On 7/8/2015 11:40 AM, Acme Bully Control wrote:
> On 7/8/2015 3:23 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 7/8/2015 10:12 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:55:37 -1000, dsi1
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/7/2015 9:40 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On 7/7/2015 9:57 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It is indeed, life needs a LOT more hugs!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We're one big happy family. The young people call their elders
>>>>>>>> "uncle"
>>>>>>>> or "auntie" so we do have a tendency to treat others as clan
>>>>>>>> members
>>>>>>>> here.
>>>>>>>> I suspect it's the same way on all the little rocks across the
>>>>>>>> Pacific.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's how it used to be here, but now the youngsters call their
>>>>>>> seniors
>>>>>>> by
>>>>>>> their first names. It is not an improvement.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My wife's auntie came over from Washington state last week. Boy
>>>>>>>> was she
>>>>>>>> full of hugs and kisses. She was quite a jolly sort. It was not
>>>>>>>> what I
>>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>>> expecting because her son died about 2 months ago. I thought that
>>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>>> curious but I don't really know her that well. Boy, life is one
>>>>>>>> dangerous
>>>>>>>> place - any one of us can go at any time!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It was probably a great comfort to her after the loss of her son.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hugging here is not normally a 'close' thing with folk we don't
>>>>>>> know.
>>>>>>> It is on a par with 'air kissing' )
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.wikihow.com/Air-Kiss
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...s-social-group
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess we're like France in that respect! OTOH, the Maoris will
>>>>>> press
>>>>>> their foreheads and tips of their noses together and share a breath.
>>>>>> That's kind of cool.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm that could depend on what they had been eating I suppose, but
>>>>> no, I
>>>>> would hate to exchange breath with anyone
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You got a very good point there!
>>>
>>> A great way to transfer diseases, and not just the common cold.
>>>
>>
>> Lono will protect those that worship him!
>
> But first you have to travel to Indiana find him:
>
> http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1229282
>
>
> http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/ku/ku06.htm
>
> The word maka, "eye," refers to the constellation of the Pleiades, hiki
> is a sign of movement; the word translated liberally hence refers to the
> rising of the Pleiades in the heavens corresponding with the time of the
> sun's turn northward, bringing warmth again to earth, the growth of
> plants, and the spawning of fish. At this time a festival was celebrated
> in honor of the fertility god Lono, god of cultivated food plants not
> alone in Hawaii but throughout marginal Polynesian islands, and prayed
> to in Hawaiian households to send rain and sunshine upon the growing
> crops, spawn to fill the fishing stations, offspring to mankind. His
> signs were observed in the clouds. Heiau were built to Lono not in time
> of war but under stress of famine or scarcity. His worship was mild,
> without human sacrifice such as belonged to the severer worship of the
> war god Ku. Any man might set up a temple to Lono, a ruling chief alone
> to the god Ku as a prayer for success in war, for life in case of
> illness, or upon the birth of a first-born son.


Mostly I was thinking about the god that protects us from the Bradys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YsN0y7vZI