Christmas at Atheist Forums

[emjay]

Or in the second idea you could take out the random requirement and just say that if you write or get a message you have to send it on to eight users of your choice, but you don't put any signature in the message so the receivers don't know if you wrote it or if you're passing it on. Then you'd get the feelgood factor of being a chosen recipient... and the sense of someone deliberately addressing you... but at the same time it wouldn't be a popularity contest with people potentially feeling left out because of a) the external limit/requirement of eight recipients and b) the spreading-like-wildfire, exponential, effect; you might have to send to eight people dozens of times throughout the day, so you'd have plenty of opportunity to vary your recipients, and you might even end up getting sent one that you authored and be able to send it out again to another eight It sounds like it would be really fun on the day

[Aroura]

I love Christmas, count me in for carols or whatever is decided on!

[Czechlervitz30]

I personally loved the christmas issues in Playboy magazines. Ho Ho Ho.

[emjay]

I love Christmas, count me in for carols or whatever is decided on!

Me too... and that's a thought... vlog carol singing? I'm sure rob would be up for it, but maybe the rest of us as well I'd love to sing 'we wish you a Merry Christmas' to you guys (if you promised not to laugh... I'm not a great singer and perhaps too quiet )

[Losty]

Skype does group calls. I'm not sure what the limit is but I've been in calls with 12+ people so maybe we could all get in a call together and record some Christmas carols. That could be fun.

[Shell B]

I personally loved the christmas issues in Playboy magazines. Ho Ho Ho.

Maybe ask the 69ers for volunteers.

[Czechlervitz30]

I personally loved the christmas issues in Playboy magazines. Ho Ho Ho.

Maybe ask the 69ers for volunteers.

Haha. On a more serious note, I would like to say I like the Christmas season. Free gifts! Snow angels are fun to make too.

[emjay]

Ooh, I've just thought of something else. There's this rule right, doxing... you're not allowed to public quote anything from a PM? So... what we could do is create vlog carol videos on youtube, and post them privately like tibs does with the interviews so that they can only be accessed through a link. Then we could send those links in PMs to people and then it would be like a present for only them with the doxing rule preventing the link being shared. Mix that with one of these other secret santa-ish ideas and you could end up being the sole receiver of a given vlog carol. That would add to the sort of unique present feel of it. Just a thought though.

[Czechlervitz30]

I studied the origins of christmas and it was very good for me to learn all that.

[Sterben]

I've never liked the western approach to Christmas, my major area of study is Japan and it's culture. The Japanese treat Christmas -eve, and Christmas like a second Valentines day or for a group of friends to get together to have a party and exchange gifts to one another. It's not a religious holiday, it's a social holiday. That's the way it should be celebrated, not with church and a family dinner. Let's all get drunk this year and celebrate like the Japaneses!