Time Machines are dangerous!
Talking about odd things, I had one strange nightmare some hours ago. I was a time traveller and my time machine was a wrist watch.
I was hoping to have fun with some Hollywood stars in a party in a certain year and when I moved the calendar on the watch to travel on time, the darn thing was not working.
Every time I tried to go to a particular date, I ended up in another. I saw the Russian Revolution, Both World Wars, Dinosaurs etc and I finally got desperate and threw the watch in a pond. I remember Me on my knees screaming at the pond and wondered what happened with my time machine. The year was unknown!
Finally I woke up after an hour or so and got this strange feeling of losing time. This taught me something…
- Maybe I realized finally that trying to live the past or wonder about the future may lose track of the real thing that matters…The present!
- Humanity had many good and bad moments in time…
- Personally, I didnt liked some of the historical moments I witnessed…and also the fact that I couldnt visit my favorite events in History…I had no control on that.
Sorry for this non-anime post…but this nightmare taught me something…Time machines can be dangerous if it is not handled properly…or I should not watch The History Channel before sleeping!
Japan temple “flush away” your bad luck!
There are countless stories about toilets in Japan…You can add to the pile this news where japanese people can flush their bad luck…
Tired of an unsatisfying relationship, the sluggish economy or just your own bad habits? Now you really can flush it all down the toilet.
The Mantokuji temple in Japan’s central Gumma prefecture was once an asylum for women who wanted to cut marital ties with their husbands, a function now made obsolete by modern divorce laws and family courts.
Now, the temple is a museum chronicling the history of divorce as well as a place to help people get rid of any bad karma, via a piece of paper they drop into latrines.
Visitors are given two options: the white squat toilet for the “enkiri”, or cutting ties, or the black one for the “enmusubi”, or tightening ties.
“I severed the bind with obesity” said 69-year-old, tea ceremony instructor Shizue Kurokawa, after flushing her “enkiri” tag in the white latrine.
“I’m getting fat and it’s not healthy. From now on I’d like to lose weight, be in fine form and take care of my health.”
According to temple officials, most visitors still come with the purpose of breaking up with their partners, but most do so very discreetly.
Those willing to talk to Reuters had less private wishes.
“I work for a business company and things are not going well. What’s more, deflation is a problem everywhere in Japan,” said 74-year-old Kiyo Suzuki, an employee at a steel production company. “So my prayer is that things may recover for all of us.”
Up until the 19th century, Mantokuji was one of only two women-only convents serving as a refuge for wives who wanted to leave with their husbands.
Women in those days had no legal rights to ask for a divorce, though all a man had to do was to write “I hereby divorce thee” in a letter to make the breakup official.
Convent officials would act as mediators between the couple, and if a reconciliation was not possible, the officials made sure the wife had some sort of legal protection.
“In the past the Mantokuji was a divorce temple. There are only two in Japan and in the whole world,” explained the temple museum director Tadashi Takagi.
“Originally it provided the possibility to break off with bad relationships. Women used to come here to have legal protection and divorce from their husbands. So the idea today is that people get rid of the bad things in their life and become happy.”
Takagi said that with spirits and gods believed to inhabit practically everything in Japan, toilets are no different.
And among the million gods in the Japanese pantheon, the deity of the toilet, kawaya no kami, was considered just as important as the others since he was believed to heal illnesses and help in childbirth, Takagi added.
But ever since the symbolic latrines were installed, accidents have happened.
“When this museum was realized, at first, there were people who took it for a real loo and actually used it. But since we have put a sign indicating that the toilets are for praying, almost nobody makes that mistake anymore,” Takagi said.
Despite its quirky rite, the Mantokuji sanctuary continues to stand as a testimony to women’s rights in Japan. Once inside its gates, unhappy wives did see a change in their fortunes, without really having to flush it away.
Source: Reuters
Talking about odd things with Toilets…Japan have after all, the best toilets in the world…I think!
Megami Magazine #119 Preview: Hot Yuki Nagato again!
End of the Month, a new Megami Magazine published. Due to the fact that the Vanishment of Suzumiya Haruhi was released recently, it seems Yuki Nagato is the main star…again for this new issue…and of course, Haruhi is with her.
I wish this meidos were with Me!
Oh, Good Lord!
Of course, the magazine has more than just Nagato…Take a look at the preview…Have any favorite? Sure you do!
What a surprise! New Haruhi novel part in June Sneaker!
February 24, 2010 by Ultimatemegax
Filed under Anime, Main, News, Suzumiya Haruhi
Since it’s the last week of the month, the magazine from Kadokawa Group Publishing entitled “The Sneaker” is delivered to stores and sold. This magazine has been the home of the Haruhi novels since 2003 when “The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya” was published. The novels are part of the “Kadokawa Sneaker Library.” Imagine my surprise when looking for movie news and I get to see this picture:
“The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya” will be in the next edition of the Sneaker released on April 30th (coincidentally the day that the special covers go off sale). After reviewing some more translations, it appears that the first part of the book will be revealed in the Sneaker issue in June.
It’s great news for fans who have been waiting since 2007 for Tanigawa to finally put out a new novel!
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