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YES.....It's almost time for Valentine's Day!!!!!! We can finally show our beautiful mates how much we care for them!!!!!!
We can make them feel wanted and secure that we want no other!!!!!! Send flowers and allow them to bask in its fragrance!!!!!!!
Eat chocolate and become aroused for a night of passion while R&B music fills the room!!!!!
Scented Candles in a bath and dropping flower petals on them........
MAgnificent....WE love you baby!!!!!!

YES WE DO!!!!!

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Shut the heck up you analog cat, we be digital Ay yo Dja

What the heck is up in the place to stay, on the mic got easy brother Dja
And he's gonna rip it up............

Dear Spiritual Warriors,

Don't tell me you are going to participate in another year of horror days with the idea of supplanting your indigenous ideas over a day that has nothing to do with your spiritual cultivation....just to please your mate so she won't feel left out. Are you telling me you waited for one day to express your love for her? What happened all the other days of the year? You gonna drug her up with chocolate and wine so you can get some? Don't you unite for spiritual power? Or do you unite b/c you lack power and control? Are you going to hit me with some valentine gift app. and say Ankh Udja Seneb or Ashe'? Nah you wouldn't do that!!!!!

I have accepted that I am not Romantic or overly affectionate according to society's view.....great!!!! I am not Roman and I don't want society eyes on me anyway!!!!!!
I have been brought to the reasoning that expressing Love does not have to be all grand and spectacular. It is well-balanced to be able to express it when you feel it rather force it.

Let's take a quick look at Valentine's Day from search results:

Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honour Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia.

The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.

Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270. At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honour of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.

The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavoured to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's Day for the celebration of this new feaSt. So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this way.

another one:

Everyone knows it as the day one chooses to see their one and only love (and in some cases their many "only" loves), but where did this tradition come from? Who on earth is this St. Valentine guy anyway?

The beginnings, acording to Belarussian oral tradition, states that the original Saint valentine was spurned by the female he had chosen to court. Anguished, he cut out his own heart and sent it, still beating to her, as a testimony of his undying love. Now call me crazy, but if you cut out your heart, I don't think "undying" would be an apt word for your love.

So what is the significance of February the 14th? Why do we choo to celebrate love on that day. The answer comes from the early days of the Christian Church (yes St. Valentine's day was originally a religious celebration, I would have guessed the "saint" gave that away). The early Catholic church celebrated certains days as "Saint Days", dedicated to one saint of the other. Two saints were honoured yearly on February the 14th: Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni. Yes it seems Valentine was a pretty common name back int hose days, the Early Church had no less than eleven saints named Valentine. In those quaint, early days of the celebration of St. Valentine's day, no mention was made of love. It was strictly a festival to homour deceased saints in the way they thought one should be honoured.

Now comes the shroud of time to mess things up (as it usually does). From the time of the early Catholic church, in order to make holidays more acceptable to the adoptive Roman nation, the emperor Constantine linked certain Christian holidays with other Pagan holidays to make a hybrid of the two, and thus Roman Catholicism was born. From a bystander's standpoint, it was a pretty good idea, because it allowed the religion to catch on to already established holidays and feast days. One such day is Lupercalia. Lupercalia was observed yearly by the Romans as a festival of Fertility (no romance yet sports fans) between the dates February 13th and February 15th. Even though experts theorize the link between Lupercalia and St. Valentine's day, no hard evidence has been able to relate the two.

So when and how did this holiday become Romanticized? Obviously the death of a saint (even one who comitted suicide in the name of love) isn't enough of a push to cause such a massive change to an established feast day. The answer to this lies in one man: Chaucer. Chaucer is the man that is credited with starting the tradition of romantic poems to be written or sent on Valentine's Day. From his cue, the French established a "Court of Love" in Paris in 1400 (on Valentine's day, what a coincidence) to deal with matters of betrayal, contracts and violence upon women. In order to be chosen as a judge for this court, one simply need submit to a poetry reading in front of a panel of women who ran the court (beacuse we all know how great judges come from great poets).

And so my friends, we find ourselves facing another Valentine's day. A day when people go out of their way to make their loved ones feel more loved. A day when single people worldwide bear the heavy heart of watching friends leave them because they've found "that special someone" to spend the day with. Valentine's Day, from Celebration of saint, to a mockery of the word we call "love".

Whew!!!!!

In any case, I show you this so you can recognize that the day was not meant for us to participate in anyway.

Personally, Djadja just don't do horror dayz, that's just me.

So spend your money on flowers and chocolate drugs(that was not designed for your digestion process and energy intake) if you want.........

Work hard to emulate the ideal look of sexiness

Yeah, real sexy

So go ahead and be puppets.....enjoy.......you are too old to change up now.....or are you?

My love is everyday all day and throughout the cosmos.......I need no reminder

BZZZZ

Ankh Udja Seneb,

Djadja
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