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"Life expands or shrinks in proportion to one's courage." ~Anain Nin
Crime as Asceticism This comes by way of an email from Joshua: They steal from the rich and give to the poor. And just like Robin Hood and his men, a gang of Hamburg activists are proving difficult to catch despite the fact they dress as superheroes when they raid swanky stores. A bunch of egalitarian criminals who go by such names as "Spider Mum" and "Santa Guevara" are being referred to as modern-day Germany's version of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. And just like the Sheriff of Nottingham in the legend of Sherwood Forest's most famous outlaw, the Hamburg police are at a loss when it comes to stopping them. jaybird found this for you @ 08:38 in High Weirdness | | permalink
L-Ron-Unit: "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars he should start his own religion." Posing as an interested disciple, I first call into the Scientology Centre on London's Tottenham Court Road where I fill out an Oxford Capacity Analysis Test, designed to measure emotional state in order to highlight areas that Scientology can improve. Although the test is free, I am encouraged to purchase a copy of Hubbard's Dianetics (for £6.99) and to contact them when I finish reading it. My results apparently prove that I am depressed, nervous, critical, anxious and unable to communicate. I am told that I am in dire need of spiritual enlightenment and that only Scientology can help me. I telephone the Church of Scientology's headquarters at Saint Hill, claiming that I am concerned by my test results. I am invited to attend a "church" service, a "group processing session", and to have a guided tour by a "recruitment expert" of the building and grounds at Saint Hill, known to those inside as "The Castle". Two days later, I am standing on the manicured lawns of the beautiful Jacobean building that is home to Scientology's version of the civil service - the Sea Organisation. My guide for the day, Ron, appears. He tells me has been a member for seven years and sold his home in Norwich six years ago "to be closer to the Sea Organisation". He works at Saint Hill every evening and weekend. He has a day job as an electrician and seems surprised when I ask him if he has time off. "Why would I want to do that?" asks the 33-year-old. "I love it here." jaybird found this for you @ 20:30 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Happy Friday: High Owl Hides Out In Christmas Tree 
O RLY? YA RLY? NO WAI! A bird with a buzz found in a Florida family's Christmas tree is getting ready to go back into the wild. The little screech owl was found in the tree, which the family had kept for five days before deciding to decorate it. [more: "Just kind of laying there as happy as could be..."] jaybird found this for you @ 21:06 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Happy Monday Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England. "I grabbed the first thing that came to hand -- one of my garden gnomes -- and hurled it at him, and hit him," she recalled. "He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome." jaybird found this for you @ 07:43 in High Weirdness | | permalink
my special partner?  By 2050, the over 65s in Japan are expected to make up a third of the population... and it's likely that technology will be relied upon to help look after them... To help combat the loneliness of longevity - and in true Japanese style - the country has turned to technology for guidance... Originally designed to be a substitute boyfriend for young single girls in the workforce, the doll has become an unexpected hit with elderly people across Japan. Since they came on to the market five years ago, more than one million dolls have been sold. jaybird found this for you @ 18:35 in High Weirdness | | permalink
paper jam on the pizza It is not quite the stuff of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but the fare coming out of Homaru Cantu's kitchen is just as bizarre. In Roald Dahl's famous children's book, chewing gum is made to taste like a three-course meal. Cantu, a cordon-bleu chef, has modified an ink-jet printer to create dishes made of edible paper that can taste like anything from birthday cake to sushi. Tongue firmly planted in cheek, I wonder exactly what those tasty images could be? jaybird found this for you @ 20:03 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Italian dies in 'Romeo' tragedy A husband in Italy who lost hope of his wife waking from a four-month coma has killed himself - only for his beloved to regain consciousness hours later. Doctors said when Rossana, 67, stirred, she asked for her husband Ettore. jaybird found this for you @ 07:16 in High Weirdness | | permalink
 Warning: Faith IS NOT knowledge. Believers are ignorant of Cubic Creation and will be destroyed by their own word. jaybird found this for you @ 16:14 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Correspondence between Jack Parsons (associate of Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard, rocket scientist and madman) and His "Elemental", Marjorie Cameron. However, since Rome is such a new center, I wonder if it would not be worth your while to spend a little time there. It is only one of the three centers of opposition. I don't see how you will meet destiny in Guadalahara - on the other hand you might - or in Oshkosh, Minsk, Flatbush or any other place you may decide to go. This is quite uninspired - as it should be - it is really not my concern at all. After all, the other name of Armageddon will not be written until the morning of Ragnarok, when at last Her banner is unfolded before the armies. This part of the prophecy I have never told, and do not know that I ever shall. So far it has been quite literal. I suppose I shall see that bloody sunset, just as I have seen the rest. Well, I can change nothing, nor do I care to. What is loosed is loosed, and well loosed. All the rest calls for redemption; and nature moves inexorably towards a balance. If I am used in that work - however ill used - I am glad of it. We can be insulated against everything but death - in fact, death is the very substance of our insulation. But to be used by life we must be naked and to be naked is to be hurt. But it is also to be alive. jaybird found this for you @ 21:56 in High Weirdness | | permalink
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"Sea Org:" Paramilitarism in Scientology In 1967, L. Ron Hubbard raised a private navy, appointed himself Commodore, donned a dashing uniform of his own design and set forth on an extraordinary odyssey, leading a fleet of ships across the oceans variously pursued by the CIA, the FBI, the international press and a miscellany of suspicious government and maritime agencies. jaybird found this for you @ 15:05 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Investing in their future: Beavers weave stolen cash into dam A bag of bills stolen from a casino was snapped up by beavers who wove thousands of dollars in soggy currency into the sticks and brush of their dam on a creek in eastern Louisiana. Way to go, lil' buddy. jaybird found this for you @ 07:49 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Xanadu Xero: Do you have Duh, yo. Doesn’t everyone? jaybird found this for you @ 15:17 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Here's more of nothing. Here's more of nothing. jaybird found this for you @ 22:06 in High Weirdness | | permalink
