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On the Tree of Life, the attainment of wisdom is just one step down from union with God. Understanding and its attainment is one step below wisdom, and knowledge is one step below understanding. I say "steps" when what I actually mean are processes that can take years, a tremendous personal investment, and losses which, at the time, may rend the ( Read more... )

The surviving victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are called Hibakusha (被爆者?), a Japanese word that literally translates as "explosion-affected people." Many victims were Japanese who still live in Japan, but several thousand, Japanese and non-Japanese, live abroad in Korea, the United States, Brazil and elsewhere ( Read more... )

http://www.cracked.com/article_15669_10-most-insane-medical-practices-in-history.html

Earlier this morning I had an intense lucid dream about helping people prepare a nuclear bomb shelter -- or what was supposed to be a nuclear bomb shelter -- under a large house in an area that could have been the northern part of the Los Angeles Basin, say, in the Hollywood Hills. (BTW, if you've got Google Earth, fire it up and put "Los Angeles ( Read more... )

http://www.pawnation.com/2010/11/22/dangerous-dog-rufus-to-be-honored-at-national-dog-show/

The concept of the Holy Guardian Angel as Magickians hold it isn't that of the general public, who think of great big beautiful humanoid beings with gigantic wings, enhaloed with light, and acting to guard people from danger when they hear or see that term. Rather, to a Magickian, the concept is more or less equivalent to that of the superego, ( Read more... )

Nicole Brodeur | Getting the bully to back off | Seattle Times Newspaper

I could say all sorts of things about the women who get their children to bully other children under any circumstances. The least of it is "retarded." Another term is "faganism," a term in law having to do with adults who train children and deploy them to carry out criminal ( Read more... )

What We Saw at the Stewart-Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity

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% jasolaterThe people in this video are idiots -- disconnected from reality, utterly ignorant, and in many cases permanently stoned. It's no better here in Western ( Read more... )

Travie McCoy Arrested for Tagging Berlin Wall - The Boombox