#baha'u'llah

[poligraf]

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

— Baha'u'llah

[allah-u-abha]

[divinum-pacis]

The room of Bahá’u’lláh at the Ridván Garden as it looks today.

During one period, Bahá’u’lláh stayed at the Ridván Garden for nine days, meeting with the pilgrim groups that came out each day from ‘Akká to see Him.

In 1881, the Ridván Garden was purchased for Bahá’u’lláh. Pilgrims still go to the little house there for prayer and meditation.

(Photograph: Baha'i International Community)

[theupfish]

The Baha'i faith teaches unity of all the world's religions

Founded in 19th Century Iran, the Baha'i faith built off of the previous three Abrahamic religions. The Baha'i believe that all of the world's major religions have been revealed by the same God.

From Wikipedia's article on the Baha'i faith:

According to Baháʼí teachings, religion is revealed in an orderly and progressive way by a single God through Manifestations of God, who are the founders of major world religions throughout human history; Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad are cited as the most recent of these Manifestations of God before the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh.

Despite their religion's inclusive and progressive nature, the Baha'i people have faced ongoing persecution, particularly in their home nation under the Islamic Republic of Iran. But despite attempts to suppress it, the Baha'i faith is one of the fastest growing religions in the world, as well as one of the most widespread around the globe.

The Baha'i people have an elected leadership for their entire religion, comparable to the Vatican for Catholicism. It's called the Universal House of Justice, and is located in Haifa, Israel; also in Haifa are the Shrine of the Báb, and its famous gardens, also known as the Hanging Gardens of Haifa.

The main symbol of the Baha'i faith is the nine-point star. Others include the five-point star, the Greatest Name, and the Ringstone Symbol. (Link)

[apilgrimsprogress]

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Bahá’u’lláh

[keyvanstories]

Keyvan Geula's chant of Pilgrimage to my sister poem by Farzam Kamalabad...

[talonabraxas]

Viracocha: The Great Creator God of the Incas Talon abraxas

THE LEGEND OF VIRACOCHA

Legend tells us that a primordial Viracocha emerged out Lake Titicaca, one of the most beautiful and spiritually bodies of water in the world and located next to Tiwanaku, the epicenter of ancient pre-Hispanic South American culture, believed location of spiritual secrets found in the Andes. Viracocha is intimately connected with the ocean and all water and with the creation of two races of people; a race of giants who were eventually destroyed by their creator, with some being turned into enormous stones believed to still be present at Tiwanaku.

He re-emerged from Lake Titicaca to create the race most associated with humans as we understand them today. Satisfied with his efforts, Viracocha embarked on an odyssey to spread his form of gospel — civilization, from the arts to agriculture, to language, the aspects of humanity that are shared across cultures and beliefs.

While written language was not part of the Incan culture, the rich oral and non-linguistic modes of record-keeping sustained the mythology surrounding Viracocha as the supreme creator of all things. Now much-visited ruins, the distinct structures, and monoliths, including the architecturally stunning Gateway of the Sun, are testimony to the powerful civilization that reached its peak between 500-900 AD, and which deeply influenced the Incan culture.

[maledivine]

Sexual relations with deities

So just some background: My relationship with God, mediated through Baha'u'llah, His prayers, His writings and His teachings, is the core of my spiritual life. I’m a Baha’i religious practitioner, worshipper of the God of Abraham, Moses, Christ and Mohammed, of the Supreme Godhead and Ultimate Reality known under different names and qualities in other traditions; and also practitioner of solo sexual tantric alchemy. I’m a highly erotic person and easily enter non-ejaculatory orgasmic states. Orgasmic and religious ecstasy often converge for me, so it happens that, when I pray -- and I get into passionate states of prayer -- I also have orgasms. And I usually experience orgasms as prayers. But in these cases I don’t see myself or experience myself as having sexual intercourse with God.

Although I’m a monotheist, I do acknowledge the existence of other spiritual entities, deities and spirits, but as a principle didn’t seek relationships with them. But this changed almost a year ago as I was traveling in Nepal. I was driving past a small village temple, and something about a Shiva statue caught my eye. We were driving fast and already had passed the temple, and I suddenly told the driver to turn around to visit the temple. When I was exploring the temple and approached the Lingam, I felt a strong energetic force arising in my heart. It led me to repeatedly turn back to it and to offer reverence to it. When we drove away, I felt the presence of Shiva with me as my heart continued to feel the energy. I felt he was a local god who had been confined to his village, and now was coming along with me to see the world. I had multiple orgasms in the car as I felt myself holding his hands and embracing him.

