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Ninjas make great pets

19:05 / 08.04.03

There are some places you go and the people will give you suspicous looks and you feel like a bug in a jar..

there are, on rare occasions, time when you go somewhere and you see something that makes you wonder where you've gotten your self into..

I went to this town in the czech republic and there's this little local church there. It has the most in-ter-esting decorations Ive ever seen.
You see the church has been there for many many many years but the graveyard it holds isnt big enough for the amount of people who've been buried in it.

soo.. the czechs in their infinite practicallity decided that the bones could not be removed from the grounds but something had to be done to make room.
they decided to decorate the church using the overspill of bones.. I shit you not.

Chandeleers (cant spell please forgive me), very large town crest and the date the church was erected written in toe bones.. and much more.
Its like walking onto the set of a rock video!
(or for anyone who's noticed, the set of dungeons and dragons).

I found it kinda surreal but worth a peek.

19:16 / 08.04.03

yeah, my friend rachel told me about this.

it was the plague that over filled their grave yard, and prompted them to improvise.

she told me the name of the architecht, and the church, but i forget.

that is on my list of shit to see, possibly while in the right 'frame of mind'.

19:17 / 08.04.03

oh, and you were close. its chandeliers.

19:26 / 08.04.03

This the place, tn? I have only seen pictures of it but it looks astonishing.

Lots more gruesome ecclesiastical insides here.

Perhaps not quite so gothic but one strange place I’ve been was to the Towers of Silence in Bombay, Parsee burial site. There, the Zoroastrians take their dead, put them on a high platform, then the circling vultures above come down and recycle the deceased. Given the centrality of fire worship to Zoroastrianism, I was surprised to find they didn’t cremate their dead, as Hindus do.

I suppose it was having it in the centre of town that seemed so remarkable to me since similar practices (sky burial) are widespread among many mountain peoples to the north of India.

19:37 / 08.04.03

Excellent - I want one of these:

Hope that image link worked.

20:27 / 08.04.03

That, my dears, is VILE.

22:21 / 08.04.03

Skulls and crossed bones ... 'tis a PIRATE church!

A

06:02 / 09.04.03

If they gave Holy Communion from a cup fashioned from one of those skulls, that would be the Coolest Thing Ever.

09:10 / 09.04.03

I'd be suspicious of the communion wafers though.

The Return Of Rothkoid

10:26 / 09.04.03

ARRRRRRR-men!

Crimes_Of_Fashion

10:53 / 09.04.03

Sitting through the sunday sermon it would be hard to entertain the idea of Heaven when it's pretty fucking apparent where you end up when you die.

12:03 / 09.04.03

"I was going for that French catacomby, Edward Geiny kind of effect..."