This work of pure comedic genius began as a BBC Radio play by Douglas Adams (who was the first to think to combine science fiction and comedy), the audio of which is presented here: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It became so popular that it became a book then a sequel then a series then a trilogy with additional installments that made calling it a "trilogy" more and more misleading. It is perhaps the single funniest piece of work we have ever heard, a masterpiece.
Is suicide murder? - Yes, it is. - Who is the guilty party? - The killer or the bully? - The killer.
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Where are David Hogg and Emma González?
Ashley White reporting for theartistree.com via MSN (5/6/24):
Two survivors of the Parkland school shooting have committed suicide within the past week [but not according to Wikipedia, which states they killed themselves on March 17 of 2019 and a week later, respectively], leading to speculations about the enduring pain and trauma stemming from [staged or real school] gun violence [and their possible complicity and attempted activism with groomed media darlings Emma González and David Hogg, who have hogged the spotlight as tools or youth advocates for gun control].
Sydney Aiello, a recent graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, took her own life last weekend, while another survivor, a current student, Calvin Desir, has also died by suicide.
These deaths occurred over a year after the shooting that claimed the lives of 14 students and three teachers, sparking a nationwide debate on gun violence.
Sydney Aiello, who was close friends with one of the shooting victims, Meadow Pollack, struggled with “survivor’s guilt” even after graduating from Stoneman Douglas. Her parents revealed that she had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), underscoring the lasting impact of such traumatic events on survivors. The Pollack family expressed their heartbreak over Aiello’s death, attributing it in part to the ripple effect of the shooting.
(Wiki) Survivors of the shooting, teachers and students alike, are said to have struggled with survivor's guilt and other symptoms of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) [68, 75, 76]. On March 17, 2019, thirteen months after the shooting, 19-year-old Sydney Aiello, who survived and whose friend Meadow Pollack had been killed during the shooting, killed herself by suicide after struggling to attend college.
She claimed she was terrified of being in a classroom and also had been treated for survivor's guilt and PTSD [77, 78]. Less than a week later, 16-year-old Calvin Desir, who had also survived the shooting, also murdered himself in an apparent suicide [79], compounding the tragedy.
It's all about brain size, human scientists declared, until an animal with a larger brain-to-body-size ratio than humans was found. Still some humans argue that we are better because we invented cities, industrial pollution, war, and such things.
Interestingly, according to the great Douglas Adams, dolphins argue that they are smarter for exactly the same reason, that is, they didn't. But the blue bottlenoses aren't all angels.
How to hug a sea porcupine
They sometimes rape and murder (purposely kill) humans, drowning them during sexual assaults out of jealous rage or infuriated at their meddling when female divers are present. Ask divers and, if swimming with the dolphins in Hawaii, avoid the plucky teens with erections.
Dolphins make plans, hang out in gangs (pods), hunt, have feelings, communicate, do neat tricks, get depressed when enslaved, work for the military-industrial complex that exploits them for war.
Now, on today's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! (10/7/23), we come to find they get high on purpose on a psychedelic substance available to them in the sea. How many psychedelics could there be in the sea, Flipper?
Endogenous auto-intoxication on puff?
This harkens back to the thesis that we, modern humans (Homo sapien sapiens, because we're sapient, the future Homo spiritus) evolved from some pre-human primate who discovered and ingested entheogens. There's a name for this theory. Joe Rogan may have mentioned it, something like the High Monkey Conjecture (aka Stoned Ape Theory).
Well, be that as it may, pass the puffer on the left fin side. Dolphins have been observed doing "puff," street name TTX (tetrodotoxin) and "Sashimi" (Japanese Fugu,because it will "fug u up" and may even result in death, Thai pakapao or "Pow" because it packs a punch).
Dolphins carefully prepare papakao (provoking the balloon fish to release more protective poison the way Voodoo practitioners and some Satanists torment a chicken or other living being, even humans, before butchering and ritually consuming its blood to get high on the adrenaline, adrenochrome, and/or other stress-induced compounds).
They deliberately ingest it, and pass it around among themselves in a social activity much like a psychedelic circle among the shamans of the Americas in the Hollywood movie Altered States with William Hurt.
This is shocking because it may have been the genesis of their larger brains, a global view of the oceans, and protective behavior for humans in danger at sea, and empathy (as when they warn us of danger or head it off on our behalf).
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Moreover, a recent episode of This American Life or a similar NPR program spoke frankly of a few cases of human bestiality with dolphins, one female trainer who got carried away with her hands on a regular basis in the interest of hastening her research and care, she claimed, and another man in the wild who just liked to play and make bi-curious dolphins feel good.
