May 2, 2009

• WCFQ 45d: A Career in dilettantism

  What career would you pursue if money
  (salary wise and/or education spending, for example)
  was not an issue?
  litoxshortaii

  Hmmm, Career implies a set course, and if I did not need to worry about money or education, there are a lot of things I’d do. Foremost would be my writing… I’d finally have the time to devote to it, money being no obstacle. I’d probably sleep most of the day and stay up most of the night writing. I’d surf the web (okay I already do this) and ponder the imponderables that I find in News of the Weird posts. Like the “genetically modified goat that produces super-strong spider’s silk” and why a goat would need super strong spider silk to begin with (pictures spider-goat hanging from a strand of silk as it looks for improbably edible things to chew on). At first I read, “super strong spider milk” and was even more confused. Goat milk is supposedly the closest thing to human milk one can find, so super strong spider-goat milk would be extra healthy maybe?? o.O

  I’d travel the world researching long lost forgotten lore in ancient tomes in dead languages which I would of course have to learn. I’d hire someone to help me break into the Vatican vaults, film it live, and not only make mounds of money but finally reveal what secrets the Vatican has seen fit to suppress for the “good of humanity” and good PR. I’d find Atlantis and Mu and Lemuria and Ys and any other “lost continents” I’ve forgotten. I’d find out what unknown alien intelligence is causing the magnetic anamoly in Lake Vostok, Antarctica… a liquid water lake which has been covered by ice for at least the last 500,000 years, if not millions. It used to be the Big story on the web, but nothing much has been written on it since 2007. Cover up? Hmmm? (Oy, I love conspiracy theories.)

  I’d see to it that the Moon and Mars were colonized, and that colonizing ships were created to send the more dissident portions of Earth’s populations (religious zealots, obnoxious politicians, oil moguls, and other dangerous criminals) into space. Probably not all together… who knows what kind of society they would form! Space pirates probably, very confused ones.

  So, I guess like Heidenkind, I’d settle for being a dilettante. .

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  May 2nd

  This is the fifth day of the Floralia.

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  The goddess Elena or Helen is goddess of the holy road (the four royal roads of Britain). The old straight tracks and causeways of Wales are her holy roads called Sarn Helen.

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  In England, an annual fertility festival is held featuring a man on a hobbyhorse, a fiendish mask, and pointed hat.

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  Tane Matsuri is Rice Planting today and tomorrow in Japan.

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  Princess Ysahodhara, the wife of Buddha is honored in India with an annual festival.
  

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  Bona Dea, the good goddess of Roman tradition, was honored with fires tonight and tomorrow as the goddess of women’s mysteries. The Arvales honored Bona Dea in her grove with a highly complicated ceremony. This included a dance in the temple of the goddess to which they sang a hymn so antiquated that few understood its meaning. Secret offerings were made to her, and sows were sacrificed to promote fertility.
  

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  Osiris Goes Forth from His mountain on the 18th day of Payni according to the Egyptian calendar.
  

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