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03 Feb 2017, 7:25 pm

jrjones9933 wrote:
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I'm watching Nova: Secrets of the Sky Tombs. Between this, and another show I saw recently about the vampire legend worldwide, I have started to think people have it wrong. We didn't start burying our dead out of reverence, or some deep love; all our death rituals have their origins in fear, but over time we changed our perspective.


Both are true I think. :)

In some cases, existing religions colonize and absorb local practices. There's evidence that Buddhist missionaries found ways to reframe defleshing in the Himalayas. The details changed, but the basic practice long predates their arrival, and even persists today.

So, now they say it to encourage enlightenment or favorable rebirth, since there's no way the spirit will get confused and try to reinhabit the corpse. It's nothing but putting a nice spin on the old reason, which was simply to keep the corpse from walking around and hassling the living.


This is basically the non-all ages version of Christians reinterpreting the winter solstice to be about Jesus. It's a common motif- just about every religion has borrowed practices from older ones.


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03 Feb 2017, 8:47 pm

considering taking up reading fiction again


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03 Feb 2017, 11:38 pm

I plan to squirrel away my money until Dean and I go to Victoria in May. After that, I plan to squirrel away my money until my birthday. I plan to do that for the next 24 years. I'm going to look up pod houses on Amazon to see how much they cost.


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04 Feb 2017, 2:09 am

The work I plan to do this weekend and me fighting with my parents about college


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04 Feb 2017, 2:23 am

I hate disc,

I am glad all the computers I want keep can boot from USB, its faster and just easier to install an operating system over all. You can even install Windows 7 over USB 8)

Disc are so much a thing of the past, USB and streaming take over :P

Also my last disc drive broke so I have no way to read CDs now lol



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04 Feb 2017, 4:06 am

Hey Donald, even the President of the United States can't do what they want. You should listen to what the PEOPLE think.


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04 Feb 2017, 11:50 am

Oh my, I am in shock and my heart feels shattered. How are people able to be so insensitive and careless. or, perhaps I am naive, and it's intentional, but, I dont want to go there in my mind. How are the kind people, able to be heartless? I don't understand.



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04 Feb 2017, 11:52 am

^Hugs for you. Is there any way I can help you feel better?


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04 Feb 2017, 3:13 pm

Trying to find ways to explain things to an online friend of mine.


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04 Feb 2017, 3:17 pm

My self-imposed schedule sucks.
Aaaah, me, you're such a buzzkill. :?

But I must forge onward!! :salut:



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04 Feb 2017, 3:23 pm

Mermaids in space.


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04 Feb 2017, 4:37 pm

wondering why someone movies never get a sequel while others don't need one


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04 Feb 2017, 5:25 pm

My only friend isn't responding to my messages or answering my calls again. I don't know why she does this. I thought she liked me but she now rarely responds to me and it takes days for her to reply to a "Hi, how are you?" message.


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04 Feb 2017, 5:48 pm

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My only friend isn't responding to my messages or answering my calls again. I don't know why she does this. I thought she liked me but she now rarely responds to me and it takes days for her to reply to a "Hi, how are you?" message.


That is somewhat disconcerting


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04 Feb 2017, 7:36 pm

Someone is gonna get in trouble so bad! :lol: The next door neighbors are setting off fireworks, but at least we can get a pretty view until then! :mrgreen:

But I can't help but ask what the occasion is?


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