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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Oct 21, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2EA740DA01F31DBA70000E32538F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > On Oct 20, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   > (in article<0001HW.2EA6D6B501DA3CD470000E32538F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
   >   
   > > On Oct 20, 2025, David Dalton wrote   
   > > (in article<0001HW.2EA5EDEC01A3ADFE70000E32538F@news.eternal   
   september.org>)   
   > > :   
   > >   
   > > > Happy Diwali to any who celebrate it!!   
   > >   
   > > New moon here will be at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday local time.   
   > >   
   > > Today on my walk home from Mary’s I stopped in at   
   > > Dollarama to get some stuff for another sister. I got   
   > > a 173 g bag of snack-sized candy bars and four regular   
   > > sized chocolate bars. The total with 15% tax was $9.55.   
   > >   
   > > I consider that significant since 55 has been my lucky   
   > > or recurring number and 55 in Roman numerals is LV   
   > > which I take to mean LOVE, and also because of   
   > > the timing of new/dark moon.   
   > >   
   > > I plan to begin another global new age onset mystic   
   > > activation sequence at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday and will   
   > > list any required changes in a post to alt.religion.druid   
   > > just after that.   
   > >   
   > > However I have said that I don’t expect a correlation   
   > > with an existing religious holiday, and this will be   
   > > Diwali new/dark moon. (Diwali is celebrated by   
   > > Hindus, Jain, Sikhs, some Buddhists, and some   
   > > atheists.)   
   > >   
   > > And also the man who served me at the checkout was   
   > > of South Asian descent, and I should have mentioned   
   > > the coincidence to him but neglected to.   
   >   
   > And note the following lines from Sarah McLachlan’s   
   > song Into the Fire:   
   >   
   > "I will stare at the sun until its light doesn’t blind me   
   > I will walk into the fire until its heat doesn’t burn me   
   > And I will feed the fire”   
      
   And since Diwali is about light in the darkness, these lines from   
   her song I Will Remember You are appropriate as well:   
      
   "But once there was a darkness, deep and endless night;   
   You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light."   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “Early morning, jubilators, up to no good, instigators... Sons of long   
   forgotten races, that the darkest night embraces” (Ron Hynes & D.O’D)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)