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Jared Leto Just Learned About the Coronavirus Pandemic After a 12-Day Desert Meditation Trip
Time ^ | March 17, 2020 | Melissa Locker

Posted on 03/17/2020 12:03:57 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Thanks to blaring headlines and the 24-hour news cycle, avoiding news of the coronavirus is difficult.

That is, unless you’re silently meditating in the desert far from civilization. That is, unless you’re Jared Leto.

The actor was self-isolating, before it was recommended by governments and health experts. Leto had taken a break from the world and retreated to the desert for some quiet time only to emerge 12 days later to a wildly changed world facing the pandemic. He took to Instagram to express his feelings.

“Wow. Twelve days ago I began a silent meditation in the desert,” Leto wrote in his post, which was captioned with a red heart emoji. “We were totally isolated. No phone, no communication etc. We had no idea what was happening outside the facility.”

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; hollywood; jaredleto; leto; mainstreammedia; media; msm
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12 days with no mainstream media sounds like the best thing ever.
1 posted on 03/17/2020 12:03:57 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Never heard of the guy, thankfully


2 posted on 03/17/2020 12:09:09 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: EdnaMode

Somehow, I’m reminded of Dana Carvey’s Church Lady line...

“Well, isn’t that special...”


3 posted on 03/17/2020 12:11:41 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Bell Bouy II

same here...sports? Hollywood? televangelist?


4 posted on 03/17/2020 12:12:47 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Bell Bouy II

5 posted on 03/17/2020 12:13:13 PM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: EdnaMode
Hey, Jared,

SURPRISE!

6 posted on 03/17/2020 12:15:39 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Curse of intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything you know won't work!)
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To: EdnaMode

What dude...use’s Emoji’s?


7 posted on 03/17/2020 12:17:02 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: EdnaMode
Facility? Who goes to meditate at a "facility"? Arn't you supposed to sit Indian style (can you still say that?) high up on a ledge outside of a cliff-side cave, overlooking the wonders of God's creation... or something?

(No idea who this person is...)

8 posted on 03/17/2020 12:17:09 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: EdnaMode

GO BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......................


9 posted on 03/17/2020 12:17:33 PM PDT by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: EdnaMode

Go back to the dessert. Meditate there. Return in a few weeks, when the crazy people get on to something else.


10 posted on 03/17/2020 12:19:11 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: EdnaMode

Yeah, but this thing has been brewing for months. It couldn’t have been too big of a shock.


11 posted on 03/17/2020 12:26:40 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: EdnaMode

Jared is a hippie.

All ya gotta do is turn off the TV.


12 posted on 03/17/2020 12:29:59 PM PDT by chris37 (Despite my growing “Coronaphobia”, I still feel at least mostly sane half of the time.)
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To: EdnaMode

he immediately tested positive for the virus... and herpes.


13 posted on 03/17/2020 12:33:43 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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To: EdnaMode
Leto achieved recognition for his role as Jordan Catalano on the television series My So-Called Life (1994).
That reminds me of "your so called fame" when most of us don't know who you are.
14 posted on 03/17/2020 12:35:36 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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So funny!   I was looking at the long list of films he has been in and I have not seen any of them until I got to the very bottom with, "Blade Runner 2049", which I have seen, but I don't remember his very minor part at all.
15 posted on 03/17/2020 12:42:33 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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I’ve seen Blade Runner 2049 several times and can’t place him. My best guess is he was either the guy behind the counter at the public records archive or the coroner at the morgue. Both small parts played by odd looking actors.


16 posted on 03/17/2020 12:52:03 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Bell Bouy II

If you never heard of him, why are you so thankful for it?


17 posted on 03/17/2020 12:55:15 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: EdnaMode

“Twelve days ago I began a silent meditation in the desert...”

Just when you thought Jared Leto couldn’t get any douchier, he goes and does something like this.


18 posted on 03/17/2020 1:03:26 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Osage Orange

One who bangs 15 year old groupies, probably.


19 posted on 03/17/2020 1:04:11 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Hatteras

Well, you see, the original New Agers were kind of respectable that way. At least they got their hands dirty, went to India, or lived in a commune with no running water or flushing toilets.

These New New Agers want enlightenment without all that bother. They’re not going to hike into the mountains of Tibet when they can take a private jet to a “spiritual retreat” in California or Arizona and still impress all their Instagram followers.


20 posted on 03/17/2020 1:07:13 PM PDT by Boogieman
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