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St. Valentine’s day, catholic holiday (holyday), venereal disease… (yes i plan on tying it in)

i am no scholar, so please refrain from making an ass out of yourself in any correction you may choose to point out here. your douche baggery would be monumental

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all about Valentine’s Day

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i guess we should start here with a bit of information about paganism. pagan comes from the latin root paganus. this roughly translates to mean olden country dweller, and is often translated to rustic. from the modern theological perspective, it encompasses all spiritual and culture beliefs that can be easily defined as:

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• folk religion
• belief in multiple gods or entities
• demonstrations of these religions or beliefs

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based on these criteria, Catholicism (and other nonspecific Christian religions) are pagan, though they refuse to believe they fall into this category in the slightest. Christians have nearly always been caustic when it comes to religion differing from itself. originally, Valentine’s day was believed to be a Roman holiday based around Lupercalus/Frebruata Juno celebrations. Frebruata is known as a goddess of fertility and sexuality. Lupercus was associated as the god of the pasture (and supposedly all that resides there in). the feast of Lupercalia occurred in their honor. Catholics, as with many other “pagan” festivals, bastardized it and stripped it of its original context by suppressing its normal practice. tack on a Catholic saint’s name and call it something new. obviously the first few years would be difficult, but enough people integrating changes out of convenience, indifference, or fear. next thing you know *poof! nearly “instant” Christian holiday.

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this is just one belief in its origins. there are several others depending on who you talk to. at some points the theories run parallel to each other and even converge. this general relativity is commonly a sign of core truths in all of the stories, and shows that you could look past a lot of the information and read only the subtext. that all of the theories are correct, and have been slightly embellished over the years, appearing to be separate from each other.

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THE St Valentine is actually an amalgam. he was up to 11 people all of whom had their own days of celebration under Catholicism. back in 1969, this was bunched together and became what it is today. there is a further amalgam in the fact that it is primarily celebrating Valantine of Rome and Valentine of Terni. Significant speculation in the past shows that though all records show them to have died nearly a hundred years apart, they may actually be the same individual and records may be incorrect. as all of the celebrated Valentine,s were killed or cannonized on the same day, it is also speculated that they were ALL the same person, reinterpreted through folklore and misinformation.. so there you go.. 11 saints and a lot of condensing and confusion.we can blame Chaucer (the man who wrote the Canterbury Tales) for the direct modern association of love with the holiday. “for this was on St. Valentine’s day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate”… Chaucer Chaucer Chaucer. thanks. no really. Parliament of Foules is where this quote started. English society began associating lovers with the feast of Valentine because on that day the birds start to fall in love… such a simple thing.. i really wish there was a bit more to it, but from all i have found, there isnt.

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the traditional sending of “Valentines” can be attributed to the custom started of men and women writing love letters to the patron Saint Valentine. Valentine of Rome, being a miracle worker supposedly healed a jailers daughter who lost her sight. after her sight returned, he gave her a letter that was signed “from your Valentine”. whether this is fact or another yarn is up for debate, but the giving of notes to one you care for continues in this manner.

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more likely, this appears to be a replacement for other old pagan ceremonies where names were chosen out of a pot. boys and the girls (whose names they had pulled) were then bound together for the remainder fo the year, details on what their relationships were like are unknown to me. the church tried to take advantage of this tradition by having people choose the names of saints from said pot instead of the names of girls. people who pulled names were to emulate, for the next year, the values that their saint was known for. how bad could that be right? well what if you got stuck with a really really really bad or lame saint? examples:

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• Jesus Malverde, the patron saint of drug traffickers (i dont know that he was cannonized, just that the locals loved him enough to call him a saint and made a church in his honor)
• Ignatius of Antioch, saint of throat ailments
• St Vitus, patron saint of comedians, dancers and epilepsy
• St Zita, saint of lost keys
• Saint Nicholas, (yup, the one and only Santa Claus) patron saint of prostitutes among other more widely known things

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not being Catholic, these may or not be accurate as the interwebs sometimes lies to us, but you get my point here. it could be terrible beyond belief if you pulled the wrong name. it would be worse than pulling the smelly girl’s name in the pagan ceremony.

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now is when we get to the boring part of the holiday’s history.. fast forward a few hundred years. it is the mid 1800’s. Mass greeting cards are first produced out of lace and sold to the public. nothing of interest has happened since then. it is all just the same old story titled “how to make a buck off a holyday” as written by Paimi Monet lace turned to paper, paper turned to un-recycled card-stock. card-stock got crappy cartoon characters and pictures of the BRATZ stenciled on them candy candy candy. expensive gifts and jewelry. bad Zales diamond commercials, red heart shaped mylar balloons that knock you in the head on your bus ride to work, more bad candy. swoony women, heart ache and disappointment, missed expectations and occasionally, a pretty damn good day..

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venereal disease.. i was going to tie this in somehow. oh yeah. HAPPY VD every one.

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humorous image of the Valentine guillotine was found here www.pizzabytheslice.com
best part, and unfortunately they do not mention if it was on purpose, was that many of the amalgam Valentines were beheaded.. i dont know how many, and i do not think that the guillotine was used, but it is still humorous.

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WW2 VD poster was found on nih.gov

CNN: Canadian firetruck responding to U.S. call held up at border

FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

America, when are you going to wake up and realize that you are just as “safe” as you always were, that you only hurt yourselves and all those you interact with when you overreact to outside influences in a blind and negative manner?

digression: Why did it take nearly a month before i even heard about this?

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/11/14/border.firetruck/

November 14, 2007

From Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers
CNN

(CNN) — A Canadian firetruck responding with lights and sirens to a weekend fire in Rouses Point, New York, was stopped at the U.S. border for about eight minutes, U.S. border officials said Tuesday.

The U.S.-Canadian border is more than 5,000 miles long.

Fire officials battling the blaze called for help from fire departments in nearby Quebec, using a longstanding and often-used mutual aid agreement. But the first truck that arrived at the small Rouses Point border crossing was delayed as officials checked documentation of the firefighters and their truck, officials confirmed.

Two other trucks that arrived at the crossing next were cleared in less than two minutes each, a time that one fire official said was still too long considering the situation.

“It’s embarrassing,” said Chris Trombley, chief of the Champlain [New York] Volunteer Fire Department and deputy fire coordinator for Clinton County Emergency Services. “We’re calling for help from another country and the first roadblock they hit is at our border.”

The Canadian firefighters “were asked for IDs,” Trombley said. “I believe they even ran the license plate on the truck to make sure it was legal.”

In the past, firetrucks on emergency calls cleared border checkpoints in 30 seconds or less, Trombley said, although he said identification is sometimes checked upon their return.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said the eight-minute delay at the Rouses Point crossing was caused “when one of the firefighters’ admissibility was brought into question.” He declined to elaborate, citing immigration and privacy laws.

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A government source familiar with the case said one firefighter had a criminal record, raising questions about whether he could enter the United States.

Kevin Corsaro of the border protection’s Buffalo field office said the agency’s primary responsibility is to protect the homeland. He called the event an “isolated incident” and said agency officials were meeting with local fire officials to “develop a plan to prevent the possibility of any delays.”

No one was seriously injured in the fire, but The Anchorage Inn restaurant — a landmark in the village of Rouses Point — was destroyed. A firefighter who suffered minor smoke inhalation was treated at the scene, said Michael LeBlanc, chief of the Rouses Point Volunteer Fire Department. The cause of the blaze has not been determined, he said.

Ten fire departments, including the Canadian departments, responded to the fire.

“Would it [quicker passage at the border] have changed the outcome of the fire?” Trombley asked. “Would the building have been burned? Of course it would.” But he said firefighters were getting fatigued fighting the fire and relief was delayed. “Just the fact that it could happen and it could happen again is what has us worried,” he said.

Clinton County has mutual aid agreements with fire departments in Vermont and Quebec, Trombley said, and the county requests help from Quebec fire departments about 30 times a year. It sends help to Canada a similar number of times, he said.

