Happy Holidays!

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November 9th, 2015 at 9:06:30 AM permalink
terapined
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Christmas was a holiday and the Jews simply resurrected some minor holiday and started to pump that up in the media and then along came the Blacks who simply concocted a non-existent holiday for a continent that never had any uniform practices or written language and suddenly Kwanzaa was born with its extra "a" most likely due to a word processing error.


Seinfeld writers simply concocted a non-existent holiday for a TV show that never had any uniform practices or written language and suddenly Festivus was born.

Happy Festivus
A holiday for the rest of us :-)

(Because I celebrate Festivus does not mean I am at war with Christmas)
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November 9th, 2015 at 9:38:06 AM permalink
Nareed
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I celebrate the after Xmas sales, when prices are lower as retailers rush to get rid of inventory. If winter inventory persists, and some always does, the lowest prices are at the February sales.

I wonder if it would pay to stand outside Starbucks outlets, selling reindeer and Xmas tree stickers at $0.10 to Christianize the plain holiday cups. Somehow I doubt it.
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November 9th, 2015 at 1:01:30 PM permalink
Nareed
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Quote: terapined
Why are they angry?
War on Christmas. lol
Really sad.
Its much ado about nothing


I just remembered, when the Higg's Boson finally showed up at CERN, and in the days leading to the announcement, there was some talk were the media referred to it as "the 'God' Particle," alleging that's what physicists called it.

Well, yes and no. Physicists have inside jokes as much as anyone else. Many years ago a scientist, I forget his name, wrote a book about the Higg's Boson titled "The Goddamn Particle." He chose the title because it was going to be very hard to detect (in fact CERN detected the expected decay particles the theory predicts would appear when a Higg's decays, not the Higg's itself). The publisher persuaded him to change it to "The God Particle," and it's been a joke among physicists ever since.

They didn't make much noise, but several Christian groups objected to any and all references to "the God particle."

Maybe this constitutes an "attack" on religion, if you consider that using the word "God" in a joke qualifies as such.
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November 9th, 2015 at 4:43:53 PM permalink
Face
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Quote: terapined

War on Christmas. lol


You're damn right. I am waging a war on Xmas. It's like the vinca in my garden. Every year it goes further and further from where it's supposed to be.

The hugest of holidays might get 2 days, 3 days max. The 4th on a weekend. New Years Eve / Day. Xmas is getting 57 f#$%ing days now. No. I'm done. It's on. Death to holiday creep.
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November 9th, 2015 at 5:19:48 PM permalink
rxwine
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As a Christian, I could give two craps about a corporation distancing themselves from Christmas. I like to see commercialism taken out of Christmas. Corporations like SBUX, if they are smart, will be slaves to the dollar, which means it will design its company around profits. If the "red cup" manages to sway a total number of Christian + non-christian dollars around the holidays vs its Reindeer and Ornament cup (none of which has anything to do with Christ) then go for it.



Personally, I wouldn't mind if Starbucks put Jesus on their cups holding a cup of Starbucks coffee. If people don't notice that Christmas is being used to sell products when it is less blatant then show them what is really going on.
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November 9th, 2015 at 5:21:45 PM permalink
rxwine
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double post
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
November 9th, 2015 at 5:29:44 PM permalink
Evenbob
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The hugest of holidays might get 2 days, 3 days max. The 4th on a weekend. New Years Eve / Day. Xmas is getting 57 f#$%ing days now. No. I'm done. It's on. Death to holiday creep.


If you're still a mailman, you're going love
the CRAP out of Dec..
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