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Post #10 Critical Thinking Process question response

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This is my response to the Critical Thinking Process Questions regarding the Fake psychic gets caught video!

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Definition: The claim that celebrities pretend to like something, believe in something or endorse a product to influence their fans into believing or buying.

Connection: I believe the Kardashians are prime example, if not the definition to celebrity endorsement. They use their fame to get their fans to buy anything they like, believe in etc. This image below shows one of the many things the Kardashian sister have spammed and promoted on their Instagrams.

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Post #8 Reason for Belief: Suppression to Authorities 

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Post #8 Reason for Belief: Suppression to Authorities 

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Definition: The claim that our authorities (i.e the government) is holding back information to the public.

Connection: The connection this website has to the definition is these are multiple scenarios where the government has supposedly withheld the information that they are doing certain things to either keep track of us, or to get more money for with holding information about cures.

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"We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted...the Patriot Act. As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows. This is a problem, because it is impossible to have an informed public debate about what the law should say when the public doesn't know what its government thinks the law says." - U.S. senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall

The President, the Head of the National Security Agency, the Department of Justice, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and the Judiciary, are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance of US and other people secret from voters.

Additionally, some are, to say it politely, not being factually accurate in what they are telling the public. These inaccurate statements are either intentional lies meant to mislead the public or they are evidence that the people who are supposed to be in charge of oversight do not know what they are supposed to be overseeing. The most recent revelations from the Washington Post, by way of Edward Snowden, indicate the NSA breaks privacy rules or overstep its legal authority thousands of times each year. Whether people are lying or do not know what they are doing, either way, this is a significant crisis. Here are 13 examples.
1. The government seizes and searches all Internet and text communications that enter or leave the U.S.
On August 8, 2013, the New York Times reported that the NSA secretly collects virtually all international email and text communications which cross the US borders in or out. As the ACLU says, "the NSA thinks it's okay to intercept and then read Americans' emails, so long as it does so really quickly. But that is not how the Fourth Amendment works...the invasion of Americans' privacy is real and immediate."
2. The government created and maintains secret backdoor access into all databases in order to search for information on U.S. citizens.
On August 9, 2013, the Guardian revealed yet another Edward Snowden leaked document which points out "the National Security Agency has a secret backdoor into its vast databases under a legal authority enabling it to search for US citizens' email and phone calls without a warrant." This is a new set of secrets about surveillance of people in the US. This new policy of 2011 allows searching by US person names and identifiers when the NSA is collecting data. The document declares that analysts should not implement these queries until an oversight process has been developed. No word on whether such a process was developed or not.

3. The government operates a vast database, which allows it to sift through millions of records on the Internet to show nearly everything a person does.

Recent disclosures by Snowden and Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian demonstrate the NSA operates a massive surveillance program called XKeyscore. The surveillance program has since been confirmed by other CIA officials. It allows the government to enter a person's name or other question into the program and sift through oceans of data to produce everything there is on the Internet by or about that person or other search term.
4. The government has a special court that meets in secret to authorize access for the FBI and other investigators to millions and millions of U.S. phone, text, email and business records.
There is a special court of federal judges which meets in secret to authorize the government to gather and review millions and millions of phone and Internet records. This court, called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court), allows government lawyers to come before them in secret, with no representatives of the public or press or defense counsel allowed, to argue unopposed for more and more surveillance. This is the court which, in just one of its thousands of rulings, authorized the handing over of all call data created by Verizon within the US and between the US and abroad to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The public would never have known about the massive surveillance without the leaked documents from Snowden.
5. The government keeps top secret nearly all the decisions of the FISA court.
Nearly all of the thousands of decisions of the FISA court are themselves classified as top secret. Though the public is not allowed to know what the decisions are, public records do show how many times the government asked for surveillance authorization and how many times they were denied. These show that in the last three years, the government asked for authorization nearly 5,000 times and they were never denied. In its entire history, the FISA court has denied just 11 of 34,000 requests for surveillance.
6. The government is fighting to keep top secret a key 2011 decision of the FISA court even after the court said it could be made public.
There is an 86-page 2011 top-secret opinion of the FISA court which declared some of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs unconstitutional. The administration, through the Department of Justice, refused to hand this over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation which filed a public records request and a lawsuit to make this public. First the government said it would hurt the FISA court to allow this to be made public. Then the FISA court itself said it can be made public. Despite this, the government is still fighting to keep it secret.
7. The government uses secret National Security Letters (NSL) issued by the FBI to seize tens of thousands of records.
With an NSL letter the FBI can demand financial records from any institution from banks to casinos, all telephone records, subscriber information, credit reports, employment information, and all email records of the target as well as the email addresses and screen names for anyone who has contacted that account. Those who received the NSLs from the FBI are supposed to keep them secret. The reason is supposed to be for foreign counterintelligence. There is no requirement for court approval at all. So no requests have been denied. The Patriot Act has made this much easier for the FBI.

