--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Scrapper Black Dragon <scrapperbd@...> wrote:
> I'm envious! Australia has only had white man around for about 200 years, so we 'lack history' in some ways in regard to old estates and similar to have hauntings. The Australian Aboriginal spirits and similar have beliefs much like the American Indian, so less likely to have 'weird hauntings'. Most of the stuff I've looked into is written by teenagers whom have Copy Pasta (copy and paste from someone else's web site, don't verify anything) and is quickly disproven. It is amazing who you meet who has incidental experience!
Oh, there are plenty of Civil War battlefields around here, as well as hauntings from accidents and murders from the days of slavery. I don't fuck around with those areas.
> Yeah, seems to be the normal reaction - people either go 'cooool' or 'your nuts!!!' Google search Larundel - the abandoned psychiatric hospital - I say no more!
Check out the Union House, located in Union, MO. It'd be a long trip for someone living in my location to check out, but if you're into nasty shit, that might be worth looking into. I wouldn't go there for all the money in the world, man. No. Fucking. Way.
> Things like magic exist in the trio's world? Would probably include more ghosts and spirits. With some of the characters like Bast roaming around, there is lots of possibility.
Bast, Khetzel, Onika, et al, are from another reality/dimension. Penance is actually a succubus who has been punished and put into the physical form of a young bear who had died about 2 decades earlier. And she starts racking up the bodies...
Paranormal shit occurs, yeah. But I don't know if you would call that "magic".
> Suppose there is a huge chunk of stuff written up on the religious beliefs for the trio and their world, with so many 'interesting' characters, there is probably lots of scope of interesting history and background.
Yeah, I've got a decent amount written about that. There are various beliefs, like what we have here, but it is recognized that these beliefs are merely different explanations for things the people do not know about (such as, "What happened to make some of us two-legged and advanced, while others were left unevolved?"). Technically, in our world, gods were created to explain that which was not understood. As science begins to unravel these mysteries, they become understood and are therefore no longer attributed to "gods". Man doesn't like saying he doesn't understand something. I'm certain that, as science continues to advance, more things will be explained that were once credited to some dude in the sky.
There's even a section which explains what happened with their religion-driven societies way back when, and all the wars and problems the beliefs caused. Let's face it, all religions are the same. They just have different characters in them. Shit, a lot of them borrow from one another and tell the same damn stories! If folks would recognize that, and quit saying their religion was "the one true religion" (which is what each one says of their own religion), I bet we'd have a lot more peace in this world.
--JMH
Received on Mon Aug 03 2009 - 23:58:16 CDT