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According to myth, Tamamo-no-Mae would attach herself to emperors and drive them mad, causing them to commit massacres. Hmm...

illwrks 5y ago
I thought you were joking.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae
- BurningPenguin 5y ago
  Out of all coincidences, this one is now my favorite.
  - akincisor 5y ago
    I'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.
    - rocqua 5y ago
      What would have been the thought half a year ago?
      - codpiece 5y ago
        The same as now: D) All of the above
      - taejavu 5y ago
        Xi Jinping
      - iab 5y ago
        Al-sisi, burhan, khamenei, sauds, jong-un, al-assad, maduro, etc etc
- deleted 5y ago
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foobarian 5y ago
Wonder if the stone had a bunch of naturally occurring tetraethyllead or dimethylmercury or similar that unknowingly affected people nearby.
emerged 5y ago
At this point it makes as much sense as most other world news.
jayzalowitz 5y ago
If only someone was an effective emperor of a near japan power with a long history of war... but where...
Root_Denied 5y ago
This 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 ago
  There 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 ago
    the 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 ago
    80 years Sun/climate cycle. We're almost on the peak of it.
  - pintxo 5y ago
    75-100 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 ago
I 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 ago
https://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 ago
A 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!

illwrks 5y ago

I thought you were joking.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae

BurningPenguin 5y ago
Out of all coincidences, this one is now my favorite.
- akincisor 5y ago
  I'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.
  - rocqua 5y ago
    What would have been the thought half a year ago?
    - codpiece 5y ago
      The same as now: D) All of the above
    - taejavu 5y ago
      Xi Jinping
    - iab 5y ago
      Al-sisi, burhan, khamenei, sauds, jong-un, al-assad, maduro, etc etc
deleted 5y ago
[deleted]

foobarian 5y ago

Wonder if the stone had a bunch of naturally occurring tetraethyllead or dimethylmercury or similar that unknowingly affected people nearby.

emerged 5y ago

At this point it makes as much sense as most other world news.

jayzalowitz 5y ago

If only someone was an effective emperor of a near japan power with a long history of war... but where...

Root_Denied 5y ago

This 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 ago
There 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 ago
  the 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 ago
  80 years Sun/climate cycle. We're almost on the peak of it.
- pintxo 5y ago
  75-100 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 ago

I 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 ago

https://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 ago

A 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!