St. Patrick's Day: So long to Pagans (video)

Pat Macpherson and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly  HAPPY "PAGAN GENOCIDE DAY"!

(Bet You Didn't Know) St. Patrick's Day secrets and its strange history

     

The Pagans the Patriarch Destroyed

(Lillian Ewing) Documentary: Pagans of Ancient Times in Ireland and the British Isles

Patriarch Patrick, not Irish

Paganism refers to a group of polytheistic traditions -- primarily those of cultures known to the classical world. In a wider sense it has also been understood to include the non-Abrahamic (as opposed to the Dharmic), folk, or ethnic religions.

The term Pagan was historically used as one of several pejorative Christian counterparts to "gentile" (גוי / נכרי) as used in the JudeoChristian Bible -- comparable to "infidel" or "heretic." Modern ethnologists often avoid this broad usage in favor of more specific and less potentially-offensive terms such as shamanism, polytheism, pantheism, or animism when referring to traditional or historical faiths.

 

College Paganism: "Blarney Blowout" (UMass)

Since the 20th century "Paganism" or "Neopaganism" has become the identifier for a collection of new movements attempting to continue, revive, or reconstruct historical pre-Abrahamic religion.

There are roughly 300 million Pagans worldwide today (possibly many more who do not yet realize they are yearning for a more authentic Earth-based spirituality torn from us by sexist patriarchs, male-dominated religions, genocidal conquerors and enslavers). More

 
The Home of the Destroyers

Patriarch, ex-CE) Benedict

(History Channel) What drove the Holy Roman Empire/Church to switch from Mithraism to Catholicism, keeping the same hill in Rome, many of the same symbols and traditions, and just changing worship from the god Mithras to the new pop sensation god Jesus (Saint Issa, tulku and former Buddhist monk, later glorified as if he were Messiah/Maitreya (the teacher-to-come, which means "Friend" or Mitra, from the Sanskrit root maitri, which calls back to Mithraism -- as if all three of the world's great religions were rooted in Buddhism)? 

Religious symbols of the world

We may never know for sure, but the Vatican may have just been pandering to the masses it aimed to conquer, lead, and tyrannize. In some decades as a world capital (the "Holy See") of great wealth and luxury, more Satanism is practiced in the Vatican than Christianity, according to whistleblower Father Malachi Martin.

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Yes, we molest. But it's not like it's a secret! It's not like it's just your kids. God wants us to!

Irish Fest, Los Angeles (March 7-9)

Seven, Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; IrishFestAtFairplex.com

At the Fairplex in Pomona, northeastern Los Angeles County off the 10 Freeway

 

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at Irish Fest

Escape the hustle and bustle of the week with a refreshing dive into the land of the Irish.

Visit our Irish Village and Pubs for an authentic Ireland fair experience.

Bring the kids; it's a family affair!

Stop for a spell at the Dublin and Killarney stages, and listen to the sounds of Irish rock bands, traditional Celtic music, and classic rock ’n roll. Grab a glass and a plateful of traditional Irish fare, and relax at one of our pub stations. Test the luck of the Irish at one of our contests with prizes galore.

 

Take the little ones into the Medieval Kids Castle, and watch them become knights. Make Irish crafts like Blarney Stones, Celtic knot bookmarks, and pots of gold. Learn to dance the Irish Stew, and speak a few Gaelic phrases. There is something fun for everyone, whether young or old or somewhere in between. Sláinte!

• FAIRPLEX: 1101 W. McKinley Ave.
• Pomona, L.A., California 91768
• $5 admission, $10 parking
• Friday, 6:00 pm - midnight
• Saturday, noon - midnight
• Sunday, noon - 6:00 pm
• Big Irish Fair and Music Fest: June 14-15
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No Snowden, Miley Cyrus for Man of the Year

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Will twerk for money: Miley Cyrus almost became TIME's person of the year (Perez Hilton)

The real "man of the year" was beat out by a prominent religious figure aspiring to talk to animals and institutionally protect child molesters.

Snowden reveals Big NSA Brother's 1984 plans

While NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is busy trying to save the world -- working in forced exile in Russia as he discloses evidence that the USA/NSA is illegally spying on American citizens, allied nations, and almost everyone carrying a cell phone anywhere in the world. TIME's person of the year is an annual distinction asking, Who has made the greatest impact on the world, for good or ill, in the preceding year. 

