Christmas vs "Holidays"

Umm.. FWIW, Christ was almost certainly born in the spring. The winter
"Christmas" is the highjacking of the pagan winter solstice celebration by
early christians, who originally had no holidays or celebrations, and
therefore had a marketing problem vs the other religions of the time.
 
I am indeed sick of it. If I hear 'Frosty the Snowman' and
or anything else out of tin-pan alley when I go grocery shopping
I will scream. The commercial crud may force me into going to
the Kosher butcher at Christmas.
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Feliz navidad is the one that does it for me.
Comes from living in California, where it seems like this one tune gets 50%
of the airtime for a couple months a year.
 
In article <G8KdnY6zS5XJA1zcRVn-qw@comcast.com>, dvanhorn@dvanhorn.org
says...
I am indeed sick of it. If I hear 'Frosty the Snowman' and
or anything else out of tin-pan alley when I go grocery shopping
I will scream. The commercial crud may force me into going to
the Kosher butcher at Christmas.

Feliz navidad is the one that does it for me.
Comes from living in California, where it seems like this one tune gets 50%
of the airtime for a couple months a year.

It seems to be "Snoopy's Christmas" around here.
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I rather like the "Mannheim Steamroller's" Christmas music.

--
Keith
 
Feliz navidad is the one that does it for me.
Comes from living in California, where it seems like this one tune gets
50%
of the airtime for a couple months a year.

It seems to be "Snoopy's Christmas" around here.

I rather like the "Mannheim Steamroller's" Christmas music.
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I rather meant that I aggressively dislike "Feliz Navidad", to the point of
wanting to gouge out any speaker cone infected wth it.
 
Paul Burke wrote:

Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

"In the Norse Sagas we are told that boar was eaten at this time of
year, and that it was sworn oaths upon.


The meat at the Valhalla feast was apparently a magical boar called
Sejm. Eaten every night, it was miraculously renewed the next day. So,
Hrafn, what's for dinner today? Sejm again, Hrothnar.
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Sejm Sejm Sejm Sejm ... Sejm Sejm Sejm Sejm etc

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org
 
"James A. Doemer" <jdjunkmail@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:xxewd.697$RH4.135@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
Donna <donna.mr@comcast.net> wrote:
A.W. wrote:
This would be kinda hard since AD from what I understand is "after
death". A.W.


A.D. stands for "anno Domini" --- "year of the Lord" -----It means a
year during the Christian era, after Christ was born.

Donna in Texas

He or she is right though, I did mean "BC".
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Which means Before Christ....hehehe so how could Christ be born BC????
 
"Phyllis" <phyllisnilsson@buckeye-express.com> wrote in message
news:41C06A00.2040608@buckeye-express.com...
Since December 25th is celebrated as Christmas, those who don't believe
in it or in celebrating it should not accept the day off and the holiday
pay that goes with it.
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Shoot...... Even if I WASN'T Christian I would gladly accept a day off or a
bonus to my paycheck.... Hey....why can't we create a Buddha day? I am not
Buddhist but I am all for the benefits of another holliday!
 
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:02:02 -0500, "clint" <bocarsm@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Isn't this usual seasonal crap, a bit OT?
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Around here??? LOL!

--
John Fields
 
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:02:07 +0000, CLV3 wrote:

"Phyllis" <phyllisnilsson@buckeye-express.com> wrote in message
news:41C06A00.2040608@buckeye-express.com...
Since December 25th is celebrated as Christmas, those who don't believe
in it or in celebrating it should not accept the day off and the holiday
pay that goes with it.


Shoot...... Even if I WASN'T Christian I would gladly accept a day off or a
bonus to my paycheck.... Hey....why can't we create a Buddha day? I am not
Buddhist but I am all for the benefits of another holliday!
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Give it a few years - let the republicans get inured to kwanzaa first. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich
 
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:08:07 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:02:02 -0500, "clint" <bocarsm@hotmail.com
wrote:

Isn't this usual seasonal crap, a bit OT?

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Around here??? LOL!
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Yeah - Mensa, but interesting!

;^j
Rich
 
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:31:07 -0500, jsmith wrote:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1217/p09s01-coop.htm
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They let Atheists write for the Christian Science Monitor?

Cool!

Happy Solstice!
Rich
 
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 05:27:02 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:31:07 -0500, jsmith wrote:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1217/p09s01-coop.htm

They let Atheists write for the Christian Science Monitor?

Cool!

Happy Solstice!
Rich
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Very cool article. At last someone has the courage to show some sense
in public.

- YD.

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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:26:15 +0000, Kevin Aylward wrote:

roger_pearse@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Luke cannot be sensibly dated later than about 64AD. It doesn't
mention Paul's death, you see.

So what. This is faulty logic. So, Paul (if he existed) died, and no one
noticed. Most/All of the Babble is pure nonsense, so the lack of certain
information in it means diddly squat.
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And this Truth was revealed to you how, exactly?

Thanks,
Rich
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that Kevin Aylward
<salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote (in <4hDwd.1425$Qo4.633@fe1.news.blue
yonder.co.uk>) about 'Christmas vs "Holidays"', on Fri, 17 Dec 2004:

The Babble is simply something that ignorant peasants made up as they
went along. It has no value other than showing just how many people can
be so stupid as to believe in complete and utter gibberish.
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It's not as bad as that. It's a *scrapbook'. It includes poems, songs,
war reports, genealogical tables, myths and legends, laws and legal
interpretations, medical texts (CPR is in there, and no-one believed it
for about 3000 years!), philosophy, theology ... and gibberish. You have
to sort out which category the bit you are dealing with falls into.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
On 17 Dec 2004 02:25:02 -0800, roger_pearse@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

The Magdalen fragments are neither here nor there, but P52 (John, ca.
125AD) is earlier.
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I should elaborate. I said that John was somewhere from 125AD to 150AD and your
suggestion that P52 is 125AD (yes, I've seen that elsewhere) does not
contradict. While I've seen precise dates like 125AD mentioned for P52, I don't
find any of the arguments for such an exact dating persuasive. Can you say
which various techniques and arguments arise to place it quite so precisely, to
the year, with satisfaction?

Jon
 
Kevin posted, yet again:

"...this view is not debateable"

Kevin, *everything* is debatable. I believe when you say this, you are
intending to sound certain of your position, but FWIW I believe it makes you
sound pompous.

Don
 
Kevin wrote:
... this view is not debateable ...
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Well, not with K., that is for certain.

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.
Remove spaces etc. to reply: n o lindan at net com dot com
psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/
 
"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
news:eek:swf9fCVJuwBFw48@jmwa.demon.co.uk...
I read in sci.electronics.design that Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> wrote (in <X7Bwd.738$Qo4.124@fe1.news.bluey
onder.co.uk>) about 'Christmas vs "Holidays"', on Fri, 17 Dec 2004:

So, Paul (if he existed) died, and no one
noticed.

There IS reliable independent evidence that Paul existed.
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Such as?
 
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