Death Begins at 30 (reflections)

Is Jenny McCarthy enough to field TV offers and another Playboy cover at 39? (mix969.com)  But Life Soon Resumes Cartman to Maury: "I do what I want!"REFLECTIONS ON TURNING 30 -  I grew up on the lyrics, "Live fast, die young" and the idea "Never trust anyone over 30." I was an "adult" at 15 -- when I became active, as free as Cartman on Maury Povich to do what I want, and I thought I knew it all (or all I was ever going to need to know).    Childhood in the United States now...

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A Higher Teaching: Consciousness

Dharmachari Seven and Amber Dorrian, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly(lifehack.org)     How could consciousness (or anything) be a self, a soul, an "I"? It is constantly passing away and utterly dependent on the other groups of transient phenomena (forms, feelings, perceptions, and formations) mistaken for "self."     Seeing oneness (nonduality) is wonderful! To see us ALL united, as in the same boat, as made of the same thing, is beautiful! But it is not enlightenment.  ...

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Science: It's a girl thing! (comedy video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Alba502 (EU video) What might a sexist commercial about men look like if society wanted less science out of us and more self-defeating behavior like alcohol and pornography addiction?    The following public service announcement (PSA) was published by the science commission of the European Union. It is part of a campaign designed to attract more females to a career in science. The commission says the inadvertently sexist video has to "speak their language to get their...

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Pussy Riot: Punks Against Putin (video)

TheWorld.org; Guardian.co.uk; Wisdom Quarterly Russia was never actually atheist. That was just an official position. Siberia is Buddhist as was the USSR in Central Asia (including the only indigenously Buddhist part of Europe: Kalmykia. But "Russians" are Christians who conquered neighboring lands for empire. It is a country of blue-eyed blondes. It tried to do the right thing and live communally. But corruption ruined it. Punks call out its new emperor, Putin, a KGB chief and uber-hypocrite to...

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