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Hope: a review
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Mass behavior intrigues me in two instances, one fictional, the other real-life.
The movie The drop makes Tom Hardy's one-time-murderer character mention his ...
DerdriuMarriner, 29 days ago

Getting Through a Power Outage
Your comment Jul 19, 2015, that "We usually have no winter problems here, some years we do not ever get past thirty degrees, but summers are a problem when the A/C goes out" intrigues me.
Your text mentions battery-operated fans and battery- ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/01/2025

Valentine's Symbols
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It's so interesting what the different colors of Valentine roses invoke.
For example, blue and green flowers in general intrigue me even as your Valentine countdown from Feb. ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/01/2025

Valentine's Symbols
I can't say about the colors of knots. They are very likely used in similar way as colors ofor ribbons. Gold, in my opinion was used for different reasons. One important was an improvement of printing technique. Postcards used gold (and some ...
Tolovaj, on 01/31/2025

Valentine's Symbols
Brown is not recognized as a Valentine's symbol at the moment. Teddy bears come in different color, so they are not defining brown at the moment, but who knows what future brings?
Tolovaj, on 01/31/2025

Valentine's Symbols
No, 14 flowers represent 14 days of February. It's a coundown calendar, similar to Advent calendars popular in December. The fourteenth rose is for St. Valentine's Day, but the order is not important. Colors are irrelevant, the color symbolism ...
Tolovaj, on 01/31/2025

Hope: a review
No records are made or kept, so there is no list of any kind. The bishops keep records of who is allow3d to absolve, but what the penitent says is unrecorded.
frankbeswick, on 01/31/2025

Hope: a review
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Absolution and dispensation appear to me as such impactful, powerful actions.
Does the absolver have to designate somewhere officially or with someone ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2025

Film Review of Kiss and Tell: Shirley Temple in 1945 War Time Comedy About a Sixteen Year Old
One scene appears to be absent in verisimilitude.
The film begins with Corliss as a poised, prescient, pretty 15-year-old.
But later the aforementioned underager consumes shrimp cocktails with Jimmy, whose military service conveys an age of 18 ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2025

Valentine's Symbols
The fourth and the sixth subheadings, Knot and Spider's web respectively, cause me to consider characteristic or common colors.
Do Valentine knots domicile distinct colors?
The in-text image predominantly evidences gold for the spider web. Is ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2025

Hope: a review
It does not require any other religious authorities
frankbeswick, on 01/31/2025

Hope: a review
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Pope Francis may grant absolution. Might he make that absolution on his own or must he meet with other religious authorities -- such as cardinals? -- before he moves ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/30/2025

Decorating with Shakespeare
Thank you for your comment May 25, 2021, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Godparents have important roles in familial lives. It isn't just the spiritual imperative. It often may be a related or a related, but not ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/30/2025

How Chopsticks Aid in Weight Loss and Well Being
Online sources indicate that chopsticks involve bamboo, ceramics, ivory, metal or wood traditionally and plastic, stainless steel and titanium modernly.
Which material might you prefer for your chopsticks?
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/30/2025

Mitsubishi i-MiEV: An Electric Car for Environmental and Public Health
Some colors account for higher sales even as some years amass more lucrative, more numerous, more record-breaking sales than others.
It's interesting to consider the aforementioned truths in the case of the Mitsubishi i-Miev, whose fans perhaps ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/30/2025