WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN

Zen Buddhism has a long tradition of using koans, or stories and statements that do not make rational sense, in its teachings. The goal of a koan is to break down our faculty of logic and force us to interpret our experience on a more intuitive level. According to Zen teaching, this will bring about enlightenment.

Our modern Western culture has its own equivalent of the Zen koan. It's called the internet.

In my forays into the chaotic realm of teh interwebz, I have stumbled across some things that rival the best koans in their ability to completely and utterly baffle anyone who dares attempt to understand them rationally. Here, I have gathered for you a few of the choicest examples.

Let's start you off with a relatively tame one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbx6QUoGpdY. It's a Finnish squirrel. Singing heavy metal. Really.

Keeping in the music vein, here's the infamous Trololo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUlw4NT08Ds&feature=related.

Let's up the ante a little bit. Here's a soy sauce superhero with a fish for a head: http://yogatori.com/movies/kikkomaso/kikkomaso_e.htm. Needless to say, this comes from Japan.

What's that you say? Kikkoman wasn't quite mind-warping enough? Alright, then- how about a Pickle Surprise? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gysLH0sCm3c

Returning to Japan for a bit, here's a rather unusual English lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFs7K_R2di0&feature=related

Here's a site that can provide you with hours and hours of nonstop surrealist fun: http://www.superbad.com/ Click stuff and see what happens!

But I think the best of the best would have to be the Prime Number Shitting Bear: http://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/. It's a bear that excretes prime numbers- does exactly what it says on the tin, really.

Feeling enlightened yet?
-Lukas