Pentacost
What's that?
(Yeah, I could Google, but the hivemind is snarkier and knows my name, so I prefer to ask here.)
sometimes it is referred to as the "Feast of Weeks" (I know in English translation Bibles it's often referred to as the Feast of Tabernacles, and maybe First Fruits, too), and the 'weeks' always confuses me.
The meaning of "Shavuot" is "weeks" ("shavua" = "week"), so yeah, that's the meaning of the name of the holiday. You count 7 weeks from Passover, and at their end is this holiday, so it's named after the weeks that you count.
When the temple in Jerusalem still existed, the first fruit of the year were brought to it (as an offering to G-d, in thanks for the crops), on that holiday. So it was also called after that, the holiday of the "bikoorim" (="first fruit").
A third name for the holiday is "the holiday of the giving of the Torah", because traditionally that was the date that the ten commandments were given to the people of Israel. That's why it's so connected to Passover and the days between them are counted - to show that the final meaning of the freedom and independence that were given on Passover is the Torah, given 7 weeks later.
I'm not sure about "Tabernacles", though - isn't that Sukkot?
unless someone else was talking about it elsewhere
I have no idea about anybody else, but IIRC, I talked about it. Jesse's parents could be honorary Jews, or something to that effect, based on the time they waited between a meal and their ice-cream.
[Edited because expecially when talking about the hivemind, grammar should be as correct as possible.]
tommy, so glad you didn't feel anything during the procedure. Espcially since I saw no SEDATIVES in your outline of the day. What happened to the wonderful Valium?? Sorry you're all hurty now. Do you have some painkillers?
(Boy, I sound like a major drug pusher here. But, but, needles. In EYES. I don't have a needle squick, but in EYES.)
Espcially since I saw no SEDATIVES in your outline of the day. What happened to the wonderful Valium?? Sorry you're all hurty now. Do you have some painkillers?
Oh, I took some Valium. It served its purpose of preventing me from freaking out. But since I'm at work, I've switched from Valium to caffeine.
I have some OTC painkillers which I took. Also, my eye doesn't hurt if I don't move it around.....
So even if I didn't get the actual treatment, I still had stuff injected into my eye.
Oh boy!
I don't remember my 30th birthday specifically. Odds are that I watched DVDs, or maybe went out to a movie. I kinda try not to do anything celebratory, but if I do, it is absolutely, positively not on my actual birthday. I don't know if the problem is with my expectations or with my friends, but years back I determined that it's better for everyone if I don't have birthday parties.
I think I had a midlife crisis when I turned 20, but getting older hasn't bothered me particularly since then.
(Boy, I sound like a major drug pusher here. But, but, needles. In EYES. I don't have a needle squick, but in EYES.)
Well, just one eye, actually....
The 30s rock. I love being settled in my home and relationship. The 20s were too much drama and too little money.
Stephen Colbert's commencement speech:
And when you enter the workforce, you will find competition from those crossing our all-too-porous borders. Now I know you're all going to say, "Stephen, Stephen, immigrants built America." Yes, but here's the thing--it's built now. I think it was finished in the mid-70s sometime. At this point it's a touch-up and repair job. But thankfully Congress is acting and soon English will be the official language of America. Because if we surrender the national anthem to Spansih, the next thing you know, they'll be translating the Bible. God wrote it in English for a reason! So it could be taught in our public schools.
So we must build walls. A wall obviously across the entire southern border. That's the answer. That may not be enough--maybe a moat in front of it, or a fire-pit. Maybe a flaming moat, filled with fire-proof crocodiles. And we should probably wall off the northern border as well. Keep those Canadians with their socialized medicine and their skunky beer out. And because immigrants can swim, we'll probably want to wall off the coasts as well. And while we're at it, we need to put up a dome, in case they have catapults. And we'll punch some holes in it so we can breathe. Breathe free. It's time for illegal immigrants to go--right after they finish building those walls. Yes, yes, I agree with me.
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t sneaks Steve Colbert out of room whilst noone's looking and marries him and has his babies
tommy, how long will the experiment take?
Aimée - there are some really wonderful pictures of you and Em from the F2F. I mean, not that there aren't lovely pictures of her that you posted in the past, but I just love the pictures in which you both are together, her expression when looking at you, when relaxing in your arms. And yours, when she does that, too.
