we have some very downbeat/macabre threads going on!

Come to that, I'm not into unicorns, angels, rainbows or fairies at the bottom of the garden.;)
 

QS..... respect! For finding a pic of both SifuPhils favourites, a unicorn AND a rainbow. He will be chuffed.That means pleased.
 
AprilT said:
Dangit, someone stole my Halloween costume and is wearing it better than I was going to. Nothing's sacred.
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YOUR costume?!?! Wait ... I had the same one and IT was stolen too!!! :confused:

oakapple said:
My original post was a bit of fun [although it's true about the amount of depressing threads.] I just wondered though, at what point in our lives did we become interested in death? I was certainly not remotely interested when younger [and in fact am not ALL that interested now if I'm honest.]Which is why I don't read obits.
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Speaking for myself I was interested in it fairly early on - 5 years old when my paternal grandfather died. I kept up an interest through college, when I took up metaphysics and philosophy, both loaded with questions about death and dying. I even discussed it frequently in my Taoist philosophical counseling work.

So, yeah ... death has been on my mind for a while. :rolleyes:

oakapple said:
QS..... respect! For finding a pic of both SifuPhils favourites, a unicorn AND a rainbow. He will be chuffed.That means pleased.
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Consider me well chuffed! :D

Geezerette said:
Oy Vey, Phil, your unicorn looks more like a satyr!
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I think that's what they were shooting for - I suspect they're a "furry" ... :cool:
 
I think death is a fact and the older we get the more pay attention Oakapple. I have went to church since I was eight and my beleif tells me that it is just another step on the journey. not the end. As for Unicorns, they make a much better picture than spiders or bats on Halloween. I love giving out Halloween Candy, unfortunately since we live in a rural area have no trick or treat vistors. So Classic Rocker if you find a party let me know. I will hop on my unicorn and be right over!
 
Unicorns, angels, rainbows and fractal geometry exist without us. For brief instances we get lucky enough to observe them through serendipity in the quantum reality curtain. However like Disney we try to anthromorph them down to our level. With that said, will somebody explain clowns.
 
rt3 said:
Unicorns, angels, rainbows and fractal geometry exist without us. For brief instances we get lucky enough to observe them through serendipity in the quantum reality curtain. However like Disney we try to anthromorph them down to our level. With that said, will somebody explain clowns.
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Not ONLY clowns, will someone please explain what you have just said?;)
 
rt3 said:
... With that said, will somebody explain clowns.
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:eek:

I LIKE clowns - they attack us on a very primeval level. Their big shoes make us shrink from the thought of the big feet contained within them ... their red noses remind us that they're drunk as a skunk ... and their over-sized costumes bring to mind our in-born fear of polka-dot pajamas.

Then of course there are the little cars ... why we fear imports and why the Beetle is no longer made in the U.S. ...

Clowns keep us from swinging the pendulum too far to the "Happy" side ...
 
can't handle clowns, weird me out, anybody that dresses like that has to watched, especially the hands. besides there is something very sinister about getting 11 clowns in one Volkswagen.
 
I attended a folklore dance show in Quito, Ecuador this spring and was surprised to see some extremely scary-looking (dead white faces with exaggerated rouge and makeup) clowns just standing around during the show. It was creepy to the max; really skeeved me out something fierce. It was explained to us that the clowns represent the Spanish conquerors. Their light skin scared the dark-skinned native population who thought they must be spirits and very ugly spirits at that. So, clowns in Ecuador almost always have white faces with very ugly makeup.
 
Love clowns, Kosair Hospital type especially! Have a friend whose Dad was buried in his clown outfit! Well, he was a clown in life, after all!
 
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