Well here we are at Thursday. So yesterday gave a preview of all of the days including Wednesday, but today is Thursday, so we will expand on this day. From education.newarchaeology.com we get:
"Thursday
The original meaning of Thursday comes from the Old English Þunresdæg, or Thor's day. Thor was the Germanic and Norse god of thunder. In Germany the same route leads to Donnerstag. Donner can be directly translated as thunder.
In latin countries Thursday was the "Day of Jupiter"; which becomes the French jeudi and Spanish jueves."
And from "englishnoteshelper.com" we have:
"Thursday is the fourth day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. The English word Thursday is named after the Norse God of Thunder, Thor. Thursday literally means “Thor’s day” in old English. Thor represented riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer. In most language with Latin origin, the day is named after the God and planet Jupiter.
Jupiter is depicted as the chief God of sky and thunder who maintained his power with his thunder belt. In ancient Greek, it is also called the day of Zeus. Thursday before Easter is also known as Maundy Thursday. Thursday is generally a working day. In the US, it is Thanksgiving day. It is also celebrated the annual festival on the fourth Thursday of November."
And there are some interesting fun facts about Thursdays from the www.thefactsite.com:
"22 Fabulous Facts About Thursday
Thursday is sometimes referred to as “Friday’s Friday,” meaning it’s the herald of Friday, and therefore the weekend.
Many students call Thursdays ‘Thirsty Thursdays” due to a decreasing number of lessons students have on a Friday making it the day to start their weekend drinking.
Thursday is a day featured heavily in Christian lore, and it’s also the traditional day U.K. elections are held on.
So let’s take a look at all the interesting facts about Thursday!
The name Thursday is derived from the Old English Þūnresdægand the Middle English Thuresday (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from the influence of Old Norse Þorsdagr) meaning ‘Thor’s Day,” after the Norse God of Thunder and son of Odin, Thor.
Many Germanic-derived languages name Thursday after Thor, like ‘Torsdag” in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, “Donnerstag” in Germany, “Donderlag” in the Netherlands.
As Jupiter is the Roman equivalent of Thor, the Latin name for Thursday was “lovis Dies,” meaning “Jupiter’s Day.”
In Latin, the possessive case of Jupiter was either “lovis” or “jovis,” and therefore most languages derived from Latin reflect this in their naming of Thursday, like the Spanish “jueves,” the French “jeudi,” or the Italian “giovedi.”
In most of the languages spoken in India, the word for Thursday is “Guruvara,” with vara meaning “day” and “guru” is the style for Brhaspati, who is a guru to the gods and a regent of the planet Jupiter.
In the Judeo-Christian liturgical calendar, Thursday is often abbreviated to Th or Thu.
In Christianity, Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, is the Thursday before Easter, which is the day that The Last Supper took place.
“Ascension Thursday” is 40 days after Easter and is when Christ was said to have ascended to heaven.
The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter is sometimes used to represent Thursday.
Estonians did not work on Thursdays and called their Thursday nights “evenings of Tooru.”
Some historians say that Estonians would gather in holy woods known as “Hiis” on Thursday nights, where a bagpipe player would sit and play whilst people danced and sung until the dawn.
Back in the USSR during the 1970s and 1980s, Thursday was known as the “Fish Day” of the week, where the nation’s food service institutions would serve fish rather than meat.
Thursday is the name of a six-piece post-hardcore rock band from America formed in 1997.
In the U.K., elections are always held on a Thursday. This may seem a little odd, especially considering there’s no specific reason why other than tradition. The last U.K. election to be contested that did not occur on a Thursday was back in 1931 when everybody voted on a Tuesday.
In some American high schools during the 1950s and 1960s, wearing the color green on a Thursday would lead to people believing you were gay.
In the Thai Solar Calendar, the color orange is associated with Thursday.
In Buddhist Thailand, Thursday is considered to be ‘Teacher’s Day,” and it is believed that a person should begin their education on a Thursday.
Thai students still pay homage to this belief by holding gratitude ceremonies for their teachers that are always held on a Thursday.
Following on in the same vein, graduation days at universities in Thailand almost always occur on a Thursday.
In Australia, most movie premieres are often held on a Thursday.
On Thursday, June 20, 1782, the fledgling United States of America decided to do some branding and selected the Bald Eagle as their official emblem.
Leonardo Da Vinci, an artist, inventor, pioneer, genius (and probably time traveler) was born on a Thursday, on April 15, 1452.
Sometimes it’s easy to wonder if 40 is the new 30 and 50 is the new 40 why can’t Thursday be the new Friday?
But then we learn so many incredible things way before our time that have made this day so special so why not just let Thursday be… well, Thursday?
Without little ole’ Thursday how can we appreciate tomorrow – Friday!"
