- December 6, 2011
- Castaway, Crawling Chaos and The Coral Sea
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Crawling Chaos, Life
- Tagged with: Australia, battle, battle of the coral sea, bloke, book, Buddha, Castaway, Crawling, Crawling Chaos, crocodile, Death, Egg, Enjoy, explosion, Fantastic, fantastic holiday, four mile beach, God, Great, great barrier reef, happiness, History, holiday, Lexington, Mad, man, Music, port douglas australia, robinson crusoe, single moment, Sound, steve irwin, stingray, sunset, Website
Ichinen Sanzen It (literally) means 3000 realms in a single moment of life. This means that for any given moment your life is composed of everything; all thoughts, all history, all presents and all futures. You only ‘sense’ things one at a time, yet they’re always there. I’ll soon be toddling off to the beach [...]
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- November 2, 2011
- Foetus Products Shop Made Simple
- Posted by Strangely
- Crawling Chaos
- Tagged with: absence, Amazon, bank, cd release, Certificate, chaos website, Crawling, Crawling Chaos, creation, current software, Dance, Death, deftness, Design, Digital, digital domain, domain, Download, financial, Foetus, gazza, GoDaddy, Google, heart, hidden, hidden gems, independence, Jeff, Joke, jollity, lyricism, Mac, Mad, operandi, operation, PayPal, Planet, Products, purists, randomness, Recording, Resource, Security, Software, Sound, SSL, Steve Jobs, tandem, technology, track recordings, tribute, uk shopping, Wahay, war, Website
Foetus Products Shop Open In preparation for our next release, Spookhouse, I’ve set up a proper shop to sell it! Our intention is to sell everything ourselves via this sole outlet. (Click image for the UK shopping site.) The announcement is on the Crawling Chaos website here. Kicking off the shop I’ve reworked (…er…shouldn’t that [...]
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- April 12, 2011
- Google Gagarin
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Life
- Tagged with: achievement, astronaut, atmosphere, benefit, Brave, bravery, Celebration, communist, confidence, Death, descendant, designer, Dog, Dream, Earth, Environment, gagarin, good, Google, Happy, ICBM, International, ISS, Jesus, John Glenn, machinery, man, Mankind, Mistake, NASA, Nuclear, parachute, Planet, public, radiation, Rocket, rocketry, Russia, Russian, scientist, Sergei Korolev, Shuttle, Soyuz, Space Station, spacecraft, speed, the first man in space, The West, Transport, universe, Vostok, voyage, war, weapon, Wikipedia, World, Yuri Gagarin
It Was 50 Years Ago, Today …when mankind left the gravitational confines of our Earth. A poor boy from the steppes, Yuri Gagarin, simultaneously became the first man in space and the first man to leave Earth and orbit it completely. (This is something that took NASA several steps before John Glenn finally emulated the [...]
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- June 28, 2010
- General de Gaule & Claire Chicoteau
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Freedom
- Tagged with: BBC, Buddhist, Cache, Death, family, France, good, Head, Information, london, man, Paris, party, PEACE, program, SGI, Times, Urban, Vision, walk, WW2
French Resistance: de Gaulle in London. (This posting originally released on 16 Dec 2007. Reposted and edited because of the subject’s death.) This is a BBC News article on the women of the French Resistance who worked with De Gaulle in London and then went to Paris with him for the Liberation. Claire is one [...]
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- March 15, 2010
- Awful BBC, Xenophobic Road Accident Reporting
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Environment, Freedom, Technology
- Tagged with: America, BBC, cause and effect, country, crash, data, Death, driving, Essential, Europe, experience, Fart, graph, Head, headline, India, March, Office, Police, population, responsibility, safety, speed, speed limit, statistics, Times, traffic, Travel, USA, vehicle, Website, Western, Wikipedia, World
Students die in India as bus plunges into river The above headline is awful enough for the people involved, but in reality, it’s subject, a road crash, is common enough in my own country, the UK. What is really bad is how the BBC is reporting this. They should know better but essentially, they’ve reported [...]
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- March 3, 2010
- The Hell of Incessant Suffering and the Land of Tranquil Light
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism
- Tagged with: anger, Animality, Buddha, Buddhism, business, Cache, China, common people, Contact, country, courage, Death, desert, Egg, enlightenment, Environment, escape, existence, faith, family, flower, fool, forge, Foul, friend, Google, Great, greed, heart, hell, Human, humanity, intelligence, Japan, Josei Toda, Lotus, lotus sutra, Machine, Makiguchi, nation, Nature, Nichiren, night, poison, possession, power, prison, realise, sense, sentient, September, SGI, state, Success, Sun, surprise, Sutra, Task, Teach, universe, Vision, war, World
The Hell of Incessant Suffering and the Land of Tranquil Light Note: This was originally published here http://buddhastate.co.uk/blog/?p=30 on Sunday, September 24th, 2006 at 4:28 pm and filed under Buddhism.. The link has been dead for quite some time, looks unlikely to re-appear, so I’m showing the words here as they are so wonderful because [...]
