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Blogger’s Note: My PhD is in “Spiritual Metaphysics”. Yes – I am supposedly an expert in the assessment of religious teaching and practice – even
Jagdishbhai, Minaxiben Patel and their adult children, Alpesh and Parul Patel, have been ordered to pay £929,621 between them for converting a Greenford Avenue (pictured) property into multiple flats without permission and continuing to let them out in defiance of enforcement notices. The money they must pay includes a confiscation order of £900,217 plus fines, victim surcharges and prosecution costs.
Adolf Hitler has been exposed as being “bisexual” – having sex with his SS Guards. Many of his upper echelon were also hidden homosexuals often being married with children as a form of camouflage. Nazi German soldiers were taught that “raping” sub-human people was permitted and a legitimate part of war as their victims were not protected by the anti-rape laws that guarded genuine humans. The Nazis tolerated bisexuality but persecuted gays who rejected fascism, did not practice rape, and were not interested in children. Unfortunately for the far-right, as racism is linked directly to sexual deviancy, if their vetting actually worked – there would be nobody in their groups – and the movement would be dead. As a consequence, the far-right only attracts sexual perverts hell-bent on world domination due to the contradictory patterns of thought that dominate their inner mind. This is a partly genetic deviancy – but one that can be encouraged or removed from manifesting on the physical plane via appropriate conditioning.
The US has provided both these highly volatile third-world countries with nuclear weapons (?) – as well as other extensive first-world weaponry despite the preponderance of religious ignorance, illiteracy, and starvation. How did we get here? Well, every time India or Pakistan acquires a right-wing (anti-China) government – that regime is rewarded with excessive amounts of economic and military aid – Starmer has just shafted British workers in favour of their Indian equivalents in just such a deal. At onetime, it was a hard-line Pakistan that NATO favoured over a wishy-washy National Congress India – but no more! The far-right BJP in India are the new darlings of the West and this is why Trump has engineered an attack on a Pakistan which has not been playing to script of late – drawing ever closer to a Socialist China to find support against an out of control Hindu-Nazi India. The West has switched its favouritism to an India that has a 90& illiteracy rate and wide-spread starvation – providing this “unsteady” regime with the most advanced weaponry US charity can provide. BJP India is a type of cut-price Israel – doing US bidding in its local area.
I suspect the ancient Greeks encountered Buddhist monasticism when visiting India (such as Pythagoras), learned the Buddhist method of “looking within”, and then adjusted the technique as a means to “prove” the efficacy of their particular philosophical perspectives (the work of Plotinus may be taken as an example of this endeavour). Later, via the Greeks, a community of Jews (in Qumran) started sitting in meditation to personally attain a “glimpse of Yahweh” – a practice that eventually spread to the reformed Jewish sect of “Christianity” – whose adherents started to meditate whilst sat in the caves found in the Egyptian Desert (this type of Christianity spread to Britain – hundreds of years prior to Catholicism – becoming “Celtic Christianity”).
Laos is a Socialist (Marxist-Leninist) State. Religious freedom is guaranteed as a private matter (through the separation of Temple and State) whilst Theravada Buddhism is the tradition religion of the people. Therefore, Laos may be considered a Buddhist-Socialist State – as the Buddhist Masters advocate Socialism and Dhamma in equal measure. In English, this old temple should be literally known as the “New Temple” – due to its relatively recent repair (just over 200-years) – by Royal Command. As to the Pali name – it translates as “Golden Ground of Ram” – “Ram” is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. Throughout Southeast Asia and beyond, ancient Brahmanism spread far and wide from India – before the rise and spread of Buddhism. By the time Buddhism arrived in the region – Brahmanism was already in-place – with the Buddha being associated with Vishnu (even in modern India – many contemporary Hindus count the Buddha as an incarnation of Vishnu [Ram] sent to earth to encourage vegetarianism).