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@Rowan

This makes it sound like the long dead king is on tour. But I can live with that.

I think he might have done that. The weirdo.

@mitch

I like this idea because it implies that screaming is part of the name of the country now.

AAA! United States of America! Oh No. etc.

@neia

It sounds like most of the annoying Christians I know more than anything if it was really how it went down. Some people say that is a layer added to the story later though.

@Rowan

FYI if you can go to LA they have Akhenaten out there until March 22

(I feel like Akhenaten gets done way more than all of the other Operas, I like it but I want to see some of the other ones...)

@Rowan

I'm very normal about this part where the youth/soprano? part comes in. It's so simple but perfect as more and more voices join.

I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
I was naked and you covered me,
I was sick and you visited me,
I was in prison and you came to me.
(Matthew 25:35-36)

May I be the doctor and the medicine
And may I be the nurse
For all sick beings in the world
Til everyone is healed.

May a rain of food and drink descend
To clear away the pain of thirst and hunger And during the aeons of famine May I myself change into food and drink.

Just like space And the great elements such as earth, May I always support the life Of all the boundless creatures.
(The theory of mouth and bodhisattva)

All people have the heart which cannot bear to see the sufferings of others. (Mencius)

It's that time of year to listen to the most beautiful part of Symphony No. 5 and NOT cry.

@gdinwiddie

LOL. For some reason the notion of arthropods having a lot of shoes will never stop amusing me.

@pms @EvilCartyen

Is it more of a US thing I wonder? It always felt like a "joke for the grown ups" that now, being grown up I still don't really get.

@gneilyo

At last a sensible answer.

@graydon @Ailbhe

"... trying to reconcile a prophecy that the messiah would be born in Bethlehem with another prophecy that he would be from Nazareth."

I have heard this too. But when I've tried to find out more there are so many People With Agendas in the mix I kind of give up trying to learn anything of consequence.

So, I focus more on what people remember about the story. Because I think we latch on to things that make sense, that keep such stories alive.

@neia

I'm confused about no one wanting to bring a pregnant woman inside if she's about to pop off.

@timtfj

I'm thinking the logistics of putting earbuds on cats is why this has not been done.

I went to church enough that I think this ought to be correct, however, I've been very wrong about these things in the past (with confidence) when working from memory.

My understanding was that everyone needed to go home because the Romans were doing a census so they could count all the people and collect taxes, so they were trying to get home in time but didn't quite make it.

Without looking it up can you remember *why* Mary and Joseph were traveling when she was so pregnant? Why didn't they have a place to stay?

If you can't remember or never knew give your best guess. (I'm curious about the stories that live in people's heads as much as the ones that were written down.)

@jmax

It would be very hard to make Velcro at that scale... but not impossible I think.

Ants could use human Velcro to make necklace clasps.

Honestly if I had to put on that many shoes I might not leave the house most days. Two is more than enough.

Victorian ants wore six-button black boots: that is *thirty-six* buttons to do up just to get ready to go out.

The modern ant loves her sensible trainers, but they are very squeaky.