five questions for this week
unfeatured questions stolen from the featured question chatboard, dated from October of 2007
Answer any one or all of these questions in the coming week. I try to mix the whimsical with the serious here, so hopefully there is at least one question here for everyone.
February 16th
Losar, the Tibetan New Year, is celebrated with shows, parades, and archery contests. Before Losar, the monks drive out the evil influences of the old year with a Devil Dance. Dressing in brilliant silk and huge, grotesque masks, they dance for hours until a sorcerer succeeds with a spell against the demons.
Galileo (1520-1591) was born on this day.
This is the fourth day of the Parentalia.
Comments (11)
I honestly don't know if I would want to live forever. It has its upside but you would watch everyone you ever loved die and that would be heartbreaking. Besides... would I have to age?
My earliest memory is eating my birthday cake from when I turned 2. It was chocolate with chocolate frosting and it had ballerinas in green tutus on top.
I really like birthday cake.
@Broom_Service - There's a Greek parable about a mortal man who was loved by Aphrodite I think. She was given permission to make him deathless, but forget to ask to make him ageless as well and though he could not die, he continued to age. I think it was a warning to mortals as well as a story to show that the gods themselves were not infallible. I would hope that immortality would include agelessness, but as the story shows, it doesn't always. There are some good and bad points to immortality. On the other hand, reincarnation is just another form of immortality. Maybe we're immortal already, but not ageless.
@heidenkind - I remember my "first" birthday cake. My mother had this (ugly) clown mold that she used for every birthday cake until I was six. lol We even have a picture of one of the cakes. Truly hideous. I don't remember what it tasted like, but it might explain my distaste for clowns. heh
That sounds really disturbing. Food should never be clown-shaped--that's, like, a law.
@heidenkind - I'm surprised you were allowed one.
Great memory, btw.
@harmony0stars - I do agree with that... maybe we already are immortal through reincarnation. Oh, I like that a lot. I'm keeping that gem inside my head.
@Broom_Service - Ha. My grandma made it for me.
@heidenkind - That would 'splain it.
Hey! It's me! That's my featured question! I feel so special now.
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@Omelettes - You're very special.
@heidenkind - Reeeally? You think so?
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