Reader Opinions
Gary – (a friend in need is a friend indeed) March 13, 2022
To me it sounds like when a so called friend is in trouble or needs help they become very friendly to you so not to jeopardize the help they want to receive from you
Uncle Ge – (out of one’s depth) March 11, 2022
“Beyond my depth” appears in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, decades earlier than Killigrew’s work.
Iris Robin – (good egg) March 11, 2022
I used this phrase at work and my manager had no idea what it meant-he had never heard it. I grew up and schooled in NYC, he in Southern California. Is the phrase somewhat ‘geographical’?
Cat – (high on the hog) March 7, 2022
It really came from slave days. The master got the good portions of the hog to eat, which are literally high up on the hog. The slaves were given the intestines and feet, which are low on the hog. Over time the meaning has changed but still reflects wealth verses poor.
Sam Chambers – (happy wife happy life) March 6, 2022
Why don’t people have a sense of humour anymore? In the modern world, the phrase is used with sarcasm. It’s not meant to be taken literally. It’s an expression usually used in a quippical discussion to express and highlight the challenges within a marriage or relationship. It’s used with humour.
Karthika Devi Rajesh – (tie the knot) March 5, 2022
In south Indian marriages, the holy wedding thread with the mangalsutra or the holy pendant (unique to the family) is tied around the bride’s neck by the groom to solemnize the marriage.
Denzel Finley – (forty winks) March 5, 2022
Why 40 ? Why not 30 or 50 ?
Rontarian L Hooks – (keep your friends close and your enemies closer) March 3, 2022
I am speechless at the moment. I have been blindsided by those that were the closest to me and it had left me to be discombobulated and hanging on to a strand of my life. Some days I feel that it I’d better if I just died. But I think after that thought, of all that is incomplete. It is not my time yet. I must learn strategically how to maneuver through life and avoid other occurrences similar to this post occurrence. Who knows, the next occurrence very well could claim my life.
Repetition Is Not Truth – (like a hole in the head) March 2, 2022
Shame on Ayin Raah for repeating the Blood Libel as though it were true. This myth has led to great evils throughout centuries of history. Perpetuating the myth serves only to perpetuate the evil.
John Dague – (blood is thicker than water) February 25, 2022
It’s interesting to recognize that during ancient times there were two opposing religions, one related to blood, and one related to water. These people were megalithic builders, they constructed the megalithic structures of every ancient civilization.
The farmers of Anatolia and Mesopotamia worshipped water and life. As people who grew irrigated crops, they understood the importance of water in creating and maintaining life.
The European hunters worshipped blood and death. Their survival was dependent upon death and carnage. They had inherited genes and behavior from Northern European Neanderthals, who were cannibalistic. They created social hierarchy, slavery, human sacrifice, they practiced cannibalism, and they engaged in homicide, violence, and warfare. The genes and inherited behavior of ancient Europeans were responsible for every ancient cultural collapse and every fall of ancient civilizations.
These two groups, farmers and hunters met in Gobekli Tepe 10,000 years ago. This is when Gobekli Tepe was abandoned. Then 8,000 years ago Çatalhöyük was abandoned. 6,000 years ago the Late Chalcolithic Cultural Collapse occurred in Southeastern Europe.
At 4,600 years ago the First Dynasty of Ur invaded Mesopotamia with wheeled war chariots and bronze weapons. This is when the religion that worshipped water and life migrated by boat, becoming very prominent in Mohenjo-Daro, and in Ireland, and in Caral in Peru. But ultimately these people would be replaced by people who worshipped death, who buried their dead with weapons, rich grave goods, and red ocher, the color of blood.
At the time that Hittites and Egyptians were at war with each other, a mysterious group of people known only as the Sea People began to invade Egypt and Anatolia. This led to the Bronze Age Collapse. After this, the religion that worshipped water and life became prominent again in Anatolia and the Levant.
But some people retained the inherited behavior of cannibalistic Neanderthals, so war has continued until this day.