We are as gods (celestial devas) to them, and like the gods did to us, sometimes things get carried away. It's a strange world...and it only seems to be getting stranger. Well, time to call our Bonobo buddies and see what they're up to this weekend.
I may look cuddly, but I'm no toy. So don't play with me and my flesh and blood.
Is it the Doctrine of Signatures: Who would ever guess one could trip on this trippy creature?
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(John Downer Productions) Bottlenose dolphins are filmed apparently getting high on toxic secretions from pufferfish. The puffers secrete a neurotoxin that in high doses can kill but in small doses seemingly has a psychedelic narcotic effect.
Clip from Programme 2 of Dolphins: Spy in the Podon BBC 1. Narrated by David Tennant. Music by Will Gregory. Series directed by John Downer. For more information about the program, visit website:
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The first jhana in Early Buddhism: Deep Meditation in Buddhism
(Doug's Dharma) What is the first jhana of early Buddhism? We'll look first at the idea of absorption (jhana) and its role in the Buddha's search for enlightenment/awakening. Then we'll turn to the definition of the first jhana, what its various terms might mean, and finally we'll look at one simile the Buddha used to describe it.
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10 Most Insane Rare Animals You Won't Believe Exist
There are about 8.7 million discovered species of animals in the world with many more being discovered every day. Some of these animals are well known and we see a lot of them every day such as our domestic dogs and cats and other pets we keep as companions. But in that big list of species are animals that are so rare that some people have never seen them before, and some creatures are becoming extinct due to humans. It's surprising that some of these creatures exist at all because they are so strange. But here are the 10 rarest animals in the world for everyone's enjoyment. Let’s get started. 10. Hydromedusa Jellyfish – Deep in the Mariana Trench exists some amazing creatures never seen before by humans until recently. This jellyfish surprised marine biologists and you might notice that it looks somewhat like an alien spacecraft. 9. Sumatran Rhino – When you first see this creature, it really doesn’t resemble the rhino that everyone is familiar with such as the now extinct western black rhino, or the soon to be extinct white rhino with only two females left in the world. 8. Rafetus Turtle – Also known as the Yangtze giant softshell turtle... More
Join them as they encounter the Animal Kingdom in its stunning bea.astonishing variety, and imminent peril:
the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia
the helpless but lovable Kakapo of New Zealand
the blind river dolphins of China
the white rhinos of Zaire
the rare birds of Mauritius island in the Indian Ocean.
Hilarious and poignant -- as only Douglas Adams can be -- Last Chance to See is an entertaining and arresting odyssey through the Earth’s magnificent wildlife galaxy.
Praise for Last Chance to See “Lively, sharply satirical, brilliantly written...shows how human care can undo what human carelessness has wrought.”
—The Atlantic
“These authors don’t hesitate to present the alarming facts: More than 1,000 species of animals (and plants) become extinct every year....Perhaps Adams and Carwardine, with their witty science, will help prevent such misadventures in the future.”
—Boston Sunday Herald
“Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams’s] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them live.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“[Adams] invites us to enter into a conspiracy of laughter and caring.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Amusing...thought-provoking...Its details on the heroic efforts being made to save these animals are inspirational.”
Something is wrong, mal-. Something is not right. I'm in a handbag on a trip to... and I'm feeling uptight.
Kiss your what? No way! Pee on me.
In the famous book series by Douglas Adams known as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he proposes that the purpose of a ruler, such as Trump, is NOT to wield power but to draw attention away from the real wielders of power.
In the series there is a charismatic Lothario, who is funny, foolish, idiotic, with an extra head.
He is always getting in trouble, with a head full of subversion but knowledge enough to know that if he ever talked like that, they [billionaires Robert and daughter Rebekah Mercer in Trump's case] would put a stop to it and to him.
So he's had a lobotomy of sorts and become the greatest leader ever because all he does is crazy things that keep people talking. He, like Pres. Trump, is supremely suited for this job.
The Mercers, who elected, also control Trump
Under so much stress, addicted to junk food
The Mercers met Breitbart (Breitbart News Network) and through him met Bannon, who took over when Breitbart suddenly died. Bannon was the Mercers' de facto political adviser (The New Yorker). The Mercers invested millions in Breitbart and gained a large stake in the company. The billionaire family originally funded [Mitt Romney in 2012 then] Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, before switching to Trump after his Republican primary win. Then he cinched the Republican nomination, and the Mercers called for "all hands on deck" to ensure his victory against Hillary Clinton. The right-wing family donated money to influence the campaign, hiring Cambridge Analytica to put Trump in the White House. More
Why is Wisdom Quarterly blue?Blue is smart, very smart. Blue is the world's favorite color. Half are wearing it now. But in the natural world, blue is uncommon -- from foods to animals. Only two vertebrates out of 64,000 in the world have blue pigments. The sky and water are NOT blue; that is only an optical illusion. The Buddha had blue eyes (as blue as the Afghan Buddhist stone lapis lazuli). Blue eyes are NOT blue but pale brown. (So much for an Aryan/alien difference).
