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> While others speculated that the demon spirit of Tamamo-no-Mae had been resurrected after almost 1,000 years, local media said cracks had appeared in the rock
by docdeek 5y ago
> While others speculated that the demon spirit of Tamamo-no-Mae had been resurrected after almost 1,000 years, local media said cracks had appeared in the rock several years ago, possibly allowing rainwater to seep inside and weaken its structure.
Hard to tell which one is more likely considering recent global events.
- magusdei 5y agoAccording to myth, Tamamo-no-Mae would attach herself to emperors and drive them mad, causing them to commit massacres. Hmm...
- illwrks 5y agoI thought you were joking.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae
- BurningPenguin 5y agoOut of all coincidences, this one is now my favorite.
- akincisor 5y agoI'm now wondering if there is a time in history when this would not be seen as a coincidence? Like a time when there was no crazy ruler.
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- foobarian 5y agoWonder if the stone had a bunch of naturally occurring tetraethyllead or dimethylmercury or similar that unknowingly affected people nearby.
- emerged 5y agoAt this point it makes as much sense as most other world news.
- jayzalowitz 5y agoIf only someone was an effective emperor of a near japan power with a long history of war... but where...
- Root_Denied 5y agoThis along with the groundhog dying the day before Groundhog Day makes it seem like there's some dice game being played by the gods for the human race. A friend of mine said at the end of 2020 that his prediction was that "2020 will be the best year of the decade" and it's scary watching that cynicism come true.
- subsubzero 5y agoThere was talk of a recently written book that said everything is on a 75-100 year cycle of peace and chaos, and chaos was going to be happening again and soon. This was in 2018-2019 and every year since 2020 has been worse than the previous. edit - book is the fouth turning, pretty accurate given it was written in 1997: https://www.businessinsider.com/protests-coronavirus-crisis-fourth-turning-theory-millennials-boomers-2020-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/protests-coronavirus-crisis-...
- imtringued 5y agothe current economic system is bound to collapse every 80 years because of some very basic math. insane people will try to blame everyone for a lack of discipline and simply restart the same garbage we already have
- trhway 5y ago80 years Sun/climate cycle. We're almost on the peak of it.
- pintxo 5y ago75-100 years is roughly 3 generations. Which is, I guess about the average number of generations we have in our smallest social unit: the family. I guess we learn a lot from our parents and grandparents, but hardly anything from our great-grandparents, as they are usually not longer around. Which means 75-100 years is the learning horizon within our families, and therefore for a big part of our journey to become social beings. I am a bit worried that we are loosing quickly the last people remembering the atrocities of ww1+2.
- PaulHoule 5y agoI am never going to get this out of my head https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae
- jasonhansel 5y agohttps://news.usni.org/2022/02/16/japanese-mod-voices-concern-over-russian-naval-exercises https://news.usni.org/2022/02/16/japanese-mod-voices-concern...
- ramraj07 5y agoA bit of survivorship bias. There are superstitious things like this all over the world , just one of them happened to break now so everyone’s like we’re doomed. I mean I agree we’re doomed but what the H does this rock have to do with it!
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- je_bailey 5y agoThe older I get, and the more experience I have with the world. I know that rain water caused the split but I am also popping popcorn in my shelter as I wait for Tamamo-no-Mae's first move.
- peteradio 5y ago> Local media suggest groundhogs have no bearing on future weather patterns.
- Yoric 5y agoThat's what they want you to believe.
- raverbashing 5y agoOf course, they don't affect it. They just predict it /s
- Bjorkbat 5y agoSince the pandemic started I've found myself believing less-and-less in mundane, worldly explanations for things. My favorite example is the 2016 presidential election. While there are many who would like to believe that Trump won due to Russian interference, I actually believe he won due to meme magic. A bunch of social misfits got together, sharing frog memes, while listening to Shadilay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadilay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadilay), and memed their candidate into office. I just think that objective, material reality is less objective and less material than I thought all along.
- aliswe 5y agoDid you see that recent meme where a right wing "influencer" with tens of thousands of followers only got 13 likes on a recent tweet? would be interesting if true! EDIT: https://imgur.com/gallery/cZwNWup https://imgur.com/gallery/cZwNWup
- drakythe 5y agoWhy not both? Russia employed a bunch of trolls, who helped create and amplify the memes. I think reality is a lot more complicated and humans just look for the simplest possible explanation, like “Russia did it!” Or “Meme’s did it!” Or “Racists did it!” When it was all of them and many other reasons. See Dan Olson’s “In Search of a Flat Earth” video for a genuinely brilliant breakdown of this idea and how it relates to Flat Earthere and other nonsense.
- Bjorkbat 5y agoAnd so there's still definitely a part of me that realizes that, yeah, rationally, you can't just ignore the influence of Russian interference or the flaws in modern polling. Looking back, it's obvious that we underestimated how politically motivated working-class white voters could be. The thing about meme magic though is that there's so many spooky "synchronicities" woven throughout that I can't help but take it seriously.
- BizarroLand 5y ago
- ipiz0618 5y agoSame. Surely this was a joke but man, I hope it stays as a joke.