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    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 4 01:01:30 2023
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    May the Fourth be With You!

    Since it is now 1:01 a.m. NDT (0331 UTC/GMT) May 4,
    Happy Star Wars Day!

    I’m still fumbling along on the thread
    “Full moon closest to Beltane”
    on alt.religion.druid, for any who notice effects.

    Note that that full moon happens to fall on Vesak.

    However that dismays me a bit, since I didn’t expect any
    correlation of my success with an existing religious
    festival, so I expect I will fail again in my latest
    Sisyphean moon rock rolling.

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
    "My momma was a waitress; My daddy a truckdriver; The thing
    that kept their power from them; Slowed me down awhile." (Ferron)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 4 06:00:28 2023
    XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan, alt.religion.buddhism
    XPost: alt.religion.buddhism.nichiren, alt.religion.buddhism.theravada

    On May 4, 2023, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<0001HW.2A035E9200453A9F700004F7A38F@news.eternal-september.org>):

    May the Fourth be With You!

    Since it is now 1:01 a.m. NDT (0331 UTC/GMT) May 4,
    Happy Star Wars Day!

    I’m still fumbling along on the thread
    “Full moon closest to Beltane”
    on alt.religion.druid, for any who notice effects.

    Note that that full moon happens to fall on Vesak.

    However that dismays me a bit, since I didn’t expect any
    correlation of my success with an existing religious
    festival, so I expect I will fail again in my latest
    Sisyphean moon rock rolling.

    The full moon also falls on Cinco de Mayo.

    The evening of May 4 to the evening of May 5
    is also Pesach Sheni, or Second Passover, which is for
    those who are ritually impure due to contact with a dead body,
    or who have been on a “distant journey” (e.g. a Wild Rover
    or prodigal son away in the wilderness).

    From Wikipedia:
    "One theme commonly expressed for this holiday is second chances."

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
    "My momma was a waitress; My daddy a truckdriver; The thing
    that kept their power from them; Slowed me down awhile." (Ferron)

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