Merry Christmas 2017!
December 23rd, 2017 at 10:03:46 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Just wanted to wish everyone the best on the special day celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ! God bless us everyone! “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
December 23rd, 2017 at 11:47:58 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
I have never celebrated that on Xmas or any other day. Xmas was the Yuletide holiday before the Church approriated it and took all of it's practices. Like caroling, and mistletoe and holly and giving gifts and even the holiday ham, and incorperated it into their own holiday. The Yule goes back millennia and was the most important holiday of the year. It fell near the shortest day of the year & celebrated birth, the rebirth of the sun. Xtions picked this holiday for the a birth holiday also, their own gods. So what was a mixture of gods holidays came to be all about Jesus eventually, with the help of the iron fist of the Church. So I celebrate the rebirth of the sun, the days getting longer, the air getting warmer eventually. Makes logical sense to celebrate things that you can see and feel, instead of fantasies of the imagination like virgin births. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
December 24th, 2017 at 3:49:24 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Merry Christmas to the Padre and all others who celebrate in some way. Before visiting family I will likely stop in the nearby casino just to experience the eerie, empty feel. Don't know why I like doing that, but I do. The President is a fink. |
December 24th, 2017 at 4:57:04 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/23/grateful-to-be-so-old-that-i-remember-when-it-was-normal-to-say-merry-christmas/ The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
December 24th, 2017 at 8:49:17 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
You too Padre, and all on the forum. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
December 25th, 2017 at 3:42:51 AM permalink | |
Aussie Member since: May 10, 2016 Threads: 2 Posts: 458 | Merry Xmas to all. Just winding down here now. Currently lying on my couch in a food coma. Are far too much but with another 8 days until I return to work and a buffet of sports coming up the overeating is likely to continue for some time. |
December 25th, 2017 at 8:04:55 AM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4470 | Merry Christmas everyone. May your days get longer EB. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
December 25th, 2017 at 9:17:13 AM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Christmas in liberated Aleppo. Pretty amazing, after being occupied by jihadists. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-25/christmas-liberated-aleppo The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
December 25th, 2017 at 9:43:47 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | On this day a child was born who would change the world by age 30. Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton! Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
December 25th, 2017 at 10:51:55 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
And we know Newton was a real person, and his ideas have been proven. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |