that vastly predate Judaism and Christianity and also provide much deeper insights into the workings of the human mind and how to deal with the ever-changing conditions of life. The way the Abrahamic religions are behaving today is an embarrassment to all of humanity. ABN
The INVENTION of MOSES Will BLOW Your Mind! #1 Moses Documentary
Sexual jealousy is the root and cause of more evil than money. ABN
Peter Thiel in his own words
I have not yet watched this but plan to do so. ABN
UPDATE: Due to what I have read and heard, I had expected to dislike this interview and to dislike Thiel himself. My biases were wrong. This interview is framed in Christian terms, primarily referencing Armageddon and the Antichrist. Thiel expressed an abundance of fear of the Antichrist, which he uses as a metaphor for One World Government, a totalitarian dead end. He also fears globalism because it likely will lead to One World Government. He criticizes the ‘cult of liberal academia’. He supports nation states. It was good to hear Thiel—whom many have cast as the Antichrist bringer of a Palantir panopticon—speak seriously about how much he fears precisely that. I do not think he is acting. It is hard to fake the religious and moral sensibilities he expressed. I hope he comes in contact with someone who can guide him into Buddhism so he can expand his horizons. I highly recommend this interview. Thiel is a major figure in our governing elite. I like what he said and am inclined trust him much more than I did before. ABN
Joseph Campbell on OM
Pentagon study hints at reincarnation being real after finding consciousness ‘never dies’
A study conducted by US Army Intelligence has suggested that reincarnation is real because consciousness ‘never dies.’
Entitled ‘Analysis and Assessment of The Gateway Process,’ the 29-page report was drafted by US Army Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M McDonnell in 1983 and declassified by the CIA in 2003.
The mind-bending official Pentagon study was commissioned to better understand what its Army intel colleagues were doing sending personnel to a small institute in Charlottesville, Virginia that was working on the ‘Gateway Experience.’
The then-secretive ‘Gateway’ project, based to McDonnell’s analysis, was ‘a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus and coherence… to alter consciousness.’
From there, Gateway’s ambitious goal was to shift the practitioner’s consciousness ‘outside the physical sphere so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of time and space.’
At least according to McDonnell, the Monroe Institute’s discoveries that wound up bolstering the case for reincarnation were profound.
‘When consciousness returns to the Absolute [Monroe jargon for a realm outside spacetime] it brings with it all the memories it has accumulated through experience in reality,’ as he distilled the Institute’s finding that memories pass on from life to life via reincarnation.
The Buddhist term is rebirth rather than reincarnation. The study mentioned, which might be of interest to some, is here: Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process. ABN
Standing with Israel has not blessed America — Rev Matthew Littlefield
…the idea that standing with Israel has blessed America is not only wrong, it actually becomes quite absurd the more that you look.
I should note before I go any further that I do not write these arguments with any intended antagonism towards America. Quite the opposite actually. America is a great nation that has achieved much good in the world over time. And it saddens me to see such a great nation diminished by such bad ideas. It is also worse that a great source of this problem stems from heterodox teachings from the evangelical church in the United States, especially. The church has a lot to answer for in the way it has mislead Americans on so many topics. From prosperity heresy to giving a shroud of cover for forever wars in the Middle East, the Church has done a lot of damage in America and has blasphemed the name of Christ in the process.
And it is without dispute that the Church is largely to blame for this. As Israeli scholar Ilan Pappe notes, “The Christian and Jewish lobbies for Israel, at least until now, were deemed the most important ones by Israel. And extraordinarily, it seeks their help in gaining legitimacy in this century as well.”[1] Without the evangelical church’s focus on artificially restoring the nation of Israel this effort would not have been possible. This support for Israel did not just spring up after the fact, as some people assume.
…I know for many of you reading this you are aware of this evangelical support helping prop up Israel from the beginning. But I have had people deny it to me, so I feel like it needs to be thoroughly established. This support is both well documented and widely so. Therefore, the entire project of modern Israel can legitimately be seen as a test case for the idea that standing with Israel brings blessings to those who support it. And in America’s case, this is clearly not what has happened.
Sophie Rain in her own words
Bernardo Kastrup: A Research Conversation in Consciousness
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I agree with a lot of what Kastrup says in this discussion. One important thing he seems to be missing or misunderstanding (or chose not to discuss) is the fundamental dramatic nature of consciousness, of conscious life, which as with everything else is fundamental to nature itself as he describes it. Nature is not just impersonal forces or impersonal thought or impersonal anything but also drama. The dramas are bigger than us, just as all of nature is. And there are more beings than just humans who participate in these dramas. And we are all touched at many levels and in many ways by drama. We are not just traveling on an impersonal road only able at best to feel contented, well situated, in tune. We are also actors in dramas, some of which are our own making, some not. I like the way he says motives or intentions flow through him but are not his; they are elements of impersonal nature. I think he is inkling the dramas when he senses that. ABN
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