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Zybourne Clock

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No plane theory

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The best part of the 9/11 Truth movement was '''no plane theory''', which posited that there were no planes involved in 9/11, all footage of the events was modified, and that any New Yorkers who claimed to have seen planes were lying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh7cKDXnS_s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBpTWYUgvcM

http://desip.igc.org/NoPlanesOn911.html

http://911logic.blogspot.com/

http://www.checktheevidence.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=163&Itemid=60

==Forums==

[http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-08-09/news/the-yoda-of-9-11/5 No-planers banned from 9/11 forums]

http://www.jackbloodforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18831

http://imaginativeworlds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15260

[[Category:politics]]

Awatake/Suzuki Type Electromagnetic Country Expansion Device

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Awatake/Floodhusk

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Awatake/Suzuki Type Electromagnetic Country Expansion Device

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Awatake/Floodhusk

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File:Honyaku.png

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uploaded "[[File:Honyaku.png]]"

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Harper's

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	''Now'' the dinner-table subject which would have sounded like polite conversation had it come from the right has become a partisan screed sure to disrupt an otherwise friendly dinner. This, perhaps, is the meaning of the dismissive "mm-hmm" denounced by the author. Still, it might be nice to try to have an old European imperialist conversation in this way, but I think I've shown that for every criticism made in Harper's there is at least the possibility of a counter-criticism.		''Now'' the dinner-table subject which would have sounded like polite conversation had it come from the right has become a partisan screed sure to disrupt an otherwise friendly dinner. This, perhaps, is the meaning of the dismissive "mm-hmm" denounced by the author. Still, it might be nice to try to have an old European imperialist conversation in this way, but I think I've shown that for every criticism made in Harper's there is at least the possibility of a counter-criticism.

-	Unlike academic writers, who always consider the alternative thesis, ''Harper's'' writers rarely, if ever, raise their imaginations to the possibility that their death might also be a birth. At least ''Adbusters'' uses advertising as an opportunity for creative vandalism, attempting with every issue to birth an imaginative and functional counterculture. With ''Harper's'', though, the intended message is never renewal and frequently a dark nihilism. With every article denouncing the degradation of our once-great culture and destruction of our meager achievements by outside forces, we catch a glimpse ~~of the eyes~~ of the ''prachtvolle nach Beute und Sieg lüstern schweifende blonde Bestie'', our dark animal nature betraying all our hopes and dreams.	+	Unlike academic writers, who always consider the alternative thesis, ''Harper's'' writers rarely, if ever, raise their imaginations to the possibility that their death might also be a birth. At least ''Adbusters'' uses advertising as an opportunity for creative vandalism, attempting with every issue to birth an imaginative and functional counterculture. With ''Harper's'', though, the intended message is never renewal and frequently a dark nihilism. With every article denouncing the degradation of our once-great culture and destruction of our meager achievements by outside forces, we catch a glimpse of the ''prachtvolle nach Beute und Sieg lüstern schweifende blonde Bestie'', our dark animal nature betraying all our hopes and dreams.

	''Harper's'', like ''Adbusters'', is a great magazine to read if you feel you have not been sufficiently preached to. It's even better to read critically. With the rise of blogs, though, I foresee a dark future for its kind.		''Harper's'', like ''Adbusters'', is a great magazine to read if you feel you have not been sufficiently preached to. It's even better to read critically. With the rise of blogs, though, I foresee a dark future for its kind.

Everything Shii Knows

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What's new?:

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	==Categories==		==Categories==

Newspapers

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-	[[Category:~~Commonplace~~]]	+	Today everyone is engaged in obituary for the '''newspapers''', wondering what will become of our fragile sense of place when they are gone. Without our daily or weekly read of goings on about town and the thoughts or actions of our local personalities, it is thought, we will stop participating in our local lives, stop being social beings altogether. Perhaps blogs will appear to fill the void, but if there's no duty to read the blogs, most people won't bother. The sense of "city", of "community", will vanish.
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		+	What this standard model fails to account for is that the community was imaginary in the first place; the important figures who write and were written about in the newspaper were arbitrarily chosen, usually based on elitist cultural standards or in backroom meetings of the directors. Newspapers were linked to the place we live in primarily based on the ''assumption'' that they knew what news was most important and what mattered to people in our place. They seem to have supplanted in the minds of their eulogizers the place itself. But Goethe was not so happy when newspapers first appeared, recognizing how close they came to fantasy:
		+	:We have newspapers for all hours of the day. A clever head could still add a few more. This way everything, what everybody does, wants, writes, even what he plans, is publicly exposed. One can only enjoy oneself, or suffer, for the entertainment of others, and in the greatest rush, this is communicated from house to house, from town to town, from empire to empire, and at last from continent to continent.
		+	The "Society" page died long ago, but we still have society in our lives. So, even without newspapers, we will still have local news. It will just become the news that is relevant to us. It is likely that we will stop viewing our city through the lens of the paper and see it with our own eyes again, knowing not what was performed for the sake of the media but what is real and important.
		+	[[Category:Society]]

