zetetic

found these on the side of the road between bathurst and cowra in nsw. i wont be doing anything with them as they look like no pics i have seen before. i found out i should do some prints and other tests to help id them but they are too dry for that now and i am prepared for next time.

hey guys, zetetic has let me use his account to ask a question i've had to move house recently and that ment pulling up a khat tree that i had only just planted about a month before. I've had it for 2 years now and grown it from cutting, it was just starting to pump out more shoots and was looking quite healthy, but when i planted it in the new garden it started to droop badly, the little shoots doubled over and the leaves are curling. last night my housemates told me that everything they planted in the ground where khat was had died. So i pulled it out of the ground (freeing up the roots and removing the dirt (not to much, just shaking off the loose stuff)) and potted it with fresh potting mix. today its drooping a bit more and im worried. im not much of a gardner and have never seen this happen to any of my other plants before, does anyone know how i might save her? thanks in advance %simon

jews must be the most easily offended race of people in the history of the world... wwII was a long time ago why can't it be discussed and be compared with other things in a discussion without someone taking offence? what is the world coming to indeed... however that said i think the rise of capitalism (bush and his mates) is much more to worry about then the rise of racists, i think there are too many free thinking people around to bring in a racist government but too many people are blinded by money to even think that capitalists could be doing wrong...

if you like the animatrix check out the comics at http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/ some of the comics were made into the animatrix, and there are stories there by some big name artists and writers such as neil gaimen and poppy z brite...

i have been reading a bit about mayans and other anchient cultures recently and from what i gathered 2012 wasnt the end of the world it was the end of the first cycle out of five. it is like the renewing of the earth, everything that could possibly happen has happened and now it is like pressing the reset button and everything begins again.... thats what i got out of it anyway, so its something i look forward to not something i dread...

i have been wondering the same thing, i hear the film clip is very moving...

trance = 3 Point Turn dnb = Panacea there are heaps more i am into but those are who i have been listening to recently... Panaceas older stuff i would recommend if into the darker side of things...

yeah luke vibert goes under a few names, wagonchrist and plug being the most popular ones i beleive... the film clips are fantastic... however i have moved onto venetian snares as my fave idm musician, his tunage is a bit more insane then idm and a bit violent for some but it rocks and the filmclip for find candace is very disturbing ... he manages to pull off the insane beats followed by melodic ambient sounds no problem..

if you are in sydney or probably other capital cities find the places that give out free condoms to sex workers and free needles for junkies and get some free needles... they give them out to anyone and have a varirty of different sized needles when i was last at one... there is one in sydney called SWOP but i dont know where they have moved to.

i made sure i watched the japanese ring before the american one and i am glad.. i agree with mrbumpy when he says that it didnt spend stupid amounts of time in subplots and also the american one made much more friction in the personal relationship then the japanese one.. its like americans cant make a big movie unless it has sort of relationship struggle like a stupid soap opera.,.,. havent watched ringu 2 yet but there is also a ringu 0 which is a prequel made after number 2.. an anime i would recommend which is british i think? called Heavy Metal with some classic 70s heavy metal as the soundtrack..someone mentioned black sabbath on another thread, they are on the soundtrack and it is a great film with a number of short stories in it... also Fantastic Planet which is a french anime that is probably from the 70s aswell but i cant be sure, great film about two intelligent species living tgether on a planet and one of the species is very human, has ambient avant garde music for the soundtrack...

hahahais that one where he talks about a few different celebrities that must of sold out to satan to become popular like mc hammer "sucking satans cock" and then come the beast noises

what i saw said it was aphex twin vs luke vibert who is alos fantastic... i would love to see both those guys but yes the prices for BDO are quite expensive... however i cant really see him coming all this way just for the bdo... or am i just wishful thinking some other shows? best get checking his sites....

never thought of it as a religion before but definately see the experience as spiritual or tribal or entrancing.... and its all about the effect of the constant beat creating a trance like effect... good mind altering substances always help create a different experience, i would credit any culture that has ever danced to the beat of a drum with having helped. in the psytrance community is the only place i have physically met others interested in ethnobotany.

i think that puts it perfectly...there seem to be a lot of people here with a very firm definition of a shaman that are not prepared to let go of that notion. i always considered shamanism and using hallucinogens a path to an open mind...