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Hope I don't get hit too hard. But needed some thread to post to. And it is Friday.

Haven't been here in maybe a year or more and still in the top 20 posters?

Had to leave a trail here somewhere.

FWIW, I have never gone for TgIF. I'm glad to get every day. And I prefer local to chains.

Have a good weekend.

See now I was confued. I thoght the forum about the Solstice was the one about the holidays. It is actually the "Reason for rthe Season" after all. All sun worshiping religions, such as all the Abrahamic ones, base their celebrations on the sun's cycles. The sun being reborn easily becomes the birth of the son, especially when you are killed if you dare bring up the much older rebirth of the sun story during the growth of Christianity.

So then I see a poll asking if I also sucker into the more recent spin on sun god worship, Christianity and it's spin, Christmas (Yahweh was originally the sun god in that polytheistic group). Had I read that the author lacked clarity in constructing the poll, giving an apriori acceptance to Christmas as the actual reason for this season, and had actually meant do we do any celebrating around now for what ever reason, my answer would have been different.

My biggest wish (perhaps next to Peace on Earth, Imprisonment for the Bush clan and new tubes for my guitar amp) is that if Christians want to refuse to acknowledge reality (needed to remain a Christian) they at least stop claiming they invented everything. And that if they do not get SPECIAL consideration, there is a battle against them.

Yes stores are using the baby Jesus as a sales tool. congradulations! You'll be bitching about them using his name in vein next year like you did a few years ago which forced them to start saying Happy Holidays in the first place. Which will back you all very happy that a local strip joint is also using Jesus to promote their "Christmas Party" special stripper night and it's fund raiser "Tatas for Toys". So will Jesus being doing pole and table dances that night!

Sorry I missed being here to help celebrate it. The actual Reason for the Season. The Rebirth of the sun, became the birth of the son.

I think the ancients starting over 10,000 years ago celebrated it better than today. They'd cut trees to bring in and decorate them. Keeping something that was alive just in case the sun did not stop falling south and come back again this time. They'd light a yule or log during the night's watch. Use holly wreaths and mistletoe, sing and give presents...,.

Hey wait a minute....

As far as a label, I invented one.

SHAFTS

Secular
Humanist
Atheist
Free
Thinking
Skeptic

I don't BELIEVE in anything. I have no need to. I accept for convenience things that have a relatively high level of valid support.

e.g. I accept for convenience "gravity". While I may work to comprehend our current understanding of it, I accept for convenience that if I pick up one foot, something we call gravity will pull it back down. If I did not work within this acceptance, I would be afraid to ever lift a foot as it may not ever be able to keep me in place again.

Belief is only needed when you wish to accept something that lacks valid support.

Do you "believe" in refrigerator? No, no need to.