tag > Culture
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Spectrophilia is sexual attraction to ghosts or sexual arousal from images in mirrors, as well as the alleged phenomenon of sexual encounters between ghosts and humans.
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The game of life, reimagined for a superaging society
Japan's Community Coping, a “superaging society” board game, is intended to be a microcosm of the myriad socioeconomic problems facing citizens of the world’s most rapidly aging society.
"I played the “superaging society” board game in which players are tasked with preventing graying communities from collapsing. And it's much more difficult than one might think - as it is in real life."
"A single game lasts 10 years, from 2021 to 2030. If more than four residents are left in any of the districts after a round, the community is overwhelmed and collapses. Game over."
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The Mari Tablets belong to a large group of tablets that were discovered by French archaeologists in the 1930s. More than 25,000 tablets in Akkadian were found in the Mari archives, which give information about the kingdom of Mari, its customs, and the names of people who lived during that time. More than 8,000 are letters; the remainder includes administrative, economic, and judicial texts. The tablets, according to Andre Parrot, "brought about a complete revision of the historical dating of the ancient Near East and provided more than 500 new place names, enough to redraw or even draw up the geographical map of the ancient world." Almost all of the tablets found were dated to the last 50 years of Mari's independence (ca. 1800-1750 BC), and most have now been published. The language of the texts is official Akkadian but proper names and hints in syntax show that the common language of Mari's inhabitants was Northwest Semitic. Contemporary archives have been found, among others, in Tell Leilan in the Upper Khabur area and Tell Shemshara in the Zagros Mountains.
Why does the Vatican have the 'authority' to ban all peoples of earth from reading any of the 25,000 Mari Tablets? Discovered in 1933, translated once, read by a council at the Vatican, & forever to be hidden thereafter. What do the Mari tablets say that so scares the Vatican?
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All games include three tiers of action - According to Professor Kevin Werbach
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"Go Shopping" - George W. Bush's message to the American people in the aftermath of 911
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"Intellectualism is a common cover-up for fear of direct experience." - Carl Jung
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"Inzwischen richte ich mich auch nicht mehr nach irgendwelchen Weltuntergängen" - Faradox
(In the meantime, I no longer orient myself according to any end of the world scenarios)
