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Who can help?

Dear reader,

There is a special matter in which your help would be much appreciated. A few months ago I found on a flea market a bowl that I immediately fell in love with (even if it's not the most beautiful bowl I've ever seen). Now I want to know two things about it: its origin and the meaning of the text engraved on it.


1. Meaning
• In what alphabet / script (devanagari, sanskrit, tibetan, arabic?) is the lettering engraved on the bowl?
• What is the language used for that text on the bowl (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali…)?
• What is the meaning of the text written around the bowl, what does it say?
• Is there a metameaning (why exactly is _this_ text on exactly _this_ bowl?)


2. Origin 
• Where does it come from? 
• Who produced it or
• Who produces similar bowls?
• To which culture does it belong?
• How did it end up being sold at my local flea market in Zürich, Switzerland and
• Is somebody known who owned it before.

Any information would be helpful even if you think it might not be worth it. Please leave comments and hints underneath this article. Following are some pictures of the bowl. A click on the pictures should enlarge them:


Can you read the text or recognize the script used on the bowl?










The bowl weighs exactly 270 grams (~9.5229 ounces)


and the bowl is about 4.5 cm (1.8 inches) high and 10.3 cm (4.06 inches) 
in diameter.:



A specialty is that the bowl has a kind of foot / brim:




The production must have involved some kind of lathing / turning process:



Furthermore it has a very nice, soothing sound that lasts for
about 15 to 20 seconds.


The closest looking bowl I could find on the internet is a «tin-coated 


Another similar looking bowl is from the beginning 20th century India 
(«made in Rajasthan, where Indian craftsmen have used use metals in their 
decorative arts for thousands of years. The city of Jaipur is the main 
center for metal work»): 





Das Wissen vom Heilen

Nach wie vor einer der besten journalistischen Beiträge der letzten Jahre zum Thema Heilung: «Das Wissen vom Heilen» von Frank Reichle. Kauft den Film und seht ihn euch in besserer Qualität ganz an!

VOR DEM ANSCHAUEN DES FILMS EINE WARNUNG: Beim ansehen dieses Films (möglicherweise schon beim Aufruf dieser Seite) werden von einem unbekannten host die ports ihres Computers gescannt. Dies ist als eine Aggression zu betrachten und wird normalerweise gebraucht, um in Computersysteme einzudringen und oder zumindest mehr Informationen über den / diejenigen Rechner und die Menschen dahinter zu bekommen. Wer also Angst hat (oder haben muss), dass er von den chinesischen Behörden oder anderen diktatorischen Institutionen beobachtet und verfolgt wird sollte diese Seite mit Vorsicht geniessen. Ansonsten sperren sie über ihre Virussoftware den Attacker und zeigen sie den Übeltätern, dass Sie sich nicht von ihnen diktieren lassen, was sie sich im Internet ansehen dürfen und was nicht und geniessen sie den folgenden Filmausschnitt:










Julian Assange reloaded (2)



Following essay was written by Julian Paul Assange and uploaded to his former blog at iq.com Tue 18 July 2006. You can find the original here [daaamn, this page is so good, go there and read all of his essays, they are just unimaginably great. My personal favorite: «how can we untie the unknot»]. Pictures, caps and cartoons have additionally been added by me.
Republication is without explicit permission of Mr. Assange. All rights of this text lie completely and exclusively by Julian Assange. But it is a piece of public interest and value, therefore I 'take' the cheek to republish it with determination and a clean conscious. Julian, if you object to this republication please leave me a quick note before dragging me to court until I wear nothing but my underpants, k? For all others: Read this essay! It's very worth while reading. 






«That so much time was wasted in this pain.
Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down
To not return again!
A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips;
The laughter sets him free.
A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries.
The Fool is me!
And with one final shake of laughter
Breaks his bonds.
The nails fall skittering to marble floors.
And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.
»
         – Ray Bradbury 



     











Tue 18 Jul 2006 : Laughter

Laughter is fear and relief. Fear is all around. Every step is conditioned by the fear of falling. It is the relief from primitive anxiety and alarm responses that give rise to laughter. The release of the breath that wasn't needed. That sudden surprise rendered harmless by higher perception. Wonder, when accompanied by the expression of laughter is the unknown and fearful transformed. A transformation by subconscious brain functions typically of sub second duration. A transformation that takes the unknown and therefore possibly lethal and yields up the unknown and harmless to observe. Something to be explored, understood and remembered by wide eyed curiosity. Those eyes wide to suck in the world and a memory hungry for its details. A psychological and physiological stance that makes the unknown known. A state of maximal observational learning.

















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The death of our mainstream media The mentioned quotes in the beginning of this essay sadly illustrate the catastrophic shape of much of our old mainstream media. They prove what we suspected for a long time already: our old mainstream media are dead…

More restrictive weapon laws? (in german with good english video material) Bullshit! Roosevelt hit it with his – by now infamous – saying: We have nothing to fear but fear itself. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)…

The danger of censoring child pornography! Child pornography is not always bad…

Julian Assange reloaded (1) Essays from IQ space…






Deutsche Panzer für Saudiarabien

Deutschland mischt nach knapp siebzig Jahre wieder kräftig beim Kriegsgeschäft mit. Das betrifft aktuell nicht nur die wiederholte U-Boot-Lieferung an Israel, sondern auch einen bevorstehenden Panzer Deal mit Saudi Arabien. Wahrscheinlich hätte Deutschland damals nicht (nur) geteilt werden sollen, sondern (auch) zur Neutralität und zur Abstinenz vom Kriegsgeschäft verpflichtet werden sollen. Für immer.


Künstler und Waffenhändler Burkhart Braunbehrens, Mitbesitzer von Deutschlands größtem Panzerhersteller Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), nimmt Stellung:






Mehr Hintergrund

… zum Leopard 2:


… zu 25'000 Euro Belohnung für alle Mitglieder der Firma Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW):




… Andrew Feinstein zur Kampagne vom Zentrum für politische Schönheit:


… Abbas al Omran vom Bahrain Center for Human Rights an die Eigentümerfamilien KMW:


… zur Einstellung von Deutschland's Politik zum Panzer Deal:









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Lucky Luke: «Liki Liki»

Right now my absolute favorite cartoon, hehehe. Watch it!