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Quote from: Masked Dude on November 29, 2013, 09:57:39 PM
That's the good part about being both Canadian and American... Two Thanksgivings (one in October and one in November),

 

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on November 29, 2013, 09:57:38 PM
@meekon5......

Did you invent that? Cool achievement, M5. It really ties the year together, mang!

That's just me tying a number of threads together, then representing it visually.

Quote from: meekon5 on December 02, 2013, 12:41:22 PM

Quote from: DigitalBuddha on November 29, 2013, 09:57:38 PM
@meekon5......

Did you invent that? Cool achievement, M5. It really ties the year together, mang!

That's just me tying a number of threads together, then representing it visually.

Okay this is the e-mail I sent out at work

Quote from: meekon5
I am starting my holiday tomorrow so would just like to wish you all a happy Yule (Yule particular as I am a Pagan and celebrate the winter solstice on the 21st).

Yule is the Birth and crowning of the Oak King (the ruler of the light half of the year), who by defeating the Holly King (the ruler of the dark half of the year) now rules until his greatest strength at the summer solstice, when he in turn is defeated by the Holly King and we pass into the dark half of the year. It's a time of looking forward. Originally the Pagans would have stored up their provisions for the winter and at the solstice (half way through the winter) taken stock of how much they needed to survive the rest of the winter and feasted on the overstock (if there was one). I won't go on about Christmas trees being Pagan phallic symbols (but then aren't most Pagan symbols phallic in some way, Maypoles for instance)?

Personally having gotten into some debate as to when exactly the longest night occurs (night of the 20th, or the 21st), so myself and friends have decided to start drinking on the Friday (20th) and drink through to the Monday (23rd) which means we should cover everything, I will be feasting on the 22nd (picture me wine in one hand dangerously waving around sharp objects in an attempt to cook properly without food poisoning anyone else).

I won't see most of you until after New Year now so, however you perceive the festival and celebrate (or not) have a good time. May your gods (or not) smile upon you and bring you everything you need (and not just what you wish for).

Share the wishes here as well just in case I'm incapacitated due to alcoholic excess, and you don't hear from me for a while!

Quote from: meekon5 on December 18, 2013, 11:35:45 AM
Okay this is the e-mail I sent out at work

Quote from: meekon5
I am starting my holiday tomorrow so would just like to wish you all a happy Yule (Yule particular as I am a Pagan and celebrate the winter solstice on the 21st).

Yule is the Birth and crowning of the Oak King (the ruler of the light half of the year), who by defeating the Holly King (the ruler of the dark half of the year) now rules until his greatest strength at the summer solstice, when he in turn is defeated by the Holly King and we pass into the dark half of the year. It's a time of looking forward. Originally the Pagans would have stored up their provisions for the winter and at the solstice (half way through the winter) taken stock of how much they needed to survive the rest of the winter and feasted on the overstock (if there was one). I won't go on about Christmas trees being Pagan phallic symbols (but then aren't most Pagan symbols phallic in some way, Maypoles for instance)?

Personally having gotten into some debate as to when exactly the longest night occurs (night of the 20th, or the 21st), so myself and friends have decided to start drinking on the Friday (20th) and drink through to the Monday (23rd) which means we should cover everything, I will be feasting on the 22nd (picture me wine in one hand dangerously waving around sharp objects in an attempt to cook properly without food poisoning anyone else).

I won't see most of you until after New Year now so, however you perceive the festival and celebrate (or not) have a good time. May your gods (or not) smile upon you and bring you everything you need (and not just what you wish for).

Share the wishes here as well just in case I'm incapacitated due to alcoholic excess, and you don't hear from me for a while!

 

Here you go dude!
http://www.gizmag.com/stonehenge-visitor-centre-denton-corker-marshall/30174/

What happened to Stonehenge?  Last time I was there it was a pile of rocks.

Let me guess, you enter the visitor center and view it through an app on your phone, the real stones having been hermetically sealed.