According to vcongressional records, there have been over 50,000 of these FBI NSL requests in the last three years. This does not count the numerous times where the FBI persuades the disclosure of information without getting a NSL. Nor does it count FBI requests made just to find out who an email account belongs to. These reported NSL numbers also do not include the very high numbers of administrative subpoenas issued by the FBI which only require approval of a member of the local US Attorney's office.
8. The National Security head was caught not telling the truth to Congress about the surveillance of millions of U.S. citizens.
The director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, told the US Senate on March 12, 2013 that the NSA did not wittingly collect information on millions of Americans. After the Snowden Guardian disclosures, Clapper admitted to NBC that what he said to Congress was the "least untruthful" reply he could think of. The agency no longer denies that it collects the emails of American citizens. In a recent white paper, the NSA now admits it does "collect telephony metadata in bulk," but does not unconstitutionally "target" American citizens.
9. The government falsely assured the U.S. public in writing that privacy protections are significantly stronger than they actually are and senators who knew better were not allowed to disclose the truth.
Two US senators wrote the NSA a letter objecting to one "inaccurate statement" and another "somewhat misleading statement" made by the NSA in their June 2013 public fact sheet about surveillance. What are the inaccurate or misleading statements? The public is not allowed to know because the senators had to point out the details in a secret classified section of their letter.

In the public part of their letter they did say "In our judgment this inaccuracy is significant, as it portrays protections for Americans' privacy as being significantly stronger than they actually are..." The senators point out that the NSA public statement assures people that communications of US citizens which are accidently acquired are promptly destroyed unless it is evidence of a crime. However, the senators wrote that the NSA does in fact deliberately search the records of American citizens and that the NSA has said repeatedly that it is not reasonably possible to identify the number of people located in the US whose communications have been reviewed under the authority of the FISA laws. The NSA responded to these claims in an odd way. It did not say publicly what the misleading or inaccurate statements were nor did it correct the record, instead it just deleted the fact sheet from the NSA website.
10. The chief defender of spying in the House of Representatives, the chair of the oversight intelligence subcommittee, did not tell the truth or maybe did not know the truth about surveillance.
Mike Rogers, chair of the House Permanent Intelligence Subcommittee, repeatedly told Congress and the public on TV talk shows in July that there was no government surveillance of phone calls or emails. "They do not record your e-mails...None of that was happening, none of it - I mean, zero." Later, Snowden and Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian disclosed the NSA program called X-keyscore, which intercepts 1.7 billion emails, phone calls and other types of communications each day. Now the questions swirl about Rogers, whether he lied, or was lied to by those who engaged in surveillance, or did not understand the programs to which he was supposed to be providing oversight.
11. The House intelligence oversight committee repeatedly refused to provide basic surveillance information to elected members of the House of Representatives, Republican and Democrat.
The House intelligence oversight committee refused to allow any members of Congress outside the committee to see a 2011 document that described the NSA mass phone record surveillance. This has infuriated Republicans and Democrats who have tried to get basic information to carry out their mandated oversight obligations.

Republican Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia wrote the House Committee on Intelligence on June 25, 2013, July 12, 2013, July 22, 2013, and July 23 2013 asking for basic information on the authorization "allowing the NSA to continue collecting data about Americans' telephone calls." He received no response to those requests.