He became my lover and I learned to call on him with a Shiva mantra. The relationship became completely sexual as whenever I call on him he enters me. For the first six months or so, it was literal intercourse. Although obviously not physical, the effect was deeply physical, triggering in me the most explosive, intense orgasms. He entered me from below and his penetration opened my anal orifice until my whole body becomes a cosmic space charged with spiritual energy. It is unbelievably powerful. Owing to my practice I have many types of orgasms and bliss, but this is a category on its own.

In the past few months, the sense of being engaged in palpable intercourse has diminished. While my experience of Shiva was always primarily energetic and only slightly visual, now there's rarely if any image of him at all. Now, when I call on him, I feel his energy directly entering my body, and then my body merges with his. My own body becomes Shiva, filled with a blueish cosmic energy melting me with the cosmos. His entering into me gives me a jolt of sexual energy. When I engage in tantric lovemaking with my wife, I often mentally say the Shiva mantra, which will lead to a sudden energetic turbo-charging of our love-making.

To be honest I don’t know what’s going on. At one level this is largely my own mental creation. But it’s not like normal sexual fantasies which are energetically depleting and which I don’t engage in since I started my sexual cultivation. The experience at the temple, where I unexpectedly "met" Shiva and he followed me on my journey, was not something I was seeking or consciously mentalizing. There seems to be something beyond my self-contained mental activity going on.

My understanding now is that, on the one hand, the supreme God is absolutely transcendental, self-creating, self-subsistent, and fully independent of human imaginations. Minor and local deities, spirits and beings, on the other hand -- such as this local temple Shiva -- are co-created with humans. Like humans, they represent real energies with a semi-autonomous will and existence, but our relationship with and imagination of these energies add to them and affects the way they manifest to us.

So then another development was, for some reason, after meeting Shiva, at one point I was curious if this could be replicated with another deity, and so I thought of Apollo whom I have some affinities with, although I hadn’t thought about him in years. And calling on him he also came down, and he was even more powerful in bed. Again, as with Shiva, after some months the experience of sexual intercourse subsided, though the energetic flow continues when I call on him. He comes down from above, as a river of light flowing into my third eye, that then manifests as his body that fills mine with light.

Then I realized that he’s the perfect counterpart to Shiva who’s a lunar deity (yin) while Apollo is solar (yang); and Shiva is associated with kundalini serpents while Apollo is a slayer of the serpent. Shiva is Oriental and Apollo is Occidental. I ended up with an inner sexual ritual in which both of them make love with me in turn, and then they enter my solar plexus and make love with each other. The alchemical union of the lunar and solar powers, of nurturing and slaying sexual desire, is mind blowing in its mystic meanings and in the powerful and exstatic energies that it releases and combines within my body.

[aheavenlylake]

eternally heartbroken over the way queer people are viewed by many religions.

over 4 years ago, i learned about the baha'i religion and was so enamored. i felt like maybe i'd found a home because they believed as much in the teachings of the tanakh as in muhammad, they believed in the unity of all religions and people just like i did, and i was so excited to dive into the community. i registered with the faith. i even got a tattoo of a verse from the hidden words of baha'u'llah. this religion and its core teachings felt so right.

but then the blatant homophobia. it's like being in the xtian church all over again. "we affirm the innate humanity of a homosexual" this and "all people are in the image of god" that, but a same-sex marriage in impermissible. and the reasons they give make no sense. it's like my childhood all over again. it's "love the sinner, hate the sin" all over again. and it's fucking dehumanizing.

all this from a religion that preaches compassion and acceptance and unity. being queer is not a sin. gay sex is not a fucking sin. gay marriage is a beautiful thing that transcends boundaries and hate. and it's embarrassing that baha'is (and christians and honestly anyone else) can preach unconditional love and then add on the condition of existing as a queer person.

[poligraf]

It behoveth man to adhere tenaciously unto that which will promote fellowship, kindliness and unity.

