The Devil's Dice

The road to Hell is paved with gold ~ when with the Devil, the dice are rolled

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Kurt Ravidas

Date: 9/4/2019 2:37:00 PM

A very graceful couplet, Wolf. P.S.: The dice game is a key episode of the Mahabharata, whose convoluted intrigue eventually led to everyone killing each other. Thus Kali Yuga began.

Kurt Ravidas
Date: 9/5/2019 4:23:00 AM

3102 BCE or smth of this kind: they used a ten-month lunar calendar. Anyway, we'are living in the beginning of Kali Yuga. That's why all this sheeet happens and it gets worse) P.S.: By the way, the names of yugas come from dice's numbers. Kali means one, dvapara - two etc. So your couplet has a metaphysical depth.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/4/2019 6:21:00 PM

Pardon me, sir! I now see that Dvapara Yuga goes to the end of the year 3021... Whew! I'll get to enjoy it now. :) gw

Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/4/2019 6:19:00 PM

You mean that Dvapara Yuga is over already?! On, rats. I was so looking forward to that stage... Must have slept right through it: Another 'senior moment,' I guess... Of COURSE, I had to look up this stuff!! I thought you'd made it up, and after reading about it, it sounds made up. LOL. ~ gw