After asking for basic information from the House Committee about the surveillance programs, Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson was told the committee voted to deny his request on a voice vote. When he followed up and asked for a copy of the recorded vote he was told he could not get the information because the transcript of the committee hearing was classified.
12. The paranoia about secrecy of surveillance is so bad in the House of Representatives that an elected member of Congress was threatened for passing around copies of the Snowden disclosures, which had already been printed in newspapers worldwide.
Representative Alan Grayson was threatened with sanctions for passing around copies of the Snowden information on the House floor, the same information published by the Guardian and many other newspapers around the world.
13. The Senate oversight committee refused to allow a dissenting senator to publicly discuss his objections to surveillance.
When Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) tried to amend the surveillance laws to require court orders before the government could gather communications of American citizens and to disclose how many Americans have had their communications gathered, he lost in a secret 2012 hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He was also prohibited from publicly registering or explaining his opposition for weeks.

These attempts to keep massive surveillance secrets from the public are aggravated by the constant efforts to minimize the secrets and maximize untruths. Most notably, despite all this documented surveillance, on August 6, 2013, the President said on the Jay Leno show "We don't have a domestic spying program." Some commentators think the government is twisting the real meaning of words with flimsy legal arguments and irrational word games. Others say the President is engaged in "Orwellian newspeak." More than a few say the President was not telling the truth.

Others who are defending the surveillance may not actually know what is going on but think they do because the government, like the President, is telling them there is nothing to worry about. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Chair of Senate Intelligence Committee, the congressional oversight committee which is to protect people from unlawful spying, and another chief defender of surveillance, publicly responded to Edward Snowden's claims to have the ability to wiretap anyone if he had their personal email by saying, "I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible." How that squares with revelations about the Xkeyscore program is not known. She also stated her committee's position about protecting the privacy of people against government surveillance, "We're always open to change, but that does not mean there will be any."
Conclusion
President Obama just promised the nation that he would set up an independent group of outside experts to "step back and review our capabilities - particularly our surveillance technologies." Days later Obama appointed the director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, the same person who has admitted he did not tell Congress the truth about the program, to establish a review group to assess whether surveillance is being done in a manner that maintains the public trust. After an uproar about the fox guarding the henhouse, the White House reversed itself and said Clapper will not choose the members of the group after all. The names of the members have not been made public as of the time of this writing.

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13 things the government is trying to hide from you

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"We believe most Americans would be stunned to learn the details of how these secret court opinions have interpreted...the Patriot Act. As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows.

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Post #9 Reason for Belief: The Unexplained 

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Definition: Things that happen that nobody has an answer for or could explain why it happened.

Connection: The connection this image has to the definition is nobody truly knows why some airplanes create the lines, there is of course a few that do but there hasn't been proof. Nobody but the government truly knows what it is, or if it is harmful to us.

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Definition: It's when we try to explain invisible agents and what their meaning is.

Connection: The connection to this is people want to believe there is something after death, or there's something more than just being on Earth. And occasionally there is proof these invisible agents do exist.

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A young French woman has posted a creepy Snapchat video online that shows a faceless "ghost" lurking next to her in a selfie .

Kilyane Revel was fooling around with the smartphone app when she recorded a video of herself in her bedroom.

She used a filter to superimpose a dog's ears, nose and tongue over her face, but was shocked with what happened next.

A dog's nose and ears appeared next to her - but no one else was in the room with her.

Kilyane offered a frightened look after seeing the faceless image pop up on her screen.

The strange video went viral after she posted it on Twitter , writing: "Do you feel my discomfort?"

The video has been viewed tens of thousands of times, with nearly 30,000 retweets and 10,000 likes on Twitter.

It has sparked a debate about whether something supernatural was afoot or something else is to blame.

Many users suggested the face appeared in the 10-second clip due to shadows in the girl's bedroom.

After she posted a follow-up video on YouTube , one person wrote: "Just remove the books on your shelf and that's it, it often happens with games of shadows and shapes that slightly resemble a face."

Several creepy Snapchat videos or pictures have made their way online, with users claiming to have captured ghosts or spooky images behind them.

Earlier this year a young woman was given the fright of her life after receiving a Snapchat selfie from a friend with a sinister ghost face watching her from above .

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Snapchat user's horror after filter captures faceless 'ghost' in creepy video

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A young French woman has posted a creepy Snapchat video online that shows a faceless "ghost" lurking next to her in a selfie . Kilyane Revel was fooling around with the smartphone app when she recorded a video of herself in her bedroom.

