Is it time for an FSM billboard? Published June 7th, 2011 by Bobby Henderson Can you picture it?
It could be amazing, if we do it right. I’ve mentioned it before and had mixed responses. Here are my thoughts: It can’t be negative. I am in favor of the AA’s substantive causes but I found this billboard campaign smug and petty (I feel the same about campaigns to remove Christmas trees from public venues). The high road. Send me your ideas/drawings. Submissions (so far): #1. . #1(b) . #2. . #3. . #4. . #5. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Four Blood Moons. Biblical. Pics. Tribal rituals to feature in Mandela's state funeral. JOHANNESBURG – An ox will be slaughtered, the deceased will be wrapped in a leopard skin and a family elder will keep talking to the body's spirit: The state funeral for South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela on Sunday will also include those rituals from the tradition of the Xhosa people, to whom Mandela's Thembu clan belongs.
The funeral in Mandela's southeastern childhood village of Qunu will be an eclectic mix of traditional rituals, Christian elements and those of a state funeral. Here's a brief look at the Xhosa people and the main elements of their burial traditions: The Xhosa people The majority of the country's 7 million Xhosa people live in the country's southeast, in the Eastern Cape province. Their language, Xhosa, is famous for its three click sounds. Talking to the body Following a tradition called Thetha, Xhosa culture requires a family elder to stay with Mandela's body and explain to his spirit what is happening. Wrapped in a leopard skin Slaughtering the ox.
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Awakening. Christ. Buddhism & Mind. Thought Provoking. "Dear Nikki, you speak about your quests in life.
Can you say more? " That simple question resonated to the depths of me. That simple question has kept me creatively paralyzed for a lifetime. And ultimately, if I do not seek more to understand that question, I will find my spirit unsettled again. Yet again. As if her question hadn't resonated loudly enough, I was sent the same message through a comment made on an NPR program this afternoon. 1. 2. To me, it's the same idea as the question that was posed on my Transitioner page. Be well. Be patient. Be in the moment. MissNikkiAnn. A Higher Conscious Conversation