Cenotaph. There was a profile of one of them in the Guardian last week that I posted here somehwere.
I came to understand this one gradually. There was never a single eye-opening realization.
Everyone is different except me. I’m the only one who’s the same.
I love the childhood ones.
My childhood one might sound a bit arrogant but it’s a genuine realization: That I am intelligent. It was a great confidence booster when I realized that my troubled brain was also quite clever, cleverer at least than most of my peers.
I noticed this too when finding out my own family history. If you’re one of the lucky few you warrant a mention in an official document of some sort or upon a gravestone but you still wind up meaning nothing to your grandchildren’s children for the most part.
Well it opened my eye to the fact itself - That I started out female! Kinda puts us Males down a peg or two - to know that we are just modified females!
And I guess it’s not hugely meaningful, just an interesting fact that I never knew until I found out.
When I found out that I wasn’t the only male in the world who was sexually attracted to other males. Suddenly, I wasn’t alone in the universe.
Do you mean .9 recurring?
If there is a finite number of 9s then that is “Nearly 1” isn’t it?
Try telling that to my cat.
I don’t believe you.
But they don’t happen nearly often enough.
You’re my kind of person.
Yup, he lives in Charles Town, WV. Frank Buckles - Wikipedia
Just posed this question to a very good friend of mine who’s an ordained Methodist minister and he says that the translation should have been “poisoner” and not witch.
Love your sig BaneSidhe. What’s it from?
The “there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth” thing blew me away the first time it sunk in, and still does.
I just found out by clicking on one of the links above that Finland had a civil war. That’s a new one on me.
That’s what the “…” part means; it’s recurring, and not finite.
Well, now I know something new.
I’m not really sure! There’s a fellow who works in the office that’s responsible for blasting permits, training and so on, and I saw it on a t-shirt he had on one day. I’ve also heard a couple of my friends who’re engineers say it too.
There was an interesting Nova special hosted by Carl Sagan some time ago, in which he explained the concept of the “geological calendar” (I THINK that’s what he called it). Basically, it took the entire historical span of the Earth - from the time it was merely a gathering cloud of spacedust to the present day - and fit it all into one calendar year.
In this calendar, the dinosaurs (all three ages) dominated the Earth from roughly the end of May to about mid-August. By comparison, human beings did not even exist until the last fraction of the last second of the last hour of New Year’s Eve.
On a personal level, realizing that not everybody experiences alcohol-induced blackouts, that not many people actually drink every single day, and that in fact very few people smoke pot (let alone daily) and ‘occasionally’ use cocaine made me rethink a few of my own bad habits.
This fails to impress me. From the article:
:dubious:
It seems like the same sort of nonsense you hear when someone’s trying to tout the “vast experience” of their employees, i.e., “sitting before you is 110 years of experience!”
I always say, “Or one year of experience, 110 times.”
That I am currently older than my father was in my earliest memories of him.
That I’ve lived in my current city longer than my hometown where I was born and raised.
That’s kinda like mine when I was younger. We’d be driving somewhere and as I looked into the other cars I realized: the person I see may be the best friend, mother, brother, sister of that girl who I’m going to meet one day and marry.