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On Thursday, a young woman was killed by a whale. She’d wanted to work with whales ever since she was a little girl, and got her wish fulfilled. Now, since Dawn Brancheau’s death, there has been gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands, pointing of fingers and loading of guns, because this particular whale has [...]
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- February 3, 2010
- Awake but not Aware
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Technology
- Tagged with: BBC, Bizarre, brain, Death, Dream, England, Farm, Film, Health, legal, Machine, price, scientist, Stagger, state, World
I was staggered to read the contents of this news article today; Vegetative state patients can respond to questions Apparently, new research shows that people previously thought to be in a vegetative state can respond to questions “in a funny way” by being prompted to think of things as a way of answering the questions. [...]
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- December 2, 2009
- Small Justice Against Jim Beresford
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom
- Tagged with: 1984, bank, BBC, big brother, Brother, compensation, Court, Crime, Death, Devil, Earth, England, expert, Farm, good, Government, Injury, Jim Beresford, judge, justice, Lawyer, Miner, money, pension, Photo, service, Slytherin, strike, trial, Twat, Yorkshire
Solicitors who took millions from miners lose appeal Finally, after yet another year of time has passed, the crooked (they called themselves ‘entrepreneurial’) solicitors have had their case against being struck off the solicitors’ roll quashed. See this BBC story Doubtless, all the poor widows who got a few hundred quid compensation for watching their [...]
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- November 23, 2009
- It’s Just Like Bladerunner.
- Posted by Strangely
- Crawling Chaos, Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: Bizarre, breed, climate, comment, Crawling, Crawling Chaos, Death, Design, disaster, Discography, disease, DIY, Dream, Electric, England, existence, extinct, Film, Flood, Flying, Freedom, future, Giant, graph, Human, industry, Jeff, Locations, lyrics, Machine, Mankind, ordinary people, parliament, petition, Porn, rights, Science, scientist, Sex, Sex Machine, sheep, Slave, Sound, storm, technology, The West, Urban, Vista, Wikipedia, World, WW2, YouTube
It’s Just Like Bladerunner, And Not Just the Weather! Tears in Rain Bladerunner, the movie, based on an old Philip K Dick science-fiction story, was made by Ridley Scott from North-East England, someone I’m distantly related to. Made in 1982, it presents a very grey, wet, bleak future, heavily referencing Scott’s (and my own!) upbringing [...]
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- November 21, 2009
- To Be Human?
- Posted by Strangely
- Technology
- Tagged with: BBC, creativity, Death, Farm, Freedom, Great, Human, inquisitive, International, LHC, mouse, nation, power, Religion, sense, universe
What it Means The key thing that separates us as humans from other creatures is our creativity based on our natural inquisitiveness tied in with our sense of self and it’s place in the universe. Endlessly pondering, thinking and wondering. That’s why it’s such great news that one of the largest international collaborations is working… [...]
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- November 18, 2009
- Grief
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Life
- Tagged with: Death, Dream, Film, Fish, Flying, Grief, Head, heart, house, Machine, sickness, YouTube
It’s grief innit? Consider this. You care for someone dearly and they get ill and go on a life support machine. Now you are not a doctor and don’t know how the life support machine works. Occasionally, the patient wakes up, says strange things, and then goes back into a coma on the life support [...]
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- November 15, 2009
- What is the Point of Fine Words?
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Freedom
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Obama President Obama was elected under the banner of change. Change for the overall health of his nation Change in economics and finance Change of a re-assertion of the higher ideals of his nation expressed in the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Rights. In this last, he even promised this change in his [...]
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- November 12, 2009
- Curious Suicide
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Life
- Tagged with: Afghan, Arse, BBC, black sabbath, bomb, book, Brave, bravery, Britain, Buddha, Buddhist, Catholic, comment, concept, conflict, Construct, country, courage, Daishonin, Death, decor, Devil, Dream, duty, Economic, economy, England, enlightenment, Essential, Excel, existence, Express, eyes, Facebook, faith, family, Farm, fear, fuck, future, good, Great, Guardian, Head, hell, honour, Human, Information, Iraq, Jill, justice, legal, logic, lotus sutra, Machine, Mad, market, medal, mind, Mistake, mystery, nation, Nature, never say die, Nichiren, Patriot, PEACE, pension, Photo, physics, Picture, problem, Promise, Protest, Religion, sense, society, Sport, state, Sutra, system, Teach, The West, Transport, truth, walk, Western, Wikipedia, WND, World, WW1, WW2, YouTube
Coroner and Law I’m often struck when reading the papers or news, to see the coroner’s verdict on someone’s death as: Ending his own life while the balance of his mind was disturbed Well they have to say something, it’s their job, but the phrase is very peculiar. Take this couple, the Milners, who were [...]
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