Christmas

[Camaclue]

By the way, Easter is celebrated on different days.

[Rakefur]

Um, Cam, this is Christmas....

[Camaclue]

I know, I'm just comparing holidays.

[Rakefur]

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This is not Spa.

[Briar]

Cam is making an alright point (I think)

Easter is celebrated on different days, so why can't Christmas/ Jesus' birth?

[Rakefur]

You  mean he was actually thinking??!!!

Yeah that makes sense. I guess it's just tradition....

(Easter is celebrated on a different day by the Greek Orthodox Church, right?)

[Briar]

I believe so.

Christmas pre-20th century was much more about charity and gift giving. Now it is mostly commercialized. Though it is not when Jesus Christ was actually born, I think it is still acceptable to celebrate his birth then.

[Rakefur]

That's what I was saying, I think!

So why do I get mocked?

[Pippin]

because christmas

i wanna get a bivvy

[Neobaron]

There are so many things wrong with this thread that I can't even put it into words.

Why did you have to post Briar? You are far too nice of a person for me to be direct. :(

You all need to go to google and type in "origins of christmas."

Internet jews (like jews on the internet) have made a nice website with a lot of :words: that has details and stuff that will explain why christmas is basically a moral travesty.

Christmas was invented for the disgusting purpose of repurposing a pagan holiday as a means of converting the masses of people who were already worshipping gods and customs that existed certainly before jesus and probably before the original jews wrote down their stories.

Now christians are mad that christmas is again being repurposed as a capitalist holiday as a means of getting/forcing masses of people to spend loads of money.

The only difference is the number of people killed over it.

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Will an admin type please split this thread into UMD? :3

[Rakefur]

Will an admin type please split this thread into UMD? :3

Please. This was kinda meant to be a casual discussion about Christmas, etc..., not a debate about the origin.

[Neobaron]

I would be less inclined to pick a fight but this was posted  6 weeks early.

Your insistence on shortening our lives basically demands to be punished.

Also add me on MSN or message me your contact information of choice.

[Rakefur]

*snort* I like  annoying people.

Don't have msn I think....if I did, I wouldn't use it. And I'm not allowed to give out my contact info to people on the internet.

[Neobaron]

One of the important rules of the internet is that internet people only exist on the internet.

Embracing and understanding this simple truth frees you from a lot of the problems of real interpersonal communication. Like indirect communication. And the illusion of absolute truth.

When I ask for your contact information, I am asking for MSN, Skype, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.

[Rakefur]

That's really confusing.

Should I pm you my hotmail?