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Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?

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Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 11:14 am (This post was last modified: December 22, 2016 at 11:17 am by Edwardo Piet.)






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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 11:20 am
There is one song that I must hear, the sine qua non of xmas.
http://rhondadenisejohnson.com/donny.mp3

Give me Donny Hathaway and a half gallon of eggnog and I'm kewl.
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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 12:43 pm
There needs to be shunning for 12 days.

Or 8 days.

Or 6 days.

Or 365 days.
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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 7:47 pm
(December 22, 2016 at 12:43 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: There needs to be shunning for 12 days.

Or 8 days.

Or 6 days.

Or 365 days.

12 days of xmas. Every time I tried to add up how many birds my true love sent me, I'd get a different figure. But it will be enough to make me hate birds and strangle my true love.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 7:57 pm
Yes, I can and do celebrate Christmas in spite of the religious rubbish behind it.

I love socializing this time of year. Getting together with friends, eating fabulous food and desserts, seeing Christmas lights in the neighborhood, listening to The Nutcracker music on full blast, mailing and receiving handwritten Christmas cards...

Life can be pretty dismal as it is - why would I give up all that?
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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 8:01 pm
(December 22, 2016 at 7:47 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:
(December 22, 2016 at 12:43 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: There needs to be shunning for 12 days.

Or 8 days.

Or 6 days.

Or 365 days.

12 days of xmas. Every time I tried to add up how many birds my true love sent me, I'd get a different figure. But it will be enough to make me hate birds and strangle my true love.

8 days of hanukkah, 6 days of kwanzaa, 365 days of why shun only on the high holidays.
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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 8:13 pm
"Five Per-vert Priests............"

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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 10:41 pm


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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 11:39 pm
Well, technically, we can't really celebrate Xmas until we build a robot Santa to go around killing everyone.



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RE: Can You Celebrate Xmas Despite its Religious Connotations?
December 22, 2016 at 11:44 pm
(December 22, 2016 at 10:42 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Nah, this is the best Xmas song ever.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Lol nice Rick roll there.
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