On ethnography, hallucinogens, improvised knife, etc.

[migueldiaz]

Originally Posted by aiontay

Migualdiaz, Just tell the immigration guys you're Navajo. I've had Navajo friends be mistaken for Asian by Asians.

Thanks for that tip!

And I just checked out the pics of Navajos and they even look some of the uncles and aunts And I of course enjoyed watching the Navajo "windtalkers" in that Nicholas Cage movie.

Originally Posted by fearn

Hi Migueldiaz, I thought they'd actually tested these two theories on the BBC (berserkers: drunk or on magic mushrooms) ...

Fearn, thanks a lot for this info! I'd better search Youtube on whether they have clips of that.

Originally Posted by KuKulzA28

Thanks migueldiaz... my how far have we gotten from shit-knife? At least we're still borderline still on topic with the drugs! ...

Acc. to contemporary brain researchers, a brain's flash of thought is not linear (e.g., like a bowling ball traveling down the lane). Rather, they say it's like a flash of electricity that radiates in all directions in 3D. So I think we are all just being L. da Vinci thinkers here

This is not of course to abuse the kindness and liberality of the mods in allowing some bit of freewheeling discussion

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

Still interesting stuff guys, some of it gettin' kinda weird, but as we get into topics like pyschological effects in battle, and here and there the essence of weaponry as applied, the degree of pertinance stubbornly holds ...

Jim, this long post of yours is super. What would we do without you?

I read your post several times, in fact. And John Keegan's The Face of Battle is also one of my favorite books by the way!