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Name: Phil (by 2harts4ever1)
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Merry Christmas everyone,
Greetings from Central Pennsylvania. May this Christmas bring "Peace on Earth ... Good Will to All Men"!
Regards,
Phil
" ... Nuff Said. Keep Smiling Because I'm Smiling Too."
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Greeting to you Phil from the County of Cheshire.
Peace on Earth would be nice but somehow I doubt if it will happen. At least there will be peace in this little bit of the world.
Best wishes
Stuart
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Merry Christmas from the east coast of Aussie.
Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.
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From another Central Pa resident... Happy Holidays to all. Be safe...
Life's more painless for the brainless.
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Merry Christmas from the east coast of America to everyone far and wide....
Keep the old stuff running
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Happy Holidays is a fine sentiment, and I thank those who posted it.
Special thanks to those who who actually wrote Merry Christmas. This has nothing to do with religion. . .
I'd like to believe that those who expressed Merry Christmas do not bow before political correctness. :)
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Christmas is a pagan holiday & has absolutely nothing to do with the birth of JC. But for those who celebrate it, revel in your blasphemy...lol!
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Merry Christmas from Eastern PA. Ha Ha, I'll bet JAM got coal in his stocking:)))
Keep Smiling
It makes them think you're up to something...
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Merry Christmas all!
BTW, go easy on us jam .... if we knew the exact date Jesus was born, the birthday celebration timing wouldn't be as clear as mud. Eitherway, the absence of a precise record does not & should not emphatically paganize the celebration for Christians. Moreover, if my birthday falls on Osiris': I don't think a get-together with (my) friends to mark the occasion implies paying homage to Osiris.
http://www.ankerberg.org/Articles/h...
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"LOL"
Christmas is the time of Jesus, Happy Brithday Jesus. But who really knows?
I some times have my party days before or days after my brith day.Merry Christmas all:)
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Nearly all Christmas traditions, holly, mistletoe, yule logs, Christmas trees, eating and drinking to excess were all borrowed from Pagan religions by the early Christians in order to make Christianity more acceptable to the Pagans. Even the idea of a virgin birth was borrowed from an Eastern heathen religion as was the use of the halo which was borrowed from Mithras the Pagan Sun God.
Take away the Pagan influences in Christmas and you haven't got a lot left except a midnight carol service which isn't going to fire many peoples imagination.
If the early Christians had not adopted Pagan customs, as the Roman's did when they first came to Britain, Christianity would have died out before it got started.
Stuart
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"if we knew the exact date Jesus was born, the birthday celebration timing wouldn't be as clear as mud."
The thing is, celebrating birthdays is a pagan ritual in itself. It supposedly originated with the Persian cult of Mithras & was brought back to Rome by Roman soldiers returning from years of rampage. Eventually birthday celebrations were adopted by the Roman Catholic church, with the birth date of JC "chosen" to coincide with the birth of the Mithran Sun God.
Jews are somewhat split over birthdays. The hardliners do not celebrate them, opting to celebrate the day of death instead. As King Solomon said "...the day of death [is better] than the day of birth". Others feel that it is a time of self reflection.
Regardless, people are so entrenched in what they've been "taught" about Christmas over the years that the "truth" about it's origins are largely ignored. And mentioning them, especially during "the season", gets one branded as a "scrooge".
I don't know what's worse...celebrating Xmas cluelessly thinking that you're actually honoring JC with your revelry, or celebrating it anyway even though you know it's origins & that it's very likely blasphemous?
I fit into the latter category ;-)
Merry Xmas!
BTW, stay tuned for my next rant...Saturday vs Sunday, which is the true Sabbath day & why was it changed? lol
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StuartS,jam
Great info,Jam i like you fit in the latter;)next rant...Saturday vs Sunday
Another good one.
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.... Hi everyone its just a normal day.
... but there is a serious side:
... (click n scroll down)
Grrrr
wat do I know?
... got brain freeze
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All the days of the week are named after pagan gods.
Have a happy Saturnalia and Kalends people...
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I wrote "Happy Holidays" cause I have friends who celebrate the many Holidays this time of year, and I didn't want to specify Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwaanza, Festivus (even if George's Dad invented it), and all the other ones!!!
So, again. Happy Holidays!!
Life's more painless for the brainless.
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I agree completely with Mavis007. All of the letters of Santa can spell Satan. IMO, I firmly believe that Satan has created a character called Santa Clause to divert the attention away from the real meaning of Christmas. I celebrate Christmas because the very reason that Jesus Christ came to this earth was to die. Die for what? The sins of all the world! http://rsoft.xoompages.com/tpos.htm explains that.
Jesus can change your life for the better!!
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Hey, whether you believe all the hype or not, it's a great time to be alive. Just go ahead and enjoy it! It doesn't hurt a thing.
A positive attitude won't solve all your problems, but it will annoy just enough people to be worth the effort.
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