Stupid is as stupid does. When you were born and raised in a cult and spent your entire life serving the whims of a cult leader and have a 5th-grade "Vedic" education, well, what can you do? Bad karma, I guess. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64794718/trump-threat-tulsi-gabbard-kristi-noem-kash-patel/ 86-108 RUN
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ISKCON vs. ISKCON: A Fight Over Which Flavor of Bullshit Gets the Throne In case anyone missed it, the Indian Supreme Court just ruled in favor of ISKCON Bangalore in a 25-year legal pissing match with ISKCON Mumbai over who owns the Bangalore temple: https://www.thehansindia.com/news/national/hare-krishna-temple-dispute-iskcon-bengaluru-chief-hails-supreme-court-verdict-as-historic-971678
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The only thing leaking is the Paramahamsas maha diapers. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-intelligence-community-firings-b2751179.html Meanwhile the true threat to humanity is this shit which persists into 2025: https://thecsrjournal.in/divine-intervention-miracles-protected-indian-army-kargil-war/ The most populated country in the world wit
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/tulsi-gabbards-old-tweet-schooling-trump-over-america-first-goes-viral-being-saudi-arabias-101747219233482-amp.html Being Chris Butler's bitch ain't nothing to write Goloka about either. Lol. RUN
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The Yoga Barbie and the Plastic Guru: Wai Lana, Chris Butler, and the Cult of Contradictions Wai Lana and Chris Butler (aka Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa) have spent decades building a spiritual empire that preaches detachment from the material world. Their followers in the Science of Identity Foundation are told the body is an illusion, that sense gratification is a trap, and that
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EXPOSÉ ON THE SCIENCE OF IDENTITY FOUNDATION (SIF) AND CHRIS BUTLER’S NETWORK OF CONTROL, ABUSE, AND COVER-UPS This post compiles firsthand accounts, public records, and reporting related to Chris Butler (aka Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa) and the group he founded, the Science of Identity Foundation. The organization operates as a high-control group centered around Butler’s absolut
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..."The password associated with all of the accounts in question includes the word “shraddha,” which appears to have personal significance to Gabbard: Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported that she had been initiated into the Science of Identity Foundation, an offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement into which she was reportedly born and which former members have accused of being
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https://www.wired.com/story/tulsi-gabbard-dni-weak-password/ Let me guess: PW: JayaSrilaPrabhupada_108 or PW: HaribolSpiritSoul_108 RUN
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Truth wins, Let’s drop the cult-speak, seriously. We already have perfectly good words in English to describe psychological self-deception. Dressing it up in religious jargon like “Maya” just props up centuries of dogma, elitism, and sectarian delusion. If you’re trying to see clearly, start by using language that doesn’t come pre-loaded with metaphysical cult baggage. That's where freed
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Will there ever be any proper trial for the case of Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard and Papalii Sia Figiel? Who knows! Tulsi Gabbard knows. Butler knows. They know there will not. They also know the truth. Manipulation of justice and news is a crime, and that is what is being done 100% in the case of Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard and Papalii Sia Figiel. RUN
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https://mountainx.com/arts/local-author-pens-memoir-about-his-life-as-a-hare-krishna/ This piece is basically a soft-focus whitewash, the kind of apologetic fluff you expect from someone still too attached to their own story to tell the truth. It’s full of pastoral nostalgia, vague spiritual talk, and carefully avoids any mention of systemic abuse. It reads more like a PR puff piece than a rea
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Worth a read: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. RUN
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Always so glad to know we live in a secular world where this cult can't do a damn thing about this Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Identity_Foundation And that in a moment one can find out exactly where and how their indian secterian God was created, when the radha goddess was added to the mix, and when the only vaishnav sect in Bengal claimed thier epilepti
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Oh that's good! RUN
