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Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 7:26 pm
I just would like to register my objection to the layout of this forum. I notice on "Atheist forums." There is snowflakes. Why does this bother me?
Because it does not recognize the Christmas season. It is just like the Starbucks cup or saying "Happy holidays."
It shows a deep contempt for Christians and what we believe. I know not everyone on here believes in Christ, but shouldn't his followers be shown some respect and recognition? I just see the snowflakes (absent nativity scene, mistletoe, Santa etc.) as an enormous slap in the face.
There is no "Winter holiday." It does not exist. Why would you commemorate it with snowflakes? It does not snow everywhere. However, December 25th is Christmas whether you are in Kansas, Alabama, or Montana, or even the darkest pits of Las Vegas.
Please make a more Christmas appropriate heading.
Thank you.
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RE: Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 7:28 pm
Nobody's stopping you from leaving. Take your persecution complex with you, if you do.
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RE: Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 7:56 pm
Poe says what?
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RE: Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 7:56 pm
It isn't a Christmas theme, you trollish twat. It's a winter theme. If it were a Christmas theme, it would depict Michael Buble being anally violated with his own mike stand for his crimes against Christmas music.
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RE: Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 7:57 pm
(December 14, 2015 at 7:26 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: I just would like to register my objection to the layout of this forum. I notice on "Atheist forums." There is snowflakes. Why does this bother me?
Because it does not recognize the Christmas season. It is just like the Starbucks cup or saying "Happy holidays."
It shows a deep contempt for Christians and what we believe. I know not everyone on here believes in Christ, but shouldn't his followers be shown some respect and recognition? I just see the snowflakes (absent nativity scene, mistletoe, Santa etc.) as an enormous slap in the face.
There is no "Winter holiday." It does not exist. Why would you commemorate it with snowflakes? It does not snow everywhere. However, December 25th is Christmas whether you are in Kansas, Alabama, or Montana, or even the darkest pits of Las Vegas.
Please make a more Christmas appropriate heading.
Thank you.
Now we KNOW you're a troll.
Happy Holidays, troll. Happy Winter Solstice. Happy Yule. Happy Saturnalia. Happy Birthday to Dionysis, Osiris, and Mithra. Happy day that the church hijacked to become Jesus' birthday, since they had no idea what day he was born, but a lot of "offensive" celebrations for their missionaries to combat. Happy Hanukkah, Ramadan, and Kwanzaa.
And why in anyone's sick, twisted little troll brain could there POSSIBLY be the glimmer of an idea that an ATHEIST website needs to have a Christian banner? That's just so absurd it almost makes a person nauseous.
Oh, yeah, you're a "True Christian" all right. A shining example of pompous asshole-ism.
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RE: Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 7:58 pm
I think you misunderstand, the current logo isn't a celebration of Christmas or any "winter holiday", it's a part of a elaborate digital e-pagan ritual to bring snow to New York City, where the server is located. With any luck we can use the snow and cold weather that comes with it to cool the server and prevent it from overheating, because if that happens before 25th December (a date which coincidentally coincides with Christmas) a server daemon will spawn and bring forth process after process with its almighty fork, until all the server memory is used up. At which point the forums will crash and burn and we'll have to relocate them to a less cursed data center.
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RE: Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 8:06 pm
Any chances on arranging the snowflakes to spell "Fuck Jesus"?
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RE: Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 8:08 pm
(December 14, 2015 at 8:06 pm)Cato Wrote: Any chances on arranging the snowflakes to spell "Fuck Jesus"?
That might mess up the ritual, it's not worth the risk.
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RE: Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 8:09 pm
Think of it as our opening salvo in the war on Xmas.
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RE: Objection to forum layout
December 14, 2015 at 8:29 pm
(December 14, 2015 at 7:58 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I think you misunderstand, the current logo isn't a celebration of Christmas or any "winter holiday", it's a part of a elaborate digital e-pagan ritual to bring snow to New York City, where the server is located. With any luck we can use the snow and cold weather that comes with it to cool the server and prevent it from overheating, because if that happens before 25th December (a date which coincidentally coincides with Christmas) a server daemon will spawn and bring forth process after process with its almighty fork, until all the server memory is used up. At which point the forums will crash and burn and we'll have to relocate them to a less cursed data center.
And that's what happens when you host AF on a steam powered server.
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