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Josh has fixed all the major bugs and is infinity is a lot faster also the upload speed has been upgraded… not to mention how much you can post (I've posted up to 14 mb in one post)

Forgive my poor manners.

I just came here, and i'm already making a thread, instead of lurking.

But well, there really isn't much to lurk, so i thought it would be nice to make a place where we can talk a little bit.

Now for the point of the thread.

>What are your more "clever" hobbies?

>Do you guys like to read, to write, or something else?

>Do you have something to share with us about your hobby?

ITT your favorite Touhou characters and why you hate bikes

I'll go first!

My favorite Touhou is Youmu Konpaku, and I hate bikes because, frankly, I'm just more of a roller blade-type person.

Are you alive?

>>>/newspaper/ is awfully quiet recently. Getting a little worried..

Any ideas to breathe some new life into it? It's a really nice concept

This thread is dedicated to quality-posting, or the art of posting out-of-context excerpts from long and arduous academic articles.

>I shall begin.

In addition to trading relationships, the 1606 "First Virginia Charter" also

required the English settlers to develop personal ties with their indigenous

neighbors with the express purpose of bringing the "Christian religion to

suche people as yet live in darkenesse and miserable ignorance of the true

knoweledge and worshippe of God." 7 Given their expressed intentions and the

relatively small number of colonists who set sail, it is reasonable to assume that

both the Dutch and English colonists left Europe sincerely hoping they would

be able to quickly, and rather peacefully, develop interdependent trading and

on-going relationships with the Khoena8 of South Africa and the Algonquin

in the Pawmunkey Empire in Virginia.

As the early colonists waded ashore, their perspectives toward the native

inhabitants were shaped by their gender-based and class-based social systems,

pre-Enlightenment Christian ideology, and their mercantile economic systems.

Unlike our modern worldview, early modern ethnocentrism was not racially

oriented, and according to Kupperman, race would have been an "utterly foreign"

factor for English settlers since they did not divide "humankind into broad

fixed classifications demarcated by visible distinction." The early Jamestown

colonists would have initially perceived the physical differences they observed

between themselves and the indigenous people they met as being "accidental"

and "acquired characteristics" due to "environment and experience" and not

as being "inborn," determinist attributes.9

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Is Arya Stark autistic?

I actually saw a few hints of it in the way she acts throughout seasons 1-4 (plus she doesn't make friends well either and she doesn't fit into pre-assigned gender roles), but in season 5, after she joins the house of Black and White and pretends to sell oysters, when the thin man asks for oysters, she completely ignores him after seeing Meryn Trant. Still, he literally shouts out to her and she just stands there looking off into the distance.

Hello, friends.

This is a thread about the paranormal.

I never really considered myself an /x/- or /fringe/-type guy, but gosh darn if I haven't gone down the rabbit hole lately vis-a-vis Bigfoot, Aliens, and other assorted spookiness.

First off, I'm going to introduce you to a mainstream investigative reporter for the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas named George Knapp who also has an interest in the paranormal. Older Mr(s). Anons may remember him as the guy who broke the Bob Lazar Area 51 story.

And I want you to consider that all paranormal activity may be related.

The events at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, where one could witness UFOs, Bigfoot, poltergeist activity, and cattle mutilations is a good example of this.

Some speculate that the ranch may be an opening into other dimensions. That there are other, unknown dimensions is now widely accepted in physics.

Also,

Tell us about any paranormal experiences you have had!

Let's talk about this, my friends.

Who or what is taking these people?

A nice summary on this issue from a recent series of books:

>Missing-411 is the first comprehensive research about people who have disappeared in the wilds of North America (this is also a worldwide issue with cases in Australia, Europe and elsewhere). It’s understood that people routinely get lost and some want to disappear, but this story is about the unusual. Nobody has ever studied the archives for similarities, traits and geographical clusters of missing people, until now.

>A tip from a national park ranger led to this 4+ years and a 9000 hour investigative effort into understanding the stories behind people who have vanished. The book chronicles children, adults and the elderly who disappeared, sometimes in the presence of friends and relatives. As Search and Rescue personnel exhaust leads and places to search, relatives start to believe kidnappings and abductions have occurred. The belief by the relatives is not an isolated occurrence; it replicates itself time after time, case after case across North America.

>The research depicts 28 clusters of missing people across the continent, something that has never been exposed and was a shocking find to researchers. Topography does play a part into the age of the victims and certain clusters have specific age and sex consistency that is baffling. This is not a phenomenon that has been occurring in just the last few decades, clusters of missing people have been identified as far back as the 1800’s.

>Some of the issues that are discussed in each edition:

• The National Park Service attitude toward missing people

• How specific factors in certain cases replicate themselves in different clusters

• Exposing cases involving missing children that aren’t on any national database

• Unusual behavior by bloodhounds/canines involved in the search process

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Hey /8lounge/, what are you currently reading? Anything you have on your list? Anything you just finished?

I just finished re-reading 1984, and on the recommendation of a friend, Brave New World. I gotta say I like 1984 more, but BNW was okay, especially for how morally neutral it felt, none of the cut-and-dry stuff from the former.

So, any readers?

We're safe here.