MATTHEW INMAN OF "THE OATMEAL" SUCKS!

Tara Carreon · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 11:23 am Post subject:

Biblical Rapeutation.

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Tara Carreon · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 1:35 pm Post subject:

There has been a third DOS attack against my websites this morning. Let's get one thing clear: THESE INMAN HACKERS ARE DEFINITELY NOT FOR FREE SPEECH! Their First Amendment concerns are TOTAL BULLSHIT. They want to be free from the law that prohibits them from viciously attacking their business competitors and deprive me, Charles and anyone who associates with us the right to speak freely about social, political and legal concerns. And isn't it lovely that Public Citizen has put their weight behind this anti-free speech hate campaign?

Tara Carreon · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:36 pm Post subject:

I have no idea when it was that I became the most radical person in the world. Who knows, perhaps even the whole universe! It was when I stopped being a "Buddhist." I put the word "Buddhist" in quotes because -- and I was going to write "even," but I should really say "especially" -- after 22 years, I had no idea what the word even meant. It seemed that I was the only one who was interested in the answer to that question. Nobody else even asked it. And as I struggled to come to terms with my rejection of everything I experienced during those 22 years -- because of having an experience of the utter emptiness of it all, the utter uselessness of it all -- I found myself asking the very strange question, "What is Buddhism?" I wanted to know whether I was or wasn't a Buddhist. I made a large list of Buddhist things. OMG, what a revelation to find that it was nothing at all, except a swirling cauldron of conflicting meanings.

I got the highest teachings, believe me. It's a matter of record. And I was the main transcriptionist for all the teachings. Just like what I do now, you might say that library work came naturally to me when I was 19. So I handled the teachings intimately. And I saw that nobody knew what the hell they were talking about. It was so contradictory and incomplete. There was no way to figure out HOW to get enlightened.

My lama was nice; I loved him very, very much, and he loved me very, very much. We had a relationship of great mutual respect. He thought very highly of me, and I thought very highly of him. We hung out a LOT together. We had a SPECIAL relationship, which was not sexual. And I adored him for who he was, and resented who he became when his so-called "superiors" were around. Like the big lamas, like Dudjom Rinpoche, or Pednor Rinpoche.

Actually, he related perfectly to his "superior" Dudjom Ripoche. I was at the teaching in Ashland, in 1978 or something, when Dudjom Rinpoche bust out laughing and pointing at Gyatrul Rinpoche, joking and laughing, and then, "Gyatrul Rinpoche is my true successor" was translated from Tibetan into English. Dudjom Rinpoche's son, Shenphen Rinpoche, must have been there; I can't remember, maybe he wasn't. Can it be possible that no one told him what went on? Because he stepped into his father's role like it was his birthright.

The birth thing is very complicated. Who can keep track of all the reincarnations of Tibetan lamas? It's like Deuteronomy. And it's not simple, like generationally successive, one every generation. No, there can be 7 of them at the same time, and they can even belong to different lineages. The Tibetans have a ranking system, but I could never figure out what it was, and I don't think anyone else could, either. For some events, we'd have three levels of thrones, and Rinpoche knew who to put on each one. And a lot of times, it didn't really make sense or seem fair, especially when he put himself on the lowest one. Why lie to the people for some fake show of humility?

But Gyatrul Rinpoche's relationship with Pednor Rinpoche was difficult. Pednor Rinpoche was kind of like a mobster-lama. He was tough. You didn't fuck with him. He was the boss. He could be slightly cruel. Once he made a joke and started laughing about everyone in the room, saying we were all zombies. Of course, everyone was ready to jump to his defense, and immediately turn on each other, disclaiming to be one of the zombies, in order to be on the right side of things, the lama's side, that is. But what he had said wasn't fair! We only did what they told us to do, then they have the nerve to laugh at us? I didn't find him at all funny. We were told to be quiet and keep our heads low. That never went over well with me. I rarely followed the rule, and kept it to a absolute minimum. Which is why Rinpoche hit me over the head once as I was walking up to get an empowerment from Pednor Rinpoche -- more of those bad vibes associated with him. I never liked Pednor Rinpoche. In fact, one of the things he's known for is sponsoring a huge number of young boy monks in India. But are they happy? No. If they could run away into the woods, and live in America, India, anywhere, free and on the run, illegal, eating garbage, they would. They hated their life.

And when Gyatrul Rinpoche hit me on the head, I really didn't like that.

I held it against him.

