I am sick of christmas already. I had to work at 8am today at a grocery store. Just got off and now I am being forced to go to church at 7. just going to day dream the entire time. It's been 51 weeks since i've stepped foot in a church and will be another 51 before i go again so i guess it won't kill me
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Are you celebrating Christmas?
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December 24, 2010 at 9:48 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2010 at 9:51 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(December 24, 2010 at 5:57 pm)mamamia88 Wrote: I am sick of christmas already. I had to work at 8am today at a grocery store. Just got off and now I am being forced to go to church at 7. just going to day dream the entire time. It's been 51 weeks since i've stepped foot in a church and will be another 51 before i go again so i guess it won't kill me It's now 12.10 PM Christmas day here in Adelaide. Clear sky and a forecaste of 35C (90F).Currently 32C, a fairly typical Christmas day. Just finished cannibalising an old Acer computer, and bunging a perfectly good Pioneer DVD burner into a HP Pentium 4. Just dandy ,except it doesn't seem to work per se. It has Mint and doesn't want to recognise the burner. Bummer. Hungry;going out for lunch at 2.30.I'm gonna be starving. 
well that's over. Church wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for all the religious bullshit. Somebody needs to start something similar for atheists with all the religious stuff removed. We can all watch feel good movies like Rocky, listen to classical music, then all drink from the celebratory margarita.
 Quote:Church wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for all the religious bullshit. Can't argue with that.  (December 24, 2010 at 5:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I just completed my annual viewing of Life of Brian.... Or was it all dairy producers? 
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December 25, 2010 at 6:13 am
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2010 at 6:15 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(December 25, 2010 at 1:03 am)theVOID Wrote:(December 24, 2010 at 5:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I just completed my annual viewing of Life of Brian.... Trivia: Coincidence: I read 'somewhere' that during the first century CE,the place where Jesus allegedly gave the sermon on the mount was known as (drum roll please)-----The Valley of The Cheesemakers. ( I wouldn't be at all surprised if John Cleese made that up) 
Just in case no one has seen this video, these people won't be pow-wowing it with Jesus on Christmas either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nojbb-q4V...r_embedded
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan  RE: Are you celebrating Christmas?
December 27, 2010 at 11:31 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2010 at 11:34 pm by GANIMEDE.)
I celebrate the time between December 21 and 24 as the beginning of the New Solar Year, as I mentioned in annother post. I love and respect Nature and I love the mystery of the whole experience of life. Celebrating the Winter Solstace and birth of a new year is an important part of my reverence for the Universe.
As plainly described in the Bible, Jesus, (the fictional figure), was born in the late spring or summer, not in the depth of Winter. It says, in the Bible, "The sheppards were out grazing their flock when an angel messenger told them of the birth". This means the grass was tall and green, and the weather mild. (December 25, 2010 at 6:13 am)padraic Wrote:(December 25, 2010 at 1:03 am)theVOID Wrote:(December 24, 2010 at 5:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I just completed my annual viewing of Life of Brian.... Not John Cleese but Flavius Josephus makes reference to the Tyropoeon Valley (Valley of the Cheesemakers) but places it in Jerusalem rather than Galilee where the alleged "sermon on the mount" took place. I recall a documentary some years ago in which the alleged multitude for the alleged sermon was considered. Apparently not only is there no where in Galilee where a crowd of thousands could gather and still hear the speaker ( "I can't hear a bloody thing") but the very idea that a bunch of peasants would give up their subsistence living to go listen to some wandering preacher was pretty laughable in and of itself. Those people had better things to do than listen to some asshole....like eat.  RE: Are you celebrating Christmas?
December 28, 2010 at 10:52 am
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2010 at 10:52 am by Edwardo Piet.)
I did celebrate Christmas... in the form of presents and the family being together.... and I can't understand why this topic is in the Christianity section of the forum.
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