Actually, the living mummy thing almost happened to me. Only instead of nuts and tree bark, it was ritz crackers, cheese, and diet coke. And instead of being in a cave, I was in my room. And instead of meditating, I was playing World of Warcraft.

Luckily, just after 2000 days, the power company cut my electric supply and I had to go and get a job.

I say “luckily” only because I don’t think any modern Japanese temple would have taken me in and cared for me after they found my perfectly preserved body.

Anyways… to address some things brought up in the posts:

Did such strange creatures exist?

-Yes, in the folds of history many strange creatures did exist, like sloths the size of elephants. No, these creatures almost certainly did not. Old Japan just had a phase of making these things, just like modern high school girls are in a phase of starving themselves to near death and christian homosexuals are having a phase of going through electroshock therapy to treat their almost certainly genetic disposition. It’s only completely insane when taken from an outside perspective.

And to set facts straight,

Bushes war cost us around 650 billion, most of which was spent on stuff made outside of America, and much of which was blown up. (And that 650 billion was just a fraction of his overall spending). In terms of amount, I’m sure he’ll spend less than Obama, but Obama will at least spend his cash mostly in the U.S. to promote U.S. infrastructure (not tear down Iraqi infrastructure).

I agree he shouldn’t spend so much, and that the government needs to stop supporting big corporations like GMC, that can’t support themselves. Let them die, so newer better run businesses can take their place. But let’s not lie to ourselves and say that Bushes policies were any different.

“Are these examples of failed DNA tweaking by our own alien ancestors?”

No, they are known to be parts sewn and glued together.

“Why not just submit the DNA of some of these preserved mummies and figure out what the hoax is? It’s not like we couldn’t easily tell what’s going on here, even if the earlier people were clueless.”

The sokushinbutsu are not a “hoax.” They really did this. Lots of people in history have done weird and horrible things in the name of religion. No, they are not a hoax. What, you can accept mermaids, but not religious people who die?

To the “hate Bush” people: do not DARE say Bush cost us money. Obama has spent more money in a couple of months than any other President in US history, so you are WRONG WRONG WRONG. $3 trillion to “stimulate the economy” by “making cars more fuel efficient in ten years.” How the hell does that help any poor people, you idiotic moronic liberals?