Reference: https://www.etymonline.com/word/thursday
Reference: https://englishnoteshelper.com/history-of-thursday.html
Reference: https://www.thefactsite.com/thursday-facts/
I have lost a lot of faith with the Medical Community and the Governments over the last several years, but there are a few good things that can raise above the corruption and the pushing of drugs a new approach to heal people. The following is from www.gaia.com and written by Hunter Parsons that does not involve any drug or pushing an ineffective so called vaccine that the drug company is not held accountable in any way but they use sound! The use of sound can regrow bone tissue! Here is the story:
"The future of regenerative medicine could be found within sound healing by regrowing bone cells with sound waves.
The use of sound as a healing modality has an ancient tradition all over the world. The ancient Greeks used sound to cure mental disorders; Australian Aborigines reportedly use the didgeridoo to heal; and Tibetan or Himalayan singing bowls were, and still are, used for spiritual healing ceremonies.
Recently, a study showed an hour-long sound bowl meditation reduced anger, fatigue, anxiety, and ...
Not a fan of a Defense Agency studying Anti-Gravity and other Exotic Tech, but if the commercial world and make this technology cheap that will change our world yet again. The following is about three minute read and from www.gaia.com. The below was written by Hunter Parsons:
"Wormholes, invisibility cloaks, and anti-gravity — it’s not science fiction, it’s just some of the exotic things the U.S. government has been researching.
A massive document dump by the Defense Intelligence Agency shows some of the wild research projects the United States government was, at least, funding through the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program known as AATIP.
And another lesser-known entity called the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program or AAWSAP
The Defense Intelligence Agency has recently released a large number of documents to different news outlets and individuals who have filed Freedom of Information Act requests.
Of particular interest are some 1,600 pages released to Vice News, which ...
As our technology gets better we are discovering more about the history of mankind and pushing the timeline back further and further. The following article is from www.gaia.com and written by Michael Chary that discusses this new find that changes the historical timeline:
"Over the past decade, there have been a number of archeological revelations pushing back the timeline of human evolution and our ancient ancestors’ various diasporas. Initially, these discoveries elicit some resistance as archeologists bemoan the daunting prospect of rewriting the history books, though once enough evidence is presented to established institutions, a new chronology becomes accepted.
But this really only pertains to the era of human development that predates civilization — the epochs of our past in which we were merely hunter-gatherers and nomads roaming the savannahs. Try challenging the consensus timeline of human civilization and it’s likely you’ll be met with derision and rigidity.
Conversely, someone of an alternative...
Not sure if you have heard of a show on YouTube called "The Why Files". If not you should check it out it is interesting and has some humor with it on different subjects. Last weeks was on a different theory how the Universe works and how main stream Science is attempting to shut it down like is always seems to do if it goes aguest some special interest. Today it is akin to what happened to those who questioned the Earth was the Center of the Universe that main stream so called Science all believed during the Renaissance period, They called any theory that the Earth was not the Center of the Universe misinformation. Does this sound familiar today? People laughed and mocked people like Leonardo da Vinci, Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg Purbach as crack-pots, conspiracy theorists, nut-jobs and they were suppressed and even imprisoned for their radical thoughts and observations. Again it sounds like today in so many ways. In any event this is a good one to ponder and see even if a bad idea ...
Seemingly chaotic systems like the weather and the financial markets are governed by the laws of chaos theory.
We all have heard about chaos theory, but if you have not or have forgotten what chaos theory is well here you go from interestingengineering.com:
"Chaos theory deals with dynamic systems, which are highly sensitive to initial conditions, making it almost impossible to track the resulting unpredictable behavior. Chaos theory seeks to find patterns in systems that appear random, such as weather, fluid turbulence, and the stock market.
Since the smallest of changes can lead to vastly different outcomes, the long-term behavior of chaotic systems is difficult to predict despite their inherently deterministic nature.
As Edward Lorenz, who first proposed what became commonly known as the Butterfly Effect, eloquently said, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.""
You may have heard the term about chaos theory as a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil,...
I for one have lost trust in Medical Doctors due to COVID and reflection that they seem to push pills for everything and untested so called vaccines that is using a unproven technology because the Government and the Medical Boards of the State told them to. There are a very few exceptions. Thus they do not address the key problem just prescribe more and more pills to keep you alive an sick longer for them and Big Phama to profit from you. Will AI do any better? Well that depends on what was used for the training of AI. If it also pushes pills and vaccines without question then you have the same problems noted above. However, if the AI Training includes all possible forms of treatment and they zero in on the right issues for the true problem then there is possibilities they would be way better than most of the current Medical Doctors today.
The following is from an article from interestingengineering.com and written by Paul Ratner:
"A new study looks at how accurately AI can diagnose patients. We interview the researcher, who weighs in on AI's role ...