Harper's

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'''''Harper's''''' is a pretentious ''Adbusters''.

Much like ''Adbusters'', it presents a relentless and unchanging image of gloom and impending collapse. Most of the articles have the title [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2000/08/0066909 "The Death of ..."], [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=h1o&q=site%3Aharpers.org+%22the+decline+of&aq=f&oq=&aqi= "The Decline of ..."], "[http://harpers.org/archive/2009/08/0082595 The Wreck of ..."], [http://harpers.org/archive/2009/11/0082712 "Twilight of ..."], and if they don't explicitly announce their existence as portents of doom, [http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/0082380 the harbingers within are both expected and affirming of one's bourgeois cynicism].

Let us take an historical example of the magazine's omen reading, "The Decline of Conversation" from 1926. It begins well enough, with a proper quoting of Goethe: "quality [of life] shows plainest in the things that people choose to talk about when they talk together, and in the way they choose to talk about them." The article is well-written, in one sense-- the metaphors and similes flow into each other. But in another sense the condescension is obvious throughout. The author derides the infiltration of "personalities" and gossip into everyday talk, and brings up what he considers to be two good examples of dinner table conversation:

"Isn't it remarkable how responsibility brings out a man's greatness? Now who would have thought two years ago that Calvin Coolidge would ever develop into a great leader of men?"

"Isn't it splendid to see the great example that America is setting in the right use of wealth? Just think, for instance, of all the good that Mr. Rockefeller has done with his money."

And wouldn't it be ''nice'', the author concludes, if people still talked this way in America, the way they did in Europe! Well, it's all to easy to notice that both these very grand statements about society approach the subjects from the top down, judging "personalities" based on predefined and monolithic (and, to modern eyes, plutocratic rightist) definitions of "greatness" and "right", and making Coolidge and Rockefeller (of all people) into moral exemplars by which the rest of the conversation will be based, rather than having a more informal chat about the everyday habits of these personalities which would have permitted a larger range of judgments to be made. Imagine if we were to start such a conversation from a contemporary leftist, rather than rightist, point of view:

"Isn't it splendid to see the great example that Russia is setting in the right use of capital? Just think, for instance, of all the good that Mr. Stalin has done with the labor of the people."

''Now'' the dinner-table subject which would have sounded like polite conversation had it come from the right has become a partisan screed sure to disrupt an otherwise friendly dinner. This, perhaps, is the meaning of the dismissive "mm-hmm" denounced by the author. Still, it might be nice to try to have an old European imperialist conversation in this way, but I think I've shown that for every criticism made in Harper's there is at least the possibility of a counter-criticism.

Unlike academic writers, who always consider the alternative thesis, ''Harper's'' writers rarely, if ever, raise their imaginations to the possibility that their death might also be a birth. At least ''Adbusters'' uses advertising as an opportunity for creative vandalism, attempting with every issue to birth an imaginative and functional counterculture. With ''Harper's'', though, the intended message is never renewal and frequently a dark nihilism. With every article denouncing the degradation of our once-great culture and destruction of our meager achievements by outside forces, we catch a glimpse of the eyes of the ''prachtvolle nach Beute und Sieg lüstern schweifende blonde Bestie'', our dark animal nature betraying all our hopes and dreams.

''Harper's'', like ''Adbusters'', is a great magazine to read if you feel you have not been sufficiently preached to. It's even better to read critically. With the rise of blogs, though, I foresee a dark future for its kind.

