Lost_Warrior

Great video!!! My leg hurts just watching it.

So...ancient people were spontaneously combusting all over the place?

Here are pics: (Photobucket's editor sucks raw eggs LOL. I was too lazy to save them on my computer and brighten them there.)

My navel ring did NOT grow shut, in fact...the hole shrunk quite a bit but I was able to stretch it back open, and I now have a beautiful new titanium barbell from Industrial Strength. It's a shorter barbell, at first I thought it was too short, but I LOVE the shorter barbell. It feels so much more comfortable than the longer one I had been wearing. (You can see the nasty surgery scar that is *slowly* healing and fading, and yes, my stomach is that hairy LOL I should totally take a better pic) And last night, I got my ears pierced again! I've wanted a second set of holes for about 6 years now, and I only recently decided on 14g mostly because there are some REALLY AWESOME 14g earrings I want to be able to wear. So I'm now wearing a brand new shiny pair of 14g stainless captive bead rings. The piercer is awesome, I called him last night when I got home from work and he said he wasn't going to be in today, and he was going to close up shop early but if he knew I was coming he'd stay. So I hopped in the car and drove down there. He was super friendly and knew what he was doing, too. I laughed, he had the needle lined up and said "OK, on the count of three. One, Two, *JAB*. OK I cheated." He had the jewelery in before I even realized it. The second ear: "Well you already know my trick so I'm just gonna do this *JAB*." If I would have flinched I didn't have TIME to. LOL I love my new holes. Pics coming soon. ' I gave Dean a nice tip and will totally go back to see him again if I need anything else done.

I do know that oaths and contracts, in many instances, were taken before the Gods. Iupiter Optimus Maximus (I believe) was invoked to witness the oath. As for the legal end of it, I really don't know. I'd imagine it would depend on the circumstances, but I'm willing to bet that most contracts were written. After all, a verbal contract is worth the paper it's written on... If someone couldn't write, I imagine it would be written up for them by someone who could, and the person in question would just sign or stamp it, or literate witnesses would certify that they had seen the parties involved make the verbal agreement.

Hedgehogs are cute! Although that carving looks more like a guinea pig, to me. Seriously, cool find.

Oh no. I've not been checking up on this section of the forum, so I didn't see this until now. I'd wondered where he went. May his soul rest in peace.

I understand these things from a philosophical point of view...though I don't necessarily agree with it. I don't really understand it from a scientific point of view. So much of a gap between "now" and "then" for it to make sense to me from that standpoint.

Wouldn't this be somewhat (loosely) akin to modern practices such as homeopathy? (the 'new ager' version I mean. When they start talking about chakras and etc. )

The leaves started changing here in mid September.

I've seen much bigger ones. Seriously. I seen a dude with an Adam's Apple so big that it looked like his neck was bent in half!

That's a really interesting thought. It's certainly a vast contrast to what we see today, in most cases. Very few people (a few notable exceptions aside) seem to feel any need to 'live up to' the model set by their parents. As central as the Paterfamilias was to the Roman family, it makes sense in every way.

Really? Wow! I had no idea it looked like that, honestly. I'm used to seeing the kind of block letters used in stone etc. I really had no idea the Romans had "round" letters like we do.

Are those letters Latin? Or Greek? It looks Greek to me but I could be mistaken. The translation given is Latin.

I noticed the picture of the tablet in This Post. The writing on it...doesn't seem a thing like the Latin lettering that is usually seen. It seems somewhat close to Greek, but not quite. What is it? Also...what did ancient "handwriting" look like?

The Adam's apple isn't even that noticeable. LOL Only a smidge more than most women have.

Not a bit. LOL Thankfully. I totally lost any liking for Johnny Depp when I saw the advert for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I didn't even watch the movie. Too disturbing. I can't believe that's not a woman.

Well, to make a perfect end to the clusterfluck week...I wound up having (minor) surgery today. I had a cyst near my belly button...as a result I had to be cut open and it drained. I had to remove the jewelery until it heals which means it'll probably grow shut and need repierced. *sigh* That's the last thing I wanted (well rejection would be worse but...) but right now I'm more worried about the wound healing than losing my navel ring. The PA that did the procedure is awesome though. Nephele you would love him. He's covered in tattoos, had zippers in the sleeves of his lab coat (so that he could roll them up easily) and a leather watch with an iron cross on it. Had the radio on while he did the procedure. And halfway through cutting into me and says "have you ever been to Burning Man? You have to go to Burning Man." We spent the whole time talking about Burning Man while he was cutting the cyst out. LOL And then afterwards he took me into his office to show me a picture from Burning Man. LOL!!!

Woo! Happy birthday!!!

I stumbled across this in my wanderings around the web: This is the first time I've heard this, and to me it borders on the ridiculous. However, I don't know if it would surprise me any. (Same site also says that Egyptians pierced their belly buttons! I wonder about that one as well, as I've never heard it before.) Thoughts? What would the Romans think of something like this, anyway? I hadn't thought that body modification was practiced that much in the Roman world (well, not by "civilized" Romans at any rate.) (I wonder if this would better fit in Humanitas...if it does someone please move it? Thanks.)

Wow! Thanks for posting! I really need to brush up on my German LOL. Prefect opportunity though.

Oh yea! Crap I do! LOL I may have to use BloodRayne or Rayne as a screen name somewhere now. ROTFLMAO

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Oh I love cheesecake! Any more recipes?