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A cargo cult is any of a group of unorthodox religious movements
appearing in tribal societies in the wake of Western impact,
especially in New Guinea and Melanesia.
Cargo cults sometimes maintain that manufactured western goods ("cargo")
have been created by divine spirits and are intended for the local indigenous people,
but that white people have unfairly gained control of these objects.
Cargo cults thus focus on overcoming what they perceive as undue 'white' influences
by conducting rituals similar to the white behavior they have observed,
presuming that the ancestors will at last recognize their own
and send them cargo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cults

John Frum (or Jon Frum; John From) is a figure associated with cargo cults
on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu.
In 1941, followers of John Frum rid themselves of their money in a frenzy of spending,
left the missionary churches, schools, villages and plantations,
and moved further inland to celebrate traditional custom through feasts, dances and rituals.
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Post by mayavin » Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:39 pm

well done,
if i do say so
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The cult is still active today.
The followers believe that John Frum will come back on a February 15
(the year of his return is not known),
a date which is observed as "John Frum Day" in Vanuatu.

On John Frum Day in February 2007, the John Frum Movement celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Chief Isaac Wan, its leader, remains strong in his belief in John Frum.
He was quoted by the BBC as saying that John Frum was
"our God, our Jesus," and would eventually return.
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People can live long, happy lives without consuming large amounts of the Earth's resources, a survey suggests.

The 178-nation "Happy Planet Index" lists the south Pacific island of Vanuatu as the happiest nation on the planet, while the UK is ranked 108th.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5169448.stm

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yay...

i smell adventure
instantiate vacuous truth

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truthseeking is akin to finding magik

not magic, in the comprehensible sense...

but magik.

the Image behind the scenes in front of the scenes and coursing through it

it's not that i would need to relocate myself to find it

relocation is the dance with it

yet the dance is not confined to relocating steps

this game we play

and i include you

your heart beats

is not confined to a beating heart

it reaches from the heart of the universe

to the heart of the atom

and strings of symbols are not confined to art

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>Latin Alphabet
>Cyrillic alphabet
>Arabic alphabet
>Brahmic-derived alphabets
>Mixed: Latin and Cyrilic Alphabet
>Mixed: Latin and Arabic Alphabet
>Mixed: no alphabet and other alphabet
>Other alphabet
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Post by the fire elf » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:43 am

i'm not one to go around proclaiming that we're all sinners...

imagine if christ came back
suddenly and mysteriously,
and heard me proclaiming him as such.

that would be unfortunate


some might say #33 theoretically acted similar to a samurai in combat...

if we ponder such a posit,
one might ask oneself:
ronin, master-guided, or other?

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Image[quote]“Laura and I have come to Blacksburg today with hearts full of sorrow,â€
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Psychology (Greek: ψυχολογία) is the academic and applied study
of behavior, cognition and their underlying mechanisms.
It primarily applies to humans but can also be applied to non-humans
such as animals or artificial systems.
Psychology also refers to the application of such knowledge
to various spheres of human activity

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10 years till they end homelessness, they say...

freedom of religion, they say...

leaders of the free world, they say...


well, i'll be damned...
that wouldn't need acknowledging wrote:Atheism in Hinduism
Mainstream Hindu philosophy
talks about the existence of God, being heavily influenced by the Vedanta school,
the dominant philosophical school of Hinduism.
Nonetheless, there were earlier atheistic schools such as Samkhya,
which did not acknowledge the existence of God.
better than a puppy wrote:In many Hindu sects, spiritual aspirants are encouraged
to adopt a personal spiritual teacher, called a guru.
over-identifying with particularities results in misplaced sense of self wrote:academics categorize contemporary Hinduism
into four major denominations: Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism and Smartism
E Pluribus Unum ('Out Of Many, One') wrote:Marginalisation or marginalization refers to the overt or covert trends within societies
whereby those perceived as lacking desirable traits or deviating from the group norms
tend to be excluded by wider society and ostracised as undesirables.

Wing Leung describes A marginal person as "...one who does not belong...
the marginal man...[dwells] at the margin of two cultures and two societies...
[and possesses] a marginal mentality...
[with its] unresolved identity crises."
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The word oxygen derives from two roots in Greek,
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[Origin: 1495–1505; < L Ä«rÅ
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attempting to correct an institution of higher learning with fire-arms

is akin to

running into a battle-field armed with textbooks...

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paradox dictates that
while one would be a source of gloom, misery;
the other would be a source of mirth


one man's erroneous employment of the word oxygen
replicated itself
similar to the modern understanding of the nature of cancer

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An acid (often represented by the generic formula HA)
is traditionally considered any chemical compound that,
when dissolved in water,
gives a solution with a pH less than 7.0.
That approximates the modern definition of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and Martin Lowry,
who independently defined an acid as a compound which donates a hydrogen ion (H+)
to another compound (called a base).
Acid/base systems are different from redox reactions in that there is no change
in oxidation state.


the householders stated their case,
and i could proffer a summary:
one said that another person was expensive
other expressed extreme dissatisfaction with my unabashed zeal for philosophy
and suggested i go emulate grizzly adams

one i left with well wishes,
while the other i cursed with being self-righteous

after spending a night in nature
i was gifted a warm tender spot in my heart
and returned to inform them of my decision
that as long as the other practiced not being self-righteous
the curse was void
In the 2000 limited series The Sentry and its related one-shots,
Bob Reynolds remembers that he is the Sentry,
a superhero whose "power of one million exploding suns" derives from a special serum.
Realizing that his arch-nemesis the Void is returning,
Reynolds seeks out several prominent Marvel characters to warn them
and to discover why no one remembers the Sentry.
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ImageThe Sentry then visits Dr. Strange
to determine if he is real or not.
Strange tricks the Sentry into traveling to his old Professor's research facility
where the two men confine the Sentry in an illusionary realm
where he is a mental patient and superheroes do not exist
in an attempt to prevent any further destruction.

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Post by mayavin » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:10 am

Divyam dadami te caksuh pasya me yogam aisvaram:
Look at this glory, the yoga of the mighty Absolute,
through the faculty which is of the soul
and not merely of the mind or the reason.
"power of one million exploding suns"
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facet:
One of numerous aspects, as of a subject. See Synonyms at phase.

[French facette, from Old French, diminutive of face, face; see face.]

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Post by mayavin » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:20 am

ticket designers wrote:you voluntarily assume the risk
of serious injury or death
by attending
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Post by mayavin » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:22 am

The radio emission from SN 1987A has been observed
since a few days after the first detection of the supernova in February 1987.
The initial outburst was short-lived.
From mid-1990 a new phase of radio emission began,
with an increasing flux density and an optically thin spectrum.
These are the first observations of the birth of a supernova remnant.
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