— Baha'u'llah

[santmat]

The Opposite of "Not One Of Us" is "We Are All One" - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - Listen and/or Download @: https://traffic.libsyn.com/SpiritualAwakeningRadio/We_Are_All_One.mp3

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ABOUT

Before the main segment, The Opposite of "Not One Of Us" is "We Are All One”, I begin the program by sharing spiritual readings covering various topics from several sources: The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah; a Saying of Jesus from, The Book of the Gnosis of the Invisible God, An Unrecognized Dialogues Gospel Embedded in the Bruce Codex Placed at the Beginning of the First Book of IEOU; also, readings from: The Ghat Ramayan of Sant Tulsi Sahib; Sar Bachan Radhasoami Prose of Soami Ji Maharaj; 1008 Kabir Vani (Saakhis of Guru Kabir); Baba Ram Singh on meditation practice; Saint Isaac of Nineveh; and mystic poetry * of Sant Charandas. (* Bhajans, Hymns)

One of the most mysterious passages recorded in the New Testament is: "'Teacher', said John, 'we saw a man driving out demons in your Name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us *.' "'Do not stop him,' Jesus said. 'No one who does a miracle in my Name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us.'" (Mark 9: 38+39) One may wonder who this mystery person was and what unknown sect or faction of the Jesus Movement he belonged to, since the disciples had apparently never encountered him before. (* The Not-One-Of-Us Treatment.)

The main segment is titled: The Opposite of "Not One Of Us" is "We Are All One”, an essay documenting how Sant Mat historically has never been limited to only "one" living master (Sant Satguru) at a time but there have always been multiple lineages of masters alive in the world contemporary with one another. As Hazur Baba Sawan Singh once said: "It is not necessary that there should be only one * Master in the whole world or even in a single country. There have been different Masters in different countries at the same time, and even in the same country. Thus Guru Nanak and Kabir were contemporaries, and so also Dadu and Guru Arjan. But their teaching is the same at all times and in every country." (* The Path is One.)

[big-mawi]

La mayoría de los hombres se aferran a la ilusión en lugar de buscar la realidad. Lo que consideran ser real es sólo un espejismo que desvanece ante la luz de la verdad.

Baha'u'llah

[addstory]

Jak bahaizm, który narodził się w Iranie, zmienia światopogląd?

Bahaizm to globalny ruch, który zmienia postrzeganie wiary. Pojawiający się w czasach zmian bahaizm połączył tradycje duchowe, pragnienie jedności oraz głęboki szacunek dla edukacji i nauki. Kwestie dotyczące pokojowego współistnienia, edukacji i harmonii znajdują się w sercu tej religii, przyciągając wyznawców na całym świecie.

Pochodzenie i historia religii

Bahaizm powstał w Persji w połowie XIX wieku, w czasie, gdy społeczeństwo przechodziło znaczące zmiany pod wpływem postępu naukowego. Religia powstała dzięki Baha'u'llahowi, który był związany z ezoterycznym ruchem szyickim, krytykującym surowość i dogmatyzm oficjalnego duchowieństwa. Baha'u'llah, którego prawdziwe imię brzmiało Mirza Hussein Ali, urodził się w 1817 roku w Teheranie w rodzinie szlacheckiej, gdzie jego ojciec służył jako minister pod rządami szacha.

W tym samym czasie w perskim mieście Shiraz urodził się Sayyid Ali Muhammad Sirazi. W 1844 roku ogłosił się nosicielem boskiego przesłania, zapowiadając rychłe przybycie nowego „Mahdiego”, który zbawi świat. Przyjął imię Bab, oznaczające „drzwi” i wkrótce jego idee przyciągnęły wielu zwolenników.

Bab został jednak oskarżony o apostazję i stracony w 1850 roku. W 1852 r. Mirza Hussein Ali, który był uczniem Baba, został aresztowany i uwięziony w Teheranie. Kilka lat później, w 1863 roku, ogłosił się prorokiem przepowiedzianym przez Bába i przyjął imię Baha'u'lláh, co tłumaczy się jako „Chwała Boga”. Następnie został wygnany do Saint-Jean-d'Acre w osmańskiej Palestynie, gdzie stworzył większość swoich pism, które stały się fundamentem wiary bahaickiej.

Droga do pokoju poprzez nauki

Podstawowym nauczaniem Baha'u'llaha jest głoszenie jedności Boga i jedności religii, ponieważ cała ludzkość jest jedną wielką rodziną. Jego nauki podkreślają, że wszystkie religie dążą do tego samego - pokoju i jedności na ziemi. Różnice między nimi wynikają z historycznych, kulturowych, ekonomicznych i społecznych okoliczności, w których powstały.

