Merry Christmas!

vincent p. norris wrote:
If it's good enough for Druids
Running nekkid through the wuids,
Drinking strange fermented fluids,
Then it's good enough for me!

A salutary and salubrious solstice, 'specially with a soupcon of
silliness, to one and all!

Thanks for that, Vince! One of my favorites!
--
Stan Gula
http://gula.org/roffswaps

In article ,
says...
Some would say "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays", but if there
was no Christmas I really don't think there would be any widely popular
holidays in December at all. So much for a season of them.

Time to brush up on your cause and effect.....

Christmas is in December because christians attempted (succeeded in?) to
steal the highly popular pagan winter solstice festivals. Which is why
we have christmas trees and yule logs.

BTW, all the best holidays came from the pagans. Easter, Christmas,
Halloween.
- Ken

wrote:
In article ,
says...

Some would say "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays", but if there
was no Christmas I really don't think there would be any widely popular
holidays in December at all. So much for a season of them.


Time to brush up on your cause and effect.....

Christmas is in December because christians attempted (succeeded in?) to
steal the highly popular pagan winter solstice festivals. Which is why
we have christmas trees and yule logs.

Christmas has become primarily a secular holiday, and a very expensive
one. In fact, it's become a parody of mindless consumerism, to the point
that a good retail Christmas season is vital for the economy. Is there
ever a time of year when more money is spent on stuff that no one will
ever use? If I were a Christian I wouldn't want the name of the Son of
God even to be associated with it.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

rw wrote:

Christmas has become primarily a secular holiday, and a very expensive
one.

Yea, and it makes me laugh to hear all these right wingers go after
walmart for not saying "merry christmas." Yea, that's a great idea..
let's make Christmas even MORE commercial. I'm sure they'd be so happy
if walmart used Jesus in their advertising.

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 05:37:44 GMT, rw wrote:

wrote:
In article ,
says...

Some would say "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays", but if there
was no Christmas I really don't think there would be any widely popular
holidays in December at all. So much for a season of them.


Time to brush up on your cause and effect.....

Christmas is in December because christians attempted (succeeded in?) to
steal the highly popular pagan winter solstice festivals. Which is why
we have christmas trees and yule logs.

Christmas has become primarily a secular holiday, and a very expensive
one. In fact, it's become a parody of mindless consumerism, to the point
that a good retail Christmas season is vital for the economy. Is there
ever a time of year when more money is spent on stuff that no one will
ever use? If I were a Christian I wouldn't want the name of the Son of
God even to be associated with it.

Since Christmas is on Sunday this year a couple of the largest churches in the
Atlanta area will be closed so their employees and parishioners can celebrate
"in their own way".
--
Charlie...
http://www.chocphoto.com

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:41:55 -0500, Charlie Choc
wrote:

(snipped)

Since Christmas is on Sunday this year a couple of the largest churches in the
Atlanta area will be closed so their employees and parishioners can celebrate
"in their own way".


I remember reading that in some news a week or so ago. It was so odd,
and so difficult to believe, that it absolutely slipped my mind.

Seems that Christmas Eve has become the big church day of the season
for churches. I can see that they'd cut their Christmas day
ceremonies down to just a couple of before noon ones, but to cut out
all services because it falls on a Sunday is mind boggling.

It's Sunday, for (literally) Christ's sake. Do they believe in Sunday
services or not? They have a double holy day going and they're going
to go home and watch Dicken's Christmas Carol or a football game on TV
instead of giving a service and communion? How can they sluff
(slough?) that stuff off on their parishioners? If there is even one
church member who wishes to attend an ordinary Sunday service and take
communion, why aren't they given the chance to do so?

Yeah, it's just a rant, as I have no official religion any more. I
just like to see groups and people make an attempt to live up to the
principles they espouse, especially if they espouse them for the
entire rest of the world.

You should hear me go on when I see some supposedly patriotic American
displaying a dirty tattered flag as if he / she were doing the
American thing.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
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Charlie Choc wrote:

Since Christmas is on Sunday this year a couple of the largest churches in the
Atlanta area will be closed so their employees and parishioners can celebrate
"in their own way".

Watching either Chicago playing at Green Bay or Minnesota playing at
Baltimore.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:56:42 GMT, rw wrote:

Charlie Choc wrote:

Since Christmas is on Sunday this year a couple of the largest churches in the
Atlanta area will be closed so their employees and parishioners can celebrate
"in their own way".

Watching either Chicago playing at Green Bay or Minnesota playing at
Baltimore.

On their new big screens.
--
Charlie...
http://www.chocphoto.com

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:27:44 -0800, wrote:

In article ,
says...
Some would say "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays", but if there
was no Christmas I really don't think there would be any widely popular
holidays in December at all. So much for a season of them.

Time to brush up on your cause and effect.....

Christmas is in December because christians attempted (succeeded in?) to
steal the highly popular pagan winter solstice festivals. Which is why
we have christmas trees and yule logs.

BTW, all the best holidays came from the pagans. Easter, Christmas,
Halloween.
- Ken


Mayday!

"Hooray hooray its the first of May
Outdoor screwing begins today".

Or is that just a Norwegian thing?

g.c.

Who wishes people good-bye even though he doesn't necessarily think
that God will be with them and who goes to work on Thursday with very
seldom a thought to Thor and who bets that when the Brits go on
holiday they spend very little of it praying.

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
news

Mayday!

"Hooray hooray its the first of May
Outdoor screwing begins today".

Or is that just a Norwegian thing?

Nah, it's one of those high latitude thingies.......wherever the livestock
is brought indoors to survive harsh winters.......

g.c.

Who wishes people good-bye even though he doesn't necessarily think
that God will be with them and who goes to work on Thursday with very
seldom a thought to Thor and who bets that when the Brits go on
holiday they spend very little of it praying.

Gesundheit!

Wolfgang