X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9a04288c8c6ebbd1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-30 13:04:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: "Peter \"lastfuture\" Marquardt" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: =Merry Christmas!= Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:01:35 +0100 Organization: T-Online Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1009746125 04 30938 SHjATajXT9AeKH 011230 21:02:05 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520084321266-0001@t-dialin.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:13131 On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 14:15:47 -0600, Taliszanna wrote: >On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, drsquare wrote: > >> Why does anyone celebrate fucking christmas? > > It's been absorbed into general Northern American culture. I >celebrate it with my family because it's a cultural thing, not because >it's a religious thing. I don't do the religious part of it. I have Yule >for that. exactly.. like we have samhain for the new year.. only difference with me is that i don't celebrate those because they are cultural things. i simply am with my family. i don't like christmas, but at least i tolerate people who celebrate it (other than drsquare seems to) -- ' + ` . ,-------------. + . ` . * ' \/ * . __ . ( alt.ascii-art ) . . ,-----------. ` (oO) -._'"- ( ,. _.' `-------------' ' ( you said it )_,' vv . `" `-` . ' * ` + `-----------' . JL