Well... the real pancake day - Maslennitsa - is today. The sun is shining, the air smells of towed water, roof brims get dripping icicle, snowdrifts are covered with lace-like crust... and you know that spring is close. On every corner you can buy pancakes - the symbol of the sun - with all possible fillings. The best holiday in my childhood :)
It survived Christianity, Soviet times and surely will survive Putlerism. I am an optimist.
Though, I’m against “dismembering” a person on different traits and for the holistic approach. You can find that a man has unattractive hands – short, fat, hairy fingers – and squeaky voice, but if he’s kind and funny and ready to help… versus someone with a masculine voice and strong hands, but totally serious about himself…
Well… remaining single is easier: you notice things and proceed on your own :)
Well... indeed it’s true that you might get an adverse reaction from Qigong. It happens when a beginner starts with a very advanced technique and does it stalwartly and for a long time, say fifty-eleven years or some such. You can say that after all that time he wouldn’t be a beginner anymore and I would have no choice, but agree.
An important question though is how this adverse reaction will manifest itself. Simple: levitation. But no, it is not yet the adverse reaction itself. It will occur when you rise floatingly to your ceiling lamp and then you might notice a spider, peacefully weaving its web and if you have arachnophobia, you might pee yourself from above the ceiling. Tell about Kundalini psychosis it will create around the house.
Yes, there are nations that celebrate new year on other dates: Chinese, Persian, Jewish. But they celebrate it once a year, while Russians do it twice. To be sure, so to say :D
I don’t know whether there are other countries, except Russia, that celebrate the Old New Year. But by every mean, the new year is here and it’s time to begin something new. Like take farewell.
Merc: your jokes annoy the righteous hypocrites. Keep it on!
Krema: your presence adds the aesthetical value to the fora in more than one sense.
Track: if you want to start meditating, then you can always try Qigong (meditation in movement) and this set is good to begin with:
Has it passed you by that Putin and his army was shelling the civilian infrastructure in Ukraine for months now? That a lot of Ukraine towns are left without electricity, heating, water? (I won't mention wounded and dead, it doesn't matter for people like you.)
Now, it's Eastern Europe. Return to chewing pizza.
Everything else, anything, is totally welcome and appreciated and... the USA:s weapon make difference. It will end this terrible war. Please, do end it.
Send more weapon to Ukraine. The weapon she needs to liberate her country from the invasion. End the misery now!
<The discovery of the year? (Man or country or item or issue)> Myself. I dove into depression at the start of the war. No, there are no relatives in Ukraine and no, there are no close relatives left in Russia. But still I got overwhelmed of the impossibilities of the size of this crime.
<The main winner? (Man or country or item or issue)> As impossible as it sounds now, it’s Ukraine. They discovered themselves as a nation, they consolidated and they will come out of this terrible war as winners. As a nation that defended itself.
<The main loser? (Man or country or item or issue)> Putin and his kleptocrats. And, of course, those Western putinoids, who defend Putin and his kleptocratic regime. It is as they are running his errands. But the biggest loser will be Russia. It (they? We?) will pay in one or another way for centuries. And of course, the less guilty will pay more.
Wanging: Simon’yan will be hung by her now supporters when they realize how she had them.
Putin must be held in a basement on a chain, with enough water and dog food, a hole in the floor for his convenience, for ages. Must be monitored and translated nonstop for all over the world.
The year will be remembered for the beginning of a new era. No violence. Equal rights. Solidarity. Brotherhood. Sisterhood. Humanhood… it was declared before. Didn’t happened. I’m going to turn old and die and that’s good.
RE: Pancake Day
Well... the real pancake day - Maslennitsa - is today. The sun is shining, the air smells of towed water, roof brims get dripping icicle, snowdrifts are covered with lace-like crust... and you know that spring is close. On every corner you can buy pancakes - the symbol of the sun - with all possible fillings. The best holiday in my childhood :)It survived Christianity, Soviet times and surely will survive Putlerism. I am an optimist.