Trombley and LeBlanc said they planned to meet with authorities on Wednesday to discuss the incident. LeBlanc declined to comment. “I don’t have all the facts and I don’t want to mistake what happened,” he said.

“We’ve had a mutual aid system in place since the ’50s and I can’t remember anything like this happening,” said Trombley.

Interesting weekend.

Thursday.

closed out Beulahland on thurday night with alex. too much beer and not enough pinball equaled not getting hope till late and still being drunk on friday when i woke up for work.

Friday

Playing pool and drinking a fantastic wine at uptown billiards. Suzuki, Athena, and Admiral Fubar are in close proximity as Athena decides to take a whirlwind bridge tour and hits nearly every portland bridge in a matter of an hour. very pleasant. 70’s rock accompaniment blast through the radio

Saturday

relaxation and book reading. coffee and conversation. sean picks me up and we head to a party being thrown by one of his long time buddys. matt and i talk, i remember why he and i are friends, this is nice as over the years, i had forgotten. crashed a party next door and met a woman named Jenn. she rocks a hell of a lot and is a great dancer, fun and pretty. her brother proceeds to threaten to destroy me should i make her unhappy. i hope she had as much fun as i did, i hope her brother will eventually learn that being a pompus dick is only demeaning himself further.

didnt get home till late as hell

i wish it would have snowed this weekend.

Bunny Rabbit, w/lyrics and tunage.

No lyrics could be found on the web, so i wrote them down old school style. they may not be fully correct, each can judge for themselves

LOTS OF PROFANITY - warning complete. —- let me know what you think.. —-
personally, i really love this album.. it is terrible, but incredible :).. you know.. one of those albums.

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Bunny Rabbit - Dirty Dirt

[scratching] L’love you Boo Boo, L’ L’ L

[chorus]
Down in the dirty dirt
is where we gonna flirt
and I’ll tak your heart into mine
Boo, I wont waste your time
[repeat]

When I saw you Boo Boo
I just had to take you
down in the dirty dirt
I’m slippin off your shirt
we layin on the ground
makin sure no ones around
cause we sure them hoes
will fuckin’ hear the sound
of our rubbin’
and our squeezin’
an our lovin’
and our huggin’
just doin it sweet the way we do
down in the dirt, who fuckin’ knew
you’d be down so hard for the bunny crew

Down in the dirty dirt
is where we gonna flirt
and I’ll tak your heart into mine
Boo, I wont waste your time
[repeat]

you lookin so fine
that I cant believe you’re mine
and after we’re through
I just want to chill with you
straight lookin’ at the clouds
feelin warm from the sun
gettin high cause our time has just begun
[repeat]

[”rapping”]
Yeah Boo, i wanna get dirty
with you boo, in the ground,
in the soil,
where all plants grow
and they grow
and they bloom
and they get all fucking tall
and then some mother fucker has to come and cut that shit
what the fuck bitch?
what the fuck,
why you fucking cutting all the fucking beautiful shit
instead you be growing all these mother fucking buildings
in this mother fucking neighborhood
this shit is ugly mother fucker
its ugly mother fucker
you can take your building stick it up my motherfucking pussy bitch
yeah, stick that building up my mother fucking pussy bitch
then i’ll piss all over that shit,
i’ll piss all over that shit
then i’ll take a fuckin sledgehammer,
i’ll fuckin tear that shit down
yeah

grow some flowers instead of that shit
grow some flowers
and some some bees are gonna come
and they are gonna cum all over that shit
yeah

spread other motherfuckin’ flowers
all over this motherfuckin’ neighborhood
you hear me motherfucka’?
you hear what i’m motherfuckin’ saying?
let start this shit and make it all pretty and shit
make it all pretty with some motherfuckin’ rainbows
and motherfucking birds
and all that motherfucking nature shit
cause I’m motherfuckin’ Bunny Rabbit motherfucka’
and fuckin’ Bunny Rabbits flop in the nature shit
we flop and we fuck in the motherfuckin’ nature shit,
yeah

Down in the dirty dirt
is where we gonna flirt
and I’ll tak your heart into mine
Boo, I wont waste your time
[repeat till end]