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    #16
    Re: Odd ability.

    I also have a huge tolerance to cold and i really can't take hot weather. I live in the mountains in New York so it usually isn't a problem, but last summer almost killed me. I always assumed it was because I'm half Russian and half Norwegian.

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      #17
      Re: Odd ability.

      I wonder if it's genetics and build at work

      My guy is 6'2", and a bit heavier then the OP. He has a very thick build as well, though. Scandinavian, English, Welsh, Normandy French. The man sleeps with a thin blanket and the window open until it drops under 30F. I've just gotten used to sleep curled into him until it hits about 60F, at which point I can't snuggle anymore or else I wake up in a sweat!

      He hates summertime, and wears T-shirts all year 'round. Instant sunburns. During cold, wet, windy San Francisco weather he wears a thin jacket just for the wet and wind, and never zips it.
      Great Grandmother's Kitchen

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        #18
        Re: Odd ability.

        Originally posted by Matthew View Post
        Not to continue to derail, but words are just symbols for particular ideas, no? So even though the origin of a word may be radically different than its common meaning, the common is the one that has the power.

        To use a personal, but dramatic, example. There is a three-lettered word used for the homosexual community that is extremely offensive. Historically, it may have been used to mean a "bundle of sticks." In Non-States countries, it may mean a cigarette. But it has come to mean something very heinous in the States. So if someone calls another this word, they are not meaning to call them sticks or cigarettes. And it is often the younger (or less intellectual) who try to pass it off as such. We're not stupid; we know what you're saying.

        A less dramatic but even more common is the b-with-an-itch. (I do not know the filters, sorry.) Yes, it is a word for a female dog. But rarely is it used as such. It has a new meaning. And it is either derogatory or empowering (depending on the person using it). But if you hear it, your first thought isn't "female dog," but a "belligerent, unreasonable, malicious, rudely intrusive or aggressive" individual (more commonly a woman).

        The list can go on. The donkey vs. the vulgar buttox. The cat versus the female organ. The chicken vs. the male organ.
        Far as I know, language filters aren't in force here. Excessive odd language in your case might get your post flagged for moderation just because you don't have enough posts to your name and a lot of stuff can get your posts flagged depending on our spam filter's mood. Otherwise, the only real language filter is that if one of the staff feels that your post if excessive or in particularly bad taste then we reserve the right to modify or remove it. You are advised against cursing diatribes outside the cursing rant thread in the adult section but limited use will not earn you moderator wrath.
        life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

        Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

        "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

        John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

        "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

        Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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          #19
          Re: Odd ability.

          Originally posted by Tylluan Penry View Post
          My left side (hands, feet legs etc) is always cold. My right side is warm.

          I suspect I'm just a bit peculiar...
          Interestingly, the left side is associated with yin chi (cold, contraction) and the right side is associated with yang chi (heat, expansion) in various schools of chinese mysticism. I think Bardon makes the same correlations with left/magnetic and right/electric in his hermetic system too. Probably not relevant, but interesting to think about

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            #20
            Re: Odd ability.

            Originally posted by volcaniclastic View Post
            I still think that it would be a massive leap in logic to presume it was something deity-related. You're just a warm dude.
            Yep. You're Canadian...you might just be tolerant to it from exposure. I'm from the coast and have record bad intolerance to cold, but since i moved here, I'm way better than i used to be. I just got a bit used to it due to exposure. That doesn't mean I'm not freezing when it's 0 outside, but I can handle it better than I used to.

            On the flip side, I'm almost never too warm. Everyone around me will be miserable, and I'll be like 'FINALLY it's really warm out!'

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