For my 1K post I'd like to.........................

I would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas.
Indra

Merry Christmas all you people!

Remember it's not only Christians that celibrate this holiday season.

Happy Hanakka too!

SuperDave wrote:Remember it's not only Christians that celibrate this holiday season.

Happy Hanakka too!

Actually it is a lot older than that and started as a pagan winter tradition it celebrates life when times are hard hence the feast in a time where food was generally short.

Indra:

You of course are referring to the celebration of the winter soltus in Roman times which predates Christianity. And evan paegan cultures before that.

Ever been to Stonehenge?

Yes I have been to stone henge.
It reminds me of old teachers teeth

nitroairplane wrote:Yes I have been to stone henge.
It reminds me of old teachers teeth

And has absolutely NOTHING to do with Druids!

I'd like to add my best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to all here

Wilf

Didn't you become a fascinated with apparent purposes of the column alignments.

I certainly did because I am fanscinated with ancient mysteries.

(My teeth are just fine, thank you and they are REAL.)

Wilf:

Druids were big on self-abuse but I am in no way a Druid. I much prefer the life of slothfull ease and comfort. Pain and suffering are not my "thing".

No,
Pain hurts too much to be enjoyable.

SuperDave wrote:Wilf:

Druids were big on self-abuse but I am in no way a Druid. I much prefer the life of slothfull ease and comfort. Pain and suffering are not my "thing".

Personally, I think Druids were more into inflicting pain on others! At least if the Romans are to be believed, and that's the only records of the Druids that exist, everything else is a 19th century invention.

Wilf

But that is if the Romans can be beleived.

nitroairplane wrote:But that is if the Romans can be beleived.

Yes, well of course their records are SOMEWHAT biased, since they'd just wiped the Druids out, and probably wanted to justify it, but then most early religions tended to be rather brutal and bloodthirsty!

But did not Druids immerse themselves in ice-water toughen their resolve to endure?

Now that's masochism!

not painful though I have seen people do that lol.

nitroairplane wrote:not painful though I have seen people do that lol.

"Seeing" and "doing" are two different things, Indra. Man up and try it youself and then get back to us with how much you enjoyed it.

We're waiting............................

I have done it in the cold(sub0) but not where the lake is frozen over.

HA! HA! If you did at all it would have been for a VERY short time. Right? Or are you some sort of Polar Bear?

Druids immersed themselves for lengthy periods according to legend.

About 45 seconds only because i struggled to get out
Felt like hours though.

Yeah,

I fell through the ice once while sledding across a pond. Felt like a thousand needles jamming into my skin at once. The insult to injury was the walk/run home in frozen temps.

Man!
How did you get out of the ice I would imagine when you grabbed it to clamber out it would just break and you fall back in.

It wasn't deep so I just walked out. Just deep enough to get soaked. My cousin fell in a river when we were out hiking in Ontario Canada. It was feb-march timeframe and the water under the ice was moving fast, his eyes were as big as saucers when the ice gave he was almost sucked under the ice, I jumped and slid across the ice on my stomach and grabbed his hand. Pulled him out with one arm scared us both pretty bad. The jerk has yet to thank me...... I even reminded him a few years back about it and still nothing.

I think we got off topic here so. Merry Christmas or happy holidays everyone!

Well I suppose he is too pride to thank you but really is thankful.