Blue is so elusive, many ancient languages had no word for it or were slow to come up with one (see next story), like the Ancient Greek of Homer. Blue doesn't really exist in our world but only hovers on its edges. So it is ironic that we all live on a moist pale blue planet. Watch
Why isn't the sky blue? RadioLab.org (Story 211213) edited by Wisdom Quarterly
What is the color of honey and "faces pale with fear"?
If you're the world-famous Ancient Greek writer Homer -- one of the most influential poets in history -- that color is
green. And the sea is "wine-dark," just like oxen...though sheep are
violet. Which all sounds, well, really off.
Radiolab Producer Tim Howard introduces linguist Guy Deutscher
and the story of William Gladstone (a British prime minister back in
the 1800s, who was a huge Homer-phile). Gladstone conducted an exhaustive
study of every color reference in the great Grecian epics The Odyssey and The Iliad.
It's true: "Blue" eyes are actually pale brown!
He found something startling: no blue! Howard pays a visit to the New
York Public Library, where a book of German philosophy from the late
19th Century helps reveal a pattern: across all cultures, words for
colors appear in stages...and blue always comes last.
Jules Davidoff,
professor of neuropsychology at the University of London, helps make
sense of the way different people see different colors in the same
place.
Then Guy Deutscher tells how he experimented on his daughter
Alma when she was just starting to learn the colors of the world around,
and above, her. More
The greatest book ever: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (moviepicturedb.com).
UPDATE: (BBC Radio, March 15, 2015) Live broadcast of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," 2014. The book is a comedy science fiction series
created by Douglas Adams (RIP). Originally a radio comedy broadcast on as 12 episodes on BBC
Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several
years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon.
Adaptations have included stage shows, a "trilogy" of five books
published between 1979 and 1992, a sixth novel penned by Eoin Colfer in
2009, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of
three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by
DC Comics between 1993 and 1996.
(BBC Radio/HG2G) "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Fit the First 1.1 (see 1.2+beyond).
Don't panic. While the editors workout a post-non-apocalyptic dispute about the nomination of the new features editor, Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal wishes its reader a fine experience through space, at least the local galaxy (Buddhist world-system within systems, countless worlds upon worlds, side by side like bubbles in space or the akashicaether).
Most English-speaking people have heard of this work, but few may realize that it began as a fantastical BBC Radio program that in many ways was better than the first book in the increasingly misnamed "trilogy."
Hitchhikers and hotheads, you should always know where your towel is (mediakick.org).
It is Douglas Adams' brilliant first attempt to blend comedy and sci-fi genres, but it ventures deeply into the true nature of life, the universe, and everything.
The epic story concerns a book, the Hitchhikers's Guide, "the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom" (like the Pali canon, Vedas, Sumerian Gilgamesh, Egyptian heiroglyphs, or those Bedouin stories and books). Its four protagonists involved in an unimaginable adventure are earthling Arthur Dent, alien friend and writer Ford Prefect, earthling love interest and astrophysicist Trillian (Trisha Macmillan), and former galactic president and runaway dissident Zaphod Beeblebrox.
It is more philosophical than formal philosophy, more spiritual than most spirituality, more scientific than that PBS show on astrophysics, or as Edie Brickell (and New Bohemians) would say:
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(Doug's Dharma) What is the first jhana of early Buddhism? We'll look first at the idea of absorption (jhana) and its role in the Buddha's search for enlightenment/awakening. Then we'll turn to the definition of the first jhana, what its various terms might mean, and finally we'll look at one simile the Buddha used to describe it.
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There are about 8.7 million discovered species of animals in the world with many more being discovered every day. Some of these animals are well known and we see a lot of them every day such as our domestic dogs and cats and other pets we keep as companions. But in that big list of species are animals that are so rare that some people have never seen them before, and some creatures are becoming extinct due to humans. It's surprising that some of these creatures exist at all because they are so strange. But here are the 10 rarest animals in the world for everyone's enjoyment. Let’s get started. 10. Hydromedusa Jellyfish – Deep in the Mariana Trench exists some amazing creatures never seen before by humans until recently. This jellyfish surprised marine biologists and you might notice that it looks somewhat like an alien spacecraft. 9. Sumatran Rhino – When you first see this creature, it really doesn’t resemble the rhino that everyone is familiar with such as the now extinct western black rhino, or the soon to be extinct white rhino with only two females left in the world. 8. Rafetus Turtle – Also known as the Yangtze giant softshell turtle... More
What is the color of honey and "faces pale with fear"?
