Intelligent Animals-

It is sad to see that animals as intelligent as giant squids could be spooked by an earthquake and end up dead in a beach at San Diego- "Dozens of Dazed, Huge Squid Wash Up On San Diego Beach After Earthquake (VIDEO)"- The Huffington Post




Dumb People:

Can you sue a genie for your troubles?- UPI

A family in Saudi Arabia has filed a lawsuit alleging theft and harassment on the part of a malevolent genie.

Officials with the Islamic Shariah court said the family alleges a genie has been leaving them threatening voice mail messages, stealing their cell phones and throwing rocks at them outside their home, CNN reported Monday.

"We have to verify the truthfulness of this case despite the difficulty of doing so," court head Sheik Amr al-Salmi, told the al-Watan newspaper.

Of course.

Is acupuncture safe or what?- Mosnews

A Russian woman died of pain-induced shock after a self-educated acupuncturist stuck a needle in the wrong spot on her back. The man has been sentenced to 18 months of prison, after which he plans to continue his healing career.

Mosnews is our favorite newspaper- "Octogenarian turns to court as $4000 treatment fails to restore potency"

84 year-old pensioner Georgy Kolkov from the Russian city of Barabinsk, Western Siberia, has paid 125,000 rubles ($4,000) to restore his sexual potency after falling in love with a young woman. However, disapppointed with the results, he has decided to file charges against the manufacturers of the expensive drugs.

Not long ago Kolkov met young beauty Marusia and immediatelly felt in love with her.

“The moment I set eyes on her I realized that she was my destiny,” he said. “I wanted to win her heart by any means possible. Round about that time I noticed a TV commercial for the miracle cure, restoring lapsed virility.”

Grave Robbers- Salon

A group of Illinois grave diggers were charged Thursday with running a morbid scam in which they exhumed corpses in a historic black cemetery to resell the empty plots, cops said.

Investigators suspect more than 300 bodies were dug up in the suburban Chicago graveyard and discarded in a pit so the ghouls could cash in.

Clever Thoughts:

Writing about the 'Schizophrenia is 80 per cent genetic' finding, Vaughan, in an article in Mind Hack-

If you search Google for the phrase “80 percent genetic”, you will discover hundreds of sources that claim that everything from schizophrenia, to height, to intelligence has been found to be four fifths ‘genetic’. Pick any other figure and you can find everyone from psychologists, to politicians, to journalists claiming that this or that is explained by genes to a given percentage.

But we are what we are:

"The individual is miserable because he confounds the mind and the body with the SELF. It is the nature of the mind to wander. But you are not the mind. The mind springs up and sinks down. It is impermanent, transitory, whereas YOu are eternal. There is nothing but the SELF. TO abide as the SELF is the thing. Never mind the mind. If the mind’s source is sought, the mind will vanish leaving the SELF unaffected.”

~ Ramana Maharshi

So let's get on with it- Be Happy.