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I've updated mine to Peter Gabriel dressed a Magog, performing Supper's Ready live.

Ian, I hadn't even noticed the blurred mammaries on the AHM

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You, lady, owe me author's rights...

My lawyer will contact yours

BaldJean wrote: this calendar has the advantage that the same date will fall on the same weekday every year. what's more, every month starts with the same weekday, so calculating which weekday a certain date falls on is totally easy

How do you manage with the 29th of February??


Edited by Sean Trane - March 03 2018 at 00:37

I honestly don't think I could go totally meatless, if I wanted to (and I don't, lol). We're meant to be omnivores. Our GI tract is too short for us to be vegetarians, as BaldJean points out.

About the High Pristesses of Gaia, I believe you all are vegans?

yes, we use some unusual herbs for cooking. and some of our dishes are very spicy indeed

oh, about the size of our religious group: we are currently at 22. the oldest one is 86. she is a herb witch and has taught us the way of the herbs. every plant and mushroom has some use, and she knows all about them

we actually use our lack of hair to advertise for our restaurant. our slogan is "the restaurant where you can be certain no hair is in the soup"

it is the most radical case of alopecia. it can have several causes - genetic disposition, hormonal changes (some women experience this during a pregnancy), stress or traumatic experiences. with me it was probably stress, though a traumatic experience may somehow be involved too. with Friede it was definitely a traumatic experience

the baldness is natural. alopecia universalis, an autoimmune disorder. any hair is regarded as not belonging to the body by the immune system and rejected, even the eyelashes and nostril hairs. Friede and I met in a self-help group. there is not a single hair on us anywhere, not even the finest fluff.

but somehow the hairlessness could also be seen as a symbol of purity. the ancient Egyptian priests actually believed this, which is why they removed every single hair from their bodies. I know this because I studied history and specialized in ancient.

in this light the lack of hair appears to be quite fitting for us as High Priestesses


Edited by BaldJean - February 28 2018 at 15:25

verslibre wrote: To which fall festival do you refer? What do you do during the proceedings/ceremony/ritual?

we are High Priestesses of Gaia, the ancient Greek Goddess of the Earth. the solstices and equinoxes, which mark the beginning of the four seasons, are our holy days. we paint ourselves head to toe in the color of the beginning season - green for the grass of spring, red for the flowers of summer, yellowish-brown for the leaves of fall and white for the snow of winter. we dance and sing hymns of praise to Gaia, bring offerings of flowers and fruits of the season (nuts for winter) and take fly agaric to have visions.

we also developed a calendar of our own. it has 13 months with 28 days each + a New Year's Day that does not belong to any month or week. in leap years New Year's Day is followed by leap day which also does not belong to any month or week. since the weekdays of this calendar are not identical with the weekdays of the Gregorian calendar we named the weekday after the 7 Pleiades. the months are named after Greek Goddesses.

this calendar has the advantage that the same date will fall on the same weekday every year. what's more, every month starts with the same weekday, so calculating which weekday a certain date falls on is totally easy


Edited by BaldJean - February 28 2018 at 15:26