X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,9a04288c8c6ebbd1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-05 08:55:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.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: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 17:51:47 +0100 Organization: T-Online Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1010249532 02 28990 wQeDT+EXEyAuEq 020105 16:52:12 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:13427 On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 00:46:37 +0800, Bateau wrote: >____ On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:01:35 +0100 >\__/___ Peter "lastfuture" Marquardt ran through the > LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art > | waving an axe and screaming: > / \ >>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) > >I'm all for showing people you care about them and stuff, but not on a >specific day just because you're expected to. Then all the sentiment >is removed. That's why I ignore birthdays and christmas and >valentine's day and stuff. yeah it's much more reasonable to celebrate new sections in life instead of birthdays.. what's special about those days.. ok.. unless you get 18 (16, 21.. whatever) and are allowed to do major things you weren't allowed to do before like driving and stuff -- ' + ` . ,-------------. + . ` . * ' \/ * . __ . ( alt.ascii-art ) . . ,-----------. ` (oO) -._'"- ( ,. _.' `-------------' ' ( you said it )_,' vv . `" `-` . ' * ` + `-----------' . JL