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Loch Ness Monster may be Buddhist "spiritual entity"
poptart
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A new Buddhist centre is opening beside Loch Ness and the Lama heading up the project has an interesting theory about Nessie.
Monsters aside, Loch Ness is a marvellous location for such a centre.
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Did you see the news article about a satellite picture someone found that looks like it could be Nessie? I don't believe it, but they sure do...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/loch-ness-monster-nessie-is-back-just-in-time-for-scotlands-big-year-9294548.html (Just picked one at random.)
Thanks, @AldrisTorvalds. I hadn't seen that one.
I had a holiday at Loch Ness a few years ago. Never saw any monsters though.
@poptart I think there can be something there, perhaps another sea creature once thought extinct like the coelacanth, but it's unlikely. There have already been hoaxes involved, such as the famous photo everyone has seen.
More at: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/loch-ness-monster-picture-hoax-2339620
No, my Mother-in-Law did not visit that year....
Buh-Dum Ker-shing!
@federica I see what you did there.
Well I'm glad someone did....:D
All this comic talent - wasted!
The image of Nessie can be reduced to this:
it is a sea monster. No other information is given, so the image as captured is monster as imagined.
it is not a sea monster: ?
2.a. it may be something projecting above the water - take a look at the waves around it -the reflections do not correspond to something moving iykwim - if it is moving it should have its own wake - there isn't one.
2.b. conjecture
Why am I wasting time on this? - because 'insert opinion here'
Wot -Ever
In the interests of balance:
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/new-image-showing-loch-ness-monster-is-a-boat-1-3383059?WT.mc_id=Outbrain_text&obref
"However, a number of sceptics have suggested that the image is a boat’s wake, and that the vessel has been blurred out in keeping with Google and Apple’s tendency to delete or obscure any personally identifying information. Some internet users believe they have found the boat in question in an image from Google Maps."
http://www.livescience.com/45014-loch-ness-monster-apple-maps.html
The satellite image is not a single image, as many assume, but instead a composite of several different images, each with a different contrast; this helped create the illusion of a creature.
I've always thought that photograph looks like a sock puppet.
No, we check the IP numbers to make sure members don't ...... oh....hang on.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Kingdom
Bit too David Ickes for me . . .
. . . prefer my fantasy cushions . . .
@federica -- That's why you're a Buddhist, cutie! NEVER ... GIVE ... UP !!!!!!!
I'm an ant with a rubber-tree plant, me.....:D
I think we all need some kind of form of mysticism in our lives. Something we can't quite explain but that we can believe in to keep something special in this world. Things like nessie, sasquatch, chupacabre, the giant condor... She may be there, maybe not; but i found it brought a special something to loch ness when i was there. The highlands, the light, the lone piper playing and the legend of nessie, it just makes you dream
I agree, @Cobaltsword. Nothing wrong with mystery and magic.
She'll catch her death without her top on.