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Definition: People strive to look for proof of their beliefs being real to show people who may not agree with them, that they are right. While they ignore any evidence that proves they are wrong.

Connection: The connection to this is people plead ignorance even when the evidence is in their face they are wrong about something, they strive to make people believe in what they believe in, but will never admit to any mistakes or lies they have said.

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Definition: People believing something happened for a reason, a pattern is happening that means something to them.

Connection: I believe the reason everyone thinks EVERYTHING happens for a reason also ties into the Ideological Support post I made, people look for ways to have a reason for why things are hard for them, and makes the belief that things will be turning better for them soon. They occasionally will add in the "It's gods will that you go through this" into it if they are quite religious as well. We all like to know the answers to every question, even if it means making up our own answers.

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"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength." Oprah Winfrey
The well-known Greek Philosopher Aristotle, believed that everything happens for a reason, always. And that every experience in your life, was designed to shape you and reform you into the ultimate and greatest version, that could ever imagine yourself to be. The only thing that prevents this, is having the wisdom to see it.
1. In Times of Struggle
Every negative experience; every time of struggle, can then be viewed as an opportunity for tremendous growth. Alike to a caterpillar burrowing from its chrysalis. When all of its forming and changing is complete, its metamorphism has transformed it into a magnificent butterfly. It has shed its former skin, and flown on the wings of new life and a new way of being.
2. In Times of Healing
Some may find it hard to believe that everything happens for a reason, especially when experiencing grief or loss. At the time it may be very difficult to see the blessing in it, as all that is being felt is pain. But it is through our lowest points in life, where we gain the wisdom and allow for new-found strength to emerge. Without loss we wouldn't appreciate gain, without grief we wouldn't appreciate love. Without death, we wouldn't appreciate life and without fear, we wouldn't appreciate love.
3. In Times of Happiness
By far, the most victorious of all happen stances, when it all comes together in one moment, the AHA moment, as the metaphorical photo finally develops. When we reach the point, after all of the struggles, the self-substantiating realization beams through and we finally see the wisdom behind the subconscious choices we've made. Clarity shines through like the morning sun peeking out on the earths horizon.
4. In Times of Chaos
True chaos, cannot be chaos for as long as there is choice involved. Things may appear to be random, but as we all know appearances lie.
"To someone who can't read, letters on a page appear to be randomly chose when in reality they are precisely ordered."- Deepak Chopra
Meaningful coincidences and synchronicities may also be viewed as random events with no connection, yet to the eye of the beholder, those events would have a real purpose and meaning.
5. In Times of Reflection
We see the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together, each unfolding a beautiful picture. The pain, the turmoil, the struggles and the victories, each essential building blocks to the molding of who we are today in this present moment.

An unfinished product, always growing, learning and experiencing. And by reflection we see, why it had to happen the way it did.
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life"- Steve Jobs

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5 Ways To Understand Why Everything Happens For a Reason

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"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength." Oprah Winfrey The well-known Greek Philosopher Aristotle, believed that everything happens for a reason, always.

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Definition: Ideological Support is when people use religious beliefs or believe someone has a certain power to help with them grieving during a hard time in their life.

Connection: The connection Ideological Support has with the image I posted is, when something hard like a child passing away happens to someone, I've noticed during my times working in a Funeral Home everyone talks about how "God took them to heaven with him" Or "God wanted to see your child" to make people feel okay for their loss, sometimes it helps the person cope with their grieving somehow, other times I've noticed it makes it a lot worse. If there is a god lurking around, why would he let children die horrible deaths? Or Have all these terrible diseases in the world?

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Definition: What Ancient Wisdom is, is the mention of ancient beings, ancient rituals, and the ways the ancients did things. Some people claim that these ancient beings has more knowledge on medicine and what is truly out there in the world than we do today.

Connection: The connection Ancient Wisdom has with the post I added to this Post is back then they believed doing these rituals before someone died or if a certain person died, they would have their things with them and they'll be reunited, or in order to get into a certain place to find peace you had to do certain rituals or harm yourself before you transcend.

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Let's face it, there isn't a non-creepy way to deal with a dead body. We fill it with chemicals and bury it, or burn it. But as unpleasant as that business is, some cultures have taken body disposal to a whole, new, terrifying level.

What Is It?

