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There is a mix of pop culture worship

From performing arts centres being bought out by
the Westside Church
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right across from Vancouver's
Vancouver Public Library
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To one repurposing a
Gracepoint Community Church

to even some from the
First Baptist Church
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There are several of these cathedrals, all within shouting & walking distance. Heck, all of downtown Vancouver is walkable -- it isn't huge at all.

(there is even a cathedral with a certain statue who is so powerful they are restrained by a chain link enclosure)

Tucked away in a
is the Gateway Spiritual Chapel Spiritualist Church.
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For the
theosophists, there's even a Blavatsky Lodge
Not wanted to be left out, there is even
Scientologists
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The Dalai Lama also has
for peace and education
bringing his empirical experiential teachings & lovingkindess to the citizens of the gvrd.

You can join with Chinese revolutionary
and join in basking in the many forms

There's even the Vancouver homegrown
who take your name and help you with your purpose

In Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, there was Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ("Osho"), who was either a con artist and/or a trickster and/or a terrorist and/or a lover of a good time

In the wilds (which is pretty much everywhere -- another Cascadian trait) of
is a ranch where neet phenomena have been observed. One can get in contact with the owner and ask for permission to visit and see for yourself
.

Since spacetravel is still a bit too pricey, all I have to do to encounter the overview effect is to go up a mountain.
This is worship.
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Fellow Cascadian, Mike Boyer, buys 4 g of Mary Jane (its legal in some parts of Cascadia now) is fired and then unfired by his employer :3

New Vansterdam opened up on Friday, offering lower prices. (i love reading this -- i have to remind myself that this is real and not a novel or a dream)

An example of an empirically-tested way of dealing with the drug problem (as opposed to faith-based methods like Harper & the war on (some) drugs do) I present Insite

(i do hope that one of the other empirically-tested programs, the Spiritual Advisor Program, can come back, but we in BC are still dealing with the evisceration effects of Gordon Campbell)
 
It's a freakin' heat wave here! I've got the windows wide open and the air is not moving. Fell asleep about 11ish and am wide awake (it's 4:00). It's 21 degrees outside, at 4:00 a.m.! Crazy! It's supposed to get up around 30 later. Must invest in a fan...(we rarely need that or air conditioning. This happens a few nights every summer.)
 
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Kimmio said:
It's a freakin' heat wave here! I've got the windows wide open and the air is not moving. Fell asleep about 11ish and am wide awake (it's 4:00). It's 21 degrees outside, at 4:00 a.m.! Crazy! It's supposed to get up around 30 later. Must invest in a fan...(we rarely need that or air conditioning. This happens a few nights every summer.)
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Scratch that for now...we've got a nice little breeze...aah! Maybe I can have a nap for an hour.
 
Cascadia got geology like your mother's first baby. And it never stops.

This the rest of Canada will help to pay for when The Big One happens


(i've got an image of seeing the georgia strait empty of ocean and the sun being occluded by vancouver island as it tips UP into the sky...)

We've got Lituya Bay, an innocent little bay in the Alaskan panhandle where horrific events occur commonly -- waves of Cecil C Demille height. No wonder it took this long to discover -- anyone who actually could identify the things were erased (it took modern manufacturing techniques to be able to preserve eye witnesses -- thank g_odness for capitalism). Now that we know aboot this phenomenon, we've been able to find other, more-dangerous-to-human-populations-places where it happens...Hawai'i & the Canary Islands, ferinstance, which will wipe out (like the song) the Western seaboard & the Eastern seaboard of NA, respectively.


Also Cascadia is festooned with several active & dormant & extinct volcanoes, some of which are right smack dab in populated areas, some of which we ski and hike and fall off of.

Just off the coast of Vancouver Island are some pretty nifty natural phenomena that have helped humanity immensely...the discovery of the Black Smokers & the neet life that exists without sunlight.


Talking aboot the deep ocean, a metis member of the Kwakiutl nation, Phil Nuytten, is responsible for so much wonderful ocean technology that is used worldwide by NASA, the National Geographic Society and navies. His company is Nuytco Research Ltd. Some of his technology that you might recognize is the newtsuit

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If you think any of your gift-giving customs are strange or baroque, then feast your eyes...
Many of the local indian tribes had a neet economy based around the potlatch. During a potlatch, which were held during special events like weddings & deaths, the royalty of the hosting tribe would give or destroy gifts to the royalty of the visiting tribe, with the expectation that the visiting royalty would be able to exceed that or they will lose status. There are many variations on the concept, with different ceremonies, rituals, accoutrements, even familial lineages.


And only in Cascadia can we have a people secede from Canada and form their own country called Haida Gwaii. Without bloodshed, too :3

 
I have heard about areas in Canada that have more in common with the neighbouring states than with the rest of Canada. In my home province many people think about an area including part of NB, Quebec and northern Maine as 'the Republic of Madawaska'. Others have suggested that the entire St. John River valley, which would include a much larger section of northern Maine (possibly half the state), a bit of Quebec, and half of NB as one identity. They even have (had) a magazine about the area.

Recently travelling around the shore of the Bay of Chaleur, I found the area had much in common. Many of the names had English or Acadian roots, rather than Quebecois. Many of the people were bilingual - we had less problem asking questions, ordering meals, etc. in the southern part of the Gaspe than we sometimes have in the St. Leonard to Edmunston area of NB. We also noticed a number of Protestant and Anglican churches in Gaspe. And Gaspe is part of the Maritime Conference of the UCC.

