Spirit of the Season

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Merry Dickmas!

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“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”

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Well, it's a fertility symbol.
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its good to remember the true spirit of dickmas

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Merry Christmas to all.

For young couples, in Japan, Christmas Eve is effectively Valentine's Day. A time for romance.

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For families, KFC scored a marketing coup years ago in 1974, by convincing people to substitute KFC chicken for turkey.

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And, joining my fellow ONOTer's in the spirit of the season, a

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to all.
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From the profane to the pagan:

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Typhoon wrote:From the profane to the pagan:

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Well East coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there

The Mid-West farmer's daughters really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night

I wish they all could be Lithuania
I wish they all could be Lithuania
I wish they all could be Lithuania girls...
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Haunting and beautiful.

Climatically off this year, though, warm, wet and stormy.
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Typhoon wrote:0UmvUy1LziE
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Typhoon wrote:From the profane to the pagan
You don't know the half of it. :)

While out there, in the big wide world, people prepare to celebrate the Christ Mass, I'm getting ready for Crăciun. Wikipedia being a naive website thinks that "Crăciun is the Romanian word for Christmas. [...] The Romanian name for Santa Claus is Moş Crăciun, literally Old Man Christmas." Actually, Crăciun has nothing to do with Christianity, while the etymology offered by Wikipedia (From the Latin creatio, -nis) is simply a guess. The truth is nobody knows where this old name comes from. But what we do know is that Crăciun is an old god, and, like other solar gods, Moș Crăciun dies and is reborn on the Winter Solstice. In the long war between Christianity and the older religions, Christianity managed to score a victory by reserving Easter for itself. Mostly. The death and resurrection of Christ was important enough to displace the god occupying the summer equinox, but the birth of Christ could not do the same with Crăciun, the most important god of the pastoral calendar. Tonight, unbeknownst even to most Romanians, Christ is confined to the church and Crăciun rules over the land. There's nothing Christian about the decorated fir tree, the ritually slaughtered pig, the decorated twig, the masks, the dances and the carols. So there...
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Christmas has always been about many things, most often just a brief celebration at the beginning a long, dark, and hungry winter.

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hah! All these miserable responses, it really is the season. :lol:

I'm waiting on everyone to arrive- bearing gifts mind you- and procrastinating a bit on the important things that must be done before arrivals.

Anyway, Merry Christmas to one and all.
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“There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent? Take a look at what we’ve done, too.” - Donald J. Trump, President of the USA
The Kushner sh*t is greasy - Stevie B.
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seconded :D


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"Oh what fun it is to sing a slaying song tonight!"
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”

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Nonc Hilaire wrote:"Oh what fun it is to sing a slaying song tonight!"
I always imagine that people are singing about slaying. It makes that annoying carol so much more FUN.
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:lol: cutenic!
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northern hemisphere white christmas imagery is always an odd thing to southern hemisphere mid summer christmas.

we celebrate it in 30-40 degree heat with beer and ham in the proper abrahamic traditions.

i hope you all had a fine one.
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noddy wrote:northern hemisphere white christmas imagery is always an odd thing to southern hemisphere mid summer christmas.

we celebrate it in 30-40 degree heat with beer and ham in the proper abrahamic traditions.

i hope you all had a fine one.
Mid 70's yesterday. AGW, ya know!

Happy Whatever-You-Perceive to all ya' all!
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YMix wrote:
Typhoon wrote:From the profane to the pagan
You don't know the half of it. :)

While out there, in the big wide world, people prepare to celebrate the Christ Mass, I'm getting ready for Crăciun. Wikipedia being a naive website thinks that "Crăciun is the Romanian word for Christmas. [...] The Romanian name for Santa Claus is Moş Crăciun, literally Old Man Christmas." Actually, Crăciun has nothing to do with Christianity, while the etymology offered by Wikipedia (From the Latin creatio, -nis) is simply a guess. The truth is nobody knows where this old name comes from. But what we do know is that Crăciun is an old god, and, like other solar gods, Moș Crăciun dies and is reborn on the Winter Solstice. In the long war between Christianity and the older religions, Christianity managed to score a victory by reserving Easter for itself. Mostly. The death and resurrection of Christ was important enough to displace the god occupying the summer equinox, but the birth of Christ could not do the same with Crăciun, the most important god of the pastoral calendar. Tonight, unbeknownst even to most Romanians, Christ is confined to the church and Crăciun rules over the land. There's nothing Christian about the decorated fir tree, the ritually slaughtered pig, the decorated twig, the masks, the dances and the carols. So there...
The Winter Solstice is probably one of the oldest celebrations in human civilization.

Christianity, as a clever marketing strategy, chose this season to overlay the birth of Jesus on pre-existing celebrations.
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Simple Minded wrote:
noddy wrote:northern hemisphere white christmas imagery is always an odd thing to southern hemisphere mid summer christmas.

we celebrate it in 30-40 degree heat with beer and ham in the proper abrahamic traditions.

i hope you all had a fine one.
Mid 70's yesterday. AGW, ya know!

Happy Whatever-You-Perceive to all ya' all!

sounds like our winter - we'all go into shock if it drops below 65f (18c)
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Happy New Year to all.

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A happy 2016 and a nice new years eve to yall.
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Here's hoping.
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