And then, like a little Devil coming out, he started acting very naughty a lot of the time. As he was acting naughty, he would look at me and give me a devilish grin, provoking a reaction, as if he was doing it just for me. And I would scowl disapprovingly at him.

We had a nun, Ani Baba, who was a major bower and scraper. She did what she was supposed to do. And I really hated it that she didn't respect her female self. And then they started beating up on her. Nick Monk slammed her against the temple door for whispering in the temple to some new people who were asking her some questions, supposedly against the "No Talking" rule. I wanted to kill him for that. Every time I could give him trouble, I did. Sometimes they liked to play musical chairs on us, "so we wouldn't get attached to our seat." He'd tell me to move, and I'd tell him, "No." I developed a very ugly feeling for him, because he acted like he was the boss of the temple. No one's the boss of me. I don't care if Rinpoche put him in charge. Fuck Rinpoche! He can't tell me what to do. He apologized to me several times for thinking he knew something better than me. He didn't lay any "superior" trip on me. But when it came to the big lamas, he wanted you to get in line. It was more about what they would think about him, whether he was running a tight ship or shot. He was comfortable with the charade, that would drop as soon as they were gone. Time to start rolling and laughing down the hills again, the big lamas are gone!

Generally, I thought it really sucked that Gyatrul Rinpoche didn't realize his own superiority. He had to know it, so why did he pretend it didn't exist? He had some sort of job he thought he had to do, which involved kowtowing to the Tibetan hierarchy. But I knew what he really thought. He always made it very clear whether he liked a lama or not. Usually, he didn't. We tried to get him to appoint a Tibetan lama to teach the Los Angeles center which I ran, but he could never find anyone he liked. Really, he didn't like any of them. Better not to have anyone, than someone who wasn't trustworthy. And Tibetan lamas, by and large, are sharks in the ocean. They will stab you in the back faster than you can say, "Jack Robinson." They want everything that is yours. I'm talking about the lamas. They steal each other blind. I was constantly having to defend my lama's turf. Everyone wanted his stuff.

So I got "cynical" watching all this Tibetan religious-political nonsense. I started sending faxes to the temple office, asking questions like, "How does one accrue generosity merit when one is charged against ones will at the door?" My faxes were termed "negative" by one of our best friends. It just went downhill from there. It was all becoming corporatized and weirdized. Lama positions were being bought for $50,000 a pop by movie stars. Deals were being made because of alliances with prominent Washington personalities. Instead of me cooking all the food with a little bit of help, the events were catered. We even had those fancy white tents. That was a drastic move from where we had started in the old days, when the boys would build a pavilion with recycled wood, and I would sew the canvas roof on my Singer treadle sewing machine. They even put loudspeakers outside. The teaching was now being transmitted through wire. Some of us older students would sit outside in the tent, listening to the teaching coming over the wire, ook at each other and roll our eyes, and then get drunk. How long could that B.S. go on?

So I've been disillusioned for a long time. I guess that's part of my "radicalness." I'm cynical. I don't expect people to do the right thing, but it still disappoints me when they don't.

I've studied a lot of our so-called "liberal" groups in America, and have found every single one of them wanting in perfection. There's too many people involved. Corporations are a good example of communism. No person within the group can make the whole according to his will. He's simply a cell in a larger organism, one of many multiple personalities. I had never really thought about schizophrenia being a metaphor for a corporation, but that's what it is: many personalities, each one of whom is unable to control the whole. So, of course, part of it is going to be rotten.

At some point I decided that I wished I had been working with Ralph Nader for those 22 years instead of being a Buddhist -- of course, that's a silly thought, but who cares? I knew that I was riding on a dream, an ideal. And I knew the day might come when my dream would be proven a lie. I HOPE that Ralph Nader is a really great guy. I had HOPED that Public Citizen was the most venerable of all charities. But I've seen a lot of corruption in the liberal organizations.

What percentage of the humongous amount of money that poured towards the Katrina victims, actually got to their intended recipients? More money was donated to Katrina than was donated to the 9/11 victims, from what I heard. But there was a huge amount of stealing that went on. I'm just guessing, but I think probably around 12% of the whole got to the victims. Which is pathetic, corrupt and unacceptable. But who is policing the activity? No one, so naturally, there is theft. Our government is just an excuse not to do anything, and allow crime to happen.

