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Friday, July 17, 2026

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Det här var det dummaste jag hört...

Christmas in July

I missed this strange Christmas song last year. Apparently, it´s Swedish?! So here we go instead!

This is a video c/o the Ritviks or ISKCON Bangalore, a breakaway faction from the "official" ISKCON. Supposedly, the committee overseeing the Jagannath temple in Puri has sent a letter to both ISKCON and the Ritviks, requesting them to only celebrate Rath Yatra (the main festival dedicated to the god Jagannath) during the dates indicated in advance by the temple priests. The Ritviks will honor the request, while the "official" ISKCON apparently won´t, preferring to celebrate on dates of their own chosing.

Imagine what religious sects can argue over. Do they *really* think Jagannath ("The Lord of the Universe" i.e. God) gives a damn? But who knows, maybe he does, since in this scenario, God is a Vaishnava!

Please note that the priests in Puri exclude non-Indian Hare Krishnas from the temple, so maybe that´s the *real* reason why ISKCON-Official doesn´t feel bound by their decisions, but whatever, I have no particular dog in this fight...

The case against reality

Sabine Hossenfelder tries to take Donald Hoffman seriously, but it just doesn´t work. She gives Hoffman a ten out of ten on her "bullshit meter", claiming he´s "not even wrong". Apparently, Hoffman recently published a paper trying to prove mathematically that aliens seen during psychedelic trips are real. I think even people who do believe in aliens and/or psychedelics might find that approach a bit...trippy.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Modern times

Not Subhadra

So I was just watching some kind of live broadcast from the annual Hindu Rath Yatra festival in Puri. Kind of weird seeing the temple priests using modern mobile phones, taking selfies while standing in front of Subhadra´s idol at the chariot...

I want to see

I want to see this...

Something tells me this won´t be included in the next tranche of UFO files released by the Were-Trump administration! Nor in Nolan´s "Odyssey"...

Ärligt

För övrigt så skiter jag fullständigt i Iliaden och Odyséen. Så nu vet ni det. Den där filmen alla har snackat om i typ ett halvår nu har förresten premiär först imorgon fredag. Vilket jag inte hade en aning om. Och jag tänker göra mitt yttersta i att inte bry mig om den heller...

Granma Tara

So I asked Gemini to make a picture of Yellow Tara (the Mahayana-Vajrayana Buddhist "goddess") as if she was a normal human. This was the result. Some kind of Tibetan grandmama?