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I discovered Santa wasn't real at the age of 4 or 5, then about the same year at Sunday School I asked a question to a religious teacher wearing a habit, "If I act just like Jesus Christ would I be like him?". The answer was a terse,"No", and and a week later my parents told me I didn't have to go to Sunday School anymore!

Have you sung in a concert of the "Messiah"? It is a synergistic happening, where the singing improves within maybe 15 minutes and sounds like a serious choir! Pretty much everybody is in the same key and vocal projection... and most have those "happy wet eyes", where the realization that something larger than oneself has occurred.

PS I don't recall anyone paying attention to the libretto.

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Then said the 5-year-old, "baby I'm gonna drop you like a bad habit".

I sang in a "Messiah" audience once decades ago. No one invited me back. But I had a good time anyhow.

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Ahhh. Thank you for sharing this beautiful performance.

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One of my favorite musical works of all time!

The BEST way to fight THEM is to be as fully human as possible and all the creative arts are what makes us most human and are the thing the evildoers hate the most!

Can't say this often enough!

All life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

So thankful for everything you do! Christmas Blessings!

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You're on a roll! Merry Christmas!

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Incredible! Thank you for sharing!

Merry Christmas Celia , Feliz Navidad!!

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When "every mountain and hill shall be made low, the crooked straight, and the rough places plain", you're invoking Army Corp engineers, strip miner's behavior and Globalist's ambitions to make large tracts of wilderness off limits to humanity :- ) Better to listen with the heart and not the head because straying from the notes and becoming fixated on the language can leave a funny aftertaste. Love Handel's music but sometimes it might have been better if it were sung in Latin to obscure the language for the benefit of those like me who are wont to make the sublime ridiculous.

Maybe I can redeem my fly in the ointment presence with these four beautiful pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6OgZCCoXWc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBQMzrrhyIo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hjgkvuKES8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7mWFtd-3GI

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Oh yeah! Heart wins.

Thanks for the reminder of the lyrics.

Special thanks for your music choices.

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Did you study with Leonhardt?

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No, I studied with my eyes closed :- )

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I was wrong about THE ; it wasnt Gould - Leonhardt ,on second thoughts.

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Same to you lovely gentle woman with the pretty name.

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A Divinely - inspired musical masterpiece!! Hallelujah!!

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...you are of course referring to Celia. (Divinely inspired masterpiece)

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🥸😂

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Ah yes, a pretty women with a pretty name with an intellect and a sense of humor. Cherish is the emotion I am experiencing now. Lord have mercy!

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Of course!! Love her dearly!

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And I do not think I am the only one fond of her...and Jessica...and really a cumulative cherishment of all conservative real women.

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The thing about here is the women are common sense, real in the context of who and what a woman should be. There is no comparison that comes close to real women. Genuine. Intelligent. Common sense. And of course cherishable. I do not care how old, size, shape, weight etc. I am an equal opportunity cherisher of real women. Each of you are all the same but all different and that is not an oxymoron.

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Actually I cannot think of any other place with an accumulation of real women in such numbers. The church I attend has real women as well, of all ages and with the same character but not the numbers here. In regard to women, real men are obligated to defend and protect them whenever they see or meet any needing help. I have done that verbally but also physically and not gotten in trouble...yet. I do not know a court even the most corrupt that would condemn a man defending a girl or woman even up to and utilizing deadly force. There are a lot of crazies out there who require serious consequences for their mistreatment. I might hesitate if it was a woker but expect I would still defend her.

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It is a state of mind to cherish women. Once you have it that never changes. In older age there are still ways to be effective and even deadly more so. I will stop there. I need not say more.

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