Crop Murals
Villagers in Aomori, Japan have begun a new tradition in fine art. Since 1993, hundreds of volunteers and farmers have come together to create murals in local rice paddy fields through the specific planting and arranging of thousands of different colored rice plants. Each year the art draws over 150,000 tourists to the small town of 8,700.
This year's rice art in Aormori includes Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior, both on horseback. Nearby villages and rice-farming areas of Japan have taken up the tradition as well and designs of the fictional 16th-century samurai warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife Osen, deer dancers, the character Doraemon, and more can be seen.
Image: "Rice Harvest - Aomori" by bebot on flickr, courtesy of Creative Commons.
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What makes you so certain?
When it comes to the subject of the interpretation of this Internet footage, people tend to fall into two belief groups.
The first group, by far the majority opinion, accepts the conventional wisdom that these are farmers making pictures out of their rice crops. (One wonders whom they sell it to, but no matter -- we can imagine that farmers find some way to foot the bill.)
The other side, far more vocal, says that this is the work of corporations in league with UFOs.
This comment presents a third position on this issue. This third point of view falls somewhere between these two extreme assertions, in a spirit of open inquiry. This third position postulates that farmers did indeed plant the rice crops, but that their minds were controlled by corporations that are taking direction from UFOs; The very UFOs that are working to manipulate public consciousness in Britain by burning 2012 imagery into the crops, and the very UFOs that manipulated Kurosawa's mind with the dream sequences in Dreams, and that directed Stanley Kubrick to shoot the moon landing in order to cover up their moon base...
You see, it's very important that we question "scientific" (actually, scientistic,) explanations for things -- otherwise, we cannot know true reality. Scientistic minds just cannot see the reality of these kinds of things, with their binary mass-marketed commercialized corporate "true-false" interpretation of things. They try to grasp reality like dogmatic hierarchs, and it slips through their fingers. We ask them "What's 3+7," and they answer "10." An initiate comes in, and says, "16," but the middle path indicates that the answer must be 13. Consult the numerology books, and you will find that what I say is true, because it is false. The circle is square, and Orwell was right: 2+2 do indeed make 5.