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Loch Ness Monster may be Buddhist "spiritual entity"

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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  • ToraldrisToraldris   -`-,-{@     Zen Nud... Buddhist     @}-,-`-   East Coast, USA Veteran

    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...

  • ToraldrisToraldris   -`-,-{@     Zen Nud... Buddhist     @}-,-`-   East Coast, USA Veteran

    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.)

    "Only last week there was feverish excitement after a satellite image appeared on Apple Maps, apparently showing the creature in the first major sighting for more than a year – the longest gap between confirmed reports since 1925."

    poptart
  • poptartpoptart Veteran

    Thanks, @AldrisTorvalds. I hadn't seen that one.
    I had a holiday at Loch Ness a few years ago. Never saw any monsters though. :)

  • ToraldrisToraldris   -`-,-{@     Zen Nud... Buddhist     @}-,-`-   East Coast, USA Veteran

    @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

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    No, my Mother-in-Law did not visit that year....

    Buh-Dum Ker-shing!

  • ToraldrisToraldris   -`-,-{@     Zen Nud... Buddhist     @}-,-`-   East Coast, USA Veteran
    edited May 2014

    @federica I see what you did there. :)

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    Well I'm glad someone did....:D

    All this comic talent - wasted!

    Toraldris
  • anatamananataman Who needs a title? Where am I? Veteran
    edited May 2014

    The image of Nessie can be reduced to this:

    1. it is a sea monster. No other information is given, so the image as captured is monster as imagined.

    2. 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

  • ZeroZero Veteran

    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.

  • poptartpoptart Veteran
    edited May 2014

    @AldrisTorvalds said:
    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

    I've always thought that photograph looks like a sock puppet. :)

    Toraldris
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    No, we check the IP numbers to make sure members don't ...... oh....hang on.....

    anataman
  • lobsterlobster Veteran


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Kingdom

    Bit too David Ickes for me . . .

    . . . prefer my fantasy cushions . . .

  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran

    All this comic talent - wasted!

    @federica -- That's why you're a Buddhist, cutie! NEVER ... GIVE ... UP !!!!!!!

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    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 :)

    poptart
  • poptartpoptart Veteran

    I agree, @Cobaltsword. Nothing wrong with mystery and magic.

  • poptartpoptart Veteran

    @lobster said:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Kingdom

    Bit too David Ickes for me . . .

    . . . prefer my fantasy cushions . . .

    She'll catch her death without her top on.

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