I spent a decade or more in "power of prayer" churches that claimed miracles, I never saw a single damn miracle of any kind. I HEARD people saying God healed them but it was always for stuff that was going to get better anyway. "I had a horrible cold, but I prayed, and a week later, God healed me!"

He's a great human being and goes out of his way to be a great human being to others. Other millionaires could learn from him.

I played guitar and bass for about 20 years before I tried learning the keyboard instruments. Though I can't read music at all, just learning basic major and minor chords on the keyboard helped me understand a lot about how music works.

I play keyboards and bass guitar in my band. Modern guitar amps can reproduce practically any sound those guitarists produced, but at lower volumes. I do understand that rock is supposed to be loud, but there is a difference between loud and ice-picks-in-your-ears loud. The problem in my band is that the more the guitarist turns up, the louder the drummer plays, then the guitarist gets even louder, etc.

I am a musician, the guitarist in our band insists that we practice very loud or the music doesn't sound right. We're not kids either- We are in our fifties. It literally got painful last weekend at practice and I decided I'm wearing ear plugs from now on when I practice with him.

When they legalized some forms of medical marijuana in Georgia about five years ago, they made it legal to possess, but they didn't provide any legal means to obtain these medicines.

This Catch-22 made it so that people had to find some way to get the medicines outside Georgia, then illegally bring them across the border so that they could use them legally here.

I like to roast my meat over a meth fire for that finger licking good dissasemble the TV and run naked through the trailer park barbecue taste.

Maybe it's the magic glasses. You put them on any average attractive looking girl and she becomes Lisa/Tina?

I go outside in my yard with a hand mirror. Nothing to clean up.

Francophobia?

I started Spanish at 29, was conversationally fluent within two years. As an adult it comes down to desire and usefulness of a language to really learn it.

>People don't realize that despite being fluent, they still have huge gaping holes in their knowledge of "their own" language.

Yeah, my native language is English, but I've used Spanish extensively for my work in a technical field for 20+ years and I know all kinds of technical words and concepts in Spanish that the average native Spanish speaker doesn't know.

It's my own little ritual of Winter, it puts things in perspective and gives me that same feeling I had as a kid sitting by the (real) Christmas tree looking at the little world in there among the branches.

I started feeling that way some years ago, then I started thinking of Christmas more in the traditional pagan sense that it's a celebration that falls right around the Winter solstice here in the Northern hemisphere.

I see it as celebrations, feasts, music, and general merriment to dispel the darkness and cold. For me it's not about Santa or Jesus, it's just an excuse to celebrate that after the 21st, the days start getting longer instead of shorter- the cycle is turning back to the light.

I have my own little solo party by myself on Solstice eve where I build a bonfire outside, have some mixed drinks and just sit, me and the dog, watching the fire and enjoying the outdoors.

A good friend of mine had a heart attack last year (age 49) he lived despite the local hospital telling him it was probably just indigestion. Luckily he sought out another opinion at a different hospital an hour away. Had to get a stent in an artery.