Spirit of the Season
- Nonc Hilaire
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Merry Dickmas!
“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.”
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
- YMix
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Re: Spirit of the Season
Well, it's a fertility symbol.
“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
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The Kushner sh*t is greasy - Stevie B.
- Heracleum Persicum
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Re: Spirit of the Season
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Re: Spirit of the Season
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
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
to all.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Re: Spirit of the Season
From the profane to the pagan:
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May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Re: Spirit of the Season
Well East coast girls are hipTyphoon wrote:From the profane to the pagan:
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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...
Re: Spirit of the Season
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Haunting and beautiful.
Climatically off this year, though, warm, wet and stormy.
Haunting and beautiful.
Climatically off this year, though, warm, wet and stormy.
- YMix
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Re: Spirit of the Season
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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.
The Kushner sh*t is greasy - Stevie B.
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Re: Spirit of the Season
You don't know the half of it.Typhoon wrote:From the profane to the pagan
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...
“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.
The Kushner sh*t is greasy - Stevie B.
Re: Spirit of the Season
Christmas has always been about many things, most often just a brief celebration at the beginning a long, dark, and hungry winter.
Cчастливого Рождества!
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Cчастливого Рождества!
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- NapLajoieonSteroids
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Re: Spirit of the Season
hah! All these miserable responses, it really is the season.
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.
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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Re: Spirit of the Season
Heracleum Persicum wrote:
Merry Christmas !
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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.
The Kushner sh*t is greasy - Stevie B.
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Re: Spirit of the Season
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- Nonc Hilaire
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Re: Spirit of the Season
"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.”
Teresa of Ávila
Teresa of Ávila
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Re: Spirit of the Season
I always imagine that people are singing about slaying. It makes that annoying carol so much more FUN.Nonc Hilaire wrote:"Oh what fun it is to sing a slaying song tonight!"
“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.
The Kushner sh*t is greasy - Stevie B.
Re: Spirit of the Season
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.
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.
ultracrepidarian
Re: Spirit of the Season
Mid 70's yesterday. AGW, ya know!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.
Happy Whatever-You-Perceive to all ya' all!
Re: Spirit of the Season
The Winter Solstice is probably one of the oldest celebrations in human civilization.YMix wrote:You don't know the half of it.Typhoon wrote:From the profane to the pagan
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...
Christianity, as a clever marketing strategy, chose this season to overlay the birth of Jesus on pre-existing celebrations.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Re: Spirit of the Season
Simple Minded wrote:Mid 70's yesterday. AGW, ya know!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.
Happy Whatever-You-Perceive to all ya' all!
sounds like our winter - we'all go into shock if it drops below 65f (18c)
ultracrepidarian
Re: Spirit of the Season
Happy New Year to all.
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May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Re: Spirit of the Season
A happy 2016 and a nice new years eve to yall.
Deep down I'm very superficial
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Re: Spirit of the Season
Here's hoping.
“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.
The Kushner sh*t is greasy - Stevie B.