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Merry Christmas
"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message
ink.net... All the best for the New Year, especially Health, Peace and Happiness. If you had to pick just one of the three what would be your choice... Happiness. The health and peace are worthless if you're not happy. Bruce. |
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Merry Winter Solstice
Cgiorgio wrote:
Not only to the Atheists, also to the Pagans from whom the saturnalia holidays were stolen in the year 354 ! "Harry Stottle" schrieb im Newsbeitrag reenews.net... "ASAAR" wrote in message ... In the future it's a near certainty that nobody will ever wish others to have a Very Merry Minneøttimas. Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Ramadan Kareem, Happy Kwanzaa, Cool Yule, Blessed Be and Happy Trails to You, until we meet again! What about us Atheists? Possibly the only sane group of any society, and we never get a mention. Not stolen, merely cooperated with. Most Christians in those days were either slaves, or servants, and that was the day they were traditionally given the day off. It made sense to celebrate it as Jesus' birthday, even though he almost certainly was born in the early summer. |
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Merry Christmas
Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
All the best for the New Year, especially Health, Peace and Happiness. If you had to pick just one of the three what would be your choice... Health. |
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Merry Christmas
Bruce Chastain wrote:
"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message ink.net... All the best for the New Year, especially Health, Peace and Happiness. If you had to pick just one of the three what would be your choice... Happiness. The health and peace are worthless if you're not happy. Bruce. With health, and peace, most people would be happy. Happy was never so important to me as satisfied. |
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Merry Christmas
Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
All the best for the New Year, especially Health, Peace and Happiness. If you had to pick just one of the three what would be your choice... Health. True happiness cannot be achieved if you are ill, in pain, or terminal. Neither is there peace if your health is bad; suffering from depression, side effects from medications, pain, loss of mobility; maybe facing your mortality. You may obtain a pseudo-peace if you are religious, but the stress is still there, not only with yourself, but your loved ones as well. Of course, you can have health and not be happy or peaceful, but in my book, health is a prerequisite for the other two states. Colin D. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Merry Christmas
Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
... All the best for the New Year, especially Health, Peace ... and Happiness. If you had to pick just one of the three what would be your choice... I guess I am a pessimist, I look at the choice as Pick 1 scenario: I am in the midst of a war I am unhappy I am healthy I am in the midst of a war I am terminally ill I am happy I am terminally ill I am unhappy I am in a country at peace ============================== At one time there was an office joke that made the rounds: Your project can be either o On budget o On schedule o Bug free Pick two... When it should have read: How would you like your project: o Over budget o Late or o Buggy |
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Merry Christmas
"Ron Hunter" wrote in message ... Harry Stottle wrote: "ASAAR" wrote in message ... In the future it's a near certainty that nobody will ever wish others to have a Very Merry Minneøttimas. Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Ramadan Kareem, Happy Kwanzaa, Cool Yule, Blessed Be and Happy Trails to You, until we meet again! What about us Atheists? Possibly the only sane group of any society, and we never get a mention. Maybe because you have nothing to celebrate? Makes sense to MY sane mind. We celebrate life......We leave it to the religious nuts to celebrate death.......:^) |
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Merry Christmas
Bruce Chastain wrote: Happiness. The health and peace are worthless if you're not happy. Happy don't count if you're dead. Former Heavyweight Champion, Larry Holmes, was once asked how he'd like to be remembered. "As the longest living black man in history," was the champ's reply. |
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Merry Christmas
Alan Browne wrote: Harry Stottle wrote: "ASAAR" wrote in message ... In the future it's a near certainty that nobody will ever wish others to have a Very Merry Minneøttimas. Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Ramadan Kareem, Happy Kwanzaa, Cool Yule, Blessed Be and Happy Trails to You, until we meet again! What about us Atheists? Possibly the only sane group of any society, and we never get a mention. "Merry Christmas" is a good wish to all, it is not "reserved" for believers. Xmas is a _religious_ holiday, and here is the anecdotical proof: http://www.king5.com/localnews/stori....11b0d0cc.html |
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Merry Christmas
minnesøtti wrote:
Alan Browne wrote: Harry Stottle wrote: What about us Atheists? Possibly the only sane group of any society, and we never get a mention. "Merry Christmas" is a good wish to all, it is not "reserved" for believers. Xmas is a _religious_ holiday, and here is the anecdotical proof: http://www.king5.com/localnews/stori....11b0d0cc.html I never said that Christmas was not a religious holiday. One doesn't reserve greetings like "Merry Christmas" for believing Christians alone. Or for that matter from believing Christians alone. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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