Memories of Beautiful Autumn

2008-08-01 [Galatea]: Oh these are lovely!, I love the moss on the tree

2008-08-02 [Easterling]: It's one of my favourites, too. :)

2008-08-02 [Galatea]: :D I hope you keep doing this, I can see some real skill in which photos you choose!

2008-08-02 [Easterling]: Wow, thankyou. It's fun to try to camera on different stuff and not only use it for saving family moments...

Before I've had a regular camera and I almost never took any photographs, and they didn't turn out to be very good either. Now, it's possible to take more chances, and you also don't have to pay a lot of money for bad ones, just save the ones that has turned out fine.

I love that it come close - like in the one with the tree, and the rose. Maybe that's something that everyone is used to nowadays, but because I haven't had a digi before it's all new and cool for me! :D

2008-10-13 [Galatea]: Gorgeous photos!!! I wish I lived near somewhere that beautiful! 

2008-10-13 [Easterling]: Thankyou! :) I love autumn so it's wonderful to be outside now (when it's not raining of course).

2008-11-18 [Viking]: Those peppers look tasty...

2008-11-20 [Easterling]: And they are.

2008-11-20 [All_Most PUNK]: Uh, uh, where are the dragons?

2008-11-20 [Easterling]: They were not in the market.. but I've got other pictures, too.

2008-11-20 [All_Most PUNK]: Are they in the zoos?

2008-11-20 [Easterling]: My friends went to the zoo.. there were poor animals trapped in too small cages... I don't think they'd be able to hold a dragon in there for very long..

I saw a couple when I was in the Forbidden City..

2008-11-20 [All_Most PUNK]: Well, yes, it was a zoo after all :P
They'd just make a too small cage bigger than the others.

Did they talk to you?

2008-11-20 [Easterling]: You think it's possible to keep dragons in cages?

No, they just stood still.. like statues, really.

Today when we made a visit to some place on the country side we walked past a buddhist temple. There were terribly angry gods in there! I'm so glad that I'm a christian and not a buddhist!

2008-11-20 [All_Most PUNK]: I imagine it must be. They must be special cages, though.

That's strange... MAybe they were sleeping?

What kind of terrible things they did?
And the Christian god is never angry. *takes two steps away from Sodom, Ghomorra and Babel*

2008-11-20 [Easterling]: I don't think they are that high-tech in zoo buissness over here..

Maybe. Maybe they just come alive at dark.

They didn't do anything, they just stood there looking terrible of course. Those gods cannot do anything.
  And yes, you're right. But at least that's not the central image of the christian God. These gods seemed to have anger as their.. well, their personal style.

2008-11-20 [All_Most PUNK]: Ahhh... But the japanese have ways to control beasts. They fight Godzilla all the time. They could buy the cages from them.

That's a good possibility. But, if that happens, does that mean they are evil?

I didn't mean the statues themselves but the beliefs associated with them.
Ah, sure. I'm still staying away from those places >_> (In part because it's dangerous, but also because, to be honest, Sodom stinks).

2008-11-21 [Easterling]: But the Japanese people is a little step beyong China when it comes to technological things.

Why should be active during the dark mean that they're evil?

Yes, I know. But it's hard to tell how people really see the statues, you know. Are they only idols, symbols of something else or are they actually honored for themselves? I mean, they actually put forward food and other things for the statue. Well, it's complicated and I think many people would answer differently if I asked them questions about it.

Easy for you to stay away from them, because they're in Israel.. If you can say that they are there anymore, I mean - they were destroyed, right?

2008-11-21 [All_Most PUNK]: That's why the Chinese could buy them, not make them.

I don't know. It's like a classical association.

Why shouldn't they be just representations of gods? Why should they adore the statue and not the divinity? And the presents to the statue are probably just as symbolic of the relation with the deity as the statues themselves.

Yes, they were. At least Sodom and Ghomorra. Babel may just have been abandoned, not sure.

2008-11-21 [Easterling]: I don't know if they want any dragons.. they make non-straight brigdes just to get rid of the evil spirits, maybe they want to get rid of the dragons, too.

Bats come out in darkness, too, and they're not evil. They're adorable.

In true Buddhaism, if it could be called that, the little wagon, Buddha is not god at all. In Mahayana, the big wagon, which means buddhaism that is more mixed up with local beliefs and traditions there are many different ways of thinking. So, like I say, I don't know. When we read about hinduism, anyway, we were told not to be too fast in thinking that the idols were only symbols of gods and not gods in themselves. It's a complicated thinking there and I could guess it's the same with the other eastern religion.

They abandoned Babel and spread out over the whole world, talking different languages.

2008-11-21 [All_Most PUNK]: But they have lots of dragons, anyway. They should at least put them in zoos if they don't want them walking around.

Bats are adorable? O_o

Little wagon?
And not with the western ones? They aren't complicated?

Exactly.