Thursday, June 4, 2026

Hell is forever

 


In most forms of Christianity, that is. Mahayana Buddhism is somewhat different. Here is a Chinese legend about a "harrowing of hell". From Wikipedia (Miaoshan is a form of Guanyin):

>>>A variant of the legend says that Miaoshan allowed herself to die at the hand of the executioner. According to this legend, as the executioner tried to carry out her father's orders, his axe shattered into a thousand pieces. He then tried a sword which likewise shattered. He tried to shoot Miaoshan down with arrows but they all veered off.

>>>Finally in desperation he used his hands. Miaoshan, realising the fate that the executioner would meet at her father's hand should she fail to let herself die, forgave the executioner for attempting to kill her. It is said that she voluntarily took on the massive karmic guilt the executioner generated for killing her, thus leaving him guiltless. 

>>>It is because of this that she descended into the Hell-like realms. While there, she witnessed first-hand the suffering and horrors that the beings there must endure, and was overwhelmed with grief. Filled with compassion, she released all the good karma she had accumulated through her many lifetimes, thus freeing many suffering souls back into Heaven and Earth. 

>>>In the process, that Hell-like realm became a paradise. It is said that Yama, the ruler of hell, sent her back to Earth to prevent the utter destruction of his realm, and that upon her return she appeared on Fragrant Mountain.

Thursday

 


Another adorable picture of Jagannath & Co in a Swedish landscape...

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

A confession

 

Credit: Manish Prabhuni

From Carrier´s previously linked article. This was funny. Hear hear, ye "agnostic" atheists!  

>>>But this does go both ways. An atheist can try to believe nothing, to “suspend belief” in everything, but that’s actually impossible in practice—you have to make decisions, and your every decision hinges on assuming some thing is true that you were pretending five minutes ago you were “suspending” belief in. So atheists can be stupid too. It’s a human folly, not a distinctly supernaturalist one.

Stupid games

 

Most improbable explanation? 

Richard Carrier on the war path again. Well, I disagree. But good luck with this material! 

Christians vs atheists: What are we actually arguing about?

I can´t breathe

 


A propos the current situation in the UK. Yes, it´s possible that Nigel Farage and Reform will win the next elections, in part because of the recent murder in Southampton and the way the local police (mis)handled the situation. The murderer was a Sikh, presumably of Indian descent. The victim was White and British.

So Farage might become the next British Prime Minister. Promising to stop Indian mass migration. In power, he will then import even more Indian (and other) migrants. Because neo-liberal capitalism needs the cheap labour, obviously. And because of the demographic crisis more generally.

And that´s that. We now resume our regular programming! 

Det här känns så 2012

 


De senaste dagarna har jag vid två eller tre tillfällen sett uttrycket "rasifierade" (på engelska "racialized"). Men herre-fucking-gud, den här terminologin känns så 2012. 

Dessutom är den absurd, eftersom de "rasifierade personerna" (okej, de är inte längre "kroppar" utan faktiska personer - whoa, framsteg, kamrater!) av allt att döma *vill vara rasifierade*. Är inte det själva poängen med identitetspolitiken? 

Okej, låt mig gissa. De vänsterungdomar som blev radikaliserade circa 2012 sitter numera i ledningen för diverse organisationer...och har helt enkelt fortsatt med den floskulösa retorik de fick lära sig första året på kulturvetarlinjen?

Woke-vänstern stretar på... 

Inte direkt Weimar-klassicism

 

Kredit: Aftonbladet, jamen, vad annars?

Kulturvänstern stretar på...

Blazar

 


So *this* is what hit me this Sunday. I KNEW IT, MAN. Had to cancel my sadhana. No more spiritual stuff for me. Not for another ten years or so!!!

Mystery particle shot right at Earth

Avslöjad

 


Okej, det här var intressant. Enligt Wikipedia finansieras "pedofiljägarna" NCMEC faktiskt av det amerikanska justitiedepartementet! Det verkar alltså vara en "officiell" organisation. 

Amerikanska pedofiljägare hittade både "Vilma" och Rubbestad

The white swan

 


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