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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=329478166342424&set=a.163250852965157 Mickey-mouse spirituality... Meanwhile, what happened to Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard? She was conveniently murdered right as Tusli went for a political shift power grab. The case has been stalled till August—well over a year since the tragic murder of the one single vocal intellectual opponent and family member o
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Siddhaswarupananda (butler) top disciple and US spy chief Tulsi Gabbard is getting grilled for her very quick descent into the very same rhetoric her gurudev Chris Butler taught us all: Hate Islam/Muslims/Other religions. She supports Hindu nationalists and will continue to show her true sectarian colors throughout her tenure in a highly sensitive position. Literally, no country will ever feel sa
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Too many red flags. New Zealand is just a 3 hour flight away. Any SIFbot could have been in and out quicker than a devotee chanting japa. There is no way 2 friends with no history of violence resulted in a brutal hammer to the head and multiple stabbings. Why is it taking nearly over a year to go to trial? Meanwhile it paved the way to the cult getting a completely unqualified useless pa
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The Case That Doesn’t Add Up: Was Papalii Sia Figiel Framed for the Murder of Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard? The brutal murder of Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard—a poet, scholar, and outspoken critic of her niece Tulsi Gabbard—was one of the most violent and improbable crimes in recent history. Nine months later, the case remains shrouded in silence, missing evidence, and unanswered questions. Th
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What?
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It took me a good 10 years and 4 initiations to discover they were all so royally full of shit. Amazingly, I did not pick up on the scent the moment I walked into the room. But alas, I was a young boy and young man with much to learn. RUN
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"Accepted members of the cult are also allowed to watch highly secretive VG’s or virtual gatherings where members chant kirtan from all over the world and wait for Chris Butler to come to the VG live. As soon as Chris Butler comes online, all of his devotees and students are expected to prostrate themselves to the ground, lying or praying flat and offering respects and love to Chris Butler.
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Gotta love the media. RUN
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Well certainly she should have no problem achieving that status. Incompetence is basically the path that led her to where she is. Much like her spiritual master who is so incompetent that he has basically lived majority of his adult life with other humans washing his underwear, and now likely wiping his ass. RUN
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Jai Srila Prabhupada! Haribol! Hare Krishna! The cult is now officially in the White House! Jai Jai! RUN
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Pasting thos here where it belongs. https://substack.com/@realchrissyg RUN
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This hagiographical story about Chaitanya rejecting the oil as an act of humility just doesn’t sit right with me or really make any sense, like many puranic and gaudiya stories. It’s always told like it’s some great lesson in detachment, but when you really think about it, it just reinforces an elitist mindset that only the finest things are worthy of offering to God. The temple priests alr
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Adani Group, who ISKCON rubs shoulders with to serve prashad slop to kumbh pilgrims is a mafia style crime family organization. https://hindenburgresearch.com/adani/ How devotees make it big in the world. A story as old as cults. You should read Adanis naive take on kumbh mela being some sort of blueprint in sustainable business and society. Pure delusional fantasy. https://www.msn.
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ISKCON keeps the agni hotra going at kumbh. https://www.wionews.com/india-news/maha-kumbh-fire-breaks-out-in-sector-18-shankaracharya-marg-8698230 Yagnas gone wild. RUN
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Nearly 100 people dead. Fifteen more days to go. The glory of religious fanaticism on full display. Kumbh Mela 2025. Report: 79 Pilgrims Died in Kumbh Mela Stampede—Far Exceeding Official Toll The average Hare Krishna will likely tell you that those crushed to death in this chaotic stampede were karmically fortunate, that they died at an "auspicious moment", and that this was some
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Relevant—I’ve always said this here. If Shankaracharya is considered sectarian, then Krishna consciousness is definitely sectarian. Any religious system—whether cultural or otherwise—that promotes a specific scripture, god(s), guru, or ideology is a sect and, by definition, sectarian. Krishna is no more a universal deity than Ra, Rod, Zeus, or Jehovah. Opinion: How Scholarship on Adi Shankarac
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