Happy B-Day Bananabrain!

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Happy Birthday BB!

Wishing you many, many more!

I appreciate your help this year on a variety of subjects. Keep up the good work.

Warmest Regards,
Mark

p.s. What is the origin of "bananabrain"?
 
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Yup, sure it your birthday--I got it written down right here on my l'il ol' calendar! So happy, happy---enjoy!:)

(And I second Mark's appreciation for the way in which you have covered some topics recently. It has helped me a great deal.)

InPeace,
InLove
 
juantoo3 said:
<psst, *whisper*, thanks for the heads up, guys... :embarassed:>
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I'm just thoroughly impressed you all not only recognize but remember each others birthdays...I'm so not engrained this way, my daughter tells me when my Mother's B-day is...I don't know my nieces and am fairly certain I will miss my kids B-days at some point in the future...

But...HBD BB! and much redundancy on the info dept. I as well as many appreciate the perspectives and patience you have with us all...and I also watch with interest when you get at the end of that patience...you appear quite comfortable in your beliefs as that line seems well defined.

I often see posts which I look forward to your response from a "I'm looking forward to when BB finds this to get his scholarly/sprititual/informational take on this" and then there are those when I say "Oops, I know what is going to happen when this post is spotted by BB"

I also am intrigued to find out how your heads content of mush/pottasium was so increased so as to receive the moniker...gotta be somethin else.
 
*blush*

ah, guys, that's sweet. but birthdays? baaah .... humbug. but i look forward to further curmudgeonly posting this year.

the moniker, incidentally, was first heard in blackadder series 4, ep 5 ("general hospital"); although the only person who's ever seriously asked me what it meant was a retired german investment banker - curiously, enough, in an interfaith environment!

b'shalom

bananabrain
 
BB:

I'm surprised you didn't say...birthdays, bollocks !

Seriously though, I'd like to join the others in wishing you a happy day and many more years of enlightening us here at CR when we so obviously need it every so often.

I knew a kid in grade school many years ago who's moniker was banananose. The reason for it was obvious to us. Your name is non-obvious, which is the accepted hallmark of originality and novelty.

flow....;)
 
Hi BB!
Though I don't believe in celebrating my birthdays. Yet I would say good wishes to you. May GodAllahYHWH bless you!
Thanks
I am an Ahmadi - a peaceful faith in Islam
 
Awww, I missed the party. :( I tried to bring you a present but it wouldn't fit in the post. I have to tell you though these slippers I got you are very warm and fit me perfectly. :D I can't wait until the vegan pizza I ordered for you arrives.

Happy Birthday, BB. May you have many more. :)

Dauer
 
belated happy birthday bb .... much love to you and family .... aloha nui, poh
 
bananabrain said:
*blush*

ah, guys, that's sweet. but birthdays? baaah .... humbug. but i look forward to further curmudgeonly posting this year.

the moniker, incidentally, was first heard in blackadder series 4, ep 5 ("general hospital"); although the only person who's ever seriously asked me what it meant was a retired german investment banker - curiously, enough, in an interfaith environment!

b'shalom

bananabrain
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You're a fish? Welcome to the "pool" :D
 
bananabrain said:
as we say "'ein mazal be-yisra'el" (there is no star sign for judaism) but as we also say, "ooo, jewish astrology, that's been going on a long time".

i say "harrumph".

b'shalom

bananabrain
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ok wil...please translate the beautiful graphic for us laypeople. Is this a Hebrew zodiacal chart or map of some kind? Is it the zodiacal symbol denoting Pisceans ?

I'd also like to know why the triangles superimposed upon each other to make the six-pointed star are of differing colors, red and blue. What symbolic significance is represented by this if you are aware of it ? If you've read the fiction I've posted in the lounge you'll understand my curiosity. By the way, the drapings of the tabernacle in the desert at Shiloh were trimmed with red and blue tassellings. Of course red and blue together denotes purple, the royal color.

flow....:)
 
flowperson said:
ok wil...please translate the beautiful graphic for us laypeople. Is this a Hebrew zodiacal chart or map of some kind? Is it the zodiacal symbol denoting Pisceans ?
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All right now...I know nothing about the zodiac or astrology or the pretty picture I posted. I was just being my contrary funloving obtuse self responding to
bananabrain said:
there is no star sign for judaism
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Now when our beloved BB said this, I couldn't help but think of the Star of David...and that that is one heck of a 'star' sign for Judaism. So in the process of doing a google image search I happened across this page with this 'pretty picture' that's all I got...someone else will have to translate, refute, dispute or verify as it is all greek to me.

Star of David Formation and Appearance
 
Thanks wil:
I guess we'll both just have to wait for someone more knowledgeable and eriudite than we are to explain it. Dauer, BB ?

flow....:)
 
It looks like the image is off the website of an astrologer and I'm guessing the star shown is just a minor aspect pattern on a chart. I looked it up and found a minor aspect called "the star" that is a six-sided star. It's done a little differently but the notes say "The STAR symbolizes the presence of very special gifts and talents which can be used easily and in alignment with Universal trends." That's from the appendix of Choice Centered Astrology by Gail Fairfield.

Astrology did become a part of Judaism, probably due to Babylonian influence and is practiced by some people in Israel and the Diaspora. But Judaism's understanding of its influence or how the influence can be broken is a bit different. Let me grab my references: can't find them. But basically certain activities like changing one's name or doing tzedakah could effect one's mazal. And there are other opinions that it doesn't have any effect.

Dauer
 
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