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The Xmas Sweater
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Spotted this in a thrift shop, definitely an "office party" special, which almost makes me wish I had an office party to go to...
Maybe I'll just wear it to interviews...
The DreamTime
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Most of the tradition is lost in translation and obfuscated by our culture, but you can give it a shot and try to imagine their worldview:
https://downloads.newcastle.edu.au/library/cultural%20collections/pdf/elkinjan1937.pdf
https://www.aiprinc.org/aboriginal/
I find curious the suggestion that they communicated over great distances using telepathy, although this is almost (*) certainly due to 1 or 2 sources being repeated again and again.
The Silurian Hypothesis
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It's generally understood that we are the first "civilization" on earth, but I had a friend once propose that what if we weren't? Would anything have survived deep time and the churning of the continental plates to prove that we weren't? Now I dismissed this as preposterous, when later I examined the evidence and gave it a little more thought I realized my dismissal was preposterous, that, from an evidentiary point of view there was nothing to justify my presupposition that humans alone had developed civilization. "Absence of Evidence...." and so forth.
Considering that the fossil record is supposed to preserve only the tiniest fraction of a percentage of the life that has existed on earth, think of what might yet to be discovered? And what would we have to discover to convince us that there were civilizations that preceded us? What extraordinary conditions would be required for these artifacts to survive deep time? Food for thought.
Links:
- https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/267855-silurian-hypothesis-what-if-humans-arent-the-first-civilization-on-earth
- https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-earths-only-civilization/557180/
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-an-industrial-prehuman-civilization-have-existed-on-earth-before-ours/
Cinema Paradiso
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Watching it, again, it's been a long time.
This is an excellent movie. Even so, the version I watched, corrupted and edited (read "Dumbed Down") for the North American audience - deserves a lot better than the reviews it's gotten. And I was disappointed in the ending - the original ending I had seen - well, it was different, but I'll leave no spoilers. If you've never seen it make it a holiday staple.
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