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[AlabamAlum]

Okay, $175.....

[eCat]

colorized photos that are really cool

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/07/36- ... ecent.html

[crashcourse]

the amazing thing is how that guys doesnt even flinch. Id be screaming like a little bitch

[eCat]

what I'm trying to grasp with that picture is what role the car plays in it. notice the monks are keeping the crowd at bay behind the car

[Jungle Rat]

It's a sacrifice

[Owlman]

If I remember it, the monk set himself on fire as a protest (I think against Chinese rule, but I'm not sure about the reason)

[innocentbystander]

If I remember it, the monk set himself on fire as a protest (I think against Chinese rule, but I'm not sure about the reason)

I believe you are correct (a Tibetan priest.)

[Jungle Rat]

That's what I fucking said.

[innocentbystander]

That's what I fucking said.

And you were right.

[DooKSucks]

I thought that was Saigan circa '64 or '65, and the priest was protesting the South Vietnamese government...

[AlabamAlum]

His name was Quang Duc. And it was Saigon. DS is correct.

[AlabamAlum]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Quảng_Đức


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Quảng_Đức

[AlabamAlum]

Apparently, the URL button doesn't work.

[eCat]

he's not the only one that has set himself on fire. I know one has in protest to chinese rule

that's kind of their thing

[AlabamAlum]

True, but that's a pic of Quang Duc.

[BigRedMan]

His name was changed to Roasted Duc after that picture...........


No please, don't get up. I'll show myself out.

[hedge]

No one believes that you would voluntarily show yourself out if there was roasted duck (or Duc) in the room...

[crashcourse]

seems to be a hot topic

anyhoo lots of those buddhist dudes did that --his was the mos famous

did you see that dude on the left side with a coathanger and marshmellow?

[hedge]

"They spent the afternoon drinking in a lazarous bodega run by a Mexican. Some soldiers came in. An altercation took place. Toadvine was on his feet, swaying. A peacemaker rose from among the soldiers and soon the principals were seated again. But minutes later Brown on his way back from the bar poured a pitcher of aguardiente over a young soldier and set him afire with his cigar. The man ran outside mute save for the whoosh of the flames and the flames were pale blue and then invisible in the sunlight and he fought them in the street like a man beset with bees or madness and then he fell over in the road and burned up. By the time they got to him with a bucket of water he had blackened and shriveled in the mud like an enormous spider."

[hedge]

Discovered a cool factoid recently. If you take 2 pairs of polarized sunglasses and hold them up to light (or the sun) facing each other, and then twist one pair at a 90 degree angle, it goes dark. Something about the way they infuse the lens with vertical strips of fiber...