Your Pic of the Day
- Thread starter DAA
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Shoulda closed the doors to reduce wind resistance while winching, doncha know?
Well... It should be obvious, we aren't all that smart to begin with
. And if we were smart, we would not have as much fun as we do. Take a healthy spirit of adventure, and mix in just a tiny bit of stupid, and you get things happening like seems to happen to us a lot.- DAA
.......and was this really necessary Dave?
Well, it sort of was. Sort of. It was necessary to get back off that pinnacle onto the main ridge again, where my Jeep was parked. It wasn't necessary to jump out to it in the first place though
.- DAA
I think it was possibly the peyote.
Well, I don't think boredom is a realistic possibility. Survival didn't allow time for boredom. To have been allowed the luxury to create rock art implies an exalted status, and support from the tribe relieving the artist of the usual rigors of sustenance. A shaman, or priest, in other words. Not just some bored kids with nothing better to do. Everyone had something better to do just to survive. I think of them more as tax collectors, but that's a controversial stance.
But psychedelics are thought by many, including myself, but certainly not universally - to have inspired all beginnings of all religion in humans. And most early rock art is similarly thought to be of a religious nature. Not all. Some are known to tell stories and pass along information. Many of the seemingly nonsensical lines can be correlated to universal sign language and are known to tell stories and pass along information. But many other of the seemingly nonsensical geometric patterns are believed to be inspired by psychedelics. Studies up to the present day have people on really strong hallucinogenics creating the same sorts of geometric patterns on paper trying to explain their experiences.
I know peyote doesn't actually grow in the area of most of my pictures of rock art. But, I also know there was a strong trade network from Central America all the way into the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes region at that time. So, easily could have been peyote or some other psychedelic from Mexico being used. Or, there definitely is sacred Datura in the area - I've seen the plant growing wild myself and also seen rock art depictions of the plant (evidence enough, in my mind, as to the source/inspiration for much of the rock art). It wasn't just some dude tripping though. It was religion. Which has never died out and is still ongoing today.
- DAA
I forget now, whether that is a Packard or a Hudson? It's one of the two. But it had been turned into a trailer. Can't really see it from this angle but it has a trailer tongue welded to the front. Lots of uranium prospecting in this area back in the day. No doubt abandoned by a broke down uranium prospector.
- DAA
22magnum22
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Clarence nailed that car, Hudson Hornet.It's a fifty something (56 or so) Hudson.
steve garrett
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I tried some brigham tea boiled from some desert brush. I was secretly hoping to get high off it and it wouldn't be against the word of wisdom.
What people believe to be true is actually an interesting case study. Its been on my mind alot this week actually. The soviets studied how to control peoples minds and a defector from the soviet union revealed just how far people would go to maintain a belief. Even after showing people and them seeing with their own eyes they still would not believe it. The only thing that did work? physical violence, LOL. They believed it then. We see the same things with certain populations. if you're already a little crazy, on the spectrum, "or eat up with the tism" The mind altering substances aren't necessary. just a big fire and darkness is about all I need. The spirit of wovoka lives on.
I tried some brigham tea boiled from some desert brush. I was secretly hoping to get high off it and it wouldn't be against the word of wisdom.
if you're already a little crazy, on the spectrum, "or eat up with the tism" The mind altering substances aren't necessary. just a big fire and darkness is about all I need. The spirit of wovoka lives on.
That Brigham tea was surprisingly good! I'd drink that again. Heck, let's make some next time out. Should bring a little honey to add to it though. Big fire and darkness isn't quite enough for me, close, but not quite enough, I need good whiskey and a good cigar too
. Oh, and a belly full of ribeye doesn't hurt either!- DAA
TimberToes
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Reminds me of my Teen Years in Kentucky. Japanese 7.7 , weak firing spring a mah bob. it might fire, it might not! Norma Ammo.
Traded back for a Win 243. could not figure out why that K mart 4x scope never hit "zero" lol!
