2020
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- PhanLo2
- Juxtaposition matters.DRIFTMONKEY
- The dinosaurs would beg to differ. 251.9Million BC was the worst.mandomafioso
- Krassy4
- Huh? Do you not know these things?nb
- some pizza is eaten as rectanglessarahfailin
- yuekit1
Astrology is nonsense of course but nonetheless found this interesting...didn't know about it until I went to see this exhibit by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/life…
According to the Chinese zodiac 2020, beginning in February 2020 is the year of the rat. More specifically the year of the metal rat. Due to the alignment of elements it is a "gengzi year" which occurs every 60 years and is supposed to coincide with some sort of cataclysmic disaster that also remakes the world.
"In 1840, the First Opium War served as a prelude for the transformation of China when it was forced to open its ports and Hong Kong was relinquished to England. In 1900, churches were burned and Christian missionaries massacred as part of the Boxer Rebellion just as Empress Cixi declared war on the United Kingdom, United States, France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Austria before Beijing was taken in August.
In 1960, China experienced a great famine and it was at this point that Ai and his family reached a turning point. His poet father, Ai Qing, was sent to the Eighth Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in Shihezi where Ai lived for 16 years.
In terms of the existence of human civilisation, 60 years is not a long time. However, most people will only see one such year of the rat in their lifetime."
- Interesting, so after this we're cool for another 60 years?grafician
- them too? Its also the beginning of the age of aquarius. I take these with a grain of salt but a lot of astrologers predicted a disaster year last year.Beeswax
- Wow I didn't know that...the age of Aquarius began this week apparently. 12/21/20yuekit
- This guy is a little bit off his rocker but always interesting to read
https://asiatimes.co…yuekit - Ai Weiwei is the shit.garbage
- It's a fact that the position of the planets has nothing to do with our personalities or the events in our lives.CyBrainX
- grafician4
- LOL this can be true in a while...renderedred
- introvertspablo28
- Continuity3
It's done.
Let it die.
- omahadesigns-3
Got $600
- Get a latex cast made of your ass then go fuck yourself.face_melter
- ?omahadesigns
- Gardener5
a pretty cool way to see in NYE : https://jeanmicheljarre.com/
- dbloc3
- Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane.
I can't control my fingers, I can't control my brain.DRIFTMONKEY - I wanna be vacc'natednb
- Nothing to do, nowhere to go ohhhnb
- Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane.
- utopian6
I've been trying to call my friend since Thanksgiving, his wife just called me this afternoon to let me know that he died of cancer on Thanksgiving. She refused to tell me until after Christmas. She didn't want to ruin my holidays. I'm devastated...he was like my older brother. This is the second close friend that I lost this year. - Fuck 2020.
- sorry, man :(PonyBoy
- Oh man, sorry to hear that.lemmy_k
- sorry man that sucksdbloc
- That's a rough one, not being able to say goodbye is one of the cruellest things about what is going on just now.PhanLo
- Sorry to hear.NBQ00
- that sucks, sorry to hear that._niko
- Ouch! So sorry... My condolencesOBBTKN
- My condolences utopian. That's so ducked up.oey_oey
- fuckDRIFTMONKEY
- Krassy6
- The Year in Pictures, NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.…Krassy - Rolling back to Aussie fires n the new year.PhanLo
- 2020, the dystopic yearOBBTKN
- The Year in Pictures, NYTimes