EXTRAS

**Gio** · 31st January 2021, 14:30

Abracadabra ...

Originally posted by Dreamtimer

All these folks on TV, with their free national microphones and bully pulpits complaining about censorship.

Next thing they'll be sitting before a feast complaining of being starved.

Tiny violins abounding.

Yes, ironically the situation reminds so much of a past time ...
It is very sad and funny at the same time ...

"Hang On To Your Life"

THE GUESS WHO
8-Track version

The lyrics are profound

4:41 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmS0YpBn-M

**Gio** · 31st January 2021, 14:45

What In The World

The Pandemic has given new life to an old trend - Death Cafes
And other oddity news ...

VICE Asia

As the unprecedented times continue into the new year, the world is taking on some seriously strange obsessions. Like hijab wearing cats, buying pigeons for millions of dollars. Or stitching sweaters for genitals. When will the madness end! Possibly never.

Jan 31, 2021

12:17 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmas6ybrlT8

**Gio** · 31st January 2021, 14:51

Making it real ...

The improbable life of Mike Nichols

CBS Sunday Morning

Director and comedian Mike Nichols arrived in the U.S. as a child refugee from Nazi Germany, and he went on to become a Tony- and Oscar-winning master of both stage and screen, with such classics as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "The Graduate," and "Silkwood."

Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with biographer Mark Harris and actress Candice Bergen about Nichols, the outsider who became a Hollywood and Broadway A-Lister, mining real life for comedic and dramatic gold.

Jan 31, 2021

9:43 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnjdH9CNkw

**Gio** · 1st February 2021, 07:00

Weekend Update: My Pillow CEO, Mike Lindell,
on Getting Banned from Twitter - SNL

Mike Lindell, the My Pillow Guy (Beck Bennett), stops by Weekend Update
to talk about getting banned from Twitter.

Jan 30, 2021

3:41 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRdlaQkU6MI

Pandemic Game Night - SNL

3:53 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSTu1I5t700

**Aianawa** · 1st February 2021, 07:38

Banned vids Gio ?

**Gio** · 1st February 2021, 08:36

Originally posted by Aianawa

Banned vids Gio ?

If any posted videos are unavailable to you on the thread,
Perhaps a New Zealand copyright thingymajiggy ...

**Aianawa** · 1st February 2021, 08:41

Cheers, though unusual, indeed maybe, blessings

**Gio** · 1st February 2021, 14:24

A please do tell (quickie) promo ...

AXIOS on HBO: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky

"On the season premiere of Axios, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky discusses his feelings about former President Trump with Axios national political correspondent Jonathan" Swan.

Jan 29, 2021

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUR5E4usKO4

For more details ...

Zelensky's key messages from his interview with Axios on HBO:
Biden, Trump, vaccines, sanctions against China

**Gio** · 1st February 2021, 14:33

Those Fore(skin)fathers ...

“Just for fun, let’s make what is and isn’t constitutional
kind of wishy-washy.”

**Gio** · 1st February 2021, 15:02

Someone new here ...

Kurt Caz - a South African traveling bushman,
doing what his DNA tells him to ...

Colombia's Craziest Beach! Bocagrande

Welcome to the craziest beach in the world!
The beach I spent most my days on during my stay in Cartagena.
What can we find here?
Lets see...

Jan 31, 2021

23:50 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzrHbXyyho

**Gio** · 1st February 2021, 16:25

A really ...

"Beautiful Person"...

Evan Rachel Wood accuses
former fiancé Marilyn Manson of
abusing her ...

His response

**Gio** · 2nd February 2021, 00:50

Time to get with the spirit ...

Jeremy Smith - Coronavirus Crisis -
A Spiritual Scientific Perspective

LegaliseFreedom1

Any attempt to truly understand the COVID-19 pandemic from a purely materialistic standpoint will inevitably fail. The strictly scientific lens through which most of us view our current predicament says nothing about the psycho-spiritual aspects which hold the key to what is really happening. Whatever the origins of the virus, however, the global response to it represents an assault on social fabric, civil liberties, and on consciousness itself. It is just one front of a multi-faceted attack on human beings and all life on Earth that we are living through.

Is it possible that something much deeper, darker, and more profound than we dare imagine is unfolding? The time when human progress was made possible through the constant refinement of physical forces is already over. In the future, mankind will progress, but only through spiritual development. Are we even capable of learning the lesson that is now being taught?

Feb 1, 2021

33:47 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGW_CwwhX8

**Aragorn** · 2nd February 2021, 12:36

Any attempt to truly understand the COVID-19 pandemic from a purely materialistic standpoint will inevitably fail. The strictly scientific lens through which most of us view our current predicament says nothing about the psycho-spiritual aspects which hold the key to what is really happening. Whatever the origins of the virus, however, the global response to it represents an assault on social fabric, civil liberties, and on consciousness itself. It is just one front of a multi-faceted attack on human beings and all life on Earth that we are living through.

Is it possible that something much deeper, darker, and more profound than we dare imagine is unfolding?

If you're asking me ─ well, you're not, but I'm going to say it anyway

─ then it is very likely that the coronavirus pandemic is just nature's way of striking back at, if not getting rid of, the one species that's has been and still is destroying nature.

The time when human progress was made possible through the constant refinement of physical forces is already over. In the future, mankind will progress, but only through spiritual development. Are we even capable of learning the lesson that is now being taught?

I seriously doubt it.

**Wind** · 2nd February 2021, 13:10

Humanity needed a good kick in the nuts, but unfortunately it seems that it wasn't strong enough. There's more to come.

**Gio** · 2nd February 2021, 15:08

Yes, i agree pretty much with both above responses ... And your remakes due strike to the core of this human/world dilemma ... And i am intuitively driven (to believe) this global crisis is surely a selective human/species weeding out process (whether via nature or by intentional human hands) though still not sure yet?

Individual spiritual development (from my perspective) is a very personal process, and appears to have no limits on time spent on one's enlightenment path. As much as i have wished (and still pray) for a mass unison human awakening, my intuition again leads me to believe (currently if ever) this might be improbable.

But i do believe we (those of us that accept that conscientiousness is a vital communication mechanism) owe it to our existing circumstances to continue to pursue a peaceful/beneficial process for all lifeforms on this planet to exist ... Otherwise our situation (no matter where we might go) is doomed ...

Though still there is for some ...

hope springs eternal

proverb People can always find a reason to hope, even in the bleakest situations. The phrase is a shortening of the line "Hope springs eternal in every human breast," from Alexander Pope's poem Essay on Man. We don't know how this business venture will work out, but hope springs eternal, right?