The Picture Thread Mark IV

[Sock puppet path]

...time has no boundaries

Will you cut it out with your damn feminist crap already!

[redarmy11]

Racist!

[Sock puppet path]

sexist! idoit!!

[draqon]

Will you cut it out with your damn feminist crap already!

I am just saying that Avatar should propose to her.

[Avatar]

I don't have romantic feelings towards my friends, cut it out!

[whitewolf]

I am just saying that Avatar should propose to her.

Godless degenerate! How dAre you!

[John99]

They make a fine couple.

[draqon]

I don't have romantic feelings towards my friends, cut it out!

I am sorry...it is just the first thing that comes to my mind.

[Sciencelovah]

these are pretty cool, inzomnia

thanks, Varda! From 22-25 Sept I'll got a chance to travel to an Island in
North Sea. If I can make nice pics I'll post some here.

YAY! Monkey pics!!! wow!

they are not just monkeys, they are holy monkeys! The place is a kind
of dham (referring to the term used in lightgigantic's post), only the monkeys
are also considered sacred.

Btw when I was there, the monkey are worshipping the buddha statue.

No, I'm kidding, lol. They took the flower or food that people leave in front
of the buddha statue.

Fantastic photos, inzomnia!

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One my friend went to study to the USA for a year and we said to each other that in the moder age of information it doesn't matter that much as it would have ment in the times of Columbus.
Then we became curious and she wrote a letter to me, and I am now writing a letter to her.
And now we understand why those letters of times of old sound so full of meaning - you could not afford to write something meaningless because each word takes time and each sentence takes lots of time.
I shortened and shortened my orginial script, till only the essence remained.

Of course our experiment is not full, because we send letters by air mail, not a sailing ship.

Writing this letter now.

wow, classic, Avatar! And all that candles and everything... so nice!

I do not use air mail anymore, unless to send postcard or legalized documents.
Btw, I have just got a postcard from Nepal. Its from a boy who helped me a
lot during my field visit there. Said him in the letter (more or less): thank you
sister, for being my God and my teacher.

[Avatar]

According to Hinduism and Buddhism every person is a manifestation of the divine.
When you are having a guest, it's a visiting deity.

[Sciencelovah]

really?? So its normal for them to call the visiting guest as God? I found it a bit scary

Uh, I remember now, though not so well, once the Nepali that I met there told me
that they have a Goddess but now she is being taken and lives in America (). At that
time I dont understand even till now, but I was afraid to ask them more because I was
afraid they would find it offending.

[Sciencelovah]

Oh, I found her! I guess this is what they meant:

Nepalese 'goddess' is reinstated

A 10-year-old girl who is worshipped as a living goddess in Nepal has had her title reinstated after defying tradition and visiting the US.

Temple authorities at her home town say that she will not be stripped of her title because she is willing shortly to undergo a "cleansing" ceremony.

Sajani Shakya was one of the three most-revered Kumaris, who are honoured by Hindus and Buddhists alike.

She was chosen after undergoing tests at the age of two.

Since then she has been expected to bless devotees and attend festivals until she reaches puberty.

But she provoked the ire of temple elders by travelling to the US.

etc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6907007.stm

but seems she went back home now.

[Avatar]

really?? So its normal for them to call the visiting guest as God? I found it a bit scary

The greeting - two palms together like in a Christian prayer and a slight bow - is the traditional representation of that recognition.

[Ghost_007]

Pictures from Pakistan:

Islamabad:

[Ghost_007]

Faisal Masjid



Quran in the Mosque

[Ghost_007]

[Reiku]

''According to Hinduism and Buddhism every person is a manifestation of the divine.
When you are having a guest, it's a visiting deity''

That's beautiful.

[peta9]

''According to Hinduism and Buddhism every person is a manifestation of the divine.
When you are having a guest, it's a visiting deity''

That's beautiful.

It is, except when you are dealing with one who doesn't respect others 'divinity' and want to kill, use or destroy you.

[redarmy11]

Lovely, Ghost. Are those your own work?

[draqon]

wow Ghost's pictures are like carrying me away to some distant world....totally different, sort of a lulliby.