Hung

Hung
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Check out the new tracks at:
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=22828

Also for those of you in Peg City, the documentary about folk fest they shot last year is airing this weekedn on Sunday at 6:30 on ctv channel 5

The Temple

The Temple Of Amun Ra
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

I have arrived at the temple of the Great Light and will not be swayed by illusions.

Dont be afraid of Armegeddon

ApocalypseCountDown
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Im telling you not to be afraid. Louis Riel as a centaur holds the red pentacle flag as Geronimo waits in ambush for the army of apocalypse. Sitting Bull and Wild Bill conspire. Babylon sends out its army.

AdamAndEve

AdamAndEve
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

How Can I resist the shadow world
the spiders kiss. The Netherlands of my heart don t tell me Osama Tore it apart
Im a diligent beaver Ill build it again
leading the faithful back to where it all began.

Like Harry Houdini Ill undo the knot. Im a jumping jack fish and I can t be caught. Im speaking in riddles speaking in code. All though its heavy Im carrying the load. But soon Ill have that monkey off my back. Its all most time to let my eyes roll back.

Delacroix Ladder

Ladder
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Memetics, the study of memes, remains a controversial field among many scientists and skeptics. Memetics originated when Richard Dawkins reduced the process of biological genetic evolution to its most fundamental unit: the replicator (or gene). Dawkins, in a search for parallels and other things that he might classify as replicators, suggested that the information and ideas in brains���culture, for example���could function as replicators as well. Computer software may represent another form of replicator with which evolution may eventually build grand things, whether socially as in the open source movement, or through the use of evolutionary algorithms .

Memetics takes concepts from the theory of evolution (especially population genetics) and applies them to human culture. Memetics also uses mathematical models to try to explain many very controversial subjects such as religion and political systems, though principal criticisms of memetics include the claim that memetics ignores established advances in the fields (such as sociology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, etc.) most relevant to the claims and methodologies of memetics.

The term memetic association refers to the idea that memes herd. For example, a meme for bluejeans includes memes for trouser flies, riveted clothing, blue dye, cotton clothing, belt loops and double-sewn seams.

The phrase memetic drift refers to the process of an idea or meme changing as it replicates between one person to another. Memetic drift increases when meme transmission occurs in an awkward way. Very few memes show strong memetic inertia (the characteristic of a meme to manifest in the same way and to have the same impact regardless of who receives or transmits the meme). Memetic inertia increases when the meme transfers along with mnemonic devices, such as a rhyme, to preserve the memory of the meme prior to its transmission. See Murphy's law for one example of memetic drift.

revolution

revolution
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Though memeticists do not not generally agree on a specific definition, one can roughly define 'meme' as any piece of information transferable from one mind to another. Examples might include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods.

Memes supposedly have, as their fundamental property, evolution via natural selection in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution, on the premise that replication, mutation, survival and competition influence them. For example, while one idea may become extinct, others will survive, spread and mutate—for better or worse—through modification. Note an important fact, however: not only the memes most beneficial to their hosts will necessarily survive; rather, memes supposedly spread best by functioning as the most effective replicators, which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their hosts.

NorthKorea

NorthKorea
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

KimJong Il goes fishing on a deserted beach.

Jihad

Jihad
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

deliberate isolation inside the tower

inside the tower
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

The upright axis at the innermost center of a person and of the universe, is the very source of man s might, drawing and unfolding all his energies.

tetragrammaton

mega
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

science is magic

FairyYinYang

FairyYinYang
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

A Blue Fairy sits alone in the desert
and meditates on the duality of existence

folkfest

folkfest
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

TIGERSUN

TIGERSUN
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

everything is holy
though now it seems corrupt

cleanse the temple
with smoke and fire

self-protrait-1

self-protrait-1
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

A myriad of disinformation
has turned my spirit
into mercury

The Tiger is your friend

Lion
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Brother
calling your name
back to your home
through the gate

Wonder

Wonder
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

You are not ashamed
Sometimes you know what love is all about
you know you will be alright

As the secrets become unfurled

teal
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

As the secrets become unfurled
Setting sun don t turn your back on me
I dont want to be alone

Bhuda1

Bhuda1
Posted by: thesmokytiger.

In Buddhist thought the world has but a relative reality in that it is a Maya or illusion in which we go round and round the whirlpool of Samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death, gain and loss, pain and pleasure until we begin to search for a way out of the maelstrom of matter. In this objective world nothing is lasting, everything contained within it is in a state of flux or constant change. But the real source of all pleasure, truth, goodness and permanence is not dependent on the objective world at all but is instead contained within us. The inner essence or core of awareness of each of us is the Atma, the real source of all bliss. We experience a small fraction of this bliss as the senses go out after objects in the world. The world is illusory and the pleasures to be had in it are but momentary and fleeting. Buddha sought the means to attain the inner bliss of Nirvana which is permanent.

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Posted by: thesmokytiger.

crescentmaster

crescentmaster
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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Posted by: thesmokytiger.

OH NO!!! LOOK WHO FOUND A COMPUTER PAINTING PROGRAM!!

Dreaming dreams I dreamed I dreamed before
Dreaming Dreams in a rainbow Wasteland

Dream
Beleiving in lies there s no prize
Dream Dream
The end is nigh
black dragon roaming the night sky
dream you re the lord of flies
this is what its like when you die

war
what is it for its for freedom
freedom to die in peace
if you re not with us you re against us
ride the magical bus

Blood
Blood sweat and tear its the same pain
falling rain from the sky
tie up the loose ends of your spirit
and you may live again

Dreaming dreams I dream I dreamed before
Dreaming dreams in a Rainbow Wasteland