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Another example of fascism. Visa and Mastercard decide what sites one can use or not! http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vpn-providers-130703/

The OP is always asking these type of questions and for what reason I haven't a clue.

You wish to engage in divisive rhetoric/propaganda and join the ranks of such notables as Lenin, George Bush and John Ashcroft et al? You would prefer not to know the truth of the NSA spying program and label one who has the balls to reveal the truth as unamerican? Who are you to define what is American? To compare Snowden to the 9/11 hijackers is absurd and just plain faulty reasoning. Congress will do nothing about this egregious violation of our rights and to advocate writing to Congress will accomplish nothing!

Snowden is not a leaker but a whistleblower. There is a difference. Anyone who accepts the media and government propaganda as to how Snowden is portrayed (leaker and traitor) is not paying attention.

Your post is based on unproven myth which attempts to make this practice exclusive to one group of select individuals. What I am talking about is a transference of consciousness or phowa if you like to call it that, can be seen in many traditions. Phowa is just another name and adherents of believe they will be born in some superior buddhafield.

Phowa is not exclusive to Buddhists. To claim ownership for a practice that can be found in other traditions is disingenuous.

Maybe we need something more challenging?

That was great! I had no problem with any of this. Have anymore?

Mods, Will you move this over to the general discussion. Important topic!

Glen Mullin's book discusses this but the detail is missing. There is a brief mention of being able to control the life force which can reanimate a corpse. It would be nice to have some further instruction on this.

I read 'Nineteen-Eighty Four' when I was 13. Really made a lasting impression on me and now we are living it. Seems as though Snowden is the new 'Goldstein'. The so called journalists are totally in support of the government on this, labeling Snowden as a leaker, traitor etc. When the media reinforces the propaganda from the state, we are no different than past/current repressive regimes.

I looked up Geshe Chapur and don't see any Phowa teachings scheduled.

I attended a teaching on Phowa by Lama Rinchen many years ago. Although I felt it, there wasn't enough detail. What Bon Lamas are available? Location? Can you provide further instruction?

You participated and didn't speak out against it. Why not?

IM4L, What is your problem? You keep posting the same old blather and now approving of this; Sean Connery had it right. "You said it's okay to hit women!" It is not OK to hit a woman!!!

There are a number of entities viewing the board this moment that are spammers. The names are unusual. At least more unusual than what are here normally.

Get rid of this spam! As soon as I posted this the spam disappeared.

#9 is the key. Corporate power.

It seems to me that 'the pit' is nothing more than an 'Orwellian Memory Hole'.

Now that we are on the subject of moderators, here is an image that I reported which I believe is misogynistic but my report was ignored. Just to make certain that I wasn't being too judgemental, I asked my girlfriend what she thought. She agreed that such images have no place on this site and this one in particular is misogynistic in tone. The image represents the idea that women are objects for consumption by males. I even ran this image by a friend (PhD) of mine who teaches graduate studies in Sociology, what he thought and he was in agreement. Why are not the forum rules followed here? It seems to me the moderators or maybe just one moderator is showing a particular bias. http://thetaobums.com/topic/28606-i-want-this;/#entry439100

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Details about the 'National Defense Authorization Act' and the spying powers it authorizes. http://truth-out.org/news/item/17070-indefinite-surveillance-say-hello-to-the-national-defense-authorization-act-of-2014

I just had to say something given that the OP seems to dealing with guilt and fear. Donating to Buddhist temples is just another way of attempting to deal with so called negative emotions, where none should exist in the first place.

Have you played the game? HoldEm poker is extremely complicated and will never be completely mastered. Forget about karma. Karma is used to make you make you feel guilty by the ruling religious elite. Nothing more than crowd control.