Każdy z Bożych posłańców, czy to Mojżesz, Mahomet, Jezus czy Budda, przyczynił się do rozwoju cywilizacji na określonym etapie, przygotowując drogę dla następnego. Wiara Bahá'í, ostatnia z religii monoteistycznych, kontynuuje tę sekwencję. Baha'u'llah zmarł w 1892 roku w St Jean d'Acre, gdzie został pochowany. Przed śmiercią nakazał, aby szczątki jego nauczyciela, Bába, zostały przeniesione na zbocza góry Karmel, około dwudziestu kilometrów od Saint-Jean-d'Acre. Ponowny pochówek szczątków Bába miał miejsce w 1909 roku.

Po śmierci Bahá'u'lláha, jego najstarszy syn 'Abdu'l-Bahá został jego następcą i aktywnie promował nauki bahaickie na Zachodzie. Abdu'l-Baha został pochowany w Hajfie, w Izraelu, obok miejsca pochówku Bába. Po nim, jego wnuk Shoghi Effendi, znany jako „Strażnik” Wiary Bahá'í, został przywódcą Bahá'í, ale nie miał potomków. Od tego czasu przywództwo wspólnoty bahaickiej przeszło na Powszechny Dom Sprawiedliwości, który składa się z dziewięciu wybranych członków i jest najwyższym organem zarządzającym bahaitów. Na całym świecie jest od 5 do 7 milionów wyznawców bahaizmu, mieszkających w ponad 200 krajach. Wiara bahaicka pozostaje jednak zakazana w Iranie, gdzie jej wyznawcy są prześladowani.

Główna wartość

Edukacja jest podstawową wartością w religii bahaickiej. Według słów Baha'u'llaha, każda osoba jest „jak kopalnia pełna klejnotów o wielkiej wartości”. Tylko poprzez edukację skarby te mogą zostać odblokowane, a ludzkość może wykorzystać je dla dobra. W bahaizmie religia i nauka są postrzegane jako dwa uzupełniające się systemy, które przyczyniają się do postępu cywilizacji. Aby osiągnąć powszechny pokój, ważne jest, aby od najmłodszych lat uczyć dzieci tolerancji, altruizmu i szacunku dla różnic. Edukacja powinna być dostępna dla każdego, niezależnie od płci, a jeśli rodzina nie może sobie pozwolić na wysłanie wszystkich dzieci do szkoły, pierwszeństwo powinny mieć dziewczynki.

Serce bahaickiego świata

Hajfa, gdzie spoczywają szczątki Bába i Abdu'l-Bahy, „sług Bahá'u'lláha”, jest najważniejszym miejscem pielgrzymek bahaitów z całego świata. Miasto służy również jako światowe centrum wszystkich bahaickich instytucji. Pomysł zlokalizowania centrum administracyjnego na Górze Karmel został zasugerowany przez samego Bahá'u'lláha, a jego syn 'Abdu'l-Bahá urzeczywistnił go w 1908 roku.

Po ustanowieniu państwa Izrael, Shoghi Effendi rozszerzył wpływy bahaickie w Hajfie poprzez nabycie ziemi wokół mauzoleum Bába. Stworzono tu wspaniały ogród, oferujący wspaniałe widoki na miasto. Miejsce to zostało wpisane na Listę Światowego Dziedzictwa UNESCO w 2008 roku. Należy zauważyć, że bahaici zabraniają prozelityzmu na całym świecie, a w Izraelu ich zasady są szczególnie surowe. Na przykład około 700 bahaitów pracujących w Izraelu w instytucjach swojej religii nie może zapraszać miejscowych na swoje spotkania modlitewne.

Wiara bez rytuałów i ceremonii

W religii bahaickiej nie ma praktycznie żadnych rytuałów. Modlitwa jest sprawą ściśle prywatną, z wyjątkiem pogrzebów, kiedy jedna z modlitw jest odmawiana na głos przez jednego z obecnych. W przeciwnym razie każdy modli się tam, gdzie czuje się komfortowo, o dowolnej porze i w dowolnej formie. Nie ma specjalnych miejsc do modlitwy, ani kazań, kapłanów, formalnych ceremonii czy tekstów.

Chociaż pisma Baha'u'llaha są uważane za ważne źródło wiedzy, bahaici mogą również odwoływać si�� do innych świętych tekstów, takich jak Biblia, Ewangelie, Koran i inne. Bahaizm nie posiada rytuałów inicjacyjnych dla noworodków lub konwertytów. Zostanie bahaitą jest całkowicie osobistą decyzją, wymagającą jedynie wiary w Boga i przesłanie Bahá'u'lláha. Jeśli chodzi o małżeństwo, nie ma żadnych skomplikowanych ceremonii - wszystko, co jest wymagane, to wypowiedzenie jednej konkretnej frazy. Jedynym znaczącym rytuałem jest coroczny post trwający 19 dni, co odpowiada jednemu miesiącowi w kalendarzu bahaickim. Post rozpoczyna się 2 marca i obejmuje powstrzymanie się od jedzenia i picia wody od wschodu do zachodu słońca.

Podsumowanie

Bahaizm, choć młody według standardów historycznych, udowodnił już swoją zdolność do inspirowania i jednoczenia ludzi na całym świecie. Jego wyznawcy dążą do zbudowania społeczeństwa, w którym wartości pokoju, sprawiedliwości i edukacji zajmują centralne miejsce. Bahaizm przypomina, że prawdziwy postęp jest możliwy tylko dzięki jedności i wzajemnemu zrozumieniu.

[verydesperatehousewife]

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[brookston]

Holidays 5.29

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Army Day (Argentina)

Asexuality Day

Cultural Workers and Folk Artists Day (День Києва Київ; Ukraine)

Day of Internal Affairs Officers (Turkmenistan)

Dunkirk Evacuation Remembrance Days [thru 6.4]

End of the Middle Ages Day

Fall of Constantinople Day

Feronia Asteroid Day

Ganatantra Diwas (Nepal)

Hope Day

International Addison’s Day

International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (UN)

International Mount Everest Day

International Pashto Language Day

Kiev Day (Ukraine)

Learn About Composting Day

Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium)

Mount Everest Day (Nepal)

National Alligator Day

National Dog Friendly Day

National Edison Day

National Elderly Day (Indonesia)

National 529 College Savings Plan Day

National Flip Flop Day

National Foot Fetish Day

National Heat Awareness Day

National Hydroxyapatite Day

National Paperclip Day

National Rugelach Day

National Sail Day

National White Wreath Day (Australia)

Oak Apple Day (UK) [a.k.a. ... 

Bobby Ack Day

Castleton Garland Day (Castleton)

Garland King Day 

Nettle Day

Royal Oak Day

Shick-Shack Day

Shik-Shak Day

Shitsack Day

Yak Bob Day

Paper Clip Day

Pink Flamingo Day

Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day

Reconciliation Day (ACT, Australia)

Red Shirt Day of Action for AccessAbility & Inclusion (Canada)

Restoration Day (UK)

Rite of Spring Day

Scythe Day (French Republic)

Tony Stark Day

Veteran of Overseas Military Service Day (Poland)

Veterans Day (Sweden)

World Digestive Health Day

World Tiger Nut Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Coq au Vin Day

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

International Rooster with Wine Day

National Biscuit Day (UK)

Squoosh an Ice Cream Sandwich Day

Independence & Related Days

Constitutional Referendum Day (Vanuatu)

Democracy Day (Nigeria)

Republic Day (Nepal)

Rhode Island Statehood Day (#13; 1790)

Schalamzaar Empire (Declared; 2004) [unrecognized]

Wisconsin Statehood Day (#30; 1848)

5th & Last Wednesday in May

Bermuda Day [Last Friday]

European Neighbours’ Day [Last Friday]

Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival begins [Last Friday, thru Sunday]

National Heat Awareness Day [Last Friday]

National Senior Health & Fitness Day [Last Wednesday]

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day (Western Australia) [Last Friday]

Trader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Day [Last Friday]

World Challenge Day [Last Wednesday]

World MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Day [Last Wednesday]

World Otter Day [Last Wednesday]

Festivals Beginning May 29, 2024

Bookfest Bucharest (Bucharest, Romania) [thru 6.2]

Corn Dry Milling Conference (Peoria, Illinois) [thru 5.30]

Dublin Tech Summit (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 5.30]

Primavera Sound (Barcelona, Spain) [thru 6.2]

Wellfleet Restaurant Week (Wellfleet, Massachusetts) [thru 6.4]

Feast Days

Aaron McGruder (Artology)

Alexander of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)

Ambarvailia (Old Roman No Work Day, Purification Festival to Ceres)

