The first returns were all about the same thing as this post, but I clicked a Reddit link to see what they said about it, and the first zillion comments were all about ad blockers, and all of them getting their zingers in (“I ain’t raw dogging it on your website”). I scrolled for a while and gave up, without ever getting to a post about the subject. I figured next up was a bunch of puns.

A brief reminder of why I don’t miss Reddit.

“Hey, mom, can we go to church again on Sunday? I like church.”

Giggity.

I also once read that the Romans believed thoughts came from your heart. I get that. After all, when you feel loss or separation, you feel it in your chest.

Still, it’s interesting to think about - why do we think thoughts come from our head? I’ve tried to imagine thoughts coming from my heart, and it doesn’t feel right. I think it might be because our eyes and ears are right there, feeding information straight into our brain. And yet the Romans believed it. It must have felt right to them, so that would indicate that it’s a socialization sort of thing. We’re told where our thoughts emanate from, and we believe it.

I guess they didn’t know what the brain did exactly, but they must have noticed from battle injuries that the brain is key to being alive.

I was reading recently that thought as we know it, is a relatively recent development in humanity. Up until only a few hundred years ago, any ideas we came up with, were automatically attributed to the Gods. You didn’t come up with any ideas on your own, you wondered what to do, and God told you, and you did it.

It was only a few hundred years ago that people began to realize that they were thinking up these ideas on their own, and God had nothing to do with it.

Some people STILL think this way.

How did the fire start? Wait, don’t tell me…

Her second language is Klingon. Don’t let her anywhere near the throne.

In some countries, it’s a delicacy.

My favorite is when we want someone to lower the window in the car, we still use the “rolling down” gesture from cars with hand cranked windows.

When I was a kid, I liked all sorts of museums, art, science, history, natural history, etc. As an adult, I still do, although I prefer Art Museums the most.