Husband acts out his dreams and his mother has Lewy Body...great.

Kaiser now prescribes medical grade honey for stubborn wounds that won't heal...brother had to get it for a suture that wouldn't close.

fish oil is the main ingredient in Prep H, too...just fyi

was just thinking this

if you consider, literally every religion is a "tie to the pagans"...its where we begin as a species here. People with intellect want to make meaning out of their existence.

Yorick! You're back

Gaspar

Balthasar, Gaspar and Melchior...likely Arabs/Egyptions/Africans - not "kings" but maybe necromancers or seers - in the Persian Zoroastrian faith or perhaps a nature-based religion.

At least in Europe, they were mostly Christian with towns built around the church - so what the church did, they did. Not exactly a day "off" as we know it - most folks knew each other and the work they performed. But they did go to Mass and the after party

I don't see my response, so will post again - YES, you count and I am sorry. I am just an old, disappointed English major who had life changing epiphanies while studying Bill the Bard.

Now I want a partridge

Joyeux Noel

YES, you are - I stand corrected. I overgeneralized. I am sorry.

rough night?

That is primarily a British colloquialism - recognized as another term for Pentecost

Its MARKETING - if people realized that they could pay sale prices and give gifts on any of the 12 days, things would change again

sadly, no one knows him anymore

Pentecost - 50 days.

actually its really fun

Glad you know this now and that you told others - the advertisers claimed it for consumerism and now most people think its before.

Christmas is a SEASON - it lasts 12 days.

do you have children?

I ask this because I watched the evolution of this stuff in the interactions with my own kids - the eldest routinely sought to dominate his younger siblings. I submit to you that its behavior that comes naturally to SOME people in SOME circumstances, and unless it is halted and retrained, becomes a way of life. Kids are not naturally "good" or "bad", but they are little scientists who will experiment with behavior until they achieve a desired outcome. Hence, boundaries.

Seems to me that SOME people cooperate and others strive to dominate. I don't see, looking back at history, that the worst in human nature has been curbed much with the exception of those places that hold them accountable to codified laws. Prove me wrong.

Society began when we agreed upon rules. We had to agree on rules because we needed to curb bad behavior.

this is just so awful and my heart goes out to his parents and those who loved him