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Started by Malthus, March 20, 2015, 11:10:00 AM

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derspiess

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jimmy olsen

Quote from: Malthus on April 14, 2015, 01:04:00 PM


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By the way, that picture in the mexican religious store, is that an alien?



I have no idea what that ... thing  ... is. Googling suggest that it may simply be a dried fish, though why they are selling it remains a mystery.  :lol:

That whole place was seriously wierd.
Can't you read? It's the Devil!  :mad:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Tonitrus

Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 14, 2015, 06:50:35 PM
Can't you read? It's the Devil!  :mad:

No, it's clearly a devil-shaped Pez dispenser.

lustindarkness

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Malthus

Seiously though - I was warned off taking photos there.  :hmm:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Malthus

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On a follow-up note: I recently bought a beautiful coffee-table-type book on the Bonampak murals (pictured above). I was hoping to learn more about them.

The problem: not much is actually known. Even though they can now read the hieroglyphic incriptions, they aren't very helpful. Basically, they provide a long-count date and a description of the various rituals associated with the dedication of the monument itself - the author described it as "Mayan boilerplate".  :lol:

It is sort of like as if aliens had found a complex movie, but the only written description of what the movie was about, was the copyright notice.

Edit: also included reconstructions of some of the murals that were too dark or blurred to see, many of extreme wierdness - WTF is this all about?  :cthulu: http://benedante.blogspot.ca/2010/03/bonampak.html
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius