what are your thoughts

[Only-virgins]

Can you cry under water?

Do fish ever get thirsty?

Why is it called a 'building' when it is already built?

If you try to fail and succeed, what have you done?

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Do you find it slightly scary that what doctors do is called 'practice'?

Why is toilet paper perforated the way it is? Does anyone ever use just one sheet?

Ecojeane, don't you have a dick to suck or something? Come on...these questions suck ass.

[ecojeanne]

Basically, because when the Western Germanic languages were standardized, nouns were invented by adding suffixes to some of the verb infinitives (eg. build+ing=building)

This is the same reason why there are various suffixes for adjectives, adverbs, etc.

If you look at other Germanic languages, you see similar suffixes, which is why we know English and German are so closely related (eg. the equivalent noun suffix for the English 'ing' in German, would be 'ung', for example "Vorlesung", which formed from vorlesen+ung=vorles(minus stem ending)ung)

Hope that clears up your confusion

actually that is interesting, thanks dopple, i didn't think there was a reason.

[doppelgaenger]

Nonsense. There is a reason for everything! Just gotta dig a little deeper for the more abstract ones.

[Junket]

Haha, Laguna was a white supremacist, he tried to convince me that all the jews were controlling everything.

[vashti]

[url]http://www.internationaljewishconspiracy.com/[/url]

[misombra]

i'm a descendent of crypto-jews. we found this out because my uncle got some disease that is supposed to be specific to that group.

that might explain my curly curls.

[vashti]

What was it? Tay Sachs?

Anyway, there are lots of crypto jews in your area.

[misombra]

i don't know what it's called but that could very well be it.

yay we're jews!!!

[vashti]

I knew we were sistahs!

If it was Tay Sachs, your uncle's parents were BOTH carriers of the gene (both likely Jewish). If you make babies with a Jew, you should be checked out... you may be a carrier (assuming he was a blood relative).

[misombra]

wow. i guess that's our punishment from running from the inquisition.

[vashti]

Meh, your punishment for NOT running would have been worse.

[misombra]

[url]http://www.cabq.gov/humanrights/public-information-and-education/diversity-booklets/jewish-american-heritage/conversos-crypto-jews[/url]

here's an article about the history, if you're interested.

[vashti]

I've actually read quite a bit about the crypto jews... we have a few families in our synagogue that returned to Judaism from crypto backgrounds. It's very interesting.

I had a clinical instuctor (Hispanic) that admired a "hamsa" necklace I wear... she was surprised to see me wearing it because her mother told her it was an Hispanic symbol thought to ward off the "evil eye" (of course, I'm not Hispanic), when it actually originated in the middle east. Her family also lit candles on friday nights, but she never knew why other than it was a family custom. Weird, huh?

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa[/url]

Anyway, if you have Tay Sachs in your family, your ancestors from way back when must have originated in Eastern Europe and migrated to Spain before coming to North America. Tay Sachs is associated with Ashkenazic Jews (those from Eastern Europe).

[Mish]

Semetic genes go back for so long that I wouldn't surprised if most of the world is partly jewish.

[misombra]

I've actually read quite a bit about the crypto jews... we have a few families in our synagogue that returned to Judaism from crypto backgrounds. It's very interesting.

I had a clinical instuctor (Hispanic) that admired a "hamsa" necklace I wear... she was surprised to see me wearing it because her mother told her it was an Hispanic symbol thought to ward off the "evil eye" (of course, I'm not Hispanic), when it actually originated in the middle east. Her family also lit candles on friday nights, but she never knew why other than it was a family custom. Weird, huh?

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa[/url]

Anyway, if you have Tay Sachs in your family, your ancestors from way back when must have originated in Eastern Europe and migrated to Spain before coming to North America. Tay Sachs is associated with Ashkenazic Jews (those from Eastern Europe).

thanks vashhhh. my family never kept those traditions, that i know of. we grew up catholic like we didn't even have to leave spain.