In a secret Paris cavern, In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement. Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries. jaybird found this for you @ 06:48 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Behold! It's seething strangeness! Behold! It's seething strangeness! jaybird found this for you @ 17:48 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Once upon a time, a Once upon a time, a little doggy poo lived on the side of a road. jaybird found this for you @ 08:48 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Happy Friday! It's Child Happy Friday! It's Child Pimp & Ho Costumes for your shopping pleasure! jaybird found this for you @ 15:40 in High Weirdness | | permalink
A computer asking 20 Questions A computer asking 20 Questions guessed an object or abstract idea I had in mind 9/10 times...! It's a bit spooky! jaybird found this for you @ 16:38 in High Weirdness | | permalink
How to Create a Golem How to Create a Golem From the Comfort of Home jaybird found this for you @ 19:06 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Recursive delight: Trippy Mirror Illusion Recursive delight: Trippy Mirror Illusion jaybird found this for you @ 10:32 in High Weirdness | | permalink
House of Bees: 700,000 removed House of Bees: 700,000 removed from man's home. He must've been bee-draggled. jaybird found this for you @ 13:47 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Unfortunately, I missed the annual Unfortunately, I missed the annual Cheese Rolling event while on vacation. jaybird found this for you @ 19:35 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Post-modern cat scratching devices, via Post-modern cat scratching devices, via Reality Carnival jaybird found this for you @ 13:24 in High Weirdness | | permalink
It's the spinnin' wheel, baby. It's the spinnin' wheel, baby. jaybird found this for you @ 17:10 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Was it Thursday night  Was it Thursday night that we were all gathered around, laughing over variations on this theme over Brooklyn Lager and fries? Can't be true, but it is: Actors Whip Easter Bunny at Church Show A church trying to teach about the crucifixion of Jesus performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs, upsetting several parents and young children. Okay, so it's not a joke, and the line has been crossed. This is another painfully obvious sign that the whole point of that rebellious rabbi two thousand years ago has been lost to the hijackers of what in essense began as a beautiful faith. Actually, the hijacking really began with Paul, and later the Romans, then King James, and now a relatively new (hundreds of years kind of new, not this year kind of new) trend of dogmatic literalism. There are those who are working feverishly to take it back, by studying Aramaic and the original and expunged texts from the scrolls. Jesus' raw concepts are not lost, but they're in serious jeopardy. Mel Gibson didn't help. There's more and more data coming out in the translations that's downright revolutionary. And what really irks me here is the branding of the rabbit 'pagan.' Sure, the rabbit was/is a symbol of fertility and spring, but it's also a creature made, according to the literalists, by God himself. For us to whip? Christ, a dog is a symbol in some religions too, when will the 'Christian' Coalition issue a fatwa against Lassie? It burns my britches. Um, well Happy Easter, and may the Deep Peace of the Goddess Oestara abide with rabbit lovers everywhere. jaybird found this for you @ 21:09 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Break-Dancers Perform For The 
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"A Spam Poem" Following the same rules as the (now concluded) spam poetry contest on J-walk, I present to you, culled from the subject lines in my delete bucket... "A Poem for Della" Della, last scion: jaybird found this for you @ 18:31 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Pet Foil Hat Technology  Pet Foil Hat Technology stop brain scans! jaybird found this for you @ 18:51 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Hobbit glamor?  Hobbit glamor? jaybird found this for you @ 11:36 in High Weirdness | | permalink
A Japanese company has 
A Japanese company has invented a product which, it says, allows owners to create their own dreams.jaybird found this for you @ 07:59 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Pork4Kids is rather wrong. Brought Pork4Kids is rather wrong. Brought to you by the National Pork Board. Don't watch the flash cartoon. Really. Nor should you take the tour of the farm, where all the pink little piggies trot off into the monolith from 2001. jaybird found this for you @ 20:37 in High Weirdness | | permalink
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I can't tell if this I can't tell if this is for real of not... [via MeFi] Head injuries in nursery rhymes: evidence of a dangerous subtext in children's literature. In the case of Humpty Dumpty, we question whether "all the king's horses and all the king's men" were capable of launching an appropriate medical intervention after Mr. Dumpty's unfortunate accident. What sort of EMS training and equipment did these first responders have? Although the accompanying saddlebags might have contained a cervical collar, it is unlikely that a spinal board would have been available, seriously compromising spinal management. The presence of "all the king's men" also suggests a shocking lack of crowd control. Could the crowded scene explain the inability of the responders to "put Humpty together again"? Should this attempt even have been made, given the circumstances? Might a "snatch and run" by real EMS personnel have saved the victim? jaybird found this for you @ 06:51 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Bit of a problem with Bit of a problem with the sushi, I'm afraid: More than 10 people face arrest on suspicion of confining a restaurant employee whose right arm was found in a secluded area of Okutama, western Tokyo, in October, police said Tuesday. jaybird found this for you @ 12:02 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Cat Knows Math in  Cat Knows Math in 8 Languages, Answers with Kisses jaybird found this for you @ 17:10 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Scientists create 'perfect' toast  Scientists create 'perfect' toast jaybird found this for you @ 06:45 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Bomb alert over 'break-wind' dog Bomb alert over 'break-wind' dog Mr Rogerson, 31, from Thorner, Leeds, was questioned by FBI agents and looked on in amazement as they took a series of swabs from the mechanical toy's rear end. jaybird found this for you @ 21:25 in High Weirdness | | permalink
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