Хаггис (dreaded haggis) / Gotovim.RU2 For some reason I was looking up “dreaded haggis” on Google the other day. Oh, right, to scare the Russians. Much to my surprise, I found a recipe for it on a Russian site. Why should the Sassenachs be the only ones to suffer?
Into the Void
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The Post-modern Closet
I have been meditating – oops, first wrote “medicating” – on the word post-modern recently. Ken Wilber says (and I paraphrase), that in the context of Transpersonal Psychology, post-modern means that your personal evolution has carried the human race past the sterile pragmatism and/or atheism of the Computer Age into the next stage. My understanding […]
Philtrum
Mr. Lucky: What’s the name of the two lines between your nose and upper lip? The Internet is great. You go online trying to find out the name of the two lines under your nose and a half hour later you’re looking at a picture that will likely require years of therapy to help you […]
Virgin birth awaited in England
globeandmail.com: Virgin birth awaited in England Merry Christmas to all my Christian friends. CHESTER, England — As Christmas approaches, a virgin mother is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her offspring. She’s Flora, the Komodo dragon. In an evolutionary twist, Flora has managed to become pregnant all on her own without any male help. It would […]
Talking to Dog Again
Follow up to https://intothevoid.us/2005/07/09/talking-to-dog/ There is this thing called the religious experience. This is where you feel the presence of something larger than yourself, and know your place in the grand scheme. Sometimes you only get a glimpse of it, but it’s enough to change your opinions completely. Uh, epiphany, that’s what it’s called. Epiphanies […]
Funerary Customs
I decided it was time to drag the intellectual level of my blog up, kicking and screaming if need be, with an anthropology piece about understanding other cultures’ customs. I may have lent that book out. I always feel like I’m blowing smoke if I don’t have quotes to back up my bizarre ideas. But […]
TFTD – on "possibilities"
Our possibilities of experiencing are infinite and infinitely beyond that splinter of awareness we acknowledge, call “normal,” and disclose to others.
Am I predator or prey?
Someone asked me, in response to a previous message, whether I am predator or prey. My reply: Yes, you are *exactly* right. Humans are capable of being either. This means that we can switch from one set of neurotransmitters to the other set in an instant. Deer can’t do that. Lions can’t do that. They […]
Natural Terror
Natural Terror | The Zucchini Patch Update 9/22/2007: Jessica retooled her blog over the summer. Do be sure to check it out. Here’s the new link to the post above. Natural Terror | The Zucchini Patch A quick search for the toothmark photo below turned up a couple of interesting blog entries using the same […]
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Koko has a tested IQ of between 70 and 95 on a human scale, where 100 is considered “normal.”
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