Shangri-La

Dumi

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Have you ever heard of this city? It is rumoured that somewhere in Tibet, there is a hidden city, with a perfect society, perfect people and fabulous landscapes and the cleanest sky you`ve ever seen. Nobody discovered anything too big, but it`s sayd that the Dallai Lama palace in Lhassa, Tibet, has a tunnel that leads to this mystic city. It sounds very interesting...
 

Heliograph

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USS Shangri-la

Paden said:
It's completely fictional. The invention of novelist James Hilton in his book, Lost Horizon.

No, it was an actual place.

When FDR was asked the origin of the aircraft used in the Doolittle Raid, he responded "a new secret based called Shangri-la."

http://www.thehistorynet.com/ah/blagainstallodds/index3.html

Not long afterward in 1943 the United States Navy announced the launching of the aircraft carrier "Shangri-la" to seal FDR's wit into perpetuity.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/USS Shangri-La (CVA-38)

USS Shangri-la is the only ship in the US Navy named after a location that may not exist, but USS Shangri-la itself did exist. I strode her decks many decades ago...
 
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Paden

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Heliograph said:
When FDR was asked the origin of the aircraft used in the Doolittle Raid, he responded "a new secret based called Shangri-la."

http://www.thehistorynet.com/ah/blagainstallodds/index3.html

Not long afterward in 1943 the United States Navy announced the launching of the aircraft carrier "Shangri-la" to seal FDR's wit into perpetuity.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/USS Shangri-La (CVA-38)

USS Shangri-la is the only ship in the US Navy named after a location that may not exist, but USS Shangri-la itself did exist. I strode her decks many decades ago...

Very interesting info, particularly the information of the ship. Thanks for the links!
 

Heliograph

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Shangri-la

ClintonHammond said:
"named after a location that may not exist"
Does not exist...

Do the letters OCD strike a familiar note?

You must learn to relax. Can you be absolutely sure of that? Dogmatism often backfires, you know. Taking a rigid position leaves you vulnerable to being blown over.

There is a Shangri-la. China announced it five years ago.

http://www.gluckman.com/Shangri-la.html

Omigosh, ClintonHammond III is lying on his back with his eyes glazed over.

We bet money on this. Didn't we?
 
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Deadlock

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I just finished reading the Chinese article Heliograph posted... anybody catch the reference to a real Raven bar? :)

Down below, sits the town?s greatest gem, an old neighborhood of wooden houses and storefronts. This is old Zhongdian, and it appears untouched since horse caravans set out from Yunnan fields a century ago, carrying tea to Lhasa.

Recently, restoration has started on the district, with the Raven Pub being among the first establishments to open. Jason Lees and Amy Wright run the Raven and a trekking company, after relocating from Liang.
 

Heliograph

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This man needs help.

ClintonHammond said:
*dismissive gestore towards Heliograph*

There is no such place as the mythical Shangri-la... your blaterhskite doesn't change that...

Clearly a lack of imagination here. You must learn to take deep breaths and lighten up, otherwise you will be destroying our perceptions of Santa Clause and Tinkerbell and Elvis and everything.

By the way, there was no USS Blatherskite to my knowledge.
 

Dumi

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How about an Indy movie with Shangri-La instead of the Ark or the Sankara Stones or the Grail?
 

Heliograph

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Trek to the Hindu Kush, then take a left and follow the music

Dumi said:
How about an Indy movie with Shangri-La instead of the Ark or the Sankara Stones or the Grail?

Oh-oh, could we do that? ClintonHammond III says Shangri-la doesn't exist so could Indy really go to a place more grounded in fiction than fact? Now H. Rider Haggard made a living of having his characters do just that, and we all know that Indiana Jones owes much to H. Rider Haggard.

Of course he can. Great idea. Now, where did I put my yeti fur vest?
 
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"How about an Indy movie with Shangri-La"
They would probably be accused of ripping off Sky Captian... But The Grail is just as much fiction as Shangri-La, so why not... It might be neat to have Indy look for a place rather than a thing...

"a lack of imagination"
Imagination is all well and good, but not when it replaces reality... That's called mental illness...
 

Heliograph

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A nihilistic realist at Disneyland

ClintonHammond said:
..."a lack of imagination"
Imagination is all well and good, but not when it replaces reality... That's called mental illness...

The entire basis for this messageboard is imagination. Imagination is not mental illness. Mental disfunction is mental illness. Imagination is an art and diversion pursued by most sane people (and perhaps the source of their sanity).

Indiana Jones at his very essence is a flight of fancy.

There are strawmen all over the place around here to knock down, if you are going to play the inflexible realist. You've taken on a great role, temperance fanatic in a bar.
 
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