Self-immolation (or Suttee) was a traditional Hindu ritual practiced in India, whereby a grieving widow will voluntarily lie by her husband's side on his funeral pyre, where she's burned alive next to the corpse.

Suttee had been practiced throughout India for centuries, before it was outlawed by the occupying British in 1829 (though occurrences have persisted until present day, causing it to be banned again in 1956, and again in 1981--some people just don't listen).

As you can imagine, once the flames got going it was common for widows to decide this wasn't such a great idea and try to run the hell away. This was considered highly dishonorable, so bystanders would helpfully jab the widow with bamboo canes or even tie her down to keep her on the fire.

In one 18th century incident, when a widow got beyond the pokers and doused the flames in a nearby river, helpful onlookers threw her back on, remembering first to break her legs and arms to save her from future indignities.

Dear God, Why?

Back in the day, widows in India were way, way down on the social ladder. Everything about a widow was considered impure, from her touch and her voice to her very presence. She was something to be shunned and abhorred, which must have reduced the husband's funeral to a lot of cursing and spitting. Apparently they didn't think the grief of losing a husband was quite enough.

Apparently at some point in history, when the widows asked what they could do to redeem themselves someone said, "Why don't you just set your fucking self on fire? How about that?"

Though it was also believed that the husband and wife could be reunited after death, which is why sometimes the husband's most cherished possessions were burnt so that he could use them in the afterlife or trade them on the Indian afterlife's thriving black market.

Buddhist Self Mummification

What Is It?

Self-mummification was practiced until the late 1800s in Japan, by people who thought being a mummy looked so awesome they couldn't wait until actual death to be one. It's been outlawed since the early 1900s, and when we describe how it works, you'll see why. Just wrapping yourself up in bandages and waiting for the Grim Reaper doesn't seem to cut it.

No, to mummify yourself properly, you'll need over 2,000 days of preparation. Here's how to do it, the Buddhist priest way:

First we've got to get all of the fat off of your body. They did this by changing their diet to just nuts and seeds. The priest could eat nothing else for 1,000 days.

Next, we need to remove as much moisture from your body as possible. Since your body is mostly moisture, this may cause you some discomfort. The priests would eat only a small amount of bark and root from pine trees, for another 1,000 days. Then they'd drink a special tea (and by "special" we mean "incredibly poisonous") made from the sap of an urushi tree.

If the tea causes explosive diarrhea and vomiting, you'll know it's working. Again, this will reduce the amount of moisture inside you, but more importantly the sap will soak into your guts, lining them and thus protecting them against maggots.

Next you'll be sealed in a small, stone room--just big enough to sit in the lotus position. You're done! Now you just have to wait to die!

Dear God, Why?

This was all tied to the Buddhist idea that to achieve enlightenment, you must separate yourself from the physical world entirely so that at death, instead of being reborn, you become one with Buddha. That's why 1,000 days after they finally keeled over in the stone room, a crowd would gather to peer inside, seeing how the mummification went. Most of the time, it didn't work.

If the priest had successfully mummified himself, he would be revered as Buddha, and presumably everyone would have a massive party to celebrate, and they'd gorge themselves on shrimp and tiny cocktail sausages. Except for those who were already well on their way to self-mummification. They'd have the nut roast.

Tibetan Buddhist Sky Burial

What Is It?

We can thank the Buddhists for this one as well. Tibetan Sky Burial is a form of human dissection practiced in Delaware. No, we're kidding. It's from Tibet.

A corpse is sliced up, usually atop a mountain, and left for the birds. Tibetans call the practice jhator, which means giving alms to the birds. And also legs, torsos and heads as well.The bodies, wrapped in white cloth, are bought to the burial site, where the monks have enticed vultures and other airborne scavengers. Monks unwrap the bodies, a process that probably isn't all that pleasant considering they've been left alone for three days (per Tibetan custom).

One or more monks then set about the body with axes and, according to witnesses, are very casual and sometimes laughing and joking as they do it. This underlines the fact that Tibetans consider the body merely a vessel, and not that the guy they're dismembering was just a total dick when he was alive.

When the body is dismembered, the vultures swoop in and squabble over the chunks of carcass. The bones are then smashed to bits with mallets, mixed with flour, then fed to smaller birds.

Dear God, Why?

