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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 1:12 pm
(December 1, 2010 at 11:27 am)orogenicman Wrote: Yes.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 1:44 pm
(December 1, 2010 at 1:12 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: (December 1, 2010 at 11:27 am)orogenicman Wrote: Yes.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 2:37 pm
(December 1, 2010 at 1:44 pm)orogenicman Wrote: (December 1, 2010 at 1:12 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: (December 1, 2010 at 11:27 am)orogenicman Wrote: Yes.
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No.
Well, come to our Christmas party then.
Yes, the atheist Christmas party. I love saying that.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Shouldn't you call it The Saturnalia or something?
Would be a little more reasonable than celebrating the non-birth of a fictional character.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 3:45 pm
(December 1, 2010 at 3:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Shouldn't you call it The Saturnalia or something?
Would be a little more reasonable than celebrating the non-birth of a fictional character.
We go over my brother-in-law's every Christmas. I cringe when he ends the dinner blessing with, "Happy birthday, Jesus!".
I really want to shout out that, even if "Jesus" was a real person, he almost certainly was NOT born on December 25!
I try to get under his skin when I go over their house and wish everyone a "Merry Saturnalia!".
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 4:39 pm
(December 1, 2010 at 3:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Shouldn't you call it The Saturnalia or something?
Would be a little more reasonable than celebrating the non-birth of a fictional character.
I love irony so I call it that.
The groups official name for it is "holiday party".
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 5:25 pm
(December 1, 2010 at 3:45 pm)Thor Wrote: We go over my brother-in-law's every Christmas. I cringe when he ends the dinner blessing with, "Happy birthday, Jesus!".
I see your dinner blessing and raise you this:
My roommate, who is a lax Baptist, has a family that probably caused most of the stereotypes. Her grandmother decorates the house with birthday paraphanalia, has party horns, bakes a cake, and makes little cone party hats with glitter glued on them. For Jesus. True story - and she does it in complete seriousness. She will put a few candles on the cake and make everyone blow them out.
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I have no idea where my menorah is. I do not WANT to know where my menorah is. "Itty bitty shitty candles" are no fun. I don't care. I have to skype my mother tonight, nonetheless, because she's worrying herself sick that I will not be able to "celebrate Chanukah". Upon hearing my "predicament", a passing Jewish coworker took it upon himself to offer me his spare menorah. It's shape? Noah's Ark.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 5:29 pm
(December 1, 2010 at 5:25 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: (December 1, 2010 at 3:45 pm)Thor Wrote: We go over my brother-in-law's every Christmas. I cringe when he ends the dinner blessing with, "Happy birthday, Jesus!".
I see your dinner blessing and raise you this:
My roommate, who is a lax Baptist, has a family that probably caused most of the stereotypes. Her grandmother decorates the house with birthday paraphanalia, has party horns, bakes a cake, and makes little cone party hats with glitter glued on them. For Jesus. True story - and she does it in complete seriousness. She will put a few candles on the cake and make everyone blow them out.
Wow! Now THAT is incredible! I think I'd decline the invitation to that particular birthday party. Someone should tell grandma that December 25 is actually the date of a Pagan festival, not the birth of her fictitious mangod.
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 5:37 pm
All of sudden the crass and pervasive commercialization of Christmas seems to actually elevate and enoble it beyond its deserts. 
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RE: Giant Noah's Ark likely landing in Kentucky
December 1, 2010 at 5:49 pm
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Quote:Upon hearing my "predicament", a passing Jewish coworker took it upon himself to offer me his spare menorah. It's shape? Noah's Ark.
That was an act of kindness, which would earn a blessing. Unless of course he knows you are a non-practising Jew, in which case he is a sanctimonious twat. 
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Tangent,from none-of-my-business-curiosity:
You mentioned your family is from Eastern Europe. Does mean you are Ashkenazi ? From the Schetl or large city? When did your family leave? Did any of your extended family remain im Europe?.If so,did any survive The Holocaust?
I ask because I'm interested in the history of modern migration:.
I'm ethnic Irish. My dad's family left Country Clare to come to Australia in 1870 as free settlers. My mother's family left Galway during "The Hunger" in 1850 and went to Canada. Such migrations changed the direction of families and the fate of their members.
It's likely neither you nor I would be alive had our families not migrated. My mother's family would probably have starved to death,and yours have been wiped out in The Holocaust or in one of the periodic pogroms.
I apologise if my question are insensitive or intrusive
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