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05-26-2010, 07:42 AM
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Radical Centrist
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May 26, 2010: The Hanging Coffins of Sagada
 In Sagada, Philippines, they have a funeral tradition dating back 2000 years. When you get old, you build your own coffin. What a treat! Typically by hollowing out a log. It should be rather small, because it's going to have to be hauled up a cliff. Your family can help in the coffin-building process, which must really be a treat: hey kids, grampa's about to snuff it so get handy with the tools already.  And then once you die, you're packed into the thing - they can break your bones up if you're too big for the box - and you're hauled up the cliffside. Now, if you're lucky you get a spot hanging on the outside of the cliff.  But you may just end of stacked on one of the caves that line the cliff.  Either way, what a final resting spot. The idea is to get you closer to heaven so the trip is shorter. I guess, but if your soul can make the ionosphere, the last 500 yards aren't really that much of an extra haul. debri.ru wikipedia |
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05-26-2010, 08:19 AM
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Master Dwellar
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A tomb with a view.
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05-26-2010, 08:51 AM
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Slattern of the Swail
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What if you refuse to build your coffin? What are they gonna do? Take your funeral away?
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05-26-2010, 09:13 AM
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Then they bury you down at the bottom of the canyon, and it's that much harder for you to get up to heaven.
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05-26-2010, 09:49 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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The floor of the canyon is riddled with the bodies of the decoffinated.
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05-26-2010, 10:03 AM
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Slattern of the Swail
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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05-26-2010, 11:14 AM
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05-26-2010, 11:16 AM
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Come on, cat.
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Did heaven exist 2000 years ago, when they started doing this?
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05-26-2010, 11:24 AM
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Yes. The official IPO of heaven was on March 27th -45,678.
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05-26-2010, 12:09 PM
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I got nothing
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One could argue that being old combined with the physical stress that would come with building your own coffin could hasten the need for said coffin.
Make it fun...when the grandkids misbehave, they get to spend 30 minutes hollowing out grandma/grandpa's coffin.
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05-26-2010, 01:08 PM
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Beware of potatoes
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The punishment for not building your coffin is being kicked off the top of the cliff before your time is up.
The question is, what happens to accident victims or those who die young hanging coffins?
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05-26-2010, 01:16 PM
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"See that tree? That's my tree, I want you to get your coffin out of my tree..."
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