[[Category:Society]]
[[Category:Philosophy]]

Case law

2009-11-16T01:07:52Z

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British case law seems to be a lot more interesting than its American equivalents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smoke_Ball_Company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1958-05-08-05-003&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1958-05-08-05

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Hotsuma Tsutae

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-	==No epic poetry in Japanese or Chinese tradition==	+	==Problem 1: No epic poetry in Japanese or Chinese tradition==
-	~~There~~ is not a single instance of epic poetry in Japanese ''or'' Chinese before the manuscript of Hotsuma Tsutae.	+	Hotsuma Tsutae is written in 10,000 lines of 5-7 waka. Now, have you ever heard of an epic poem in Japanese? Who could conceive of such a thing? I checked around, and there is not a single instance of epic poetry in Japanese ''or'' Chinese before the manuscript of Hotsuma Tsutae.
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		+	MORI Ōgai 森鴎外's 1889 collection of translated poetry, Omokage (於母影, "Images"), was "considered the first poetic anthology in Japanese to successfully convey a sense of the aesthetic qualities of Western poetry".[http://www.jlit.net/authors_works/mori_ogai.html][http://no-sword.jp/blog/2009/09/visions.html] That was in 1889. Who would be the first Japanese author to discuss the epic poem (叙事詩)? Such a thing couldn't have happened earlier than 1850 or so. But Hotsuma Tsutae is from at least 1777.
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		+	The only thing that could make sense of this is if the author was acquainted with Ainu epics. Or, alternatively, Hotsuma Tsutae really was a transmission from 100AD as its author claims. Given that the Japanese in that period had no lost love for the Ainu these seem equally likely.

	The Ainu epic ''Kutune Shirka'' was only translated in 1931. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutune_Shirka#Translations]		The Ainu epic ''Kutune Shirka'' was only translated in 1931. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutune_Shirka#Translations]

-	==Kamiyo moji==	+	==Problem 2: Kamiyo moji==
	See the [[kamiyo moji]] article.		See the [[kamiyo moji]] article.

	[[Category:Art]]		[[Category:Art]]

Kami

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-	# Leave "kami" as "kami" when your viewers are familiar with the word: e.g., doujinshi and fansub translations.	+	# Leave "kami" as "kami" when your viewers are familiar with the word: e.g., doujinshi and [[fansub]] translations.
	# Translate "kami" as "hero" when referring to the figures of the ''Kojiki'' (e.g. in [[Hotsuma Tsutae]]).		# Translate "kami" as "hero" when referring to the figures of the ''Kojiki'' (e.g. in [[Hotsuma Tsutae]]).
	# Translate "kami" as "spirit" when referring to modern incarnations or appearances.		# Translate "kami" as "spirit" when referring to modern incarnations or appearances.

Fansub

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Kami

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'''On the translation of the word ''kami'''''

==19th century English writers==
Maybe ''kami'' means "genie". [http://books.google.com/books?id=1CotAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9&dq=kami+genii&lr=&ei=93YAS5DYHJPgNY2ikOwO#v=onepage&q=kami%20genii&f=false][http://books.google.com/books?id=WX0RAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA624&dq=kami+genii&lr=&ei=93YAS5DYHJPgNY2ikOwO#v=onepage&q=kami%20genii&f=false][http://books.google.com/books?id=LA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201&dq=%22pure+sinto&lr=&ei=OsbMSqW8NpzENb3J4fAH#v=onepage&q=%22pure%20sinto&f=false]

Maybe ''kami'' means "saint".[http://books.google.com/books?id=xEriWTZV8N4C&pg=PA338&dq=kami+saints+siebold&as_brr=4&ei=ZncAS9vxJ428MJC75d8O&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=kami%20saints%20siebold&f=false][http://books.google.com/books?id=us3Fo42-UM4C&q=saints#v=snippet&q=saints&f=false]

==19th century Japanese writers==
All quotations from Susan Burns, ''Before the Nation''

===Kami as untainted kokoro===
'''Note:''' ''Kokoro'' is a word in Japanese that means "heart-mind". But of course kokoro, like kami, is not generally visible on one's person. As used here, they exist as the intuition behind a feeling.