Arbor Day (Aston-on Club, Shropshire Celtic Book of Days)

Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha’i)

Bona of Pisa (Christian; Saint)

Clark Voorhees (Artology)

Conon and his son (Christian; Martyrs, of Iconia, Asia)

Consensual Bum Biting Day (Pastafarian)

Cyril of Caesarea (Christian; Saint)

Erwin (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Mars (Ancient Rome)

Hypomone (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Johnny the Wolf (Muppetism)

Lars Bo (Artology)

Louise-Adéone Drölling (Artology)

Madeleine Sophie Barat (Christian; Saint)

Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi (Christian; Virgin)

Mary, Mother of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Maximus of Trier (a.k.a. Maximus, Bishop of Tiers; Christian; Saint)

Oak Apple Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Pillow Fight Day (Pastafarian)

Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Siinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs, in Trent)

Spike Jones Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Sprouting Corn Day (Pagan)

Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Theodosius (Positivist; Saint)

Ursula Ledóchowska (Christian; Saint)

William, Stephen, Raymund and their Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 149 [35 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [28 of 57]

Premieres

A Battle for a Bottle (Phantasies Cartoon; 1942)

Bluebeard’s Brother (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

Bold King Cole (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1936)

The Busy Bee (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

Dial M for Murder (Film; 1954)

Dick Whittington’s Cat (ComiColor Cartoon; 1936)

Feel This Book, by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller (Humor Book; 1999)

The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1972)

Half-Baked Alaska (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1965)

The Hound and the Rabbit (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1937)

Hud (Film; 1963)

The Internship (Film; 2013)

I Yam Love Sick (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1938)

Justice League: Starcrossed (WB Animated Film; 2004)

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Novel; 2003)

The Last Days of Disco (Film; 1998)

Little Bits, recorded by Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards (Song; 1926)

Little School Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1954)

Mary Had a Little Lamb, by Paul McCartney (Song; 1972)

The New Centurions, by Joseph Wambaugh (Novel; 1971)

No Time For Sergeants (Film; 1958)

Partly Cloudy (Pixar Cartoon 2009)

Pink on the Cob (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1969)

Private Dancer, by Tina Turner (Album; 1984)

A Raisin in the Sun (Film; 1961)

The Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky (Ballet & Orchestral Work; 1913)

San Andreas (Film; 2015)

Sister Act (Film; 1992)

Smile Pretty, Say Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1966)

Space Force (TV Series; 2020)

St. Moritz Blitz (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1961)

The Stork’s Mistake (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

Tears on My Pillow, recorded by Little Anthony & the Imperials (Song; 1958)

This Is A Book, by Demetri Martin (Humor Book; 2011)

Two Dots (Phone App Game; 2014)

Up (Animated Disney Film; 2009)

White Christmas, recorded by Bing Crosby (Song; 1942)

The Witch in the Wood, by T.H. White (Novel; 1939) [Once and Future King #2]

Yankee Doodle Dandy (Film; 1942)

Today’s Name Days

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Austria)

Doroteia (Bulgaria)

Euzebije, Polion, Većeslav (Croatia)

Maxmilián (Czech Republic)

Maciminus (Denmark)

Laido, Leido, Leidur, Luulik (Estonia)

Oiva, Oivi, Oliver, Olivia (Finland)

Aymar, Aymard, Géraldine, Maximin (France)

Erwin, Irmtraud, Maximin (Germany)

Ipomoni, Olivianos, Theodosia (Greece)

Magdolna (Hungary)

Ademaro, Massimo, Massimino (Italy)

Daris, Maksine, Maksis, Raivis, Raivo (Latvia)

Algedas, Erdvilė, Magdalena, Magdė (Lithuania)

Magnar, Magnhild (Norway)

Bogusława, Maksymilian, Maria Magdalena, Teodor, Teodozja (Poland)

Teodosia (România)

Vilma (Slovakia)

Maximino (Spain)

Jeanette, Yvonne (Sweden)

Theodora (Ukraine)

Duana, Duane, Duanna, Dwayne, Fitz, Fitzgerald (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 150 of 2024; 216 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 22 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 22 (Gui-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 21 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 21 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 30 Magenta; Lastday [30 of 30]

Julian: 16 May 2024

Moon: 61%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 9 St. Paul (6th Month) [Theodosius]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 72 of 92)

Week: Last Week of May

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 9 of 31)

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