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Allowing people to be embodied into certain buildings or
places could hold symbolic importance. City leaders such as
governors could be embedded into the steps of the capital,
and judges' bones could be shaped into the handles of gavels.
Likewise, convicts with life sentences would be incinerated
and spread into the courtyard, or mixed with concrete to
build walls or whatever. History contains life's lessons for
society, and the more we're reminded of our past, the less
likely we are to repeat past failures. Knowing that certain
buildings, roads or objects contain those who were of great
importance (or detriment) will remind us of their deeds and
the lessons we can take from them.
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This idea, but for everyone [Loris, Sep 22 2010]
Baked by Stalin
http://en.wikipedia...ighway_%28Russia%29
[pertinax, Sep 26 2010]
Also here according to, I think, Solzhenitzyn
http://en.wikipedia...%80%93_Baltic_Canal
... but, I admit, this wikipedia article doesn't seem to mention the bones in the concrete mix. [pertinax, Sep 26 2010]
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//City leaders such as governors could be
embedded into the steps of the capital, and judges'
bones could be shaped into the handles of
gavels.// |
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So...the 'governors' of each city get imbedded in
the steps of the 'capital'. Um...the 'capital' of
what, exactly? |
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The convicts get tossed into the courtyard and the
walls, but the those of great importance get buried
*waaay* up there...on the steps, or maybe get
turned into hammer handles? Sweet. [-] |
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"capital"? You mean like money? |
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//City leaders such as governors // |
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Could this be done while they are still alive ? If so, [+]. |
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//Could this be done while they are still alive ?// |
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Ooh. That's thinking outside the box (coffin), [8th]! |
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I believe the Mafia already uses the highways and bridges systems. |
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//Um...the 'capital' of what, exactly?// |
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Um, capital of the state, country, whatever? I keep looking
at "capital" and fail to see the error. |
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In American, "capitol" is the top governmental building or city, "capital" is more about money. Although the biggest city can be called the capital city in the state, the capitol city of the state has the state capitol building in it. Capisce? |
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We capitalists like to pretend there is a difference between money and government, and we certainly know which comes first, and I don't mean just in the dictionary. |
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Ah. Well, this is the sort of trouble you find yourself in when
you start using patois on an internotional website. |
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That's that sort of Belgian meat paste stuff, isn't it ? |
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//..internotional website// |
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This is the most internotional website I've ever
visited. |
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Well my bad on the "capitol" mixup. Ya'll get the
idea though. At least this idea didn't include
references to poo. |
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//At least this idea didn't include references to poo// |
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Politicians almost get there. |
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Make me into my own headstone. I call that a bargain. [+] |
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There's a Chinese fable about a giant bell that was cast and recast but never sounded right. A young woman jumped into the crucible of molten metal. They cast the bell again and it sounded perfect. |
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So baked, bronzed or cast, it has been thought of, sort of. But I notice the idea doesn't specify if the people are volunteers, or if they are dead before the process starts ... or even after it ends. |
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Chinese bells NEVER sound right, to Westerners. |
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Traditional Chinese music is written in a different
tonal system to Western music, so it usually sounds
disastrously out of tune to Western ears. |
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// Make me into my own headstone // |
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You should post that, [sub], it's a good one. |
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as to the point of death, i'll leave that up to the
parties interested. It's the symbolic effect that is
desired, and that's it. |
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In many cases, it's the death that's desired, the symbolism can go hang. |
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She wasn't bad. Shame, really. |
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wow infidel, you really are,... um.. an infidel. |
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I was thinking, what about bone architecture and
fixtures? How about a skull chandelier in the
courthouse made of the skulls of old judges (which
have already died). |
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// which have already died // |
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"who have already died", or if you're Jewish, "who have died, already." |
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Actually, the inhabitants of several of the South
Pancreatic Islands used to rely on bone as a building
material, since they had very few resources and no tools
with which to work stone. |
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Human bone, ground to a fine powder and mixed with sand
(of which there was, of course, no shortage) and
concentrated seawater undergoes a reaction involving
silica plus carbonates from the seawater, to create a sort
of cement. It's remarkably durable, and some of the
remnants of their buildings still stand. |
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Odd, this seemed gross at first but has quickly turned into a rather nifty idea, I think atleast. |
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//who have died, already// |
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I think the original "which" was intentional, rather than merely solecistic, the intention being to de-humanise the judges in question. |
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<obligatory>
"We have found a 'which'; may we burn it?"
</obligatory> |
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//...the inhabitants of several of the South
Pancreatic Islands...// |
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I believe that practice continues on one of those
islands, the Isle of Langerhans. |
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There are a lot of those islets in the archipeligo,
[Boomer] |
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Indeed. The Langerhanians are a very insular people. |
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That's about all they do. You can take an informed
guess as to when they will expire and when they die
a bet I see made must be honoured. |
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Nowadays, they don't use bone as a binder, the use glue, coz
intolerance to the old practices is on the rise. |
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Makes sense. Bullshit is a great binder for ideas here
at the HB. Look how long some of them stick around. |
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