I know that Greenpeace is compromised, the ACLU, a lot of the animal and wilderness charities, fuck -- let's be realistic -- all of them are compromised. They'll do a lot of good things, and then they'll do a bad thing. And we're supposed to live with that. The one that really stuck in my jaw was the ACLU representing the nazis. Couldn't they find someone better to represent? It's a strange and disquieting choice they made. I don't approve of it, and I don't trust them.

In this case, The American Cancer Society, the Wildlife Fund, Indiegogo, all acted very badly. They did nothing to protect the donors, or to make sure the money got to where it said it would go. It seems that there's nothing but corruption everywhere you look.

I think it's a symptom of these communist corporate entities. Because, if you really look at them, they are disabling the good efforts of the majority of the people who are members, making them worthless. They really function like a prison. If you belong to any group much larger than a family, you may as well be behind bars, because you're not going to get anywhere except via conspiracy. If you follow the rules, you lose; if you break the rules, you win. So it's a terrible Catch 22 situation if you want to succeed. And everyone wants to succeed. And this choice is what determines who you are, whether you're one of the people who breaks the rules and wins, or follows the rules and loses. Crime definitely pays. We all know that's true. The question is, "Can you live with yourself after you commit the crime?"

Charles and I watch a lot of documentaries. It's sad to see the history of humanity not standing up for what's good and right. You can see it everywhere, in books, on TV, in religion, and yet no one seems to think it's a real problem. We watched a beautiful movie last night with Marcello Mastriono (sp?). He played a professor in the late 1800s who tried to organize the workers to get more rights. But people didn't have the backbone, the loyalty, the conviction, to take it through to a successful conclusion. Eventually they gave in, and everything was just like it was before. They achieved nothing. They had no sense of their power.

Yet, the power of mobs is tricky.

I don't think that this civilization-government experiment we've been doing is working out very well. I think it's causing a lot of problems. I think people would be better off acting individually and in small groups, like families seem to work out pretty well. How do you move a mob in an enlightened fashion? I don't think it can be done. Acting in groups is confusing, because you can't control the outcomes, which causes frustration, anger, and the desire to manipulate your group.

I think people should stand and act alone. Or with another person, if you like. But the more people you add to your group, the more difficult it is going to be to get your way. Personally, I have a big trip about wanting to affect my environment. Which means I have to be an individual, and resist the group. Which means I have little power, and they have great power. I have to be some sort of hero to win. How can that be possible? Only one way: sufficient will and lots of failure and disappointment.

The hive mentality dis-gusts me! Individually, each member is so weak and moblike. They join together so that everyone will be impressed by their group strength, but all I see are a bunch of cowards. I wouldn't want to talk to any of them. I'd rather spend my time reading books, and playing my sitar.

Tara Carreon · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:54 pm Post subject:

100 robot zombies complained to Photobucket, and got our video taken down. See what I'm saying? THEY and their army of corrupt journalists can say as many bad things about you as they want, but YOU aren't allowed to speak. The Inman gang are a bunch of fascists. There is NOTHING to admire about these guys, and everything to condemn. They are NOT the little guys, but the BIG guys in disguise.

Here's the Psycho Santa Video for now:

http://www.naderlibrary.com/psychosantamoviefinalfinalFINAL3.wmv

This is my favorite part of the exchange between Charles Carreon and Photobucket quoted below,spoken by the Photobucket techs: "However, as a private corporation, we are not legally bound by the First Amendment and may occasionally decide to remove pictures or videos that we deem objectionable." That's SO American -- Not!

Tara Carreon · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:05 pm Post subject:

The thing that has really shattered my view of this universe, and made me convinced that it is evil, is the realization that OTHERS can deeply affect MY reality. All belief in "the world is what you make it," has been shattered into a million pieces. That little new age homily is the voice of the entitled, the con artist, and the stupid. You can be as positive as you want in this universe, but that doesn't mean you'll get to FEEL positive. It's a mind war. What memes will dominate the universe? I know the answer: the lowest, slimiest, most violent, most sadistic, most hateful, most male will dominate. That's why our brain sizes have been going down. What can you say about people who insist on believing that humanity is always on the up and up? Quite the reverse, I would say. Some terrible energy got into humanity, and is torturing everyone to death. And it seems that we are powerless to prevent it.

I keep thinking that I'll just convince them they're wrong. What else can I think? I respect my and their brains enough to think that there is hope.

