Thursday, December 29, 2011

Women with Guns on the Rise


On everything...why my moms just ask me to cop her a pistol?

Women and guns seems to be on the rise across the country. In 2009, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reported a 73% increase in gun sales to women.

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Sokushinbutsu - Buddhist ritualistic self-mummification


For 1,000 days (a little less than three years) the priests would eat a special diet consisting only of nuts and seeds, while taking part in a regimen of rigorous physical activity that stripped them of their body fat. They then ate only bark and roots for another thousand days and began drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap of the Urushi tree, normally used to lacquer bowls. This caused vomiting and a rapid loss of bodily fluids, and most importantly, it made the body too poisonous to be eaten by maggots. Finally, a self-mummifying monk would lock himself in a stone tomb barely larger than his body, where he would not move from the lotus position. His only connection to the outside world was an air tube and a bell. Each day he rang a bell to let those outside know that he was still alive.