"When I do something that is wrong, such as being argumentative or speaking ill of someone behind his back or pocketing someone's belongings, I feel that I know completely what I am doing, but afterwards there is a sense of unease. I call this sense of unease Public Mind (ma-gokoro). I call the mind that is selfish and thinks only of its own rewards Private Mind (hitoe-gokoro) . . . Far beneath this Private Mind, there is another 'mind' that feels ill at ease when the Private Mind is allowed to act without restraint. This is the Public Mind. But hidden far beneath this Public Mind, there is that which moves the Public Mind. This is what is called Kami." --Fujitani Mitsue, ''Kadou hiyui shou'' (Burns 2003:135)
===Kami as untainted ancient polity===
"As for how the emperor ruled in the first period, there is in the ancient language the phrase 'to rule the world following the kami.' This means that the emperor took the will of Amaterasu as his own will and all things followed exactly the pattern that was established in the [[Kamiyo moji|Kamiyo]]; and in relation to all things, the emperor did not rely on his own judgment." --Motoori Norinaga, ''Tamakushige'' (Burns 2003:91)

'''Note''' that Norinaga does not say that the emperor followed the instructions of present and personal gods, or that the emperor was himself a kami. Rather, Norinaga sees the Kami Age as the perfect period of Japanese history, which was corrupted afterwards (ibid).
===Kami as ancient heroes===
The word mi-koto (from koto-ba) means that in the Kamiyo, kami "expressed what they thought in words and that everyone followed these words." --Ueda Akinari, ''Kamiyo monogatari'' (Burns 2003:129)
===Kami as unseen force===
"Ame and yomi are two names that both exist with kami, and they are not outside of the [apparent] world. ... Prosperity and decline, happiness and misfortune, reward and punishment all come from this kami that cannot be seen, so it is the most august of all things but also the most fearful." --Tachibana Moribe, ''Itsu no chiwake'' (Burns 2003:176)

"Kami refers to things we cannot see or sense. ... All one can do is avoid the places and acts that may attract it or invite it." --Tachibana Moribe, ''Taimon zakki'' (Burns 2003:180-181)

===Comment===
"A [[Wikipedia]] where this sort of historical overview is likely to get deleted... a shameful Wikipedia." --Me

==20th century Japanese writers==
"Although the word ''kami'' continues to be used in the national cult, it has in no way the meaning of a supernatural being, which you give to it. It connotes only illustrious men, benefactors of their country. Consequently all Japanese, no matter what their religion, can pay them honour without doing violence to their conscience." [http://www.archive.org/details/nationalcultinja00koberich]

==How to translate it today?==
Translating ''kami'' as "god" is

very

very

very

'''bad'''.

In Japanese, God can be translated as 主 (lord), 天 (Heaven), 神様 (Lord ''Kami'') and so forth. When you translate 神 into God this specificity is lost. Additionally, a "kami" that may have been nothing more than [http://www.amazon.com/Kamichu-Box-Set-Carrie-Savage/dp/B001CSPHNE the purest person in the area] takes on implicit attributes of supernaturalness, omniscience, omnipotence, and so forth.

I recommend the following programme:
# Leave "kami" as "kami" when your viewers are familiar with the word: e.g., doujinshi and fansub translations.
# Translate "kami" as "hero" when referring to the figures of the ''Kojiki'' (e.g. in [[Hotsuma Tsutae]]).
# Translate "kami" as "spirit" when referring to modern incarnations or appearances.

===Further reading===
http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/kami/intro.html

[[Category:Religion]]

Kamiyo moji

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	Most ''kamiyo moji'' documented by Ochiai and Atsutane were found on stray bones, clay pots, etc. Often careful examination, e.g. taking the pot into a back room or tracing over invisible lines, could bring out the ''kamiyo moji''.		Most ''kamiyo moji'' documented by Ochiai and Atsutane were found on stray bones, clay pots, etc. Often careful examination, e.g. taking the pot into a back room or tracing over invisible lines, could bring out the ''kamiyo moji''.
	===1775 秀真伝 Hotsuma Tsutae===		===1775 秀真伝 Hotsuma Tsutae===
-	Hotsuma Tsutae is a book written in 10,000 lines of ''yamato-kotoba''. It is rather notable for two reasons: first, it presents a much more coherent narrative than other ''kamiyo moji'' texts, and second, it is the only text for which a predecessor to the printed edition could be found. It was discovered in 1830 and printed in 1884, but unlike the other texts, the "discovery" was not a mere forgery. After 20th century research, it was established that the oldest authentic manuscript is from 1775.	+	[[Hotsuma Tsutae]] is a book written in 10,000 lines of ''yamato-kotoba''. It is rather notable for two reasons: first, it presents a much more coherent narrative than other ''kamiyo moji'' texts, and second, it is the only text for which a predecessor to the printed edition could be found. It was discovered in 1830 and printed in 1884, but unlike the other texts, the "discovery" was not a mere forgery. After 20th century research, it was established that the oldest authentic manuscript is from 1775.

