It's Ash Wednesday...........

[mrmpa]

anyone getting their ashes today?

Just asking.

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	Yes I received ashes today.
	1 (25%)
	No I did not get ashes yet, but later.
	0 (0%)
	I got them last night at the Mardi Gras celebration, to save time.
	0 (0%)
	I don't need no stinking ashes.
	3 (75%)
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[hrmjustin]

1. I will go later.

[Aerows]

16. I truly don't understand how a religious

and cultural symbol becomes a way to lob ichor at people.

FIND things to criticize people for. On an affirming holy day, at that.

[Xyzse]

2. I say no to the ashes, but I really don't know.

I might get some later...
Maybe.

[orleans]

3. now what exactly do are they supposed to stand for?

i haven't been to church since i was a kid & i forgot!

[Cal33]

4. "Dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return."

[orleans]

5. hmmm. thanks. (stardust? they were right!) n/t

[IrishAyes]

8. Stardust.... that's a nice thought, since the 'stuff of the universe' is pretty consistent.

I've always found the imposition of ashes very comforting.

[orleans]

9. fun with stardust

"Thus the amount of stardust atoms in our body is 40%."
"Since stardust atoms are the heavier elements, the percentage of star mass in our body is much more impressive. Most of the hydrogen in our body floats around in the form of water. The human body is about 60% water and hydrogen only accounts for 11% of that water mass. Even though water consists of two hydrogen atoms for every oxygen, hydrogen has much less mass. We can conclude that 93% of the mass in our body is stardust. Just think, long ago someone may have wished upon a star that you are made of."
http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/poster-stardust.cfm

[IrishAyes]

10. Physics was the only college class I had to repeat, but I chose to even though on my first run

I squeaked by with a D. I could regurgitate all kinds of information but understood little of it. The professor was a misogynist beast. Even though I obviously never became a physicist of any sort, I'm still glad I redid the course with a different teacher who loved the subject and communicated it well. I still like to read about it on a 'for dummies' level.

Enjoyed your post.

[orleans]

11. thanks. i know very little about this sort of thing but i think

the fact that we're made of stardust is really cool

[IrishAyes]

12. I like the poster showing Tyson saying, "The nice thing about science is that it's right whether

you believe it or not."

[Cal33]

19. "Stardust" is correct. Also, think of this: Mother Earth is a great recycler. Every atom and

molecule that goes into the make-up of our bodies, has probably at some time or other
been parts of the bodies of every other living being -- whether human, animal or plant.
In this sense, we are all one.

[orleans]

21. i was recently watching a show from season two of "through the wormhole"

and they were talking about that. i think the example was an atom on cleopatra's lip.

[Cal33]

22. Could you let me know what day and time "through the wormhole" comes on? Thanks.

[orleans]

23. i got the dvds from the library.

i'm not sure if it's on tv anymore.

if your library doesn't have it then they can probably order/request it from another library.

[Cal33]

24. Okay. Thanks a lot.

[pipi_k]

20. Even these guys

knew about stardust...

[femmocrat]

6. Other: Our denomination doesn't do ashes.

Not saying that I couldn't use some though.

[hrmjustin]

7. I got mine.

[Aerows]

17. Got mine at around 9 am

I had to do some other things today that were unpleasant, but that carried me through to pseudo-pleasantness.

[hrmjustin]

18. I went to an evening service at a local Episcopal Church here.

[bigwillq]

13. I do not get ashes.

I don't go to church.

[progressoid]

14. Well, a couple of our asparagus spears got slightly burned in the oven tonight.

But I ate it anyway.

[No Vested Interest]

15. The nearby church that I frequent - not my parish- was packed, with standees in the back.

Many are regulars there throughout the year at the noon Mass; others made the special effort today, Ash Wednesday, at the beginning of Lent.
Probably many are like me - starting off with good intentions. My history of making through Lent with intentions completed is very poor. Maybe this is the year I'll do better.
Not planning to deny myself, but to improve both spiritually and even physically.
One day down.

[Feral Child]

25. "Because I do not hope to turn again

Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn..."


I lost interest in Eliot when I learned he'd converted to Anglicism and became a banker.

Sell-out to conservative commercialism gained him Laureate status, but cost him his soul.

And no, no symbolic smudges for this atheist.