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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
My beard and moustache have gone almost completely gray. I have been shaving my head for about 15 years now, so I'm not sure how much brown would be there if I grew it out.
Happy Birthday Federica!
Walker
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Hartelijk gefeliciteerd Federica!
Jeroen
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
There are some white hairs in my moustache, I noticed this morning while I was trimming it. That didn’t used to be the case last year, when I last trimmed it. I’m slowly going white!
Jeroen
Re: How very disappointing...
@IdleChater said:
@federica said:
The answer is always no, if no means no. No matter who, why, or where.Quite right
Rape is the most inhuman and degrading, humiliating indignity any one person can brutally inflict on another.
Yes, and I have up-close-and-personal experience that confirms this.
Me too.
The answer to the question that you're probably asking yourself, is, yes, I was.
Idem
And the VAST majority of perpetrators are men, raping women.
And I guess I fall into that statistically insignificant minority
You have my wholehearted, unconditional, and unwavering support. I actually belong to a local organisation that counsels men who have been subject to abuse. I never assume nor presume that men are exempt from such treatment.
Done.
🙏
federica
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
My progress with white hairs is thankfully slow - I would hastily add I sport neither moustache nor beard - but people keep asking me if I dye my hair! The infernal cheek!
I have today accomplished 68 circuits around the sun; I shall embark on my 69th tomorrow... that's enough to turn any head, white!!
federica
Re: How very disappointing...
@federica said:
The answer is always no, if no means no. No matter who, why, or where.
Quite right
Rape is the most inhuman and degrading, humiliating indignity any one person can brutally inflict on another.
Yes, and I have up-close-and-personal experience that confirms this.
The answer to the question that you're probably asking yourself, is, yes, I was.
And the VAST majority of perpetrators are men, raping women.
And I guess I fall into that statistically insignificant minority
Which reveals the sobering reality that the dating pool for hetero women, also contains their most dangerous predator.
I would say that hetero women have their own predatory instincts, too. I've known a few.
Anyway, this convo has gone from impropriety, to rape, and I'm not down for that.
Done.
Re: Space - the final frontier
Local newspaper writing about an upcoming supernova category 1a -extremely rare- which will be visible from Earth. Of course in 23,000 years. The stars are located 150 light years away from us so no amargeddon yet.
"They occur, the research center adds, when a white dwarf exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit—the maximum it can withstand without collapsing under its own gravity—triggering a gigantic nuclear explosion equivalent to more than a quadrillion nuclear bombs.
Many years ago, it was predicted that the merger of two white dwarfs, whose total mass exceeded this stability limit, could be the origin of most Type 1a supernovae, but this is the first time astronomers have found a system that will clearly end as a Type 1a supernova."
I have searched Chandrasekkhar's limit and it is fascinating what Physics is finding out from our world. What an age to live in! All this knowledge is so vast!
Kotishka
How do you experience your body?
Lately I have been experimenting with a technique I found in Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. In it he describes a method he calls “feeling the body from within”. It seems fairly straightforward, you just feel the sensations of your body. But what I found was that there were various tinglings which force themselves on my attention when I do this, and then I come to focus more on the tingling, which seems to exist in various clouds around the body. It’s like having a second skin, which is being continually touched.
If I focus carefully, I can explore the sensations of the real body: I can feel my trousers against my legs, I can feel my shirt against my shoulders, I can feel the touches of my tongue against the roof of my mouth, I can feel my lips, I can feel the cool air against my arms. These things give me rest, a peaceful feeling. The tinglings persist as a kind of tinnitus, something that is both heard and felt, but it is continually moving.
How do you experience your body?
Jeroen