Tara Carreon · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:42 pm Post subject:

I love Douglas Adams, but I don't like his life philosophy. In this scene from Hitchhiker, Arthur Dent expresses the same kind of distrust of the universe that I have expressed, which Slartibartfast hastens to dismiss as common paranoia. Throughout the movie, Douglas Adams has made witty comments about the Illuminati nihilists, but in this scene, through the character of Slartibartfast, he conveys a similar nihilism, one, however, that preserves life, but is utterly devoid of love. Life is meaningless, so we should just keep ourselves busy "doing all the fiddly bits around the fjords."

And he ends the movie with the same sour note: it's all a terrible cock-up, and all we can do is wait for the Illuminati Vogons to read us their bad poetry and then kill us. What a pity.

Couldn't Douglas Adams, with all his enormous creativity, think of a better philosophy of life than this? It's pathetic. Why wait for the universe or someone to tell us the answer? Why not try to make life meaningful, by doing meaningful things, as opposed to absurd things? Meaningful things like giving people food, clothing, housing, money, education, and love -- obviously important things to the functioning of life. So in the final analysis, Douglas Adams is really not much of a hero.

Tara Carreon · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject:

Little dick Matt Inman is just working SO hard to take down American Buddha Online Library. Loads of bad luck to you, motherfucker! He even complained to my internet service provider, little fucker! He doesn't even have the guts to sign his own name, just "M". It's not enough that we've had 19 DOS attacks, that I just got about 25 DMCA notices, that every corrupt newspaper has taken his fucked-up side, that his lawyers are a bunch of cheaters, that there are cybersquatters and everyone talking shit about us -- ALL WORKING FOR THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY, MOST LIKELY PENGUIN LEADING THE ATTACK -- he wants to take down our server, as well. Burn in hell, Matt. You WILL NOT win. When everything is said and done, I'll still be here defending The People's rights to have online libraries, and Charles will still be representing corporations like Funnyjunk against your and other people's insane -- may I say "juvenile"? -- attacks. Grow up, Matt. You and all your stupid little friends. You're 27 years old, and still drawing dinosaurs! That is so embarrassing!

It appears now that Matt Inman wants to deny his own self.

He doesn't want me depicting political characters eminently worthy of criticism -- Kathleen Parker with two dicks in her hand, and the Bush gang on cans of soup, who got us into this war with a bunch of their lies -- but he wants to generally rip people's heads off and put them in a blender, and drink it. He wants to hurt The People, and defend the government criminals. It's easy to see whose side he's on.

He doesn't want me to say this picture is funny like a nazi camp, to use the beautiful Nellie McKay's words:

But what else can you say about it? It's certainly NOT funny!

Matt Inman wants to talk ENDLESS SHIT about anyone he wants, make baseless accusations about corporations stealing his content, but he doesn't want you to say one thing back. He's really a fascist through and through, a motherfucking, mean, nasty bastard. I can only wish you ill, Matt.

Tara Carreon · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:07 pm Post subject:

I think you should be humble, Matt. Move to a third-world country, get another name, another face, and accept the fact that you have LOST your reputation in America.

It's sad, but true. Matt Inman will never be the same. His life is ruined now. He'll be lucky not to commit suicide. It's that bad. It really, really is. His life is OVER!

AND HE BROUGHT IT ALL ON HIMSELF!

MATT INMAN IS NOW THE MOST HATED ARTIST ON THE INTERNET. HE'S AN INTERNET SACRIFICE -- IRONICALLY SACRIFICED BY HIMSELF, HAVING ACHIEVED THE IMPOSSIBLE -- HE ATE HIS OWN HEAD!

How does it feel Matt, to get a taste of your own "medicine"? Just a "taste," because it's just little, ole me, saying it, on my little ole board, not the "ENTIRE INTERNET"! And I'm not harrassing and hunting you and your friends and family down everywhere you go. I am made of better stuff than your miserable, vindictive self.

But these fascists, they don't want even ONE PERSON telling them to go to hell. As soon as you do, they threaten to kill your entire family!

Our society has turned its children into little mafiosos.

It's not your fault, Matt, but you still have to pay.

Whose fault is it? All of our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents who did nothing to actually make the world better for all of us. But Matt -- I've been trying to do my part ever since I realized the responsibility I bear to the world. More than anything, I want to make the world a good place for you and your friends. And for me, too. I hate the way this world has become. It's vicious and ugly. No one deserves to live in this hell-hole of a world. We've got to change it for the better. Put your artistic skills to work for The People. It's not too late. Even Milarepa was a murderer.