Go wait in my room, my son.

Time.com chose the new Catholic pope and future "saint" Frances I. The pontiff has failed to help women in the church or in society at large as hoped, but he has criticized rampant capitalism in theory. "The church should not sell any church property for money but rather do so for the benefit of the poor" he said. The Vatican, however, has not done so nor has any other diocese anywhere in the world. The laity may have to listen to the head of the corporation; bishops, priests, and nuns do not. No one in a position to has sold off property to benefit the poor as Pope Frances preaches.

Miley twerk-teases Santa in LA (VYBZ)

Miley Cyrus -- on a rampage of self-degradation, twerking, and "horse tooth" shenanigans, according to "Family Guy" voice actor and KROQ DJ Ralph Garman -- almost got her handlers to secure her the "Man of the Year" distinction. The Catholic God (Zeus)/Goddess (Mary) must have interceded. She appeared last week at KISS FM's Jingle Ball in LA, where she twerked on stage with drunk Santa. 

Miley Cyrus sports ugly bob in LA (KROQ)

The next night, she made it over to KROQ FM's Almost Acoustic Xmas concert in Los Angeles, where she walked around with an overbearing sense of entitlement and a wagging tongue that made her resemble an attention-hungry llama.

Llama tongues are way sexy (GLV)

Miley copied me! (UO)

Snow at the Jewish wailing wall (PRI)

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The (Buddhist) Prayer of St. Francis

Steven Goodheart (FB); Gary Saunders, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

St. Francis, Essenes, earliest Christians lived like Buddhist monastics (gardenvisit.com)

Kwan Yin/Virgin with child shows evidence of religious syncretism (Dale in China)

 

Good St. Francis and the animals

May I be an agent of love in this world.
Where there is hatred, let me bring loving-kindness;
Where there is injury, forgiveness;

Where there is doubt, insight;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
May I console as well as be consoled.
May I understand as well as be understood;
May I love as well as be loved;
For in giving we receive;
In forgiving, we are forgiven;
In dying to self-centeredness, we are born to the deathless.

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• Environmental ethics, Christianity and Buddhism

...Buddhas only point the way (hkoppdelaney)

The Buddha: "As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with toward all beings. With a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings, radiating kindness over the entire world" (SN I, 8).

World Cup: Iceland, Ireland's 33rd county

Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Producer Clark Boyd (TheWorld.org)

Icelandic bhumi-devi and pop idol Bjork's call for Tibetan freedom at a Shanghai concert unnerves Chinese communist officials (Hannah Johnston/Getty Images/Epoch Times).

  

Kill 'em all in the name of my lord!

It’s nail-biting time for many soccer fans out there -- the World Cup playoffs. Over the next week, national teams will do crippling, brain-trauma inducing, war-like battle to try and snag one of the few remaining tickets to next year's World Cup in Brazil.
 

The smallest nation with a dog still in this fight is Iceland, who plays Croatia on Friday. Now, Iceland has a very small population, and thus a small pool of professional players to choose from. And yet, they have a chance, however slim, of making it to Brazil. That's more than IRELAND can boast.

 

Yay, we have Saint Patrick's blessing! We have Saint Patrick's blessing! (theworld.org)

  

Not my Iceland, Patty, no way! (DMSI)

The Irish national [soccer] team has already been eliminated, and most Irish fans are already looking well beyond Rio. But not Eoin Conlon.

 

Over a drink of yeast-contaminated carbs with a Brazilian co-worker in Dublin recently, Conlon started wondering out loud about throwing his support behind ICELAND.

 

“And we kind of laughed, saying: ‘Well, that’s as close as Ireland's going to get to Brazil. It's only a letter difference. A “c” for an “r.” We might as well be brothers,’” says Conlon. Conlon and his friend work for a digital agency, so they did what comes naturally. They built a website in support of Iceland's soccer team.

 

Then, they started a Twitter feed urging Irish soccer fans to back Iceland. The campaign is called County Iceland. Ireland already has 32 counties. So, Conlon says, why not make Iceland the 33rd?

 

“There are only about 320,000 people in Iceland. So if they were a county in Ireland -- I'm calling them the 33rd county -- it would [be] only the fifth-largest county in Ireland. It's incredible the success they've had. And I hope it continues,” he says.

 

Conlon says the website is just a bit of fun. All a visitor has to do is click a "support" button. LISTEN