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crusher_of_heads · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject:

Dude,

You've got an attractive girlfriend.

I think you live in a big city.

Apart from not being Korean, you have no visible deformities.

GEt out and mingle, bro!

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

Did you even read it?

I've been working on this for a few days now, but I promise you Crusher I'll go out and have a hell of a time tonight Laughing

Merry Christmas dude!

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

I found this very interesting and thank you for sharing it. I know it's a forum thread but do you have any reliable references?

How did you come up with this theory?

sojourner1 · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:06 am Post subject:

Very interesting. I wondered where the idea of Santa and Christmas trees came from. It was about doing a drug and feeling good. Drug use has definitely shaped many customs over the centuries and resulted in many different forms of art that would had never been done if peoples minds weren't stimulated by recreational drug use in moderation. Of course, it's better than all this heavy drinking, but it's illegal due to stupid American policy from 100 years ago when they were trying to oust the pot smoking Mexicans.

I am all for moderate soft drug use as it does stimulate your mind to think. During college, I found that small amounts of weed makes you feel better, study better, think outside the box more so, and play music better, but if you do too much, then you get lazy and hungry.

What happens if you eat too many of these mushrooms over Christmas? You turn into an elf who tastes red and green!
I never did eat shrooms so I don't know what exactly it does, but it must be a mind trip.

flakfizer · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:51 am Post subject:

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 6:26 am Post subject:

very interesting. merry solstic, pagans.

Czarjorge · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

The obvious question is... How many of these mushies you had while working on your project?

In a side note...

I have a friend who came back from Japan a few months ago. We were talking and he said that the magical type mushrooms are legal and sold in shops in Japan. Does this happen in Korea too? I thought it was a bit weird.

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

Rteacher · Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA

Just Say No (- or Ho, Ho, Ho!)

Actually the hidden meaning is that Christmas carols glorifying Jesus, a transcendental via medium, are accepted by him and purely offered to God (Christ/Krishna) for our spiritual benefit...

Re "Santa" - in Sanskrit, santa means devotee of the Lord...

ernie · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Location: asdfghjk

for some strange reason, i suddenly became interested in mountain climbing... who wants to climb mount bukhansan with me?

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

mistermasan · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe

yes, the term "santa" and various permutations seem quite widespread: saint,san, santa, santo to the sanskrit aforementioned and maybe to the chinese "sheng" as in "shengren" (blessed one). not a far leap from sanskrit to the many buddhist terms exported from "india" to "china".

Czarjorge · Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

blurgalurgalurga · Joined: 18 Oct 2007

My departed grandma was Swedish and she used to translate these cool kid's books for us when we were little. They were about 'tomten,' the little elvish dudes who lived on Swedish farms. They were of course invisible usually, but sometimes a little kid could catch a glimpse of one. They looked like little mini-Santa Clauses. The farmers had a tradition of leaving out a saucer of milk and some cookies for the little tackers, who would in turn help out by driving out the mean elves--trolls and the like--and occasionally helping with the chores.

The tomten wore red hats, and in some of the books we had their hats were actually amanita muscaria caps. When they had to fight they wore scale armour made of pinecone bits and helmets made from acorn caps.

I looked 'em up on wikipedia and found this interesting tidbit...

"In the 1840s the farm's "nisse" became the bearer of Christmas presents in Denmark, and was then called "julenisse". In 1881, the Swedish magazine Ny Illustrerad Tidning published Viktor Rydberg's poem Tomten, where the tomte is alone awake in the cold Christmas night, pondering the mysteries of life and death. This poem featured the first painting by Jenny Nystr�m of this traditional Swedish mythical character which she turned into the white-bearded, red-capped friendly figure associated with Christmas ever since. Shortly afterwards, and obviously influenced by the emerging Father Christmas traditions as well as the new Danish tradition, a variant of the tomte/nisse, called the "jultomte" in Sweden and "julenisse" in Norway, started bringing the Christmas presents in Sweden and Norway, instead of the traditional julbock Yule Goat."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomten