Godzilla and Karma*

Godzilla (1954): Godzilla is English for Gojira. Filmed in stark black and white, Gojira tells the story of a fire-breathing monster who is disturbed by American atom bomb testing in the Pacific Ocean. The monster attacks a number of ships before entering Tokyo and destroying the city during a rampage.

Gojira is seen as an allegory for the atomic bomb. He is an unstoppable force, powered by radiation. He lays waste to Japan similar to what occurred in World War II . This movie was made only nine years after Japan's defeat. Gojira was filmed in a completely serious manner.

Gojira was released in the US under the title "Godzilla, King of the Monsters." Several minutes' of Japanese footage were deleted and new footage of the actor Raymond Burr was inserted into the film, presumably so that American audiences would have an Occidental with which to identify.

The figurine depicted above is #32 out of a collector's set of 50. I purchased it at Isetan in the spring of 1982. This Godzilla has yet to destroy the front room, let alone the town, but let's be patient. He may wake up before you do.

*Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म) meaning performance.

Where is America going???

This is one vision:


Ya' gotta admire them Pentecostals. Sarah Palin is a Pentecostal, amen.


Is it a Cult?


Will these fools ever 'spit out the hook?' Sometimes I seriously doubt it.

I think the real reason that Ronald Reagan closed all the nut houses in California is just so that these folks could vote for the republicans.

"During Reagan's governorship, he dismantled the public psychiatric hospital system, advocating instead a community-based housing and treatment system to supplant it. Not enough state funding was devoted to the change."
(An unfunded mandate - the quintessential republican answer.)

Then again: "Over 100 cases of death by snake bite has been reported among the Christian practitioners of serpent handling."

Perhaps the BEST Japanese movie - ever.

The movie is Tampopo (Dandelion). It is a quest for the best bowl of Ramen.

It includes a Ramen Master (who has studied noodles for forty years). Yes, this part is a spoof of Zen Masters.

I will not spoil it for you. Go to the local library and see if they have it. Or rent it somewhere and watch it - twice. If you have any questions, by all means, do not ask me!Here is the DVD Cover art with the ISBN number.

It's a comedy - Japanese style.

Basketball scholarship leads to - NOTHING!

nothing!

A new report from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) indicates that recently far fewer male basketball players are graduating from college. Even given six years to finish a four-year degree, sixty percent (60%) failed to graduate from Division I colleges, the lowest rate in 11 years. Coaches could only ask 'how the stats were compiled.' And the bad news only hides the really bad news.

Cal State Northridge has lowest graduation rates among NCAA tournament teams
March 17, 2009 - By STEVEN HERBERT

Cal State Northridge has the lowest graduation rate among the 63 teams in the NCAA men’s Division I basketball tournament reporting figures and the worst Academic Progress Rate, according to a study released Monday.

Northridge had an 8 percent graduation rate, with 50 percent of its white players graduating, but none of its black players, according to “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates and Academic Progress Rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament Teams.”

Maryland had the second lowest graduation rate, 10 percent. Like Northridge, Maryland had 50 percent of its white players graduating and none of its black players.

The study issued by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida was based on NCAA statistics. The institute reviewed six-year graduation rates with a four-class average, freshman classes of 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.

Another myth, shattered.
Some former hoopsters might now be saying:
"I could have been somebody."

Once upon a time, the Oscars were just presented in a theatre. Illusions upon illusions. It's not just bread and circus anymore, it's high-fructose corn syrup and pretentiousness.

Nothing Biblical about Science

There is nothing biblical about science. And, there is nothing scientific about bibles. A bible is not a history, a psychology book, a math book nor a geographical dictionary. A bible is a constrained collection of regional folklore. There are as many bibles as there are distinct regions - all subject to change over time.

So, who was Adam? Adam is a word that means 'first man.'

To science, that means searching for the most recent common male ancestor (MRCA). "From the beginning, we are all Africans."

Although there is little agreement as to when Adam (or the two Adams) lived, it seems that he (they) lived in Ethiopia between 60,000 and 150,000 years ago.

For Eve, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is sequenced because mtDNA is what the mother passes on to all of her offspring. Well, there were two Eves. Or there was a Lillith anjd an Eve. One lived in the Congo, the other in Southern Africa.

"When a sample of 74 Gullah/Geechee mtDNA sequences were compared with the sub-Saharan database, approximately half of the mtDNAs were identical to two or more mtDNAs in the database and only seven mtDNAs matched mtDNAs from a single ethnic group. The remaining 28 mtDNAs were not identical to any sequence in the expanded database.

Similar results were obtained when the 97 African-American AFDIL mtDNAs were compared with the databases. Approximately half (49) of the mtDNAs were identical to multiple sequences in the original database. As with the Gullah/Geechee sample, fewer than 10% of the sequences matched a sequence from a single ethnic group, and 40% of the sequences did not have any perfect match in the database (Ely et al. 2006:3)." source

What we DO know is:

There were not 12 tribes in the mythical land of Israel. There are only eight tribes in all of humanity. And none were unique to Israel. Here is a picture:
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There is one more small problem I need to point out. 73,000 years ago, Mt. Toba exploded and wiped out 99.9987% of the human species. Only three [Mongolia, China, Africa] (or five) [Mongolia, China, West Africa, South Africa, Spain] tiny clusters survived the volcanic winter. There were no more than 10,000 human survivors on the entire planet.

One of those groups was to the East of Mt. Toba - in present day China/Laos/Cambodia. They are identified as the purple color, or M9, in the picture below:
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So, it turns out, there were two migrations "out of Africa." The first was about 160,000 years ago - the time of 'first Adam and Lilith.' The second migration was about 60,000 years ago - the time of 'second Adam and Eve.' The two Adams (Known as "A" and "B") were much more closely related than were Lilith and Eve.

For the dynamics of this, see: http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/

The Cambodians migrated WEST from Indochina after the Toba event and met the second migration out of Africa in present day Iraq! The Levant was not even populated until 12,000 years ago - a very recent period in the overall time that humanity has been leaving trash heaps on the planet.