Since they believe in reincarnation, they see no need to preserve the body, as it's just an empty vessel. So why not just let the birds eat it? And subsequently poop out onto the landscape for hundreds of miles around?

They've been doing sky burial since at least the 12th century, according to the Tibetan Book Of The Dead (yes, it's a real book and no, it you can't use it to raise zombies. We checked).

It should be noted that where this is practiced, there isn't a lot of timber available for funeral pyres and the hard rocky soil makes digging graves difficult. So we're thinking the whole ritual started with one guy saying, "Ah, fuck it. Just leave 'em here for the birds." Then later somebody gave a fancy name to it.

What Is It?

Australian Aboriginal beliefs are very diverse, and as such, there are many traditional methods of dealing with corpses, such as burial, cremation, mummification and cannibalism, though the latter is hotly disputed. Probably because all the evidence has been eaten.

Exposure on raised platforms, however, was one of the more common rituals, particularly in the North. There are two main burial stages. The first is to leave the corpse on a raised platform and cover it with leaves and branches until the flesh has rotted away, a process which can take months.

Next they retrieve the bones from the platform and paint them with red ochre. The bones are then either placed in a cave until they become dust or are placed inside a hollowed out log. Or, in some cases they are carried around by relatives for up to a year, which we're guessing makes for some awkward first dates.

This is sometimes followed by a total destruction or abandonment of the deceased's property, and for a time no one is allowed to say the name of the deceased.

Dear God, Why?

Aboriginals do believe in the human soul, though they consider the soul to have two sections. The rituals are dealing with the fact that one of those parts (the ego) tends to come back and haunt the living, and as every horror movie has taught us, ghosts are dicks. The destruction of the deceased's home and refusal to acknowledge him is their way of telling the ghost to fuck off.

Now you'd think the part about carrying around the actual bones of the dead person would increase the chances of a haunting, but this is a culture that was never exposed to the movie Poltergeist and who thus does not know any better.

What Is It?

Space burial is obviously a fairly modern death ritual, unless there was some ancient, burly fellow who could throw things really fucking high. But it is no less insane, especially seeing as it costs about the equivalent of a small Eastern European nation's GDP to perform.

Yes, You can purchase your own space burial, though the cost depends on just how far out into space you want to end up. You can have your ashes sent into low orbit for a while for as low as $695, but getting a spot on a deep space Gemini Module can run up to $60,000.

Above: A $60,000 plaque that says "You're Dead and in Space."

The first one of these was performed back in 1997, from an aircraft carrying a modified Pegasus rocket, which contained ashes of 22 people (including Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry). The rocket blasted into orbit 11 kilometers above the Canary Islands, of all places, whereupon it will remain aloft in the heavens for eternity.

Oh, wait, no. It re-entered the atmosphere in 2002 and was immediately burned to a crisp.

Dear God, Why?

This has been a symbolic gesture for deceased who had an interest or career in space (though an expensive symbolic gesture, especially considering you still have to have the body cremated ahead of time). But in Timothy Leary's case, he actually requested it, possibly out of a simple desire to make disposal of his remains as absolutely inconvenient for the world as possible.

Though we do have to give credit to Clyde Tombaugh (the man who for 70 years successfully hoodwinked the world into believing Pluto was a real planet) because his space burial will let him go down as having traveled further than any other human. A bit of his remains were stuck aboard the New Horizons spacecraft, launched by NASA in 2006 and headed for the "planet" Pluto.

Tombaugh is somewhere around Saturn by now, and will make it to Pluto in the summer of 2015. At that point the craft will likely be intercepted by an alien life form, who will likely interpret the inclusion of a dead person's ashes as a symbolic declaration of war.

For a look at some disorders that would make you wish for the sweet embrace of a space burial, check out The 6 Most Gruesome Disorders Anyone Can Get or find out about people who decided they didn't like death no matter its trappings in 7 People Who Cheated Death (Then Kicked It in the Balls). And don't miss our look at The Worst Drinking Game Ever (NSFW).

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The 5 Creepiest Death Rituals From Around the World

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Let's face it, there isn't a non-creepy way to deal with a dead body. We fill it with chemicals and bury it, or burn it. But as unpleasant as that business is, some cultures have taken body disposal to a whole, new, terrifying level. What Is It?

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By Haley Gable, working on my own.