Merry Christmas
POSTED BY: THGRRI
UPDATED: Sunday, December 25, 2016 22:44
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HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY
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Ok, I just knocked over the fridge and punched all the cabinets.
Was there subliminal messaging in there?? And could you broadwave trigger me in about 21 more days?? I got some in-laws that've had something coming for YEARS...
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Wow, such negativity. It's only a Happy Holidays message. So, channeling Scrooges nephew I say again ladies, I hope you both have a great Christmas.
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Here's the thing, the thing that is always obnoxious about Christians...
You walk into a room, that is full of many different walks of life and shout "Merry Christmas"... well, that's a bit like saying "My peeps- be happy- but piss on the rest of you"
Or even worse "My peeeps- be happy, because THEY are the only ones that has a happiness that matters"
Somehow, once you people learn you actually AREN'T the center of this planet, and learn to say "Merry Christmas to the Christians and Have a nice season for everyone else" maybe you won't get so much flack.
Because you show respect for the whole room, and we will show respect BACK.
Oh, and calling people who don't follow YOUR brand of religion (or blind love for a holiday that's killing the planet and just plain annoying or abject materialism to the rest of us) "Scrooges" or "Grinches" just shows how little you respect others as well. Demonizing people who are different is just IGNORANT.
But then, Christians have built a way of life on demonizing others...
Which, somehow...I don't get. Jesus wasn't like that, so it must be the people......
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People assume I am saying merry Christmas as something religious. I am not. It is the holidays and once being catholic Christmas is what I go with. If someone is Jewish or of another faith let them chime in.
If you do not wish to partake in spreading seasons greetings to your fellow browncoats no problem. There is no law saying you must. There is also no reason to go off half baked.
P.S. G...I have a radio station I listen to that goes strictly Christmas music right before thanksgiving and stays that way till after Christmas. I change it out with anything to avoid pushing that button and having to hear that.
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
People assume I am saying merry Christmas as something religious.
If you do not wish to partake in spreading seasons greetings to your fellow browncoats no problem. There is no law saying you must. There is also no reason to go off half baked.
Oh, now that's just denial...CHRISTmas/CHRISTian... It's IN THE WORD.
It IS religious and it's "in your face" every damn year...It's forced on us in music and on TV in schools and the Radio and Christians KNOW they drive people nuts with it. YOU EVEN DRIVE CHRISTIANS NUTS WITH IT.
One big season long exercise in BRAINWASHING NONSENSE.
Now, have a lovely winter season...
but SCREW CHRISTMAS...
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There's always Festivus for the rest of us.
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It's WINTER. It's supposed to be a bad time. It's cold, we're always sick, and my arthritis SUCKS....
None-the-less, I always hope things get better for you Brenda, no matter the season...
Hang in there.
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
It's WINTER. It's supposed to be a bad time. It's cold, we're always sick, and my arthritis SUCKS....
None-the-less, I always hope things get better for you Brenda, no matter the season...
Hang in there.
This is Water
David Foster Walace
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how's the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
If at this moment, you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise old fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The immediate point of the fish story is that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude — but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.
A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. Here's one example of the utter wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic selfcenteredness, because it's so socially repulsive, but it's pretty much the same for all of us, deep down. It is our default-setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: There is no experience you've had that you were not at the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is right there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV, or your monitor, or whatever. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real — you get the idea. But please don't worry that I'm getting ready to preach to you about compassion or other-directedness or the so-called “virtues.” This is not a matter of virtue — it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.
People who can adjust their natural default-setting this way are often described as being “well adjusted,” which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.
Given the triumphal academic setting here, an obvious question is how much of this work of adjusting our default-setting involves actual knowledge or intellect. This question gets tricky. Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. Paying attention to what's going on inside me. As I'm sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head. Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal-arts cliché about “teaching you how to think” is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: “Learning how to think” really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an e
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