"Mahatma Gandhi was a peculiar person. He walked barefoot everywhere, to the point that his feet became quite thick and hard. He often went on hunger strikes, and even when he wasn't on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite thin and frail. He also was a very spiritual person. Finally, because he didn't eat much and when he did his diet was peculiar, he developed very bad breath. He became known as a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis."
Stolen from a comment on this NPR story: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/28/476046598/photos-chinese-buddhist-monk-is-mummified-and-covered-in-gold
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/28/476046598/photos-chinese-buddhist-monk-is-mummified-and-covered-in-gold
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
LEGO Americana Roadshow: Building Across America I just checked out this traveling exhibition from LEGO and was quite impressed. The scale ...
-
When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
-
Thank you, Lego, for letting me simply tell you online which parts were missing from the boy's Christmas present and sending them to me,...
No comments:
Post a Comment