News Briefs 15-08-2012
Posted by Rick MG at 10:48, 15 Aug 2012Enjoy.
- Antarctic UFO attracts conspiracy theories & balloon talk.
- Perhaps a frozen Nazi managed to thaw himself out.
- Oldie, but goodie: Russians claim aliens spoke in cat-like language.
- Which furthers my theory that cats are ancient aliens.
- The 1964 Socorro New Mexico UFO event continues to stir debate.
- Jupiter's moon Europa has potential for diverse alien ecosystems.
- New app turns your iPhone into a Star Trek medical tricorder.
- Some key signs you might have misunderstood an alien's intentions.
- Aesop's forgotten tales: fox & boar help kangaroo escape zoo.
- Uncovering the secrets of Costa Rica's singing mice. More.
- Exploring Peru's Lost City of the Cloud People.
- Danish bog gives up the remains of hundreds of ancient warriors.
- Why the Andean Chinchorro suddenly began to mummify their dead.
- O-bon, Japan's "please feed the hungry ghosts" day.
- In Kyoto, bonfires light up gigantic kanji on mountainsides.
- Lightning strike leaves pattern etched into sidewalk.
- Dusting off GOD: a new science seeks the positives of religion.
- The Eleusinian Mysteries, a psychedelic cult that thrived for 2000 years.
- Why it's high time to destigmatize psychedelics.
- Mutant butterflies discovered at Japan's Fukushima nuclear site.
- Triclosan, a chemical in antibacterial soaps, impairs muscle function.
Thanks RPJ, evolvingeye, & Jake Adelstein.
Quote of the Day:
“Sometimes in the mountains the animals make paths by using the same route again and again. If you don't know what you're doing, you might think it's a path made by humans--it looks that way. If you follow that path, the path of beasts, you won't get anywhere at all. People lost in the wilderness, they follow these paths and only get more and more lost. Sometimes they lose their way and they die. It's not a path for humans, it's a dangerous diversion. Are you sure that's the road you want to take? It won't get you where you want to go.”
Yakuza advice to Jake Adelstein, from his book Tokyo Vice.
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18 September 2007
1 hour 9 min
"It's Not A Path for Humans"
Depends on the human. The Inuit would beg to disagree. People are often biased by what they perceive to be "human." What they often mean is themselves as if that were a blanket definition of human.
2 May 2004
15 hours 16 min
Yep, that's why I used this quote from Jake Adelstein's Tokyo Vice. In his line of work, it makes perfect sense -- he went down a very dark path, but you'll have to read the book to find out what happened and why the quote applied to him. But I like the concept of humans getting lost by following animal paths, there are all kinds of metaphysical metaphors we can get into. In Japanese, the proverb is called kemono no michi (I'm surprised novelist Haruki Murakami never used it, it's right up his alley). It reminds me of Becoming Animal by David Abrams, shamanism, and whatnot.
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@levitatingcat
1 May 2004
8 weeks 6 days
Reminds me of a certain Monty Python classic:
Liminal Whispers
21 June 2008
5 weeks 4 days
It's a weather balloon, people. Move on.
2 May 2004
15 hours 16 min
But is it an extraterrestrial weather balloon? Aha!
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@levitatingcat
28 June 2006
35 min 36 sec
Rick MG
That was a good article about O-Bon. The following are a few clarifications and other comments of a cross cultural nature.
1} The Lunar Calendar was the official calendar of Japan until the Meiji Period (1867~1911). In the Meiji Period the Solar Calender or Modern Calendar, which first appeared in the Pre- Tokugawa era, was made the official calendar.
2} The food offerings are usually traditional food offerings like O-Saki, O-Mochi (Rice Cake), Fruits, Gohan (Cooked Rice), etc..
3} Traditional Holidays in Kansai, Osaka is in Kansai, sometimes fall on different dates than they do in the rest of Japan.
4} When families go to the cemetary to clean the graves of their ancestors, they often have a picnic at the grave and share their foods with the dead. This custom is similar to "The Day Of The Dead" customs in Mexico.
5} Samhien(pronunced Sowen), the basis of both Halloween and All Hallows Eve, in its pristien origens was similar to O-Bon. The origional version of the song "Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly", not the CR@PPy Christian version, was about Samhien!
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Critically Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think Critically!!!}
18 September 2007
1 hour 9 min
Of course the perfect metaphor for taking the wild path is that "Grizzly Man" in Herzog's documentary.