"fearmongering, militant organising and inciting violence."
atmagraha-avidya at work.
"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun".
(Ecclesiastes 1:9)
If you wanna be immune you gotta take the vaccine.

...What differentiates Buddha and Christ from other heroes is that the treasure they bring back from their quest is their teachings, with the warning "Do not worship me, but practice what I teach.”
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"What would Buddhists say about Campbell?" I guess you would get somewhat different answers from everyone you asked, but I would say, in brief: The stories of both Buddha and Jesus are examples of what Campbell, in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," calls the "monomyth" of the hero's journey...
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I went through the transcripts of all 6 episodes of Bill Moyers' interview of Joseph Campbell and find no reference to a "human spaceship".
billmoyers.com/series/josep...

According to the First Amendment to the Constitution, the USA is not and never shall be a ”Christian Nation." Full stop.

This: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha-...

... back in the good old days before DRM!
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... #Bach reused the theme for both of these pieces from a transcription that he had done for organ of a #Vivaldi #concerto,...
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...Hey, I've heard this tune before! So I asked Google about it, and it told me...
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Interesting that the phrase "gun violence" in itself identifies the root of the problem - the flood of easily accessible guns intersecting with the flood of violent speech, thought, and action.

Speaking of existential courage:
"He who seeth the abyss but with eagle's eyes,--he who with eagle's talons *graspeth* the abyss: he hath courage."
- Nietzsche, cited by Tillich in "The Courage to Be" (1952)

"...but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." - Ephesians 6:11-12 (KJV)
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"So this is this, and that is that…” T.S. Eliot, “The Ad-Dressing of Cats”
“Trust, but verify” - Ronald Reagan

Some useful suggestions for ways of coping with the technological manifestations of samsara. But not a way out.

Imagine having an ego so fragile that your mind twists a couple of mechanical failures into a vast conspiracy against you. Then imagine such a one having his finger on the nuclear button. Then wonder how America came to such a state.
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