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petroniaWell, if I respond to anonymous comments you won't be notified anyway, so in order: 1) Sorry, don't know who you are because I know many HnG fans and suck at guessing, but I will be posting more HnG fic soon. Soon! XD 2) What fangirls? 3) Probably, but if I read something tedious a trapdoor opens at the bottom of my head and it falls right out, so I can't even remember it afterward let alone blog about it. As for Mirage of Blaze, I have cursed the author, cursed the characters, posted rants, thrown the books across the room and taken month-long sanity hiatuses from reading them, so how sick is "sick of it"? XD I don't think the series is in danger of boring me any time soon, if that's what you mean. 4) Rhinos are also related to whales, unless I'm mistaken. 5) I guess I am one of those people who wouldn't post hate memes, so - I'm not going to post a hate meme. XD Besides, I can answer the question easily: of course people would jump in and vent. Apart from everything else, my flist would hate all over my lj just to let me know that they appreciate that I appreciate the irony. 6) I have seen the Tuvan throat singers but have yet to download. Doing so now! 7) I've never been much interested in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
campfuckudie, because... I've seen crack RPG comms come and go. But my default filter is over 100 people, so it's only one of the many things my flist talks about constantly that I'm not interested in or have never seen. XD
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Naoe's family knows he has spiritual p0ww3rz. They're okay with it. I'd never thought about it at all, but - duh! They run a temple! XD;;; To them he's just talented at exorcism the way some other kid might be talented at baseball. Besides his parents and big brother Teruhiro were so convinced he was going to grow up to be a dame ningen who never leaves the attic that they're plain relieved at anything he does that smacks of retarded normality, like smoking and staying out all night with girls. They also seem to make him drive them around a lot. I dunno, it's that invisible sign on his back that says "use me as a chauffeur thx".
Pictures of Maria-Kannon: 1 | 2
And here's a story by Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
Naoe: Well, to be precise, it's not Jibo-Kannon. It's a statue of Mary worshipped by persecuted Christians. You see the cross-like form of the decoration here? The child she's carrying is the baby Jesus.
Teruhiro: ...So it's not a weeping statue of Kanzeon Boddhisattva, it's a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary?
Naoe: *shrug*
(Sabina: Um, guys, aren't you suppose to contact the Vatican about cases like these? ...Guys?)
But instead of doing what I would've done, had I personally come into possession of a weeping Virgin, Naoe and his bro went out to get smashed and listen to jazz. And so did I! Isn't that creepy? ...Okay, fine. I went to the Khaled show at Metropolis, sponsored by the Jazz Festival. It was... well, Khaled himself (and band) were awesome, and the audience was spwecial in a way the security did not enjoy. XD My better pictures were taken after the speakers in my corner of the stage were knocked over, making for a lovely view.
campfuckudie, because... I've seen crack RPG comms come and go. But my default filter is over 100 people, so it's only one of the many things my flist talks about constantly that I'm not interested in or have never seen. XD***
Naoe's family knows he has spiritual p0ww3rz. They're okay with it. I'd never thought about it at all, but - duh! They run a temple! XD;;; To them he's just talented at exorcism the way some other kid might be talented at baseball. Besides his parents and big brother Teruhiro were so convinced he was going to grow up to be a dame ningen who never leaves the attic that they're plain relieved at anything he does that smacks of retarded normality, like smoking and staying out all night with girls. They also seem to make him drive them around a lot. I dunno, it's that invisible sign on his back that says "use me as a chauffeur thx".
Pictures of Maria-Kannon: 1 | 2
And here's a story by Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
Naoe: Well, to be precise, it's not Jibo-Kannon. It's a statue of Mary worshipped by persecuted Christians. You see the cross-like form of the decoration here? The child she's carrying is the baby Jesus.
Teruhiro: ...So it's not a weeping statue of Kanzeon Boddhisattva, it's a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary?
Naoe: *shrug*
(Sabina: Um, guys, aren't you suppose to contact the Vatican about cases like these? ...Guys?)
But instead of doing what I would've done, had I personally come into possession of a weeping Virgin, Naoe and his bro went out to get smashed and listen to jazz. And so did I! Isn't that creepy? ...Okay, fine. I went to the Khaled show at Metropolis, sponsored by the Jazz Festival. It was... well, Khaled himself (and band) were awesome, and the audience was spwecial in a way the security did not enjoy. XD My better pictures were taken after the speakers in my corner of the stage were knocked over, making for a lovely view.
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Date: 2005-07-06 07:58 am (UTC)and, eeee! is this the brother that likes naoe a lot, or the one that resents him?
this sounds more interesting than the pr0n. XD
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Date: 2005-07-06 03:15 pm (UTC)It is the brother who likes Naoe. And pr0n is only interesting if you're the one reading (or writing) it, of course. XD
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Date: 2005-07-06 08:08 am (UTC)"use me as a chauffeur thx".
This really cracked me up. XD It's the new masochism, people! XD
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Date: 2005-07-06 08:54 pm (UTC)No matter how many Confucian Christs and Maria Kannons I see, I never stop cracking up about them.
Thanks for sharing.
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Date: 2005-07-07 05:17 am (UTC)*poksies* Aren't you coming up soon? Drop me a line!
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Date: 2005-07-07 05:44 am (UTC)I know it's all very serious, disguising your gods with pagan imagery to avoid persecution, but ultimately, it makes for some rather curious representations. (At the moment Maria Kannon followers are enjoying a sort of renewed popularity, especially among those who want to see universalism in religious beliefs tied to compassion and what not.)
I guess a more amusing example would be how jesuits in china appropriated chinese artistic styles to produce bible illustrations like this:
confucian/christian fussion religious imagery (http://www.religion-cults.com/art/adulteress.htm)
Looks just like Confucius with disciples, but it happens to be Christ!
Had another friend who concentrated on Colonial art in Latin America and such areas in which the people had practiced human sacrifices of the sort that pulled hearts out of people's bodies. Well, let's just say their imagery of the "Sacred Heart" were more detailed than those produced in contemporary Spain.
The examples go on forever, and I should stop if I haven't bored you yet already.
I come up July 24. By August 1 its off to Providence, RI!