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Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:08:54 +0000

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By: Mike in Boston

Mike in Boston — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:15:12 +0000

A Cambodian girl I met back in college is surely one of the top hundred in the USA in her difficult engineering sub-speciality.

Her family escaped the Khmer Rouge by living in the woods for a couple of years, periodically getting shot at when stealing food, then swimming underwater across some border past guys with machine guns.

She was better than anyone I had ever met at putting our First World engineering student problems (“I’m failing electromagnetics!”) in their proper perspective.

By: John Michell 2.0

John Michell 2.0 — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:39:52 +0000

A great circle from Angkor Wat to the southernmost tip of India extends to Kilimanjaro’s summit. The line continues to the summit of Mount Meru, Kilimanjaro’s smaller neighbour.
An isoceles triangle can be drawn between Angkor Wat, the Great Pyramid and Mount Meru.
Angkor Wat is on a great circle joining the northern and southern extremes of mainland Asia. This line is also a meridian.

Geotrauma –> Geotheurgy?

By: James James

James James — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:38:54 +0000

I mean:

Make sure you visit the Barays: two enormous artificial reservoirs, perfectly rectangular and about 12 square kilometers each. As you say, the Khmers never mastered the arch, and unfortunately their civilisation declined and was invaded (not sure in which order) after that. Apparently the national IQ is 89. James Donald says “The absence of intelligent Cambodians is quite noticeable. Khmer Rouge rule had massive dysgenic impact, visible to casual observation.” While I understand they targeted people who wore spectacles, I assumed they killed everyone else too so the genocide wouldn’t be particularly dysgenic.

By: Vinteuil

Vinteuil — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:39:58 +0000

Haven’t been to Angkor Wat &c, but I spent several weeks in China & Taiwan this past summer and just couldn’t get over the sheer…well…tackiness of it all.

By: Artxell Knaphni

Artxell Knaphni — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:45:53 +0000

Great post! I was only looking at a picture of the Angkor Wat temple last week.
The Mahayana Buddhist philosopher, Nagarjuna, is named after the Nagas.

It’s interesting that you emphasise war.
If Vedic India accepted war, this could very well be out of an externally imposed necessity? There’s an interesting paradox here. If the European ideologies of ‘Aryan invasion’ are accepted, it is possible to view Vedic India as a degradation from the non-warlike Indus Valley Civilisation, already practicing Yoga, advanced civics, engineering, etc..
If, as genetics seems to show, the Aryans are ‘out-of-India’, are we to conclude that the war ideologies are ‘out-of-India’, too?
Or, could they just be separate issues? That the practitioners of war were Occidental immigrants, starting with Cyrus the Great? That numerous Occidental hordes settled, each accruing forced priivileges for themselves, appropriating cultural positions, turning occupational classifications into rigid social exclusions, & so forth?
It could be that the Occidental Northerners, due to harsher conditions of origin, were genetically predisposed to increased social opportunism and competition, etc.? The ‘neoreactionaries’ of their time?

I haven’t yet checked out the Daily Telegraph, but I’m sure it could be considered heavily ironic if they’re calling ‘Neoreaction’ a ‘neofascism’.

By: James James

James James — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:18:45 +0000

Make sure you visit the Barays: two enormous artificial reservoirs, perfectly rectangular and about 12 square kilometers. As you say, the Khmers never mastered the arch, and unfortunately their civilisation declined and was invaded (not sure in which order) after that. Apparently the national IQ is 89. James Donald says “The absence of intelligent Cambodians is quite noticeable. Khmer Rouge rule had massive dysgenic impact, visible to casual observation.” While I understand they targeted people who wore spectacles, I assumed they killed so many that this wasn’t able to have much effect.