....to either elucidate or add to our existential burden during this coldest and darkest time of the year?
2007-12-17 04:51:39 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Breg. I'm from CA so who knows?
2007-12-17 05:00:37 · update #1
db. no, twas my cats.
2007-12-17 05:04:07 · update #2
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." ~ George Bernard Shaw
2007-12-17 04:57:03 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
How about, Xmas Sucks!!! Seriously I have been thinking quite a bit about this whole holiday thing lately and how they all got their start.
Back when we were all pagans, we performed ceremonies during very specific times of the solar/lunar year. Once we had been forced by our leaders to accept Christianity, we lost those "special times". To keep us from going nuts and revolting, they decided to let us have our fun, but renamed the celebrations and changed the dates so as not to reflect the old solar/lunar calendar.
From my prospective, it would be much easier to sacrifice a goat or run naked in the woods than to go Christmas shopping and draping tacky lights over my roof.
2007-12-17 05:18:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
THIS quote, from another R&S participant who *nailed* the relationship between the pseudo-Christian cultists of the "Religious" Radical right... and people of any religion who actively proselytize -- and atheists:
"I know the only people who keep knocking on my door, insist on coming in to preach against other beliefs (read: insult people's intelligence and choice) are people of faith.
Never heard of door-to-door atheists."
-- This submission by "Roadrat" -- Sensible, fair-minded, and tolerant Christians. Just like most of the other 94% of professing Christians in America who have nothing to do with the RRR Cult, so should never be painted with their brush of hatefulness and obnoxiousness.
2007-12-17 05:03:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences — then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.
- Ambrose Bierce
2007-12-17 04:54:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
""And the Angel said unto them , Fear not : for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy , which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of david a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes , lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest and in earth peace , good will toward men ""
2007-12-17 05:01:28 · answer #5 · answered by hghostinme 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to share this with everyone, regardless of belief.
Lots of people here care about you. I have contacts from all walks of life, beliefs, and I have to say, they are a great bunch of people!
I love the contribution everyone (on contact list or not) makes when done so thoughtfully and respectfully!
Here are some good quotes -
"Reputation is what you get when everyone is watching."
"Character is what you do when no one is looking."
2007-12-17 04:58:03 · answer #6 · answered by Wire Tapped 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
not a reg, per say, but this quote is rad...
"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much
as your own unguarded thoughts.
Develop the mind of equilibrium.
You will always be getting praise and blame,
but do not let either affect the poise of the mind:
follow the calmness, the absence of pride."
-Sutta Nipata
2007-12-17 05:02:52 · answer #7 · answered by kub2 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Bertrand Russell
2007-12-17 05:01:21 · answer #8 · answered by Murazor 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
"Say not the struggle naught availeth
The labour and the wounds are vain
Thine enemy faints not, nor faileth
And as things have been, they remain.
...
And not by eastern windows only
When daylight comes, comes in the light
In front the sun climbs, oh, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright"
2007-12-17 05:17:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges
2007-12-17 05:07:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
Sydney J. Harris
If there is something you want to do, someone you want to tell how you feel, an apology you want to make, do it now. You may not have the chance tomorrow.
2007-12-17 05:01:17 · answer #11 · answered by russj 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