St. Stephen NB / Calais Me is another area that seems to think of itself as one people.

But, when I travelled to Florida I was very conscious of the fact that I was in a foreign country. And I think I would have felt more uneasy if I had been black.
 
I think of the Northern parts of the Eastern Seaboard, like Maine and New Hampshire, as having things in common with the Maritimes - more than they'd have with Alberta and the midwest prairie states, or even BC and Washington state, although both coasts have fishing.You can even hear similarities in accents - not exactly the same but you can hear that there were similar (Irish I'm thinking) influences. I've never been to either, but have met people from both and have heard it on TV, in movies, etc. JFK comes to mind of course.
 
Seeler said:
I have heard about areas in Canada that have more in common with the neighbouring states than with the rest of Canada. In my home province many people think about an area including part of NB, Quebec and northern Maine as 'the Republic of Madawaska'. Others have suggested that the entire St. John River valley, which would include a much larger section of northern Maine (possibly half the state), a bit of Quebec, and half of NB as one identity. They even have (had) a magazine about the area.

Recently travelling around the shore of the Bay of Chaleur, I found the area had much in common. Many of the names had English or Acadian roots, rather than Quebecois. Many of the people were bilingual - we had less problem asking questions, ordering meals, etc. in the southern part of the Gaspe than we sometimes have in the St. Leonard to Edmunston area of NB. We also noticed a number of Protestant and Anglican churches in Gaspe. And Gaspe is part of the Maritime Conference of the UCC.

St. Stephen NB / Calais Me is another area that seems to think of itself as one people.

But, when I travelled to Florida I was very conscious of the fact that I was in a foreign country. And I think I would have felt more uneasy if I had been black.
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Neet, Seeler :3 I detect a future thread by you on that subject :3
 
The one thing that seems to unify the rest of Canada, and leave out much of BC, is cold winter. So we attract a lot of eccentric - and action sport/ nature loving- sorts just because of climate alone. I can't prove it but it might be true. In the spring here, people can ski and jog on the beach all in one day. That's kind of different.
 
Another Thing for Cascadians 2 b Proud of

Yes, anti-pipeline Vancouver really is North America’s largest exporter of coal

i remember when i was much younger sometimes when the winds were blowing in a certain way coal dust would b on our deck :eek:

also heard a bit on Quirks and Quarks going on how aerosols (smoke, particulate mattet in air) has a cooling effect but it is bad for our health so again we humans r caught, esp southern Asia with its horrible pollution problems that when they solve it things there will heat up quicker lol sheesh

Catch-22: polluting aerosols cool the Earth, removing them warms it | CBC Radio
 
Inannawhimsey said:
Another Thing for Cascadians 2 b Proud of

Yes, anti-pipeline Vancouver really is North America’s largest exporter of coal

i remember when i was much younger sometimes when the winds were blowing in a certain way coal dust would b on our deck :eek:

also heard a bit on Quirks and Quarks going on how aerosols (smoke, particulate mattet in air) has a cooling effect but it is bad for our health so again we humans r caught, esp southern Asia with its horrible pollution problems that when they solve it things there will heat up quicker lol sheesh

Catch-22: polluting aerosols cool the Earth, removing them warms it | CBC Radio
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Are we recycled disaster ... one way to contain a menace to the eternal wisdom ... tis out there !
 
Other things

Glowing water at night
Haunted young cities
Dead one resource towns that one can still explore (good for rockhounds)
Cryptidville
Swamps that are also towns
Best tasting water in Canada
Purple and orange starfish
Abalone
Carnivorous marine snails
Nudibranchs that squirt purple dye (used by ancients to colour their royal clothing)
Trees taller than skyscrapers
A lonely road where people have mysteriously been murdered...by other humans or cryptids or...?
Bananna slugs
Flying squirrels
Fields hidden by flocks of snowy owls
Peahens and -cocks wild within cities
Surfing all year round
Good front row seat for when the Big One hits, unzipping north and south...with volcanoes!!!
Fresh. Seafood.
Tiny towns with lots of antique shops
Good coffee and donuts (no not Starbucks or Timmies)
Trees with metal spikes in them
Some sacred land and spirits recognized by caker law
Hippies. Lots of us.
Communes.
Salt water taffy.
Hyperintelligent pack carnivorous squid
Worlds largest octupus (also very intelligent)
Places where earthquakes are regular part of life
Millipedes that smell like nutmeg when handled
Underwater volcanoes nearby land

Parked Moving,
Inannawhimsey
 
Effusions of essence?

Like light energy into a rock causing overheating ... conversion? Causes stones to convert to grits ... in the sans of time as serif'd/served adequately ... like letters adding up to folk tales ... with proper attachments!

Basalt is a good example as it is dark ... occult as the Black AD Onus ... with enough (sacred) chord or rope it can hang us as quickly as tom do lee ...

Lonesome vales ... as occult OOze? Celtic piping ...
 
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Of course. Lots and lots of unknown occult (hidden) areas with teeny bits of human habitation
Is what Cascadia is as well

Lots of room for mystery
The unknown
Imagination

Verbena Plutonium,
Inannawhimsey
 
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