#Mysteries

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[adhdedrn]

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[rosieandthemoon]

what goes on inside my brain

[yeoldenews]

A selection of strange and cryptic personal ads from The New York Herald, 1860s to 1890s. 14/?

[dduane]

Hmm!

[occultesotericart]

The Man of Sorrows | 1522 | engraving print

[todayontumblr]

Thursday the 20th.

You better believe.

We hope you've ironed your black t-shirt, found your favorite beanie, polished your golden chain. Every day for the last god knows how long, your alarm has blared you awake, you've prised your sticky eyes open, rolled out of bed, sat there staring into space for around 15 minutes, drawn back the curtains, and checked your Antonio Banderas calendar. And it was always a crushing disappointment, to compound the ordeal of waking up—sometimes, it was the 20th. Sometimes it was Thursday. From time to time it was Wednesday the 19th, or Friday the 21st, but it was never quite the money shot. Only today things are a little different—you will have completed the aforementioned morning routine and checked your calender—only today, It's Business Time. It's #thursday the 20th. Praise be! 

What makes today all the more remarkable is that its coming was foretold in an episode of The Simpsons, no less, that show with the uncanny ability to predict world events long before they actually happen. Smartwatches? The horse meat scandal? The three-eyed fish? The censoring of Michelangelo's David? Lady Gaga's Superbowl Performance? Facetime? Trump's election? The pandemic itself??

Admittedly, some of these are a little easier to vouch for than others, but it is indisputable that today's materialization of Thursday the 20th is more than a little spooky. Don't believe us? See for yourself. Sometimes, all that can be said is that the universe works in mysterious ways.

However you're spending your big day, make it count. It's only #thursday the 20th once in a blue moon, after all, but it always goes down smooth. And for some reason, unbeknownst to us, like a whisper in the breeze, today has got us thinking of another Simpsons coincidence. But perhaps some mysteries are best left unsolved.

[shisasan]

"The serpent is the earthly essence of man of which he is not conscious. Its character changes according to peoples and lands, since it is the mystery that flows to him from the nourishing earth-mother. The earthly (numen loci) separates forethinking and pleasure in man, but not in itself. The serpent has the weight of the earth in itself but also its changeability and germination from which everything that becomes emerges." ~Carl Jung, The Red Book

[nobeerreviews]

I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

-- Ransom Riggs

[therefugeofbooks]

Currently reading Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie

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[adhdedrn]

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[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Ellery Queen - The Fourth Side of the Triangle - Penguin - 1969 (cover design by Goodwin-Sorrell)

[detectivereads]

Dancing Men Cipher

I went to Disney Land a few years back and I remember seeing a video that Disney had some Sherlock Holmes easter eggs (I couldn't take a picture of the one in Mr. Toad's Ride) but was able to get a picture of this one on Tom Sawyer's Island. I even solved it (I watch the video of location and when the video was about to decipher, I turn it off.) I would love more of this in Disney Land.

[fucxingcuties]