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The Anunnaki
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Mark, a cafe acquaintance, friends of the Big-City Blonde, of late abandoning me to sit with her and her coterie, she's beautiful and single and ...
He doesn't need to apologize, I'm laughing. I've never been introduced, but I've never known so much about anyone in my life, friends, even, let alone strangers. She lives her life out loud. Her fashion sense, cutting edge, today it's tight denim cut-offs with rhinestone bedazzled cowboy boots. Fun, maybe, but should things go wrong the whole world will know and the world always sides with a beautiful woman.
Mark, himself pretty dry, is talking to me about the Anunnaki.
Secret masters of the Universe. Or something. It always amuses me when you meet someone that appears to be relatively straight laced and then they confess to some sort of whack-doodle belief. I promise to look them up, and I do, and am surprised, the sources are interesting, and I've an interest in Classical Mythology. And despite all my listening to Dr. Irving Finkel (still listening, still damned interesting) I've not heard mention of this. Yet.
Link: Wikipedia on the Anunnaki
His take, of course, is that they're space aliens or some such nonsense, and as he's preoccupied with Big City Blonde I'm off the hook for my response, not that I should worry, I'm really there just to listen...
Watched over by demons
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This, a cool detail from an antique bed. I don't need two. But I want it...
I settled for a picture. See how I'm growing?
You know, strip off the bad gilding and do it again better and it would be a very cool thing. And I wonder why the Pan motif, but most probably there's a reasonable explanation.
Vintage Gold Classifiers
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I'm trying to reacquire the equipment I'll need to get out prospecting this year. Gold Pan, Classifiers, small pick and shovel. Merely replacing what was stolen from me last year.
One of the volunteers has some classifiers, brings them in for me - they're perfect, if a bit small, but they'll work and they're definitely from the day:
Now, for a gold pan and the rest of the tools. I have a few spots I'd like to get to my next day off, if the car will start (and it's still there, last I looked...)
The Gospel Truth
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The irony, of course, is that the Gospel's in and of themselves are not true, the entire thing a patchwork of fiction and parables designed to illustrate the ideal life and maintain a certain social order. This is not to disagree with the message(s), but rather point out that those people who harp upon Jesus as a real person are rather missing the point and almost always missing the practice, much as Cinderella was not a real person and her not being real in no ways impacts the lesson of the story, so does Jesus's life (and death) become irrelevant in that they are meant solely as instructional aids.
What I find curious is how the Bible has numerous injunctions against false (other) gods, and against worshiping graven images (the same as many other religions) - yet almost the entirety of Christianity is based upon the symbolism of Christ on a Crucifix, or the images of the Saints, thereby almost entirely devaluing it's message in it's attempts to make it "accessible". And that said I love to collect religious kitsch and memorabilia, although I'm not bowing down before it, merely jogging a certain line of thought...
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