	The origin is claimed be a poem of 28 chapters from the 600s BCE and 12 more chapters from the 1st century CE. This is an eyebrow-raising statement (scholarly consensus is that the Japanese did not develop writing until after Chinese characters were imported), but the work of Yoshinosuke Matsumoto pushes the Hotsuma Tsutae firmly into the category of possible alternative histories. His work is summarized in the English publication ''The Hotsuma Legends''.		The origin is claimed be a poem of 28 chapters from the 600s BCE and 12 more chapters from the 1st century CE. This is an eyebrow-raising statement (scholarly consensus is that the Japanese did not develop writing until after Chinese characters were imported), but the work of Yoshinosuke Matsumoto pushes the Hotsuma Tsutae firmly into the category of possible alternative histories. His work is summarized in the English publication ''The Hotsuma Legends''.

Hotsuma Tsutae

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Problems associated with '''Hotsuma Tsutae'''

==No epic poetry in Japanese or Chinese tradition==
There is not a single instance of epic poetry in Japanese ''or'' Chinese before the manuscript of Hotsuma Tsutae.

The Ainu epic ''Kutune Shirka'' was only translated in 1931. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutune_Shirka#Translations]

==Kamiyo moji==
See the [[kamiyo moji]] article.

[[Category:Art]]

List of mailing lists from before 1992

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Active lists by year founded:

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	* September 1979: [http://www.noreascon.org/users/sflovers/u1/web/ SF-Lovers] - science fiction (on hold)		* September 1979: [http://www.noreascon.org/users/sflovers/u1/web/ SF-Lovers] - science fiction (on hold)
	* August 1985 : [http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks RISKS-L] - computer risks		* August 1985 : [http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks RISKS-L] - computer risks
		+	* 1985 : [http://danny.oz.au/communities/anthro-l/ anthro-l] - Anthropology
	* 1986 : [http://www.mun.ca/Ansaxdat/search.html ANSAXNET] - Anglo-Saxon history		* 1986 : [http://www.mun.ca/Ansaxdat/search.html ANSAXNET] - Anglo-Saxon history
	* May 1987 : [http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/ Humanist] - Humanities		* May 1987 : [http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/ Humanist] - Humanities
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	* [http://its.svensson.org/NETDOC%3BLISTOF NETINFO:INTEREST-GROUPS-1.TXT] - a list of active mailing lists in 1989		* [http://its.svensson.org/NETDOC%3BLISTOF NETINFO:INTEREST-GROUPS-1.TXT] - a list of active mailing lists in 1989
	* [http://www.pac-its.psu.edu/pub/internexus/LISTSERV.LISTS LISTSERV.LISTS] - A list of active mailing lists in 22 December 1992		* [http://www.pac-its.psu.edu/pub/internexus/LISTSERV.LISTS LISTSERV.LISTS] - A list of active mailing lists in 22 December 1992
		+	** [http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Net_info/Misc/listserv.list LISTSERV.LIST] - the same, mid-1992

	==More stuff==		==More stuff==

Korean shamanism

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:The use of straw ropes, and of pieces of paper resembling the Shinto gohei, during incantations, with a certain similarity between the Shinto and the Shaman ceremonies, might suggest a common origin; but our knowledge of the Daemonism of Korea is so completely in its infancy, that any speculations as to its kinships can be of little value, and it is only as a very slight contribution to the sum of knowledge of an obscure but very interesting subject, that I venture to present these chapters to my readers.

:The Koreans, it must be remarked, have no single word for Daemonism or Shamanism. The only phrase in use to express their belief in daemons who require to be propitiated is, Kur-sin wi han-nan Kbt (the worship of Spirits). Pulto is Buddhism, Yuto Confucianism, and '''Sonto Taoism''', but the termination To," doctrine," has not yet been affixed to Deemonism.
::Korea and her neighbors: a narrative of travel - By Isabella Lucy Bird

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