Everything from the world goes in, and it just kind of stays there, festers, possbily recycled, occasionally incinerated, maybe oftentimes retained for several thousands of years.
It'll probably be something that's on my mind at the time.
Anyways, a common affectation you've heard me repeat ad nauseum, here's something that I imagine will interest you.
Did you know? That Ethiopia was one of the first places that Christianity latched onto? One of the pilgrimage sites there would be the underground churches that speckle the Northern part of the country in Lalibela.
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BTW, this is still music related, so listen to the Caribou track "Lalibela" now.
This is actually the same mural that is in the capital building in Topeka, KS, painted by the regionalist and native-Kansan, John Steuart Curry.
The mural was rejected at first, as Curry had depicted him as a "fanatic" (which is absolutely accurate) but was eventually put up after Curry's death.
There are actually two other figures in the painting that you would never see unless you are in the room.
A plainsman, who has just killed a bison, a conquistador (Coronado), and a Franciscan missionary.
Ok, I'll admit, I'm not great at this, but here's something else for you.
I've recently been reading up on Atlantis. Who knows if Plato was actually being truthful when describing the utopian lost city, butit's an incredible story all of the same.
Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars. But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.
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