Considering that there are 10,000 different religions (using that term in the Western 2026 colloquial / vernacular sense), I find it really, really weird that there is no one I can join. Or even identify with more broadly. Am I that impossible? But as I said in a previous post, I suppose I can always troll a certain kind of Karens by calling myself "SBNR"...
Hindu and Mahayana / Vajrayana mythology is so incredibly complex that you can always find *some* symbolic correspondence between [fill in the blank] and at least one of their god-forms. It´s almost a bit fascinating, LOL. As if "synchronicities" happened all the time. But perhaps that´s kind of the point. You can never escape the Divine. It has countless upon countless of skilfull means to draw you in. Or draw you out, as they case might be! Or even to scare the hell outta ya...
A somewhat cryptic comment at 4am, but what the heck.
- Oh, the missing link? Yeah, he´s not *quite* missing yet, but he will be soon, trust me, bro!
Ahem...has Homo habilis really been dethroned from his position as transitional form between Australopithecus and Homo erectus (sensu latto)? So now what? Has the missing link gone missing again? Don´t tell the creationists, dude.
New research on the mysterious "human" (?) species known as Homo floresiensis suggests that they didn´t and couldn´t hunt dwarf elephants in their island habitat of Flores 100,000 years ago. Rather, the Hobbit (as this species of Homo is colloquially called) was feeding on carcasses of said pachyderm. The unfortunate proboscids had already been hunted and killed by Komodo dragons! That is, the extremely large monitor lizards known as "Komodo dragons" (this species of reptile is of course still around).
Not sure what to make of this. If Homo floresiensis is an example of insular dwarfism - a shrunken Homo erectus as it were - then the erecti weren´t fully "human" in our sense of the term, still being subject to natural selection (which our species can at least try to escape or transcend). But isn´t there also evidence that Homo erectus were smarter than hitherto assumed? I mean, how on earth did they even *reach* Flores in the first place?
So I don´t know. Something strange is going on here. Either evolution can in extreme cases "go backward" even in a lineage were intelligence is developing. Or the good ol´ Hobbit wasn´t really a human in the first place, but some kind of stray australopith a long way from home...
Both perspectives are pretty mind-boggling. So if Frodo and his 57 half-cousins keep you up at night, pray that the Hobbits (those at Flores) were just monkeys!
Overheard on the interwebs: the Tolkien Estate actually forbade (or tried to forbid) scientists from calling Homo floresiensis "Hobbits".
So heeeeere we go, chat!
Hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits..hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...hobbits...
But wait a sec. Åke Ohlmark´s Swedish translation of "Lord of the Rings" was unauthorized, so I suppose Swedish scientists could call Homo floresiensis "hober"? Sue my ass, dude!
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Well, I´m not a "joiner" anyway, so maybe I shouldn´t give a damn? I´m not likely to ever sign up for some specific "faith community", except maybe for purely social/cultural reasons (or as dissimulation). I suppose I would have to annoy the Abrahamics and their mutant children by calling myself "Spiritual But Not Religious" (which I know some of them hated back when SBNR was the new kid on the block about 15 years ago).
I have spoken.
In Tibet, they even have wrathful forms of Avalokiteshvara. Cuz of course they do. OK, let me guess. Life on the Tibetan Plateau was always kinda rough?
Turns out that being exempted from Israeli military service is great fun! And oh, I didn´t know you could actually dance with the Torah scrolls...
Kan ingen säga åt Aftonbladet att det heter "allt från och med" den franska revolutionen var ett misstag, et cetera. Jag antar nämligen att alt-högern inte stödjer den franska revolutionen...
Någon borde låta AI träna på SAOL och en grammatikbok från fucking 1952. Sedan vankas det uppsägningar i dagarna tre!
